I continue to think that "backlash politics" is the wrong frame. There has been a counter-revolution against the Black freedom movement for generations. It is a FRONTLASH and I think that not thinking of it this way has done a real disservice. It's been PERMANENT WAR.

Scott Surovell apparently talked to him about our thing. Either Jeffries wasn’t convincing enough or surrovell wasn’t listening. Ima go with B cause he’s a bit tone deaf when it comes to his own constituents.

I‘m really pissed that 4 partisan justices can uphold the map THEY drew in 2021, dismissing the will of 1.6 million voters. And I don’t want this Scotus anywhere near near our laws. The legislature and the governor should be dealing with this themselves, not passing it up to federal anything.

I'm also nervous about setting a precedent whereby SCOTUS can overrule state courts' interpretation of state redistricting law. In the long run, this expansion of SCOTUS' authority would benefit Republicans over Democrats and give the conservative supermajority more power to help the GOP rig maps.

Virginia Democrats want SCOTUS to restore the 10-1 congressional map that voters approved in April. I think the VA Supreme Court decision was atrociously wrong, but it was clearly rooted in state law. SCOTUS doesn't have strong grounds to intervene in this dispute—there's no federal question.

asking sam alito to save you because you're too fucking useless to save yourselves. this is really a new low in Democratic capitulation.

Didn't stop KY Rs from impeaching a judge for rulings they didn't like; they're considering impeaching a Supreme Court justice on the same grounds KS Rs are trying to replace their Supreme Court, which has stayed big chunks of their agenda, by making justice an elected position in an Aug referendum

just want to reiterate this with Ds in VA surrendering on their gerrymander. messaging to voters isn't the problem. the problem is messaging to electeds and party leaders. 1

This is really, really, really bad:

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

It's not surprising that our sheriff is trying this, but the county board still has a say, so it's not too late. If our local elected officials can't see the inherent dangers in a massive expansion of AI-enabled surveillance during this rise of authoritarianism and fascism, what's it going to take?

if the only choices are seen as “extreme“ or “give up,” then we need leaders to talk about other choices, and make them a reality. If the leaders cannot do that they should be replaced. bsky.app/profile/nber...

I'd like to elect democracy protection extremists. I'd like to elect fascism-crushing extremists. Can someone point me in the direction of a political party that's putting these kinds of extremists up for election?

It's not every day that a Republican admits inadvertently that "conservative" actually means "white." The rest of us can and should generally that pattern. Conservative means white. Christian means white. Authentic means white. Real means white. American means white. They won't say it. We should.

Arbitrarily rewriting a law that hashes the rest of state law is the incredibly extreme step! Countermanding this deranged ruling is the moderate response! I feel like I’m going insane, they are decrying self-defense as extremism!

"a decision you don't like" is the understatement of the century. It's about whether fair national elections will even be possible.

West Virginia Republicans tried to remove all five of their Supreme Court justices in 2018 over alleged corruption (two were convicted of federal crimes). Republicans successfully created three vacancies and flipped the court’s majority

Agree that part of this is what @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social says, but it's also important that he's set up his administration to prevent himself from hearing any information that contradicts his impulses. And hired people willing to go along with and enforce it, no matter the cost to the nation.

Yeah. bsky.app/profile/bbko...

ah, the left wing hero pushing the same shit policies as Cory Booker. the change we need. or something.

Democrats stop pretending that Ronald Reagan was right & we can be a proper democracy & society without taxes challenge bsky.app/profile/mcop...

brit hume is a right wing stooge part a billion.

looks like we're going to get more acknowledgment from mainstream that the US lost the war. Netanyahu and Trump have vastly increased Iranian power in the region and the world and have gained absolutely nothing.

And it is unlikely that either humiliation or escalation will accomplish *any* of the many, ever-changing goals the administration has articulated for this war. Even degrading Iran's capabilities is temporary and maybe offset by control of Hormuz and the newly entrenched, younger, hardline regime.

Humiliation or (increasingly futile) escalation. Those have always been the choices, they are still the choices. The only question now is what the political psychology of Trump himself will mean for the path he chooses. Declaring a piece of paper a "win" is getting harder, he's cornered and angry.

GOP POLITICIAN ALERT: With oil going way back up tonight, you still have a few hours to accurately say that gas prices have been falling (for two days? three? something like that) before they probably spike up in the morning. Go for it! (And totally keep trusting Trump to handle it. Working great).

House Republicans: “The power of the purse? Here, take it.” House Rs are pushing a legislative appropriations bill that bars the GAO from suing the executive branch over impounded funds. An act of total capitulation.

Those of us who called this administration racist from day one were called alarmist and worse. Now they are just dumping sewage in Black neighborhoods, as was common during Jim Crow and those same folks are quite. Also, shout out to all the academics with “sincere concerns” about DEI.

If our country is to have any chance, we need Dems to stop defaulting to a posture of weakness when faced with adversity.

His office number is 571-249-4484 If you live in VA make it ring off the hook, and tell him that playing nice is no longer acceptable.

Democracy Dies in Unilateral Disarmament Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”

Surovell incorrectly assumes this will be the last awful decision by the VA Supreme Court. Even if it wouldn’t affect redistricting, it’s certain this court will do other bad things, esp. now that they know they can get away with it. Also, autocorrect changed Surovell into “Shrivel” which is funny.

It would be extreme if there were any lesser step that was at all likely to work. Given the circumstances, wiping out the supreme court is the LEAST they can do.

This is one reason why Republican justices make the decisions they do -- they expect Dems to obey the rules while they unilaterally change them.

“Wiping out the entire Supreme Court is an incredibly extreme step to take over a decision you don’t like,” Surovell said."

We have a Republican Party committed to building systematic advantages into the current system to maintain power indefinitely and a Democratic Party that cannot think outside the bounds of the current system even as it is being actively restructured against them.

what

"It's not about politics! It's more important than that! It's about making sure scary black people don't run things, see."

CNN’s Harry Enten: “Netanyahu has a major problem when it comes to public opinion in the United States. Those with no confidence in him is up from 42% to 59% in 3 years. And this isn't just young Democrats — a higher 81% of older Dems have no confidence. Also, 58% of younger GOP have no confidence!”

Support Democratic candidates who will pursue actions to crush fascism like Supreme Court expansion and prosecutions of Trump officials. I'm the only candidate in safe #CA14 on record in support of both.

It would involve reprisals against the colleges and universities that bent the knee, many of them ivies. It would mean using every tool in our political arsenal to break their political and cultural warfighting capabilities without regard for the “civilians” in the party or the centrists in ours.

The equivalent would be destroying the civilian infrastructure of the Republican Party by making being a republican so unpalatable that people retreat from it. It would be shaming EVERY republican voter, commentator, “non-partisan think tank,” and company that contributed to the party.

My problem with this metaphor is that some of you commentariat fucks don’t know what it means to wage total war, nor posses the conviction to keep advocating for it. Total war would involve the ending if the political and public facing careers of EVERY member of the Republican Party.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Trump is struggling to stay conscious on camera in the Oval Office again today

The dumbest people alive were mad that Zohran threw this woman under the bus lol

Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to have an unfavorable opinion of Israel. But in both parties, majorities of adults under 50 – 84% of Democrats and 57% of Republicans – now have a negative opinion of Israel. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Went thru the entire site and not a single mention of paid family leave, childcare, or vaccines.

“What we need, as messaging is absolutely unrelenting demands that Democratic elites use their power in office to crush fascism.”

“Gerrymander the fuck out of every state you can. Put 50 judges on the Supreme Court. Hold tribunals. Toss traitors who supported the insurrection out of the House and Senate on day one. If one path is blocked, find another. And everyone start demanding all of this right now, while it might matter.”