UNC Athletics says "The Tar Heels are for everyone" and this statement is deleted because it "violated the UNC System’s Equality Policy"--says the Ministry of Truth? Some dystopian shit right here. #nc-pol Read more at: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

imagine being president of the united states and getting snubbed by a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead

imagine being an elite university or major newspaper or an elected member of Congress and realizing that you don't have the moral backbone of, to quote this marvelous post, a group popular 40 years ago and best known for lip syncing and also one of them is dead.

I was trying not to be heartbroken that the trolls at Stephen Miller’s party would hear Independence Day live when I never have … and more importantly, that Martina would sing for them. Thank you, Martina, for lifting that weight!

I had a very raucous convo with Atima Omara tonight based on her new book, “The Instigators” at one of my fave locals, Flyleaf Books. Having a lot of serious community heavy hitters in the audience made a lively Q&A. We got deep on the DNC autopsy, class politics and the two-party system.

Reporters don't talk enough about how Republicans do not consider Democratic voters to be fully American.

When you lay it all out, it's VERY clear what Trump has in mind. And it demands immediate planning and action to stymie his extralegal plans. Things like removing GOP judges and justices, denying appropriations, regular impeachment demands... Hoping normal means will suffice is deranged.

Imagine being a billionaire in an unequal society where the system has been massively rigged in your favor, watching as ordinary people fall further and further behind and get more and more desperate, and thinking a slightly higher tax rate is the worst possible thing that might ever happen to you.

CHCCS parents: meet mom, vet, nursing asst, fair wages advocate, & NCGA Dist. 46 candidate, Brittany Newton. She supports improving NC public schools, especially in Dist. 46 (parts of Columbus and Robeson Counties), where too many kids are being left behind. www.brittanyfornchouse.com #ncpol

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Bill Cassidy stuck us with RFK Jr for literally nothing

A bright line runs through Trump’s first term refusal to visit Aisne-Marne, his appointment of the painfully unqualified Hegseth atop DoD, and gross crap like this: total contempt for our military and the sacrifices Americans in uniform have made for generations.

I doubt I know more about reconstruction than Trevon. What I do know is that Reconstruction wasn’t some shadowy, back room event. It was then as it is now — plain as day, obvious to all, boastful and unrepentant.

Counterpoint: Govt officials, particularly intelligence leaders, shouldn’t be doing “oppo hits” on members of Congress during legitimate oversight hearings.

We need to stop presenting OLC opinions as anything significant. OLC has long been too ambitious in its assessment of executive claims. Given what Trump has done to the entire administration, Bondi initially did to DOJ, and Blanche has done since, they’ve rendered OLC opinions meaningless.

Louisiana is also the state that got SCOTUS Republicans to kill the Voting Rights Act two weeks ago. Probably a coincidence

This entire movement has been spearheaded and fueled by elite backlash to demands for equality. apnews.com/article/dive...

As I wrote in February, the era of resegregation is at hand. “It would be safer to their egos and the structure of supremacy that bolsters them to believe that desegregation did too much than accept that it was not enough.”

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

Balls and strikes — but the pitcher and the umpire are both committed to a racist, misogynist, elitist worldview that can’t be achieved democratically so they just collude to force it on us all.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

It's almost like it was all part of an a-factual ideological project!

At least in cases where the politics matter, the supreme court does politics, not law. A lot of smart people will dispute that. Mostly because they are paid to.

This whole thread, with the only friendly amendment that you can substitute at least “All humanistic inquiry” for “Historical research.”

“Henry Billings Brown only wrote one Plessy. Alito’s already written two.” — @adamserwer.bsky.social

quote this shit and say that you're using the maps anyway

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Virginia today offers a reminder, for anybody needing one, of the very important role state supreme courts play in shaping democracy. So don’t sleep on Georgia, which is holding elections for two state supreme court seats in just 11 days. @boltsmag.org preview: boltsmag.org/georgia-supr...

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Judicial supremacy is choking us out. End it.

This will make for the quite split screen for when Florida's conservative supreme court likely ignores the state's 2010 constitutional amendments and blesses DeSantis' +4 map.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Is it political violence when the country’s health secretary suggests sick people deserve to die

it is incredible to see folks complain that good people don't run for office, that lawmaking is a hobby for the rich, that our state legislators are run by car dealership freaks, and then insist that we shouldn't pay lawmakers any more than we do.

This dropped around the same time as this interview - Neil Gorsuch on Megyn Kelly’s show. He was talking about how “young conservatives must have courage to stand by their beliefs.” Sounds apolitical to me!

They think you’re stupid.

With Rudy Giuliani in critical condition in the hospital at age 81, despite my differences with him, in the spirit of the common humanity of all people, it is my sincere wish that Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss had a pleasant Sunday with their families.

The Yale Law School Federalist Society just gave this guy a profile in courage award this weekend.

Watching all these GOP-controlled states race each other to gerrymander their districts before the 2026 midterms, it is hard for me to look at the timing of Callais and not conclude that the conservative justices decided the case on the earlier side to do their fellow Republicans a favor

I want every one of my Dem friends to read this piece. The Court has gutted the Voting Rights Act and done so much other damage. The justices want to insist that they get the last word. But don't take for granted that they do. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/o...

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Nationwide injunctions to ban lifesaving care for women, yes! Nationwide injunctions to say water is wet and birthright citizenship is in the fucking constitution, no way!

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

Their project is undoing the Civil War