i genuinely hate these people

The Purcell principle now officially just means “Republicans win.” For the reasons Sotomayor lays out here, SCOTUS’s eleventh hour intervention for Alabama Republicans is indefensible. It’s going to unleash massive chaos on the ground for both voters and election administrators. What a disaster.

Attracting and keeping jobs in NYC requires building a city that people want to live in. That has to include beautiful, high functioning public spaces. The Mayor should focus on creating such spaces and also on how the city manages and maintains them. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/n...

We have some thoughts for that: www.openplans.org/framework-fo...

I started playing TBC Anniversary, and I’ve had a really good time revisiting stuff I haven’t seen in 20 years. But if all the YouTubers are to be believed, it’s horrible, broken, not worth playing. This seems to the case with all gaming YT (see esp. Helldivers). Why does bitching get so many views?

Nah sorry guys, it’s not a close call. Platner is 100 times better than Collins. The reason why is that any Democrat will vote for a million little things that no Republican will vote for. Plus, control of the committees, etc., hinge on who controls the chamber.

Here’s my pied-à-terre idea: a $100,000 fee on every chopper flight between JFK and Manhattan, which is truly the dumbest chopper flight to ever exist

Delighted to share my latest article. Out today from the UC Law Journal. www.uclawjournal.org/category/vol...

Extremely disappointing and a clear broken campaign promise from @mayor.nyc.gov. Short-sighted and empowers a bunch of NIMBYs.

BREAKING: New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorses Darializa Avila Chevalier over incumbent Democratic Congressman Adriano Espaillat in the Democratic primary for New York's 13th Congressional District.

I like how anti-commandeering doctrine just doesn’t exist anymore

I find one set of keys, I lose another.

Senator Robert Jackson is a pillar of our community Uptown and in the Bronx. To have his support means the world to me. When we stand together, we win!

I do not think that there can be any neat separation between the 'knowledge-production' game and the 'power game'. Anything we do in the K-P game influences the world. Something as 'little' as including, or excluding, a certain topic from our syllabi can have consequences. Knowledge *is* power. /2

These people polled don’t generally identify as “left” but they are way more radical than they realize, apparently. Democrats really need to wake up because this response was shocking even to me. I didn’t realize we were at this point already.

The question asking Dem voters to think like pundits isn't very interesting. The poll question finding 83% of dem voters believe that at minimum, major change needs to be made to the political and economic system is much more interesting and important.

basically the whole thing is the result of a conspiracy involving less than 10 bilious transphobes, most of them at The Atlantic or the NYT bsky.app/profile/kiss...

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

The Royal Oak, which is basically Audemars Piguet’s only watch, retails around $50,000. AP’s collab with Swatch brings it down to $400. This is great. Now everyone, not just the rich, can broadcast to the world their utter lack of taste with an even uglier version of the ugliest watch ever invented.

parole board ought to deny her

It’s time to stop lumping Hakeem and Schumer together. This fight on redistricting is the singular fight of the next 4 years in a lot of ways and Hakeem is seemingly up for the knife fight.

It’s fair to interpret Spanberger’s veto/substitute bill as hostility toward the idea of public unions at all because the main problem with public unions - the potential that they strike and cripple the government - is banned in the original bill. It’s not a giveaway at all!

I do think it would be misleading to regularly label yourself a “physician” if you never got a medical license or treated patients because that’s what most people think a “physician” is. But El-Sayed hasn’t done that. One or two instances over 15 years? Gimmie a break. He’s not misleading anyone.

Can’t believe you didn’t mention they tagged it as #wokeagenda and #wokeism. lmfao, what a joke.

At this point, packing the court might actually INCREASE its legitimacy with the public as a whole. Definitely would with 90% of lawyers.

The Roberts Court previously treated the “Purcell Principle” (can’t change electoral rules close to an election) as important. But that was in instances doing so advantaged Republicans. Faced with a situation where Republicans want to change rules while voting is already underway, the Court says OK.

What a fucking joke. Captured court

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

No one knew Arthur Kelsey’s name yesterday. If the party does its job, Democrats everywhere will know it in a week and not for reasons Kelsey will enjoy.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Very plainly what's going on here is that they don't like the decision by the People of Virginia and have therefore found an excuse to say that it didn't really count This is ultra vires, beyond their authority. It is a usurpation of the sovereignty of the People. It is void.

Yeah, nullify this shit

Courts which declare that Republicans win and Democrats lose are illegitimate and should be ignored.

“I can attack someone’s character, but it is harassment if they attack mine in return,” is annoying, self-indulgent behavior. “I’m being quote dunked!!! Screenshotting me!!“ In real life this is called a receiving a “reply” or a “response” and is to be expected after you attack someone.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

"well you didn't defeat the wizard but you made him sort of depressed" THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH

hark! a vagrant is really one of the greatest comics ever created, my favorite is still an outraged sasaki kojiro holding up a list of necessary components for a duel that just says - dudes - swords

Personal pet take: The best monocausal explanation of how we got from 1/6 to now is that Mitch McConnell didn't have the courage to put party before country just once and banish Donald Trump from elected office forever. bsky.app/profile/davi...

Good on Jackson for sticking her neck out here and calling bullshit on the Republican justices. People deserve to know why these decisions are being made and the right wingers on the court have spent years hiding the ball.

Garland’s failure to quickly prosecute Trump is less a result of Garland specifically and more a general reflection of a legal establishment that just did not understand either the Constitutional gravity of the offense - a coup! - or the degree anti-constitutional actors captured the judiciary.

These people are boldface liars. How many unlawful maps have been kept in place because of legal pretenses the Court drops suddenly? Alito and the five horsemen of our time are a national embarrassment to the legal profession.

Almost never has the Supreme Court not followed this rule. But tonight the Court ordered judgment certified right now. This will probably quash ongoing lawsuits filed to prevent Louisiana’s governor from cancelling the election, a result in no way required by Callais itself. 3/

A good read re: Alito's gutting of the VRA via a total misread of the Reconstruction Amendments. I'd add that "congruence and proportionality" is such a bullshit test, designed to arbitrarily constrict Congress's power for just those amendments; City of Boerne v. Flores was a stupid decision.

the Voting Rights Act was a plainly appropriate exercise of Congress's constitutional authority to rewrite the VRA, the Republican justices had to rewrite the Constitution itself that's a threat to ANY future congressional effort to build a multiracial democracy ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

I think if you have an audience of 25k people you have a moral obligation to check that you’re not spreading abject lies, and if you choose to tell lies to your audience of 650k people you are simply a bad person. It’s bad to lie and spread lies for clout.

If I could move to DC I would just to work for the Congressional Research Service. Writing memos all day? Sign me up. That sounds great

Completely unrelated to this thread, but I didn’t know there really was a fraudster whose schtick was “selling” the Brooklyn Bridge to unsuspecting marks, and that he did it many, many times.

Good list, esp. taking away discretionary cert. Should consider taking away other discretionary tools, like what interpretative methods are available to them (ban textualism; must weigh leg. history) or their ability to punt on certain issues (constrain political question, standardize Purcell).