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“Disrupt the Court’s monopoly on our constitutional imagination” is my new favorite battlecry

(carter glass was the virginia lawmaker and newspaperman who was a key figure in the defeat of the readjusters, the imposition of jim crow in the commonwealth and later, the creation of modern financial regulation. fascinating figure, total bastard, kinda want to write about him.)

Scalia, may he rest in torment, said that the overwhelming renewal of the VRA was not evidence of Congressional intent, but in fact evidence of the VRA’s *unfairness*, since everyone was too scared to vote against a “racial entitlement.” www.acslaw.org/expertforum/...

Just a reminder that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was called, "An act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

Unacceptable. Jonathan Ross should be in custody awaiting trial for the murder of Renée Good.

Secretary of the Navy John C. Phelan is out. He’s not a woman, Black, or LGBT, so that’s not the reason this time. Frustrated with failing/lacking Iran strategy? Told to do war crimes and said no? Defended a Black or female officer’s promotion? The White House’s behavior invites this speculation.

8 children between the ages of 1 and 14 are dead after mass shooting in Louisiana. A real government would do something about this thing that happens way too frequently in just this country alone. kutv.com/news/nation-...

Ethnonational authoritarian regime.

Facing the reality that brutality and cruelty also have tradeoffs and are not a secret weapon that facilitates an easy victory, they are furious at being embarrassed by their lessers and seeing their theory of the world publicly discredited (not that they would ever acknowledge that)

Like the problem is the rhetoric

The word you’re looking for is “evil.”

ICE is not TSA ICE is not a substitute or even a suitable complement for TSA ICE is not about transportation security ICE is about dictator insecurity I don’t want to fly if I have to see them at the airport I’ll keep my money in my community instead

seeing a lot of speculation on what trump's real goal for this is and i think it's important to remember that he's incredibly dumb, cruel to his core, is incapable of long term planning, and has little to no impulse control

On Fox & Friends this morning they had on a TSA union guy, and when asked what ICE agents can do starting Monday he said I don’t know, the training program takes five months, without that they’d mainly be standing around being a distraction and slowing things down

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Key follow today and going forward

The British monarchy is more accountable to the public than the American presidency.

I for one agree that we should no longer allow people to vote wearing identity-shielding masks and otherwise refusing to say who they are at polling places.

It doesn't explain his relationship to the rest of the human race but a big part of RFK Jr.'s broader damage is clearly trying to find out if he can die. I guess if I had lived a life like his and was somehow still around drinking out of puddles at 72 I'd have some questions on that as well.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

“The husband & wife before this court are charged w/civil violations of our country's immigration laws. Civil. Not criminal. That distinction is not a technicality or a formality. It’s the line the law draws betwn regulation & punishment. Yet these working parents appear in unmistakable prison garb.

The average public school in the U.S. has 500 students. ICE is currently detaining over 7 schools' worth of children, many of whom are being held in inhumane conditions. Children do not belong in government detention.

ICE is tear-gassing, kidnapping, and jailing toddlers. It cannot be reformed. Everyone responsible for this must be removed from positions of power and ICE must be abolished.

This email was sent 4 years, 6 months after Epstein pleaded guilty

They said "free speech" and "academic freedom" but never believed in either and now in texas you need a permission slip to mention race in class and they're fine with it. Might not have worked if people with large platforms weren't furious about marginal increases of black people in their offices

Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social

Consistently useless.

The worst thing about scientists moving the hands of the doomsday clock forward is having to adjust the time on the doomsday clock in your car.

The terror that ICE and CBP have inflicted on the children of the Twin Cities is, by itself, a crime of scandalous proportions that will forever stain this country's moral fabric, and all those responsible should never know another day of peace. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

BREAKING via Star-Tribune: GOP gubernatorial candidate ends bid, says he can’t support "stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.” Read more www.startribune.com/chris-madel-...

If I can get one thing across to folks: this is a crisis for the whole nation. This is a major breakdown in basic order, unlike what they’ve done before. They are lowering the floor for how bad things can get. This will ripple out across the whole nation if it isn’t stopped.

This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars

"They want an excuse to fire on protesters." "They're looking for a reason to declare martial law. Don't..." Ah. See, they're already doing and saying whatever they want. They're putting people in camps and murdering people at will. Our behavior doesn't drive theirs.

It was 40° and windy when "Maria" share this video with us from where she and her coworkers were harvesting carrots. "It's hard working in these harsh weather conditions. Things blow in your eyes and it is very cold, but his how we feed our families." #WeFeedYou

"The next presidency is going to have to embark on a sweeping de-Trump-ification of the entire federal government to purge it of the culture of abuse and lawlessness that has taken hold, and there are few more vivid examples than ICE." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.

Farm workers join workers around the world in condemning U.S. aggression in Latin America. Too many children of the farm workers who feed the United States have been sent to fight overseas while their families can’t put food on the table at home.

This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.

The utter perversion of the #BrokenTimes' both-sidesing compulsion: Here it equates the right-wing ruin of New College with (checks notes) liberal (in any sense of the word) education, which it dismisses as just another "ideological bubble." Just fuck off.

To complete it... Joey Bishop was Joseph Abraham Gottlieb; his parents were from Poland. Peter Lawford was a London-born immigrant. And Sammy Davis Jr's mother's parents were immigrants from Cuba.

It’s just so completely unserious

the vice president is a klansman

Fine people… on BOTH sides!

My new Xmas tradition… an old column from 12/24 2016 when they were working on their particular brand of American carnage.

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

If this is what we know about the place, imagine what hasn’t even come out yet

I really can't emphasize enough that if you care about local politics, all you gotta do is show up. Just a regular schmegular person showing up. Literally just show up consistently in person and within a remarkably short amount of time, you will have a shocking amount of influence.

and judge pan gets at what i was gesturing towards earlier today: that this idea that the purpose of the executive branch is to effectuate the political agenda of the president is extra-constitutional. it has no basis in the text or the history for that matter!