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Amazing 📸 by @apnews George Walker IV — Sen. Oliver on her desk protesting a racist map behind Brent Taylor, who helped strip majority-Black Memphis of power then announced for TN-9 minutes later Raw political ambition. Brent never cared about Memphis “mattering”, just himself

And we’ve spent the last 4 years hearing these same Southern legislators and their governors telling us they’re ramming school vouchers—an idea born to avert Brown v Board—into their states to promote “education freedom” for Black children

Scoop: Two organizations that hold Paramount stock have sent a letter to the company's chief legal officer demanding to inspect records over concerns the Ellisons have agreed to compromise CNN to secure approval of its WBD merger. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/paramount-...

🚨BREAKING: The NAACP filed an emergency lawsuit Thursday seeking to block Tennessee’s new congressional gerrymander, arguing the GOP’s rushed effort to dismantle the state’s lone majority-Black district. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

How the fuck does the GOP explain this? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

When people ask me why I never liked Joe Rogan…

It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!

MEMPHIS REP. LARRY MILLER: “This came from a convicted felon. A corrupt president… Your constituents will remember this vote.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn @tnhousegop

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UAE is reportedly bombing Iran right now. Iran says they aren’t going to negotiate on nuclear weapons at this stage. Close to a peace deal, my ass.

“HANDS OFF MEMPHIS!” Protestors & Democratic legislators leave the scene of the crime arm in arm, after Tennessee Republicans broke the law to strip Memphis of representation with a racist 9-0 map, drowning out the majority Black city with white power. @GovBillLee

They passed a law to break a law. Then they passed a racist map. And they don’t have to tell anyone what happened 👇🏽 It’s all so dark. Watch fascism work. 🇺🇸 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Mad about Tennessee's redistricting efforts? You can thank John Roberts for this.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

My 8yo asked if I would post something to Bluesky for her, then grabbed a piece of paper and made this So here is your advice for the day:

This is the scene at the Tennessee Capitol as we get closer to a final vote.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

look, it’s time to embarrass these people. ask them if trump could play quarterback right now for the cowboys, ask them if trump is more mortal or god, ask them if donald trump deserved an oscar for his performance in home alone 2

The Bible is very clear that we should make and worship golden idols, I support this

WATCH: “I’m proud of you. I love you.” Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social embraces his brother @keshaunpearson.bsky.social as Troopers arrest him for refusing to leave the balcony in a show of nonviolent resistance after Speaker Sexton cleared it

All you really need to know to understand how obscene what Republicans are doing to Memphis is this: They’re pretending not to know Memphis is a majority Black city🙃

This is why it is a must to accurately call the GOP the Jim Crow party. The glove fits and it’s easy to understand.

A A KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight attendant has been hospitalized in the Netherlands with a suspected hantavirus infection after reportedly coming into contact with a woman who later died from the deadly Andes strain of the virus, per Dutch health authorities.

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yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

This is crazy work by Alabama Republicans… As the Alabama Senate was being forced into the basement while tornado sirens were going off, the Republican supermajority kept moving, rammed through a cloture vote on redistricting, passed the bill, and adjourned. [video by Sen Merika Coleman]

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Crazy stat I just told @chrislhayes.bsky.social: Memphis has had its own congressional district since 1923 and now Republicans splitting it three ways to intentionally dilute Black vote

The Trump-Epstein Reading Room in Tribeca displays 3.5 million pages in 3,437 volumes. Organizer David Garrett aims to push for the release of all files, redacted to protect victims, not witnesses or co-conspirators.

People would rather have a Ghostbusters Department than this ballroom.

This is stunning reporting: Donald Trump’s so-called “Project Freedom” reportedly collapsed after Saudi Arabia blocked the U.S. military from using key Saudi bases and airspace for the operation, according to new reporting from NBC News. Link to the article in the reply.

could you look any guiltier than Lutnick does here?

This dropped around the same time as this interview - Neil Gorsuch on Megyn Kelly’s show. He was talking about how “young conservatives must have courage to stand by their beliefs.” Sounds apolitical to me!

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🔥 @sekoufranklin.bsky.social : “A stain on the legacy of Tennessee.” Sekou put on a clinic, schooling Tennessee Senate Republicans about why Sen. Jack Johnson’s bill carrying (racist) water for @GovBillLee & Trump and stripping representation from majority-Black Memphis would be a disgrace.

Every journalist should be asking what the hell is going on with this guy's health that they aren't telling us.

Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

Popok on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's closed door hearing: So the men, the white men, get to go in private, but the victims have to testify in public about their sexual trauma.

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

Dear GOP, Can we please have Trump do a rally for Susan Collins? If Trump is “unavailable” for this important race can you sent Vance? If Vance is also “too busy” can you send Stephen Miller? Or Mike Johnson? Maybe Tom Homan? With much love and sincerity, Maine Democrats

The journalist who is being sued by Kash Patel and reportedly being investigated by the FBI is out with a new story. Is there a Pulitzer for being a fearless badass? If so, she should win it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...