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The NY FAIR News Act has passed the State Senate and Assembly and is now on its way to the desk of Governor Hochul. Thank you to our amazing sponsors and champions, and to everyone who raised their voices in support of this important legislation to protect journalists and the public from AI!

Let Us Die To Make Men Free is the animating principle of my politics I'm done with pessimism, with politics which looks at the world as it actually is and says "this is no good, this has never been good, it can never be good" What we need more than anything now is a Politics Of Militant Sincerity

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We do not have voting rights in this country anymore. We just don’t. We did for a while because Congress codified them pursuant to a constitutional amendment enacted by the people in a great repudiation of the original sin of slavery. But the Supreme Court has nullified that law and that amendment.

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!

Trump really has remade the whole conservative movement in his image. Weiss is just like him, a petulant power mad imbecile who can do literally nothing right and gets incandescent with rage anytime she is questioned, but also too much of a chickenshit to fire people to their face

this is an example of “who cares what the court says it is none of their business”

Yes, the Fancy Lawyers Are the Problem — Across the Board talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-t...

turns out you can't just make lib fanfic about governors. they actually have to do something!

its true that i dont understand how the supreme court operates. for example do you get the free RV and house for your mom before or after issuing favorable rulings? is it a *wink wink* deal or more explicit? these are the things the general public doesnt understand

If Democrats can win a trifecta in 2028 despite the gerrymandered post-Callais maps, obviously, court and electoral reform are Day 1 priorities. But we should also make it clear that if you eliminate your Democratic representation, you don't get a seat at the table for any budget or 1/

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

The SciAm Union is disappointed that @springernature.com dragged our colleagues into a last minute meeting this morning with the notorious union-busting law firm Littler Mendelson (the same one Starbucks and Amazon hire 👀)

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

OOP New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!' www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

"Workers need your solidarity in the fight of organized money against organized people." @saradavid.bsky.social of @wgaeast.bsky.social. support workers like Sara > unionnow.org #UnionNow

A powerful man sexually pursuing a young woman who works for him is oppressive. It immediately limits and reshapes her future to her detriment, whether she is physically forced into it or not. It’s coercion either way, and that is why it’s so wrong. It’s an abuse of power.

NYC Sunday 2 pm at Terminal 5. New York is a union town Come through

🚨 ON STRIKE 🚨 Unionized staff at ProPublica @propublicaguild.org walked off the job today. Stand with workers: DO NOT cross the picket line. That means no visiting ProPublica's website, social media or engaging with its content today.

The WGA Negotiating Committee has unanimously approved a tentative agreement w the AMPTP for the 2026 MBA. This deal protects writers’ health plan & puts it on a sustainable path, builds on gains from 2023 & helps address free work challenges. Members will receive more info in coming days #WGAStrong

Tentative agreement reached! ✊️🎉 CBS News 24/7 members secured a new three-year collective bargaining agreement with CBS/Paramount management Tuesday. Details to come following ratification!

Read the statement from @wgaeast.bsky.social and @wgawest.bsky.social on the layoff of Guild members at CBS News. We stand in solidarity with our colleagues and friends and will fight to protect journalists.

If Paramount can shell out billions of dollars to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, then they can pay their unionized CBS staff a fair wage. I stand with the CBS staff who walked out today as they fight these corporate giants for essential protections and fair contracts.

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law. When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

so, next time they are in power, i think democrats should ask themselves real serious questions about whether they want to continue considering bids and accepting contracts from an organization that has made eradicating half the country an explicit political goal

If Jared Polis caves to extortion and pardons an unrepentant insurrectionists, he should be impeached and removed. But everyone involved would probably be better off in Colorado Dems brandished the threat, and Polis backed down. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...

they lie every single time it’s always murder, they’re always smearing the victim in order to cover for themselves DHS statements should be treated, presumptively, as the exact opposite of the truth not exaggerations, not inaccurate - brazen, total lies

"The proposed deal has attracted a lot of criticism, largely because it sucks. That’s a broad statement, so let me be more specific: It only sucks for every affected industry, the United States, and humanity as a whole."

"We are wrong because we started the war" should be the anchor point for all coverage of what's happening and it's remarkable how quickly that tends to get obscured. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-countr...

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Here's a story about all the kidnapped children we are holding in torture prisons.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

@wgaeast.bsky.social members at Hearst are asking for a fair contract that includes sustainable wages, AI protections & workplace flexibility. Join us in standing with @hearstunion.bsky.social members by writing Hearst leadership & telling them to agree to a fair contract. wgaea.st/hearst-letter

It really is funny watching AI people talk about AI as intelligence. Like Jim Henson telling everyone on Sesame Street how scared he is of "the thing that lives in the can."

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Introducing The NY FAIR News Act, legislation that establishes clear protections for both journalists, media professionals and the broader public to ensure that the integrity of the news and its workforce are safeguarded against artificial intelligence. Read more: www.wgaeast.org/fahy-rozic-i...

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

the fact that this bullshit has even reached the supreme court is completely disqualifying to the entire field of law

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.

We're officially fundraising for laid-off Vox workers. Please share and donate if you can! www.gofundme.com/f/support-la...

This @adamserwer.bsky.social dispatch from Minnesota is so good. You'll be glad you read it, I promise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Can't keep funding this at all. If the government shuts down and people still see ICE on the streets doing this kind of shit, the midterm ads write themselves. Even for the scared centrists. No money for (insert affordability message) but money for terrorism! Kitchen table issue immediately.

The restraint of the people of Minneapolis is almost as remarkable as their courage.

Tribunals.