Some Republicans would rather Black Americans pick cotton than pick their Congressperson. They want politicians to decide who their voters are, instead of the voters determining who their Representatives are. We must use every tool available to defend the sacred right to vote.

So help me if anyone says they need a reason to get off their butt and vote…

Just obscene.

"As they rushed into his apartment...he felt the jaws of a large dog biting into his ankle, knocking him to the floor. He screamed as the dog tore the flesh from his thighs, hip and wrist. Down the hall, agents took a mother and her 16-yr-old son at gunpoint..." www.propublica.org/article/chic...

We do not need panel discussions about the "dismantling of Black Studies." Cross the street and ask the local church if you can run a Black Studies Saturday school in their basement for interested community members.

The photo that perfectly sums up the Beijing summit.

Over this day.

Justin Jones is there! #CAleg

Drama on the Assembly floor debating a resolution telling Congress to reauthorize the VRA. Members are heckling and trashing each other and Lowenthal is scolding them like children. #CAleg

Dear Carl DeMaio: discrimination against white people doesn’t exist. #CAleg

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...

Is he saying that those state residents don't deserve representation and should be represented by someone who represents other communities in the state?

I heard Kim Kardashian wants to be a lawyer—she’s failed the bar exam 3+ times. She’d be perfect for the DOJ. via @ballsandstrikes.org open.substack.com/pub/ballsand...

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If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck…

🧵 Folks, I’m tired… and I know a whole lot of us are tired. Our party isn’t perfect. Our leaders aren’t perfect. But there are people right now putting everything they have into standing up in this moment. Constructive criticism matters. Accountability matters.

The state legislature tried to make a 63 percent black city live with a statue honoring a slave trader, KKK leader, and convict lessor. Now they’re going to make sure Memphians are represented in Congress by someone who hates them, and is terrified to step foot in the city. (Or any city.)

Advice needed: my office just moved locations and the Head Boss stuck me in what was previously a conference room. One of the offices went to the interns to share instead of to me. I don’t know why—supervisor claims not to know either. Should I say something?

You couldn’t pay me to travel on one of these floating incubators of disease.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

If the Democrats let Republicans have this INSANELY easy W, I am going to be apoplectic. This shit polls like chlamydia. Get on the other side of it now and be loud about it.

Insane being a Californian seeing people post pictures of $4 gas going ‘I don’t know how we’re expected to survive.’ You are a weak people, grown decadent and fat on the sap of the earth. You will welcome our armies as liberators.

I was forced to the back of the bus. This ain't theoretical for me. I lived this shit.

We are not the same…

All. Of. This.

No wonder Trump laments Robert E. Lee's loss at Gettysburg. After multiple defeats on Northern soil, POTUS 47 looks to the ex-Confederacy to indict his enemies and save Congress by deleting Black districts We shall overcome the new Southern strategy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Expect the New York Times to start devoting an entire team to covering the nascent Carlson campaign; they will visit diners, and Klaverns, across the country to answer the key question of our time: Why do Carlson supporters think Jews are planning to replace them with Mexicans? 3/

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This is a sequel to the NY Times's account of a visit to another famous influencer's country retreat, published on August 20, 1939. It was titled: HERR HITLER AT HOME IN THE CLOUDS. 1/

I'm not sure people are really aware of the extent to which the US passenger automotive market is dominated by big trucks. 90% of Ford's profit comes from F-series trucks. Unless pickups are regulated out of existence - good luck - if you want widespread EV adoption, you *have to* get pickup trucks.

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

3 May 1908 | A Romanian Jew, Lionel Almuly, was born in Bucharest. He lived in France. In May 1944 he was deported to #Auschwitz. He did not survive. --- 🎧/📖 The development of the mass murder infrastructure at Auschwitz: https://bit.ly/46ryjrT

This is an abortion ban

The same day SCOTUS dismantled the Voting Rights Act, I watched Kamala Harris take the stage at the Douglas Awards. She didn’t offer comfort; she offered real talk 🔥 “This is how they play. They are strategic. They think long-term and they are ruthless…we have to be ruthless too.”

One urgent takeaway from all this is that state legislative races just got even more important. They will help decide whether Dems can prevent the GOP from locking in a near-permanent majority. And gov races in places like Georgia are now hugely consequential. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

It did not get enough attention (amid all the other really shitty news) that DOJ had to drop the felony conspiracy charge against @katmabu.bsky.social and her 3 (originally 5) co-defendants.

Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress

If you treat people with kindness and know how to count to 218, please consider applying for a job House GOP leadership. For the second night this week we are going home early because they can’t do either.

This is what Du Bois meant when he said Black America stepped briefly into the sun and then fell under the veil.

And was among the reasons the Federalist Society came to be.

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

I am not being hyperbolic. Our insistence on segregating our histories, in encapsulating the struggle for voting/civil rights as a Black struggle and not an American one, has helped bring us to this moment. We did not have representative democracy until 1965. W/o the VRA, it is unlikely to survive.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

Alito also notes that Black turnout reached near parity with White turnout in 2 of the past 5 presidential elections. But which two, Justice Alito?? Oh, the LAST TWO before Shelby County? You don't say!

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

a catastrophic loss

nobody hates black people the way clarence thomas does. the day he is off the court the court will be down an anti-black racist.

this is very funny as well as good evidence — you know, beyond what we can see with our own eyes — that there is not some epidemic of anti-white discrimination

As was mentioned last time around, Nixon tried to pull this against the Washington Post and lost. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/b...

Oh Carl DeMaio. Always opposing the most non-controversial things. #doingitforthegram #CAleg