5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.

Now do stocks.

Fuck SCOTUS.

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

💯 When Biden had majorities in both chambers (with VP the Senate tie-breaker), Dems should have expanded the Court to 13 seats. (First remove the filibuster to get law through the Senate). Power to wield, not waste. Instead, he formed a commission that created a report and then he took no action.

There are people still living who fought — and watched their compatriots be murdered — for the passage of this act and to attempt to democratize America. To see it completed felled in the span of their OWN lifetime is just absolutely devastating.

Moving forward the Supreme Court has basically made only one viable redistricting reform pathway forward: change the process to independent commissions. Any criteria-based gerrymandering restrictions can be rationalized away to the god of partisan gerrymandering

This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels

Why worry whether a case has merit when you can screw your enemies just with an indictment?

This interview with the great @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social was a "wow" moment for me. Thanks, New York Times and David Marchese. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/m... I couldn't help noticing the question that seemed the most Times-like to me.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

HAROLD. We talked about this

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis—and then called her a “fucking bitch” moments before she died in her car—was only placed on three days of administrative leave and continues to work for the agency in another state. trib.al/C3bEEAM

The idea that "86 47" is not protected free speech is so insulting that a copy of the First Amendment in the National Archives spontaneously combusted upon the filing of this indictment.

04/28/2026

Everything is so stupid

It is almost unimaginable that you could be such a prick that someone tries to kill you and you make a giant fuss about it and your approval rating actually goes down. Getting shot at in this country used to mean a big polling bump.

it me

I like him so much. He gets it an he SAYS IT OUT LOUD.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

"violence has no place in a democracy"

While we might speculate about what Trump did with Epstein, we know what a jury found he did to E Jean Carroll As the judge put it, “based on all of the evidence at trial..the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he..in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll”

Ahem.

The 1st Amendment wasn't written so we'd feel free wishing each other a happy birthday. It was written so we'd feel free saying sharp and difficult things, such as stating plainly that the president of the United States is a convicted felon who is trying to destroy American democracy.

Is it my birthday? No. Is it anyone’s birthday? Also no. Is it any special occasion at all? Hell no. You see, the Funfetti cake IS the special occasion.

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

The mainstream media is committing seppuku and we’re watching it happen in real time

a) this woman is in her thirties b) it’s a Hilton hotel ballroom

It's jarring to see ICE executing American citizens in our streets for exercising their free speech rights. It's jarring to see innocent people being kidnapped and sent to gulags in El Salvador. It's jarring to see children being traumatized in concentration camps.

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

OK, so do I have this right? 1. the shooter wasn't anywhere actually close to the WHCA dinner 2. Trump, his cabinet, and the fascist enablers in the press corps present were never in danger 3. security actually worked as it should have 4. everyone making Trump into a martyr preemptively is a turd

qanon style brainworns being redirected at trump is very ominous for the future of this country. You cannot control this kind of mass delusion. On the other hand, it's extremely funny so i guess let er rip folks

You know you guys fired the photographer who took this photo.

Hearing the head of the WHCA—who just days ago participated in a Paramount dinner “honoring” Trump— say tonight that the First Amendment is “fragile” because of a random shooter rather than because of the president sitting next to her on the podium is, I guess, exactly as pathetic as you’d expect.

No they don't. There was a rapid policing response and the danger was abated before anyone got hurt.

Here's the initial block list of those who attended the WHCD tonight. Adding names as it becomes clear they were there.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

You cannot claim to be the watchdogs of democracy while sharing champagne and hors d'oeuvres with the very people trying to dismantle it.

As our president Streisand Effects yet another critical news piece, here’s a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/u...

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

here’s what would be better than this performative bullshit: if he looked out into the crowd and saw … no crowd. because reporters who actually care about the first amendment kept they asses at home. (via @status.news, a newsletter well worth paying for)

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

He should go fuck himself.

"Every morning the editors of the Berlin daily newspapers and the correspondents of those published elsewhere in the Reich gathered at the Propaganda Ministry to be told by Dr. Goebbels or by one of his aides what news to print and suppress." - W Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 403

The larger message to everyone with power and influence is to recognize that the stakes of everything are much higher than they were in past decades. And if you continue acting like you did back then, you're going to fail the test of history. www.offmessage.net/p/you-are-ac...

Zero. Sympathy. They did this to themselves. Oh, and also? There definitely is an easy answer.