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The Supreme Court Has Invented a Right to Discriminate www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... #SCOTUS #VotingRights #CivilRights #elections #law #gerrymandering #JimCrow

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

I’m at my pulmonologist’s office to look into my snoring issues and a guy in the waiting room fell asleep and started snoring

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I don’t see much about election results on my Bluesky feed, so I’ll post what I know. The current state of the California Governor’s race. It’s still early but it doesn’t look like Tom Styer will make the runoff

“I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.” For CBS and for our government

Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:

This will not end w/ voting rights. The fundamental premises of these SCOTUS opinions are: 1) Anti-discrimination is actually unconstitutional discrimination; 2) Intentional discrimination isn't actionable if any alternative rationale is presented. It's the beginning of the end of civil rights law.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

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PSA: if you live in LA county, you can drop off your ballot at any ballot drop box in the county all day today or tomorrow until 8pm locator.lavote.gov/locations/vb...

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It that time on a Sunday afternoon where I move from ☕️ to 🍸

It’s telling how many of the large news organizations who are flush with money aren’t sending journalists to cover ICE (and now state trooper) violence overnight outside Delaney Hall and the independent outlets with far less financial and insurance coverage are braving it.

It’s been a week of talking to clients, reading hot takes, listening to colleagues, formulating paths forward. Craziness. This administration doles out xenophobic, racist policies like scoops of ice cream.

Fake ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... #DHS #ICE #immigration #CivilRights #HumanRights

One thing that won't get enough attention about John Cornyn's loss to Ken Paxton is that, no matter what happens in November, Texas Republicans just willingly gave up seniority in the Senate, one of the most prized currencies in federal politics. Let me explain what I mean... (thread)

Fake ICE agents are terrorizing immigrants www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Zohran in office less than a year and the Knicks already in the finals for the first time since 1999 — but sure keep telling us Democratic Socialism can’t work🤷🏻

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Shorter version: It’s not that they want immigrants to “do it the right way.” They don’t want a right way to exist. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

The young women make photos that look at life — how it is, how they wish it could be — under Taliban rule. The images are on display at the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn, New York. n.pr/42UTS21

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Hitting all the right notes

The fuckery this administration is doing to immigrants is infuriating

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NEW 🧵: Here's how Dems could redraw 9 congressional maps by 2028 & target more than 20 GOP seats. The GOP tried to rig the national map in 2026, & Dems had few ways to respond. But Dems could fully counteract them by 2028. We have example maps for each state www.the-downballot.com/p/how-democr...

Again, that this stuff doesn’t immediately end his presidency is a total failure of Article I of the Constitution. A complete collapse of the polity.

Suck it Bezos. I took my $1.90 to the bank. Boom! Taking down billionaires one dollar at a time

My wife just told me there are 15 school days left! When you’re married to a teacher, counting days is par for the course

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

There’s a massive immigration operation in Memphis right now, but you may not have heard about it. Why? Community members face retaliation for trying to spread the word out, a lawsuit alleges.

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Put his name on a bill (a la Laken Riley) abolishing ICE.

Kash Patel's "VIP Snorkel" with 9 guests, accompanied by Navy Seals, over the tomb of 900 sailors at Pearl Harbor: "[A]s disrespectful as playing kickball on top of the graves at Arlington." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/u...

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Just another normal day at DOJ where they have to withdraw a filing in New Hampshire that was intended for Minnesota.

Oh. My. God. This is despicable.

🤔 so “hell” is profanity? That’s some funky ass shit

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.

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

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