"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but what’s going on in the south right now with voting rights and erasure, is a “kitchen table issue” — for Black families. And it should be for everyone.

this is the closest I've ever come to actually suggesting a "one neat trick" suggestion for anything, but I'm so serious here. the Virginia Constitution gives the legislature the power to set retirement ages for judges "REGARDLESS OF THE TERM TO WHICH ELECTED OR APPOINTED." make it 54 right now.

Reminder that John Roberts is worth tens of millions of dollars. The party of the rich maintaining power is in his personal interest.

Hey guys, is it Nazi to oppose the destruction of civil rights?

Making it clear that you only oppose this idea because you don't like who you saw raise it just shows you shouldn't be taken seriously. Platner sucks, sure. But would you have told Frederick Douglass to comply with the fugitive slave act?

You ever heard of that there fugitive slave act, pierce? Or maybe that time ohio did in fact just ignore it?

I am absolutely advocating for a world where Michael Jordan is less successful if it means fewer people starve and die. That is absolutely a statement on what I think about human potential.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

There's just no real difference between the "presumption of legislative good faith" and SCOTUS upholding Mississippi's 1898 Constitution.

Calvinball. The election means 90 days before the election when it would benefit Republicans to mean that, and in no other context.

Absolutely brilliant intervention in Paramount Warner deal. @freedom.press & @rsf.org taking shareholder action to scrutinize documentation on whether David Ellison plans to degrade journalism at CNN, reviewing his destruction of CBS. www.status.news/p/paramount-...

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

In other countries people don't call their dictators crazy because they'll get disappeared. Here they don't do it because it would be uncouth.

Can someone explain why a number of smart people follow this Winn guy when he appears to be a bag of farts with holes in it?

In Cook County, Illinois, several attorneys for exonerated people say that prosecutors have directly told them they plan to object to anyone seeking a certificate of innocence by default. Read more in our story with Injustice Watch:

The glee with which southern legislatures responded to the supreme Court saying "you can be racist as long as you're racist for political reasons" says exactly everything about how racist they are and exactly how important the VRA was.

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

It is interesting how Trump quietly accepted the Gulf states denying U.S. military access to their airspace for Iran operations after blasting NATO countries for doing the same thing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

still thinking about that Goldman Sachs “analysis” that predicted we would be at 120% of normal traffic in the strait of Hormuz by now

VInay Prasad tried to prevent the FDA from even reviewing this vaccine.

Justice Gorsuch was doing a Fox News interview a few days ago.

As we write in the book, we need less focus on adults who scream "I've lived in the city for the last 50 years and don't need bike lanes" and more focus on kids who say "I am going to live in the city for the *next* 50 years and want to be able to get around safely."

Come off it.

yeah dawg when you have to start arresting people because they are better at posting than you, you are cooked

"you don't get graceful treatment" means calling someone a transphobe for not agreeing with everything you say. Disgusting behavior.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

just from a rhetorical perspective hes one of the best to ever do it but barack obama criticizing the party for essentially being too elitist does infinitely more harm to dem electoral prospects than any criticism ive ever made of the party on bluesky

NEW: Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican. After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.

On top of this, there are expected to be efforts in the Tennessee legislature this week to redistrict Ogles’ seat to insulate him from what was expected to be stiff Democratic opposition.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

Saluting is a sign of respect and refusing to give that respect makes trump feel like a big man because he is such a small man.

Not only did Trump not salute, he 100% ignored the Marines. But Biden….

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw helped name two contested ideas in U.S. politics — intersectionality and critical race theory. Her memoir chronicles the personal and legal framework for her thinking. n.pr/4ncrJge

What's happening to the internet is like if cars debuted as a cheap and easy way to travel and then rich people decided only they should be able to drive and drive up the prices of cars. But also we all need to continue to subsidize the roads and highways for them even though we can't afford a car.

the point of education should be to learn stuff not a grist mill for churning out compliant employees for jeff bezos

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion like tax rates.“ Same point applies to Musk. Pretending X, DOGE, USAID, etc. aren’t relevant just serves Musk’s ends.

I cannot imagine how depraved you have to be to be sitting and talking to a woman asking you to save her husband and her family and then just ask her for a thousand dollars knowing you're doing nothing to help her. Worse than murder and therefore deserves punishment worse than death.

I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest

This is the same kind of shit as the people who say Will is racist for pointing out the No Kings rally had more participants than marches in the Civil Rights Movement. Will isn't racist and pretending he is is stupid. It makes you look stupid.

"keep writing fanfic about me" says the person upset that they got called out for intentionally misquoting someone to justify being mad at them. Incredible irony.

What an absolute moron.

Anyway I think we should ban short-form video platforms because the people who rely on them for their information act perpetually concussed

Sealion shit. You can put a fancy hat on your sealion, but it's still a sealion.