Conservative jurists like to say that many laws are "stupid but constitutional" or "awful but lawful" to explain that courts can't just strike down policies they deem unwise. Today the Republican-appointed justices repeatedly criticized mail voting POLICIES without identifying a real legal defect.

Trump's reaction? "Good. I'm glad he's dead." Sick, sad. Mueller's 23-page obituary www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/u...

Remember how people would bang on pots and pans every night at a certain time to thank health care workers at the beginning of the pandemic? We should do that with fuck Trump. Everyone goes out on the porch and bellows “Fuck you Donald Trump “every night at 9. 🤣

Lehrer was brilliant and inspirational. ❤️ I've relyricized numerous songs. You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman became a song about natural numbers. Redid The Power of Love: The Power of Math. Unrelated: rewrote Both Sides Now to reflect on my experience with endoscopy and colonoscopy procedures.😵‍💫

This is a fantastic post and the deconstruction of Barclay’s flawed arguments is masterful. It’s unfortunate that SCOTUSblog would publish an article so rife with errors. Very telling that defending this court’s shadow docket chicanery requires butchering the facts.

It's just so rotten that this Supreme Court awards exponentially stronger First Amendment protections to rich people seeking to bribe candidates through massive donations than to normal people seeking to cast a ballot. Disempowering regular citizens while allowing plutocrats to destroy democracy.

Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars: "As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don't support free speech. I'm not at liberty to say which. Let's just leave it at North Korea and CBS."

An important thread. But something is missing. The refusal of Republicans to hold Trump accountable AND ALSO to exercise the least little responsibility on confirmations would have mitigated this risk. Joni Ernst, Thom Tillis, Murkowski and Collins all KNEW Whiskey Pete would push war crimes.

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group. “Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

👉27 Republican AGs pushed to delete the climate chapter in a scientific reference manual for judges. 👉16 Republican AGs urged the DOJ to “recommend legislation” to stop climate lawsuits. What do these Attorneys General have in common? They're all members of RAGA, a group that's funded by Big Oil.

Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Tim Scott want to enact a $200 billion tax cut on capital gains without congressional approval, claiming it will help “everyday Americans.” Baloney. This overwhelmingly benefits the richest Americans — just like their big, ugly bill did.

Donald Trump is dragging the United States into a war the American people do not want. Let me be clear: I am opposed to a regime-change war in Iran, and our troops are being put in harm’s way for the sake of Trump’s war of choice. Read my full statement:

Building the Camps open.substack.com/pub/randirho...

NEW: We’re publishing a full list of the 373 federal judges who have ruled against ICE’s mass detention policy and the 28 who have endorsed it — as well as links to key rulings by each. Trump appointees have split 44 against/ 20 for the policy. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

One of my biggest fears about the midterms is that ICE could flood the polls with agents who perform Kavanaugh Stops on every non-white person before they get a chance to cast a ballot, then detain them until voting is over. Which is not far-fetched at this point. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-po...

This has to end NOW. CANCER is spreading across the Nation. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social @GAO MUST audit these contracts IMMEDIATELY AND PUT AN END TO THIS MESTATISIS. CALL Members of Congress to demand a GAO audit of DHS. www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...

Fox host: Trump accounts are a back way to privatize Social Security.

Maybe you should try to affect her vote rather than doomsaying what will happen? This is already moving quickly.

I stopped watching Washington Journal a while back but decided to listen today. So far, there were two lengthy clips played both of Republicans, now the guest is from Washington Examiner, a reactionary publication.

So this just happened.

The Elections Have Already Been Rigged (01/30/26) Brett Breaks Things www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-4E...

🔥 @donlemonofficial.bsky.social : “I’ve spent my entire career covering the news — I will not stop now. There is no more independent time than right now for a free, independent media.” Amen. 🙏🏽 www.instagram.com/reel/DUJ0j9U...

🚨🚨🚨They’re making their move against our election system

THE BLACK HAND (It's not about immigration!) open.substack.com/pub/randirho...

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU

Reminder: If the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship, some of the ICE officers currently brutalizing Minnesotans may be reassigned to apprehend newborns from the hospital for immediate deportation. Just read the Trump administration’s own memo. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump's year-one pardons have erased over $1.5 billion in penalties for fraud and other crimes open.substack.com/pub/lizoyer/...

How the Language of Morality Became a Cover for Fear and Power… hartmannreport.com/p/is-conserv...

In Memory of Renee Good from Randi Rhodes! open.substack.com/pub/randirho...

Yes, abolish ICE, but abolish DHS, too. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

I shouldn't even have to say this, but precisely *no one* in the independent journalism sphere is saying that Trump can *legally* cancel the midterms. So corporate media should put on its thinking cap and ask themselves what independent journalists *are* saying. Yes.... *that*.

Speaking out against ICE is not a crime, but DOJ has reportedly opened an investigation of Gov Walz and Mayor Frey for doing so. I’ll discuss at 10 pm ET on @msnownews.bsky.social.

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

Yes, I am concerned, though some states already have flexibility if there's an indication that the postmark was delayed. In November, anyone mailing their ballot close to Election Day should go to a Post Office and request a manual postmark, which will be provided for free.

How many people has ICE murdered? FOUR Here are ALL ICE shootings www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi....

According to the @nytimes.com report the couple who was shot, were not taken into custody and were allowed to drive 2 miles back to their home after the shooting where they called 911. I feel safer now. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/u...

The Supreme Court sets aside lower court decisions upholding convictions for bribery related to the FIFA scandal because the Trump administration decided to dismiss those criminal cases "in the interests of justice." The FIFA prosecution ends in a whimper. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

4 pieces of good news today: 1) Hochul and Mamdani are working on free pre-K 2) Tish James got a SECOND Trump makebelieve US Attorney DQed 3) 9 Republicans backed Jeffries' ACA subsidies discharge petition 4) 5 Republicans voted for cloture Kaines' WPR prohibiting more invasion in VZ

The pro States Rights people were lying. They just wanted your fool ass to write a bunch of political theory op eds about fed vs state govt until they were in control and they made you look like a goddamn idiot. Debate me is such good bait for idiots who read one book and lots of pundits ate it up

The legal justification for Trump’s new war is so preposterously wrong that the Justice Department concealed it from Congress when Bill Barr first road-tested it for George H.W. Bush in 1989, even in the face of a subpoena. Then Barr lied about it under oath. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Here's a tracker of all the people (40) ICE has shot, including someone celebrating New Years by shooting his gun who was killed by an off-duty ICE goon. www.thetrace.org/2025/12/immi...

Do we even have proof of concept that microblogging is sustainable? Seems possible that all such platforms are destined to become sewers.

Jack Smith’s Deposition Has Entered the Chat — and It Brought Receipts Smith's deposition reminds America, Jan 6th was a plan, not an accident Never a firewall. Pay if you can, but read no matter what! open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

Trump threatened the Venezuelan VP with death, bc what else could “worse than Maduro” mean here?? Trump: She’s going to pay a very high price- probably higher than Maduro. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

(🚨) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Trump Agent Marco Rubio Strongly Suggests Trump's Lawless Adventurism Will Soon Move to An Illegal Invasion of Cuba; "America First" Appears to Be Dead As Trump—Betraying His Base—Adopts Foreign Policy Identical to the 2000s Neocons He Long Said He Hated

The suspiciously lucky account, created on December 27, has only bet on two things: the U.S. invading Venezuela, and its president, Nicolás Maduro, being forced out of leadership by January 31. In less than a day, the mysterious user made over $400,000. trib.al/4rnJbxR