Our biggest priority right now—other than keeping our sanity—is protecting the vote of Black people from the Ku Klux Kourt and the other white supremacists in the GOP and the Trump administration.

"One study found that increasing the number of people who receive SNAP benefits by 5 percent could have prevented nearly 32,000 suicides over 15 years. And a $1 increase in minimum wage has been linked to roughly 8,000 fewer suicide deaths over a decade."

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Slavery was legal. The Holocaust was legal. The blatantly partisan U.S. Supreme Court rulings to steal Black political power and empower the dictator are legal too. But that doesn’t make them right, and they won’t survive the real justice that is coming.

FYI trans Americans with a Canadian ancestor can apply for expedited processing on their applications for Canadian citizenship!

America’s 20th century rise; our victory in World War II; the post-war international order anchored on the dollar, democracy, and stabilizing institutions; increased standards of living— it’s all meaningless if all you wanted was to keep pre-1865 domination over a subset of people in your own state.

**Someone** has the complete, unredacted Epstein files. Leak them already.

MeepMeep!

Genuinely funny that Alito just wrote a whole opinion making clear that the only thing Republicans have to do to gerrymander Black people out of electoral existence is say "this is about politics, not race," and then this genius is like CAN YOU BELIEVE HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE IN THAT DISTRICT??

I feel dumb that I didn’t anticipate Republicans trying to use the government to put the SPLC out of business. But it’s definitely happening and it may well work.

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3 actual quotes from this piece: “Can I afford the tax? Yes. Is it going to deter me? No. But I think it’s shameful. I provide a lot of money to people who are blue-collar workers who work for me, servers in restaurants." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

A supertanker docked in Long Beach just delivered last incoming shipment of Middle Eastern oil to California, a milestone for drivers already paying the highest fuel prices since the Kremlin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Here's the states that have set fuel price records this year: #EnergySky

he still mad she saved NYC all that money and agita when he was doing his lil HQ2 multistate tree shaking tour

Rod Stewart to King Charles on his visit with Trump: “Hello, sir. May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.”

Trump just referred to the White House as a 'shit house.' "I was told by my wife, you have to act presidential. So don't use foul language. I won't. Therefore, normally I would have said it was a shit house, but I don't want to say that. The columns were falling down. The plaster was falling off."

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Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-Va) spoke to SiriusXM radio's Dean Obeidallah where she slammed the former Confederate & Jim Crow States now rushing to erase Black voting strength youtu.be/TIn-sAHNeTY?...

Something I found odd that was missing from the congressional map debacle in Tennessee was the lack of presence by FedEx. Their HQ is Memphis. They were not present and standing up for their workforce. They should have been.

FedEx is the largest non-retail sector employer in Tennessee. Memphis is a left-leaning / Democratic city. That's where FedEx is established. Their workforce are urban liberals. They deserve to pick their own representatives. And FedEx should have thrown it's weight into the ring to help them.

Ah yes, his now monthly annual checkup.

Virginia Dems think this Supreme Court will side with them on restoring the voting map chosen by the majority of the people. OK then.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has allowed Alabama to select a different map for this year’s congressional elections in a stunning, last-minute move to interfere with another state primary election that has already begun. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Gov Jeff Landry, 2026: "No one gets extra rights." President Andrew Johnson, 1866, Civil Rights Bill Veto Message: "safeguards which go infinitely beyond any that the General Government has ever provided for the white race."

I am struck again and again by how much the language of the anti-Reconstructionists continues to serve as a template for backlash rhetoric.

The president of these United States has difficulty reading and thinking at a very basic level and displays that flaw in public nearly every single day.

where is john roberts to tell us that this is just one of those apolitical, unpopular decisions the court has to make sometimes?

Trump: "A new name I came up -- dumbocrat. I think that could be a good one. I've come up with some extraordinary names. But I was talking about Hakeem Jeffries. He's a low IQ person. He's a dumb guy."

If he wasn’t president, he’d be in prison.. Treason and corruption

rambling, loss of inhibition, increasingly prone to confusion late in the day, it’s probably nothing to worry about

"The Republican party is a coalition of arsonists." Marc Elias

The Roberts court is, above all else, racist. They don’t like the reconstruction amendments and they don’t like the laws that enforced them. There is no legal, constitutional or separation of powers principle here. It’s just racism. joycevance.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Sotomayor: "Alabama’s congressional primary election is next week, and vacating the District Court’s injunction will immediately replace the current map with Alabama’s 2023 Redistricting Plan until the District Court acts, even though voting has already begun."

BREAKING: SCOTUS acts immediately on Alabama redistricting, vacating earlier decisions blocking the 2023 map and sending cases back to the district court — over the objection of Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Telling the truth for a change

The U.S. Supreme Court is conducting a coup d'etat. It is at war with the very premise of an electoral democracy. Nothing about that institution or its work is legitimate. Nothing.

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It’s so fucking bizarre how he narrates his own mental deterioration and just attributes it to nameless others

I will never understand how a plurality of voters were like, “sure, it’s fine if we give this guy the ability to launch nukes.”

How dare he, after all the damage he’s already done.

Somewhere in the last couple weeks I passed my 30,000th anti-ice whistle printed and shipped to organizers, neighbors, and friends around the country. the work has become second-nature at this point, the chirp of the printer a sound nobody in my house even notices. Get yours: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Truly losing his mind

People cannot afford babies. Make survival and raising a family affordable, and more people will choose to have children. It really is that simple.

Happy Monday and Thank You, Maureen! 🥰