Remember when every new tech company had a blockchain and they had ”initial coin offerings” and “tokenomics” was going to eat the economy and VCs switched parties and donated millions just to stop the SEC from regulating it and now you literally never hear a peep about any of it?

the thing with Trump is you really can blame most of the current inflation directly on him and his policies (tariffs, Iran war) in a way that is not true of other presidents who have had to deal with inflation

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

America is required under both US and international law to stop giving weapons to a country committing genocide like Israel. The US shouldn’t have been locked into this MOU ten years ago, and Congress is not obligated to violate the law to continue supporting it. No more weapons for Israel

Looks like Trump saw the German chancellor’s comment that the U.S. was being "humiliated" by Iran…

Alito also notes that Black turnout reached near parity with White turnout in 2 of the past 5 presidential elections. But which two, Justice Alito?? Oh, the LAST TWO before Shelby County? You don't say!

Putin proposes a ceasefire, not out of good intentions, but because he is terrified Ukraine might spoil his parade and show the Russian people during a national event just how badly Russia’s war is going. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/w...

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

This👇🏽 deserves to be posted 100 times but I’d be labeled spam.

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

A lot of people don't know how SCOTUS works. That's...probably bad! It's also a sign that most people in this country, including on the political left, don't know how the courts work! So here's a (very oversimplified) explainer of what SCOTUS *actually does*. THREAD.

Your reminder that "It is proper, constitutional, and legal for a federal grand jury to indict a sitting president for serious criminal acts... In this country, no one... is above the law.” www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/u...

Yes, he should.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

One of the big differences between Trump's DOJ and that of past administrations is that the DOJ used to be MUCH more skilled and professional in how they went about unfairly overcharging and jamming up political defendants.

This is a really important point that is very poorly understood by the public at large: the warming & other climate impacts we experience today are an expression of atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases 15 years ago. There is a lock-in & time-lag that will inevitably lead to profound regret

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Read this and ask yourself "where would these people get these ideas and why do they believe them?" The answer to THAT question is why this country is where it is today. Control of information IS power and tech billionaires who have it use that power to deceive ppl into believing stuff like this.

He's doing his best to find out when the media will feel comfortable concluding that someone is racist

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

For all the agreement on BlueSky about the need for systemic judicial branch reform, I admit to feeling very pessimistic about the prospects for judicial reform legislation (especially not affecting SCOTUS) I'm not even sure half of current Dem senators would vote to expand SCOTUS

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Today's VRA decision is grounded explicitly in the Court's previous previous blessing of partisan gerrymandering. Which means that it is the position of this Court that the constitution permits gerrymandering to entrench the power of racial majorities but never to weaken it.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

WHICH we said was going to happen and so many people couldn't bring themselves to care if the deep south creates new Jim Crow laws based on these threats.

Fair elections and the rule of law act as pressure relief valves. Just saying.

The newest member of Congress is now a cosponsor on the most important and flagship piece of legislation designed to hold Israel accountable.

RT @idreesahmad.bsky.social J.M. Coetzee is a magnificent writer. And, naturally, his rejection of an invitation to a literary festival in Israel is also magnificent. Brief and unsparing. x.com/im_PULSE/sta...

It’s a popular sentiment in Europe that Russia is not long from invading the Baltics, but for a long time I’ve been asking “what with?”

Remember when US bankers destroyed the global economy in 2008 and instead of fundamental change, we got the useless band-aid known as Dodd-Frank named after this POS? Now we're looking at a private credit crisis, a massive AI bubble, and the crash of overvalued assets all at the same time.

Politicians are quick to reach for that old yellow peril conspiracy every time American companies fall behind their competition. Facebook sketchy data collection good; TikTok bad. Tesla cars being mobile surveillance network good; Chinese EV's bad. Our blessed homeland; their barbarous wastes.

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David Morens should not have evaded public records laws. There were no records destroyed & all the messages in question were colleagues blowing off steam & talking shit. The “conspiracy” is made up. This is political persecution, not legitimate prosecution for an actual crime.

🧐 When the Trump regime is down in the polls & its DOJ is losing, leave it to Temu Goebbels Stephen Miller to turn up the heat & cruelty on the least among us: migrant children. Result: some as young as 4 years old, appearing in immigration hearings w/o legal counsel. 🧾 abc7.com/post/trump-a...

I've talked about Substack (& closed platforms in general) a lot over the years, but *this* was the most fired up I've gotten; I think it's because @anamariecox.bsky.social + @mike-eagle.bsky.social set such an amazing tone for the conversation. I'm so glad with how this came out. Please do listen!

The attempts by Israel to interpret Ukraine's anger as anything but resultant from Israel's own behavior first and foremost are creating some funny ideas

"The legalization of mobile sports gambling in America was a policy mistake and that the evidence is now clear enough to say so."

this is my family.

So, hey, maybe there being 5 laws and standards already on the books about this, which everyone in politics has just been ignoring to keep funding ongoing genocide is, perhaps, a symptom of something rotten

New Memo: Five US Laws And Requirements That Mandate An End To All Giveaways Or Sales of US Weapons To Israel

Have you ever wondered which laws *exactly*, both in terms of US law and international laws which the US has committed itself to, prohibit military assistance to Israel? A new memo has just been released explaining exactly that.

on one hand, yes. these people do not think very hard about much and this is evident. on the other, after a biden admin whose lack of vision felt like abdication of the post-lockdown opportunity to refresh america's social contract? house dems /just failed/ to vote down an extremely unpopular war!

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And here you see it: the SPLC relied on the FBI, including for some damn reason the Alabama field office (open question on the Richmond one). The Heaphy Report would later call out the bad coordination between LE agencies as a leading contributor to UTR.