"I'm not a radical. The moment is." This struck me as the most succinct argument a Democrat could make for playing hardball. As you lay out, it's a lot harder to play the game when you're the party of rules and norms.

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Colorado Democrats are only one vote short of two thirds in the state senate, and if you can’t flip at least one Republican who’d do it just for the lulz you’re not trying.

Democrats really need to stop this “labor is always 100% correct no matter the actual details of the issue” nonsense. the other side of the negotiating table with the LIRR unions isn’t billionaire shareholders. it’s public servants protecting taxpayers from getting ripped off

When A) women can choose how many children they have, and B) motherhood specifically and life in general are sucky in some meaningful ways, which results in C) a low birthrate, some people’s preferred solution to C is always going to be to change A and not B. Because A is what they really hate.

Buddy how much more straight up does this line need to go for you lol

This new rhetorical trick was adopted from European fascist movements. Public services are only for white people and everyone else is stealing them from you. It's Orbanism.

Trump hearing "cisgender" and thinking its "six genders" then getting all mad about it, thus forcing other Republicans to agree that the libs are now demanding there be six genders, is a perfect encapsulation of our Golden Age of Dickishness and Stupidity.

Low key kind of funny that he's just like "our decision in Dobbs is that abortion is illegal, it's nothing about states rights" because otherwise people "undermining" state laws would not in fact undermine the Supreme Court decision.

“…the researchers argue that AI systems have given rise to a categorically different form of “cognitive surrender” in which users provide “minimal internal engagement” and accept an AI’s reasoning wholesale without oversight or verification.”

The authors signal a warning folks will be looking for a single cause, but highlight two correlations:

Highly relevant today with all this Jim Crow 2.0 going on. JD Vance told far-right podcast the Civil War is still ongoing and he’s with the South www.alternet.org/jd-vance-civ...

This is similar to the advantage enjoyed by Fidesz in Hungary via their corruption of the electoral system which was large enough to make it not a democracy by every expert evaluation

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

This is part of my spring cleaning.

Trump: [shits in the mouths of reporters] Reporters: “Well at least he feeds us more than Biden did”

ABC fighting back against Trump regulators trying to manage firm's First Amendment rights: "The filing, made public on Friday, is the most aggressive defense from any television network since President Trump kicked off an extended campaign last year to bring media organizations to heel." Via NYT

A guy who bragged about snorting coke off a toilet seat is deciding what meds people can get.

A few days ago federal agents raided the home of the congresswoman who led the ballot initiative. And now this.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

my only thought when reading this was "why is the court going through vote margin math when they say the vote had nothing to do with their decision"

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

Thing is, is *good* to have courts behaving the way courts should behave, with folks bought in and decisions breaking this way and that. But it's an unmitigated asymmetrical disaster that (at best) a plurality of states have Supreme Courts like this.

At any point my lifetime, the most extreme views you could find anywhere in the conservative universe became the mainstream GOP position within 5, 10 years. As reliably as the tides came in and went out.

It's something the average freshman level sociologist would understand. American society was created via a racial hierarchy that it has dragged its feet on even beginning to undo. Social class is predicated by race and its a rookie mistake to ignore it.

Bernie seems to think prejudice and bigotry have a negligible impact on people’s lives compared to economic injustice and buddy let me tell you that’s bullshit AND they are also what’s behind a lot of economic injustice!

One day yall will have to reckon with Bernie’s refusal to acknowledge that white cishet men are not in fact the default American perspective. Andrew Schultz is anti-black and made a career out of degrading black women but who cares, right? Bernie says liberals care too much about identity.

"Nobody cares what color you are" is showing some real chutzpah, after we just got redelivered Jim Crow.

It's literally "I don't see race" tarted up to make it seem progressive

Imagine trying to do “no war but class war” in the weeks after Callais. Ugh.

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.

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.

But if all you do is attack the Democratic Party while Black leaders are being targeted, Black voting rights are being dismantled, Black political power is under assault, and HBCUs are under attack, then don’t expect me to treat you any differently than I treat Trump and his MAGA acolytes.

Yes if we’ve established that once you press the “I’m harmed” button no one can call BS on you, that universally creates an incentive to press that button frivolously no matter who you are.

I’m deathly afraid of whatever necromancer was able to resurrect Richard Belzer and make him say this

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

The system was designed with a fatal flaw, namely that Congress and SCOTUS would want to prevent the rise of a dictator. There’s no mechanism in place whatsoever to stop the dictator if the other two branches are complicit.

Conservatives think that yesterday’s federal ruling will end abortion pills by mail—it’s not happening. Some abortion providers plan to continue shipping mifepristone 👀 jessica.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

Oh wow. Get Your War On was a great series.

Farmers vote Republican because they're people with money & property. So they vote like people with money & property. That's it. It's not rocket science.

It wasn't just the media. Republicans erased the distinction and rewrote it themselves. But yes, it's amazing that she said "half are good people, half are deplorable racists" and a lot of them said "for the record, I'm deplorable, I'm one of the racists"

Because his real reason for voting Republican was to screw over people who aren't rural white culturally Christian males like him. That's why promises to help white working class males only are heeded if they're tied to promises to *not help* anyone else: www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

"I voted for him because he would be good for my farm" is the public lie to cover for the fact that they love him for his hate and bigotry. Nothing matters more to Trump voters than that. They want to see the people they hate suffer and he delivers.