We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

With our team of 60 lawyers, Elias Law Group is currently litigating 85 voting and election cases in 43 states plus DC. Perhaps someone should ask the law firms with thousands of lawyers how many pro-democracy cases they are handling. For most, the answer is zero.

Meta comms guy brings up the historical record. Ok let’s go. I revealed: —FB allowing ad targeting of “Jew-haters” —FB allowing ads to block being shown to Black users —FB promoting Stop the Steal groups prior to J6 —FB guidelines showing “white males” as protected class but not “black children”

oh my god -- Sean Duffy on Fox & Friends this morning announced that he spent parts of *7 MONTHS* (more than half a year!) on a roadtrip with his family to celebrate America's 250th anniversary

The recent Supreme Court decision, which effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, represents the life’s work of John Roberts. The Roberts Court has now gutted the VRA on three different occasions, and Roberts wrote or joined all those opinions.

"As miserably depressing as these gerrymandering wars are, it’s hard to fathom the effect on voters if they vote in a wave against Trump and still don’t win the House anyway, because Republicans cheated better." talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog-up...

Redrawing maps in other states is NOT a solution to the elimination of Black voter representation. But, it IS a chance to pass fed. legislation codifying Black voter representation into law. If not done with that intent, it's just "different" white people with power trying to speak for Black people.

Wow. So voters approve redistricting in Virginia which would help Democrats and court strikes it down. But legislators in multiple states erase Black voting districts across the country and that’s okay with courts? Is this really Democracy? https://loom.ly/qZwDzyQ

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And I implore everyone on BlueSky and beyond to understand the FBI’s refusal to investigate—at all—Renee Good’s death should be understood as racialized mechanism to police white allies of Black and Brown people. You have to see a name a Redeemer Project.

What is especially galling is that this saved zero dollars, since the cruise ships pay for the inspections. And now their industry is less trusted because of perceived health risks. Amazing lose-lose policymaking.

If you live in New York and are as mad about this as me I encourage you to call Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie's office and tell him to support the Stop Super Speeders bill that would take drivers like him off the road: 518-455-3791

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

All you really need to know to understand how obscene what Republicans are doing to Memphis is this: They’re pretending not to know Memphis is a majority Black city🙃

Not enough Sheryl Lee Ralph in #imperfectwomen

Yeah, it looks as though by investigating a reporter as a retaliatory move, Ka$h really succeeded at intimidating the Atlantic from publishing further scoo— … wait, this just in:

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

"To paraphrase Nathan Hale, I only regret that we have but one seat to take from the Democrats." This is what Democrats are facing. Any Dem who favors bipartisanship over maximalist opposition is either lost and worthy of replacement or a Republican sympathizer.

BREAKING: in April 2026, *every single one* of the 1,570 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,066 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else.

MEMPHIS SENATOR @raumeshakbari : “This is an act of hate. You cannot call it anything but racism. You cannot sugarcoat this.” Tennessee Republicans are diluting Black representation with white power, stripping their seat in Congress. #JimCrow @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — “THE DISTRICTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED BETWEEN APPORTIONMENTS….” Tennesseans are reading the law Republicans are breaking to steal representation from Memphis out loud before rules committee

Praying for all the BLACK women who need a hug but don't have time to PAUSE the fight. The ones who don't have arms to collapse into when they need to mourn & be HELD. The ones who keep doing what's RIGHT even when the world won't protect us. The ones who are tired but WON’T quit. I see you✨💕🥹

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

NINE THOUSAND people who work for the FBI — either two thirds of their agents or one quarter of their entire staff — have been diverted to doing at least some immigration enforcement by the Trump administration.

Supreme Court expansion/reform should be the #1 priority of all Democrats. Nothing else matters unless that's done first.

By undermining the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has dismantled the ability of voters of color to have a fair chance for representation in government. It demands an immediate congressional response.

Just makin' it clear for your asses. Erasing the voices of black and brown people is not "agree to disagree" territory.

“When Agent Jackson applied the carotid restraint to Carlos, Carlos’s vision went black and then he lost consciousness.” Even after he went into seizures the agent continued to apply the carotid restraint with at least one hand.

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US gofund.me/140322128

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

Wait, I thought if 60 Minutes edited an interview with a politician in the slightest, that was grounds for a lawsuit?

We needed to elect a Black Woman. It was real simple.

REP. @aftynbehn.bsky.social : “Well, that concludes our 250 year 🇺🇸 experiment, because Grandma Gone Wild @MarshaBlackburn decided to eliminate the last Democratically held seat in Tennessee, in MEMPHIS, where 65% of the constituents are Black. We need international attention on this.”

It's called "constitutional collapse"

Everyone but everyone is talking about how Callais will impact Congress. That makes sense. But our work studying the effects of Shelby County indicate it might just be the tip of the iceberg, with even bigger effects at the local level. New from me and Mike Miller at Slate:

You want to know why some of y’all get side-eyed?! We are standing at the edge of the greatest rollback of Black voting and political power in over 150 years. Not abstract. Not theoretical. Real. Black representation across the South is on the chopping block.

Please listen this time. Tell your white friends their rights are next.

On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black children began a movement peacefully protesting racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade and faced intense police brutality, sparking nationwide outrage.

Free link to @nytimes.com story on how SCOTUS is dismantling civil rights one ruling at a time. nyti.ms/42uBM6V

I want to share the new OpEd that @jimalwine.bsky.social and I wrote about the dangerous lack of pandemic preparedness in the United States. It doesn’t matter how the outbreak begins. We are not ready, and the only things we can be sure of are death, taxes, and another pandemic.

🚨Gavin Newsom wins a key round in his $787M defamation case against Fox News. A judge ruled it’s “reasonably conceivable” Fox knowingly aired false claims about Newsom’s call with Donald Trump and denied their motion to dismiss. The case now heads to trial. Newsom: “Looking forward to discovery.”

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

John Lewis was on camera getting his head cracked in.

The next reconstruction: - Expand the House to 700 Seats - Use MMP to create a multi-party system with PR - Use RCV for US Senate elections - End the filibuster + add DC - Limit the power of the Supreme Court - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Term limits and ethics rules for the court

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

@indivisible.org Will you be organizing a specific protest about the Supreme Court tanking the VRA?

John Lewis was beaten with clubs wrapped in barbed wire on the Edmund Pettus Bridge fighting for voting rights. Today’s SCOTUS decision takes the sacrifice and fight of all who marched before us and throws it away. We must keep marching — too many have fought too hard to give up.