Milwaukee mayor Dan Hoan writing to Governor Julius Heil in 1939 about the state squeezing municipalities’ revenue-raising capacities. Plus ça change.

The treasury of the House of Mammon has long paid to build the sacristies and spires of the House of God

Horses for some, donkeys for others, and six asses.

“Artefact Challenge” would break me.

In 2026 we bind ourselves to 1787 chains. It’s a horse-and-carriage era system. Reins, bridles and shit on the roads.

There is stupid, and then there’s super-duper stupid. This is murderous to great science.

Huh. Warrior your way outa that. More pull-ups!

OMG! I thought 1500BC was lived in black and white, just like WWI! 👍🙏❤️

Shanette Williams, whose daughter Amber Thurman died after being denied abortion care, speaks out against GA abortion ban We have to come together and fight this. We have to look people in the face, in the eye, and tell them that this is wrong. We demand a change.

Apparently we have a national UTI.

I’m not sure why Johnson or others in GOP Congress aren’t very concerned about the dramatic loss in respect and standing on a global stage The USA has suffered from so far by this moronic human tragedy of a man as their president.

Meanwhile, here’s how Ohio’s governor, a Republican, responded to today’s decision.

O goody. Status quo ante Trumpum.

Finally. Pretty goddam slow delivery of justice.

Ya know who are crime fighters? Non-cops who issue tickets for parking violations. They know how to harvest cash. Now is we only had ticket-issuers at pedestrian crosswalks. Or videocameras that statutes, ordinances and judges would uphold...

The central claim of SCOTUS decisions like Shelby County and Callais is that we’ve made so much progress since Jim Crow and slavery that the VRA’s remedies aren’t needed. The central claim of conservative elected officials is that Jim Crow and slavery weren’t that bad, anyway.

As Kels from @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social told me: "they’re being given extraordinary sentences for things that are supposed to be protected actions. Fireworks on the Fourth of July being called explosives and terrorism? Political literature is something worth taking 30 years of someone’s life?”

It is an irony that it is a crime to belong to a party that advocates the violent overthrow of government, especially in a nation that was founded by the violent overthrow of a government, justified by a declaration of independence that advocates the violent overthrow of a government.

As violent crime in America falls, especially in urban areas of the Northeast and Midwest, homicides perpetrated by police officers skyrocket and American police establish themselves as the most violent part of US society. It seems to be a function of the legal doctrine of impunity.

Single member districts are no good & very bad & we need multiparty democracy reforms & proportional representation with multi-member districts.

As the Roberts Court is likely about to overturn a landmark century-old precedent — Humphrey's Executor — in favor of a unitary executive theory that the President can fire members of independent agencies at will ... This recent historical piece by the Michael Dreeben is excellent context.

On this day in 2013, the Supreme Court struck down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and effectively gutted one of the nation’s most important and successful civil rights laws.

Well, so did the NY Times. In 2017.

These are the actions of an authoritarian regime, where their agents come to intimidate you if you share public information about how they have killed American citizens

New at Can We Still Govern: To dismantle public employee protections, the Roberts Court relies on a SCOTUS opinion authored by former President Taft. But they get key parts of Taft's legacy wrong says @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social: 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/taft-at-th...

Have you ever seen this iconic image of the Ebola virus, from the first known outbreak in DRC in 1976? An electron microscopic image, it was captured by #CDC 's Fred Murphy, a virological giant and a very kind interviewee. He died yesterday. He will be missed, but his scientific legacy lives on.

Immigrants. All Americans.

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

The most important democracy story of the day. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sheesh. "Kingmaker"? Not quite. There are 435 voting members of the House. Usually only one king at a time. More like Pawnmaker. But pawns are pieces on the board.

Yep. Both the source of ignition and the accelerant. Message and Messenger.

It takes 1.28 seconds for a message to reach us from the Moon. It takes as little as 35 minutes from Jupiter. It takes as little as 4.5 hours from Pluto. It takes at least 6-12 months from NYT reporters, plus $35 for the book containing it.

I don't know about turning the page on 47 years of history, but I am all for turning out 47.

Published in Hindsight Journal, where everything is crystal clear.

"Equal Justice Under Law" Is the Emptiest Promise in America.

Again, adding a few seats to SCOTUS is now the table ante bare minimum moderate position. More serious positions are also available: - No clerks - No building - No shadow docket - No pay raises - 25 justices - 47 justices - 101 justices - Riding the circuit, preferably on horseback

I was hoping for Hercules and the Augean Stables, but no. Trump is full of shit, but the Reflecting Pool is full only of algae.

Hegseth doesn't report to Congress. Hegseth doesn't work for Congress. Hegseth won't be submitting any letter of resignation to Congress. But, Congress can impeach him and remove him. Now there's a thought.

And they spell 'whiskey' properly.

Mass murderer criminal who has actually killed millions lies about the US government killing millions at his Nazi propaganda bar. Film at 11.

i'm at the death of american journalism. i'm at the death of american science. i'm at the combination deaths of american journalism and science.

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

TSOM with a MAGA inflection: after the Trump Anschluss, the Canadian Family Von Trapp in Nova Scotia resists MAGA SA troopers and, after winning the Cape Breton Folk Festival, they flee to freedom by boat to St Pierre & Miquelon (French islands just off Labrador).

Flag Code violation. 😏

Huh. I thought the Whole University is supposed to be a center for academic freedom.

“Taxation without redistribution is tyranny.”

the best chance the Prairieland anti-ICE protesters have is that we keep their names and their case on our lips as we eventually move to a post-Trump era, that we fight for their pardon as an essential part of departing from fascism.

Too many of you shit on Fire, but its litigation side is excellent, exactly the people you want in your corner (the culture war side, less so).

my realm for all of us white people learning that discomfort is part of the learning process and is good, actually

Literally broke the law to write his name on public buildings