BREAKING NEWS: @campaignlegal.org, alongside our co-counsel representing the @lwvme.bsky.social, is celebrating a victory for voters and the rule of law in the effort to protect sensitive voter data.

that's right...part of THE jobs report...

And there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

Can't stop thinking about the Speaker of the House of Representatives saying, intentionally and on camera, that ending the Voting Rights Act is an affirmative win for equality in the United States.

ProPublica identified 155 counties in the Deep South with private schools that opened as likely segregation academies. One in Amite County, Mississippi, has never — over nearly 30 years of surveys — reported enrolling more than one Black student. (Published Dec. 2024)

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Sotomayor: "Alabama’s congressional primary election is next week, and vacating the District Court’s injunction will immediately replace the current map with Alabama’s 2023 Redistricting Plan until the District Court acts, even though voting has already begun."

you can celebrate your wedding anniversary at gettysburg and it's a great time

A pot of mint an' rosehip tea with honey to go in it, a platter of blackberry muffins, and wild oat and barley bread lightly spread with redcurrant preserves.

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They were doing Weird Twitter memes in the 1860s

Franklin expedition is one of my morbid fascinations - this is really big news.

The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:

VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti www.cnn.com/2026/05/05/p...

The Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman is in the process of removing all its public signage and ending its inspections, according to an internal email.

US Department of Justice loses a quarter of its lawyers ft.trib.al/VHEV5T4

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

Unmoored from the will of Congress, the text of the Voting Rights Act, and the Constitution, the Supreme Court has dealt a devastating blow to our multiracial democracy and the right of every American to make their voice heard. Our full statement: campaignlegal.org/press-releas...

never not thinking about the proposal to make DC 127 states harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

“Supreme Court paves the way for largest-ever drop in Black representation in Congress” electionlawblog.org?p=155775

Important to know how much the Voting Rights Act affects things like the number of black & brown people in Congress and state legislatures But I want to reemphasize the (more important to me) point that Black political power produced Black economic power.

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan dissenting in Louisiana v. Callais in today's devastating decision for the Voting Rights Act.

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

"A year ago, in Mpongwe, there was one case like this each month, or maybe two. In January this year, there were 28 new cases; in February, 28 more; in March, seven more." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

New from me: All 40 of Trump's judicial nominees who have taken Qs from the Senate Judiciary Committee have refused to say Trump lost the 2020 election. Now his high-level executive nominees are dodging the Q, too. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

it's not immediately visible in the US unless you are in DC, where practically everybody is—at maximum—one degree of separation away from someone who got DOGEd

Pulitzer-worthy reporting here from Minnesota immigrant news @sahanjournal.bsky.social. 70+ children detained during Operation MetroSurge. 30 sent to Dilley. Two dozen held >20 days, a Flores violation. 7 still detained as of March 10. ~20 have been deported. sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

This is monstrous. Just profoundly shameful behavior by our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Hungarian taxpayers paid American “post-liberal” Rod Dreher $105,000 last year to produce propaganda for Orban’s regime. www.jaccusepaper.co.uk/p/the-strang...

We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.

“Will this be my life of anxiety?” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

"... all for nothing more than co-signing an op-ed advocating for Palestinian rights" A national disgrace.

For the next installment of our National Poetry Month series, we recommend reading Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays.”

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court:

The Trump Admin has abruptly canceled an $11M contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship between the Catholic Church and the U.S. government dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

EXCLUSIVE: Behind the scenes, the Trump administration has been wielding its vast power to transform the midterm elections. This is the untold story of Trump’s efforts to, as he has called it, “take over” the midterms.

New from 404 Media: the FBI was able to extract incoming Signal messages from a phone even though the app was deleted. Why? Because parts of messages were stored in the iPhone's internal notification database. Shows how secure chat data can come from unexpected places www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

On Confederate Surrender Day, I give you the Liberator's take on Jefferson Davis: "We believe Jefferson Davis to be the worst man in all history. He was a repudiator and slaveholder. He has been a secessionist, a traitor and rebel....He has sedulously endeavored to subvert our free institutions."

Why'd the Confederates fight? They told us

'Gov. Spanberger signed a bill to end the renewal of commemorative Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia. A portion of the sale of these plates has previously supported the neo-Confederate organization Sons of Confederate Veterans.' #CivilWarMemory www.wavy.com/news/virgini...

My latest @npr.org story: To figure out how to boost student voting, colleges have relied on a study about campus voter registration and turnout rates. A Trump administration probe has cut off new data, leaving schools in the dark in a midterm election year www.npr.org/2026/04/08/n...

Newly obtained video footage that shows an immigration officer shooting and injuring Venezuelan immigrant Julio Sosa-Celis contradicts the officer's claims that he was brutally beaten with a shovel, showing no evidence of its presence.

We filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's latest illegal executive order attempting to limit access to mail-in voting.

Former MLB player Brad Lidge, who threw the final pitch to win the Philadelphia Phillies the 2008 World Series, is now an archaeologist researching the Etruscan civilization. He is joining the Penn Museum Board of Advisors, calling it a “full-circle moment.” www.penn.museum/blog/major-l...

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has taken steps to block or delay promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military, according to nine U.S. officials familiar with the process.

developed TMJ from wisdom tooth surgery complications and they're like "stop clenching and grinding your teeth!" now I realize I am doing this like 50000 times a day.