Gerrymandering is part of the mechanism by which the GOP consolidates power to more easily enact voter suppression at every level. Claiming that gerrymandering doesn’t affect Presidential elections when there is a direct causal link from theft of power at the state level to suppression of overall voter turnout is…

Also, gerrymandering affects the House and state level stuff, but not presidential elections.

“Folks, look, if you start off with the notion there’s nothing you can do [to work with Republicans], well, might you all go home then, man?” Biden said, according to the New York Times. “Or let’s start a real, physical revolution if you’re talking about it. Because we have to be able to change what we’re doing…

Oh, they don’t ignore it - they claim that it never happened, that the Southern Strategy is a liberal conspiracy to discredit the GOP, and that any evidence to the contrary is fabricated.

Running on a strong gun control platform in a extremely gun friendly state isn’t getting you votes in a conservative district.

Just discussing postcards, I’m sure.

Leopards, faces, etc. ad nauseam.

Update #7 from the original GoFundMe:

Yeah, I’m starting to get flashbacks to 2016 when some writers were literally telling people in “safe” states that they could “vote their conscience” because Hillary had them so obviously in the bag that voting Green or Libertarian (and don’t doubt that some potential D voters went Libertarian because Johnson was…

I was thinking the exact same thing. If Huawei is so dangerous that federal agencies have to cease use of their products immediately, one would think that government contractors, which have less day-to-day oversight of their infosec practices, should be under a more pressing requirement to divest, not less.

A taxi driving ghost of Christmas past played by Buster Poindexter, no less. 

As a BRD main, one of the changes made me giddier than I thought a mechanics change could:

Reminds me of what finally forced me off of Facebook. I was part of a group that was collaborating to get Facebook to remove the fourth iteration of an anti-trans group that had been banned three times before, and some of their supporters started pulling “real name” reports on all of us while messaging us with the…

Intolerance to alternative points of view is not what the Democratic Party should be about.

The party’s electoral strategy is based on the 70 or 80 seats, at most, that are in play during any given election cycle, which makes sense.

That entire article has one huge pro-insurance slant to it that anyone who’s worked in the field would point at and scream.

I mean, we all know that blackface is bad because of it’s strong association with racism and particularly minstrel shows in the American South. It seems to me that the problem with blackface is not necessarily the representation of someone of another race, but rather the disrespectful, racist, or “othering”…

There’s a definite argument to be made that Wikileaks has contributed some net good to the world by ensuring that major world powers cannot break international law with total impunity, but the fact is that neither Assange nor his organization saw fit to go through the documents they were releasing for proper…

Only tangentially related, but your mention of the school newspaper reminded me of my own time at a right-leaning college at around the same time. The editor of the school paper was almost always an unrepentant douchecanoe no matter who it was. My freshman year, the editor’s work included an article on the…

I actually have a cable with the USB symbol and seam on the same side on my desk right now. I have to use the seam to know which way to insert the ‘A’ end because the symbol’s on the wrong side.