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Your reminder that the Purcell "principle" is "it is always too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Democrats, and it is never too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Republicans"
A question we got from a reader:
“How can they say it’s ’too close to the election’ to make changes in Texas when the new maps themselves were just drawn!? Isn’t that ‘too close to the election’ too?”
We answered! Check it out here: boltsmag.org/mid-decade-r...
“How can they say it’s ’too close to the election’ to make changes in Texas when the new maps themselves were just drawn!? Isn’t that ‘too close to the election’ too?”
We answered! Check it out here: boltsmag.org/mid-decade-r...
The Escalating Race to Redistrict: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
How are the new maps changing the midterms? Why are courts not doing more? Would proportional representation help? We’ve got answers about mid-decade redistricting.
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December 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Your reminder that the Purcell "principle" is "it is always too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Democrats, and it is never too close to the next election for a ruling that would benefit Republicans"
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Time to bring back this glorious map.
October 27, 2024 at 1:12 AM
Time to bring back this glorious map.
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Whenever you try to unbundle education, you need to explain why your approach is going to work when *books* did not.
What innovation are you bringing to the table that exceeds the development of the printing press?
What innovation are you bringing to the table that exceeds the development of the printing press?
No one quite knows why college works to get graduates higher wages, but somehow it does. Boot camps and others have tried to unbundle college to get rid of the useless waste and just keep the productive parts and no one has quite found a superior substitute despite many trying their best 1/2
The professor indicates that he doesn't think the point of education is vocational training and then asks students to trust that professors are designing their curriculum to maximize vocational training. Come on!
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December 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Whenever you try to unbundle education, you need to explain why your approach is going to work when *books* did not.
What innovation are you bringing to the table that exceeds the development of the printing press?
What innovation are you bringing to the table that exceeds the development of the printing press?
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The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
People are dying over who gets to steal from a dude in Iowa who thinks the model who "accidentally" texted him has fallen in love with him.
the Thai-Cambodian conflict is at least partially about control of the scam/gambling/prostitution compounds along the border.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
as I've remarked before, cyberpunk isn't 'I glitch into the webframe and draw my katana', it's 'the life of a man working for a criminal syndicate in Myanmar who spends his days pretending to be different women online to steal from the elderly'
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The reason to require government approval of big mergers is to prevent market-distorting concentrations of corporate power that harm competition and consumers, not so the president can distort the market in favor of ideological allies and/or solicit a bribe for himself.
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The reason to require government approval of big mergers is to prevent market-distorting concentrations of corporate power that harm competition and consumers, not so the president can distort the market in favor of ideological allies and/or solicit a bribe for himself.
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During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
During ratification of the 14th Amendment, senators discussed whether the Citizenship Clause would apply to the children of immigrants and resoundingly concluded that it did. The text and history all point in one direction and the counter-arguments are patently fraudulent. I am going to lose my mind
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if they wanted the 14th amendment citizenship clause to apply only to former slaves, they would've written it that way. it would've been really easy to write it that way. and they wouldn't have included language excluding diplomats if it only applied to slaves
The evidence is the text. All you have to do is read the Constitution.
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
if they wanted the 14th amendment citizenship clause to apply only to former slaves, they would've written it that way. it would've been really easy to write it that way. and they wouldn't have included language excluding diplomats if it only applied to slaves
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Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
December 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Boomers: It just sucks so much that everyone gets participation trophies now, you used to have to show real merit to get an award
Also Boomers:
Also Boomers:
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Voted yes on RFK Jr when he could have voted no.
Continues to hedge, when he could act.
Continues to hedge, when he could act.
December 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Voted yes on RFK Jr when he could have voted no.
Continues to hedge, when he could act.
Continues to hedge, when he could act.
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🧪Stats talk.
This investment in HPV vaccines is not only saving lives: it also generates measurable economic returns & helps build stronger, more resilient communities.
We have taken our easy access to vaccines for granted to a point where we are reversing course.
Via @simonmaechling.bsky.social
This investment in HPV vaccines is not only saving lives: it also generates measurable economic returns & helps build stronger, more resilient communities.
We have taken our easy access to vaccines for granted to a point where we are reversing course.
Via @simonmaechling.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🧪Stats talk.
This investment in HPV vaccines is not only saving lives: it also generates measurable economic returns & helps build stronger, more resilient communities.
We have taken our easy access to vaccines for granted to a point where we are reversing course.
Via @simonmaechling.bsky.social
This investment in HPV vaccines is not only saving lives: it also generates measurable economic returns & helps build stronger, more resilient communities.
We have taken our easy access to vaccines for granted to a point where we are reversing course.
Via @simonmaechling.bsky.social
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Pete Hegseth keeps demanding to be taken seriously and then spends all his time talking down to accomplished military leaders, rebranding his department and renaming ships, engaging in culture wars bullshit, shitting all over the military's sense of ethics and generally making an ass of himself.
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Pete Hegseth keeps demanding to be taken seriously and then spends all his time talking down to accomplished military leaders, rebranding his department and renaming ships, engaging in culture wars bullshit, shitting all over the military's sense of ethics and generally making an ass of himself.
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
when we say we want more streets to be pedestrianized, this is what we mean
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the house hates the senate, episode infinity
The House has voted unanimously to repeal the provisions in the shutdown package which allow GOP Senators to sue the federal government and get as much as $1 million in damages - because the feds looked at their phone records in the Jan. 6 investigation.
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
the house hates the senate, episode infinity
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NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
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Cosmic fucking horror
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Cosmic fucking horror
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Trump called ABC's Mary Bruce "a terrible reporter" with a "horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question" for asking about Khashoggi's CIA confirmed murder. Watching Trump defend bone saw diplomacy while attacking free press. Orwell couldn't write this betrayal better.
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump called ABC's Mary Bruce "a terrible reporter" with a "horrible, insubordinate and just a terrible question" for asking about Khashoggi's CIA confirmed murder. Watching Trump defend bone saw diplomacy while attacking free press. Orwell couldn't write this betrayal better.
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“.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit.” 🤡
- Bilello
- Bilello
November 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
“.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit.” 🤡
- Bilello
- Bilello
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"Some Thoughts on Iraq and How to Think About It"
Actual Rumsfeld memo subject line.
Actual Rumsfeld memo subject line.
November 16, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Some Thoughts on Iraq and How to Think About It"
Actual Rumsfeld memo subject line.
Actual Rumsfeld memo subject line.
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The real danger of Unitary Executive Theory was always that it cut a Trump-shaped hole in our Constitution
November 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
The real danger of Unitary Executive Theory was always that it cut a Trump-shaped hole in our Constitution
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This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob
November 15, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is a Texas Republican who was part of the January 6th mob
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Similar to the US right, the Brazilian right is also telling young people that university degrees are worthless and that you should go to trade school instead.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
Durante evento para anunciara expansão do ensino técnico no estado de São Paulo, o governador Tarcísio de Freitas afirmou “diploma tem cada vez menos relevância”. Segundo ele, a justificativa seria que o mercado está cada "vez menos interessado" na formação acadêmica.
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Similar to the US right, the Brazilian right is also telling young people that university degrees are worthless and that you should go to trade school instead.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
Just as in the US, these conservative elites will tell their *own* children to go to university and to never work in the trades.
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At the end of the day, I don't believe a GOP led by the Fuentes faction can win elections. And if I'm wrong about that, then America deserves to be destroyed.
For all the leftist, liberal and moderate conservative schadenfreude over Trump's current predicament in the face of the Epstein files, a loss of control among the older generation of MAGA bosses opens up the Republican Party to a full hostile takeover by its Fuentes faction
November 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
At the end of the day, I don't believe a GOP led by the Fuentes faction can win elections. And if I'm wrong about that, then America deserves to be destroyed.