Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

In the end, Stephen Colbert flirted with his wife, kissed Pedro Pascal & gave CBS the finger. He‘s a class act who kept the lights on at Second City during the pandemic, paid his writers during the strike, is a true Catholicy. He lost his job cause he spoke out against a fascist. I salute you, Sir.

Khanna: "This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of Black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One-third of African American seats are threatened. We are not speaking up strongly enough against a court that's rolling back civil rights"

While we slept the DOJ deleted all press releases about charges against January 6 defendants: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Savoring this from Toni Morrison. “We really have to learn to love thinking again. Not fretting, not worrying, but thinking. Life really is thrilling. But many people are unaccustomed to enjoying the problematics of life…you can use your mind to learn, to change things and to think things through.”

AIPAC, AI, and crypto groups are using ‘pop-up super PACs’ to hide their midterms spending from voters. Here’s what you should know. Listen on Apple: interc.pt/4dLeij1 Spotify: interc.pt/3Q13JAp Elsewhere: interc.pt/49jpRfY

For the sake of the Republic, I pray Greg is right. Restoring US democracy will require: 1. US voters to issue MAGA a stinging rebuke at the polls; 2. Lustration of the political criminals who did all this; 3. Constitutional reforms to prevent any of this from ever happening again. No half measures

🚨BREAKING: Several prisoners released from Delaney Hall ICE prison in NJ overnight after hundreds of prisoners launch hunger/labor strike. Prisoners have been fed worms in food, black mold inside, Covid/flu spreading. Our @jordanchariton.bsky.social will be live from DH soon. LIVE link below🔽

So much is going to have to be repaired, we don't even know the half of it

An extraordinary rebuke of Todd Blanche and his Justice Department. Federal judge dismisses the indictment of Abrego Garcia (an exceedingly rare outcome in a criminal case). Finding of vindictive prosecution and "an abuse of prosecuting power." The opinion name checks Blanche nearly 30 times.

"It’s as if much of big media has decided that it’s too much trouble to focus, in any sustained way, on developments that would have resulted in weeks of headlines, if not impeachment and conviction, in the pre-Trump era." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

the framing in this thread is a bit strange but the info is important: seems to be a big shift in solar manufacturing on the continent, enabled by the pace of Chinese production of solar cells.

Oseola McCarty (1908–1999)

What’s in the DNC 2024 autopsy?

There’s actually a chance the president could be elected by the popular vote in 2028 instead of the fundamentally undemocratic Electoral College. Watch:

Tariff & Trade War Scoreboard — explained. When the U.S. pulled back from trade, someone filled the gap. China replaced $228B in lost trade. The U.S. replaced $53B. This isn’t opinion — it’s the scoreboard. Trade wars don’t happen in a vacuum. They create winners and losers. The cups don’t lie.

@jonrademacher.bsky.social “It should be explicitly clear from this presidential administration that we can no longer simply rely on decency from politicians and oligarchs. There MUST be laws that force them to be decent or they simply won't be.”

The citizens of Festus, Missouri, population approximately 14,000, just voted out every single city council member who secretly approved a gigantic data center. A recall petition is also being circulated to remove the mayor and council members who were not on the ballot.

MAJOR bullshit alert.

Over 300 detainees at Delaney Hall signed an S.O.S. letter about the horrid conditions they are facing: rotten food, lack of medical attention, and so much more. Yesterday we went to inspect Delaney and that letter is correct. The solution is closing Delaney and abolishing ICE.

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

It’s not that the president has some mysterious ability to “do whatever he wants” It’s that Senators are choosing not to stop him, even though they could

There's no secret. This is corruption right out in the open.

A lot of newer followers often ask me who Tina was, the dog that means so much to me. This is her beautiful story A lot of older followers will also enjoy seeing her big, beautiful face I'm sure.

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

Timeline cleanse

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Part 2 of the New Yorker series on higher ed is up; it’s an interview with someone who has even weirder and less good ideas than Jay Caspian King (the author / interviewer). For example: rhere’s no meaningful experience at the edge of chemistry without knowing some (and probably a lot of) chemistry.

Most people will only see the spin around Trump’s $1.8b settlement fund. But once you walk through the timeline, the level of corruption becomes impossible to dismiss. Read this one all the way through. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"According to Velloso, less than 3% of paying users actively use Copilot, even though Microsoft has pre-deployed it directly into the Windows 11 taskbar and across the Office suite." lol, lmfao

Sharing this one more time for anyone who missed it. We're pretty sure he's going to need surgery on his back left hip, but we're getting confirmation on that hopefully this week. It's all obviously insanely expensive, and we're going to find a way to make it work of course, but any help is massive

Not beating the allegations that he just agrees with whoever was the last person to talk with him, in this case Xi

This is...demonstrably untrue

Like a broken record at this point, but... not a drag queen or trans person:

"that left man shot" is some real passive language there. It just magically happened, no human being involved in the shooting 🤔

Over 550 men in California have fallen ill after cutting natural or factory-made stone countertops. But epidemiologists say this isn't just a California problem. n.pr/4tRh1O0

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:

Kind of wild that this is like the 12th or 13th biggest news story today. These people were murdered for absolutely no reason.

All the partisan gerrymandering was always (in part) racial gerrymandering, because the parties' politics were always (in part—but large part) about race. So when you tell Southern legislatures "you can do partisan gerrymandering, but no racial gerrymandering," they know it means they can do both.

It's the exact reason we got the VRA! We got the VRA _not_ because there was always provable sneaky intentional racial discrimination in districting, but because, esp. in the South, white conservatives designed a party system AND maps through which they'd win the seats, & Black voters would not.

That's why, as legal scholars such as @rickhasen.bsky.social have been pointing out for many years if you allow partisan gerrymandering, you're not going to be able to police racial gerrymandering. Distinguishing the two from each other is angels on the head of a pin, especially in the South.

When a federal agency tasked with protecting all Americans decides to mandate a specific religious worldview, it ceases to protect democracy and begins to threaten it.

Dropped late Friday. Part 3 in @nickjudin.bsky.social’s Makoka brothers series is the most devastating and the most illuminating. Take the time.

Great thread about the White Nationalist revival event in DC yesterday, sponsored by our government

Your tax dollars paid for this event freedom250.org/celebration/...

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

If these people had lobbied hard for governments to tax them and distribute universal basic income as a rising share of productivity, and UBI already existed now along with national healthcare to fully decouple survival from employment, audiences would be responding differently to their speeches.