i think it is a testament to the inherent radicalism of the reconstruction amendments that the supreme court’s main project with regards to them has been to limit and weaken their impact on american society.

#BREAKING: Over dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS issues “GVRs” in the Alabama cases—vacating district court injunctions & remanding for further proceedings in light of Callais. In practice, this means Alabama can now redraw its congressional districts in time for the midterms:

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I believe he Abraham Accords can be linked to a lot of Israeli-driven conflict and violence across the Middle East (incurring in Yemen and East Africa. I wrote about with @mattduss.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/07/t...

Klobuchar giving an assist to the Minnesota Republican Party. Useless. The moderates are useless.

State of federal transit funding in 2026: —2nd Trump admin has not approved a single new project for funding —It has slowed advancement of other projects in the engineering process —It is pushing funds for projects back into future years so as to avoid ever spending —Congress appears to be asleep

From Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan to Brett McGurk and Jon Finer, the advisers behind the Gaza genocide want to return to power. We can't let them. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...

“When people think about the Voting Rights Act being a revolutionary statute, or the crown jewel of the civil rights movement, the court has rendered those parts effectively null.”

Sherrilyn Ifill Interview with Jon Stewart is Best Introduction for Layperson to the Radical the Supreme Court Callais Decision Killing a Key Part of the Voting Rights Act electionlawblog.org?p=156005

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.

The wait, it seems, is over.

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

Governor candidate Tom Steyer backs UC divestment from weapons www.dailycal.org/news/state/g...

Help Mohammed and his children keep living, keep hoping chuffed.org/project/1473...

This kind of move is straight out of the Redemption period (1880s-1900). "Jim Crow 2.0" isn't a persuasive label for the current period, but "Second Redemption" is starting to be.....

As @rdnayak.bsky.social writes, “Organized labor is a key ally not only in providing skilled workers but also in building the political coalitions that make large-scale public investment possible.” Public projects work better when the workers who build them aren’t treated as an afterthought.

Rutgers School of Engineering canceled a commencement speech by Rami Elghandour—an alum and executive producer of an Oscar-nominated film about Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child killed by Israel—because "some" students complained: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... His response (via X):

Today, Greg Baltz explains why New York City’s annual Rent Guidelines Board hearings are critical for tenant organizing, and why such organizing is essential to prepare for the real estate industry’s inevitable backlash. Co-published with @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social!

Institutional neutrality is intended to restrain the speech of the institution itself, not students and faculty. But universities are increasingly using such policies to suppress student speech. www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

Proud Boys associate, Ben Bergquam, is embedded with DHS agents today and was spotted during an abduction in Wheaton, Illinois.

I think the truth is that he just doesn’t have any meaningful, substantive thing to say about producing electoral change and this is just what he comes up with when asked

From Sameer Project, that families continue to live among the devastation and constant danger at Kamal Adwan Hospital (the hospital that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya served until he was abducted by the IOF). Sameer supports families that remain there largely on their own. chuffed.org/project/help...

I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day

Marilyn Gordon - Red-Winged Blackbird [USA, Folk, School] (1966) An absolutely beautiful, incredibly haunting rendition of this wonderful song by Billy Edd Wheeler by this high school student. This album is amazing throughout https://redd.it/1drjcrz https://youtu.be/9WV_4826slE

The lead plaintiff in Callais v. Louisiana said on social media that he was at January 6:

The Trump-Miller regime is weaponizing the government and abusing every authority to persecute anyone whom they perceive as an enemy...And fascism always requires a public enemy.   We must be clear that giving our rights away won't ensure our security.

That's why we must — through oversight, policy, and regulation — take away every weapon fascists would wield against us.

Text of Judiciary part of the reconciliation package is out. This is the filibuster-proof bill where Republicans are planning to give around $70 billion more to ICE and CBP. Will go through it here.

In this day and age, it takes a lot of courage for people--especially young adults--to stand up to the powers that are oppressing them. We'd like to point your attention to what these students were standing up for. In their own words... www.instagram.com/p/DX7g3sMjyW6/

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

Last week: We obtained Flock license-plate reader logs that show police conducted 117 immigration-related searches of local data from Jan to March. One dept's search: "Obstructing Justice – Suspicious female filming traffic stop & making comments about ICE”

the Voting Rights Act was a plainly appropriate exercise of Congress's constitutional authority to rewrite the VRA, the Republican justices had to rewrite the Constitution itself that's a threat to ANY future congressional effort to build a multiracial democracy ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

An interesting, but very weird policy article from J-Street's Ilan Goldenberg on how the US ought to reset relations with the Palestinians. I'm especially confused by the claim that US recognition would expand Palestinian access to international courts, which the US opposes the very legitimacy of.

Activists sailed to Gaza to deliver aid, but were met with drone attacks and imprisonment. An exclusive look at the Global Sumud Flotilla. From our colleagues at @revealnews.org:

Hind Rajab would have been 8 today

Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing was recently named a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems. I’m honored to be in the company of the other amazing finalists. www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/... www.ucpress.edu/books/indefe...

Gaza

The dark side of Gaza’s new fancy cafes and restaurants | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera aje.news/huc02l

This is how the nytimes reported it

Jacksonville is talking about moving back to at-large elections. It is starting.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

"The value of their bedroom as well as any income and assets their family may have will be calculated and recalculated as often as every month." Beyond the specific dollar cuts to each family, this is a recipe for SSA errors and overpayments that families will be ordered to repay.

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court.

What he saw in Gaza “was not like anything I’d experienced in the past,” he told the Prospect. He saw Israeli soldiers deliberately kill civilians every single day. “This was definitely not a war,” he said. “It is a genocide.” prospect.org/2026/04/30/p...

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.