Following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Wednesday, legal scholars and advocates across the country demanded reforms to the Supreme Court to preserve free and fair elections and voting rights in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Let's call the SCOTUS decision what it is: racist gerrymandering. Republican extremists are trying to choose which votes in our country matter.

It's amazing that nobody will understand this: They don't think. They don't remember. They have no cognition. They're pattern matching systems that produce answer-shaped responses. This is no different that giving a script admin privileges, except this script is rewritten on the fly.

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

The Trump administration is negotiating a deal that ties funding for HIV treatment for over a million people in Zambia to access to critical minerals, linking survival to geopolitical leverage. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/us-weighs-...

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

What a monumental waste of money, all so puff-chested Pete Hegseth can feel important and masculine.

I want everything that ever bore his likeness gone after he is.

What @elienyc.bsky.social says is the way:

Ahem:

Yah RFKjr, we get that you want concentration camps where kids are ripped from their families…

Honestly this is probably more important long term

Today's VRA decision is intellectually dishonest and wrong. The conservative court basically said: Black people can vote for their preferred candidates, as long as they prefer the right candidates -- which will be Republicans. An absolutely mockery of the law and a stain on the court.

Powerful words from Kagan in #SCOTUS voting rights case: The VRA "ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people’s representatives in Congress."

I keep thinking of that phrase "like a dog returning to its own vomit"

But it’s Democrats who need to tone down the rhetoric?!

Happy 7th anniversary to this tweet, which explained exactly what would go on to happen.

BREAKING: Two Democratic Reps. are introducing a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $25/hr and eliminate subminimum wages. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Analilia Mejia are introducing the bill, saying it's unacceptable that the minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 since 2009.

The press corps keeps playing along, accepting Trump's claims uncritically – he was told to get down when he actually fell; Allen is ant-Christian when he is actually deeply Christian – as if the constant mainlining of deceit into the body politic won't bring tensions to an even higher boil.

Reminder that you are more relatable to a homeless person that you saw on the street than you will ever be to a billionaire and millionaire.

My sister filled up her truck and sent me the reading on the pump. I sent my reply. She didn’t find it as funny as when she did the same thing to me a few years ago with a Biden image... I wonder why.

To all the nitwits yelling about the need for the White House Ballroom, you do realize that the only body of government to face a coordinated attack against their lives in our lifetimes, was Congress?

Hogwarts isn't real, Trans people are 🩷🩵🤍🏳️‍🌈 #pride #trans #queer #hp #hogwarts #memes

That split second of panic when you can't feel your phone in your pocket and wondering where it went before realizing it's in your hand is the Millennial equivalent of Boomers leaving their glasses on their forehead and wondering where their glasses went.

Evergreen

The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.” They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.

My followers getting paw stuff in their feed from time to time be like

There was a mass shooting this morning at Indiana University that has left nine injured. The Indiana Daily Student has been facing pressure by Republicans and school administrators to shut down the print edition all year. Why isn't Donald Trump or legacy media corps reporting about this huh?

Thou shalt not pretend you suddenly care about shootings.

꩜ Don't think about guns are the problem. ꩜ ꩜ Don't think about guns are the problem. ꩜ ꩜ Don't think about guns are the problem. ꩜ ꩜ Don't think about guns are the problem. ꩜ ꩜ Don't think about guns are the problem. ꩜

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Funny how that works. 🤔🫤🤨🙂‍↔️

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

This doesn't even address the BILLIONS of dollars this con artist has taken in bribes while in office.

Congress should pass a law that bans sitting presidents from playing golf. You can play golf when you’re out of office.

The case revolves around whether or not Church-run preschool programs can take tax money raised from everyone and funnel it to only someones.

Eliminating every federal appointee the Trump administration placed, and prosecuting them for corruption is the bare minimum i expect out of any democratic candidate now.

Whoever called the faction of the press who still want to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner the ‘Access of Evil’ I salute you

Too many americans still don't understand the long term impact of this administration. Everything isn't just gonna "go back to normal" if dems win the next presidential election The entire world isnt only judging this administration, they're judging the entire political system for not stopping it

i don't know how to parody this anymore

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.