Just a dilettante amateur political science bird who lives in the US Pacific Northwest. If you want to know what I think, try my blogs at adviceunasked.blogspot.com and shinycroak.blogspot.com.
This is a problem that dates to the foundation of the Republic. The founders were all their faults wanted to see a congress with legislators who would take the interest of the whole Union into account. Instead they got what they called sectionalist what I would now call regionalist representation;
Lindsay BeyersteinSusan Collins thinks Mitch McConnell's seat is his personal property and we should all shut up and stop asking when he's going to do his job, or if he still can.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, *provide for the common defence,*" Impeach the bastard.
Lindsay BeyersteinI can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
"The election I lost was bought *by Jews*" ought to get you treated with revulsion.
Aaron van Dorn"The election I lost was bought" should be enough to get you kicked out of serious political consideration. Crybaby loser shit.
I write about slavery in China, but here it is, right in the USA.
Sarah TaberOBO was (still is?) the largest human trafficking bust in the 21s century US. The folks running it made ~$200 million. There's a lot of money in slavery. What can I say. OBO led directly to the anti-slavery H2A reforms in 2024. Which, again, Trump repealed in June 2025. Because they worked.
OK, it's done. The question is, what do we do now?
James FallowsLet me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
The claim that AIPAC is a hugely powerful lobby which controls US Israeli policy through its vast wealth is an ancient antisemitic slur in new language. AIPAC is not that influential. More at the link.
AIPAC Does Not Make US Israeli Policy[This was directed to someone who has bought into several antisemitic conspiracy theories. I fear I have lost her; this sort of thinkin...adviceunasked.blogspot.com@driftglass.bsky.social about your neighbors…
Sarah TaberA very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.