“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.”

Many people have a vested interest in pretending otherwise, but the US research university is globally dominant to an almost unbelievable degree. The typical state university is a football team stapled to a R&D lab with a budget bigger than the entire nation of Belgium.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Pretty cool how one side gets to cheat and the other isn’t allowed to win fairly

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

First rule of fascism: own the means of communication.

The Mets out here not respecting the almost troops

K-K-K to start the season??? 👀

Live scenes from the Mets group chat fantasy league draft: “I appreciate we are all collectively refusing to draft Bryce Harper”

it was @oneforestone.bsky.social for the record, who added, "I'm a certified Bryce Harper Hater™️"

Ossoff’s statement is 1000x stronger than Schumer-Jeffries. This is a moderate Jewish Senator from a Trump state. The split isn’t moderate vs progressive, but leading vs poll-reacting

Arrest them.

THE USA PLAYED IT LIKE A GOLD MEDALIST 🥇 Congratulations to the 16 PWHL players who will be bringing home the gold with Team USA!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLD

when the Olympics aren't on: our noble neighbors to the north. so alike yet so different. why must our government treat them with hostility, when we have gained so much from our friendship watching women's hockey: we must saw this continent apart at the 49th parallel and push them into the Arctic

STILL WITH HER

HILLARY FUCKING KNIGHT

of course it was britta curl

The UK arresting Andrew. South Korea tossing their wannabe dictator in jail for life. John Roberts better be getting a really nice Edible Arrangement from the White House.

Figure skating is such a fucking brutal sport.

I find this language really gross. First off, it's weak as hell. But second, if your demand is simply that ICE leaves Minnesota, that's just telling them to go to another state to terrorize people. These centrist squishes need to push for full abolition of ICE.

it is not the most important thing here but how much of this “8 wars” stuff is just him mindlessly repeating what his handlers tell him when they hand him stuff to sign

i think i’m fully in on “the white house is run by thirtysomething chuds who think grand strategy games are real life”

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

hbo put a drag race ad in the winter classic broadcast—the heated rivalry effect

Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job

@wmata.com i keep getting this blank screen when i try to get my metro rewind—i've tried it on safari & chrome on my iphone & in chrome on my laptop & all the same thing...

congratulations to sean o’brien www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

suck it, butker

miami over vandy is wild. put any other logo on vandy's resume & they're in the top 10.

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

that palestinian children are human deserving of love and dignity is obviously not antisemitic and the idea that it is is completely deranged

...can someone make a real argument for why notre dame should be in the playoff over vandy? like the resumes aren't particularly close imo

4th ever

When I say Zohran Mamdani should try to convince Pete Alonso to return to the Mets, I am not joking.

You’ll notice that the same media who couldn’t stop attacking Biden’s age or Hillary’s emails to her daughter or President Obama’s tan suit are now okay with a convicted criminal bulldozing the White House for his ballroom and inviting actual murderers to the Oval Office.

Why has this sat unreported until now??? (also kudos People!)

"That’s when I noticed the sheets of Kimpton Hotel stationery that would alter the course of our lives."

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem should resign and be criminally charged, according to critics who seized on a report revealing that zero people who were arrested in a high-profile raid were charged with a crime.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

what is the mayor’s plan to extend Pete and Edwin

this kinda goes hard

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

The Orator, by Magnus Zeller, 1920, 📸 by @powersimagery @ESPNImages

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”