if you read the NYT piece out today about the Trump admin condemning Black people to live in raw sewage in the name of fighting "illegal DEI," please make sure you also read and share the piece I wrote about this over a year ago! ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Anti-democratic propaganda spread by states is often systematically enabled by attacks on speech rights of critics. It is a significant aspect of autocratisation. This podcast discusses the sneaky way free speech claims are used to attack on the credibility of critics, which has a chilling effect.

I'm kinda disappointed that even though I did mountains of the best drugs I was never as high as James Brown was here. This is like the Mt Everest of being high. He had a sherpa for that last 50 feet and went out on top

Louisiana GOP is obviously & severely harming the public by nullifying the election of Calvin Duncan but also my jaw dropped, when researching, seeing how much Governor Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill are like 'fuck this one Black man in particular' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

To state the obvious this all has nothing to do with the constitution or judicial review. Roberts is routinely striking down decades old laws that have withstood decades of judicial review. The only thing that's changed is a radical, right wing court committed to legislating from the bench.

"Disinformation has become an industry, an outrage economy organized around a division dividend, which allows people to profit from division and poison." @london.gov.uk at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. youtu.be/8Zip3CoDwGo

wrote about the claim that the D party has abandoned its working class roots. that didn't happen, bec Ds only recently began to fitfully fight for a multi-racial working class. the current D party is the best D party there's been. a low bar, but still. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/this-democ...

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

MAGA Republicans don't want elections to be free and fair. They don't want anything to be fair.

From the WaPo PR Firm for Promoting & Advertising the Trump Administration. It used to be a newspaper.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

While stumping for Hungarian autocrat Orbán, lil JD tried to impress the crowd by phoning Dear Leader. He went straight to voicemail. Twice.

US Interceptor Missiles Stockpiles Are Dwindling Missile defense experts are sounding increasingly dire warnings that if the war with Iran continues, our lack munitions will leave allies vulnerable to attacks. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/w... One might ask isn’t that the point of this putinous war?

my guess is that twitter engineers stumble into a simple hotfix that threatens to destroy the entire MAGA grifter economy requiring the boss to swoop in and save them maybe once a month on average

So if Russia phones in fake threats, as they did last time, our institutions will leap into action to do what Russia wants…. This is very transparent.

The real theme of the modern age is "Nobody Wants This". AI, ICE in airports, ICE in general, the Iran War, data centers sending actual cities wiht people into blackouts -- "nobody" wants this. And yet here we are.

everything is more inconvenient and expensive, nothing works anymore, goons might invade your city and kidnap you or your neighbors, and there’s a loud asshole forcing you to pay attention to him at all times

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

Interested in the nexus between algorithmic bias and right-wing extremism? Take a look this paper based on my most recent research project: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Bellingcat and our partners at @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org have tracked US Border Patrol agents, analysing over 85 hours of footage taken across the country to try and unpack the circumstances around multiple use-of-force incidents. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

One key to audience resilience to disinformation is to preserve agency – or the ability to make personal independent choices – about how to assess and whether to believe certain narratives, and how to defend against disinformation related harms. intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G68...

Canadians are currently living above a 🔥Burning🔥 Meth Lab

The United States of russia:

Some folks treated me like a naive child for believing we had the money to cancel a portion of student loan debt

A cabinet with one or two catastrophic picks like Noem, Hegseth, RFK, or Bondi would be among the worst in American history. All of them at the same time? Unlike anything we've ever seen. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cabi...

One day the NYT's editors will read these stories again and be ashamed of themselves. Mamdani called the attack "heinous," "criminal," "reprehensible," "terrorism," and "the antithesis of who we are." The insinuation that he's conflicted about this is disgraceful. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/n...

Here's a thread featuring clips of key moments from the DC Metropolitan Police body camera footage of the March 17, 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that I obtained as a result of my FOIA lawsuit:

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez on Iran: Twenty-three years ago, another US administration dragged us into a war in the Middle East. A war that, in theory, it was said at the time, was being fought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, bring democracy and ensure global security.

FYI ...

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

This is disgusting. Rationalizing the bombing of a school that reportedly killed 108 girls. But since she asked, "Currently, 161 public schools operate on military installations across the United States." www.militaryonesource.mil/education-em...

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

ICE's stocking of armories of military armaments for its rapidly growing masked militia, and establishment of a national network of ad hoc concentration camps, together signal the creation of an "internal security" police force that looks disturbingly like those of the Hitler and Stalin states.

Imagine saying you're part of "Superintelligence" and getting your shit rocked by something that can't spell strawberry. I bang this drum too much but internally they've replacing engineers at Google with 'engineers' willing to let AI ruin their lives/projects as some sort of weird brand loyalty

Why would the GOP care what's popular. That doesn't matter if they can manipulate the voting system enough. bsky.app/profile/demo...

The DOGE cuts to USAID and other programs are causing mass death, and yet the debt is still shattering records.

It’s almost like being in the Trumpstein Files is a prerequisite for joining this cabal.

“You have the right to protest in the streets but that doesn’t give you the right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress…” RIP Irony 🪦

Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

DHS should be abolished. Visiting high schools where people vote has nothing to do with its mandate.Suppressing the vote improves the security of no one. www.daytondailynews.com/local/homela...