I do not think it is ageism to point out that a slim congressional majority will be at risk if we nominate a bunch of representatives in their 80s and 90s

One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often

Our homeworld, from Artemis II. Image ART002-E-24017; credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew

By consciously using faulty data in his argument, Alito undermines his position. He actively included false info to get the outcome he wanted, which means nobody has to follow his full-of-shit ruling. We don’t have to abide by a ruling based on lies.

I really wish people aspiring to write understood what a competitive advantage being able to write without AI will be in the coming years.

The opposite of fascism is not moderation.

All the people demanding we embrace MTG as the authentic anti-Israel voice while calling AOC a shitlib zionist are really just doing Netanyahu's dirty work for him and I fully believe that they are either too stupid or too braincooked on X to understand that.

The Bezos Post is fucking terrified and already looking for a corporate shill to take her out politically. AOC should tout this as an endorsement. “Jeff Bezos is afraid of me. Nuff said.”

Voting rights

A huge part of the power of this story is that she’s telling it to Axelrod, knowing that he is exactly the people she’s talking about, inviting him to get it, requiring him to react with ordinary sympathy to keep the audience. She is very very good at this.

what every “how to incorporate AI in your humanities classroom” article/email/workshop looks like to me

John Roberts will retire someday as one of the worst, most destructive Chief Justices in the nation’s history

centrist liberals invented a character (nonvoting leftist who cost them the election) to avoid taking responsibility for the inherent weakness and failure of centrist liberal politics

Tom Steyer, candidate for Governor of California: "I stand firm on my position on AIPAC. They remain a dark money organization that has pushed us very hard in the wrong direction and we should stop listening to them. They should not be part of this conversation."

The Scottish Tories dedicated themselves more to transphobia than anyone. They've been wrecked in Scotland, losing nearly two thirds of their seats. The Scottish Greens and LibDems stood in solidarity with trans people and doubled their seats. No major news outlet will comment on this dynamic.

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Dems literally won a statewide election to pass new maps and those maps got invalidated, but Republicans in Louisiana are literally cancelling an election where people had already voted in order to pass their gerrymanders. We live in a rigged system.

A core part of the Supreme Court’s stated rationale for gutting the Voting Rights Act is that racism isn’t a problem anymore, so former Confederate states would never disenfranchise Black voters the way those states are doing right now.

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

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

The mood on the ground in Tennessee today.

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

The best thing John Roberts has ever done is prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the Supreme Court is a political institution and we should dramatically reduce its power over our government.

FACTS: CA’s largest & most powerful unions have endorsed Steyer. The most respected climate orgs & climate change activists (NRDC, Bill McKibben, Rebecca Solnit, the Ctr for Biological Diversity, Climate Action CA, etc.) have also endorsed him. bsky.app/profile/jord...

You do not have to respect this court. You do not. In fact, respect = enabling. This is an ILLEGITIMATE institution. Full stop.

A story in two parts:

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Running as a candidate against data centers and concentration camps feels like a no-brainer

I think the main reason Israel is suffering from an unprecedented crisis of global negative perception is because Israeli soldiers post photos and videos of themselves doing things like this, and far worse things, every hour of every day, every week, every month of every year for the last 3 years.

Xavier Becerra accepted the max donation from Chevron in his current run for governor. And he’s also clogging my text inbox begging for money. NOPE

Attention @schiff.senate.gov

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

Today is World Press Freedom Day. Over 300 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israel in Gaza. It’s the deadliest targeting of journalists in history & Western journalists have largely been silent. Our Palestinian colleagues were assassinated—we must continue to speak out!

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

i don't know man i think congress has granted approval to wars before

We're past 5000 letters to the City Council demanding that they support benchmarking the public library budgets at 0.5% of the city expense budget. We're on to 5500 letters. It's making a difference as we now have 11 members on record supporting this. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

You never have to defend politicians. You really do not. When you feel the urge bubbling up, drink water and keep it moving.

Happy may day yall

The Supreme Court is apparently only there to remove the rights of women and minorities, at this point.

"When men no longer feel honored" THIS IS THE ATTITUDE OF A FUCKING CHILD.

Been sitting with how many Black Civil rights leaders bled and died to ge the voting rights act only for it to be struck down by this white supremacist supreme court. This is from bloody Sunday which catalyzed passage of the VRA. It's hard not to shed tears at what we've lost.

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This Supreme Court decision is another blow to voting rights and continues to take us backwards. Congress must intervene and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to defend Americans' civil rights.

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

hello The Media, what time will you be deciding which republican maguffin you will be amplifying today and forcing discourse on and wasting everyones time with? its been a few weeks of hasan piker or shoplifting or ballroom discourse and i would like a head start on it today pls

For the “tone down the rhetoric” crowd, Trump literally posted Obama’s address and the next day a 1/6 guy armed to the teeth showed up casing the residence.

man, never ever ever date a girl named "potential spam"