You know, if liberals hadn't abandoned Twitter for Bluesky and had been nicer to Mitt Romney, maybe the Reflecting Pool wouldn't have been screwed up by the President's favored pool repair team.

But don’t worry, I’m sure standards of behavior will be restored immediately upon a Democrat winning the presidency.

It’s hard for us lawyers to wrap our head around but the DOJ has been mostly transformed, in the space of a year, into an insidious far-right attack organization whose mission is to persecute personal and cultural enemies of the criminal president.

It’s weird that Republicans and most of the media seem to have decided what Trump does on social media and what he says when he’s riffing in speeches just doesn’t count. None of it. Doesn’t count.

I love how when Democrats propose a relatively boring and novel legal theory, corporate media frames it as a FURIOUS AND DESPERATE FAR-FETCHED BANK SHOT, but when Trump tries some crazy shit like overturning birthright citizenship, it's something to consider seriously.

It seems too cartoonishly simple to say the law today is that states are permitted to nullify elections until enough black people are disenfranchised to satisfy the Republican Party, but...alas

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

This is so fucking stupid but also a really good look into the slopulist mindset, in which "paying less for gas" = "targeting the oil companies" even though the mechanism here is to eliminate the money people pay for gas that *doesn't* go to the oil companies.

Yeah- "what about all those freeloaders paying subsidized fares on the Metro" says the man driving on government-provided free roads and free bridges for his car. Bezos WashPost is now a complete rightwing clown show

Ceci n'est pas une golden calf.

Marjorie Taylor Green isn’t a known antisemite because she criticizes Israel, she’s a known antisemite because of all the talk about secret cabals, Jewish space lasers, Great Replacement theory, and Jews killing Jesus. Hope this helps some leftists who are mad at AOC for being right about her today

The New York Times is playing the Republicans’ theft of Black political power — the return of Jim Crow —primarily as a sporting event. “Bullish Republicans are back in the game,” writes NYT.

The most insulting thing in all this is having to pretend there's any reasoning going on. It's just a fundamental principle of all these justices and the Republican Party that the Consitution isn't written to give Black people power, which requires ignoring or twisting the 14th and 15th amendments.

Not every article needs historical context, but it this one cries out for a brief overview of the history of Jim Crow disfranchisement and the efforts of the CRM to gain equal suffrage, culminating in the Voting Rights Act, which was renewed and fortified for decades after its initial passage.

“Did you see this Jeff? Did you see what we wrote?? Do you like it???”

Remember: Ohio GOP kept using maps its state Supreme Court declared unconstitutional until everyone basically gave up. VA differs SOLELY bc SCOTUS will get involved here like it didn‘t in Ohio. So ignore SCOTUS when it doe—actually, no: vocally say “bite it, hypocrites.”

Which Supreme Court is going to officially decide we’re not allowed to blame Trump for this.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids Democrats and Republicans to gerrymander in favor of Democrats.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Now that it has been directed at me, I denounce the MAGA racism that rewarded and amplified me back when I claimed it didn't exist.

I am also frustrated by the way that the rules always seem to empower Republicans and constrain Democrats, but I think it is really important context that VA has a constitutional amendment preventing partisan gerrymandering by either side. This makes it a different situation than most states.

A big middle finger and the umpteenth told-you-so to the many parts of the media that have spent the last month repeatedly told everyone the war is over. “What are we supposed to do, not uncritically put whatever the serial lying White House says in headlines regardless of veracity?” Yes, exactly.

Again and again, the Very Important Journalists at CNN, network news, and the NYT took every chance they got to remind us that the Biden and the WH were out of touch when they (rightly) said inflation would come down. “The people are hurting!!,” they screamed. Trump does this stuff? Nary a peep

Sanders is clueless on this the way the Dem establishment is clueless on economic issues and populism. They’re mirror images of cluelessness.

The Times’s holy honor now rests on treating this as established fact (it appeared in the Times, after all!) rather than as a claim leaked to them by notorious liars.

Nobody in Washington can imagine that anyone exists except Donald Trump.

Neil Gorsuch was on Megyn Kelly’s show today.

Anyone who thinks that you can adjust your behavior so that it won't be demonised fundamentally lacks respect for the intelligent and hardworking professionals whose job it is to demonize you.

Did Ramaswamy write this

Can the NYT hire some serious reporters? No countries are EXPECTED to pay tariffs. A reporter should be fired for writing that. Trump is saying the taxes we will impose on our imports from these countries. WE PAY, not them.

Oh no, those poor CEOs. I hope they come out of this OK.

How on earth does NYT run a front-page story based on a study of which they've only seen the abstract and not the whole paper? How is a 2% increase in a variable that fluctuates year-to-year front page news? 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/n...

The cucked you have to be to say this when the President’s approval is in free fallen with everyone that isnt a GOP Primary voter is embarrassing

Notice the NYT headline... help "quit antidepressants" as if it were an illicit drug that was destroying their lives, not a prescribed, controlled medication that is saving their lives. Keep track of the collaborators, and NEVER FORGET.

Ballots were already in voters' hands in Louisiana, yet the Supreme Court still threw out its own 32-day waiting period to ram through a gerrymander. At this point, there is no doubt that they are not just putting their finger on the scale, but acting as an arm of the Republican Party.

The “Purcell Principle” is “it is always too late to implement a decision on elections that favors Democrats and never too late to implement a decision that favors Republicans”

Oh great. Now pundits are saying what a great "communicator" Rubio is and how they should have had him out there from the beginning explaining what they're doing. The Village will never, ever die.

Marco Rubio is putting on a charm offensive at this press conference, and it seems to be working. The alleged journalists are giggling at the war criminal's little jokes. Little Marco and the subservient press will be clinking champagne glasses at the next correspondents dinner.

The reluctance to get off X, a platform owned by an antisemitic white supremacist conspiracy theorist who tells us ALL THE TIME that he uses the site to privilege his views, is absolutely wild to me.

kinda don’t understand how wired got no pulitzer for their doge coverage but others did? wtaf

Lord I’ve seen what you’ve done for others and I want that for me

What’s most upsetting is not that rightwing messaging is predominantly gaslighting. It’s that mainstream news & education — even many of the liberals in those roles — believe their mission requires them to avoid calling them gaslighters at all costs.

If you're curious about how Altio's "how dare you question my integrity" concurrence responds to this point about the Purcell "principle ;)" from Jackson, the answer is that it doesn't, because there's just nothing you can say at this point www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

I'm sure Shapiro will have plenty of time to talk about how low-IQ Justice Jackson is at that conference FIRE invited him to.

In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

Not only does the Roberts Court selectively apply the Constitution, even when they determine something is unconstitutional, they selectively decide when that matters

Every Republican state treats its cities as conquered territories to be ruled by fiat, and this gets approximately one thousandth the degree of national attention and critique as anytime a Republican voter in California or New York feels underappreciated.