There is no clearer case for the necessity of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 than how quickly southern states moved to eliminate Black-majority districts and dilute Black power after SCOTUS eroded Section 2. SCOTUS’s reasoning was immediately disproven by reality.

Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

A perfect match for the conduct of secret police in totalitarian regimes across the planet. But Markwayne approves.

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

FWIW: This is essentially John Roberts’s “reasoning” in Skrmetti, so, yeah, don’t laugh too hard.

@forwardblue.bsky.social can you drop the emails about Stephen Colbert? The show's been canceled, CBS isn't changing its mind and trying to fundraise off of it is a skeevy move worthy of Trump.

Nobody cares that all these countries keep threatening to punch Russia right in its innocent fist with their decadent Western faces!

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 honestly is still a bit mind blowing to me that a significant percentage of the population of the United States spends the majority of their time bouncing back and forth between being angry that people exist who are not white and being angry people exist who are not cis.

Matching hoods should go over the Supreme Court and Congress too. The FBI building, State Department, IRS, Treasury, …

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

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How I wish this nasty alleged pedophile were a man of his word . . .

This is exactly what it means.

Again this should inspire wall-to-wall media coverage for months. The crowning achievement of the Civil Rights Movement is dead. Black people just lost all of their remaining political power in the South. This is a monumental moment in American history that simply isn't being treated as such.

I think this post about J. Edgar Boozer has been around for awhile. AFAIK, he's not sued anyone yet.

KASH PATEL: *abuses position* FBI AGENTS: *leaks abuse* KASH PATEL: *scrambles to find leakers* FBI AGENTS: *leaks leaker search*

"I need people to stop reporting to the news that I'm passed-out drunk behind the FBI director's desk. We should do an agency purge to prevent this" as if there wasn't at least one slightly more straightforward solution

I was down at the town senior center this morning, having coffee with some of the regulars. One guy was bragging about some AI photo editor app on his phone. He said that it can make you appear as almost anything. 1/

“Conservative Justices take any responsibility for their actions” challenge. Difficulty: apparently impossible. Luckily, we can create consequences.

Oh, he’s quite wrong. It’s an accurate understanding of what they do. That’s why he’s suffering so much butthurt about his reputational damage.

To those concerned about the damage that Kash is doing to the FBI's reputation: That ship has sailed.

Republicans are in charge of the Senate. Republicans are in charge of the House. Republicans are in charge of the Presidency. Republicans are in charge of the Supreme Court. Republicans are to blame for everything.

It's been said a lot lately, but either Democrats launch a holy crusade against the people doing this stuff, or that's the end of this nation. We will only have a chance of recovering from the Trump era if the people shamelessly abusing the DOJ like this are punished severely.

FBI performative bullshit. Nobody with any personal honor works for the FBI anymore. Show me that I am wrong.

The Dual State at work. Anything that the FBI and the DOJ do or announce that they’re doing has to be automatically suspect

I’ve just heard that there are DOJ cameras in every classroom at Columbia law school.

The world’s richest man is also the thinnest-skinned man the world has ever seen. Imagine posting constantly, at all hours of the day, and then also posting through a variety of burners — including every member of your family? — to defend yourself.

RIP freud. you would’ve loved whatever this is.

I guess there were no openings at Fleet Services’ Rubber Gun Squad for this putz. gothamist.com/news/nypd-tr...

Satire is becoming too close to reality.

When the latest polling showed 2-to-1 opposition to the WH ballroom project, the survey question emphasized private financing. Now congressional Republicans want to spend $1 billion in taxpayer money on a $400 million project. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

$4.50/gal for gas and $1 billion for trump's golden ballroom heck of an election year message

In case you missed it, the Ballroom is now $1 billion, 100% funded with taxpayer money.

Heh.

My guess is that Don, Jr. was too young for this, but this sounds like something he'd do. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

Iran is making the case for Why You Need Nukes. Because nobody fucks with North Korea.

God Ilya Shapiro is such a racist shitbag FIFY

He just doesn’t get it: They don’t give cognitive tests to people who don’t show signs of dementia. Just as they don’t give cardiac stress tests to people without potential cardiac issues.