The most accurate portrayal of the pro-Jim Crow, white nationalist Roberts Supreme Court I've seen yet.

Yesterday's 6–3 Supreme Court order ushering in a racist Alabama gerrymander broke two promises that Alito made *12 days earlier* in Callais and shamelessly broke the court's own (bogus) rule against late intervention in an ongoing election. slate.com/news-and-pol...

This, the US Supreme Court has explained to us, is what it looks like to finally live in a land free of racial discrimination. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/u... South Carolina is 26% black. Louisiana is 33%. Mississippi is 37%.

Any "leftist" taking MTG's side over AOC's is either an op or the biggest mark at the carnival

The more things change The more they stay the same.

JK Rowling is now represented by a trans person in the Scottish parliament. Absolutely incredible.

compared to what actually needs to be done, dems in va steamrolling the state supreme court in this gerrymandering fight is very very very easy and they need to do it just to show us the entire party understands the assignment

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

You know what would go a long way toward building credibility on this? Sit down for an interview with someone outside right wing media. Explain to Ezra Klein why Texas's map was being changed too close to the election but not Louisiana's.

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

what makes the SCOTUS Gang of Six acting as an unaccountable super-legislature especially intolerable is that they are not just setting up unfavorable rules, they are playing Calvinball where they selectively apply the rules case-by-case exclusively to help Republicans. A judicial dictatorship

What’s the funniest real-world advertising slogan to imagine Don Draper coming up with? Right now for me it’s “A cookie is just a cookie. But Newtons are fruit and cake.”

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

Geologists have warned that if they try to carve Trump into Rushmore the whole rockface will come crashing down in the greatest metaphor of all time. Let's do it.

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.

Regarding Callais, I think it would surprise the crafters of the 15th Amendment that when they wrote "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation," they had left it up to SCOTUS—and not to Congress—to decide what legislation is "appropriate."

Kagan is describing a judicial coup

Stop trying to be president, son, and start trying to be PRESENT for your SON

Two things can be true: Congress should pass uniform, national legislation reining in partisan gerrymandering; and Until that happens, or every state adopts an independent redistricting commission, neither party is going to (or, frankly, should) unilaterally disarm.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

Ohio State making me say nice things about them, so um: Go Bucks?

@hollyanderson.bsky.social @edsbs.bsky.social $1 each for Jeremiah Smith's combined 2025 receptions, receiving yards, receiving TDs, and Heisman points. #GoBucks

To all who celebrate

It SICKENS me how many people out there are saying “When has a bollard ever saved a life”

I think one really cool thing about our return to the moon is that we just have vastly better cameras now

People at the start of Trump’s term told me: this isn’t that bad, the court will rule against trump He and his admin are spending a lot of time, resources, and therefore taxpayer money (mine and yours) for more than a year, devoting serious effort to trying to pull this off In a sane world, that…

For the low low price of just a few hundred dead children and the GDP of a small country, Trump hopes to achieve an outcome otherwise only slightly worse than if he had never been born. Victory!

common misconception: the human in Ratatouille (2007) isn’t called Ratatouille. he’s Ratatouille’s Monster

i expect that the Charlie Kirk respecters are infuriated by this callous response to death

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

And no complaints about “but heritage and history!” abc7.com/post/city-sa...

I think some on this website and in general are confused. Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism. I have written I do not know how many pieces saying this. Also, if you are using anti-Zionism as an opportunity to say hateful things about Jews qua Jews, you are, I am sorry to say, being antisemitic.

Another big win for our President who ran on cutting government spending and not starting wars. Gosh, can't believe Republicans did this again! Who could've known?

This is about as good a performance as one can give on the stand

on the jim crow travesty that is the SAVE act (gift link)

Here's the reason, you weirdo: There have been many studies showing that there is no fraud. And since the right is so precious and so important, the idea that legitimate voters would be barred from exercising it over some unnecessary bureaucratic technicality is anathema to any patriotic American.

Thune cuts to the heart of why the Senate GOP won’t nuke the filibuster: “Throughout history, it’s protected Republicans and conservative priorities and principles a lot more often than it’s protected Democrats.”

I don’t see why a 15-second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish and fake l/t memories should not be subject to short-term capital gains taxes on everything (including unrealized gains) and a 100% inheritance tax.

Half of Americans do not have passports; getting one costs at least $165, plus photos, and requires … a birth certificate or certificate of naturalization. trib.al/JUjTUWP

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

It is so hard to be trans right now, y’all. Like, I can’t speak for everyone but I’m white-knuckling it pretty much constantly at this point. I hope cis people are understanding how much is at stake for us in this moment: It’s literally our right to exist as ourselves that is being stripped away.