The Mississippi GOP's main project has been to roll back the civil rights movement, starting with the re-segregation of public schools. ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 mn over 6 years from state coffers.

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

President Trump has used his sweeping global tariffs as an economic tool and a political weapon. The fate of his taxes on imports from nearly every country now rests in the Supreme Court's hands, and most of the justices sounded skeptical on Wednesday of Trump's assertion of trade powers.

Alito: What if the government reissued all of these tariffs tomorrow using [a different law] Neal Katyal: ...then we would have that case, but that's not what the government argued el oh el

100%. I teach this theory in Labor Law during a class when we focus on arguable constitutional protections for strikes, and I think it's absolutely correct.

sdklfj Gorsuch asked a question like, so if the pres unliterally declared a 50% tariff on all gas-powered vehicles to respond to the unusual & extraordinary threat of global warming? DOJ says well we'd say that's a hoax & not a threat Gorsuch dripping w condescension goes I'm sure you would lmao

Roberts: "Mr. Gorsuch?" [pause] [me sitting up] Gorsuch: * JUMPS IN ON THAT ASS * yeah it's a wrap these tariffs are going down

Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps. We live in Idiocracy.

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

dickerson is one of the best broadcast journalists in the game, and someone who would clearly be a real asset to a new leader interested in strengthening the network's journalism. but, of course, we know weiss isn't actually interested in journalism as such.

“Hell yeah, I’m a look like LL Cool J” - every single one

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

More than 1000 people marched to San Francisco’s federal building tonight www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM9SaYhf/

The US froze aid to Colombia Much of which is used to fight drug cartels Because the president of Colombia said the US killed Colombian fishermen In what is supposed to be a US military campaign to stop drug cartels

Johnson accidently telling the truth there at the end

And from image events, we get POLYSEMIC images that carry multiple forms of ideology into the present. Here, we have the convergence of Shepard Fairey's iconic HOPE poster for the Obama campaign with the frog icon from #NoKings. The is how you visually dismantle fascist iconography.

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

“While we are bound by United States Supreme Court precedent, we are not bound to stay silent as to the underlying racism and prejudices that are woven into the very fabric of those opinions,” said Sal Mungia, a Washington Supreme Court justice ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

wrote about last week's super interesting tribal sovereignty decision in Washington Supreme Court one justice wrote a standalone concurrence basically saying 'the court applied the law correctly, but also the law is terrible and it's our responsibility to say so' ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

If the bombs really have stopped falling, that is something to celebrate. But @jackmirkinson.bsky.social writes that after that, it’s time to get back to work. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Basically this

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year: www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.

That got dark quickly.

imagine getting a pep talk to "do the fucking news" by peter thiel's hand puppet. i would simply turn to dust.

i can't even make a joke. unprecedented levels of cringe.

Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

Depressing to see AP use the White House’s framing.

One of the greatest shitposts I've seen in my entire life

i am shaking with rage. ICE has always been abhorrent but now they're also completely lawless, unrestrained by money or rules. the people caught up in our disgusting immigration system bear the brunt of it, but now journalists are in their crosshairs. hideous behavior.

A preview of 2027: "Dem Says Mike Johnson Is Delaying Her Swearing-In to Prevent Epstein Vote"

Judge Young: "This case ... squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally 'yes, they do.' 'No law' means 'no law.'"

SCOOP / UPDATE — Disney saw more than 1.7 million total paid streaming cancelations during the period 9/17-9/23, a Disney source confirms to me. The total includes Disney+, Hulu and ESPN.

just 12 hours before this a *different* 40 year old Marine Corps veteran who served in Iraq shot up a bar in North Carolina www.cnn.com/2025/09/28/u...

I need to know what counts as "reading" here because my students are constantly reading--often during class!--it's just all happening on a screen now...

"No hate, no fear! Immigrants are welcome here!" Absolutely massive crowd at the New Yorkers Against ICE march. Blocks long!

Searchlight Institute is such a bad idea. Democratic consultants need to learn that you don’t win by throwing people under the bus. You don’t win using Right Wing talking points or pushing Republican policies. That does not win over Independents, and it definitely won’t win over Republican voters.

The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public

Pritzker seems to be the only one warning about this regularly

It is sadly clear that the legacy media is unwilling to stand up to Trump and is capitulating. I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fearlessly independent and pro-democracy. It will never bow down. It will never give in. It will never compromise Sign up to support its work! hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

the skeleton key to understanding these people is that they genuinely think you are a drone who will do what you’re told if the TV says it

This is an appreciation post for @bradlander.bsky.social this week I posted about Mar Garcia, a Broadway dancer here in NYC, who was taken by ICE. I tagged all my representatives and local NYC politicians. Brad Lander saw it immediately. He was just arrested again looking for folks like Mar Garcia.

It is not that MAGAs are ignorant, though they often are. It is that they are willing to lie without shame over and over again if it suits their ends.

Apparently, Peter Sook thinks comedian Jimmy Kimmel counts as” Activist journalism.”

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