Finally the chickens have come home to roost at Real Madrid. The only question is why it took so long considering how dysfunctional the club is.... www.theguardian.com/football/202...

New filings: Alabama is now asking SCOTUS to immediately allow it to use gerrymandered map that was previously struck down as a violation of the Voting Rights Act

How the Supreme Court ushered in an era of rampant partisan gerrymandering and used it as a reason to further gut the Voting Rights Act:

As venues are struggling to sell tickets, I bet they appreciate the "hope no one gets blown up in the parking lot" message.

Virginia Supreme Court strikes down Democrats' congressional gerrymander:

David Attenborough is basically the last living legacy of the 20th century, at least for Brits www.bbc.com/news/article...

Get in

The vote just now in TN that removes the state's only majority Black congressional district is a direct consequence of this 👇

A 2019 ruling ended hopes of reining in partisan gerrymandering via the courts. Now, the conservative majority has gone even further.

Wow. Chaos on the Tennessee House floor. Tennesseans yelling in the gallery and Democrats locking arms in one final stand, as Republicans vote to advance new congressional maps that will carve up the state’s only majority-Black congressional district.

There were pots of money to be made in cable news, an opportunity that Turner exploited. Right now there's no rainbow, let alone a pot at the end of it.

Give the guy a break! Sailing is hard when Poseidon's on your ass!

NEW: The Supreme Court once had a chance to limit partisan gerrymandering, but it has instead turbocharged it. How the court went from reluctantly saying there was nothing it could do about the problem to using it as a reason to gut the Voting Rights Act: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Last time I went to Merthyr was to see what turned out to be one of the worst football matches ever (Merthyr 0 Hereford 0). The weather was so miserable half of our group went to the pub at half-time. www.nbcnews.com/world/united...

Report from Hershey last night:

There are so many bad thing about how this world cup was planned, but aside from the blatant price gouging, and the US immigration police state, spreading it out over three countries in such a large area seems particularly dumb.

NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts bemoans that Americans don't understand how the Supreme Court operates and see justices as "political actors". The court at times simply has to make "unpopular" decisions, he adds: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

This motion to withdraw the immediate issuance of the redistricting judgment was just denied by SCOTUS without comment.

Same old story www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/b...

"Vaulter" lives

Breaking News: In an about-face, President Trump announced he was pausing the day-old U.S. operation to guide ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

A new wrinkle -- civil rights plaintiffs in redistricting case say SCOTUS jumped the gun in issuing the judgment, saying they actually do intend to seek rehearing:

This seems like a long way of conceding that, yes, "shadow docket" is the best name for it: blog.dividedargument.com/p/the-docket...

Last night 👇

Some of us don't need an expensive makeover to look old as shit

I knew the Justices were going to do this when they let the whole weekend go with mass voter confusion over whether votes cast in early voting for House seats would count or not. (They won't)

The Supreme Court on Monday allowed last week's contentious voting rights ruling to go into effect immediately amid redistricting chaos in Louisiana and elsewhere. Jackson angrily dissented and Alito angrily responded to her: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

And what happens when it comes back again over the issue of whether the governor could suspend the election after it had already started....

Supreme Court grants Louisiana request that redistricting ruling go into effect immediately:

NEW: Supreme Court -- for now -- restores full access to abortion pill mifepristone while litigation continues: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

With new SCOTUS-imposed chaos in redistricting rolling out in the states, the court itself now takes a two week break

Supreme Court must, surely, have known this could happen when they issued the ruling at this time.

Pope marks World Press Freedom Day, laments violations and honours slain reporters reut.rs/4d5iY2U

It is an interesting question — Purcell says courts can’t intervene to change election rules close to an election. But what happens when the Supreme Court does it?

Wrexham is a media co that owns a football club. But, a bit like a ponzi scheme, it may be that the model only works when the team keeps on winning. At some point the momentum stalls and the main product — the tv show — will suffer. And when that happens, the football team might be screwed.

No doubt conservatives will be very mad about a single court blocking a federal policy nationwide…

I'm reading this now, but it does appear to be a national vacatur of the telemedicine prescription approval, pending appeal.

Yikes

True, although it has got better

John Roberts didn't write the ruling but his fingerprints are all over it.

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.

Alabama Governor Ivey says she will NOT call a legislative special election right now in response to Callais. This basically confirms there won't be new maps in Alabama this year. The state delegation will extremely likely remain 5-2.

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NEW: The Callais plaintiffs have asked SCOTUS to rush release of the certified judgment citing the new for a map redraw before the 2026 midterms. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Is "Alito map" going to be the new "Kavanaugh stop"?

As I'm in a flu or COVID induced fog and just want to lie down, I was really hoping there wouldn't be a big SCOTUS ruling today. Such is life.

The Supreme Court further weakened the Voting Rights Act by ruling that a Louisiana congressional map is an "unconstitutional racial gerrymander" even though it was drawn to comply with the landmark law aimed at protecting minority voters: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

If Comey didn't place the shells then anyone who took a photo of it could be indicted for the same thing.