Expanding and unpacking SCOTUS is the institutionalist position. When our most powerful institutions are corrupted and weaponized against the people, that’s an emergency. We desperately need institutions worthy of the people’s trust. Ducking this fight is not institutionalism. It’s denial.

I had to check and he really did say that lol

[Opens article] ctrl+f “congress” 0 hits ctrl+f “approp” 0 hits

do any religious texts mention golden idols anywhere

Fascism is an ideology

Trump is currently killing 14 million innocent people by illegally dismantling USAID

One of the craziest things about this (high bar!) is that AI chatbots constantly say incorrect things and if you point that out, they will apologize profusely but continue saying incorrect things. Anyone who doesn’t get that either hasn’t experimented with these things or can’t use them responsibly.

Trump’s DOJ has dismantled ethics guardrails, driven out experienced leadership, and prioritized loyalty to Trump over the public interest. Congress must demand change. Read more from former DC Bar Pres Patrick McGlone and CAC’s Praveen Fernandes in @bloomberglaw.com:

When SCOTUS Republicans gutted part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 on the theory that racism is over, Ruth Bader Ginsburg said it was "like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet."

The constitution says no racial discrimination in voting, but MAGA judges are pursuing a more important principle, which is that MAGA always wins

Roberts is now the most effective white supremacist leader in over a century, with Trump in sec. The two of them show how how conservative leaders have been this way for decades (actually centuries). Trump is new in style but not substance. Same old white supremacy.

Reminder. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/trumps-sup...

Expand and unpack SCOTUS in 2029

Good thing they’re not also killing rural hospitals, slashing Obamacare subsidies, and making it harder to get medication

So many of the worst things they do spur some version of “but c’mon that’s the dumbest shit imaginable” and yet there it is, pummeling the most vulnerable people in the world

John Roberts increasingly the Susan Collins of SCOTUS. Always very concerned, swears he and his colleagues aren’t doing what they’re obviously doing, provides a veneer of moderation when all the others are flying insurrection flags over their houses.

John Roberts is the kind of guy who just really needs you to understand that “we’re a republic, not a democracy”

“Billionaires are the worst writers” is an interesting way to explain the evolution of JK Rowling

I wonder why public would view Republican operatives in judicial robes sitting on Roberts #SCOTUS as "political actors." Gee - where would folks get that idea from?

Sure, Neil Gorsuch has done media hits on Fox and Friends and also Megyn Kelly this week, but I’m sure he’ll do Maddow and Pod Save America too, right

i have said this before but the hate you have for citizens united is imo more properly reserved for buckley v. valeo

Fox guarding henhouse says hens wrongly view him as a fox

The biggest secret in Republican politics is that Trump is older than Biden was four years ago

Midwest just as blue as Northeast? We’re gonna rebuild the Blue Wall and make Trump pay for it.

Well at least he’s not simultaneously wrecking cancer research and childhood vaccines oh wait

Great again

In 2023, Charlie Kirk said "MLK was awful. He's not a good person."

Sure, AI is raising energy costs, but on the other hand, it’s also raising costs of tech you actually want

Obama calls for no political prosecutions, no political pardons, no politicizing the military, and no presidential bribes.

Again, this total, multi-dimensional failure of both strategy & tactics is simply not getting remotely the same tone or intensity of coverage that JOE BIDEN FAILED EPICALLY IN AFGHANISTAN AND IS WALKING AMERICA AWAY FROM THE WORLD got in 2021.

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

🧐

This is outrageous. FDA officials “have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles… The studies, which cost millions of dollars in public funds… found serious side effects to be very rare” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

“No thanks, I’d rather keep my law license into the 2030s”

“Let them eat ballrooms.”

I have news for you about 1976, 1926, and 1876!

Polls are about to close in Cuyahoga County! I'll be tracking all of the local races here that are holding my interest. There is a lot to dive into, from multiple statewide primaries to the most hyperlocal precinct-level races.

Meanwhile, the MAGA Justices who decided that case are the same ones who said Trump should get away with Jan. 6 and his thousands of other crimes

The Last Jedi is the franchise’s best movie

Doug Lindner from @lcv.org explains that far right judges and politicians are stealing power from the people. And we do not have to accept that. But bold solutions are required. @douglindner.bsky.social

The Mandalorian and Grogu are literally ANTIFA by the way

The Klandalorian

Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina has a message for tonight's Met Gala chair Jeff Bezos

Erase every corrupt monument to fascism 2k29

“The danger of Callais, then, goes beyond the VRA, too. It was not enough for the Roberts Court to kill the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement. Callais hollows out the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment in order to ensure that no other civil rights law gets the chance to live.”

Every generation must carry the torch of freedom and democracy, said the man who killed the Voting Rights Act five days ago