8. So while I don't think Callais is *apocalyptic* for Democrats, it's still a hideous perversion of the Constitution that will undermine democracy and racial equality for years. The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead. The 15th Amendment has been repurposed to greenlight racism. It's a dark day.

LULAC makes Callais worse: Justice Alito's Callais opinion purports to preserve claims in which there's evidence of racially discriminatory intent. But this is the same Court that simply waved its hands at a district court's *detailed* factual findings of exactly such evidence in the Texas case.

New ratings data shows Tony Dokoupil’s “Evening News” sinking to historic lows, with veteran TV news executives telling us the network is a “sinking ship” and blaming its woes on Bari Weiss. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/tony-dokou...

When a king says you’re too kingy

What The Guardian Got right. www.therebooting.com/p/the-guardi... The key: "A voluntary contribution model that has attracted 700,000 supporters, 500,000 of them recurring. Reader revenue has grown 35% a year for the past two years." And now they have a bigger audience than the Washington Post.

I wrote up the Comey indictment. www.popehat.com/p/the-comey-...

OH SHIT!!! @annabower.bsky.social is going to launch a SECOND investigation into the grand jury. And holy hell Kash Patel is one stupid motherfucker.

An unbelievably frivolous indictment, even by the standards of this DOJ

Just to put it all in one place 1. Posted a picture of Biden hogtied. 2 Mocked Paul Pelosi 3. Said he was glad Mueller died 4. Threatened the entire Iranian civilisation with being wiped out 5. Fomented an actual coup with extreme violence 6. Is a rapist But the left should tone down the rhetoric

Statue of limitations has not expired on this tweet.

Are you kidding me? A drunk 2L coming off three days of no sleep could get that tossed.

Remember, this was the party of "patriots"

It’s also insane totalitarian behavior! They’d say so if Obama did the same!

We should be saying thank you to Ukraine.

Trump demands ABC fire Kimmel on Monday. FCC orders Disney's early license renewals on Tuesday. That's not a coincidence. That's retaliation. The 1st Amendment only works if the gov't can't threaten your license for content they don't like. Every broadcaster in America is watching. That's the point.

So how's the WH Correspondents Assoc suck-up to Trump as a way of "honoring" the First Amendment going? Trump was gonna use the WHCD platform to attack the media and now his admin is once again actively promoting and trying to promote censorship--using events around the WHCD as a trigger. Nice job.

This is how the United States Department of Justice writes now.

A good demonstration of why Trump is simply not credible as a source of information about US dealings with Iran.

Trump is mired in an illegal war that's destabilizing the world while spiking inflation & immiserating Americans, a key part of the govt remains unfunded, & Rs who control Congress are fixated on...spending taxpayer $ for a vanity ballroom Trump vowed would be privately funded A complete clown show

Hey, look, everyone. I wrote the first part of a series I was planning on national security policy that Democrats can pursue following the midterm elections. Exciting! othermeans.substack.com/p/restoring-...

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom. It was always a scam. We were always going to have to pay for it. They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill. This is now the time.

Yes, Trump lies about everything. Compulsively.

🗣️Say it louder for the people in the back: “There is only one party in America trying to censor and control the press.”

This kind of stuff will make all of us go insane. Nobody was discussing any ballroom until Trump tore down the East Wing last year. And this was not an argument for the ballroom until literally hours ago. But now we're supposed to pretend like the WHCA incident settles some longstanding debate?

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Re: the DOJ’s bank fraud claims against SPLC, the thrust is that SPLC used sole proprietorships to open bank accounts without disclosing they were cutouts. But before 2018, banks weren’t required to obtain beneficial ownership info, undermining the idea that SPLC defrauded them by not disclosing. 1/

Well said @jonfavs.bsky.social

It should go without saying that, just because some bad people want to criminally do harm to other bad people, that does not mean that any of the bad people are not, in fact, bad people.

I will admit that from the initial chaos and the snippets of footage it looked like he got further than he actually did (specifically, the video trump posted of the shooter rushing past a magnetometer); the security cordon functionally *worked*, even if individual security agents might've fumbled.

The DOJ says the SPLC was secretly funding white supremacy The SPLC that has fought white supremacy for 55 years The SPLC that shared its informant intelligence with the FBI Spoiler: that case falls apart instantly See for yourself 👇 -TN

The number of ways Trump has screwed up Iran policy is truly mind-boggling: Pulling out of the JCPOA was disaster one, that triggered them resuming enrichment (disaster two), that led to new negotiation which he disrupted by bombing last year (disaster three), that led to resumed negotiations...

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

Pope Leo turned the question around like the boss he is.

Yeah. If it weren’t for people…

Yeah, something like this has to be the real answer. The President can't sue an agency he currently controls, it's ridiculous.

Donald Trump is busily implementing the Viktor Orbán plan to take control of broadcast media in the United States, and he's finding it remarkably easy to do as GOP-run courts blow away all the guardrails. www.ft.com/content/ea10...

I am begging someone, anyone, to answer Steve's question: Where did Baude get the idea that the government only faces "irreparable injury" when a lower court blocks its action, and not when the Supreme Court blocks it? Was this idea pulled out of thin air to defend Roberts' memos? It's mystifying.

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Keep this idiocy in mind the next time anyone from the Trump regime makes any claim involving math. Financial, transportation, healthcare, education, energy. Literally anything.

Good god the kicker:

Ossoff: "The financial entanglement, the way UAE money, Emirati money has compromised this WH is astonishing. It may be one of the most significant scandals in US history. Who are Trump's 2 chief negotiators? Kushner & Witkoff. The people doing diplomacy are at the same time on personal business."

This is what the budget of a police state looks like

The WaPo editorial board when Republicans gerrymander in Texas versus when Democrats gerrymander in Virginia.

Republicans complaining about gerrymandering are funny. Trump tried to stay in power after he lost an election. Please don't pretend you care about democracy when the leader of your party clearly does not.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

The DOJ was created to increase the capacity for federal prosecutions during Reconstruction esp. those to be brought under the newly enacted KuKlux Klan Act. Now the DOJ is being used to prosecute a storied civil rights organization whose central mission has been to expose & dismantle the Klan.

it is so telling that referendum was up to the voters in Virginia and California, but not Texas. Here they just did it. They wouldn't put it up to a vote. Tonight it really looks like cowardice.

The message of the Right reacting to Virginia is the same as the message of "2020 was rigged": no victory by anyone but us is ever legitimate. We are the only ones allowed to win. These people are cartoon villains entitled to no respect and no trust. Rabid dogs.

So much was lost when kids were able to check books out of the library by ordering them up from their computer in the dorm instead of having to go into the stacks and encounter books they hadn’t planned on seeing