the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

Lincoln, Grant, TR.

This statement is meant to be left-punching, but notice that the most popular left-wing candidates (Bernie, Mamdani, AOC) are superb at plain-spokenness, and it is the moderate wing that usually offers language that has been optimized and focus-grouped to death

It's been said a lot lately, but either Democrats launch a holy crusade against the people doing this stuff, or that's the end of this nation. We will only have a chance of recovering from the Trump era if the people shamelessly abusing the DOJ like this are punished severely.

This is key to why most SFF readers start in childhood, and it can be a struggle to learn how to read SFF as an adult if you didn’t start teen you still knew how to read like a kid.

Ezra Klein has been a (unwitting, certainly unpaid, and clearly unaware) GOP asset for as long as I’ve been aware of him.

Finally, a major American newspaper whose editorial board is courageous enough to stand up for the rights of big tech companies.

Klein is a surface level thinker, who would disavow it, but completely believes himself to be a deep intellectual and therefore expert on many things.

Ok there's a lot of incorrect information going around on this, so I want to be clear that the problem with the Big 3 and EV's isn't that the Big 3 didn't want to make EV's. The problem, as with so many things, is Trump. I'm gonna do a little thread on this because people don't seem to be aware. 1/x

he and ossoff are both pointing in the same direction: highly moralistic rhetoric about corruption as an existential threat — to prosperity, to democracy, and to the nation’s collective soul.

On the one hand, empathy for someone losing their job, career, livelihood. On the other, you were a fool and have been dealt a fool's hand. On the third hand, you didn't give a fuck if others got hurt by the 90% of his other policies as long as you got yours. Karma is a motherfucker.

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

thousands of colleges and universities in the US and not one of them have asked us for a commencement speech. we give you one anyway.

This is a great, thoughtful interview

I remember 2 in all 4 years of highschool growing up. Both knew no one was here for it. One embraced it as a way to get attention, the other was all in, Columbine vibes type. So like 1%? Also, just a reminder that the second biggest killer of Nazis were in fact American men.

I'm concerned, not going to pretend I'm not, but I do hope it turns out that it's possible for a white dude who was an idiot a decade ago can grow, evolve while still being rough around the edges, and be truly progressive. Like it's pretty dark if they can only ever be a Fetterman.

Today (until midnight) is the last day you can register a comment. Take the time you would have spent on social media to do this. They have to read and record every comment, and respond to the substantive ones. Instructions in the blog.

I understand the cynicism but when someone like this finally says the right thing, we have two options: 1. Dismiss it as meaningless, walk away 2. Latch onto it as a promise we'll hold him accountable for

That’s quite a chart www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Many liberals had long hoped for deescalation, because gerrymandering is bad. But watching Rs openly vow to seize on SCOTUS ruling to maximally gerrymander makes it clear those hopes are dead. The option of deescalation is always there, but it must be mutual. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

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

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

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

the other conservatives want to destroy the New Deal but Roberts in particular is a Klansman dedicated to destroying Reconstruction

yeah some amendments that would really repair the damage and build the country anew we could call them the Reconstruction Amendments maybe

Agreed. Probably won't share this with older generations or kid-free friends for obvious reasons but this mirrors a lot of my experience. Will say from a generic household perspective we have a much more shared set-up as well.

The Supreme Court is playing a central role in the overthrow of the Second Reconstruction - just as it did in the overthrow of the first. Color blindness has been used to excuse and justify both. 1/

This. I live in PA and get it, but even if he turns out to be a Fetterman that's still 80% more votes with Dems than Collins or any other R. Rather than the stick, I hope we incentivize Platner via carrots to be less like Fetterman.

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.

Once you really understand the mechanics of the illusion, 85% of fiction and most media will be ruined for you. But, when it's a really good trick it'll pay off harder and every once in awhile you'll find yourself lost in the magic, still. Those authors/books are what will sustain you.

2 things. 1 - Write with intent (what the OP is getting at) 2 - Read fiction with intent: analyze scenes that moved you vs. didn't. Pay close attention to the magician's hands throughout. Go back and study the preceding scene, how did they set up the pay off? One warning...

Everyone likes this stuff and if you want a bite of bland nostalgia that flaccid pepperoni slice is still there waiting for you.

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

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.

2 things. 1 - Write with intent (what the OP is getting at) 2 - Read fiction with intent: analyze scenes that moved you vs. didn't. Pay close attention to the magician's hands throughout. Go back and study the preceding scene, how did they set up the pay off? One warning...

We build institutions to manage and constrain conflict. As they fail to do so in a good-faith way, we escalate the conflict to higher level institutions. But when you have a lop-sided court closing off democratic processes, it provides opponents with fewer and fewer avenues to resolve grievances.

The courts have struck down legislation written by elected officials in order to make elections less fair. For many Court decisions you dislike, the answer is "vote for someone who will change the law." Harder to recommend that when the court takes aim at the process of voting itself.

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

Enten: "These are the worst numbers I've ever seen for any president on inflation. Trump is 49 points underwater. Biden -- inflation absolutely crushed his presidency -- but at his worst he was only 43 points underwater. Trump is in a worse position on inflation than Jimmy Carter was!"

ET. Saw it at a slumber party when I was too young and it scared the shit out of me. Still hate that movie haha. (Haven't watched as an adult)

Daydreaming of a congressional body refusing to seat members from states violating sec 2 of the VRA on the basis of Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment.

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

not entirely sure the Trump administration has thought through this “50 percent of Americans disagree with him so he’s gotta go” stance

Whoa. New filing, as Tom Joscelyn explains here, blows up DOJ/MAGA narrative about SPLC. SPLC was providing information to the FBI so FBI could better monitor and counter the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.

I also think that social media lowered the barriers to finding other morons and talking each other up to a degree that wasn't really possible before. Like, you had movements before this obviously, but each tech advancement has made them more easily formed, larger, stickier, etc.

I don't think I have an accent, generic American, except for a few specific words that are definitely Northeast PA driven...e.g., say fer instead of for when speaking quickly.

A young woman strains to manage infinite universes and her own family. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/t... @torbooks.bsky.social @johnchu.bsky.social @ampawley.bsky.social #booksky

the WH press corps is insane... Trump orders Kimmel fired and they are going to have another dinner with Trump. F++k that. You people have no self respect

Increasingly convinced if not an economic bubble burst, this is the pathway to take down the tech oligarchs. (still do it if the bubble bursts, there'll just be fewer targets)

very likely the future democratic populist rhetoric targets AI buildout as deeply symptomatic of our inequality, so much so that our elites are capable of spending trillions *they actually have* to chase a dream, and more and more I’m just fine with that. it’s a solid target.