Kicking off Opinionpalooza season alongside @dahlialithwick.bsky.social with two warnings: 1. Please do not buy into the stage-managed conflict between the Supreme Court and the White House! 2. Do not assume SCOTUS can contain the imperial presidency it has created! slate.com/news-and-pol...

"Supreme Court reform is important because you can’t have democratic self-government with this Court’s corruption. That’s the main reason to do it. It also teaches a lesson. Don’t spend too much time creating a big corrupt shiny object. Because the Constitution creates the tools to break it."

An anti-abortion group sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the IVF process violates the state’s wrongful death law. This story was originally published by @stateline.org.

the whole quote is really worth it:

PSA: It is actually possible to say that a public figure is being irrational, hateful, xenophobic, cruel, is fomenting violence, sounds like they mainlined Fox News or white nationalist Twitter, etc. WITHOUT insulting people with mental illness or intellectual disabilities.

NEW: The story unfolding in Alabama is not a technical map dispute — it's about whether the state can get away with treating Black voters like a political problem to be contained. And if the Supreme Court allows it to do so, the fight will reach far beyond the state, Anneshia Hardy writes.

Trump DOJ Criminally Investigating E. Jean Carroll For Confronting Her Rapist www.wonkette.com/p/trump-doj-... By Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com

Actually, you don't have work for BigLaw to recognize that it exists to entrench power for the powerful. Reminds me of that guy who became a "relationship coach" telling men to listen to their wives, a rare & profound insight he obtained after his wife divorced him for not listening to her

Another day, another vindictive prosecution. DOJ will lose—again But so will the American people, who deserve a federal law enforcement agency that keeps them safe www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

! I made this same argument, in the aftermath of that wackadoodle Trump ballroom filing ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Looking forward to Rowling slapping down her large gamete producing organs on a table outside a toilet when asked to produce evidence that she is a ‘woman’.

"Why has the US right since the 1970s been more effective than the left at grassroots community organizing? Part of the answer is that our side has no events with bouncy castles." read theory damn it www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...

50% of American workers say they want to join unions, but 10% of workers are IN unions. Where’s the disconnect, you might wonder? The game is rigged. www.epi.org/publication/...

The main takeaway is that there’s no effective way to tax billionaire “income.” To actually tax billionaire income at rates like normal workers, you have to tax their wealth.

Saez and @gabrielzucman.bsky.social on the CA billionaire tax 250 households (0.001% of the state) holds wealth equal to more than half of California’s entire annual economic output Their wealth grows 15% a year and is taxed at just 0.26% per year www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I have no commentary on Penn Station except I want Big Clock, Big Arrival Boards, Benches in the Middle

"The kind of opposition to worker power that Polis and now Spanberger have demonstrated should completely disqualify them both from any higher office, at least on the Democratic ticket."

Abigail Spanberger vetoing a bill legalizing collective bargaining for state and local workers shows that she's fine with a government that offers worker benefits but not one that gives workers power, Harold Meyerson writes. prospect.org/2026/05/25/h...

“The process (if turning US govt into a “personalist regime”) has been aided immeasurably by a Supreme Court who obligingly discovered a constitutional license for a Presidency of extraordinary power precisely at a moment when an authoritarian asked them for it.”

“It’s just burning. I just wanted to try to keep people safe.” ICE fired pepper spray at Senator Andy Kim and protesters outside a detention facility in New Jersey. Not another penny should go to these out-of-control agencies — and when we regain power, we will hold all of these thugs accountable.

“‘What we saw here is unfortunately just what we see all over the country,’ Kim told @nj.com on Monday.” “It’s sad, it’s a sad day.” Senator @kim.senate.gov was among the crowd of protesters when federal immigration agents fired pepper balls. www.nj.com/news/2026/05...

I'm just resharing this bc I'm still losing my mind over it On July 4, 1776, John Dunlap printed ~200 copies of the Declaration of Independence Only 26 are known to survive today And I really got to see one of them! One day I will see the democracy they purported to establish

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

"John Roberts may as well have ordered “Whites Only” signs to be printed and hung up on the doors of state legislatures in the South, just like the drinking fountains of yore." @thelisagraves.bsky.social

union members in Virginia today rallied and marched in protest of Democratic Gov. Spanbergers veto of collective bargaining rights. #union #virginia #labor #protest

Questions Grow Over Mystery Of Missing Legislative Branch

What the F???? That is deeply fugly even if those aren't statutes of slaveowners, which they probably are

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Turns out when House Republicans called for today's hearing on "a threat to the Supreme Court’s legitimacy," they weren't talking about its centuries-spanning track record of replacing 'Rule By The People' with 'Rule By Well-Connected White Guys Named John'? ballsandstrikes.org/court-reform...

🚨🚨🚨🚨 VICTORY! Following months of negotiations between @pen-guild.bsky.social leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both AI products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling! wbng.org/2026/05/22/p...

So bizarre--Ken Martin said "because no source material was provided, fixing it would have meant starting over, from the beginning ... " He hired his friend & can't make him turn over his research material? Was there a contract? Are they suing? Or do they actually not want it?

NEWS: Rhode Island Hospital notifies O'Connor it is will provide some documents to him "in camera" (meaning just to him, not DOJ) today, with follow-up productions going forward—but any patient info will be anonymized with identifying info removed and it will keep fighting the subpoena and his order

Important to recognize she's not an idiot, she knows the data centers being built are AI-specific and that the extreme power and cooling demands arise specifically from GPUs, not data storage or transmission. She's repeating lies that lobbyists told her to say to confuse the public.

Breaking: the 1st circuit denied the emergency injunction request by the Rhode Island child advocate. As a result, Rhode Island children's will have to turn over medical records of trans youth to judge Reed O' Connor in Texas within the next 45 minutes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

reminder that this "settlement" is literally just a crime

Nine Senate Republicans missed the confirmation vote, meaning Senate Democrats — had they all voted ‘no’ — could have blocked confirmation and forced a later vote. To date, 19 Senate Democrats have voted to confirm at least one of Trump’s lifetime judicial nominees during his second term.

BREAKING: The Senate confirmed Sheria Clarke to the District of South Carolina after she refused to say Biden won in 2020 and dodged questions about January 6. Durbin, Fetterman, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Reed, Shaheen & Whitehouse voted to confirm her. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/eight-demo...

IIRC when the internet and smart phones came out people had to be forced into using those too

DOJ attempts to absolve Trump/Trump family of all their potential tax related crimes. If you are upset about what the DOJ/IRS are doing - don't forget who got us to this point today - making Trump - the King.

I never know which stories will be the ones to break me. Today, for me, it was this one.

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...

🔥🔥🔥"If the current majority of the Court is exercising an illegitimate supremacy over federal law ... [and] undermin[ing] multiracial democracy while making the future of republican governance unviable, then regulating the Court is not just legitimate—it is Congress’s responsibility." 🔥🔥🔥

Leader Jeffries makes it clear Supreme Court reform is part of the vision to restore America in service to the people. @americanprogress.bsky.social IDEAS Conference

House Dem Leader Hakeem Jeffries commits to “massive Supreme Court reform” if #Democrats retake the House in the midterms #CAPIdeas #SCOTUS @americanprogress.bsky.social

THIS IS HUGE: Colorado Supreme Court orders Colorado children's hospital to resume gender affirming care for trans youth. www.coloradopolitics.com/2026/05/18/c...

Very normal that to plan a party in DC in June you now have to check to see if there will be road closures due to our toddler autocrat's birthday parade, car race, or tough-dude fight

Governor Spanberger’s veto “is a devastating betrayal to the hundreds of thousands of public employees who have spent years, and in many cases decades, fighting for a seat at the table.” - Virginia AFL-CIO https://bit.ly/4eLptKJ

"During the Jim Crow era, Virginia banned public sector collective bargaining in 1948 in response to a group of Black workers organizing a union at the University of Virginia hospital."

public sector collective bargaining bans were some of the last laws from Jim Crow still in force until relatively recently.