NEW: For decades, the DOJ relied on the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to foil and forestall attempts to discriminate against minority voters. On Wednesday, the DOJ filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to devastate and vitiate much of what’s left of the landmark civil rights legislation.

They keep losing in court because everything they’re doing is illegal

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

The lesson is that people want to do things with other people.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

A thing Zohran & his campaign have powerfully tapped into -- and that his scavenger hunt captures so perfectly -- is that a vast majority of the people who live here genuinely *love* New York City. We wouldn't stay here otherwise!

You should be mad about the FBI raiding John Bolton’s house not because you love John Bolton but because you’re opposed to Trump using the FBI to intimidate his critics

D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.

You do not have to like John Bolton to see this for what it is.

I just can’t find the humor in the false fear generated by Republicans in DC because it’s not sincere and it’s not really funny, it’s their way of saying that Black people don’t belong in society, that Black people are inherently unsafe, and that it’s worth using violence to segregate us.

Buried in the regime's political takeover letter of the Smithsonian is the worst bit. Unlike exhibits, which are non-destructive towards primary materials, temporary in nature, and reversible, the foundational collections are irreplacable. They want to be able to throw stuff out.

The takeover of DC is rooted in racism. It is expressed through fascism. These things matter because it’s not a “distraction” or about “false” ideas around crime. It’s just racism, pure & simple. Media, politicians, social media users, influencers, everyone need to frame it this way. Consistently.

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

What a banal way of describing the march toward fascism.

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?

Cuomo helped form the IDC, a group of rogue Democratic state senators who sided with Republicans year after year to keep loopholes in NY’s rent stabilization laws. The result: tens of thousands of rent stabilized units were eliminated. www.politico.com/states/new-y...

Zohran Mamdani, in the New York City Democratic primary, won over Jewish voters who were energized by his economic agenda and unbothered by — or sympathetic to — his views on Israel and Gaza.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

It doesn't get bigger for voting rights: SCOTUS basically just announced it'll take up the question next year of whether Section 2 of the VRA is constitutional: electionlawblog.org?p=151301

The administration’s intimidation and extortion of universities and corporations is a means of controlling culture, but also a shadow tax without oversight. It’s a mob shakedown that allows Trump to hand out tax breaks as gifts and bribes while enacting a punitive system that demands fealty.

After the Paramount-Skydance merger, CBS will now officially become state media for the Trump regime. Brendan Carr, Chairman of the FCC, said the government is placing “an ombudsman in place for two years,” which he described as “basically a bias monitor that will report directly to the President.”

Amy Sherald says the Smithsonian suggested removing a painting of a transgender woman as the Statue of Liberty from her upcoming show at the National Portrait Gallery “to avoid provoking President Trump.” Sherald: “I cannot in good conscience comply with a culture of censorship”

reihan salam — who once tried to write a case against birthright citizenship and who has given an institutional home to chris rufo — accusing anyone of having "zero-sum politics" is rich

The problem with saying “history will remember” is that we are deciding right now whether there will be people in the future We are also deciding right now whether to train people to be historians Also, once it’s history, it’s too late

The canceling of Colbert shows that corporations don’t really care how obvious it is that they’ve caved to fascism, because they don’t believe they’ll suffer any consequences for it. We need to make sure that they do.

Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions

They’re rolling in the state media on time. Time to amp that national grassroots resistance movement up a few notches. I hope Colbert goes absolutely unhinged this next year and whips us into a nice frenzy.

Turns out that NPR and PBS' pandering to the right still didn't save their funding. Maybe there's a lesson here for media that think that tilting to the right will spare them from accusations of "liberal bias."

Also so odd that Jeff Bezos suddenly wants to buy Condé Nast, the parent company of (among other inconvenient publications) Wired.

Democrats should put court reform, not just the Supreme Court, although certainly that, into their campaign thinking. Biden was a traditionalist in a way that did not recognize the true threat here.

If you still seriously think that Griswold, Obergefell, Loving et al are safe from attack, I have a wallet of $trumpcoin to sell you.

I have no words. Everyone prepared for the constitutional crisis of the President defying the SCOTUS. The crisis is the SCOTUS being fully aligned with Trump’s vision of presidential power. So here we are.

The Supreme Court is the enemy of even the most modest liberal reform in this country. No possible political program worth enacting in this country can be enacted as long as this court remains.

Illinois grad here. Andreesen's fortune is built on research funded by the NSF at the UIUC super computing lab (NCSA). So on top of the vile racism, he's a hypocrite. "NSF awarded a large grant to NCSA specifically for Mosaic development, enhancement and support." www.nsf.gov/news/mosaic-....

🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area. Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.

I think Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents are an important exception to the "Supreme Court dissents don't matter" rule of thumb, because she is using them not to argue with the conservative justices, but to explain to the public that the conservative justices are liars and in the tank for Trump

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

if you're old enough to drink, you're too old to care about someone's SAT score

It’s Brad Lander’s victory, too. The former New York City mayoral candidate weighs in on Zohran Mamdani's historic victory, the baseless accusations of antisemitism, and what comes next.

I feel like if one of your primary motivators for getting a story to print is "one of the dumbest gutter racists on the internet is about to drop this and we need to beat him to the punch", you deserve every bit of the scorn being heaped upon you.

internalizing american notions of race and ethnic division as timeless truths about the world is a shortcut to smoothing out your brain

Wait until NYT finds out there are people from India who grew up in the Carribbean / South America

anyways personally I think that the NYT should stop doing race essentialism and stop platforming race scientists but that’s probably just my tiny Chinese hands talking

The nyt has routinely used this “just-asking-questions” approach in bad faith on matters of race and gender. They “just asked questions” about Mamdani’s background in a way that sought to undermine his legitimacy, just as they “just ask questions” about trans ppl to undermine our legitimacy

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

What we are living through is the PEAK of "drained pool politics" Drained pool politics is the termination or defunding of public resources due to the will of one group, whether they also use the resource or not. Think the end of public pools nationwide b/c white people refused to integrate

Indeed, the story here isn't "South Asian person from Uganda didn't have a specific box to check," it's: @nytimes.com promoted race science using hacked personal data, and apparently didn't even google the neo-Nazi they granted pseudonymity.