Evil continues to win and I hate it

Yup. Your job as regular person is not to parse whether particular policies are 'realistic' or 'possible.' You are supposed to actually demand what you need to live a dignified life.

The only thing that has changed is that Republicans have done some more fuck shit that has riled up the base and Democrats have over performed in Ohio and Michigan. In a D+8 environment where Dems win 40 seats (like in 2018), then even the VRA obliteration doesn’t kill Dems chances.

we need to talk about what Louisiana Republicans are doing to Calvin Duncan, who deserves so much better than this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Having read 65/250 isn't great, but better than I thought: www.bklynlibrary.org/america-250/...

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

If it wasn't clear before, it is painfully clear now that the Republican Party is the party of segregation, of subordination, and of white supremacy.

FBI raiding Louise Lucas's office is a concession by the Republicans that they cannot win the redistricting wars by political means. They were always going to weaponize the legal system to try and get their way because in their minds, being anything other than a MAGA Republican is a crime.

Kamala Harris very much had (has) an issue cogently conveying her policy ideas. “Coconut tree,” “what can be unburdened by what has been,” and the rest were rhetorical crutches that lost folks.

I know he's older than most, but I'd honestly jump at the chance to vote for Sherrod Brown for president.

Interesting #Ohio thing: right now, Sherrod Brown - who essentially ran uncontested in his primary -- has more votes than Vivek Ramaswamy. Across the two primaries, the number of Dems who turned out for the Senate primary is roughly equal to the Republicans who turned out for the Gov primary.

If we're blaming McConnell for Trump, might as well blame him for stealing 3 SCOTUS seats that directly led to Trump being granted immunity and Colorado being forced to allow him on the ballot after insurrection.

Kelela back to save music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrjR...

If I was Chuck Schumer or anyone in Senate Democratic leadership, I'd be making sure that I'm wrapping John Fetterman up and doing what I can to keep him in the fold.

Blackness is never foregrounded in political punditry in this country and as such it has been criminally under discussed how millions of black people are about to lose their political representation. What should be one of the biggest stories of our life has been reduced to mere horserace coverage.

We might need to bring in the military when this is all said and done.

More and more the idea that there needed to be a big, structural reforming of American politics post-Trump 1 -- and that an old hand like Joe Biden was the wrong choice to even attempt it -- is being vindicated.

We ( @takebackthect.bsky.social and some others) had it in 2019: 1) Get rid of the filibuster. 2) Expand and rebalance SCOTUS. 3) Bunch of other stuff that is only possible after 1&2: Ethics reforms, term limits, etc. We don’t need a plan we need people to get on board with it.

John Lewis had John Roberts' number from the jump: takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/john-lewis...

It's 2030. The House is frozen at 217 seats that are over D +15 and 217 seats that are locked at over R +15. There is a single competitive seat in Iowa. Both parties spend $20 billion on it.

Genuinely cannot wait to see every major conservative politician, jurist, and ideologue of the past 30 years put against the wall. All of them are monstrous traitors to the Enlightenment values that supposedly undergird American life, and they will pay for their crimes in time.

Allowing an exception for rotisserie chicken and rotisserie chicken only really drives home the cynicism at the heart of all this.

Hegseth really strings himself up here: either he's actively allowing someone with classified information to make money off of it, or he's doing nothing while that someone makes out like a bandit. Either way, he looks corrupt and incompetent.

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.

The Republican quotes here -- where they name specific Black Congressmen that they want to target and take out -- feels so nakedly Jim Crow it hurts. These fuckers hate us so much, it makes you want to scream.

In a lot of red states, folks are already adept at reforming their state constitutions to enact progressive reforms like a $15/min wage, legalizing marijuana, and ending right to work. We need to tap into and amplify the work that these (largely Black) activists are doing now more than ever.

Actual unabashed antisemitism coming from Hegseth.

I was in law school from 2019 to 2022 and they fed us the same bullshit. I had a professor during the pandemic telling us that the court was actually 3-3-3, which was also dumb.

Lots of folks crowing about Schumer endorsing Platner as a sign that he's not as progressive as he purports to be are very dumb. Schumer is endorsing Platner because he wants to be Majority Leader. There is a concrete material cost to him if Dems don't unite and win.

We speak with author and activist Bill McKibben about the worsening climate crisis and why the world must rapidly transition to renewable energy in order to stave off the worst impacts. He says the Iran war has exposed the “utter folly” of fossil fuel dependence.

I'm not nostalgic for the 1950s, but I am nostalgic for whatever spirit of hope, possibility, and yearning that animated their struggle. Millions of us took up direct action and struggle because we knew that something better laid on the other side of it. I want that for us now.

Any candidate for federal office -- at any level -- should make undoing the Roberts Court a part of their platform. This revanchist "court" has stripped voting rights, government power to regulate corporations, abortion rights, and made the executive into a mad king.

Janet Mills dropped out?! Holy cow was not expecting that.

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “This is an attack on Black political power. To take away our representation.”

McDuffie closing on "defund the police" is wild. Absolute clown behavior.

Kenyan McDuffie trying to hit JLG for not being a bootlicker for landlords is a CRAZY hit to try to land.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

JLG proposing a publicly owned grocery store in Wards 7 and 8 is excellent. This idea of honest-to-God "public goods" gaining traction in Democratic (read: democratic socialist) circles is very exciting.

McDuffie anytime JLG puts forward a strong policy idea or calls him on being a corrupt empty suit: "it's not about what you say, it's about what you do." BRO YOU HAVEN'T DONE SHIT BUT WASTE SPACE AND COLLECT A CHECK!

Kenyon McDuffie is such a disingenuous, slimeball ass politician. Watching tonight's debate, it was clear how canned his responses were, how unambitious his agenda is, and how little he cares for the vast majority of Washingtonians.

What's more, some putative YIMBY supporters of McDuffie are accusing Janeese Lewis-George's supporters of betraying the YIMBY cause, endorsing her simply because they like her broader leftist platform. That is backwards! JLG has the much stronger YIMBY platform! McDuffie is the NIMBY in this race!

Ok, so we're literally at the "calling off elections to disenfranchise Black people" phase of our democratic backsliding.

Wild that a single kangaroo court in Texas can just do whatever the worst conservatives in the country want and we're expected to respect it like they aren't naked partisan hacks doing neo-Hitler's bidding

So are we going to see the No Kings marchers rapid response organize against the VRA act ruling this weekend or….?

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

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.

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

Alito will go down as one of the worst Judicial officers in American history, EASILY on par with Justices Taney and Brown.

Kagan: "The Callais requirements have thus laid the groundwork for the largest reduction in minority representation since the era following Reconstruction."

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit