Yep. This is the best way to understand the events of the past couple weeks. They have to dispense with the artifice of principle, because the risks of Dems winning and coming to power bent on accountability are simply too great. www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

“.. Bubbles are inflationary because they grossly misallocate capital. So while Data Center construction is going wild (+34% y/y), NFIB Small Business Capex plans are at recessionary levels.” - RBAdvisers

Listen to this and think about possibilities! substack.com/@tadstoermer...

In Opinion After the Virginia Supreme Court overturned a state redistricting vote, “the correct response is to fight back in the name of the people, who made their choice in a free and fair contest,” Jamelle Bouie writes. “Democrats must meet the moment. Or move over for people who will.”

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

Red states don’t hold referendums before they redraw maps to their advantage. They just do it. If the courts are going to keep moving the goalposts, maybe it’s time blue states stop asking permission.

Good answer.

For the first time in over a decade, the EU flag rises over Hungary’s parliament again. As Peter Magyar was sworn in as prime minister, the banner Viktor Orban stripped away in 2014 returned to the building above Budapest, carrying with it the grief, defiance, and hope of millions who never gave up.

My mind boggles at the people who are still saying, "But, but, the rules say...but but but...the process is..." Listen, Republicans don't care. They make shit up, bend the rules, ignore them, change them at will. Democrats have the majority in VA. Use your powers, be creative, & implement the map.

"What we've seen in the last 10 days has astonished me. I wasn't cynical enough. Because I thought the Callais ruling had come too late in the cycle for southern states with VRA-protected districts to dismantle them." New episode of @davidnir.com & Rupar is live: www.publicnotice.co/p/what-the-v...

Every word of this column has been my campaign’s message here in NY-17 because the work to reconstruction from the rubble of Trump’s wreckage begins in—and must be led by—Congress.

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

I make 65k a year right before going up to Full Professor please explain to me again how I am an ELITE and do not understand the perils of normal Americans.

Promises to overturn Citizens United and platitudes about people over profits mean nothing unless we have a plan for how to get it done. And that requires taking our power back from the Roberts Court. mikesacksforcongress.com

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

An agenda for Supreme Court reform: - 18 year term limits - Expand the court to 13 Justices - Binding ethics rules - Congressional limits on what the Court can rule on per act of legislation We need to change the composition of the Court, but also its role. The Court has far too much power.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

There’s going to be a market soon, a step beyond the data eraser companies, for feeding fake data into your algorithm to gain commercial advantage and disrupt targeting.

@uaprogaction.bsky.social join us at the Community Center on May 11 for a discussion on OH SB1's impacts. Stay plugged in to this important issue with speakers @profjeffries.bsky.social, @rachelcoyle.wtf, and OSU graduating student Hana El Nemr. www.uaprogressiveaction.com/node/1705

it is racial discrimination to try ensure that the representation of a minority group is roughly in line with its proportion of the state’s population. it is equal protection to allow a state to obliterate a minority group’s representation.

🔥 NEW SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov AD: “For too many, the story isn’t true… the math doesn’t work…The problem is a corrupt & failing system…If we can break the grip of corruption, our politics can meet the peoples’ needs instead of serving the wealthy & powerful.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DXvUvpJ...

Our poll: two-thirds of Americans support term limits for SCOTUS justices, and a slight majority favors expanding the bench from 9 to 13 justices www.gelliottmorris.com/p/two-thirds...

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

this is the incredible story @governorwalz.mn.gov cited in his address tonight

📌Barack Obama was targeted 11 times in assassination attempts during this two terms. I bet you don't remember any of them because they were handled through proper channels, professionally, and he isn't a whiny bitch.

No clip has ever captured the essence of born again Christians quite like this

There’s a Rooster for that. Also, she’s running the campaign Sherrod Brown wants her to run. You’ll notice he hasn’t said much, either. www.rooster.info/p/amy-acton-...

holy shit this is a helluva ad. this is what i want to see more of from the democrats.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia— AOC: Wah wah wah. We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no. What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

A dirty secret about me is that I am the most obnoxious writer in my own marriage but far from the most talented.

This will never not be right to me.

Wonderful! Unfortunately I'll doubt it we'll see this product taken off... the legacy plastic industry won't allow it.

Any Democratic presidential candidate without a plan to reckon with the illegitimate Supreme Court is not serious.

In a first last month, renewables supplied more power to the U.S. than natural gas, a milestone in the shift to clean energy.

Here's an excerpt -- read it and tell me that I suck lol

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Jan-Werner Müller has been following this closely.

This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

So let’s have universal health care and help people live in dignity.

The ultra-wealthy can’t cheat death, but they can use death to cheat taxes. Let me explain.

A must listen to what #BruceSpringsteen has to say, “this is happening now.”

Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu. Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran? Kerry: Yes, he wanted us to strike. He came to President Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Bush refused.

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

They actually think filling our mailboxes with this garbage (instead of actually talking to voters) wins elections.

If America has done good for you, you need to do good for America. We need a new social contract.

🔥 @rokhanna.bsky.social to Democratic leadership: “Get out. Let a new generation lead. You’ve been ineffective. The base doesn’t like you. The base wants fighters.”

Watch this and share widely please.

Brutal.