Single-member districts combined with first-past-the-post voting rules is the worst kind of electoral system you can have for a legislature. There's always going to be issues with fair representation when geography figures heavily into the process, even when there's no gerrymandering (Massachusetts hasn't had a Republican in their House delegation in decades simply because Republicans are spread too thinly across the state). It's just that gerrymandering is deliberately making a bad problem worse. The only way to solve this problem is through proportional representation. For example, the organization Fair Vote advocates for the single-transferable vote system where there are multi-member districts where representatives are selected via ranked-choice voting, and you can see suggested maps here. Under a PR system, a state's House delegation would more closely resemble that of the state's actual partisan split, and such systems are functionally impossible to gerrymander.

And that's ignoring the fact that upper houses in state legislatures are entirely redundant. The U.S. Senate at least had the excuse of nominally representing the state governments, as the U.S. was functionally 13 separate nation-states under the Articles of Confederation, each of which got one vote on all matters regardless of population size in the Continental Congress. There was no way something similar wasn't going to be added to the new Constitution that became our supreme law. But with states, the upper houses aren't there to represent county or municipal governments. They're just chambers with larger districts that can be altered just like those in the lower house. They probably only exist because our federal government under the Constitution normalized the idea of bicameral legislatures in America. I've always felt state legislatures should be unicameral and likewise have their members chosen via a system of proportional representation.

The problem with that is Obama just rolled over like a dog and took it. He should have taken drastic action to ensure Garland got a vote. Even if that meant vetoing all legislation that came past his desk, including the national budget. 

Just let the onerous legislation pass without a filibuster to block it. Americans will have to live with the consequences of their votes. Then after suffering they can wake up and be sure never to vote for idiots again. Instead we just wait and wait and wait for the whole country to collapse. Eventually everything Trump has done to ruin America will come home to roost. And by then gen Alpha will be of voting age but too stupid to know what a good country looks like. And then we have an Idiocracy. 

Nebraska has a unicameral legislature composed of 49 Senators, and as a "senate," they have the filibuster.

One big issue is the difficulty of removing a defective president from office. Instead of the elaborate impeachment process that the Senate apparently can choose to ignore if their leader chooses, the president should be subject to the confidence only of the House. If that means an annual churn of presidents (as happened in Japan for a six-year period bookended on both ends by Shinzo Abe's terms as PMs), so be it. Part of the problem with the presidency is that we're locked into an administration for four years. Maybe Americans wouldn't be at each other's throats about the presidency if the president was a more replaceable position. I also think about how South Korea only escaped dictatorship because of mass protests after the Korean legislature nearly refused to do anything about Yoon... and in the US, a lot of Southern and Midwestern voters would die to protect Trump.

The White House website now has a bunch of online arcade propagames that are ripoffs of classic arcade games. One of them, "Build the Wall," is a clone of Tetris. The Tetris Company came out and asked the White House to take "Build the Wall" down, saying they don't want Tetris represented by that agenda. Now Trump will start demanding that Alexey Pajitnov (who has lived in Las Vegas for 20 years) be deported back to Russia, especially if Tetris Company gets a C&D against the White House.

And if anybody in the gaming industry understands authoritarianism, it would be Alexey Pajitnov. He didn't get royalties for Tetris until after the USSR fell. Elektronorgtechnica, the state-owned enterprise he worked for, claimed it all. 

  Ugh, What's next? An ICE-themed Prison Architect copy? A Protester-Shooting CoD ripoff?

Seriously, seeing how they completely ignore any and all copyright laws is simply appalling.

How about someone making a Trump-branded dumpster? If he can ignore those laws then everyone should be able to do the same with his Copyrights and Trademarks.

They have a variation of Snake where you are an ICE agent rounding up migrants. I haven't actually visited the site and have no plans to. 

This admistration is a disaster and it keeps getting worse.

That's another thing I've been big on for the past few years: having a parliamentary system instead of a full presidential system. Every single nation with a full presidential system has, without fail, descended into some form of autocracy at some point in their history, where the president just does as they wish with impunity. While it might have seen like a good idea back in the 1780s, it turns out that having an officer who is both head of state and head of government is a bad idea. The goal of the Framers might have been to maintain separation of powers, but I guess they didn't count on the office of president amassing ever greater power for itself, as it always does in every country with an executive president (and leaders seeking power may push their nation to become one with a full-presidential system, as is the case with Erdogan in Turkey).

That's why the office of president should be a largely ceremonial office, as it is in most functional democratic republics. As in those nations, the executive branch should consist of a prime minister as head of government alongside their cabinet, and the executive branch would be accountable to the legislature. It might take people a while to get used to things like votes of no confidence or snap elections, but all the most stable democracies in the world have a parliamentary system. Having a parliamentary system isn't an absolute deterrent against autocracy (see Hungary when Orban was PM), but it does seem to more consistently create a more functional and stable system.

The problem with that is that, like trying to abolish the Electoral College, this would require a constitutional amendment, which would never happen in our current political climate. The best we can hope for is that a sane Congress reigns in the presidency and curtails its power back to what it was supposed to be, and that we also get other governmental reforms that wouldn't require a constitutional amendment, like implementing proportional representation and banning private money from politics.