Your daily reminder that this is all John Roberts' fault.

Dear Democrats: get on the data center issue asap. The American people are already there. They don’t want their communities polluted so Zuckerberg can power an ai chatbot that convinces their kids to commit suicide.

This is Enron-like. SpaceX has committed $1.6 billion to lease a data center in Mississippi. But instead of simply saying that, they structure it as an unconsolidated 49.9% interest in a joint venture. The only source of revenue for the "joint venture" is... the SpaceX lease. /6

We could have had Ben Wikler, but instead we got this. www.cnn.com/2026/05/21/p...

Can anyone in the East Bay area help trap this skunk and get this cup top off from around its neck? I can put you in contact with the rescuer who needs help. This is happening Thursday afternoon around 9 am their time. (Noon Eastern Time)

Moriarty understands this, but federal protection isn’t absolute. (If you want a concise, high-level, accessible explanation of when and how state charges can stick, Moriarty has a YouTube video for you!)

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

"At least nine of the cases involve child sexual abuse, three are rape charges and two people have been convicted of murder while driving under the influence of alcohol – in addition to at least 19 weapons charges and nine violent assaults." www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-jan-6t...

Every Democrat needs to hit a microphone right now to say this is gross corruption, we're paying attention to who gets paid off here and we'll do everything we can to claw it back.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Dear democrats, this is why your “the rules” and institutional fetish fucking sucks

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

Tova Noel -- the corrections officer who last saw Jeffrey Epstein, is scheduled to testify before Congress today. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

After Plessy v Ferguson it was 58 years before we got a court willing to overturn it. I don’t think Black people who want to vote and women who want to have rights to their bodies and trans people who want to EXIST should have to wait that long because it offends your sense of propriety.

Minnesota's tool for checking voter registration also shows if you are signed up to get mailed a ballot for every election. If you are signed up, then you don't need to apply each year unless you want the ballot mailed somewhere other than your residence. mnvotes.sos.mn.gov/voterstatusc...

It is insane that person who is funding the world’s white supremacist movement & is daily spewing racism, who killed 100,000’s last year by yanking USAID without warning, is regularly discussed in Corporate Media as an industrialist, without any mention of the white supremacism or mass murder.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

NEW: The health official who led the public response to the Hantavirus outbreak has little background in public health and previously was a penile implant specialist who hosted a podcast where he questioned the 2020 election and compared the Biden administration to Nazis. www.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

Despite all the vote rigging news over the last 2-3 weeks, there is one thing I keep coming back to about Donald Trump: Nobody likes him. And you can't gerrymander yourself out of a bad approval rating. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-12...

Chief Justice Roberts says the court isn't political. This week, six justices "read" 107 pages of legal briefing in 38 minutes and let Alabama gerrymander its congressional map mid-election. The stopwatch says otherwise.

You're about to see headlines saying abortion pills can't be shipped. THAT IS NOT TRUE You can still get abortion pills by mail to all fifty states. Some providers will switch to miso-only, some will ship both mife & miso. I got into all of this when the federal court ruling first dropped:

Kavanaugh, 7 weeks before an election, when a lower court prevents Alabama GOP from discriminating against Black voters: 😠 🛑 STOP Kavanaugh, during an election, when the Supreme Court empowers Alabama GOP to discriminate against Black voters: 🥳 🍻 LET'S GO ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

El Sayed campaign response

Thanks to freshly gerrymandered House maps across the country, the number of competitive districts will fall to a new low of 33 (or less) this year, and only 15 are true toss-ups.

Obscene. www.huffpost.com/entry/jeff-l...

And Roberts wonders why people laugh in his face when he says the Court isn't political and is just deciding on merits.

After losing their map in Virginia, Strength In Numbers estimates Dems are now down 6 seats in the House from mid-decade + post-VRA redistricting. Could lose 2-3 more across the South. Dems need to win the House pop. vote by 4 to win the majority of seats. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-10...

Other than discovering that I’m apparently John Oliver’s son, @lastweektonight.com’s deep dive into the shadow docket is really quite good: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKeq...

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

This Mother’s Day, nearly 150,000 mothers will spend the day apart from their children. 58% of all women in U.S. prisons are mothers. 80% of women in jails, including many who are incarcerated awaiting trial simply bc they can’t afford bail. Read: www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/03...

This is a party asking to die

The filing deadline to jump in the primary is June 2. Surely, Minnesota can do far better than this.

I appreciate @anamariecox.com helping to spread this. The more clicks stories like this get, the more I'll be allowed time to do them. Here's another story about a Colombian mother and all the challenging situations faced by people left behind after deportations. share.google/IrhmqQrEjD6V...

Happy Caturday from adoptable kitty, Mittens! Mittens is starting her neighbourhood watch off early today, she is catching up with all her birdie and squirrel friends! This cutie pie is a terrific kitty, she treasures her togetherness time, and she is going to bring so much love to her forever

Louisiana Republicans are SO. MAD. that Black people elected an exonerated Black man who fully understands the injustice of the criminal legal system that they're throwing the whole election away, abolishing the position Filling the pool with concrete type shit ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

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

And how unready Dems were, for that matter: schemes like California and Virginia sprang up in response to Texas, quite late for Virginia. But it was clear what was going to happen with Callais in June 2025, as soon SCOTUS punted on the prior hearing and ordered expanded one.

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.

When the voters approve a map to help Democrats, it's nullified. When Republican legislators approve a map to help Republicans without going to the voters, it's allowed. The system is rigged to help the fascists.

Note: Virginia's supreme court struck down map based on when Dems passed the amendment. This ends use of the map for 2026 for sure. Dems can do it for 2028, tho. They'd "just" have to keep legislature in 2027, pass bill again in January 2028, & then hold+win another April referendum.

So, SCOTUS says Red states can ignore the will of the people and gerrymander their districts 9-0 in favor of MAGA But VA Supreme Court says Blue states cannot put the vote to the will of the people and follow through on the people's will to redistrict. Beyond Absurd. 2/2

Absolutely outrageous Virginia Supreme Court invalidated redistricting referendum approved by the voters when voters haven’t been able to weigh in on a single gerrymander passed in red states

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 continue to think that "backlash politics" is the wrong frame. There has been a counter-revolution against the Black freedom movement for generations. It is a FRONTLASH and I think that not thinking of it this way has done a real disservice. It's been PERMANENT WAR.