Correct. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

Seeing children being forced to interact with Donald Trump is revolting to me in every possible way.

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This is proving more true every singe day. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/demo...

1. ICE has not paid for detainee medical care for 7 MONTHS The termination of payments to providers has coincided with a MASSIVE SPIKE in detainee deaths. This is a health crisis and a moral crisis. Follow along for details. 🧵

SCOTUS conservatives really applied the “why is there no White History Month” legal theory in their VRA decision

1966-1999: SCOTUS rejects various challenges to VRA 2006: VRA reauthorized with 98-0 senate vote 2008: Obama elected 2013-2026: SCOTUS dismantles VRA

This isn’t just about districts, it’s about representation, resources, and whether our voices are heard at all. The fight for fair maps and true democracy is far from over. capitalbnews.org/supreme-cour...

Donald Trump hates the United States. Really, really despises the US and everyone in it. How else can you explain his shocking destruction of everything good about this country? It’s not incompetence, it’s pure malice.

Trapped Trump has US on verge of its 'worst strategic defeat in history': analysis “Trump's ego is so fragile that he can never admit losing. He cannot bear to face up to the reality that he, more or less single-handedly, led America to the greatest strategic defeat in its history.”

Absolutely 💯 “We CaN dIsAgrEe AnD sTiLl Be FrIeNdS” Yeah about college basketball and what to dip fries in, not basic human rights.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

Anyone notice that Justice Jackson and Justice Sotomayor didn’t write separate dissents in Callais? I wouldn’t be surprised if this Black woman and Brown woman were too filled with incandescent rage and grief to be civil.

THIS! ONE THOUSAND PERCENT.

This is an insanely uninformed column by Ross Douthat that shows he has never read any political science in his life. The dude still thinks she lost bc of social issues & “identity politics”. That the @nytopinion.nytimes.com still employs Douthat as a columnist is an indictment of that section.

@nytopinion.nytimes.com, you employ a columnist, Ross Douthat, who is incredibly uninformed about American politics. That you do so is an embarrassment to your paper. Today he’s denigrating @kamalaharris.com’s political skills. Here’s the crowd she drew to the Ellipse. You need better columnists.

America pissed away a global leading economic recovery from COVID b/c egg prices went up temporarily and the media was SO BORED covering Joe Biden 🙃

@kamalaharris.com is, in fact, the clear front-runner for the 2028 nomination. Maybe you don’t like that. But political scientists know this to be true. She has an unprecedented lead among the voters who determine Democratic presidential nominations.

The supreme court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, and they betrayed our democracy.” - Barack Obama

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Historians will note this is exactly what millions of Americans wanted, no matter the consequences: to retaliate against the country for electing a Black President by putting a huge racist in the White House who would constantly refer to every Black person he doesn't like as "low IQ."

Union soldiers died to end slavery. Marchers died to secure the vote. The Roberts Court decided their sacrifice didn’t matter.

Everything, everywhere, all at once!

One more point on all this: Yes, there are many obstacles to getting this done. Some will contest whether this many seats are gettable. Others will cite legal issues. That's all fine. The point is to start the conversation about all of it. The overall posture is the key: Try everything, everywhere.

One urgent takeaway from all this is that state legislative races just got even more important. They will help decide whether Dems can prevent the GOP from locking in a near-permanent majority. And gov races in places like Georgia are now hugely consequential. newrepublic.com/article/2098...

My latest is up! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

He has to go. It’s not just that he’s a religious zealot. It should be apparent by now that he is deeply unwell. Your faith does not give you a pass on basic mental soundness.

An “accessory.” Justice Marshall delivered it raw and real.

William Rehnquist was awful, but in terms of the real-world impact of his biggest decisions, John Roberts has absolutely been a worse chief justice. My view is that historians looking at Roberts’s record will view him as basically Roger Taney with better PR.

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

Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...

Great new resource from @immcouncil.org tracking the growing backlogs in our legal immigration system. Check it out! www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/uscis-b...

For me, the most striking thing about the Supreme Court's opinion killing off the Voting Rights Act is how *casual* it is. Short, dry, uncomplicated, barely bothers engaging with the dissent. Just 37 pages of Sam Alito rewriting the law to say what he wishes it said, and then clocking out.

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 been trying to kill Voting Rights Act since he was young lawyer in Reagan DOJ in early 1980s. That's most important context for today's Callais decision. Roberts Court has now issued 3 major decisions gutting VRA, turning law into dead letter www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Third party voters, you should STFU today. This is your fault, too.

Pritzker: The decision by the Supreme Court today on the Voting Rights Act is an abomination. It is an attack on a crown jewel of our democracy. Illinois is the proud home to having sent more black congresspeople to Washington than any other state in the country. We're not going to stand for it.

Dems running for Congress and POTUS must run on Supreme Court reform. A law forcing justices into senior status after 18 years, applicable to the current bench would do the trick. That would force Roberts, Alito, and Thomas into senior status, opening three seats to be filled immediately. 1/

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

I'm on parental leave this week and next, so of course Callais came down today. Just a few top-line thoughts: 1. Don't believe Alito's claim that the majority is merely tinkering with precedent. In effect, this decision pretty much eliminates what remained of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

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

The Supreme Court's Republican supermajority, afraid of the blowback from declaring what remains of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional, instead says only they know the one true way the Voting Rights Act can be constitutional, and nothing will ever meet their new standard.

Today's Supreme Court decision reverses hard-won progress under the Voting Rights Act.

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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

This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

It's jarring to see ICE executing American citizens in our streets for exercising their free speech rights. It's jarring to see innocent people being kidnapped and sent to gulags in El Salvador. It's jarring to see children being traumatized in concentration camps.