Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Lessons from the educators: The most valuable conversations around education begin with realizing you want the students to learn how to think for themselves, not outsource it to a mediocrity machine.

I envy whoever's been camped out in a remote cabin in Montana without any access to the outside world since like 2015.

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some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

“Anyone who has been following the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence over the last two decades knows that we are looking at a deliberate, devastating approach to the infrastructure of the civil rights movement.” — Kimberlé Crenshaw trib.al/aD0HcAw

The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There are no good, clean hands options when the basic fairness & reciprocity of a democratic system have been undermined by a fascist movement in power

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

Listen, this is tit for tat until a national gerrymandering ban, and R legislatures in FL and OH already did this exact tit to get around their courts so the optimal next step appears to be tat

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

Amanda Jones has a great interview here about her soundtrack for Murderbot.

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

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The Supreme Court of VA invalidates the state's new pro-D gerrymander (www.vacourts.gov/static/opini...), which (with new maps in FL and TN this week) updates the redistricting playing field to something like: D +5 R +14 Net R+9 Will do some math on the impact to the pop vote threshold and blog it

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

It’s not being treated as bigger news because it’s being framed as a vendor breach. The story is structural: 9,000 schools share a single point of failure they don’t control. Educational infrastructure has been quietly privatized, and the failure mode is now an active extortion crew.

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

The ascendancy of the “white moderate” to the place of eminent reasonableness in discourse&politics was always going to lead here, as King told us plainly in 1963. We’ll just keep walking this road until we decide to unmake white supremacy - even the polite kind.

And even then whether those elections mean anything is...up in the air ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

We are living through a Jim Crow-ification moment in Black representation, but it's happening much faster than it took to consolidate actual Jim Crow. For the democratic backsliding observers out there, race was always the beating heart of American authoritarianism—this was always how it'd go here.

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

All archived information is now uploaded on to a searchable public repository for at-risk government data hosted by the University of Michigan - DataLumos. Data Rescue Project - www.datarescueproject.org/about-data-r... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ACLS / MLA / AHA / Authors Guild won the NEH case against the mass termination of grants.

Last week, the 22 members of the National Science Board — which oversees the 76-year-old National Science Foundation and helps allocate federal science grants in an independent, nonpartisan manner — were all fired on short notice, despite each of them being appointed for staggered six-year terms.

Let us never talk about economic anxiety again.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

I dunno guys, the internet has very few joy laws but reposting this whenever it comes across your feed is one 🤷🏾‍♀️ It’s not just nostalgia, it’s as good as you remember.

BIG SCOOP: Energy industry reps tell me the Trump administration is now extrajudicially blocking all new wind projects in the United States Apparently the Pentagon is refusing to sign off on once routine FAA airspace clearances even when military assets aren’t around My latest for @heatmap.news

We are delighted to share news of our first special issue with Cambridge University Press. Profs Ali Aslam, David McIvor, and Joel Schlosser have curated and edited a remarkable collection on earthborn democratic theory and practice. All articles are open access & no APC for authors. We❤️CUP

Years ago, I told the children that they could take their birthday off school if they had straight A’s. I forgot. It’s my son’s birthday today. He remembered. 😊

Segregating all care into the family and onto moms/daughters/sisters/wives/cousins/aunts

The best thing John Roberts has ever done is prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Supreme Court is a political institution and we should dramatically reduce its power over our government.

❗Confrontational tactics like street blockades and food attacks on art hurt activists' image, but not their cause. 📄 New paper out in Political Behavior (@polbehavior.bsky.social) w/ @dasalgon.bsky.social @sophiahunger.bsky.social & @swenhutter.bsky.social. 🧵1/7

This is how desperate Republicans are to steal representation from Black voters

This makes me sad. It’s hubris, not strategy.The desire to play in the space where they perceive the heavy hitters are rather than building a party base in mayorships, state legislatures & governorships that would actually make them heavy hitters. Everybody wants to be famous, but fame is not power.

Those calling for plain talk ought to talk plainly themselves.

Multiracial Democracy is Young and Fragile A brief history of the struggle to reconstitute a nation built on racial hierarchy around the principle of equality. Part I: Lessons from the rise and fall of Reconstruction. This piece is free to read, no paywall:

It’s striking that the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais is in some ways worse than even the "pessimistic" predictions of folks writing about race. Yet, not a single reactionary centrist has admitted that the alleged excesses of "wokeness" weren't excessive. They were realistic.

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“Our old democracy is dead. If we don’t want Jim Crow and rule by the Klan, we’d better be willing to rip up our current institutions and make better ones.”

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

I would be terrible at this job but great at writing the screenplay about the woman who gets it, busts open an insider trading scandal among the summer set, then has a meet-cute with a lobster fisherman or whatever.

Welp, just had my first customer service interaction where the entity on the other side was a bot pretending to be human. Super disconcerting!

murderbot day

I’m just going to start commenting “Specious,” where appropriate. And then just moving on with my day.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

fighting drought by harvesting energy. you love to see it

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