"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

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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...

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

Idk why I'm seeing a bunch of people I follow talk about Thomas Paine on my feed today, but I will never miss an opportunity to talk him up. You're my boy Tom. Long-time fan here

thanks doc

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

Straight up Klan talk from the 1920s. The reference to Islam is the only thing that would mark this as something from our own era.

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

always has been

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

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The more things change The more they stay the same.

Our final ICFC feature of the day takes you to Puerto Rico for Showup Showdown featuring Guilty Gear Strive and Puzzle Bobble, live on FunkyP! twitch.tv/funkyp

New on Knock: Yes, our full voter guide is about to drop (as usual, it's extremely long). In the meantime, here's something to whet your appetite: Our judicial election recommendations! knock-la.com/knock-voter-...

This weekend ICFC features the first major of our initiative to spotlight grassroots events: Brussels Challenge! Get ready to enjoy the first Challenger event of #TWT2026 on Team Spooky! twitch.tv/teamsp00ky

I'm being serious when I say that we need to already be thinking about what the next constitution of the United States should look like so we know in advance how to better rise from the ashes that the MAGAists & their conspirators insist on burning us into

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

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I'd like to introduce you to my new Always Has Been meme format

Last night in Yiddish class I was able to develop a (hot?) take on a short story in Yiddish and then argue effectively for it in Yiddish. Hell yeah. and_im_comin.gas_station

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

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

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

This is true, and is made all the more remarkable by the fact that his predecessor William Rehnquist was a literal segregationist voter suppression activist! He actively challenged minority voters at polls & (prob) worked on a major GOP voter suppression campaign, and yet Roberts has him beat easy

Roberts is now the most effective white supremacist leader in over a century, with Trump in sec. The two of them show how how conservative leaders have been this way for decades (actually centuries). Trump is new in style but not substance. Same old white supremacy.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

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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.

A common counterpoint to this is that many great sports commentators were never strong players. That's true (although less than it once was!), but not really relevant, for reasons incl medium, historical accident, competition, etc But the biggest reason is what I call the Law of Inverse Popularity

Nintendo making a complete overhaul of StarFox validates my take that the original game's gameplay was ass, relying solely on the novelty of its graphics, which didn't last the test of even a few years' time. Now that remakes are common, I agree it's a great choice to finally make a good version of

The reluctance to get off X, a platform owned by an antisemitic white supremacist conspiracy theorist who tells us ALL THE TIME that he uses the site to privilege his views, is absolutely wild to me.

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Biden failing to stop & in some ways even exacerbating the obvious impending disaster of Trump 2 is the James Buchanan failing to avert the Civil War of our era. Biden had good domestic policies, yes, but they're not what we should remember him by, because he allowed the disaster that destroyed them

In Reconstruction 2 we don't wait for cases to wind their way up so the Woke Court can overrule Callais, Trump v US, Dobbs, Bruen, Loper Bright, 303 Creative, etc one by one. The 6-3 Roberts court is too illegitimate for normalcy like that. We just go BZZT WRONG & treat all their work as dead letter

time and time again the court holds that rules and maps - even illegal ones - cannot be changed because it is “too close to an election” if the changes would benefit Dems now, it is fine canceling *ongoing primaries* in order to rewrite maps in favor of the GOP

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

A Brazilian Makoto player named RVD asked himself "is it possible to get 3 Abares in a combo/setup" and after we sat down to optimize his stun path (RVD Stun Path/RSP), lo and behold it actually fucking worked 💀

If you're a commentator who wants to express big ideas but don't know when you can, ie if the game action feels too fast to say much, imo there are 2 main good ways to do so: -Save it for empty time like between rounds & games -Play the game well enough yourself to recognize when you might have time

KOFXV top 8 at Evo Japan was so good! What a great game. I've been thinking about picking it back up anyway so I'm excited that they're gonna patch it again. Looking forward to the update in July

Today's the first double-header on the ICFC calendar! First: @pattheflip.bsky.social's NorCal Caliburst monthly for Xrd on @2djazz Then: Vermilion Series' Frequency monthly in Philly for GGST, SF6, & Tekken 8 Caliburst is live now! Tune in & help support the grassroots FGC twitch.tv/majinobama

Me on the other site. MAGA is a coalition of segregationists, Christian nationalists, & business oligarchs. The enslaver sides of US history haven't been aligned this closely & powerfully since antebellum slavery

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

just learned my favorite sf4 video, titled "BLOOPERS" is no longer accessible on youtube so thank you to the internet archive for preventing BLOOPERS from becoming lost media