The sooner Democrats realize Republicans’ only governing principle is Calvinball, where they make up the rules as they go to ensure they always win, the sooner we’ll finally have an opposition party ready to do what it takes to beat them.

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I think it’s bad that the Republican Party has decided that people who disagree with Trump don’t have rights.

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

Spiralling global temperatures (1850-2026) It is exactly 10 years since I first put this animated graphic of changes in global temperature online. #ClimateSpiral It instantly went viral. People watched it over and over again. It still offers the power to shock a decade on.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

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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.

We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

There is something deeply pathological about Chief Justice Roberts insisting the Supreme Court isn’t political while sitting atop the most ideological supermajority in modern history.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

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I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

This article is an absolute masterclass in how to write an article debunking misinformation without platforming the misinformation one iota

a thought i had while talking to a friend is that a federal end to partisan gerrymandering has to be at the top of the democratic party's agenda, and may likely get there because of threat the status quo poises to black representation, and thus black political involvement altogether.

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whoever created a youtube playlist called 12 HOUR FAN WHITE NOISE FOR BABY SLEEP which has a random ravi shankar sitar solo that blasts out at the nine hour mark- you will pay for your crimes

To the person in my mentions saying Tucker Carlson sounds like an economic populist: Tucker is a Washington DC elitist of the highest order who does things like hanging out at the Kennedy Center for events with his buddy James Carville. I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. Don’t fall for it.

Happy May Day. They can’t kill us all.

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

What @elienyc.bsky.social says is the way:

Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.

1/ Must read @ariberman.bsky.social on the Supreme Court's destruction of the Voting Rights Act and its continuing project to roll back the Civil Rights era: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

DO NOT EVER FORGET THIS! Thiel knew he could weaponize his identity & that credulous media would go along with it. IA few years later they would expand from killing Gawker to Clubhouse rooms about how to kill the NYT: youtu.be/IWdST5J2_p0?... (thx @anamariecox.bsky.social + @mike-eagle.bsky.social!)

A broken Congress produces an overpowered presidency and Supreme Court. The ways in which Congress is broken are a consequence of the electoral system. None of these things improve in any viable long-term way without structural electoral reform. It's not a nice-to-have, it's the bedrock necessity.

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

Judicial review is not in the constitution. High courts shouldn’t have the right to veto acts of Congress. The country could have a high court that consults on the constitutionality of laws Congress is considering. But, we shouldn’t have another veto over what the people voted for.

it’s always fun to watch these dopes brazenly lie … until they’re under oath

Reminder that any political party trying to make it harder to vote is sending a clear message: they can't win on their ideas alone.

He's worse than Roger Taney now. He's the worst Chief Justice in history, I'd say.

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.

“We all need to play by the same set of rules” - @aoc.bsky.social

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.

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This in the most damning indictment of Gavin Newsom as a person I've heard this week.

If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.

My latest: I watched Tucker Carlson's show every night for years. Don't believe his apology tour. numbertwopencil.substack.com/p/i-watched-...

Games of Berkeley has been on a roll for 46 years. What’s its secret? www.berkeleyside.org/2026/04/21/g...

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The May 1 general strike is in only 10 days There's been zero mainstream media coverage in the last week, about something that will take Herculean levels of planning Did "No Kings" make its first goof? Should I write a column about this?

as it turns out, anti-corruption is a pretty darn popular platform no matter where you look

The unstoppable @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on AI: the greatest art heist in history

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

Exactly one year ago today: