This is a metaphor more metaphorical than any metaphor that has ever metaphored before.

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

Sliced and diced Memphis in to thirds to split the vote of the only majority Black city in TN

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

Again. But we have to fight every inch of the way before November. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

We need to hold them accountable at the polls. Flip some Republican-held districts and they might be more wary of gerrymandering

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

Remember, Democrats have repeatedly advanced measures to ban partisan gerrymandering and Republicans have voted against them time after time. This is the game Republicans wanted to play. OK, then.

This was 15 months ago.

I can’t believe that we’re on the brink of nuking Iran because a smart Black man in a tan suit once made fun of a reality tv host.

So much winning

"Initially they had fewer than a dozen people who volunteered as delivery drivers; now they have about 130..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Testing that 2023 high. ⛽️

It’s crystal clear now that Trump has lost control of this war. He badly misjudged Iran’s ability to retaliate. The region is on fire. 1/ I’m going to explain to you in this🧵what I’ve learned - in part from closed door briefings - about the four biggest current crises.

Congrats to everyone who voted for Trump and a Republican Congress "for the economy." This is what you get, a sputtering job creation engine that can't make progress like before and keeps rolling backwards. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

Iraq war was started on a presidential lie but it feel like somehow the Iran war was started on something worse: a total presidential failure to comprehend even the most basic facts of the situation

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

Posted by accident?!? Sure

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

New tariff just dropped. Americans set to pay an additional 10% tax on all goods from Germany, the UK, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland. It starts in two weeks, rising to 25% by June. (Aside: A trade war with one EU country is a trade war with the entire EU).

Republicans have had it in for Memphis for awhile now. Bad days ahead if Sexton is collaborating with Stephen Miller to make TN a test ground for anti-immigrant legislation

NEW: We break down how to prepare yourself for the day ICE shows up in your area. @lhn.bsky.social, @regret.bsky.social, and @mattburgess1.bsky.social report. No paywall. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

If the United States Constitution doesn’t protect you from a federal agent shooting you in the face for the “crime” of turning your car around, it doesn’t exist. ICE has become a paramilitary force with zero oversight and a Secretary in Kristi Noem who encourages the chaos. ENOUGH.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Five years ago.

Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Maduro is a brutal and oppressive dictator of Venezuela. Trump has no legitimate legal basis for military action against Venezuela under United States or international law. Both of those facts are simultaneously true.

Yes, gifts are more expensive. Yes, it’s inflation. Yes, it’s Trump’s tariffs. Believe your eyes and your wallets

This entire weekend

Stop voting for people who refuse to pass any gun safety legislation

The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic and Republican party headquarters on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol told the FBI he believed conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, according to two people familiar with the matter. nbcnews.to/4pRUOh8

The total cost in salaries, benefits for up to 1,000 Tennessee National Guard personnel in Memphis could reach $26M annually, according to a federal memo filed in court, reports @awadwhani.bsky.gmail.

Grateful that Lee Harris, the county mayor, brought this lawsuit questioning the state constitutionality of calling up the National Guard. Millions spent to have them stand around at tourist spots and not where crime occurs

For those keeping track at home, this make 18 politicians convicted of corruption charges now pardoned by President Trump.

Citizens get arrested when they are targeting people based on skin color and accents

"For every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There's no way we can meet that gap. There's no way we can replace every single one of those meals. It is not sustainable for food banks to fill this gap. We were not built to do this."

The East Wing Obscenity This piece is on the free side of the paywall, and I have to admit that writing it made me more sad than I could have imagined. The ugly destruction isn’t just to a building, but to memory, history, and American grace. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is insane. Pure megalomania

The White House is asking people not to share pictures of the East Wing because it’s even worse today.

the president has destroyed the east wing of the white house without so much as a word of input from anyone else to build a royal ballroom paid for with bribes

After a week of ridiculous Republican smears and Trump claiming that “very few people are going to be there,” you just made history. #NoKings