I think there should be a form of government where if something is opposed by 56 percent of people and supported by 28 percent that could in any way affect what the government does

They put one of yours in the hospital, you put out a statement about how disappointed you are. That’s the centrist way.

Really not sure how a democracy comes back from "no, that statewide election with a clear result didn't count because we say so." When of course in my state we 1) didn't even get a vote and 2) the state police held guns to the opposition, including my representative, to get their bill passed.

I’m just like Jesse Singal in that he published a series of articles that helped kickstart the nationwide backlash to trans rights and I’m someone who said we should all steel ourselves to die on the hill of trans rights together, but not leftistly enough

A dream of mine is to kill every last redeemer constitution

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

This, among other reasons, is why VA Dems can’t throw up their hands and wait til next year. Dems everywhere have tragically underweighted the importance of insisting on one set of rules for years. But now the GOP is enforcing double standards at gun point. Accept that passively, and it’s all over.

He’s revealed US to be a paper tiger on a global stage. A bully who picks unnecessary fights he can’t win, begs others for help & when denied, is sour grapes w “WE DON’T NEED YOU ANYWAY!” He has destroyed our status in the world & respect for US is at a historic low. Shameful.

Really wish some person or org could make 17-year-old 5-star football recruits understand the potential political power they hold by simply refusing to go play In states that disenfranchise black voters.

Pretty cool how one side gets to cheat and the other isn’t allowed to win fairly

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

Never Forget as We Americans and other nationalities die.

Michelle Obama warned everyone. Kamala Harris warned everyone. Hillary Clinton warned everyone.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

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He means white people.

if you show up at the trump white house on their request because your child was killed in action, you know he's going to make a mockery of it, he's made a mockery of it countless times over the last several years, and your attendance is an endorsement of and complicity in that mockery

Whenever a MAGA Trump supporter says you are "virtue signaling" it means that you're just being a decent human being. This is a concept that is foreign to them.

These are the kind of fighters we need. It's going to get nasty, folks. Time for massive Civil disobedience. We need 100 million on the street or we're headed for Civil War.

As I've said before, the Roberts court has badly miscalculated if it thinks the law can be used to defeat liberalism. The attempt to do so will only invalidate the law.

It's honestly remarkable how striking the similarities are between Roberts and Taney, both are partisans of a dead faction (Taney the last Jacksonian Democrat, and Roberts the last Country Club Republican) who thought One Decisive Judicial Writ that would settle a fundamentally political question

This is literally the logic of Taney, who thought he could use the law to defeat abolitionism

Russians were so desperate regarding their May 9 parade. It has been canceled in almost all major cities across the country and scaled down in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Numerous air defense systems all over the country had to be relocated around Moscow, exposing most of the country.

Again, you might have to live in DC to have a visceral sense of how vulgar, cruel, corrupt, and destructive this is. But great story in @nytimes.com about latest MAGA assault on decency: Mar-a-Lago-ization of the Reflecting Pool, in front of Lincoln Memorial. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

Remember when you told us we were being hysterical the night of the election in 2016? Remember when you told us SCOTUS was gonna be fine? That they wouldnt strip away abortion rights? Remember when we told you they were coming after marginalized communities?

Our government is lying to us.

The red square coordinates I’m crying

florida blatantly disregarding their state constitution is fine though? texas not putting it up to vote is fine though? but dems use a democratic process and virginia is invalid by a technicality?!

whoa

My entire lifetime has seen Republicans benefit from every structural bias in the system: two republican presidents elected while losing the popular vote,the senate being biased towards small rural conservative states,house and state legislatures being heavily gerrymandered, and a captured SCOTUS.

There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

Mary Ziegler: "If courts find that providing information about abortion isn’t constitutionally protected, that chilling impact will be immeasurably magnified."

Are Democrats Warming to Reforming the Supreme Court? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/are-d...

The voice of a deeply corrupt man running a deeply corrupt Court.

Eugenics Fucking Trash

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

How the fuck does the GOP explain this? www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"The right never lost their faith that if they were patient and determined enough, the 1960s could be undone — and maybe some of the 1860s too. They knew that even after a statue of a slaveholding traitor is torn down, defeat is not permanent. In fact, that statue may *literally* be raised back up."

“If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they’re going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can’t think of anything more un-American.” -Sen. Mark Kelly

We've had plenty of career politicians serve as Chief Justice -- former senators and governors, even a former president -- and yet none was such a nakedly partisan political figure in their role as Chief as John Roberts. He is a political hack and I'm glad hearing that simple truth makes him sad.

When someone has a 63% disapproval rating and goes to a Yankees v. Tigers baseball game. Sound up:

Sen. Mark Kelly: "If you say something that the president or this administration does not like, they're going to come after you. The president is trying to silence us, and I can't think of anything that's more un-American."

Gas is $4.56 a gallon Let's check in on what the president is working on today:

For his entire life, every word out of his mouth has been a lie. And the media stopped caring a long time ago that he lies as he breathes. Hopefully one day soon the American people will say they’re tired of being lied to every single day.

Absolutely this and every single one of them who gets economically fucked by Trump is a Joy. We should celebrate it

"Small family farmers" are a paradigmatic Trump constituency. They are not working class -- they're all millionaires! They are classic "local gentry." They voted to fuck everyone else, and they got fucked. They deserve zero of your sympathy.

Listen to this farmer. Farmers were not "lied to"! Trump *campaigned* on starting a trade war. Everyone knew perfectly well that he was going to start a trade war. They thought his handouts would make up for it. They have absolutely no one to blame but themselves.

The great flaw in Plessy is its refusal to see segregation for what it is. This willful naïveté animates Callais as well It pretends partisan gerrymandering is a reasonable, race- neutral prerogative of the state, the same justification Plessy used for Jim Crow www.motherjones.com/politics/202...