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Unless UFO's help with wealth inequity, lower housing costs, save democracy, release the Epstein files, save the environment, or help get folks with minoritized identities the rights we deserve...I don't care.

This settlement violates the separation of powers under Article I and it is being contemplated in order to avoid an order from an Article III that a President cannot instruct a federal agency to give him money. I am not sure this could be more wildly unconstitutional.

Anti-voting group released a sweeping new “model laws” handbook that urges lawmakers and election officials to restrict mail-in voting, eliminate same-day voter registration, conduct mass voter challenges and empower officials to deny/delay certification. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t!

Fuck you, @americanbar.org. Yes I'm a lawyer. I'm saying it anyway. Call me unprofessional all you want. Better unprofessional than a collaborator.

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

The ABA council that oversees law school accreditation voted to eliminate a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate commitment to diversity in recruitment, admissions and student programming reut.rs/4tNI9NS

Fuck polis

This map visualizes the mismatch between where SNAP populations are and where SNAP offices are going. Bigger circles have a greater share of SNAP recipients. Again, this is not where the offices are being relocated. Indeed, offices are being moved *away* from where there are more recipients.

But again, paying student loans? Illegal. Wtf.

This is oneof the best things I've read in a hot minute, and I wish that Dems would read it and internalize it immediately.

Like, yeah man, shit is bleak, what the FUCK did you do leading up to it?

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

I quoted the Virginia Constitution and Republicans are losing their minds.🤯 Jonathan Turley suggested I am a "radical" and "Jacobian" for literally quoting the Virginia Constitution's Bill of Rights.😂

New paper in Nature. The more a government controls its domestic media, the more it dominates AI training data, the more pro-regime outputs we get from AI. By scraping the open web, LLMs are unwittingly laundering state-coordinated narratives into seemingly objective answers.

"threat to our constitutional framework" is right I wrote about this order recently and it's legit outrageous just a Trump judge bending over backwards to protect the Trump administration from the mere possibility of consequences for horrific illegal acts ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

BREAKING: The Senate just voted not to advance an Iran War Powers Resolution 49-50. John Fetterman was the decisive vote against it. The resolution was intended to limit Trump's ability to wage war on Iran.

Here are the Illinois Democrats in Congress so addicted to criminalization they voted to give Todd Blanche more power over ~shoplifting.~ Please be sure to note two former Senate candidates, a bluesky poster, and a Chicago mayoral candidate who market themselves as Resistance

"Beyond Prayer: How The Satanic Temple is Redefining Faith Through Radical Compassion" theconvergencelens.org/how-the-sata...

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A few Dem Senators are (still!!) occasionally voting yes on Trump's nominees for lifetime federal judge positions in the name of their "qualifications" but these people are not qualified! securing a nomination from Donald Trump is disqualifying in and of itself! ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

The fact that democrats are caught flat-footed at this late stage is beyond embarrassing; it is nearing collaboration.

Supreme Court Unblocks Alabama’s Racially Discriminatory Map, Showing That Alito Was Lying talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

*laughs bitterly* at completely predictable SCOTUS decision on Alabama maps Meanwhile the Virginia Dem elected leadership is like: Using a procedural move to retire the entire Supreme Court in Virginia “is an incredibly extreme step to take over a decision you don't like”

I asked Virginia State Senate leader Scott Surovell why Republicans always seem to find a way around such procedural obstacles whereas Dems are so often stymied by them. The exchange got interesting: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Ghoulish stuff, and deeply counterproductive. The message this sends to immigrant communities is “Do not call the police. If you saw a crime? No you didn’t. If you were a victim of a crime? No you weren’t. If you see a cop? Run.”

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

Congressional redistricting approved by the voters of a state should be given *more*—not less—deference than redistricting that was quickly railroaded through a highly partisan legislature without voters' participation or consent.

Just in at #SCOTUS: Alabama is asking the justices for emergency relief by next Thursday to allow the state to re-draw its congressional maps in light of Callais (and notwithstanding the Supreme Court's 2023 decision affirming the district court injunctions from which Alabama is now seeking relief).

The new Trump administration counterterrorism strategy document is not getting nearly enough attention. The document explicitly lists “left-wing extremists,” people with “radically pro-transgender” ideologies, and “anti-fascists” alongside ISIS and cartels as top national security threats. 1/

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

From his tacky billion dollar ballroom, to his vulgar 250-foot arch, to gluing cheap golden do-dads to the walls of the White House, to renaming and remodeling the Kennedy Center, to painting the Eisenhower building, Donald remains laser-focused on the issues the American people care most about.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

Judge Colleen McMahon (74 years old) has an objectively better understanding of LLMs than every single person affiliated with DOGE, including (ahem, especially) Elon Musk.

1. Meta is facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that it pushed an addictive product on young people causing emotional and physical harm. Some of the plaintiffs are families of young people who committed suicide. Meta says that Zuckerberg is too busy to testify in more than one trial.

Every American should be fighting MAD about this! Call your Senators and Congressmen!!

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw helped name two contested ideas in U.S. politics — intersectionality and critical race theory. Her memoir chronicles the personal and legal framework for her thinking. n.pr/4ncrJge

When Donald's stupid, tacky ballroom was estimated to cost $200 million and be privately funded: Donald planned to pocket anything over the actual cost. He then raised the estimate to $400 million to account for this corruption. Now, he wants taxpayers to pay $1 billion so he can pocket even more.

Louisiana halted an active primary. Florida eliminated four Democratic seats. Alabama called a special session. All within hours of the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act. This is a coordinated offensive, one that John Roberts has been working toward for four decades.

Sad thing is, I expect most Americans to not know about this.

Hmmmm, who do I trust more to look out for women, Smith College or a Trump appointee currently being sued for covering up years of sexual abuse?

And that's just based on the unredacted documents they've released. There are probably even more.

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

BREAKING: Congressman Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) is introducing a constitutional amendment to establish term limits for Supreme Court Justices. The ROBE Act would establish 18-year term limits for justices.

While we're all talking about the Supreme Court and Callais sucking shit, make sure you read this new piece about how the Supreme Court and Callais are even worse than you thought ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...