Devastating analysis of SCOTUS decision on Alabama congressional districts by the great Sherrilyn Ifill: We are now facing the most consequential loss of Black political power since the end of Reconstruction.” substack.com/home/post/p-...

After Emily Waldorf was denied care for a life-threatening miscarriage, her mother and stepfather were outraged: “If I took my dog to a vet and it had this problem, that dog would get better treatment.”

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

Some excellent questions.

Today would be Coretta Scott King’s 99th birthday. CSK was a lifelong freedom fighter & more of an activist than MLK when they met. As a student she’d supported the Progressive Party’s 3rd party challenge for president opposing US militarism, racism & economic inequality. We need to know her.

🔥 @repcohen.bsky.social : “Don’t tell me, John Roberts, The Supreme Court is not political. It is an arm of the White House. 🇺🇸 is being destroyed from within 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.” #Memphis #JimCrow #RacistRedistricting

Mitch McConnell is one of the main players who is responsible for degrading American democracy in current version of competitive authoritarianism by turning the SCOTUS is a John Roberts led MAGA Super Senate without any accountability. He owns this mess.

Mitch McConnell could have organized and led his caucus to convict Trump after January 6. Instead he surrendered like a coward. And never forget Mitch McConnell helped Trump to pack a MAGA supermajority in Roberts Republican SCOTUS. He did this.

The implosion of the GOP is only beginning. And it will accelerate. But we can't just sit by and idly watch. We need to keep pushing for accountability—and ultimately for impeachment and removal of the president and his cabinet (of which the vice president is a member).

It's not stupid. It's the most blatantly illegal & unconstitutional thing you could imagine. You're a goddamn United States Senator. Do the job you swore an oath to do. Why are we here, you ask? This. This is why we are here. These are <entirely> the people responsible: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Not surprising, but incredibly shocking.

This is undisputedly true, & the fact that so many politicians in states like WI spend so much time demonizing, defunding, & otherwise kneecapping the single most outstanding & world-class institution in their state remains mind-boggling to me, even after 20 years as faculty at one of these places.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Marshawn tells it!

Found source w/ credit: www.youtube.com/shorts/P58ot... "A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power."

The most powerful force in American politics today is anti-establishment fury at a rigged economic system. To counter Trump’s culture wars and fake populism, progressives must mount a real battle against economic elites who have rigged the game — and shafted millions of working class people.

Former Confederate states are trying to lock Black and Brown Americans out of political power.

The GOP, complicit in equating driving with freedom & celebrating sprawl, are going to get their asses handed to them in elections not just because they are an affordability issue but because when Americans have to spend too much to drive, they no longer have the illusion of freedom cars can bring.

Breathtaking injustice, even in Trumpian context.

Interesting bit from a speech Cory Booker gave yesterday at the Michigan Democratic Women's Caucus in Detroit: (Full speech here: www.c-span.org/program/camp...)

Tired of the stock market being regarded as a proxy for the wisdom of crowds. Crowds are dumb. Profit-seeking crowds are dumber. Gambling profit-seekers are the dumbest. They market shoves money wherever it thinks profit will arise tomorrow. That’s decidedly NOT wisdom for long-term prosperity.

Trump’s threats of massive war crimes in a 4 hour period tomorrow night feel like the closing scenes of “Don’t Look Up.” The threat isn’t the extinction of humanity (for now), it’s the destruction of the world order that has framed my whole life.

If this is real. If his thumbs actually typed what is below... Citizens. Senators. Cabinet. The President of the United States is out of control. He is beyond reason or amelioration. We might really, really, really, I'm trying not to shout or capitalize here, really want to address this.

Spotted at a No Kings protest in Durham, North Carolina! Epic creativity!

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"In the first seven months of his second term, authorities arrested and detained parents of at least 11,000 U.S. citizen children — a number that, if the pace held up, will have roughly doubled by now. That’s an average of more than 50 U.S. citizen kids a day with a parent pulled into detention."

The @transit.app people do a *tremendous* job of incentivizing you to tell them about what's up with the bus by constantly being like "look at all the avatars of other people you've helped". From an app design perspective it's fascinating.

The next six months could be the ultimate in teachable moments, with rapidly rising prices for oil, and rapidly rising temperatures. And what do you know, we have a midterm exam coming up on November 3. billmckibben.substack.com/p/now-comes-...

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

“I think what ICE is doing is the worst thing America has probably done since the internment camps during World War II.” One of the nation's top "justice facility" architecture firms will no longer work on ICE detention centers or deportation facilities after its employees staged a revolt.

Staff Reads from our Executive Director: " @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social has deep wisdom to share. 'Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war.'"

The US Senate has not taken up the “SAVE America” act, which would identify “presumptive noncitizens” who must prove citizenship to vote. Meanwhile, the NC State Board of Elections is seeking to impose similar requirements through a formal rule.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

I’m pleased to see that San Francisco has cut its air pollution by 20% in recent years. It’s time for the whole world to start phasing out fossil fuels. The end of fossil fuels will be a new beginning for health. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social

Dems need to organize their offense! @graigmeyer.bsky.social tells how: open.substack.com/pub/graigmey...

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

Why wealth and power are NOT the core issue in the Epstein files: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Superb reflection on an ongoing crisis. Donate, vote, organize!

This one hits hard.

I keep watching ”Resist Dance.” So beautifully poignant! www.instagram.com/reel/DU2S2xE...

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya. Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...

Spectacular.

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

"Donald Trump is not the disease of our politics, he’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows big corporations to buy and sell politicians in ways that leave them rigging the system against us."

What’s happening with Project 2029? Is it under way?

Stop disenfranchisement of millions of Amercans by stopping the SAVE act! substack.com/home/post/p-...

OMG.

Such courage! If you haven’t seen it, watch the full 20 min testimony given by Marimar Martinez at a Congressional hearing youtu.be/bkRJUwaofss?...