Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

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"It is a weird thing as a parent to feel like you were the lucky one and your kids are the unlucky ones." @elienyc.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social how it feels knowing that because of SCOTUS his kids will grow up with less rights than he had.

Please be on the lookout for an Emergency Transmission from @timheidecker.bsky.social this evening on theonion.info. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Don’t listen to me, here’s Ford’s CEO youtu.be/Gy8OAasb8-w?...

This means Amazon got what they wanted from the Melania movie. Since it was a losing proposition, this begs the question: what did they get out of it?

Seems a near-certainty to me that the Pentagon estimate of a cost of $25bn for the war so far is way way too low.

yesterday I learned that as of December last year more than half of freight trucks sold in China were EVs. the future is here prospect.org/2026/04/29/a...

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!

Fun start to cross-exam. OpenAI attorney William Savitt asks about Musk's earlier testimony, when he said: “No, Tesla is not pursuing AGI. It’s literally trying to make a car drive from A to B.” Savitt then showed Musk an X post from a month ago: "Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI"

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

I don't know how widely understood it is that the US is now conditioning lifesaving, utterly essential health aid to African countries on access to minerals and other ~sweet deals. I probably only know about it bc of the @unbreaking.org team that tracks it. healthpolicy-watch.news/ghana-rebuff...

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

🚨 HOT MIC: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was caught asking staff during questioning of Trump judicial nominees: “What would be wrong if they said Biden won?” Multiple people in the room heard it. GOP staffers were reportedly panicking, according to sources familiar.

“You get tired of people playing fast and loose with your dead. You know how many people are dead in the bottom of rivers in Mississippi because they tried to vote? Racism still occupies the throne of this country.” ~ Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Distinguished University Professor at Princeton #SCOTUS

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.

Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.

Oscar Isaac was in the Criterion Closet and he’s the first guy who I think properly understood that he gets all the movies for free and just overloaded the bag

@gtconway.bsky.social @thebulwark.com

His Majesty is saying we Americans should have no kings.

@jheil.bsky.social @nicollewallace.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social @chrislhayes.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social Imagine any other President incapable of securing musicians to perform at the King Charles State Dinner. @bencollins.bsky.social

@morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Ask Lindsay Graham about why the President is allowed to be at Mar-a-Lago if they're so concerned about security.

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

@stephruhle.bsky.social @msnowreports.bsky.social @velshi.com @symonedsanders.bsky.social @carolleonnig.bsky.social @cnn.com @nytimes.com The guy arrested in D.C. is a "teacher" if you consider teacher to be someone who works at a storefront tutoring and test-prep center.

There's a war on for your mind. theonion.info

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

This is a wild chart for production of a physical good.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

🔋Grid-scale batteries are replacing gas plants in CA’s evening energy peak! On 3/29, CAISO batteries delivered 12.3 GW (43% of demand) during peak hours, sustaining over 20% of the grid for hours during the evening ramp CA’s battery capacity has surged from 1.3 GW in 2020 to ~17 GW todsy

This is what the Teamsters leadership sold their souls in order to get lol

what’s funny about this is that tarantino wrote this “ezekiel 25:17“ for the film. it isn‘t actually in the bible. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...

NEW: Chicago Progressive Partnership super PAC, which launched ads attacking Kat Abughazaleh and then eventually in favor of Bushra Amiwala as an apparent attempt to split the vote, has filed its FEC report, which reveals it was another shell group for AIPAC and its allies

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

Maddow: All the people who came out to protest at Stonewall when the Trump administration pulled down the pride flag, "today you won."

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

I’ll have what Hungary’s having.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens. The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to obtain Massachusetts' unredacted voter file. A victory for our clients the New England NAACP and the MA Alliance for Retired Americans and the Commonwealth. My firm is now 4-0 in these cases against DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/massac...

From shows in a Bellflower Denny’s to sold-out marquees, I started asking around, where are the punks eating now? Here's a guide to where today's grittiest punks eat. The full guide: lataco.com/punk-restaur... By Lauren Bethke

Alright let's see. In 2019 Trump was angrily posting about the 1.8 billion in cash the Obama administration gave Iran in 2016. 1.8 billion divided by 2 million is 900. Prior to the start of this war, about 135 ships went through the Strait of Hormuz every day.

This doesn’t seem hyperbolic now

@beachluverbev.bsky.social thank you for sharing this . I do agree with your statement .” It was so comforting to have a president that wasn’t a malignant narcissist.”

A firefighter in Istanbul performed CPR on a cat affected by a fire, bringing it back to life.😍👍💙

A "mob lawyer" provides legal services, protection & operational assistance to members of organized crime, acting as an integral part of the criminal enterprise. Beyond defense, they often facilitate communication, essentially functioning as a "consigliere” or high-level advisor.

Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

Just want to tell a story about the day I was proudest of Kat's campaign, and why I'm so excited she's quadrupling down on it. One day when she was running, a potential constituent reached out to her. She needed baby formula with a specific protein in it ASAP, but she could no longer afford it.

Stephen Miller demanded that ICE-holes “force confrontations” with protesters because “anti-ICE could not be viewed as successful.” He repeatedly said that protesters “need to be vanquished by any force necessary.” Later, ICE-holes murdered Alex Pretti. #ProudBlue #StephenMiller #FuckICE #AlexPretti