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John Lewis encouraged us to march with a spirit of love and dignity in the heat of oppression. He called it good trouble. He showed us that resistance and joy are not opposites — they are the same thing. Tomorrow, we carry that spirit in Selma. We got us. #Alabama https://bit.ly/4nv4KND

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

We have got to expand restrictions on DC police collaboration with immigration enforcement of any kind. DHS HSI and FBI leaving on patrol with MPD tonight on U St. We need statehood for the people of DC and National Guard and Trump regime thugs out of our city now.

The reason people keep doing crimes for Trump is that you get rewarded for doing them, congratulations to Colorado's Dem governor for making sure we get more people trying to overturn elections on his behalf bsky.app/profile/kyle...

this should end his career

This is insanity: Trump's DOJ is about to "settle" his lawsuit against the IRS by creating a $1.7 billion slush fund to pay off victims of Biden "weaponization." I talked to Jamie Raskin about this. It's even more corrupt than it first appears. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2105...

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

So nice to have the Malcolm X water fountains flowing again. Lena approves

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Listen to Sherrilyn Ifill calling for SCOTUS expansion & reform! "That reformed Court will need to be expanded in size, constrained in power, adherent to ethics, and populated with justices ..." 1/3 sherrilyn.substack.com/p/white-supr...

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

They’re like emergency responders who put on their siren and rush to the scene whenever Black people are trying to get representation

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Texas eliminated 5 Democratic seats with no voter approval. Louisiana suspended election with no voter approval. Tennessee erased last majority-Black district with no voter approval. But VA Supreme Court blocks redistricting map approved by 3 million voters www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

PSA: we’re working on another court case. If you have documented bike lane obstructions on your phones and bike cameras that have not been reported to our app please take this moment and get them in - *especially* bike lane obstructions involving commercial vehicles.

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

Black voter representation has always been central to the fight for democracy. D.C. Home Rule was built on the momentum of the broader civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act’s expansion of equal access to the ballot box.

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

“In 2025, DC saw traffic fatalities cut in half. This progress should be protected … Decisions impacting the traffic enforcement program should be made by DC’s locally elected leaders, not by federal lawmakers.” Don't want a ticket? Slow down. @cmcharlesallen.bsky.social @51st.news #washingtondc

John Roberts claims the justices aren’t “political actors” Spare us the sanctimony. By destroying VRA in middle of election the court put its thumb on scale of midterms, turbocharging Trump’s gerrymandering war & imperiling majority-Black districts across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Don't forget: my old Yale Law classmate Clarence Thomas refused to recuse from Jan. 6 cases despite his wife's involvement in the plot. And he's taken at least 100 gifts worth over $2 million while serving, including from GOP donor Harlan Crow. He's a disgrace to the Court.

Just a reminder that all of this was set in motion by our supposedly moderate chief justice declaring in 2013 that southern states were so unracist that federal oversight was no longer necessary. This is his life’s mission, and he was never moderate.

Deeply demonic. This is political retaliation.

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

WATCH: Last night I had the chance to sit down for an extended conversation with Jon Stewart to talk about the state of voting rights & democracy in this country. Class was very much in session! Thank you @thedailyshow youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

White Republicans in Mississippi will vote to gerrymander Black voters out of political power in the same old capitol building where their ancestors voted for insurrection and Jim Crow. The past is never dead—it’s not even past. Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

America has never had truly universal suffrage with fully free and fair elections. D.C., the territories, and millions of Americans with felony convictions are disenfranchised. The Electoral College, Senate, and gerrymandering at all levels frequently violate majority rule and one person, one vote

to be clear, this isn't something that the Constitution requires it's something the white supremacists on the Court made up you can read the Fifteenth Amendment for yourself: it's a concise yet capacious grant of authority to Congress to protect voters of color ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

More joint MPD enforcement with federal agents without license plates. This time in front of a bilingual elementary school in DC. To evade constitutional protections, ICE relies on local DC police officers to pull over immigrants for minor infractions. Traffic stops then turn into deportations.

DC statehood now

@dc.baddrivers.lol DC kteam

The Spirit have been rolling, but that 2nd half might have been their most impressive work in terms of long-term prospects. After some smart adjustments, a Cantore brace, a casual 1g/2a from Rodman, & another Martínez goal, it's a 4-2 win in Orlando. Your Green Line Soccer gamer is live:

W/ courts & Trump admin coming after medication abortion (by telemed & in general), the small bit of abortion access that's been maintained for many across the US is at risk. Abortion funds in places like DC are a critical link. Help me support @dcabortionfund.bsky.social: fund.nnaf.org/CaroDCAF26

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

@dc.baddrivers.lol DC JV2469

Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

The United States needs a flat ban on presidential profiteering, writes @abigailbellows.bsky.social of @commoncause.org The schemes are evolving faster than the laws can catch them: www.justsecurity.org/137399/pione... #Anti-Corruption #WhenGuardrailsErode

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

"A driver must be caught on camera speeding 16 or more times in a single year [to] qualify as a super-speeder." If you're that reckless of a driver, requiring Intelligent Speed Assist is the bare minimum. TBH, your car should be impounded and your driver's license canceled.

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

Today's Supreme Court ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act is the result of minority rule entrenching minority rule. GOP presidents who lost the popular vote in their first term appointed 5 of the 6 justices, confirmed by Senates where the GOP majority won fewer votes & rep'd fewer people than Dems

@dc.baddrivers.lol VA SZS9014

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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

This whole presidency is just bouncing back and forth between murder and money laundering with occasional unholy mashups of the two

She was the first to speak out against Andrew Cuomo. Now some of his biggest donors are flooding Tuesday's special election with money to stop her. That tells you everything about who the progressive choice is: @lindseyboylan.bsky.social nysfocus.com/2026/04/27/c...

Posting this on the app that helped foment J6 and is also famous for an AI bot that makes kiddie porn that's owned by the world's most vocal white supremacist who puts his thumb on the scale of the algorithm is uh, well, it's something

If you haven’t downloaded @bikelaneuprising.bsky.social to report bike lane blockages, now is the time to start your new habit of documenting