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Catch me & the great @frost.house.gov on @mspopok.bsky.social tonight, covering why this horrific SCOTUS term should be the last straw on court reform.

LIVE AT 8 PM ET: Popok is back at the Intersection with special guests Rep. Maxwell Frost and Court Accountability Action’s Somil Trivedi to break down the Supreme Court’s immigration, birthright citizenship, and transgender rights rulings. Plus: Alito retirement rumors and calls for Court reform.

Now that our annual Supreme Court wreckage is complete (and we’re all still citizens, for now), join me, @leahlitman.bsky.social, @elienyc.bsky.social, @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app & @mikesacks.bsky.social to talk about fixing this thing for good. Livestream, tomorrow at 11: bit.ly/courtstream2026

Don’t believe the lie that the Roberts Court is killing independent agencies to make government “more democratically accountable.” They’ve gutted voting rights, made it impossible to sue rogue officials, defied congressional oversight & refused an enforceable ethics code. They *hate* accountability.

I’m glad the Roberts Court didn’t blow up the Fed today, but it was a policy decision to help Trump and their rich friends, who like the Fed but don’t like other regulators. No other straight faced way to justify the two outcomes.

The Supreme Court is not a court. We've known that for a while. But it's not supreme, either. Time to take our power back.

You see, the seat at the Treasury Department would have been empty otherwise, so it’s fine that an Alito sat in it.

Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it. No public resume, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it. The public was never told. Here is why that matters.

A little lost in the redistricting insanity is that it would all go away if Republicans just, you know, tried to appeal to minority voters with, like, policies that helped them. But that’s obviously off the table, so instead, we get this.

Anyone else read “Yaxel Lendeborg” and hear “Troxel v Granville”? No? Cool.

A reminder that you should want universal voting in a democracy irrespective of whether your side is suddenly benefiting or losing due to restrictions and disenfranchisement.

Trademarking a bunch of sliders tonight as One Cattle After Another you heard it here first

The strongest arguments against qualified immunity reform are that lawsuit costs would skyrocket and officer retention would plummet. Alex Reinert, Jim Pfander, and I studied qualified immunity reforms in Colorado and New Mexico and can report: the sky is not falling. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

6 accounts made $1.2M on online prediction markets on the Iran strike Most were created days before it happened Were they tipped by insiders or insiders THEMSELVES profiting off regular folks? State AGs should investigate

They told us to shut up and buy the cheap cuts at the grocery store while taking our tax money to start a war in the Middle East. #GoldenEra

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Not gonna live blog this horrorshow, but it must be reiterated until there's no life in my lungs: Trump does not know nor has ever known ball.

Update: In our latest analysis, the @progressivereform.bsky.social and Governing for Impact Project 2025 tracker finds that the Trump administration has put in action 53% of the Project 2025's recommended domestic policy actions during the first year: progressivereform.org/publications...

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Other countries have social safety nets. The US has women. Women whose paid and unpaid labor are toggled up or down depending on the whims of the men who engineered and profiteered our DIY society.

The baddest of bunnies

The Fuck ICE chants at a Seattle/Boston Super Bowl, in San Francisco with a Bad Bunny halftime, will be heard on Mars. And Minneapolis.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Only a conservative Supreme Court justice could be surprised to learn that many historical laws in America were grounded in gutter racism

Funny how the Fourth Amendment keeps getting treated like a suggestion box.

If you weaponize the DOJ to intimidate elected officials, that’s not “politics.” It’s a federal crime. Retaliatory investigations violate civil‑rights and obstruction laws. Anyone turning law enforcement into a threat is advertising their own liability.

Remember criminal justice reform? Woulda been nice right about now, huh?

Every city they have terrorized has fought back in its own way. LA had protests and cell videos. DC had annoyed feds and grand-jury no-bills. Chicago had priests. Charlotte had angry grandma scaring feds off her lawn. The Twin Cities are showing sheer, dedicated, relentless presence.

Personally I think it’s saying a lot. It’s admitting that the truth isn’t the goal. We’ll say stuff, might be factually wrong, might be straight up propaganda. On you to decide, can’t blame us.

Never forget. 🇺🇸

Bama gets smoked and Zo gets sworn in, pace yourself, 26

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

You have to read to the 23d and 24th grafs of the Times story on Trump's big drug-price "deals" to see that they're basically hype. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h....

If we're not at war, Pete Hegseth is a murderer. If we are at war, Pete Hegseth is still a murderer. He's a murderer. And you don't need to go to The Hague to hold him accountable because there are perfectly good, American laws AGAINST MURDER. My latest in @thenation.com

TN07 is a story about gerrymandering: the GOP cracked Nashville into 3 districts when it redrew the 2022 map, destroying the Dem seat there. Fast-forward: a section of Nashville, which just 5 years ago had a Dem representative, is now voting Dem by huge margins but it's been designed to not matter.

The first official confirmation that Noem herself made the decision not to turn the planes around. A couple hundred men were tortured as a result — and soon after, the Supreme Court confirmed that the Trump admin’s Alien Enemies Act process was a total violation of due process.

The central dynamic of our economy—the reason big tech & banks can create & burst bubbles on a whim, why they’ll cave to Trump even if he’s bad for business, etc.—is that CEOs stay rich and untouchable no matter what. Personal accountability for rigging the game is key to getting off the wheel.

Did women ruin the Epstein sex trafficking ring?

By the way, Andre referencing Jack’s song at their mutual hall of fame induction is, like, the coolest geriatric millennial shit ever

I know he fell asleep at his desk earlier, but his lawyers are working really, really hard for the right to starve your family.

Au justice was served?

Shouldn’t take a court order to tell you to feed the hungry.

Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

He sent a mob to destroy Congress and took a bulldozer to the White House, and that’s extremely relevant context for any Supreme Court analysis this term.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

CLEAR EYES, FULL HEARTS, NO KINGS