May just revert back to this guy

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I wouldn’t call these reforms “radical.” They’re part of our democratic tradition. If you want Congress to enact literally any law in the next decade to fix our country’s problems, you need a plan for this group of lawyers who *will* say it’s unconstitutional.

“Deal”

You can't simultaneously believe in Unitary Executive Theory and believe this is a "deal."

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

If the Thunder keep playing like they are always afraid of Wemby they will lose in 5.

This is right. The government didn’t “settle” this case. Trump brought a frivolous case and voluntarily withdrew it, and then the Justice Department said they’d agreed to set up this insane slush fund for him. It has no legal connection to the case, and there’s no legal authorization for it at all.

it took this country five decades for the surviving interned Japanese-Americans who were deprived of absolutely everything and imprisoned for no cause to get $20,000 in reparations per person. we are currently awarding the guys who did the Beer Hall Putsch five years ago orders of magnitude more

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Unless Tom is prepared to reject the scholarship (starting with DuBois) on the long history of the wages of whiteness/whiteness as property, or he has a clear explanation for when that principle lost its hold, he might want to ease up on this claim.

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This is really good

Welcome to the sunshine state, where we test your poo and try to give your kids cavities and the measles.

This is probably the most historically illiterate and racist crap that an official in a presidential administration has publicly uttered since...oh I don't know...let's just say a very long time.

interestingly under callais the only black lawmakers who could escape constitutional scrutiny are those elected by white voters, which is a pretty clear statement of who gets to be a legitimate political actor

Once Florida forces people to give birth, it couldn’t care less about the health and welfare of the child. www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Congrats on the Gig, Kevin Warsh. You’re Cooked. by @crampell.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/congrats-on...

They bury at the end that NYU is policing student speakers because last year's valedictorian sharply criticized Israel (they fail to note that NYU withheld the student's diploma). It's about cocooning from ideas the *admin* finds distressing.

The Trump administration is not anti-fraud. It's anti-government-assistance to the poor and minorities. "Anti-fraud" is just the newest eupheminism for it. The administration is decidely pro-fraud. The media needs to be explicit about this and not just uncritically convey Trumpist talking points.

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

Thucydides Trap, explained.

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

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The budget shenanigans begin: #Florida lawmakers looking to slip a last-minute provision into the state budget blocking local battery recycling programs. jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-budget... via @jasongarcia.bsky.social

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Guys they’re trying to condemn Catholic land. Like, *literally* condemn.

When Donovan Mitchell is on it is an absolute delight to watch

It appears that Instructure (makers of Canvas) just straight up paid off the criminal gang www.instructure.com/incident_upd...

Under President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” food stamp applicants are fighting to prove eligibility and facing questions about birthday gifts sent over Zelle. A crisis in Arizona offers a warning for America.

Supreme Court Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was Lying talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

Volleyball has surpassed basketball and soccer as the number 1 high school girl's sport. The 2 pro leagues are thriving. I think people don't realize it because the popularity is in the middle of the country and not on the coasts. Consequently, the national media is failing to cover it.

Totally. If I were in Dem leadership, I'd invoke Congress's constitutional duty to "Guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government" and, in the same breath, explain that's why Congress must end partisan gerrymandering and strip the Court of power to interfere.

Alito’s logic in this case—that characteristics that correlate with racial identity, like partisanship, aren’t constitutionally protected and can be used to disenfranchise legally is *the exact thinking* that gave us poll taxes and literacy tests.

This account is so great

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The 1990s called and would like their Democrats back.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Mothers Day messaging from your local ICE family separation unit. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

We didn't "move" people off of SNAP by helping them afford food. We withdrew their SNAP benefits at a time when food is getting more expensive. We made nearly 5 million people hungrier. It's not that you "can never" reduce benefits, Secretary Rollins. It's that in this case, you should not have.

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Trumpers are taking Article IV, section 4 literally but not seriously.

This story came out Tuesday. That’s two full days where folks could have been downloading and saving files.

When NBA playoffs start but you boycott Jeff Bezos.

whether you think this question is normal or obnoxious is a pretty reliable class marker in the US. We like to think we don’t have class markers. But we do. And most of us who think this is normal have no idea it can be obnoxious.

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.

The courts just ruled that the tariffs that Trump imposed to replace the ones the Supreme Court struck down were also illegal. Just as I reported in February. Major media outlets blew this story.

What with AI and now a massive Canvas breach, am taking up stone tablets as my required classroom tech next fall