Thomas Chatterton Williams meeting Emily Ratajkowski:

I am really struggling to understand the Bert Callais news as anything other than evidence of how the Big Lie ideology has fully taken root. It is no accident that he was at J6, just like it is no accident that the justice writing the opinion flew an upside-down flag that day

So the Feds did more to investigate VA workers who went to Alex Pretti memorial than those who killed him.

I got the Laurelhurst Community Council's meeting minutes before they took down their website. You'll never guess what they had to say about the helicopters flying sick kids to the hospital: www.thestranger.com/news/laurelh...

A perverse incentive of Callais: the more racist a party is, the more its gerrymander is insulated from any VRA challenge. boltsmag.org/scotus-calla...

elon musk spends two-thirds of his time spreading racist pseudoscience and hating trans people and here is Ezra Klein in 2026 saying Musk is relentlessly focused on the only things that matter to him: EVs and going to Mars. I'm sorry but the guy's just very very dim

University admissions as sorting hat for special children with no other value is a common belief among the elite group chat class

America Cannot Endure The Peril Of An Uppity Supreme Court Justice Today in @washingtonpost.com by Samuel Alito and Ilya Shapiro

Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

This line in particular makes me feel ill: "The dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional." SCOTUS' Republican majority has long required elections to be held under illegal maps—when it hurts Dems.

John Roberts is Stephen Miller with better PR. Just as much of a racist weasel.

Comparing people’s living conditions in 1901 to now is already silly & serves no meaningful purpose so let’s talk about numbers that matter to Alive People In 2016 Elon Musk’s wealth was 11 billion dollars. Today it is 800 billion dollars. Federal minimum wage in 2009 was 7.25. Today it is 7.25.

Have seen this cycle a lot of times: Paper promotes the benefits of AI in education, paper is hyped in media/LinkedIn/in AI circles. Paper is retracted as bullshit months later www.404media.co/nature-retra...

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Wait, I thought if 60 Minutes edited an interview with a politician in the slightest, that was grounds for a lawsuit?

Wow. Where was the president of Cornell and did he know his car was capable of doing this on its own?

dudes rock

The Pod Boys have gotten dumber and dumber over the last couple years. Twitter has cooked their brains.

once again the unbelievable arrogance of roberts et al is going to genuinely destructive effects on the entire country

The absurdity of this is really not being taken seriously. The owner of two big media outlets, in the US and UK, stipulates that their journalists must pledge loyalty to a foreign country or resign. Not even their own countries, which itself would be absurd for a news organization.

Pretty much repeating Buckley’s defense of Jim Crow in his debate with Baldwin, without even realizing it, because this thinking is endemic in the culture.

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

A future Dem president must steal a page from DOGE's book and imemediately seize physical control over the Treasury payments system and GSA (controls keys to the doors of federal facilities) because there's going to be Disagreements about whether Dems are allowed to run things even after they win

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

“Who was president in 2020” still the defining political question of our time

No one should worry that much about Platner's politics or if he'll make a heel turn. He's going to get his shit kicked in in the general. Susan Collins in going to wash the floor with him. Enjoy 6 more years of Very Concerned.

Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

This is actually the perfect distillation of the right wing worldview. A predatory industry treats consumers unfairly so it must be immigrants' fault.

no more independent commissions, repeal any “fair map” amendments that exist, fuck ‘em all draw out every seat in california, illinois, new york, etc no more half measures

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

"you can elect anyone you want as long as it is a white republican"

it is not judicial activism when it is going after what scalia called a “racial entitlement.” you know, voting rights.

Quiet part out loud.

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

Given the argument that ended the VRA, I think it’s time liberals did some self reflection about the now decades long obsession with partisan polarization as the problem, as opposed to authoritarianism, extremism, oligarchy, and racism

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!

The basic view of Alito and the rest of the Roberts Court when it comes to voting rights is that black people can vote for anyone they want as long as it is a Republican.

When the Court upheld legislaures' ability to do *partisan* gerrymanders in 2019, Roberts went on and on about how partisan gerrymandering was unfortunate, but not illegal. Today's decision turns partisan gerrymandering into a complete defense of racial gerrymandering. It's really gross.

To understand what the Supreme Court is doing, you have to recognize that this is how authoritarians in Hungary, Turkey, and Venezuela consolidated power. Scholars call it autocratic legalism. The Court isn’t complicit. It’s an active participant. Roberts is following a script.

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.

John Roberts has done more to destroy multiracial American democracy than any person in the last fifty years. He's as racists as any hooded Klan member and millions of times more dangerious.

4. Kagan explains this well, but what's perhaps most galling about Callais is how the majority effectively overrules Congress's judgment about how best to enforce the Reconstruction Amendments, as it did in Shelby County. This extreme judicial activism is a huge threat to democratic self-governance.

Matthias Döpfner (CEO of Politico parent company Axel Springer) is once again insisting that his employees pledge their support for Israel, which is a genuinely weird thing to do. jewishinsider.com/2026/04/poli...

the voting rights act actually worked, which is why the conservative legal movement immediately went to work on dismantling it this has been the focus of john roberts' entire legal career

Impossible to understand the Suprme Court's Voting Rights Act case without the context that John Roberts has spent his entire career working to gut the VRA. As a Reagan DOJ staffer, he made the *same arguments* the Court just embraced. He lost then; he won today. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...