U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

I wrote this in 2016.

Thinking about this part... "Before the second recess, all four of Louisiana’s Black congressmen, past and present, since the Reconstruction era spoke to the committee..."

Grifters love every “no guarantee” clause like it’s the first-born child they wanted.

As miserable as everything is, the excellent Volts podcast had some experts on to talk about the big trends in electrification, and they are deeply heartening. The US is faltering, but the world races on. open.substack.com/pub/davidrob...

If Republicans enact their planned gerrymandering, they can lose the popular vote by *4 percent* and *still keep the House.* www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Sometimes it is worth remembering.

This is what journalism is supposed to be about.

Affordable EVs are about to hit North America in a big way - just not all parts of North America. My take on what the U.S. is missing, and the potential consequences of sitting out this round of electric vehicle development. www.insidehook.com/electric/exc...

Highly relevant today with all this Jim Crow 2.0 going on. JD Vance told far-right podcast the Civil War is still ongoing and he’s with the South www.alternet.org/jd-vance-civ...

This chart shows why Democrats can’t unilaterally disarm while Republicans are gutting civil rights laws to pass ever more extreme gerrymanders. Dems could redraw several states by 2028—but if they don’t, the GOP could make the House winnable for Dems in anything but the biggest wave election

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So a big reason the executive class is so high on generative AI, not even specifically at work but in their personal lives, wanting to talk to it a lot, wanting to use it for everything, is a lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of dealing with other autonomous humans.

The Speaker of the House in Alabama calls on the courts to “overturn the 14th Amendment.” This is the same legislative body, a court found engaged in intentional racial discrimination in drawing voting maps in the Milligan case. x.com/austinpratt_...

Because this is getting lost in a lot of headlines, this is both less imminent and more ridiculous than it seems: In 2023 SCOTUS said "this is too racist even for us, draw better maps" & AL said "no u" & they fought & AL lost & is forbidden to redistrict before 2030. They're asking permission now.

the GOP laid the foundations for this from the 60s to the 2000s, they are reaping decades of organizing work. it will take decades of work to take it back from them. it will take the rest of your life.

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

So the President’s out of his mind, and a system which allows this to continue is not, in fact, a good system.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

They may fuck this up so badly that I see proportional representation in my lifetime.

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

"Billionaires don't just try to buy elections. They also promote the conspiracy theories and malaise that steer people toward fascist politicians, who in turn allow billionaires to loot the country." Listen to @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @smotus.bsky.social: www.offmessage.net/p/saving-dem...

“Citations in academic papers are intended to ground research in the work that preceded it, over time creating something of a family tree explaining the roots of ideas, protocols, & studies. But a growing number of these citations lead to dead ends.“🧪 @aniloza.bsky.social

damn I was gonna quote-post with an excerpt but I can't pick, every one is a banger, well done

This entire story—we are living through the past and racing against history

Okay, I'm in. youtu.be/5FEOUP1BBRg?...

I don't think people who decry automated content moderation understand that manual content moderation at scale involves inflicting tremendous mental anguish on people in the global South.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

BREAKING: An FBI agent interviewed a high-ranking Wisconsin election official in recent days about the 2020 election. The agent wanted to know how elections are carried out and about various 'theories'. The election official had to debunk false claims and clarify how elections work.

"Trump is now effectively blocking any new wind projects in the US, according to the main renewables trade group, using the federal government’s power over all things air and sky to grind a routine approval process to a screeching halt," reports @jael.bsky.social: heatmap.news/plus/the-fig... 🔌💡

Pour one out, gang. www.comicsbeat.com/the-last-com...

This follows from a categorization error that the Confederacy lost the Great Rebellion now d/b/a the Civil War. While the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered at Appamattox & of Tennessee at Greensboro, the Confederacy won the post-war peace & its politics have dominated the US ever since. 1/

This trend is starting to break the link between gas and electricity prices, with gas setting the price of power roughly 25% less often in March/April 2026 than in 2022 More details in the article: www.carbonbrief.org/... 5/5

they're breaking Hanlon's razor because you can no longer distinguish between incompetence and conspiracy

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

Making insider trading great again. Every time Trump has signaled that the Iran war might be ending, insiders with advance knowledge have made killings by shorting oil futures. There needs to be full investigations and accountability. @pkrugman.bsky.social

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.

Sure looks like Republicans redrew the map in Tennessee to stop Memphis from sending Justin J. Pearson to Congress, who is/was poised to win the primary after fighting like hell against Elon Musk's methane-spewing data centre monstrosities in South Memphis. Craven, desperate and racist as hell.

NEW, for @nysfocus.com: Last month, we obtained hours of body-cam from Oswego County. It showed sheriff's deputies pulling over drivers — and if the drivers didn't speak English, the deputies called Border Patrol. Some drivers were held for 30+ min while BP responded. nysfocus.com/2026/05/07/o...

Microcosm of the horror of this post-Callais moment: the Mississippi House plans to hold its redistricting session in the Old Capitol where they seceded & instituted Jim Crow. They'll meet there aiming to erase Bennie Thompson's district — the one majority-Black district in a state that's ~40% Black

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

Yay, we were right on LEVERAGE agaaain. Yay.

I need a 30 volume digest library of these. 🎨 by @hercreative on IG

Corruption is the central affordability issue