We’ve these false starts at least three more times in the last few months. I talked to people on two of those previous trips and learned they were kept shackled the whole time. 75 & 82 hours total. So these folks have likely been shackled for 37 hours so far, and their deportation just started.

Whatever, dude. You know who was a really good Chief Justice: Earl Warren, former governor of California, and Saundra Day O’Connor, former state legislator, who had actual conservative beliefs that I could respect. We need more politicians on the Court; at they are honest about what they do.

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social and @andreadotweb.bsky.social: The Alabama Legislature on Wednesday passed legislation that could set new primary dates for the state amid heated debates, protests outside legislative chambers and flooding that forced an evacuation of the Statehouse.

What happened in Alabama is actually happening everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Also still out there, doing its thing

There are pro-democratic arguments to end gerrymandering because ultimately, this is about President Trump refusing to bend at all to the democratic will. He started this madness.

And btw, the Democratic Party needs to hire Ben Wikler of Wisconsin and chuck Ken Martin overboard. Ben Wikler spent 10 years in Wisconsin breaking brick by brick one of the most enduring gerrymandering of the 2010s. We don’t need Ken Martin anymore.

Just haunted, every minute of every day by the knowledge & the inescapable shades of every harm & every death he has enabled. A twinge in his eye, a palpable dread, a drenching of sweat, a creeping, increasing, inescapable horror at the scope of the truth of his actions. I want him a different man.

In 1976, more than 250 shoes were found in a #Roman well in Welzheim, southwest Germany. This is one of the largest finds of Roman footwear north of the alps. The shoes were discovered in a well in the eastern fort at Welzheim. After the fort was abandoned...🧵1/2 🏺

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

Using the rules of linear perspective to combat ai slop can I get a hell yeah

lol somebody’s tired of seeing his name next to Roger Taney’s in opinion pieces

The thing that gets me about Elon pretending to be his mom online is, in what sense are you "running" trillion-dollar companies when you have time to constantly jerk off online like this, posting as sockpuppets and cooking your brain with /pol/ drivel?

Most relatable comic of all time?

Oh my god. Indycar what are you doing

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

I attended today’s meeting but didn’t speak; I think my colleagues shared what what I would have said far more eloquently than I could have. We have got to figure this shit out, but that begins and ends with the LAPD understanding and *obeying* the law. I won’t hold my breath

Breaking News: The Justice Department sued Colorado over a ban on high-capacity ammunition magazines that was adopted after a 2012 mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora.

Amberspire is a city builder that understands "city" through a narrative assemblage of historical fragments informing & enriching architecture, population, and challenges. Place, in all its wooly facets, is beautifully realized and feels so far removed from any tabula rasa infrastructure simulator.

"Right-wing justices excoriated trial courts for sowing 'confusion' by enforcing the law months before an election. Now they’ve gleefully ushered in electoral Ragnarok, as multiple states race to get rid of Black districts, even as voting is already underway." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Most of you will hate this, but Turner inventing CNN was a legacy accomplishment and a net positive; he was one of the first people to understand that the world was too big and moved too fast for people to wait for a brief summary of events on the 6:30 p.m. news.

The most damning thing I can say is that Turner's direct media-cultural heirs are David Zaslav and Jeff Bezos. That's not his fault, but also, it kind of is.

Ted Turner had an instinct for mergers, a lot of charm, an inhuman level of self-confidence, AND a wildly overinflated sense of what he could pull off, and if I were to pick a single deal that represented all of those qualities, it would be "I think I can turn Jane Fonda into a trophy wife."

@hypervisible.blacksky.app One for "Today in luxury surveillance"!

again the original meaning of "meme" as Dawkins conceived it is useful here. people are killing their babies because their minds got "infected" by convincing-sounding bullshit that spreads easily from person to person www.propublica.org/article/more...

The Wellness industry has the same greed as the biomedical industry but nothing it sells you actually works

Aside from the embrace of Wellness Eugenics I think RFK jr's moves all make sense if you are trying to destroy actual medical industries and replace them with wellness snake oil. We can all agree on the greed of the former but at least they create actual usable products

Kinda funny that they turned a color photograph into black-and-white for this.

Trump said his ballroom would be privately funded. Then the price tag climbed from $200M to $300M to $400M. Now Senate Republicans are eyeing $1 billion in taxpayer money for the “East Wing Modernization Project.” Sam Stein on the ballroom bait-and-switch.

wrote about The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, a fun show that utilizes one of our most precious comedic resources: Tracy Morgan Saying Things With His Voice type-click-type.ghost.io/please-enjoy...

THE BLUES BROTHERS TITUS FRANCE SA 1992 NES

New: Documents obtained by @weareoversight.bsky.social paint a thorough picture of how Marines prepared to deploy in Southern California alongside ICE. Marines were given 12 rules for engaging with protesters, and Rule 1 was clear: Force “of any kind” was allowed only as a last resort.

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Um. Guys.

Trump, in his post about Ted Turner's death, claims that "woke" was "everything that he is not all about." Yes, the same Ted Turner who was married to Jane Fonda, wanted universal healthcare, was a staunch environmentalist, called pro-lifers "bozos," and accused Israel of terror against Palestine.

The Trump Administration has been using law enforcement to target elected leaders, particularly Black elected leaders, since they singled out Ras Baraka and LaMonica McIver when they tried to inspect a detention center.

Would they prefer *guillotine vibes intensify* instead because "Tax the rich" is watered down consultant speak from where my brain lives.

Trump's Middle East war is now generating pandemic levels of supply chain pressures, and we all know how that worked out for inflation back then.

Gosh, I wonder why they're raiding her offices, it's a mystery

And also humiliated them on social media. Yeah, this smacks of retribution.

So the FBI is raiding an elderly Black woman who happens to be a Democrat that beat the Republicans legislatively and gave a heads up to its favorite propaganda outlet?

Fox News: "A very influential Democrat from Virginia, state senator Louise Lucas, is the center of a major FBI corruption investigation. Right now, in fact, agents are executing search warrants at her office."

That, however, does not mean progress is impossible. Even as the reactionary entrenchment won in the late nineteenth century, the fight was not over. Ultimately, courageous people achieved marvelous things: A Second Reconstruction, codified in the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.

The promise of Reconstruction was left unfulfilled. The experiment didn’t last. That is another painful implication: No right, no democratic achievement is ever safe. No progress is irrevocable. History is not destined to move in a progressive direction.

Multiracial democracy has never advanced through appeasement and persuasion. America’s first attempt to extend the democratic promise beyond white people was successful where and when the political coalition behind Reconstruction was willing to impose it against resistance.

If “backlash” and “polarization” are inevitably the price to be paid for equality, we might as well do it right, make a proper push. Piecemeal reforms and half-measures are easily dismantled, they will only leave the people who will suffer most from the countermobilization defenseless.

Too often, a timid class of political leaders makes avoiding such “backlash” their overriding concern. But backlash politics, driven by a logic of defeatist appeasement and pre-emptive abandonment of justice and equality, is guaranteed to stifle egalitarian policies.

It did not last. America’s first attempt at biracial democracy was toppled in different places at different moments. But across the South, it was drowned in ostensibly “race-neutral” laws and almost unimaginable levels of white reactionary violence.

What followed was an awe-inspiring democratic experiment. Here was the glimpse of what a society that extended the democratic promise beyond just the white population might look like. The country achieved a level of biracial democracy it wouldn’t reach again until a century later.

This attempt to transform a nation built on racial hierarchy into a biracial democracy was nothing short of revolutionary. The framers behind these amendments explicitly intended regime change: From a regime grounded in slavery to a regime grounded in equality.