There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

The federal government still plans to honor an agreement that bars the IRS from auditing Trump and his eldest sons; tax filings -- even though that lavish handout was part of the $1.8 billion slush fund that is apparently being scuttled. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm curious how exactly they are killing it -- are they just going to leave the settlement in place and not transfer the money, or dismiss the settlement and keep the Trump lawsuit alive, or what?

Trump’s record on inflation is so bad that Americans apparently need a $250 note.

The State Department supposedly sent $1.5 billion tax dollars to the Board of Peace slush fund, which is now empty.

This framing sucks. A bar complaint isn’t holding her accountable, and is likely to result in no disciplinary action at all. The institutions are not self-enforcing and state bars are especially scared of ever administering real consequences to their source of dues.

Here's a bibliography for that: www.adam-rogers.net/bikebibliogr...

*Oscars voiceover* This is the sixth docket and fourth emergency docket for Allen v. Milligan. The case was previously docketed for a case upholding Gingles redistricting, and then summarily vacated because it involved Gingles redistricting.

I don’t usually say watch videos but the payoff is worth it.

An elderly neighbor came to warn me that people my age want her dead for her house. She was wrong about everything — including the tax system she says is squeezing her: maxmautner.com/2026/05/25/s...

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

I didn’t know it was a recommendation at all, I always assumed it was just a tip.

Very curious what Mark Cuban thinks a grocery store is based on this post.

The really fun part is that we don’t even get a choice in whether this is flying over our house, workplace, commute, loved ones, etc…

Decent analysis and critique here. My biggest frustration: once again the party seems to have begun and ended with the assumption that they “moved too far left” in a race where we could watch the campaign moving right as much and as fast as possible. This party needs to stop gaslighting.

This sucks so hard, and the last paragraph really nails it: Bambu doesn’t need to do this. Their printers are great. They are market leaders and will continue to be once they are forced into AGPL compliance. Fighting about this is just shows their anti-community true colors.

This won’t be a “major question” because they’ll say nobody has standing to challenge it.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

How? More than one person can own a car. If we don’t pay taxes jointly, but both names are on the title, who owes the $130?

If SCOTUS thinks race should not be a factor in maps, it was possible to adopt colorblind maps. That would still have allowed representative democracy, including Black representation (see these maps of Memphis). But the goal was to damage representative democracy itself.

Excited for the emergency appeal to SCOTUS so we can find out which Justices were InfoWars listeners when they dissent

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Special Ed lawyer here. This is what we in the business call “fucking child abuse.”

WOW an Oklahoma judge grants Richard Glossip's bond request He has been incarcerated for 29 years, faced 9 execution dates and ate 3 last meals. Last year, SCOTUS said he deserved a new hearing after prosecutorial misconduct was uncovered. courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...

SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters

New from @radleybalko.bsky.social at @liberalism.org

This will make the “seize all the traitors assets” much more likely. I hope he goes for it. Grin on TV accepting a check from the treasury with his name on both lines.

Fla. voters passed a self-executing constitutional amendment in 2018 ending felon disenfranchisement — but the GOP just ignored the self-executing language & nullified it. You'd almost question, given this ignoring of duly enacted constitutional changes, whether Fla. has a republican form of gov't.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

Yes, this is what it is. I don't even think they have to succeed in the end, but if they want trust with their voters, they do have to "respond as aggressively as they have the power to respond," and they seem to be choosing not to. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

I'm less worried about the seats than I am about the green light to nullify elections. There is no pretext so absurd that this court would not use it to nullify an election.

My “this is not a golden calf” t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt

“We went through this referendum to try to protect American democracy,” Surovell said, but he failed to add the obvious and indisputable next part of that sentence which is: 'but we failed because our success among voters was thrown out by partisan Republican judges operating in bad faith.'

It would be much less sustainable if we were all driving cars instead of taking the train. They’re not subsidizing public transit, they’re purchasing less traffic.

This is a calamity. You can’t out-vote a gerrymander. We’ve seen this time and again. The end result here will be that elections are no longer capable of changing the makeup of our government. We’ll have minoritarian rule by the oligarchs, and change becomes impossible through peaceful means.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

Democracy Dies in Unilateral Disarmament In the immediate moment this is the only response to the far right authoritarian party's attempt to end democracy in America. Ultimately, single member districts need to go. We won't become an actual democracy until that happens.

We have been in legitimacy crisis territory for a while now. The only reason there is a current R majority in the House is because of the current R majority on SCOTUS, who are there because of Bush v. Gore…

Virginia should use the map anyways. Tell the state supremes its a Purcell problem. They can fuck right off.

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

This is what passes for due process under the Trump administration and Roberts Court.

Democrats stripped 50 anti-LGBTQ+ measures from the last appropriations bill; Republicans put those measures there. Pretending these are the same thing *puts queer people at risk* and I am fucking sick of pretending it's acceptable. Stop throwing us under the bus for internet clout points.

Courts had deemed Republican gerrymanders illegal in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Ohio several months before the 2022 elections. The Supreme Court and other courts let the GOP use those maps anyway, and it handed them the House. Now SCOTUS is doing the opposite thing for the same goal

In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.

“No apportionment plan or individual district shall be drawn with the intent to favor or disfavor a political party or an incumbent.” Florida Constitution, art. III, § 20

Sometimes the timeline really delivers.

Anyone remember the Purcell doctrine, saying courts shouldn't change electoral districts too close to the election because it might cause confusion? Remember how SCOTUS applied it six months ago to say it was already too late to invalidate the Texas districts? Funny how that didn't happen in Callais

The Keyes Line seems like the floor for a Republican -- if you’ll support a carpetbagging loon against the best political speaker of his generation, your vote is not up for grabs.

This might be a Certifiable Bad Opinion but I don’t understand why Callais was released yesterday. Why not delay the release by continuing to write and revise the dissent? If they get to June, the implementation would be delayed because primaries for current districts would be done or almost done.

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.