losing track of which new group advocating for centrism within the Democratic Party I'm supposed to be paying attention to as a game-changer

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

VC, founder, dumbass

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I’m Analilia Mejia and I approve this message.

Coverage like this is what makes @the-downballot.com so valuable:

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

The GOP just had its best chance to finally flip a legislative seat in Trump 2.0. Democrats had other ideas. Chasity Martinez just won a rural Trump+13 in the Louisiana House in a 24-point landslide—an overperformance of 37 points. Our complete writeup on this remarkable outcome -->

We’re looking at another very big Dem overperformance tonight—in a Trump+13 district. Dem Chasity Martinez is up 61-39 with more than half the vote in. Notably, like in TX last weekend, the e-day vote has been even *better* for her than the early vote. voterportal.sos.la.gov/graphical

why the fuck does ChatGPT think that anyone wants to live out a horror-show fantasy of being Willy Wonka

automatically makes this one of the most important races to watch this year

FIRST REJECTION OF THE CYCLE 🥳🎉✨

Incredibly funny

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

My state constitutional law casebook will be published soon by West, which is exciting! We’ll be publishing a teacher’s manual a little later in the spring. I personally don’t use teacher’s manuals, so I’m curious—what do people find particularly helpful (or unhelpful) in them?

This is fantastic news, and so well-deserved. Nila is brilliant, her work is compelling, and I'm so glad that this important piece has earned such a stellar placement.

ANALILIA MEJIA TAKES THE LEAD

I would like more than what Schumer and Jeffries have demanded so far, but they seem to have put Thune et al. in a bad position and he does not seem to have any leverage at all

flatly impeachable conduct

SOMETIMES WE DON'T NEED TO WRITE THINGS JUST TO WRITE THEM. SOMETIMES THERE AREN'T TWO SIDES TO EVERY STORY. SOMETIMES YOU CAN JUST SAY SOMETHING IS AWFUL, THE PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN IT ARE AWFUL, AND THEY DID AWFUL THINGS. NOT EVERYTHING REQUIRES EIGHTEEN MILLION FUCKING DEGREES OF NUANCE.

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

calling for a moratorium on fundraising emails and texts beginning with "My decision"

the NYT is composed of the most credulous rubes on the planet. Katie Britt cares about that boy so much that . . . she takes Kristi Noem's word about what happened over anyone else's with zero pushback.

One of the things I try to instill in my students is that "constitutional" and "unconstitutional" are not legal terms of art. It's OUR Constitution. We're empowered to have views on it, and to view government action or inaction as consistent with our country's norms, values, and traditions—or not.

‼️ When a judge struck down the proposed Virginia redistricting constitutional amendment last week, he cited violation of a statute that required notice of amendments to be posted. The state legislature just repealed that statute, potentially killing the most plausible argument that challengers had.

there is a similar problem with only having the glovebox open by pushing a button on a screen. my grandmother gave me an emergency glass breaker and seatbelt cutter, and I am horrified by the thought of being unable to access that because I can't unlock my glovebox.

the columns aren't centered

these people are just so fucking pathetic

Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

IMAGINE

Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns. ... Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us. Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols? A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us. R: Pulling out literal guns? A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.

wrong

1. Trump certainly wants to fully rig elections. 2. He has no actual plausible plan to do so. 3. We should absolutely take the threat very seriously and actively do what's possible to protect elections and democracy. 4. What's actually likely is success or failure at the margins; every bit counts.

first, Missouri Republicans tried to invoke the ISLT, despite Moore v. Harper, to argue that the use of the referendum to reject congressional districts was unconstitutional, and their argument was rejected . . . next up: Utah Republicans

this is a former prosecutor who is unaccustomed to being a criminal defense attorney, and right now he's the Deputy Attorney General playing both roles in a Jekyll and Hyde-like situation, which is why he's saying unhinged stuff like this

Groundhog Harassed By Dipshits In Stupid Hats

like this is absurd, get over yourselves

Republicans are spooked. As Florida Republicans consider a gerrymander to steal more seats, another special election might spook them even more—Florida Senate District 14 on March 24, which is just a 53-46% Trump district. Supporting @briannathan4fl.bsky.social, the Democratic nominee, is important.

In a year full of painful election losses, the fact that Bob Casey was replaced by this schmuck was one of the most painful losses

Our government is running concentration camps in our names with our money. The horrors are known. Far too many people are cheering this on or making excuses for it. If they ever said they didn’t know, they’re liars. Abolish and prosecute ICE.

Some of us noticed this years ago, when fraudsters were faking polls to game prediction markets on PredictIt, which had very small betting limits. I argued that this was commodities fraud and that it needed to be taken seriously. And yet here we are. scholarship.law.missouri.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Folks, if you're waking up to the news of Democrats' massive overperformance in a dark-red district and aren't yet subscribed to @the-downballot.com, you should seriously consider it. Races like this around the country are meticulously tracked, and you'll learn a ton.

BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points. How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:

Updating my syllabus in Criminal Procedure to reflect the Supreme Court's decision in Case v. Montana is creating a Who's on First situation. "What are we reading instead of Brigham City?" "Case." "Which one?" "Case."

Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"

ironic that the political party with a number in its name doesn't understand how numbers work

the tiny entrance to the Virginia Court of Appeals next to the Virginia Supreme Court building really amuses me

every day brings the most unhinged Mad Libs-style headlines, and it never fucking ends