WTF?!?

One thing I'm thinking about this morning is how similar the court's reasoning in Callais was to how they treated, eg, literacy tests. As long as the state PRETENDS a law is for another reason (whether that's partisanship or to have "educated voters"), it's fair game.

Don’t threaten us with a good time!

Even at the end of Reconstruction, the federal government was inexcusably PASSIVE — not actively attacking Black voters

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Great thread for those of you who like to know things.

Restructure the court. Go to 13 seats (to correspond to number of circuits.) Go to term limits. Retroactively if possible. Investigate and if appropriate prosecute/disbar justices who have been on the take. Establish strict enforceable ethical guidelines for the court. Then move on...

What are we even doing anymore

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

in the 1970s Hillary Clinton made a hundred grand trading cattle futures and 15 years later the news media made a decade-long scandal out of it

I’m also increasingly convinced of this tbh

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Again, no other president in history has been treated by the national political press with such deference and shrugs. It should be wall-to-wall front page, breaking news that the U.S. president is either deliberately attacking the Catholic Church while positioning himself as Jesus, or he is unwell.

Iran posted this. What a humiliation for Trump.

While also constantly hearkening back to a golden medieval age of the Catholic Church that never was - it’s a faux intelligentsia mindset to set themselves above and apart from the people they don’t like. Ask me how I know, I used to be one of them

This comes two days after Hegseth overruled U.S. Army command to re-instate two Apache flight crews involved in aerial antics in the Nashville area.

Whether it’s children in liberal families watching Ms. Rachel or teenagers in conservative student groups praising Adolf Hitler, young people on both sides have embraced controversial figures.

This would probably be a more effective argument if Trump hadn't advocated and rolled out a policy by which people could become citizens FOR PAY.

Our constitution sets up such a defective system of government that this guy can walk around doing impeachable offense after impeachable offense in broad daylight and no one can do anything about it.

This 👇👇👇

NY Times reports Hegseth just struck 2 Black and 2 female officers from a promotion list — and says Hegseth’s Chief of Staff told the army secretary “Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events” More: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

TN has seen a 57% increase in farm bankruptcies in the past year. I don’t know how we go about convincing folks that things don’t have to be this way. All the have to do is vote.

This is insane

Exactly 5 minutes BEFORE Trump announced a 5-day delay in bombing Iranian power plants, someone purchased $1.5 billion worth of S&P futures in a single trade. Someone also sold $192 million in oil futures. Trump and/or his cronies are engaging in market manipulation and insider trading.

The idea that the news media is somehow filled with anti Trump liberals is absolutely hilarious.

🤯 Russian intelligence plotted a staged assassination attempt on Viktor Orbán. The plan aimed to boost his ratings by shifting the campaign to security issues, The Washington Post reported, noting it’s unclear how far it went.

"The case is a very funny illustration of what can happen when cops, who as a general rule rarely face consequences for their actions, manage to cross a person with plenty of time, a sizable social media following, and a smooth baritone."

It was revealed last week that Trump got a $10 billion bribe for helping steal TikTok and give it to his right wing billionaire friends under the pretense of national security and it barely enjoyed a two hour news cycle

Nashville has a history of car dealers blocking transit

I’m sorry, doing this in a baseball cap sold by your campaign store is deliberately disrespecting the dead.

I don't ever want to hear that it's wrong to call them Nazis again.

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

Three Americans dead and Trump’s UN Ambassador waves it off with some bullshit jingoism. From the people who wailed about Benghazi for a decade. Absolute soulless ghouls.

Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

Republicans are so vile. “We started an illegal foreign war so you have to fund our illegal domestic one.”

What are the various reasons the Trump administration has articulated for the attack on Iran? Iran interfered in US elections Was working on nuclear weapons Iran started a "forever war" against the United States Iran about to attack the US What else? (provide sources if you can).

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. ... You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

So to recap…. -Republicans are stripping citizens of their gov IDs overnight, but also saying you need gov ID to vote. -Trump is planning a 17 page executive order to nationalize elections. -The SAVE Act -Now the post office can just refuse to deliver your mail in ballots. Got it.

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Just adding to the 2028 Dem platform: We also want to pull the non-profit status of every Trump-endorsing anti-LGBT church, going back retroactively 10 years (they've all been endorsing candidates since at least 2016), thereby instantly bankrupting them with an enormous tax bill. 🙏

We need to be better humans.

“Having lied so often on his way to power and in his consolidation of power, Hitler could not refrain at this serious moment in history from thundering a few more lies to the gullible German people in justification of his wanton act.” -Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, p. 974

So, it's pretty clear MAGA and the Trump Administration are just a big Cosplay Convention for losers and dorks who couldn't get girls in high school and are trying to convince the world they are alpha men. They are failing.

If they didn’t have hypocrisy they’d have nothing.

1. The president is burning up the American middle class with the largest tax increase since the early 1990s, which itself is snowballing the price of everything from coffee to clothes to carpets to car parts. Yet this isn’t a major, ongoing, attention-grabbing story.

Put most bluntly: If you want nice things, and if you want to keep our constitutional republic, then we must all work together to 𝐈𝐌𝐏𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇. 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐌. 𝐀𝐋𝐋. There is simply no alternative. (7/7)

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

I do believe when leaders pick their voters that is no longer a democracy…