With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I feel like the central operating principle of Trump / MAGA boils down to a modern rehash of: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Pay to play, baby, pay to play.

Acting AG Todd Blanche says he's working to install "roadblocks" to prevent Democrats from prosecuting Trump and his associates in the future

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

‘CURTAINS FOR ZOOSHA? K-SMOG AND BATBOY CAUGHT FLIPPING A GRUNT’

The whole point is that he is unqualified and will make us less safe. This isn’t a glitch. It’s the design. The US is to bend to its rivals abroad and collapse from within. For this he is the right guy! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I really enjoyed this conversation between @tressiemcphd.bsky.social, @brockcolyar.bsky.social and Nadja Spiegelman on widespread political paralysis in the face of a vanishing American Dream. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

In 1933 Adolf Hitler shook down German industrialists for millions of Reichsmark to establish what he called the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft—a slush fund he used to pay off Nazis whose violence got them into legal trouble. In 2026, Donald Trump is quietly doing the same thing.

WATCH: @andersoncooper shows video of a Trump throwing a tantrum and being a misogynistic pig towards @kaitlancollins — and other female reporters (As the rest of the press stands there and says nothing)

this is beautiful

Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers as Schedule F (now Schedule Policy/Career) begins. What I told @npr.org - this is the first step of a much broader assault on the civil service system. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@rickhasen.bsky.social 's analysis here is spot on: electionlawblog.org?p=156541

Yesterday, the Supreme Court, in a shadow docket unsigned decision, greenlit Alabama's plan to gut representation for Black voters, despite a 3-court panel opinion finding the map intentionally discriminates against Black voters & Alabama will have to upend its electoral scheme to implement it.

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/03/the-supreme-courts-conservatives-have-one-consistent-rule-black-votes-shouldnt-count/

crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

A lack of class political understanding obfuscates the obvious truth: The wealth and oligarchical classes are plundering what’s left of representative government, social programs, and resources. They’re not there to govern. They’re there to steal.

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Lending $620M to a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr. is one of many actions by the Trump administration that have helped companies in which the Trump family holds stakes. But it’s the first contract to be directly linked to White House intervention.

The MAGA majority of SCOTUS keeps on doing everything they can to justify aggressive court reform in 2029

Breaking news: SCOTUS intervenes in Alabama redistricting case & says GOP *is* allowed to change Alabama map. Despite a lower-court finding evidence of intentional discrimination. Yet another SCOTUS gift to the GOP; eliminates seat of a Black member of Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

you run into a college buddy at LaGuardia by "happenstance." You do not enter the United States Capitol through a broken window while wielding a metal pole by "happenstance."

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

And why I am fired up about Pete Hegseth: he is violating promotion rules that create a balanced military in the middle of a war we are losing that will turn out to be a generational defeat.

“Texas’ $7.25 minimum wage has remained the same for the past 15 years, and yet Paxton fought in court to block a minimum wage increase for federal contractors. While Texans were actively being left behind, he was sticking taxpayers with a $5 million bill for his impeachment trial.”

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

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BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani just signed an “executive order” to repeal bedtime so NYC kids can watch the Knicks play in the NBA Finals!

Find more books on Tulsa for K-12 and adults on this list from @teachingchange.bsky.social's Social Justice Books, including the new book "Redeem a Nation: The Century-Long Battle to Restore the Soul of America" by @attorneydamario.bsky.social www.socialjusticebooks.org/tulsa

CBS just dismantled the most important and popular news show in the history of television at the behest of a president who regularly sics the FBI on his critics. Here’s why some NYU kids complaining about Jonathan Haidt represents the greatest threat to free speech that our country faces.

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

MADEA BENJAMIN: “While Americans oppose more military aid to Israel, Congress is inserting something more insidious into the US military budget (NDAA): US integration with the Israeli military… Tell Congress: Reject Section 224 of the NDAA. No military integration.“

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a VRA map that recognizes discrete and compact communities and creates districts accordingly? illegal race discrimination. packing every black person they can find i to a single district crossing the whole state? colorblindness and equal protection thank you sam alito

Once you see a real mayor mayoring, you'll look at your own like

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

Through its Trump v. United States ruling, the Supreme Court ultimately have broken the entire US judicial system. Humpty Dumpty is not going to be put back together again anytime soon.

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An Asian elephant calf named Sam Houston recently took his first swim at the Fort Worth Zoo. Video released by the zoo shows the calf splashing through the water alongside his mother.

NEW: The Department of Labor told employees to report anyone using DEI, in an email reminding workers that they can even report behavior that predates Donald Trump’s second term. One employee tells @wired.com it felt like a “reminder to narc on your coworkers.” read @telliotter.bsky.social:

Talked about SCOTUS long war on the voting rights act with the great @samsanders.bsky.social apple.news/AzsnKqv5PSK2...

BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocks Alabama's plan for new congressional districts that could help Republicans.

I didn’t know about the earliest origin of Memorial Day until I was a grown-ass man —because some folks didn’t want us to. 2021: Memorial Day organizers cut the mic of retired Lt Col Kemter as he discussed how formerly enslaved Americans exhumed remains of soldiers to give them proper burials. 🧵

Pope Leo XIV has issued a sweeping manifesto about safeguarding humanity in the era of artificial intelligence, examining the many social areas that the technology is fundamentally reshaping.

Texas/Houston

The UT board of regents, like every public university board in Texas, works only for Greg Abbott. He appointed every one of them, they do what he wants. Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and communities have no voice whatsoever in how their schools are governed. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

DeTrumpification is as necessary a project to the US as DeNazification was to Germany. Everything removed from everywhere, including every person in the Trump party from every elected and appointed position of public trust, with all appropriate investigations, charges, and trials.