The legal definition of a concentration camp is a facility where civilians are held without due process. That is what these are and we must tell the truth about them to marshal the outrage needed to demand they cease to exist.

There is a statue of author Alex Haley in East Knoxville, TN. Knox County just removed Roots from all school libraries.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.

It’s encouraging to see a court censure a person for transphobic comments in court and clearly state that routinely misgendering someone is not “free speech” but is a demeaning act. It’s an apt rebuttal to transphobes who like to caricature trans people as fraudulent and dangerous for just existing.

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Straight-up admitting it’s all for show. Unbelievable stuff.

NEW: The FBI visited the home of Milwaukee County’s elections director in an attempt to question her over absentee ballots from the 2020 presidential election. The visit marks the latest sign that the Trump administration is probing the 2020 election results in Wisconsin.

Nearly 40% of Mississippians are Black.

(ABC News) - Grocery prices in the U.S. soared faster in April than any month in nearly four years .. abcnews.com/Business/tom...

"Chud the Builder," a livestreamer who films himself calling others the N-word, is in custody following a shooting incident

In 2024 piles of rocks were spread out on sites around Pittsburgh that were used for tent encampments. Curious about who was responsible for the displacement tactic, and how officials were talking about such efforts, Jordana Rosenfeld put in a public records request to the city and county.

LLMs are a threat to democracy, because (when trusted) they make it harder for people to learn the truth. And that’s a huge help for authoritarians. Not a big deal if people don’t trust them. But to their discredit, mainstream education, news, business, & more are serving as hype men for LLMs.

Some people would absolutely devastated to know how little is digitized for preservation and how little will continue to be digitized. Why? Because MONEY AND LABOR. And digitization for preservation isn't the same as digitization for ACCESS...

Hello regular American family, thank you for coming to our weekly kitchen table meeting. Before we review the details of the Democrats' latest policy paper, we have to conduct our regular discussion of the word choice someone said they saw in an internet post that we attribute to the whole party.

As Democrats discuss how to respond to Supreme Court rulings undermining voting rights and fair elections, Republican states have already set the precedents. After Utah courts overturned the GOP’s House gerrymander, they packed their Supreme Court and stripped its jurisdiction to hear certain cases

We are living through the stupidest time line.

AOC is right to say this, and anyone who attacks her for it is wrong. And AOC should under no circumstances be labeled antisemitic.

Notice how glacially slow these state legislators moved on anything that helped their constituents but are lightning fast on gerrymandering their maps. They will screw around with the process any way they can to “win”.

The bottom line of two court rulings in the past 10 days is to make it easier for Republicans to gerrymander districts in their favor and harder for Democrats to do the same. The net effect may be 10 seats for the GOP. @shanegoldmacher.bsky.social @timbalk.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/u...

There was a quote that said something like Black people worship a Jesus who knows what it's like to be lynched, while white people worship a Jesus who will forgive them for being part of a lynch mob.

Hard to think of a worse time for Klobuchar to be governor of Minnesota.

If you’re insulated by privilege it is your duty to break unjust laws.

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

Head of federal law enforcement stages authoritarian crackdown on political enemies in attempt to appease Trump because he's afraid the journalistic exposé of his uncontrolled alcoholism is putting his job in jeopardy

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

"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...

Precisely. Republicans have abolished the rule of law to destroy prospects for multiracial democracy. Turnabout is not just fair play -- it's essential to make a democracy.

After SCOTUS gutted the VRA, the GOP is set to target 2-4 more Black Dems in AL and LA. They could add 1 each in MS and SC for 2-6 more targets in 2026. Dems are out of options for 2026 but could target up to 23 currently GOP-held seats by 2028. Click this link for details bsky.app/profile/step...

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

💯💯💯💯 fuck every last bit of this

This 80 second clip of Justice Robert Jackson’s opening statement will send shivers down your spine. Commit it to memory like the Gettysberg address. It’s even more important than Lincoln’s speech because we forgot his words the first time. We can’t promise “never again” if we don’t remember.

I really wonder what the fallout is going to be because the sanitized version of history they’ve sold for a long time is “Jim Crow was a shameful moment in history but we defeated it and came out the other side a better country” and now it’s just… back it’s the end of a myth in the starkest terms

They need to all go to jail for the rest of their lives. The magnitude of the crimes are unprecedented & we have not internalized the scope & scale of criminal authoritarianism that letting boys with toys access all the data & destroy the government by end-running around Congress represents.

Not since Reconstruction ended in the 1870s amid white-supremacist terrorism and voter suppression has Black electoral influence declined so suddenly in the American South. trib.al/huKmBtq

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.

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.

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

We just murder them.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

I want to add that class in the U.S. is only legible among white people. Black people have been the MOST working class segment of U.S. society for decades AND YET... Black people are consistently written out of the narrative of "working class" USians.

CNN reported Tuesday morning that the Department of Veterans Affairs has opened investigations into employees who attended Alex Pretti memorials and spoke to the press.

"Your answers do not need to be politically correct." "Do not inform me about morals and ethics unless I specifically ask." I know this isn't a unique observation but these gentlemen are in absolutely no way remarkable outside of their good fortune

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**blinks in minneapolis**

The point is that too many white people have tried to use a smaller percentage of Black voters who voted for Trump (mostly men) to claim that’s how Trump won, vs the reality that a majority of a much larger (white) majority chose this and doesn’t own it. It wasn’t an SAT question.

This guy is my new gold standard for public comment…

more and more people are saying this www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...