This is what Elon Musk, Russ Vought, RFK Jr, and of course Donald Trump, have brought us. So that insurrectionists and coconspiritors could be paid off instead.

Impeach Remove Prosecute Imprison

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

Every Monday, right before the NYSE closes. And those idiots keep falling for it.

2. Three more SMOKING GUNS in Trump's new 113 page financial disclosure. Trump purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 in Micron stock on March 25 (also unsolicited). The next day he called into The Five, said he had just met with Micron's CEO, and called Micron "one of the hottest companies."

I'm begging for one article--just one--that is "Trump says Iran war is worth the economic pain. These urban voters in Harlem say `We told you he'd screw everything up, why didn't you listen to us?'" Just one. Just one "diner" interview in a place w a density above 1 per 1000 sq mi and < 95% white.

A big lie at the heart of the SCOTUS assault on democracy is that they could not find a reasonable standard on partisan gerrymandering. They simply dismissed credible formula created by social scientists. Roberts labeled such efforts "sociological gobbledygook" www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-...

it’s honestly so embarrassing that we have to talk about trump’s ballroom in a serious way. someone in his circle didn’t immediately tell him it was the dumbest fucking idea in the whole world and now it’s become our mortifying problem. clown shit.

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

The institutions that capitulate now are the most craven. The end is visible, yet they don't have the courage to hold on just a bit longer.

Judges can reject Trump's sham settlements ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

He took a sightseeing snorkel to an underwater cemetery. And everyone who let it happen should be fired. They betrayed the solemn responsibility entrusted to them to protect and preserve the dignity of the site and the people in laid to rest there.

Headlines today: -Trump DOJ drops fraud case against a billionaire who pledged an investment in U.S. business, which the billionaire will profit from -Trump drops lawsuit against his own executive branch in exchange for a $1.7B fund for his criminal allies -Trump personally insider traded

when they tell the stories of what it was like to live in this time, it should just be this video

Lol but not lol. Comstock is a draconian 19th Cent federal law that bans sending contraceptives or abortifacients or pornography or sex toys, or any information about any of those, through the mail. Still on the books, not enforced for many decades but Project 2025 called for reviving

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Democracies depend on members of each party recognizing the legitimacy of their partisan rivals. Even if they disagree, each recognizes the others as loyal to the nation and accepts their legitimacy as lawmakers if voters elect them.

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

In 1980, in Mobile v Bolden, the Voting Rights Act was weakened, almost exactly as they just did. In 1982, Congress amended and reaffirmed the VRA to reestablish its protections. A young DOJ lawyer wrote a memo for Reagan opposing the move. John Roberts. This has been on his mind for a while.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Every time I teach the MOVE bombing, students are shocked. And when I teach the aftermath involving an anthropologist who hoarded some of the remains and used them as teaching tools, they are even more shocked. And I teach in Pennsylvania. Even some students from Philly are unaware of this history

If the President can successfully order the IRS to hand over billions of dollars to his personal bank account, the Constitution is dead and no longer operative. I'm not kidding. We've crossed a kind of Rubicon and the social contract is null and void.

I would prefer not to I reject your assumptions I deny your premises I refuse your authority I do not capitulate Be ungovernable my friends

They aren't because proper prepping involves community and classic preppers only care for themselves.

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

Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:

It’s been pure Calvinball with the Roberts court for years now. It’s pathetic and infuriating.

NOTICE: Do you have an elderly or disabled neighbor in NYC? Be a good neighbor and let them know about the free air conditioner program. If they earn $3473 or less a month, NYC will cover the costs of an A/C. Remember…last summer we had 95 degree weather. Look out for them

I'm not sure what the missing leap of logic for voters is, but somehow 'rich people have money' becomes 'rich people are good at the economy', which is absolutely not the case if they're the sort of person who gets rich simply by taking money from everyone else in a highly unproductive way. =/

Voting rights

I guess I'm glad this is out there, but also I am infuriated that people have to spend their time doing this. OF COURSE synthetic text extruding machines are going to output something that *looks like* but is not an analysis. >>

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

This is bad, undemocratic, and specifically designed to disenfranchise black folks... and it won't work. Dems are polling with a generic ballot advantage of D+7, and a lot of those new districts had to sacrifice bigger R advantages to be drawn.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

The gumption of the young journalists here alone is worthy of commendation, but I’m most heartened by how local reporting by local people breaks through: “It’s like, ’Yeah, your granddaughter is going through this...it’s something different than Fox News.’” #icymi

You can stick a tape in your VCR and it just plays what you wanted it to play. It doesn't spy on you. A streaming service isn't editing it. Or removing it. You don't have to pay a subscription to keep using it. It's something tangible you own. Once you have, it's yours. Same with CDs, vinyl, etc.

plants always out there just vibing and making O2 while we go on and on with our bullshit

“We must reject the efforts of the Anxiety Industrial Complex that seeks to leverage every setback to (a) raise money by sending “the sky is falling” texts (b) maximize clicks by publishing ominous headlines or (c) increase subscriptions by raising anxiety” roberthubbell.substack.com/p/dont-belie...

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."

The last 18 months have definitely revealed which institutions believe in democracy and the rule of law (too few) and which ones only care about protecting their money and power. We will remember this.

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

This administration ended work from home policies that caused many federal employees who can't afford DC price to leave government. In the meantime, Cabinet Secretaries treat their jobs like a side hustle to their brand building.