the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

If we can't get Alito impeached and convicted I will settle for a Court of 15 writing opinions saying things like "Alito, known for flagrant violation of judicial ethics, should not be considered a SCOTUS justice" and having him write awful whiny dissents about how you can't call him a bigot.

I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

What he and others are missing about what people are reacting to in the clothes at the Met Gala is the aspect of clothing as a socioeconomic signifier. The fantastical outfits at the MG, like the ones at the Capitol in the Hunger Games, signify people who don't have to worry about being able to move

In the end, the ECI deleted 9.1 million people's names from the rolls, including 2.7 million people who were considered "doubtful voters" in West Bengal alone. A disproportionate number of these voters were Muslim. The goal became obvious: disenfranchise Muslims.

If you're a cis person who thinks that Starmer and his government being appalling on trans human rights is a non-issue because 'nobody's perfect', rather than a telling insight into a fundamental lack of respect for basic human rights law, and a necessary warning for all people to heed...well.

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

Glad your vibe coded personalized keto assistant has increased your protein input or whatever but people actually hate this shit for reasons that have nothing to do with pollution or structural power, which are also bad. They hate this shit because it is making their lives, personally, worse.

I think Black Reconstruction by Du Bois is best read with others. A few years ago, I gave a presentation for the Schomburg Center. My focus was on what PIC abolitionists can learn about how change happens by studying Black Reconstruction. We even created a little guide to share with participants.

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Know that you are never alone and that help is available with the 988 Lifeline. Together we can end the stigma.

very good stuff happening here. West Virginia’s new guy fled violence in El Salvador and was smuggled into the US in the trunk of a car. Washington’s - who is MY AGE (???) and therefore the youngest US bishop - is from Louisiana, the first new Black bishop in a decade, and graduated from Harvard Law

Hi friends. There's a new episode of It's Storytime waiting for you wherever you get your podcasts. This week's story is To Carry You Inside You, by Tia Tashiro. It's one of those wonderful speculative fiction stories that isn't necessarily about me, but is REALLY about me, you know?

Folks, these are the stakes. Black Americans spent a century fighting and dying for the VRA. It is no more. It falls to all of us to pick the work back up, and carry on. Lament. Rage. Cry. Scream. I've done all these and more this week. But it will take our demanding it for it to happen

The shield was shattered, and the effects are still with us. Since 2013, the racial turnout gap has exploded in places once subject to preclearance. It has grown especially quickly in places where the DOJ blocked a discriminatory law from going into effect www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

A week after Selma, Johnson addressed a joint session of Congress. It was one of the most important speeches of the 20th century, and made the moral case for the VRA

Dawkins is a great example that when you have a naturalistic view of "real patterns" but don't have a process ontology, you will end up in metaphysical dualism unintentionally. Minds are not software, they are what specific bodies are doing as they engage with the world.

I read a history of early 20th century socialism and it's crazy how much of it is just clubs doing art or reading books and trying to get miners and factory workers to do art and read books.

I’ve said this before, but the fact that an AI with perfect information can figure things out doesn’t really help in a field where the primary difficulty is understanding what you don’t know.

who could possibly have guessed

If we had taken all the money we put into AI and put it into trains, we would have such great trains. What a waste.

I will die on the hill of "The Warren Court was good, actually." Just about everything you think of when you say "America has freedom" comes from the Warren Court and not any other era.

I keep checking the preorder date on book 2 because I AM SO EXCITE OH MY GOD

It’s because it doesn’t have clinical training which involves clinical evaluation by trained professionals, hope that helps!!!!!

A call to end birthright citizenship is a call to end any hope of constitutional freedoms in this country.

I have been reluctantly in favor of short term redistricting thus far, but now that the VRA is dead I think the only logical path forward is to make the GOP so miserable they think signing on to anti-gerrymandering law is their only chance at future power.

If you remove the Warren Court from the conversation, then where are we? I don’t think we’re left with a body that has been adequately protecting minority rights—depending on what you consider as belonging in the realm of minority rights.

Next is a Fabia, who says through a translator that a city's character is not measured by the looks of its buildings but by how it treats those who built it and sustain it. Many farmworkers face old age without a stable home. They deserve this. It is fiscally responsible and morally right.

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

A romantic comedy is a story that is *primarily* (or, okay, equally in the case of a dual plot) about its love story. Having a c-plot love interest hanging off the side of a movie that’s primarily about something else like a window washer off a skyscraper does not a romcom make.

For seven years, we’ve worked together to make Minnesota the best place in the nation to raise a family – and for the next eight months we’ll work to keep the state of our state strong.

A majestic grove of 1,000-year-old redwoods in Northern California is facing an imminent threat — and it needs your help. Please take a moment to uge California Governor @governor.ca.gov to save Richardson Grove.⬇️

What is the point of interviewing these people if you do not ask them what they thought the Democrats were lacking? I'll be frank and answer my own question. There is no point. And they do not want to ask these questions because they are afraid of the answer.

King Charles at State Dinner: “You recently commented, Mr. President, that if it were not for the United States, European countries would be speaking German. Dare I say that if it wasn't for us, you'd be speaking French”

I don't care about a ballroom, but I don't think Trump should have a heavily defended ballroom BUNKER (which is part of the ballroom package). The guy who pardoned his followers for storming Congress shouldn't have that. This feels basic to me, and it should be a bigger part of the mainstream convo.

ICYMI: I wrote about a local protest, and the much broader issue of blue state hospitals bowing to Trump and ending their youth gender affirming care programs. www.burnsnotice.com/concerned-ci...

Anti-trans extremists are trying to undermine the science of trans healthcare, but in Boston this weekend the passionate activists at Protect Trans Futures made it clear they couldn't get away with posing as experts without pushback. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Here is my statement on transphobia in the DFL, how I've tried to fight it, and how party leadership has allowed for it to continue: docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Today, I urge everyone to find and financially support an independent news outlet — one that will not be attending a spectacle dinner tonight to schmooze with the Trump administration while they berate the press.

unrelenting

I understand that it is deeply inconvenient for everyone with money and power that the richest man in the world is a Nazi, but the richest man in the world is a Nazi

“let us not allow this shooting to distract us from the true issue of national importance: how hot I look in this dress” sums up the whole event pretty well, honestly

I don’t think I can take another news cycle of Democrats solemnly tutting about how violence is never the answer while Republicans promise to put their political enemies and whatever immigrants they can find in a wood chipper

love to base my analysis on the existence of an imaginary trump administration capable of finding a face saving negotiated outcome

this has to be disqualifying, not just for judicial nominees but for anyone who wants to be taken seriously in civilized society

destruction of the voting rights act by a partisan court that thinks the blacks have it too good is on par with the ignominy of the courts that gutted the 14th amendment and killed the 1875 civil rights act

Between this and Sotomayor's recent dig at Kavanaugh, I'm getting the sense that Callais (the Voting Rights Act case) will be an absolute disaster and the liberals have given up trying to mitigate the damage.

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.