It’s my birthday this weekend so I’m off today. But Ian said everything I could have said about this BULLSHIT decision out of Virginia.

I love that the oligarch’s mass media went deep on Trump’s dementia as evidenced by him threatening to fight a child!!!! Oh wait? They never said a word as part of their continued unshakable worship of this orange hued child rapist and total support for his nightmare regime? Yea, tracks.

Okay, this is obviously very stupid and dumb and an indication of the decline of American public discourse BUT... The fact that only 33% of Republicans think they could win a fist fight with a SEVENTY NINE YEAR OLD MAN is proof that these people are in a FUCKING CULT.

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

"Never accept an Uber from a driver named Achilles. Zero stars." - Hector

Everything is shitty but @tiffanydcross.bsky.social's new book is out: Love, Me. It's about, well, the shitty world Black women must confront every day. I'm going to buy two copies since we're coming up on Mother's Day. www.amazon.com/Love-Me-Blac...

In the original translation it was “Leeeeeroy Jenkins!”

"YOLO" - Confucius

On the one hand, I refuse to accept that any part of Homeric poetry can be translated to the phrase "Let's Goooo!" and I refuse to believe Odysseus would say it. On the other hand, Charlize Theron's Calypso has a non-zero chance of ending my marriage.

Some people said Don't Look Up was too on the nose and yet, well, here we are.

This article is like saying "Will Madden make football obsolete? We talked to Andy Wilson and five gamers who all beat Saquon Barkley in Ultimate Team mode."

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

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Oh, I forgot to skeet out my newsletter on Friday. I tried to put the destruction of the VRA in context and I was *once again* forced to defend James Comey against my will. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Yub Nub motherfuckers

Please I beg you to take a half hour & watch @elienyc.bsky.social explain the devastation that happened this week. & while you’re at it, read everything he writes. He explains it better than anyone out there.

I had a good conversation with Dean last night

Baller

Fighting MAGA in Diablo 4 with my black ass Paladin is the only thing that has given me joy this week.

This is truly where we are

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

Just to make a note about this, but the Supreme Court seems likely to AGAIN rule that Trump's extremely obviously racism against non-white immigrants is not enough to invalidate a policy of his. Only Jackson and Sotomayor seemed to broadly press the point.

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"Donald Trump’s White House ballroom is the thing that proves America is in its decline. It’s Nero’s fiddle. It’s Marie Antionette’s cake."

Obviously I've written about the death of the Voting Rights Act but, while I wait for that to be edited, maybe check out how Trump's ballroom has become the sewer of American politcs.

Another low point for the DOJ

Welp, Looks like I'm playing Diablo 4 for the next three months. Goodbye. Text me if Alito retires.

There will, in fact, be hateration in the dancerie.

I just filed a post and I successfully referenced Mary J. Blige while talking about the ballroom, and it wasn't forced, and I am pleased as punch. :)

Quick update on the Mets: Their radio announcer, who has been their radio announcer for pretty much MY ENTIRE LIFE... very politley suggested that the manager should be fired yesterday. We're... not even out of April. :)

Wait, this is real? This is going to happen? Oh my GOD... a reason for this lawyer to LIVE www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4tj...

Congressman @raskin.house.gov is still who I want to be when I grow up.

You need the angry goose meme

Okay, but, what if I have a reason, Todd? WHAT IF I HAVE A REASON??

People are missing a key nuance about the CNN exchange between Jamie Raskin and Dana Bash. Raskin was sending a message *to the press corps* aout *their* conduct, reminding them Trump wants to destroy their profession and that they don't take this seriously enough: newrepublic.com/article/2095...

The guy who incited a violent insurrection against the Capitol wants you to know he thinks political rhetoric has gone too far.

democrats: if we win this fall we wont do the single most obvious thing to hold this administration accountable also democrats: we dont understand why its so hard for us to get our voters to show up

I know normalization is just what we've decided to do to cope but turning a botched assassination attempt on the president of the united states into a public debate on gilded playspace is FUCKING STUPID and I refuse to treat this bullshit pivot seriously or with respect.

This is basically like saying JFK needed a faster convertible, but whatever.

They never want to talk about the guns. Ever. Under any circumstances.

Anyway. I’m glad nobody was hurt and I’m sure the journalists who attended the WHCD will not center themselves and their personal experiences and instead remain focused on holding the powerful accountable and informing the people about their government.

Siri, show me the dumbest possible version of “never let a good crisis go to waste.”

Live your life in such a way that the universe is sad when you get trampled to death by elephants

Uhhh… welcome? There’s, uhh, pie and punch in the back.

Here's my print feature piece in @thenation.com about the rise of AI-justice. Judges are already relying on AI, more than you probably think, and with some countries *replacing* human judges with bots, we will soon have to ask: Would you rather Justice Alito or Justice Mech-Hitler?

Absolutely shambolic

Here's a story I didn't know about: Elizabeth Freeman, the first enslaved woman to have her independence validated by an American court 19thnews.org/2026/04/revo...

I would 100% believe that. AI cultural code switching the real Turing Test?

Jokes-not-jokes aside: I think my style is more resistant AI than others because there aren't enough Black legal/political thinkers to train a whole model on. The AI trying to ape me also has to pull in white folks and... that's like the "frog DNA" that will ruin their project. :)

I have completely lost the plot on "then" versus "than" but am starting to feel like fucking it up is how I distinguish myself from AI.