Trying hard to find an acceptable context for that quote and coming up short.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

So not only did TN Republicans strip Memphis of representation, Speaker Sexton is also stripping Dems of committees for protesting it. Watch fascism work. www.wsmv.com/2026/05/12/m...

I encourage states to review the text of Fuck You v. Make Me

Oooooh, Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel. So not just the clowns, the ELITE clowns.

Georgia's governor signs a comically transparent law. It makes local elections in 5 big blue counties nonpartisan, to give GOP candidates a chance to win without a party label in places like Atlanta. And it doesn't change anything in the rest of the state, for red counties to know who's GOP.

Note that this NYT story revealing Iran has used the ceasefire to reaccess its missiles includes Maggie and Swan on the byline, suggesting that senior political people--not just the NatSec sources who'd tell Adam Entous--want this story out. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/u...

Very cool version of this monthly global average surface temperature anomaly chart showing both El Niño and La Niña years

She should quit. Vote her out.

In a functional democracy, this would be a career-ending scandal.

Mike Johnson, like Sam Alito wants you to believe that the Reconstruction Amendments and the Voting Rights Act were designed to protect white men from discrimination. It’s obnoxious, racist and wrong.

Two conservative incumbent West Virginia Supreme Court justices lost to more moderate* opponents last night. *by a matter of degrees

The new Supreme Court case about mifepristone is about more than just one abortion drug. It’s about whether conservatives can enforce a nationwide ban and we need to all be aware of the details. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Will SCOTUS restrict access to the abortion pill, Mifepristone? @ucdavislaw.bsky.social professor @maryrziegler.bsky.social joins @preetbharara.bsky.social & me to discuss the case on a new @cafedotcom.bsky.social Insider episode: cafe.visitlink.me/LjWbZQ

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

"Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, in a new letter is accusing Blanche of leveraging his “office to improperly shower government cash on Donald Trump’s political operatives and sycophants.”

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

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.

I asked Virginia State Senate leader Scott Surovell why Republicans always seem to find a way around such procedural obstacles whereas Dems are so often stymied by them. The exchange got interesting: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

Alabama asked the Supreme Court for permission to abandon court-ordered maps and go back to using ones the Court ruled were in violation of the Voting Rights Act, just three years ago, in the wake of Callais. Today, the Supreme Court said yes. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

SCOTUS, which ordered Alabama to create a second Black opportunity district just 3 years ago, has lifted that order a week before the primary. The Purcell principle says courts shouldn't permit chaos too close to an election—it's now an open question whether there will even be a primary on schedule.

From the per curiam order in Purcell: "Court orders affecting elections, especially conflicting orders, can themselves result in voter confusion and consequent incentive to remain away from the polls. As an election draws closer, that risk will increase." supreme.justia.com/cases/federa...

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

Trump—ironically sundowning at dusk from the portico—is publicly admitting that he appointed his personal fixer to be Attorney General of the United States, because he is very good at shielding him from legal consequences for decades and decades of his high crimes and misdemeanours.

DOJ has subpoenaed WSJ for its sources on the story about the warnings Dan Caine gave Trump before he ignored all those warnings and started a war anyway. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Trump hired a company that had previously worked on his private golf club for this job repainting the Reflecting Pool in DC. The company was given a no-bid contract that, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times, included a 20 percent profit margin Remember DOGE?

This is the second time in a week the Supreme Court has sidestepped process in a way that helps GOP adopt new maps to maximize partisan advantage even as election season is underway.

This is the very type of intentional racial discrimination that SCOTUS claims is still illegal even after Callais. SC is 25% Black but Norman says Black voters shouldn't be able to elect a candidate in any of the state's 7 districts

🚨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/...

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

With enormous thanks to @allyjar.bsky.social for starting this resource, link to the map here: tyler-mcbrien.github.io/state-court-...

Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS *chose,* and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:

It's a mystery to me why college graduates on their big day thinking about a dismal job market and an uncertain future would boo the "job killing machine."

Crucial point from @ariberman.bsky.social on the pod: Dems have already tried leading by example as a way to try to entice Rs to deescalate the hardball. It failed. Time to try something else: Dems must now engage in redistricting Total War. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2102...

In an interview, Mommy said 'peekaboo' and reappeared, seeming to undermine messaging from moments earlier when she disappeared.

Your regular reminder that when David Duke ran for statewide office in the early 1990s, the MAJORITY of white Louisiana voters pulled the lever for him. This was AFTER they’d seen the pictures of Duke in a Klan outfit and a Nazi uniform.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to gut the Voting Rights Act, Republican-controlled states are aiming to give the GOP an unfair edge in the 2026 midterm by gerrymandering their congressional maps. See where redistricting stands in your state:

The more things change The more they stay the same.

The idea of "overturning" or "repealing" the 14th Amendment was a pretty fringe proposition until recently, but it wasn't unheard of. Obviously the former Confederates wanted to do that. But it was also a white nationalist talking point in the Cold War era. This is 1988.

Note how this isn't some off-the-cuff misstatement or exaggeration. He has an entire dishonest chain of reasoning built on misrepresenting VAERS data and dubious extrapolation from the Harvard Pilgrim study. This is a planned lie that would not survive any scrutiny; he knows he won't get any.

Tennessee NAACP goes to court to stop "late-decade Congressional redistricting," and the law sure looks to be on their side.

It’s very important to note (because the people this will affect are already prone to anxiety!) per the article the FDA has no authority whatsoever to do this and in fact drug companies can simply refuse to comply - and have done so with other drugs as recently as last month.

The First Amendment is clear: The federal government can't punish media organizations just because it doesn't like what they have to say. By fighting back, ABC is sending an important message: Our rights are worth fighting for.

Just in at #SCOTUS: Alabama is asking the justices for emergency relief by next Thursday to allow the state to re-draw its congressional maps in light of Callais (and notwithstanding the Supreme Court's 2023 decision affirming the district court injunctions from which Alabama is now seeking relief).

NEWS: Virginia Dems have filed a motion asking the Supreme Court of Virginia to delay issuing its mandate striking down the congressional redistricting referendum. The filing states the Commonwealth intends to file an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court of seeking review of the decision.

BREAKING: The Alabama Senate voted to approve a GOP gerrymandering plan designed to strip Black voters of political representation. The vote comes as Alabamians have already begun casting their ballots in the state’s primaries. The bill now heads to Gov. Kay Ivey (R) for a signature.

Virginia supreme court's inexplicable ruling against the will of voters on redistricting dramatically raises the urgency for Dems to redistrict in other states before 2028. The stakes in state legislative races this cycle just got more urgent. My piece on that here: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

This administration ended work from home policies that caused many federal employees who can't afford DC price to leave government. In the meantime, Cabinet Secretaries treat their jobs like a side hustle to their brand building.

The three dissenting justices have the goods: "...today the majority has broadened the meaning of the word 'election,' as used in the Virginia Constitution, to include the early voting period. This is in direct conflict with how both Virginia and federal law define an election."