That Trump held his "anti-communist" Klan rally in front Mt. Rushmore is all the more fitting for anyone familiar with the whitewashed history of the Klan backed scar on America's landscape. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I'm usually pretty critical of the DC comic book movies, but Supergirl was pretty great. May not be for everybody, but it explored the alien in the alien realm (as opposed to the alien finding his way on Earth story again). ew.com/supergirl-is...

Public events like the "Great American State Fair" are another thing Americans took for granted, as if they just happen. In reality, they take a lot of planning, execution, and effort. It's just that every previous administration cared, tried, and had competent people.

Hey Lindsey: On February 18, 2025, the Governor of South Carolina issued a similar request for residents to conserve electricity by lowering the thermostats on their heaters during an extreme cold snap. So, apparently, your WOKE state beat New York to become socialist! Congratulations.

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

#Russia's latest assault on Kyiv - nearly 500 drones, 74 missiles, at least 17 people killed and around 90 injured - is another reminder that Putin interprets hesitation as permission. #Ukraine needs more air defense, tougher sanctions and sustained military support. Now.

It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

It's terrifying that it was "stunning" and still a 6-3 decision. One third of the Supreme Court of the United States has abandoned the Constitution of the same. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Alito, paraphrased: You say the president’s blatantly racist statements are evidence of racist intent, and therefore illegal violation of rights? Yeah, well, whatabout this clip of a TikTok I saw on Fox News where some lib with 17 followers said something I don’t like? Whatabout that, huh?

The latest exchange of military fire has downgraded the ceasefire to “tested,” a level below “uneasy.” Further acts of war during the peace will render the truce “shaky.”

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

I'm in the Contrarian @contrariannews.org on how the Court's immigration cases from yesterday gave the Trump administration a hall pass to violate federal statutes & the Constitution. www.contrariannews.org/p/scotus-jus...

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genuinely crazy to watch these people freak out over what is essentially 21st century new dealism

What if a handful of Congressional primaries were not deciding the entire fate of a national political party? What if they were, in fact, deciding on a party's nominee for that district specifically?

The Times responded to my analysis of their coverage of trans issues. They basically said "you can't look at what we wrote, you have to look at everything else!" But that belies the structural issues they won't even admit to such as pushing a Pullitzer campaign for Azeen Ghorayshi's podcast.

Ten defendants in three cases have now seen their federal criminal charges permanently dropped as a result of the grand jury controversy in U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros’ office.

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

Graph of Strait of Hormuz crossings since June 2025. See that little spike all the way on the right? The one that's much lower than the leftward 2/3 of the graph, and immediately crashes back down? That's what the US government and quite a bit of US media tell us is fully open, with normal traffic.

If the Fuhrer were a football fan...

Here's an old thread where I unpack the 10 tenets of fascistic Christian Nationalism as articulated by Gerald LK Smith in the 1940s and 50s. bsky.app/profile/seth...

I mean, the guy who founded the “Christian Nationalist Crusade” in the 1940s, Gerald LK Smith, was a Holocaust minimizing Nazi apologist. The ties between American Christian Nationalism and Nazism have always been there. www.thebulwark.com/p/oops-we-in...

States do not need to contract with companies owned by oligarchs who seek those states' demise. No matter what services an anti-democracy oligarch's company provides, it is not in the national interest of any democracy to send them money. Some in Europe apparently realizing that. And acting on it.

I mean, it certainly is odd to find someone like Ezra Klein, a prominent centrist liberal voice, associating with one of the most fascist tech bros in the world. Inquiring minds want to know what the hell is going on here.

Oh, so they have NOTHING nothing

As the government raids “antifa groups” in Minneapolis with the SAME charges levied against myself and the rest of the Broadview Six, we need to be asking how they got this indictment. And as charges (hopefully) get dropped, we must remember the process is the punishment.

Russia increased attacks on Ukrainian civilians again last night and carried out strikes that damaged a UNESCO World Heritage site in Kyiv. These are war crimes, and Russia will have to answer for them. (1/2)

Polls show that only 15% of Americans approve of yesterday’s UFC spectacle on the White House grounds. But in this Palo Alto brothel/ketamine bar, that percentage feels much higher

As always, your regular reminder that despite having every law enforcement agency of the federal government and billions of dollars worth of surveillance tools available to them, the Trump admin has managed to find a grand total of zero (0) "paid agitators."

Journalists have a duty to tell the public that the president and his aides are seriously considering suspending habeas corpus *when it is happening* rather than saving it for a book rollout over a year later

It really seems like the regime is trying to out-Idiocracy Idiocracy.

Please god let this close the portal to Hell the Cubs opened in 2016

A SECOND person died of exposure last winter after DHS dumped them in the middle of nowhere, miles from their home, without notifying their family.

One myth that deserves to die is that Lukashenka is somehow "resisting" Putin, or that the Kremlin is desperately looking to replace him. Last year alone, #Belarus received another $1.2 billion loan from #Russia - on top of years of Russian credits, debt restructuring & subsidies.

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

because of woke you cant even denigrate an entire nationality wholesale anymore without being called a racist

"This question is rigged!" - Gen X

sam alito in callais: it is just a coincidence that partisan gerrymandering looks like racial gerrymandering. it doesn’t mean anything tennessee republicans post-callais: yee haw boys we are gettin’ the negras outta government

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

especially re: 2, one must ask, in what way is this court majority actually opposed to Plessy v. Ferguson?

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Scott Pelley going out on his shield rather than bend the knee.

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

This is so outrageous. Roberts Court said in Callais finding of intentional discrimination could invalidate gerrymandered maps. Lower court found Alabama intentionally discriminated against Black voters. SCOTUS still allowed map eliminating majority Black district to go through