The best moment in the History of the Word Caucasian came in a series of Supreme Court cases during the immigration panic of the 1920s. The Naturalization Act of 1790 said that only "white" people could be naturalized as American citizens, but that only raised questions about what counted as white?

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we have to make supreme court expansion a 2028 nominee litmus test, we have to get every candidate on the record about what their plan is to rein in this rogue court of unaccountable ideologues

The Supreme Court isn’t legitimate and probably won’t be in my lifetime unless the klansmen are kicked out. They are proudly corrupt. The branch might as not exist

He shouldn’t just be pushed out as the House Democrats’ leader; he needs to be primaried out of his seat entirely. Just a complete waste of a deep blue seat.

Bingo. And imagine the Democratic politician who said this did so as he sat next to the podcaster's assassin whom he reminded everyone was his close personal friend

This same group has done this before and will do it again. Traitors.

Resign.

Schumer said the Dems will "keep fighting". Keep fighting their own voters? Keep fighting off effectiveness? Keep fighting being held accountable for anything? As far as I can tell the Democratic leadership is good at one thing only now, which is sending fundraising messages to my phone.

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame: Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

@nytimes.com expands its antitruth campaign

A demolition job that began Monday with the disappearance of the White House’s eastern entrance advanced Tuesday with the destruction of much of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s planned ballroom. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

"the speaker of the House is refusing to seat a duly elected member of Congress to protect the president from a vote to investigate his extensive connections the world's most notorious human trafficking pedophile" is one of those things you simply cannot put into New York Timesese

Frankly if a multibillion dollar news company can't think of a next day story about a 7-million-person protest that ended with the president of the United States posting a video of himself shitting on America, everyone there should find a new line of work.

When Mike Johnson or another national leader repeatedly claims they haven’t seen relevant things in the news, an appropriate reporter reaction would be “Holy cow, how do you not know?!? How can you do your job without knowing what’s happening? What are you doing to fix your ‘not knowing’ problem?”

But did we avoid dismantling core functions of the federal government? No. But did we avoid killing millions of people by destroying USAID? Also no. But did we at least avoid violating all kinds of federal laws & the constitution by letting random guys off the streets do this? Alas, also no.

Still remember people yelling at me on the old site for saying this guy specifically was likely an agent provocateur. They're out there!

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

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today i am challenging democratic politicians, for the rest of the week, to pick one (1) horrifying thing republicans are doing and pretend its as bad as jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended id suggest tom homan taking bribes, but theres a few things to pick from if they want

Kamala Harris on MSNBC now saying she “always believed titans of industry” would be guardrails for democracy but now—shocker—she reports that turns out they’re not. Only, she still’s waiting! “At some point they’ve got to stand up.” This kind of willful naïveté & denial doesn’t need airtime.

I kind of appreciate he's halfway trying, but ending with "and somebody else should do something about this!" is peak Schumer.

Funny how courage engenders respect and support. More politicians should think about this!

this is the exact same answer youd get from the wapo editorial board

Following Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s criticism of Democratic leadership for refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries’ spokesman mocks: “Chris Van Who?”

If you're going to moralize about budget demands, then your demands must include (1) restore USAID (2) fire RFK Jr (3) close the concentration camps. If not, then we're all in the realm of pragmatic politics, and "prioritizing Republican voters" is the path to everything getting worse for everyone.

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

"Be loud for America."

"Be loud for America" is a great line, tbh. I can picture it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, etc.

"President Trump owes us answers about his health": weak, frames him as good-faith statesman, boring "What did JD Vance know about Trump's health and when did he know it?": interesting, carries implication Trump's health is fucked up as a given, implies scandal spreading throughout admin

Schatz cooking his brain on Vichy Twitter. many such cases.

Everyone is posting like we don't know where Trump is, but we do. He's in the files.

Lydia, the 16 year old who is more honest than most of our elected officials and the corporate media who cover the administration

In police state capitalist America, getting bodied by a cop for exercising your first amendment rights as directly as any founder could ever say you are is you doing felony battery on a cop

“My friend got hit in the back… my friend Victor saved me, he laid on top of me…” We are failing them.

You'll take the high road And they'll take the load road And I'll lose the election for yeee

Hey, thanks for blandly describing what we all saw happen. Any chance you could provide some, uh, "leadership" by suggesting what you will do, what Democrats in Congress will do, and what we all might do? Please?

I got around to reading this closely and it's an easy education in how David Shor rigs things. The tested messaging on deploying the National Guard is actually shit - so they lead you to conclude that the *focus* is shit, instead of the fact that the test message is (deliberately) shit

Curious how the Netanyahu government is extremely proficient at killing journalists, destroying hospitals, and blocking aid, and yet by their own account incapable of materially reducing the threat from Hamas and thus forced into perpetual escalation of tactics.

what they want, their campaign wet dream, is to run a campaign against a candidate so unpopular that they dont have to do anything or promise us anything and get to just coast through their term renaming post offices. this is the dream of the people leading the opposition party

"Hey, we need a Republican to talk about how totally believable it is that an eyewitness to sexual assaults now insists they never saw anything wrong -- who should we get?"

So if they're masked we should just assume they're criminals and resist their effort to kidnap us? OK, if you say so.

Game on.