Ummmmm guys... I just went to canvas to do something for class and this is all I can see. IT has said nothing and my students need to use this to submit assignments and I need it to grade and also what information are we being blackmailed with and...Well, things are going great!

Because Republicans right now are EXTREMELY motivated by identity. They're not distracted they're laser focused on resegregation and the deluded notion that they aren't these people is embarrassing.

Aa for Sanders , the Callis ruling makes their assertions about identity and distraction age poorly in real time

the Bulwark crew are Republicans. They don't want a strong, stable Democratic Party, they just want Trump out so they can re-make a GOP they will control.

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 like how you can always tell who saw the entire 2024 election and campaigns solely by what was trending on *their* social media feed. “Weird” trended for a bit, then it was trendy to say “weird is dumb and they shouldn’t do it” and then it’s come trendy to say how “they stopped doing weird.”

Not long ago, reauthorizations of the Voting Rights Act were bipartisan votes that Democratic and Republican presidents alike signed without controversy.

Shit like this is why I have zero interest in listening to *any* of the allegedly "former" Republican / Never Trump people. They're *all* still right-wing assholes. The audacity! After helping the GOP get where it is today, they think they're entitled to advise the Democratic Party? GTFOH.

@jvl.bsky.social wrote this: "We don’t know how Platner will play with black voters nationally, esp. if there’s a guy like Raphael Warnock in the race." "Platner’s authenticity is actually bolstered by his old social media posts and his old Totenkopf tattoo. They’re proof that he’s a real person."

Now the right-wing Supreme Court majority has gutted the VRA, and Republican-led state legislatures are erasing Black voters from the map. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

State supreme court justices play a critical role in defending your rights and freedoms, which is why the election happening in Georgia right now is so important. Make sure you have a plan to vote for Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin.

new from @tusk81.bsky.social: From fleeing civil war in El Salvador to the U.S. to working essential jobs to becoming the next bishop of West Virginia, Evelio Menjivar-Ayala’s story is a powerful reminder of the dignity, resilience, and humanity of immigrants.

So abandon tens of millions of Black Southerners who aren't able to move?

"No one cares what color you are, what your gender is, etcetera, etcetera." - Bernie Sanders, demonstrating his inability/unwillingness to fight the GOP, which cares passionately about people's color/gender/etc. so that those less likely to vote for bigots and fascists can be disenfranchised.

the basic logic of plessy — that the constitution has no bearing on social inequality — undergirds every roberts court ruling on the state’s ability to deal with the effects of racism from parents involved to calais.

Dred Scott excluded Black people from American citizenship ahead of the Civil War. Plessy blessed policies of racial segregation in 1896. And now there was Callais. mainemorningstar.com/2026/05/07/r...

Cries of “No Justice No Peace” erupt at an Alabama House hearing on a bill to set new primaries should federal courts allow the state to revert to maps previously deemed discriminatory to Black voters.

Some other blue states are covering up to 100% of the lost subsidies for *some* enrollees, but New Mexico is *fully* covering ALL of them for ALL enrollees...*including* those earning over 400% FPL. Result: It's the only state currently projected to keep enrollment above or even year over year.

Did this really happen? It's not AI / some joke in the Telegraph?

This is the media environment Dems have been facing for decades now. They have to deal with negative propaganda being spread about them across all platforms at all times. It's exhausting.

Check out biased WashPost story: Rubio is described as “practicing Catholic” while Kerry is described as “raised Catholic” but had “disagreements with the church on abortion and some other issues.” But Rubio actually has many more disagreements: immigration, Iran, climate, USAID, the poor, etc.

U.S. intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers & about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles, per a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities & repair damaged missiles

SCOOP: A confidential new CIA analysis delivered to policymakers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least 3 to 4 months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts those hailing an imminent collapse 🧵

NEW: John Roberts likes being political. He just doesn't like the accountability that comes with it. Roberts complained Wednesday that people view the justices as "political actors." They are, though, issuing political decisions that have real-world consequences. Today, at Law Dork:

Two thirds of this site will angrily argue with you that a President Harris administration would also be at war with Iran right now because they liked Trump and need to rationalize how they're not bad people for having wanted him to win the 2024 election.

The incompetence of this administration is off the charts.

Jack Smith speaking to guests a private dinner at the Cosmos Club in DC — video obtained by @nytimes.com. Smith knew he was being filmed, and intended Blanche to hear his words.

All politics are rooted in identity. Also very fucking tired of the notion that income equality equals racial panacea. Jim Crow existed at the height of the American middle class, after all.

john roberts private career was spent defending segregating communities. one of the earliest rulings of his tenure as chief justice was to say that seattle had no history of racism so their school busing scheme was the real racism. his purpose as a judge is to resegregate america.

It’s like the worst of 2017 tumblr in the replies to this post. Utterly detached from reality

Bernie Sanders & his cult are right-wing bigots & they can fuck off into the sun, forever

Remember when Biden said that there were at least three genders? That instantly put him to the left of the entire British Isles.

Trump has no coherent Iran/Hormuz policy bc he has no coherent Middle East, defense, energy, or diplomatic strategies. Whenever he declares some new solution he’s pressured by Israel, SA, UAE, RUS, China, or NATO, & folds bc he’s an idiot & bc he’s beholden to all but NATO “Deals” aren’t strategy

A lot of pearl clutching… showing us exactly who they are … thank you!

Cherry-picking this dumb shit to defend his honor while he fucks off & campaigns with a guy who actively slurs people the way the Republican Party slurred him & his family is easier than admitting “maybe we shouldn’t have spent the whole election calling her Holocaust Harris for internet points”.

It’s a stream link from Tim’s own page for fuck’s sake. He was never muzzled. Y’all just needed to be spoonfed & even when you were spoonfed you didn’t bother to watch. Cherry-picking shit like this is easier than cutting ties with racist shitbags in your lives that actively chose the current path.

Every time y’all say this shit it’d be better if you admitted you didn’t watch the rallies or have an attention span. This is a rally from Nov 3rd, 2024, 2 days before Election Day. Tim Walz calls them weird immediately after talking about Trump running on gutting healthcare. x.com/tim_walz/sta...

“In one clip, she raised concerns about the influence of the manosphere on young boys, including her son, whom she revealed thinks far-right influencer Andrew Tate is ‘pretty cool’ despite her son being raised in what she described as one of the ‘most progressive households.’” Awful Parenting 101 🥴

The details in this Bloomberg story on the new "fraud" division replacing the existing one make it increasingly clear it is about SHUTTING DOWN investigations of Trump's kind of fraud and blatant politicization attacking benefits programs. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

All these people are speaking from a guilty mind. He literally said criticism is healthy. They don’t criticize or critique, though. They sabotage. They don’t want to improve, they want it gone. All their ideas are shit and the ones that aren’t, Dems have already. ”Is this play about us?” Maybe!

Steyer endorsed Becerra for AG and HHS because of his excellent record on climate and immigration. As AG Becerra started the Bureau of Environmental Justice. As HHS Sec. he started the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity. Now steyer is out there lying over and over again. Steyer=0 integrity.

Genuinely think this account is one of the most dangerously delusional people here. Though I will say this isn't nearly as bad as the full throttle meltdowns he had back on twitter, like predicting a squad of MAGA-loyalist secret service agents would turn Biden's inauguration into the red wedding.

Literally the best email I've ever received. No notes.

I still remain flabbergasted about the mountains of discourse about how to win elections in 2026/28 when largely that is not really a problem in the first place.

If you are not a writer or a professional Dem and concerned about the fortunes of Democrats in 26/28, donate, sign up to volunteer but stfu about messaging discourse

This is what was being pushed on younger people in the run up to the 2024 election

TikTok Favored Pro-Republican Videos in the Last Election https://politicalwire.com/2026/05/06/tiktok-favored-pro-republican-videos-in-the-last-election/

Just as galling, in bending its rule only the third time in 25 years to accommodate the Callais plaintiffs’ request for a hasty transmission of the decision, SCOTUS said “the Robinson appellants … have not expressed any intent to ask this Court to reconsider its judgment.” 3/5

There are numerous reasons SCOTUS should have reheard the case—not the least of which is the fact that its Louisiana v. Callais decision reaches a case—Robinson v. Landry—that was not before it and also factual, as well as legal matters that were not in the record. 2/5