The excellence of @izzy-diaz.bsky.social

They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...

governor brainworms

Jared Polis is so completely full of shit. His commutation of Tina Peters' sentence has nothing to do with freedom of speech. What a joke. What an insult to the law-abiding citizens of Colorado. What an assault on free and fair elections. An embarrassing profile in cowardice.

Disgraceful. Absolutely disgraceful. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The KKKourt is hard at work

Since Callais came down, Democracy Docket has published 81 pieces of redistricting content: 74 news stories 4 analysis pieces 3 op-eds I challenge you to find another news outlet with more detailed coverage. Support independent and pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

The always excellent @izzy-diaz.bsky.social

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Kennedy's goal here is consistent with all of his other policies aimed at undermining proven health interventions: he believes the people who benefit from them are defective and he wants them culled from the population. It's comic book villain logic, specifically Viltrumite logic.

The language of "and it creates backlashes" is, once again, to minimize the agency of those who organize and participate in illiberal countermobilizations.

Examples, please.* *And no, please don't bring up Hillary Clinton's "deplorables" comment from a decade ago, unless you discuss the whole speech in context.

cool

"No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices." Edward R. Murrow, who died on this day in 1965

They think we are all stupid. 🤬

Sofi Centurión Japanese watercolor and gouache on paper

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man? ~ Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 🖋 📖 #greenwitch #books #learning #reading #stephenking #truth #facts #sciencefiction #peace

For John Constable http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hockney-for-john-constable-p03184

Yeah, fighting for democratic principles by letting people who are hostile to democracy hold power indefinitely would be disastrous for democracy. The media pretending not to understand this gives away the game.

If Republicans are really upset about gerrymandering, then they can join Dems in doing something to end it on both sides. Rep Jamie Raskin tells me he'd be "delighted" to work with Rs on future bills (epic trolling here): newrepublic.com/article/2093...

News accounts are straining to portray the Virginia move as a betrayal of Dems' principled opposition to gerrymandering. It's pure bullshit. Dems passed a 2021 bill ending it for *both sides.* The Dem position is that Trump/Rs don't get to play by their own rules: newrepublic.com/article/2093...

Good lord in heaven www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Heartbreaking description of the pointless, thoughtless damage being done to the Kennedy Center. It was such an important part of life in Washington, and is now being destroyed for no reason www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

The great @izzy-diaz.bsky.social yesterday

1 remaining copy of The Film That Saved My Life, an understated but moving collection of reminiscences. mzs.press/The-Film-Tha...

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Excellent work by Paula Ailén at @artsallianceofstfd.bsky.social

Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway. My newsletter.

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

and yet the intensity of reporting around trump and affordability has not reached 1/10000th the intensity it had under biden. the msm is not emphasizing this issue and its because theyre trying to help trump and the gop.

Mad Magazine, over 50 years ago

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

The amazing @izzy-diaz.bsky.social

Wisconsin already has among the harsher rules in the country — since many people who're not presently in prison are barred from voting because they're on parole and probation. Roughly half the states in the nation allow anyone not in prison to vote, including recently in neighboring Minnesota:

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER EUROPE Thousands of records are being brutalized with margins never seen before allover Europe from West to East In 3 centuries of world climatic history there had never been anything remotely close to this. Wait for MANY posts. Most extreme day the world has ever seen

I fear it's being overlooked that next term, the Supreme Court will likely strike down: •what's left of the Voting Rights Act •all bans on LGBTQ conversion therapy for minors •the last remaining pillar of McCain–Feingold's campaign finance reform ... while upholding bans on trans student athletes.

Shoot The Messenger, Part II

Had the honor of working with @sensitivityandpowr.bsky.social today. Todo lo mejor, Sol. Eres excelente.

life session today

The "unable to independently verify the language" implies that they are fully confident that the question was asked, and slightly less confident about how it was answered.

And for *some reason* Reuters didn’t put in the headline that the answer was “NO, IT’S FOR WHITES ONLY”

this is an explicitly white nationalist administration in a way that even woodrow wilson shied away from www.reuters.com/world/africa...

"Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

Vexatious litigation initiated or funded by right wing billionaires is one of the more potent attacks on free speech.

89% of Americans want the files released according to a CBS/YouGov poll

I'm adopting it

When the minimum wage doesn’t go up, it goes down in buying power. The federal minimum wage has been stuck at $7.25 per hour since July 24, 2009. The federal minimum wage peaked in buying power way back in 1968, when it was worth $15.09 in 2025 dollars.

Was fortunate enough to draw @izzy-diaz.bsky.social today