The absolute fucking insult to injury here is that he's using the language of reparations re: these traitors. THAT'S the headline. "Just compensation for people who were mistreated by their government" oh you mean like a Constitution protecting slavers? FHA's redlining? Mass incarceration?

That's right. Our single member districts are another anachronism that was, at the time it was introduced, a wholesome innovation. Congress forced states to use them starting in the mid-1800s to end the unfair practice of states allocating all seats to the party who controlled the state legislature.

Surprise!! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Truly not a day has passed in a political science department in the UK for the last two years where we are not all turning to each other in the hallways and going "WTAF are they smoking." We are not a discipline with a lot of consensus research findings, but there is absolute consensus on this.

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Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

“The danger of Callais, then, goes beyond the VRA, too. It was not enough for the Roberts Court to kill the crown jewel of the Civil Rights Movement. Callais hollows out the promise of the Fifteenth Amendment in order to ensure that no other civil rights law gets the chance to live.”

I find it incredibly telling when men like Dawkins are convinced that the LLMs are ‘intelligent’ because it ‘agrees’ with them or tells them how insightful or clever they are

Cook Co prosecutors are trying to block nearly every exonerated person who is seeking a certificate of innocence, which can help w/ getting jobs, housing and modest state compensation More great digging by @injusticewatch.org on the changing approach to innocence claims by the new state's attny

This is kind of brilliant. You know Donald's watching.

Republicans can accuse Democrats of anything they want to, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

My intellectual hero is George R. R. Martin. Whenever I procrastinated, he would save me from self-pity by not completing The Winds of Winter.

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Every single day that I take a shift as a substitute teacher I have to look at where the emergency backpack is, where the looped chain and anchor for the door is, if the opaque internal window covers by doors are in good shape, and the safest corner of the room to huddle the children.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Just last week, at the top of this episode, @quinnslobodian.com, @bentarnoff.com, & I discussed the challenges facing historians in the internet era, which include planned obsolescence, slop tsunamis, austerization, etc. Internet Archive is one of the few orgs between us & archive death...

He's been an inept mob boss for decades. A thug w/6 bankruptcies doing shakedowns. "Trump still seems to believe that negotiations he has as president are basically the same as strong-arming a small business into giving him a better deal on some new curtains for one of his hotels." 🧾 is.gd/XpBtUJ

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.” www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

The Roberts Court just gave Steve Bannon a symbolic win with alarming implications for Democrats, should they retake the House/Congress in the midterms. The lawless hacks at SCOTUS might be signaling that they'll greenlight stonewalling congressional oversight & subpoenas apnews.com/article/supr...

This is what I'm talking about. Vince McMahon is a case study in depravity. His behavior (with his wife, now Trump's Education Secretary Linda, allegedly covering up for his predatory behavior for years), is detailed by Janel Grant in her declaration against him. 🦋 is.gd/RXX1Dp ⚖️ is.gd/Nryxax

now THAT’S how a major publication should write a lede www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict

The Supreme Court refuses to review an odious 5th Circuit decision granting qualified immunity to Texas officials who arrested a citizens-journalist in retaliation against her posing questions to public officials. Sotomayor has an appropriately furious dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

If there is going to be a reckoning about violence in progressive organizing spaces, we need to be prepared to hear survivors’ critiques of restorative justice. A lot of progressives think restorative justice is the only path forward, but it can be weaponized and co-opted just like other processes.

if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either

Remember when Google's corporate mission was "Don't be evil"? That was a long time ago.

Marco Rubio's BFF is an accused foreign agent and money launderer. His trial is about to start — and Rubio is on the witness list. My @vanityfair.com story on the legal bomb that's poised to go off in Trumpland. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

I think this deserves at least as much sustained attention from US media as Claudine Gay's dissertation

I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal." She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%! Context:

in a free market, X would be dead and Elon Musk would not be able to open a credit card. This is not a free market, and the people who tried to organize a boycott against a bad website got sued out of existence.

i actually think this is the wrong way to think about the direction this is going. fox news is the default channel in many public spaces — most troublingly, us military bases, has been for decades. this was not a matter of policy afaik, it just slid into place. it's not hard to lock it in as policy.

The first elected Dem in history to understand how Trump operates (memes, vibes, kayfabe, projecting a fantasy image until it becomes reality) and to manipulate him the way his own White House staff do

my thoughts on this paper

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

because when people from there talk to them and tell them it's not their socialist utopia, they say we are "westernised liberals", traitors, or whatever

I’ve watched a very smart child try to encode what chaptgpt thinks is “human” so that her class assignments don’t get flagged for plagiarism. I’ve heard expert professionals admit to self-editing so they don’t “sound” like an llm. This is the kind of cultural flattening that accelerates fascism.

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

why yale decided to continue to shower money and prestige on this kind of guys is beyond me🤣

For folks unfamiliar, this was a bog standard position for Nazi and incel 8chan/board culture back in the day. He's not inventing, he's regurgitating and repackaging

Rep. Becca Balint's grandfather died in the Nazis' Mauthausen concentration camp. Pam Bondi just suggested Balint was antisemitic.