The civil rights movement built power not by capturing the state but by building institutions that formed citizens capable of acting on and with the state when the moment came. The Voting Rights Act ratified that capacity. It did not create it. That capacity is what needs rebuilding now.

I have been thinking a lot about the dozens of people ICE has sent to what is now the Ebola outbreak zone, especially Adriana Zapata, and I really appreciate @melodyschreiber.com reporting this out. 🙏🙏🙏

For two years, Mike Johnson refused to hang the plaque on the wall honoring police officers who defended the Capitol on J6 against a mob of violent rioters, even though a law was passed to mandate it. But he supports paying over a billion dollars to the criminal rioters.

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” apnews.com/article/just...

“My only regret,” Rhodes said in the days after Jan. 6, “is that they didn’t bring rifles.” “We could have fixed it right then and there.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/oath...

Gabbard as DNI was very bad, but outdone by… Musk/Rubio: Killed many by illegally ending US aid Musk: Cyberattack on US govt RFK Jr: Death & suffering from ruining public health Vought: Steal power of the purse Hegseth: Murder, war crimes, purges, losing a war in an attempt to perform gender

Personally, I think $400 million plus sanctions relief in exchange for verified nuclear restrictions is better than $25 billion plus sanctions relief in exchange for potentially talking about nuclear restrictions in the future, but maybe that’s just me.

"An email from NIH’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to research-center grantees, seen by Science, requires their institutions to promise that U.S. authors of papers NIH has flagged because of foreign co-authors will not collaborate with them in the future."

Most folks don't realize how central events like J6 were to the Jim Crow state. Dozens of unprosecuted coups & massacres—actively encouraged by those in power—revived the fundamental logic of the pre-emancipation state: that Black Americans had "no rights which the white man was bound to respect."

Political is when a black quarterback silently kneels Not political is when a white quarterback introduces the president’s speech at a campaign rally

We are watching Todd Blanche and the "Department of Justice" regularly subvert the Constitution -Letting Trump steal $1.8 billion to pay his January 6 thugs -Unethically tainting a jury to indict the Broadview Six -Malicious prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia All lawyers must step up and say no

Every American should be disgusted by this.

all americans are created equal which is why equality demands that we obliterate all representation for 40 percent of the people of the state

And we’re so far gone that we don’t even understand that the premise of the question is why we’re here. The Senate is supposed to be an independent body that counters the President. It shouldn’t be his to lose.

Is everyone ready to admit that this is an abject moral panic yet, or...

I invite you to draw, in your mind, a sketch of the kind of person who is going to challenge another person's gender in a public setting. Think about that person for a moment. Do you want to empower that person?

Colbert being taken off air is so symbolic. All traces of decency & grace are being deliberately eradicated from US public life. Just coarse, ugly, mean shit, everywhere you look these days.

Cool that whether the US has any public land, and what the public land it has can be used for, is being decided, like everything else, by a small cabal of billionaires.

Iowa Republicans want to require students at a state college to take right wing indoctrination classes in the name of "intellectual freedom." www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/i...

Hey, Mitch. You could have prevented ALL THIS by voting to convict him and bar him from holding office again. Asshole.

REUTERS: “Enrique Tarrio, Proud Boys leader sentenced ‌to 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the January 6, 2021 riot, said he planned to get between $2 & $5 million.” We are so far off the cliff. 🇺🇸 www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I've been saying: Democrats sticking to their principles rather than swaying with political winds is not only more morally admirable, *it is more politically savvy*. Nothing was more predictable than this thermostatic backlash against Trumpian fascist immigration policy.

Have you been injured? #slushfund

Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

The neuroscience behind this is wild — books literally rewire our brains for sustained focus while social media does the opposite. It's like we're in this massive uncontrolled experiment on human attention spans.

Supreme justices are appointed for life by a president who may not be supported by the majority of Americans. Justices are then confirmed by the Senate, a group rarely supported by a majority of Americans, but who are supported by the powerful and wealthy, who stand to benefit from that support.

The podcast bros said they were supporting Trump for two reasons: He wouldn’t start any wars, and he’d release the Epstein files. Massie lost tonight for two reasons: (a) forcing the release of the Epstein files, and (b) trying to restrain Trump’s war in Iran.

So, if you've got a class full of people doing excellent work, some of them will have to get Bs or Cs just because? Does compulsory grade deflation really make any of the grades more meaningful? Kinda makes them seem even more arbitrary to me.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

but there's something extremely bizarre about the outcome "the president cannot wrong the state in a legally actionable way, but the state can wrong the president in a legally actionable way." 9/

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Jared Polis should resign today and never return to politics.

Eviscerating Congress's scheme, sharpened through decades of precedent, and replacing it with Court's own facile, glib dogmas and armchair empiricism is profoundly antidemocratic, whether one agrees with the VRA amendments and Thornburg v. Gingles (RIP) or not. (7/7)

*This* is to my mind the most problematic aspect of Callais. The mix of race and politics, esp. in the deep South, is complex and is perhaps the defining issue of American political history. The enforcement provisions of the 14th and 15th Ams recognize this by specifically empowering Congress. (6/7)

The idea that partisan gerrymandering can defeat claims of racial vote dilution *is* new and does spectacular violence to the statutory scheme. Congress well understood that racial vote dilution and partisan gerrymandering are often inseparable, which is part of the reason for an effects test. (5/7)

From the reporter who scooped the news that Treasury's GC was quitting, IRS wrote a 25-page memo about why Trump's IRS lawsuit was dogshit. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/a...

Brilliant job today by Sen. Van Hollen. Blanche can't handle the truth. He doesn't act like an Attorney General. He was Trump's criminal defense lawyer, now he's Trump's personal retribution prosecutor and grift dispenser. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

THIS!!!

Trump also instinctively wants to destroy anyone who tells him no.

NEW: The top lawyer at the Treasury Department just resigned. Even though he clerked for Clarence Thomas, perhaps the $1.7B heist was probably too much. Also note the Times (right) and the WSJ (left) refer to it as a settlement. The judge found IT IS NOT A SETTLEMENT. 1/

NEW: Donald just STOLE $1.7B from us to pay insurrectionists. I have some important info about this. Please share widely.

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

your tax money my tax money we, personally, are being forced to directly pay outright traitors because the president decrees it intolerable