The Supreme Court is playing a central role in the overthrow of the Second Reconstruction - just as it did in the overthrow of the first. Color blindness has been used to excuse and justify both. 1/

After Louisiana passed its disfranchising constitution in 1898, voter registration fell 99% among Black voters - and almost 45% among white voters. (from C Vann Woodward, Origins of the New South)

Landry’s career has been a crusade to limit the power of the state’s Black residents. boltsmag.org/jeff-landry-...

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.

The decision says nothing about Louisiana's other majority-black district, but unless Louisiana doesn't see a partisan gerrymandering reason to cram African-Americans into the district, it is likely gone as soon as the state government can get around to another redraw

Just putting it in perspective. The vast majority of recent successful Section 2 cases have been (1) in the South and (2) at the local level.

Tennessee’s Republican senator, who is the overwhelming favorite this year to become the next governor, calls for eliminating the only majority-Black and safely Democratic congressional district

News you can use: How to Get a Passport Without President Trump’s Face on It gizmodo.com/how-to-get-a...

60 days. That is how long American forces have been at war with Iran without authorization from the United States Congress. Today, the clock written into the 1973 War Powers Resolution runs out. Tomorrow, this war becomes flatly illegal.

I want to be sure folks understand this headass argument Federal courts held that Louisiana enacted a racist gerrymander, so Louisiana finally passed a fair map instead Now the Supreme Court says Replacing a racist map w/ a not-racist map is ALSO illegal racism ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louis...

4. Kagan explains this well, but what's perhaps most galling about Callais is how the majority effectively overrules Congress's judgment about how best to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, as it did in Shelby County. This extreme judicial activism is a huge threat to democratic self-governance.

I'm on parental leave this week and next, so of course Callais came down today. Just a few top-line thoughts: 1. Don't believe Alito's claim that the majority is merely tinkering with precedent. In effect, this decision pretty much eliminates what remained of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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"This was the third such attempt in roughly two years." Not a criticism of the piece which is very good. I'm curious though, why isn't the young man killed trying to breach Mar-a-Lago in February considered an attempt? Because he's dead and can't speak to motive? Because Trump wasn't there?

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

This is *not* a list of every VRA district. Many are in blue states, and some the GOP can't plausibly target even with the most aggressive gerrymanders. These are the likeliest new targets: • AL-02 • AL-07 • FL-09 • GA-02 • GA-13 • LA-02 • LA-06 • MS-02 • SC-06 • TN-09 • TX-16 • TX-29

You really cannot overestimate the level of status trauma a lot of white Americans experienced at the election of Barack Obama and how much of our politics is still influenced by it bsky.app/profile/beau...

I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.

This "case" — like the last one — is a clear political persecution. The Trump DOJ continues to act as the President's personal attack dog, using taxpayer money to settle Trump's petty grievances. This is blatant authoritarianism.

Wasn't he just complaining about the No KIngs rallies fomenting hatred or whatever? Dude, maybe don't do the king cosplay shit, if you don't want fucking Americans of all people to get upset about it.

Charles extolling tolerance, executive restraint, interfaith understanding, decency, international peace......Half expect him to chant "No Kings" at any moment.

Don't mind me. I'm just going to sit quietly over here in the corner and slowly chew off my own tongue. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Open-mindedness was the strongest predictor of *rejecting* conspiracy theories in a sample of 46,745 participants in 68 nations In particular, participants who were threatened by people who disagree with them were the most likely to believe conspiracy theories. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I couldn’t agree more with what Julie K. Brown is saying here. Michael Tracey’s misconduct is not funny. I understand why people mock him, but it would be nice to see more of our media peers actually seriously condemn his treatment of women.

I like to listen to news articles while I work out and the NYT automated voice has vocal fry that's gonna make lose it.

I talked to Jamie Raskin about his explosive exchange with CNN's Dana Bash. "The media should understand that the survival of the free press is at stake right now," he tells me. "There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press.” New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2095...

I assume the press is disregarding this armed attempt from February because Trump was in DC at the time, but it doesn't seem any less an assassination attempt than the guy who lay in the bushes outside the golf course. time.com/7380355/mar-...

the thing about the ballroom is that trump very clearly wants the white house to be a kind of living tomb where he doesn't ever leave

I want cis Americans to sit uncomfortably with the fact that most of these restrictions were ushered in through the liberal act of "just asking questions" about trans people.

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

His “I'm not a rapist. I'm not a pedophile,” tshirt is inspiring a lot questions answered by his tshirt.

Of interest to me is the report was released at the start of February and the big political press collectively yawned. www.fb.org/market-intel...

This was from when Charlie Kirk was shot and we were supposed to pretend gun violence was newly shocking because it affected someone who was supposed to be exempt from it. Some of our Elite Journalists are doing the same routine now.

this is the same woman who went crying to the police when someone knocked her phone out of her hand because she wouldn’t stop filming the bleeding victims of the charlottesville car attack. on the scene of a mass casualty incident, feet away from a woman’s dead body, it was all about her.

Perhaps not the most important point here but wouldn't this make the fourth attempt? Which one is Trump or the AP not seeing?

30 years ago I was in a Frontline documentary on how WHCA dinner was distillation of insider-ism at core of "savvy" DC coverage. I published a book (Breaking the News) on similar theme back at that time. HST was making the point 20+ years earlier!

And all the Journalists that insist on Twitter as their public Slack chat will elevate their "Bluesky is a bubble" smugness to something much darker.

This puts the security debate in better perspective. I know this space really well. The guy wasn’t anywhere near the ballroom. He was basically trying to rush the security perimeter and failed. It’s a big complex with lots of different event happening at the same time.

Praised by whom?

Take a look at the comments section - *all* the top recommended comments are conspiracy theories about the shooting being staged. At The Atlantic, no less. This is what we have become as a society and it is truly disheartening. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Here they are: our two top Iran negotiators. No diplomatic experience. In way over their head. Both with massive financial conflicts of interest, their fortunes tied to the Middle East dictators that make them rich. What a disaster.

WHCA journalists: oh my god we are so traumatized!!! Also WHCA journalists: [posts a bunch of photos from various parties they attended after being traumatized]

I just suffered through last night's press conference and if Weijia Jiang's opening question is any indication, we're in for a bad time.

It really is substantially more likely that some guy wanted to shoot some people (or one man in particular) than that the government staged a false flag attack. Running towards conspiracy thinking is naive and you should be embarrassed. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No.

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization

The White House doesn't host the Correspondents' Dinner. The President being a guest is kinda the whole point (such as it is.) All the jagoffs going on about the ballroom, is the idea that the President would not attend any public events ever again?

I'm no expert or anything but it does seem to me that a pool of water intended to reflect a white monument and a blue sky should probably be black, not fucking neon olympic pool blue.