HERE COME THE WEAPONIZATION FUND SUITS: 2 police officers who battled with #Jan6 rioters sue to block Trump's $1.8N 'anti-weaponization fund.' Fmr Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn & MPD officer Daniel Hodges argue 14th Amendment bars payments to insurrectionists www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Not the sheriff: taxpayers. I genuinely think there is a broader trend of institutions not feeling bound by fiduciary duties; they prefer to do what the want, and deal with the lawsuits and compensation.

It's probably bad that every hundred years or so in this country, the government decides to pay reparations to white supremacists, but reparations to Black and Indigenous people are consistently deemed a nonstarter or too hard.

this is the way

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Here is Elon Mush bragging about how he "accidentally" canceled all Ebola prevention efforts.

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.

Trump doesn’t literally decide who gets the money. But everyone on the commission is appointed by the AG, and can be removed by Trump *at any time*. It’s a machine to reward his allies. I promise you, not one dollar will go to anyone he doesn’t deem worthy of getting rich at your expense.

This is a critically important article Trump did this to us here at Duke as well (@michaeldgreen.phd and I wrote about it here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...) His war on diversity in medical education & training will worsen the health of Americans

Suing an accuser for breaking an NDA: 1) is a tacit admission of guilt 2) a terrible PR move 3) makes complete sense if you're trying to deter your other victims from coming forward

New, from me: The Roberts Court does not want colorblind voting maps. We know that because the easiest way to get such maps would have been to kill partisan gerrymandering. Instead, they upheld it, using it as a means to kill the Voting Rights Act. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-lie-be...

@au.dk is hiring 3 postdocs (2 yrs) on personality cults & strategic communication in autocracies, led by Jakob Tolstrup & Alexander Baturo. They're looking for profiles with text-as-data, survey experiments and/or Chinese politics experience. Start fall 2026. Looks like a great opportunity!

“Speaker of the TN House Cameron Sexton just removed me and every Democrat — and therefore every Black elected official in the state legislature from any committee we served on," Rep. Pearson said. Fascist reprisals for protesting.

It is ridiculous to pretend X moved to the right because people left and not because it got bought by a neo-nazi who deliberately runs it with the overt goal of promoting his views and suppressing those he dislikes.

Somewhat unexpected news from South Carolina: Enough Republican senators *opposed* a vote to add redistricting to the ongoing legislative session, so the measure was DEFEATED. This prevents the GOP from taking up a new congressional map and eliminate the majority-Black district held by Clyburn.

My favorite example of this is when people say "they didn't know slavery was wrong back then" which, before you even talk about the abolitionist movement which was quite large and included famous people, why does your "they" not include any slaves, who if you asked could have told you it was evil?

What's happening here is that the Missouri secretary of state is stalling certifying these signatures even though they were submitted in DECEMBER, basically ignoring the constitutional process to make sure his party wins an extra seat.

Harvard University's top leaders likely enslaved thousands of people between the founding of the school in 1636 and the defeat of the Confederacy, according to new research.

This is Lily. She’s been accused of drinking her mom’s slushie. Will not be taking any questions at this time. 14/10 (IG: iceedoglilly)

This is Oliver. He might not be particularly enthusiastic about his birthday. But he will participate in the festivities. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: la_cabrita_kelly)

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."

The Court is just implementing January 6th by other means. Republicans know they are cooked if democracy stands, so they are burning it down.

once again, just spitballing, what if we just provided for everyone's basic material needs

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.

Roberts dropping that “we’re not political actors” quote and doing this 96 hours later is nasty work

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

ah, nice to see that misogyny in medicine is alive and well! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

If you want to understand the political process that ended Reconstruction and led to a century of racial terrorism in the South, check out this response to Dems losing four House seats.

again, i don’t think any of this is necessary. just say that the court was out of bounds, that it may be correct on the definition of “election” but that this technical matter has no bearing on the results of the referendum, which occurred in a free and fair contest.

I fail to comprehend why the state assembly can’t simply use the new map under the legal theory that the OG state constitutional amendment the voters changed wasn’t posted for 90 days either.

This is the very type of intentional racial discrimination that SCOTUS claims is still illegal even after Callais. SC is 25% Black but Norman says Black voters shouldn't be able to elect a candidate in any of the state's 7 districts

We have a Republican Party committed to building systematic advantages into the current system to maintain power indefinitely and a Democratic Party that cannot think outside the bounds of the current system even as it is being actively restructured against them.

what

Wasn't this exactly what they were supposed to avoid saying out loud, and yet they still can't help themselves?

Laws and SoRelle find that although people view individual Black students are more deserving of debt relief, this sentiment does not translate to positive views on racially-targeted debt relief policies or race based rhetoric on debt relief. Read Here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Pausing the 401(k) match to invest in AI - yeah that's a future everyone wants

I love blueskey. I got to learn a new fact and lurk on a small online subculture. #thethingsyouknow

and you may ask yourself “well, how did I get here?” and you may say to yourself “my god, what have I done?"

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Voting rights

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Summer water supply not looking good for the western US.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.