Hey. You. Listen to me. However much cheese the recipe is telling you to put on top of that pasta bake: it's not enough. You need at least 50% more cheese.

Slow civil war doesn’t speed up all at once. We’re watching it advance by increments of rhetoric as well as steady escalation of systematic violence. Pay attention when the man in charge of the military says the opposition party is waging what looks like a war.

i have to say that i think some of you who are perceiving more toxicity on bluesky just aren’t blocking aggressively enough

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

Historian here exactly. The Dems need to learn from the no quarters given political tactics and campaigns of the Republicans in the 1850s and 1860s when they managed to upend half a century slaveholder dominance of the federal government.

I think Nintendo having the opposite buttons of “confirm choice” and “back out” is generally infuriating and always takes me half an hour to adjust to

Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

The conservative justices on the Supreme Court arguing that you can separate race and partisanship got me thinking about these maps. starkeycomics.com/2021/06/11/h...

thinking about what it will be like to explain to future generations that this is the closest we came to a dictatorship

The thing about doing it for the bit is that you’re still doing it.

just for the record, the War Powers Resolution requires the president to terminate the *use of the armed forces* after 60 days, not just declare the conflict terminated.

This is an absolute travesty. The 5th circuit is imposing a nationwide restriction on accessing abortion medication. This is such a blatant power grab and perversion of the law. www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

maybe it’s cope but I do wonder if the ghoulish speed and enthusiasm to immediately redistrict every Black representative in the south out of existence is going to backfire a bit in terms of convincing Dems that they have to fight back as hard as possible

once again the unbelievable arrogance of roberts et al is going to genuinely destructive effects on the entire country

people all over the world starting to understand how it is possible to bankrupt a casino

looking forward to Oh No The National Debt becoming the single most pressing issue for the national media the second a Democrat takes office again, as is tradition

A federal judge ordered the desegregation of Cleveland, Mississippi’s schools in 2016. Yes, 2016. www.npr.org/sections/the...

The return to Jim Crow is already starting. This is akin to Texas immediately implementing a new voter ID law that allowed someone to vote with a gun permit but not a student ID hours after Shelby County decision

It's amazing that nobody will understand this: They don't think. They don't remember. They have no cognition. They're pattern matching systems that produce answer-shaped responses. This is no different that giving a script admin privileges, except this script is rewritten on the fly.

People keep saying gutting the VRA and Trump were reactions to the first black President being elected but this is all shit that conservatives have been obsessed with doing ever since the VRA originally passed, along with dismantling the Great Society and the New Deal.

The stakes are even more clear now for voters in states in the southeast: dont want to see your representation disappear? Vote Republicans out now at local and statewide levels so they dont have a chance to do so next year and in 2028

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

People use the term Jim Crow as a punchline, but this isn’t a joke. Trump and Miller and their Republican cronies seriously intend to roll back all the civil rights improvements since the Jim Crow era. It’s an objectively, overtly racist movement, and they’ve made horrifying progress very swiftly.

The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.

the supreme court says you can never use race to help people but you can always use race to hurt people

Alito also notes that Black turnout reached near parity with White turnout in 2 of the past 5 presidential elections. But which two, Justice Alito?? Oh, the LAST TWO before Shelby County? You don't say!

A very important point: In just *three* weeks, Georgia will host two elections for its GOP-dominated state Supreme Court. Democrats have two unusually strong candidates running, and if they win, it would be a major step toward cracking down on gerrymandering.

The Plot to Enslave America. They are planning on ending our democracy and entrenching a permanent Republican majority to rule over us. Just stating it plainly for everyone to see.

I think about this Every Single Time someone laments the loss of political community and bipartisanship.

the law, in its majestic equality, allows white and black alike to vote in gerrymandered districts, to pay for voter ID, and to accept the representation that results

“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social

Dred Scott remains one of the very worst decisions of the Court and Taney's reign was marked by other insults, but no one has run the table, overseeing so many different radical decisions on so many different issues than John Roberts.

"The Court is thus working on two fronts: shielding the leader of the anti-democratic movement from accountability while simultaneously dismantling the electoral rules that allow the majority to vote his party out" 🎯

White America keeps fighting to the death to stay dominant by force of law, cheating whenever and however necessary to keep all its historical privileges. Subtle as a brick through a window.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

Kagan is describing a judicial coup

The truth is, and yes, I'm tapping the sign once again, Ai was put out to market far before it was ready and too many people pumped money into it before it was time to. The result is a toddler of a technology expected to write its doctoral thesis next year. And if it doesn't, the economy collapses.

A Supreme Court where 5 of 6 conservative justices appointed by GOP presidents who initially lost popular vote & confirmed by senators elected by minority of Americans just effectively killed Voting Rights Act, country’s most important civil rights law. This is not democracy

Everything you see is the same white male supremacy

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

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.

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.

There are more of us than there are of them and they know it. That's what all of this is about, every single day.

SCOTUS is telling us that there's no choice left but to pack the court. Congress can pass whatever laws they want to, but the Gang of Six will veto them if they think it'll help Republicans cling to power.

Gorsuch sits in a stolen seat. Kavanaugh is a drunk rapist whose debts were mysteriously paid off. Thomas takes bribes. Alito is QAnon in a robe. Barrett lied about Roe in her confirmation. Roberts leads the most corrupt Court in modern history. SCOTUS is illegitimate — and so are its rulings.

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

Impeachment is warranted in its own right as an investigative tool when, as here, POTUS hides information from Congress. But also: the *failure* to push impeachment signals the party isn't aligned with its own voters or even the overall majority, which supports it. Nothing good comes from that.