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🇺🇸 trifectas get <one> shot at doing something Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem The platform must be <immediate> institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said

we can keep trying to kick Lucy's football or we can acknowledge that the cause of American democracy requires deep structural reforms to the Supreme Court

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

Sotomayor: "Alabama’s congressional primary election is next week, and vacating the District Court’s injunction will immediately replace the current map with Alabama’s 2023 Redistricting Plan until the District Court acts, even though voting has already begun."

Sotomayor: "In addition to holding that Alabama’s 2023 Redistricting Plan violates §2, the District Ct. held, in one [case], that Alabama violated the Fourteenth Amendment by intentionally diluting the votes of Black voters in Alabama." The SCOTUS majority said nothing about that—or anything else.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

compared to what actually needs to be done, dems in va steamrolling the state supreme court in this gerrymandering fight is very very very easy and they need to do it just to show us the entire party understands the assignment

Trump-endorsed GOP Rep. Max Miller has been accused of physically abusing his ex-wife Emily Moreno—daughter of GOP Senator Bernie Moreno—for years. Miller has denied the allegations. trib.al/Ir1a3db

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Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

I’m disappointed in Woodford. But I thank god it wasn’t Angel’s Envy.

In December SCOTUS claimed it was too close to election to block Texas gerrymander but now allowing Southern states to straight up cancel elections to resurrect Jim Crow

A survivor of the Kent State Massacre rings the bell on campus today, May 4, at exactly 12:20, the moment his classmates fell, 56 years ago.

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

This is what I wrote today for Democracy Docket subscribers and I meant every single word. Sign up now to never miss another one of my essays. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

🛑 NEW: Louisiana is being sued after suspending congressional primaries already underway — with plaintiffs warning the state is illegally nullifying votes to buy time for a new GOP gerrymander.

You can either have a democracy or a Republican Party, but you can't have both.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

“Project,” quadruple “dissent,” and no “respectfully” are a strong signal of being truly fed up. Deservedly.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

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.

"Only they have the right to say it is no longer needed—not the Members of this Court. I dissent, then, from this latest chapter in the majority's now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act."

"It was born of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. It ushered in awe-inspiring change, bringing this Nation closer to fulfilling the ideals of democracy and racial equality. And it has been repeatedly, and overwhelmingly, reauthorized by the people's representatives…

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

This VRA decision is awful, and will lead to even further encroachment on non-white Americans' right to vote. When we (those who support an inclusive democracy) win again, we have to build new structures to re-secure and further protect these rights.

REP. MARK ALFORD: Comey is a very intelligent man. I would assume he knows what '86' means. When you 86 the order, you kill the order. When you 8647, that is tantamount to saying 'kill the president' KEILAR: When you 86 an order, you don't kill the food ALFORD: It's the same principle

Tayna is an incredible advocate - glad to see her work & voice lifted up here as Virginia makes progress on this crucial issue

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

Chillingly explicit blood and soil nationalism here

Bars in Washington, DC had been struggling since Covid. So why are the city’s Democrats so eager to get rid of Pete Hegseth, Kash Patel, and Jeanine Pirro?

The MAGA way. WaPo documents how Rep Cory Mills (R-FL) used overt political influence, including calls to Pam Bondi and Ed Martin, to avoid being arrested and prosecuted after he physically brutally assaulted a woman in Washington, DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

thanks again joe manchin!

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Just as a very general rule, when a Supreme Court pundit writes the sort of book about the Supreme Court that a sitting Supreme Court justice feels comfortable promoting in public, you should be skeptical of everything else that Supreme Court pundit says about the Supreme Court, forever

This thread. I have been doing this kind of work for a very long time and I know a lot about exactly this. If you want to do misconduct reporting with scared sources going up against very powerful people, and also keep your soul, it takes time. So much time. It’s very difficult. Brain meltingly so.

A lot of MAGA Catholic converts chose the church because a system of theocratic monarchy appealed to their desire to be in absolute, unquestioned control. They never realized that in a split between the Church and the GOP, they don’t get to be both. That’s theocracy. You don’t get a vote.

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

Swalwell drops out of the race for California governor

Less than a week ago, there were several prominent voices on here saying that they were sure Orbán was going to cancel Hungary's election. And casting that as a preview of coming horrors here in the States. Well, Hungary had its vote, Orbán lost in a landslide, and he's conceded.

jd vance negotiating with Iran

If you recognize which unnamed woman is talking because you're asked for comment and the comment makes it clear which of the woman's rape stories match your memory of events, and you text that specific woman and say "stop telling people I raped you," that is.... sure an admission of something.

By the way: Eric sent those cease & desists in response to being asked for comment on the CNN story. He had his lawyer TEXT cease & desists to the WOMEN SAYING HE RAPED THEM in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. They were not named! That’s the weirdest response to a request to comment that I’ve ever heard.