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The fundamental mistake that the conservative legal movement made in looking at the Warren Court was assuming that it was all power and zero parts persuasion, so all they had to do was capture the institution. They were, I think, half right, but that other half is very important.

Thanks to Trump and GOP's war heating oil is now up 60% in the past month. Heating oil prices are now climbing for consumers.

Even by his standards Alito’s opinion in NY redistricting case last night was totally unhinged. If he’s writing majority opinion in Voting Rights Act case that’s very very bad news www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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A judge has ordered Dallas County polling places to stay open until 9pm CT for the *Democratic primary only.*

Breaking News: House Democrats released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew of the convicted sex offender's conduct and “spent hours at my house” with a victim.

KILMEADE: Schumer says he's voting no. Did you do this outside leadership? SHAHEEN: No. We kept leadership informed throughout.

Angus King: "This initial strategy didn't work. And now we have one. We're gonna have a guaranteed vote on the ACA, and it may not succeed. I grant that. But a reasonable chance -- 10, 20, 30% -- is a lot better than 0% which is where we were."

Agree. Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them." This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.

Even the senators who are retiring and think they won't have to face the wrath of furious Democratic voters should know that their last name is about to become so toxic that not even a goddamn nonprofit is going to want you on the board.

Trump: "We'll never agree to give any substantial money or any money to prisoners, illegals. And I think the Democrats understand that. And it looks like we're getting close to the shutdown ending."

BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.

Not every justice has yet spoken, but Roberts and Barrett have and they are clearly against Trump's tariffs. That's five votes.

Katyal is merciless. He is embarrassing Alito’s fanciful hypos and Alito is getting mad. But Katyal is unfazed and instead going in for the kill. Wow. Well done.

i think telling greenblatt to go fuck himself face-to-face would heal me

oh this is cool and unexpected

If I had to guess right now (and it is premature!) I'd say the Supreme Court is going to strike down Trump's tariffs. All three liberals are clearly against the government. Barrett too. Roberts leaning that way. And we haven't even gotten to tax-hater Gorsuch yet.

cannot wait for this guy to fade into obscurity as a has-been

Alicia Johnson (D) and Peter Hubbard (D) have both defeated their Republican incumbent opponents in the special elections for Georgia Public Service Commissioner.

Soft prediction, feel free to own me if wrong: by 2029 there’s a Dem in the wh. They will be elected in part on promise to hold the second trump admin accountable for many crimes. Shortly after getting in, median voter public sentiment will turn to “just move on, we’re done with that”

Breaking: Ghazala Hashmi wins Virginia Lieutenant Governor race, flipping the seat from red to blue. (Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)

These jobs!? BTW bezos had taken in 30 BILLION SINCE FRIDAY!!

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‼️ this was a striking moment, to me Louisiana was basically like 'here come these Black people always asking for more' and Justice Jackson was like, 'that's not what the fuck they're asking for, they're saying: stop discriminating against us'

now the Court is spinning a giant wheel of racist excuses to kill off the Voting Rights Act idk which one it'll land on, but they all have the same intended result: forcing people of color out of the political process, leaving a government by and for white people ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Voting Rights Act has done more than perhaps any other statute to build a multiracial democracy which is precisely why the Supreme Court’s conservative justices have spent decades casting the law as constitutionally unsound ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are -the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act -the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

If the Democrats get back control of both chambers of Congress and the White House - restructuring this rogue far-right #SCOTUS needs to happen on day 1.

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

well a leading socialist explained that putting a halt on the hiring of nonwhite people will through magic make it easier to do class appeals

All the edgy sneering about "representation" was a way to ironize and therefore obscure the complaint that someone not white was being hired to do a job.

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor. According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

As a baby lawyer in the Reagan White House, John Roberts was writing memos arguing that violations of the Voting Rights Act should not be "too easy to prove." This is not just any legal issue that happens to come before him. This is his life's work. He just wants to finish what he started.

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

Netanyahu's Trump Loving Corporate Media And Press Will Do Anything To Protect Their Favorite Shyster Jared Kushner 🧵thread bsky.app/profile/judd...

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

*clears throat*: time to re-post the kavanaugh concurrence again!

I wrote this 7 years ago. only mistake is that the rot is now considerably worse than I assumed it would get theweek.com/articles/785...

Even Teddy Roosevelt (our least "woke" president ever) called Wounded Knee "a massacre," in which "squaws, children, unarmed Indians, and armed Indians who had surrendered were killed, sometimes cold-bloodedly and with circumstances of marked brutality." 5/

Even in 1890, the massacre was controversial, which is why the US Army awarded so many of its highest award, the Medal of Honor, to soldiers involved. Most of the US casualties were likely victims of "friendly fire": since the Army had surrounded the Lakotas, the soldiers shot one another 4/

Dakota physician Charles Eastman was an eyewitness to the massacre: "Fully three miles from the scene of the massacre we found the body of a woman . . .and from this point on we found them scattered along as they had been relentlessly hunted down and slaughtered, while fleeing for their lives." 3/