I know that it's Calvinball now but saying you're going to dismantle a district because it's 47% African American sure seems like the intentional racial discrimination that's still banned

We’re demanding records on Paramount's capitulation to Trump because shareholders are entitled to know when the government leverages corporate transactions to meddle in editorial decisions. Read from @megjames.bsky.social and @bwieder.bsky.social about our letter:

If the Supreme Court is concerned about its declining public legitimacy and thinks too many Americans are calling the Supreme Court illegitimate, the majority could try not issuing bad faith rulings that illegitimately distort law in pursuit of undemocratic partisan power. That’s always an option.

Any blue state trifecta gov who doesn’t gerrymander to max ahead of ‘28 is done @governorwalz.mn.gov @tinakotek.bsky.social @governorferguson.bsky.social @mikiesherrill.bsky.social @govsherrill.bsky.social @govwesmoore.bsky.social @governor.pa.gov @abigailspanberger.com @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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...

As @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social keeps saying, this perpetual chipping away at democratic fairness hacks the system w/ veneer of legitimacy, resulting in competitive authoritarianism. The spectacle of blue states redistricting by referendum and red states delaying elections to do so is an example.

We’re in the “break glass in case of emergency” moment for American democracy. Democrats can create 22 new blue US House seats by 2028 by redrawing maps in: – New York – Colorado – Maryland – Oregon – Wisconsin – Minnesota – Pennsylvania Time to take action.

i think the fact that we are STILL in the position that we, the democratic base, have to convince a bunch of recalcitrant senators to do things like ditch the filibuster, admit DC and PR (if they want it) as states, and, most importantly, reform SCOTUS, identifies all my problems with the party

This will make for the quite split screen for when Florida's conservative supreme court likely ignores the state's 2010 constitutional amendments and blesses DeSantis' +4 map.

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A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

The Michigan Democrats kept full control of the State Senate after winning the #SD35 special election last night in a landslide. Democrat Chedrick Greene won this Harris+1 district in the Tri-Cities by 19 points, the best Democratic performance here in decades at least.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

We are watching the worst assault on multiracial democracy since the Pettus bridge. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

There was a rumor that Maryland's Dem Senate leader made a deal with Indiana GOP senators not to redraw either state's congressional map. Whatever his real reason, blocking a new MD map in 2026 and especially a constitutional amendment to lawsuit-proof it looks very foolish bsky.app/profile/step...

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

Entire discourses about “civility” and “political violence” (punching Nazis, comments about Charlie Kirk, being rude to senators at restaurants etc) but stuff like this - the systemic mass murder of hundreds of thousands - is coded as somehow apolitical, not deserving of consequence or punishment

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

We have a year’s worth of economic data since Liberation Day, when President Trump announced much higher tariffs on most imported goods and countries, and the data are definitive; the tariffs have done significant damage to the economy.

Good example of how stupid the conservative intellectual interpretation of 20th century US history is; in the 1960s there was a beautiful, brave, heroic movement to end racism which completely succeeded by 1965, at which point the activists all instantly became race-communists and welfare queens.

I’ve never encountered anyone who called themselves a free speech absolutist who didn’t want to suppress speech they don’t like

Anyone remember the Purcell doctrine, saying courts shouldn't change electoral districts too close to the election because it might cause confusion? Remember how SCOTUS applied it six months ago to say it was already too late to invalidate the Texas districts? Funny how that didn't happen in Callais

“[A]s the Court’s radical right has become increasingly entrenched, it has become increasingly self-referential. ... They can cite themselves approvingly and call it a day.” @jessewegman.bsky.social of @brennancenter.org on Callais. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

New York Dems are discussing how to amend their constitution to redraw the congressional map for 2028 to respond to GOP gerrymanders. Like CA & VA Dems did, lawmakers say they’d favor suspending NY’s bipartisan commission over abolishing it. They’d have to pass it before & after the 2026 elections

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

Dems can redraw 10 additional House seats for 2028 just in New York, Colorado, Oregon and Maryland, the new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. That's if Dems don't flip *any* state legislatures this cycle. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

In case you haven’t heard… Alaskans are ready for a change.

Thinking about everyone who generously helped Sarah Isgur rebrand as a savvy Supreme Court pundit, as I read the email in which she says, regarding doing PR for Trump's DOJ during family separation, that "there is no better job in politics," and that she "can't begin to tell you how much fun I had"

Don’t underestimate the backlash to Trump publicly ordering up a mid-decade redraw in Texas because Republicans are “entitled to five more seats.” And then getting it. That moment killed the (then still robust) Democratic resistance to maximal warfare with their own gerrymanders.

Only 2 hours left, Virginia. Polls close at 7 PM. If you haven’t voted yet, now is the time to head to your polling place. Vote YES today and ensure your voice is heard in this critical redistricting election: iwillvote.com/va

no basketball player - maybe no sports player - has ever had the hype that LeBron James did as a kid he came into the league with his expectations set at “if he doesn’t finish top 10 all time he’s a bust” he somehow exceeded them

There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter. But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

"Trump ended free trade for Mexican tomatoes. Prices are up 23 percent in the last year." reason.com/2026/04/17/t...

Trump is weird rich coastal elite who is at least as out of touch with real people as Mitt Romney was but gets covered like a man of the people because he’s racist and stupid.

President Trump has protected, pardoned and/or partied with a lot of pedophiles. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

There’s no excuse why Democrats haven’t flooded the airwaves about the plethora of sex offenders and pedophiles Donald Trump has personally put back into our neighborhoods.

Absolutely, and at the same time: if a foreign government was routinely funding a major annual left-wing event for Americans that was attended by even one Democratic politician, it would be covered as the scandal of the century

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Trump is running an interesting experiment in how many self-identified Christian Americans have actual religious commitments and how many are just into it because it provides a means for the socially defensible expression of bigotry bsky.app/profile/bria...

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

Viktor Orban accomplished so much of what the Trump movement wants to accomplish here he ruled for 16 years and rewrote the rules in his favor and still, they threw him out and you know what? they did it by voting don’t let anyone tell you voting doesn’t matter

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

We fought and lost a war in Iran so that both the Iranians and the Russians could make far more money from oil—the Iranians from tolls, the Russians from higher prices and the end of sanctions. That isn’t just strategic defeat; it’s self-destructive foolishness at a level unknown to military history

Inflation to recover from a global pandemic while also making generational investments in infrastructure and clean energy: national scandal Inflation due to a war of choice and rising energy prices after cancelling investments in clean energy: art of the deal baby

Last year, Dr. Ezequiel Véliz was named 2025 Resident of the Year at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley. Last week, ICE detained him in McAllen, Texas—ripping him away from his family, his life, and his patients.

we are ten fucking years into this shit and the only political theory that has ever mattered that entire time is "orange man bad"

It would be very helpful for Democrats to establish now, IN ADVANCE, that future Democratic administrations will allow any relevant criminal proceedings to go forward, and that decisions made by military leaders today could have life-changing consequences for them in the future.