Cambridge just posted the first ten pages of my manuscript, In Congress We Trust? Enforcing Voting Rights from the Founding to the Jim Crow Era. Check it out here: assets.cambridge.org/97810097/816...

P.S. This is not a criticism of DSA or any party. This applies to the Dems, Reps, and (probably) DSA as well. Almost no party in any democracy on earth has lots of working-class candidates. The question should be: can you really be a working-class party if you have very few worker candidates?

But I had been reliably informed that cancel culture was over??? www.nlrbedge.com/p/union-bust...

OTD in 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Here is a photo of LBJ handing a pen to Martin Luther King, Jr, at the signing ceremony. As the caption says, this was "the strongest civil rights legislation since Reconstruction Days."

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Minnesota's labor movement showed up in full force today at the courthouse to send a message of solidarity with 15 people facing federal indictment. “This has been an attack on one of us, which makes it an attack on all of us," said Tony LaRose, a member of IBEW Local 110, to a crowd of 300.

Hey, be aware today!

Emily The Criminal; Nightcrawler; and (especially) Michael Clayton In the documentary category: Advise & Dissent; Water & Power: A California Heist (@billchilds.bsky.social, you'd be good at this game)

Hi, quick question: what the fuck is “phorm energy screamin’ freedom?” <runs away before I can be cursed with a response>

Today’s Supreme Court decision on campaign finance probably won’t make things worse. But the system is already essentially deregulated and won’t change without a new Supreme Court majority. slate.com/news-and-pol...

If Josh Shapiro is saying this...

One thing that I’ve learned in my study of backlash politics from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement is that backlashers are a persistent bunch. The undoing of Reconstruction took several decades, and post-WWII backlashers looked back on that patient counterrevolution as a model.

Man this is terrible. Again how do we proceed when this is the reality for many? www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

And Justice Sotomayor is 72 years old.

Another professor fired for comments about Charlie Kirk is poised for a payout, this time $1.9M from University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The prof, Tamar Shirinian, won't return to campus: www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e... via Keenan Thomas

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

Bosses seem to be especially receptive to generative AI's flattery. Fascinating-horrifying workplace stories from @mharrisondupre.bsky.social

Gorsuch's Slaughter concurrence iwould be more persuasive if he (a) didn't repeatedly rely on tendentious descriptions of his opponents' arguments and (b) didn't laughably claim the mantle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for what he acknowledges is a project of dismantling the administrative state.

Final cases of the day: Slaughter and Cook. Trump wins the former 6-3 and loses the latter 5-4. Roberts writes both.

heat index is going to hit 105-110 in the twin cities today, stay cool if you want to help unhoused folks in the area, today is a great day to donate to @supplydepotmpls.bsky.social

International Partners v. Ferguson could be nasty. A 2023 Washington law says if a runaway minor arrives at a homeless shelter seeking an abortion or gender-affirming care, the shelter must notify the state and *not* the parents. Some parents are challenging it. It's a standing question. (For now.)

🚨🚨 TODAY IS A SEVEN BOX DAY 🚨🚨 Each of those boxes contains between 4 and 6 smaller boxes. Some of those smaller boxes contain hungry ferrets. Some contain ferret food. It is up to you whether you want to try to feed the ferrets.

On today's order list Thomas & Gorsuch continue to argue for revisiting (probably overturning) the actual malice standard for public figures in defamation cases as established by NYT v. Sullivan. They're dissenting from denial of cert; they still haven't gotten the 2 more votes they need for review.

Chicago desperate to be Minneapolis. www.eventbrite.com/e/the-lincol...

look at this fucking cat

The pump don’t work ‘cause the radical left vandals took the handles

Elected officials: THIS ADVICE IS NOT FOR US

"Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations."

If I had a big pile of money for climate stuff, I'd start a nonprofit heat pump installation firm in a dense city. Integrate as much of the supply chain as possible and show what the true deployment cost is without all the profit siphons along the chain from manufacturers, distributers, installers.

The Minneapolis cat festival doesn’t seem to have a problem with turn out

Side note but props to @syracuse.com (my hometown-ish outlet) for not only kicking off this DHS agent / First Amendment news cycle, but for going full throttle and digging up even more

A member of the MSPB secretly met with the White House in November and was pressured to allow the President to fire immigration judges. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/u...

The same agents who approached a volunteer at a polling place, again harassing someone over clearly protected speech.

Three days after Springer Nature sold Scientific American without warning, the NLRB conducted our scheduled union vote count, despite Springer Nature’s attempt to stop it. And guess what? WE WON. What’s more, it was nearly unanimous, with 31 out of 32 voters checking YES.

A little socialist magic from El Mago del Pueblo 🎩🪄🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

I'm surprised Ossoff is the GA Senator who is (as far as I can tell) getting the most presidential nominee talk rn...

"Just look how well it worked for Keir Starmer," they continued.

A wonderful Minneapolis tradition! The Wedge neighborhood Cat Tour.

Callum wants everyone to note that he's next in line for the sun puddle

on his way to the battlefield, where he will immediately and without explanation start setting fire to his own side's ships

What if we all had to put on a show …to save democracy

It’s all awful, but I do appreciate that their general incompetence, aggressive overpolicing, and fascistic tech use are now literally running into one another and facing off against each other.

As I go home with more scanned pages than I can probably read in a year, I'm realizing that "law firm doc review" probably shouldn't be my mental model for archives visits...

Imagine asking someone unfamiliar with the cases to read this side-by-side with Masterpiece Cakeshop & predict in which case the statements by official decisionmakers were sufficient to make the govt action invalid because of animus.

I mean, at least he's honest. Originalists who try to claim Bolling was correct are not being transparent about their chosen method of interpretation.

Exam question time.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.

Even earlier legislation too! In 1895 the Court wouldn't allow the Sherman Act to be applied to a sugar manufacturer b/c manufacturing didn't count as commerce.

Methinks we're a tad selective in identifying "tainted artifacts"!