"Co-chaired by Gina Raimondo, former Democratic governor of Rhode Island and commerce secretary in the Biden administration... The national nonprofit has ties in the AI field with Anthropic, Microsoft, OpenAI, as well as backing from IBM, Cisco and Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co."

Amy Coney Barrett signed an opinion that says there’s nothing wrong with how her president talks about her kids and it’s pretty fucking disgusting.

“I think people are naive if they think that lawmakers’ political agenda will be limited to just getting rid of DEI and gender studies programs. It’s really an attack on independent learning.” —Hank Reichman, Former Chair of AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom & Tenure

Thomas says in a concurring opinion that the Commerce Clause only allows Congress to regulate interstate “commerce,” not “manufacturing” or “agriculture.” (????)

Justice Thomas, writing only for himself, says that the Fifth Amendment's due process clause does not guarantee equal protection.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

The last immigration opinion in particular is awful and instead of yelling about it at length I'm just going to observe that the equal protection analysis is almost entirely unsupported by citations to relevant authority. There's a cursory cite to one leading opinion and then a bunch of handwaving.

This is the actual perfect encapsulation of the problem Dems will say “the fringe left” are the only people saying “abolish Ice” but it’s 98% Meanwhile they will strategize and focus and Streisand effect a podcaster whose ONKY SAYING IT because the audience already said it

NEW ANALYSIS: UK sales of electric vehicles just overtook petrol cars for the first time What's that you say? Something something demand, something something ZEV mandate? Take a look at the data: www.carbonbrief.org/...

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BREAKING: The Swedish automaker, owned by the Chinese parent Geely, will not be allowed to sell EVs in the U.S. model year 2027 onward.

This makes me so angry, it's quite literally proposing to breach a core promise that we as a country made over Brexit.

Sen. Duckworth is set to introduce a resolution calling on the Justice Department to rescind a memo that challenges the longstanding interpretation of a landmark case limiting states’ power to compel people to live in psychiatric and other institutions, such as nursing homes.

Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella were excluded from the Panthéon ceremony at the request of Marc Bloch’s family, who cited his “deeply anti-nationalist” views.

You will see a lot of op-eds about how progressives can win in NYC but not elsewhere so I just want to remind you of this upset in Ft. Worth fucking Texas. Feel free to reply with other examples. I know they're out there. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

I've seen news outlets imply that the housing bill will keep big corporate investors from buying up single family homes. But that's a vast overstatement. Because the restriction only applies to investors that own 350+ homes. So, the easy workaround is to set up lots of small investment companies.

Public records show the FBI used software from the Israeli firm Cellebrite to secretly extract data from the phones of at least a dozen protesters.

“President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he would hold a bipartisan housing affordability bill hostage in another attempt to force the Senate to pass the SAVE America Act, his pet legislative project that election experts call ‘the most restrictive voting bill ever.’”

the electoral uprising against candidates who support data centers is truly one of the most interesting things happening in american politics, at least to me, a former tech reporter www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/u...

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

yo! quick question mark, why are you on the "potential future stories" list in my research obsidian, filed under "look into this guy" also can you just quickly read this old tweet of yours out loud?

Since he's returned to office Trump has attacked the Smithsonian as "out of control" where everything discussed "is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was." Lonnie Bunch has been the person who has put himself between Trump and the Smithsonian. This is the story of his work to protect it.

we must protect this nation from affordable healthcare and public services that actually function

RESULT: In the Buffalo area, state Senator Jeremy Zellner has been ousted in today's Dem primary. He lost to Jon Rivera, who is currently an Assemblymember and was endorsed by the Working Families Party. The specific reason I was watching this one, related to past Bolts coverage:

Within 24 months of the fascist takedown of the student encampment at Columbia, the kids at Jewish Voices for Peace, Students for Justice for Palestine & the DSA done walked into the heart of US Zionism and elected a multi faith coalition of candidates to win the mayorship & THREE congress seats!

MORE RESULTS: Two other DSA-endorsed candidates have just also ousted two Democratic assemblymembers. Community organizers, Christian Celeste Tate in AD54 and Eon Huntley in AD56, have defeated Assemblymembers Erik Dilan and Stefani Zinerman, respectively.

yeah. maga equivalent. absolutely.

Their business model for the last 600 years is bribe politicians, steal our resources, enclose the commons and then rent-seek and charge a toll for the privilege of using the value we created to begin with.

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It's not just New York. In Maryland, at least two state senators & one state representative are losing to challengers to their left.

Both these headlines are from Texas this month. Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA exemplified.

time to remake a party then

The sentencing here is so absurd, it's a miscarriage of justice. A guy who wasn't present or involved got 30 years for moving a box of zines. The two people who helped plan January 6th, Enrique Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes got 22 years and 18 years for seditious conspiracy, respectively.

It also looks like the DSA will get their first New York Assembly member outside of New York City thanks to #AD149: Adam Bojak (DSA)- 46.2% Karen Hoak- 36.8% Kevin Deese- 17%

Two defendants who received 50 years each, Savanna Batten and Elizabeth Soto, were never accused of helping plan the demonstration here. They arrived separately, left the protest when guards asked them to, and were not accused of any act of violence talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

"Second, they banned every Black juror so that no one would question the police"

Judge O’Connor stated from the bench that he is giving maximum sentences to the Prairieland sentences because “the state wants to send a message to anyone who shares a similar ideology.” Additionally, motions 29 and 33 for acquittal and a new trial were denied from the bench.

Wow. Prairieland defendants being handed sentences between 40 and 100 years. For background on this case: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

The fifth and final SCOTUS decision today is Blanche v. Lau. Thomas has the 6-3 opinion for the court vacating the Second Circuit and making it easier to challenge the admissibility of lawful permanent residents due to commission of a crime of moral turpitude. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

An Orlando green card applicant was given permission to travel to Egypt after his father’s death. When he returned, ICE sent him to a PA concentration camp for six months. During which he suffered vision loss and lost 45 pounds. He wasn’t informed of kidney disease diagnosis for 2 months.

$17.5 billion from the Energy Department will be available for utilities to finance equipment orders for the Westinghouse AP1000

What? Leaving a giant common market of rich countries is bad? How can this be

Ohio will lose 51,000 jobs and $5.3 billion from the state economy in 2029, according to a new analysis. via @ohiocapitaljournal.com

Here’s just one of the unprecedented measures the Liberals pushed through at the end of this session: Cabinet ministers will now be allowed to authorize the use of banned pesticides in the name of “national economic security.” Even if they’ve been deemed unsafe for human health. shorturl.at/OlnQl

The large-scale cuts that President Donald Trump’s acting director of national intelligence had been considering imposing at his own office started on Monday, a source familiar with the matter told CNN: https://cnn.it/4fWbQsE

2. Newly filed FEC documents reveal that three PACs that claim to oppose GOP policies — Lead Left PAC, Real Change PAC, and California Blue PAC — are wholly funded by Conservative Americans PAC. Conservative Americans PAC received $30 million this cycle from a GOP dark money group, the APA.

1. A network of purportedly progressive super PACs, spending millions in Democratic primaries across the country, is funded by a Republican dark money group, the American Prosperity Alliance (APA).