“We have to respect the constitution…” The fuck we do. These racist, classist, sexist motherfuckers laid out an authoritarian state and were supposed to revere the thing because there were additions that people had to die to get done? What’re we doing here.

15 years ago today, Kate and William killed Osama Bin Laden at their wedding.

So to review: This ICE flight left El Paso, stopped in Baltimore for fuel, did two (illegal) chain refoulements of Ukrainians to Poland and Russians to Moldova, then deported people to Armenia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Georgia. They were shackled the whole time. No stretching, no walking around.

Same. Get out of my mentions and get a fucking hobby.

Yes. The text of the 14th and 15th Amendments explicitly gives the power to decide how to enforce these amendments to Congress. The Civil Rights Movement was an attempt to enforce the Reconstruction amendments. By undoing the work of the movement, you are undoing the results of the Civil War.

landlords, and airbnb hosts most of all, operate under the incredible delusion that they are entitled to infinite, guaranteed profit. all reward, no risk.

Watching the rest of the world live in the future is annoying. insideevs.com/news/794295/...

Folks who know American history well are much better prepared to clearly see what this political era demands of us if we are to have a democracy.

okay but if Bowie dying is what sent us into this spiral how do you explain the world before Bowie was born

Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA slate.com/news-and-pol...

chatbots seem built for dudes who think the stripper actually likes them

it’s gonna be real interesting to see how many right wing media personalities start trying to pivot to something else

The United States is not at war for purposes of the War Powers Act clock, but is at war for purposes of characterizing dissent or opposition as treason. Got it.

"I think the White House might make all of us take security more seriously if they did not politicize it within hours of an assassination attempt against the president," said Juliette Kayyem, homeland security expert and former assistant DHS secretary. https://to.pbs.org/4ehWH45

The spontaneous party that broke out outside the White House on election night 2012. There were people climbing on lamp posts and cheering, it was great. That, and the airport protests on day one of the Muslim ban in 2017, and the lawyers who showed up to rep people in CBP custody. Heroes all.

anyway

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just for the record, the War Powers Resolution requires the president to terminate the *use of the armed forces* after 60 days, not just declare the conflict terminated.

can we just recognize that fox news tried to put out a hit list of bluesky shitposters and the only result was everyone on here laughing at them

Me on the Fifth Circuit's *massive* Friday night ruling purporting to re-impose the in-person dispensation requirement for Mifepristone; how it’s déjà vu all over again; and how it's a good reminder of why, sometimes, we *need* an emergency docket at #SCOTUS: www.stevevladeck.com/p/224-the-re...

the USAID conspiracies, but real

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The War Was Never A War And Also We Won The War Which Is About To Be Resolved By The Best Deal Ever And Also Is Terminated

In our January 2026 survey, more than half of Americans (55%) said medication abortion should be legal in their state, while a much smaller share (26%) said it should be illegal. About two-in-ten (18%) said they were not sure.

Once again asking what the point is of having boards of random unelected rich people governing colleges and universities

i genuinely wish the democratic national committee was as powerful, organized and ruthless as a lot of people seem to think it is

Time for the weekly presidential pump and dump.

NEW: The White House has sent Congress a new letter providing more formal notification of its view that the War Powers Resolution's 60-day clock for the Iran War is no longer ticking. 1/n

I should clarify something: When I say the supreme court elections are in 19 days, I mean THE GENERAL ELECTIONS. (These aren't primaries; it's the races that will determine two of the seats on the Georgia supreme court for years.)

“As governor, I will veto any map that dilutes the voices of Black and Latino voters,” Keisha Lance Bottoms, Dem gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, told me in a statement. Don't miss this angle. The SCOTUS ruling suddenly makes races like GA gov more consequential.

Tomorrow marks 99 years since Buck v. Bell, the infamous and much criticized U.S. Supreme Court opinion written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. finding Virginia’s eugenical sterilization law constitutionally valid.

* US WARNS SHIPPERS THAT PAYING TOLLS FOR STRAIT OF HORMUZ PASSAGE PUTS THEM AT THE RISK OF SANCTIONS -- STATEMENT @reuters.com

7. Put another way, agents of the government want to prosecute Cole Allen for a "shooting" that appears to have been committed by agents of the government.

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

A handful of consumers have filed a lawsuit over the upcoming Warner Bros. Discovery merger, focused partially on CNN losing editorial independence. www.avclub.com/subscribers-...

Everything is fucking horrible.

Nearly 20 women housed at a Brantley County nonprofit raced to flee flames. Their rural campus has survived — barely. It’s unclear when they’ll be allowed back.

Georgia's supreme court elections are in just 19 days. And they're so important: Two liberal attorneys are aiming to oust a pair of GOP-appointed justices. Voting rights already were a defining issue, & that was before Callais heightened the stakes. So much to unpack here. NEW in Bolts:

the annoying thing about the nyt cletus focus group isn’t that voters are dumb (they are, but not that dumb), it’s that the nyt thinks a bunch of drooling republicans are the median voter because no one at that awful paper has ever traveled southwest of 57th and broadway

"So in one stroke, PR could do a better job fighting racial vote dilution than Section 2 ever did, and do so without triggering equal protection objections." electionlawblog.org?p=155758

and then laundered as important voices through the "legitimate" media platforms those same billionaire pedos have captured

at the gas station this morning paying over $60 to fill up my honda I chatted with some of the other customers. the refrain was constant: build the damn ballroom

this guy is gonna fucking lose lol

A humorous artifact of the courts corruption. Barely anyone even mentions how obvious it is that the new and expanded “eve of election” doctrine doesn’t apply in this case since obviously it would hurt the gop.

And that’s convenient because the solution to polarization is to “take down the temperature,” while the solution to authoritarianism is to dismantle corrupt regimes via popular uprisings. 2/2

🚨🚨 Gov. Kemp: There will be NO redistricting in Georgia in 2026 after the Supreme Court’s decision in Callais, citing that primary elections voters are already casting ballots. 🚨🚨

AstraZeneca shares dip after US regulatory panel rejects breast cancer drug reut.rs/4ujCT4Z

Congress didn't do this. The Republicans are killing people. Since Congress Let Obamacare Subsidies Expire, Millions Are Dropping Coverage www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/b...