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Don Moynihan
about 7 hours ago
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.
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Marc Elias
about 2 hours ago
đšBREAKING: According to exclusive research by Democracy Docket, the Supreme Courtâs ruling will likely derail at least 28 pro-voting lawsuits that aim to stop state legislatures from drawing electoral maps that dilute the voting power of racial minorities.
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court ruling derails 28 lawsuits defending minority voting rights, Democracy Docket research finds
The legal cases are primarily concentrated in the South, where Americaâs legacy of racial discrimination still casts the longest shadow over voting rights.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/supreme-court-ruling-derails-28-lawsuits-defending-minority-voting-rights-democracy-docket-research-finds/
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No unilateral disarmament on gerrymanders. Dems need to fight fire with fire.
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Charlie Angus
about 6 hours ago
Buffalo plays the Canadian anthem even when Canadian teams aren't present. And when the microphone cut out the people did the job admirably. That's what neighbours do. Buffalo proud.
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Buffalo fans finish CANADIAN national anthem after mic issues
YouTube video by NHL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdFvUMesJzA
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mtsw
about 7 hours ago
This is such an important point about speed cameras. We have overwhelming data that the vast majority of drivers quickly learn where they are and adjust their driving habits to avoid getting ticketed. This makes them a bad way to generate ticket revenue but a super effective way to reduce speeding
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Robert Reich
about 6 hours ago
Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.
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Greg Sargent
about 5 hours ago
As far as I can tell, a map-drawer can now say, "I am going to split this community of black voters into separate districts, not because I intend to dilute the votes of black Americans, but rather because black Americans vote Dem and I want to dilute the power of Dem voters," and it's just fine
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Kevin Morris
about 5 hours ago
Alito also notes that Black turnout reached near parity with White turnout in 2 of the past 5 presidential elections. But which two, Justice Alito?? Oh, the LAST TWO before Shelby County? You don't say!
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Berna Devezer
about 7 hours ago
dude i cringe when i have to watch myself give a talk how's this supposed to be relaxing at the end of a rough day
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Roger Parloff
about 7 hours ago
Justice Thomas just asked a jaw-dropping question in the TPS cases. He seemed to question how the Haitians could raise equal protection claims when the 14th Am applies to states. Atty explained the 5th Amendment embraces those claims (as has been understood since at least Bolling v Sharpe in 1954).
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Jay Willis
about 7 hours ago
Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today.
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...
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Josh Marshall
about 9 hours ago
This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.
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Gale Sinatra
about 7 hours ago
The way to promote unqualified men is just to get rid of qualified women. Simple.
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Stephen Wolf
about 8 hours ago
Gutting the VRA puts enormous pressure on Dems to redraw House maps wherever they can. Dems may be able to redraw maps by 2028 in 9 states targeting 19 seats currently held by the GOP. I'll share example maps below. Longer-term, a future Dem Congress & president MUST ban gerrymandering nationwide
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Jeffrey Vagle
about 8 hours ago
If you want to understand why the Voting Rights Act is so important, a good place to start is the history of the Wilmington (NC) massacre, where white supremacists executed a coup against the legitimately elected biracial municipal government:
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American Coup: Wilmington 1898 | Full Documentary | American Experience | PBS
YouTube video by American Experience | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AORz0OgEVHI
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Josh Chafetz
about 8 hours ago
It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl
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Virginia Town Crier (Richard Martin)
about 8 hours ago
Redistricting
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Virginia Supreme Court blocks certification of redistricting election. What this might mean.
Is this a sign a ruling is imminent? Is it a sign that the court will toss out the election? Or is this simply a sign the court wants to issue a thoughtful ruling and not piecemeal things?
https://cardinalnews.org/2026/04/29/virginia-supreme-court-blocks-certification-of-redistricting-election-what-this-might-mean/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Battery%20storage%20on%20the%20rise%20for%203%20utilities&utm_campaign=Wednesday%2C%20April%2029%2C%202026
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More Perfect Union
about 8 hours ago
A full 25% of American healthcare spending goes to things like billing, claims processing, and customer service.
www.ft.com/content/6b1b...
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Healthcare is driving Americaâs economy
This is a huge industry â and thatâs not necessarily a good thing
https://www.ft.com/content/6b1bcbab-21d4-49a3-9940-d7550f042e5d?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Mark Copelovitch
about 8 hours ago
Again, today of all days is an important time to recognize that the Democratic Party's 2026/2028 platform must be institutional reform. <Every policy> everyone wants <follows> from that, not the other way around. There will be <one> chance to fix things. We can't waste it again.
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Matthew Gertz
about 12 hours ago
Like the weak SPLC and Comey cases, the best way to think about this is an attempt to sync up law enforcement with the right-wing media narrative machine.
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Shibley Telhami
about 18 hours ago
'People Have the Right to Be Buried': In Gaza, Thousands of Palestinians Remain Trapped Under Rubble
www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-04...
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In Gaza, bodies of thousands of Palestinians remain trapped under rubble
Less Than One Percent of Debris Has Been Removed From Gaza, and Thousands of People Still Wait to Bury Loved Ones Who Were Killed in Airstrikes and Remain Under the Rubble. 'I Would Dig With My Own Ha...
https://www.haaretz.com/gaza/2026-04-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/in-gaza-at-least-8-000-palestinians-remain-under-rubble/0000019d-c995-d623-ad9f-ffd77daf0000
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Dr. Jonathan Foley
1 day ago
I'm still surprised some people seem to think that we just need to feed seaweed to cows, and their methane emissions just goes away⊠It's not that simple.
drawdown.org/insights/are...
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Are livestock feed additives the future or folly?
Are livestock feed additives climate hopeful solutions or risky diversions? Explore the science, benefits, and trade-offs of feed interventions for reducing methane emissions.
https://drawdown.org/insights/are-livestock-feed-additives-the-future-or-folly
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Eric Columbus
about 10 hours ago
Why worry whether a case has merit when you can screw your enemies just with an indictment?
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Sam Brunson
about 12 hours ago
This is one of those things that is shocking but not surprising.
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Jon Douglas
about 12 hours ago
Stanford University researchers find SARS-CoV-2 makes a circular RNA called circ7b8N that does not boost viral growth but reshapes human immune gene activity and may serve as a lasting infection marker.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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ProPublica
1 day ago
âI donât want to be one of those people that sat,â said Libby Blyth, an accountant who drives people to work who are afraid of being spotted by ICE and delivers food to families in hiding. âI donât want to be somebodyâs history lesson.â
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Trump Called My Neighbors âPaid Agitators.â This is Who They Really Are.
After ICE came to Minneapolis, ProPublica journalist Peter DiCampo saw his community step up to patrol the streets, drive strangers to work and provide aid to families in hiding. These are his neighbo...
https://projects.propublica.org/why-minneapolis-neighbors-protest-ice/?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1777411680&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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Daniel Moser
3 days ago
Pollution levels in Paris after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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bin Adamah
1 day ago
Lying about starving people. This 4.3 million is mostly children they have pushed off of the program.
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I have to renew my passport but now I'm going to have to wait until those 25k copies are gone bc I'm not looking at this asshole's face for 10 years worth of trips
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shauna
1 day ago
one time the biden administration politely asked social media platforms to take down covid misinformation to save lives and the rightwing ecosystem spent years screeching about the perils of censorship
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Lawfare
1 day ago
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear 2 cases that will decide the fate of more than a million migrants in the United States.
@rparloff.bsky.social
explains the challenges to the Temporary Protected status cancellations, including the equal protection claims, and how they may fare.
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Racial Animus Claims May Play a Key Role in the TPS Cases
In the Temporary Protected Status cases at the High Court, reviewability is disputed. But the equal protection claims will likely survive.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/racial-animus-claims-may-play-a-key-role-in-the-tps-cases
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alix e. harrow
1 day ago
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
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The Fig Economy
1 day ago
It is fine for the parties themselves to choose their candidates and even if primary elections werenât perversions of democracy in several ways (which they are) theyâd be a piss poor way of choosing candidates, and they separate parties from accountability.
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Ketan Joshi
1 day ago
Carbon removal joins the "let's just say we never gave a fuck about climate" club in the US Also: "Carbon removal could provide offsets for liquefied natural gas companies exporting to Europe or hyperscalers facing community pushback when building data centers" FFS
www.axios.com/2026/04/27/c...
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Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds â backups zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
PocketOS founder blames âCursor running Anthropic's flagship Claude Opus 4.6â plus Railwayâs infrastructure for data disaster.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/claude-powered-ai-coding-agent-deletes-entire-company-database-in-9-seconds-backups-zapped-after-cursor-tool-powered-by-anthropics-claude-goes-rogue
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Sam Bagenstos
6 days ago
This week, I read two books that are essential to understanding what the Trump Administration is doing to the small-r republican project of self governance. One is Slobodian & Tarnoff's book, discussed here. The other is "Into the Wood Chipper" by Nicholas Enrich, about what Musk did to USAID.
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Karl Bode
1 day ago
The merged Paramount/Warner Bros company will be 49.5% owned by foreign interests (including the Chinese), and 38.5% owned by Middle Eastern countries Brendan Carr, who was positively apoplectic about foreign ownership of companies like TikTok, won't make a peep about it because he's a hack
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Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery Will Be 38.5% Owned by Middle Eastern Funds Following Close: Filing
Paramount Skydance said the merged Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery will be 49.5% owned by foreign investors, with about 38.5% of the entire company held by a trio of Middle Eastern funds.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-warner-bros-foreign-ownership-middle-eastern-funds-1236731732/
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Nature
1 day ago
This researcher created a fictional illness, and fake studies funded by the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and University of the Fellowship of the Ring and the Galactic Triad. LLMs warned people the illness was real.
go.nature.com/4cQabS5
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Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real
Nature - Bixonimania doesnât exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?
https://go.nature.com/4cQabS5
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Don Moynihan
1 day ago
I know we get inured to stuff, but it is hard to fathom the cruelty here. At a time of tax cuts for the most powerful, they are trying to remove basic supports for the most vulnerable. The Trump administration's war on people with disabilities continues.
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Sam Bagenstos
1 day ago
The story here is that Congress rejected Trumpâs proposal to slash funding for the National Science Foundation, but Trump is gutting the agency anyway. The by-now classic Russ Vought play of treating Congress as an irrelevancy.
www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
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Board Ouster Raises Further Concerns About NSFâs Future
The White House axed all members of the board overseeing the National Science Foundation Friday, leaving the agency with no board, director or deputy director. It finally provided a reason Monday afte...
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/science-research-policy/2026/04/27/board-ouster-raises-further-concerns-about-nsfs
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kottke.org
1 day ago
Elizabeth Kolbertâs profile of EPA head Lee Zeldin. âIn a little more than a year, Zeldin has transformed the E.P.A. from an agency devoted to protecting human health and the environment into one that, more or less openly, sides with polluters.â
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Can the E.P.A. Survive Lee Zeldin?
The agency, which was founded to protect the environment and human health, has cancelled safety regulations, supported coal, and stopped caring about climate change.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/05/04/can-the-epa-survive-lee-zeldin
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There are a few things we should keep, but a new Constitution with a parliament would be preferable in almost every way to what we have now.
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David Noll
1 day ago
"in resolving the merits of Texasâs appeal of the preliminary injunction, the majority deemed it appropriate to simply incorporate Decemberâs order by referenceâeven though that order included exactly two paragraphs of analysis, one of which was only about why Texas met the factors for a stay"
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Ron Filipkowski
1 day ago
The Israeli government, like the Trump admin, is determined to turn every long-time ally into an adversary - something that will haunt both counties for decades.
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The Conversation UK
1 day ago
Scientists are learning to spot pandemic threats without touching dangerous pathogens.
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Scientists have found a safer way to hunt for the next pandemic virus
Scientists are learning to spot pandemic threats without touching dangerous pathogens.
https://tcnv.link/eBRRBJq
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Matthew Gertz
1 day ago
Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didnât make it on the air.
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André Picard @picardonhealth
4 days ago
Toronto man poised to become the first Canadian cured of HIV-AIDS. 62-year-old has been in remission since 2021. He joins a group of 10 others across the globe who achieved the milestone after a stem cell transplant, by Jennifer Yang
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Toronto man poised to become the first Canadian cured of HIV
He could soon join a group of 10 others across the globe who achieved the milestone after a stem cell transplant
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-toronto-man-poised-to-become-the-first-canadian-cured-of-hiv/
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Costa Samaras
2 days ago
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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Ambassador (ret.) Janet Sanderson
2 days ago
Login.gov
is the primary way many retired feds get into their thrift savings program and access information on their annuities and other important documentation. So, yeah, no worries whatsoever.
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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)
2 days ago
Let me get this straight: Bari Weiss has radically edited the new Trump interview on 60 Minutes? Let's not forget that Weiss lost her mind over standard editing of a Kamala Harris interview in 2024. But as Juliet shows, this Trump editing goes way beyond standard broadcast practices. Good grief.
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