Really a great example of why state Supreme Courts (and obviously SCOTUS) are so, so important. There's a reason the Federalist Society and GOP was focused on this for decades...😩

Two SNP ministers unseated by Scottish Greens' 'historic breakthrough' www.heraldscotland.com/news... @rebeccamccurdy.bsky.social

The election of Donald Trump is going to go down as one of the most disastrous, calamitous own goals by a nation in the history of humanity. We’re really speedrunning through the consequences at this point.

TIL that TMZ is owned by Fox. Since 2021 ⬇️ investor.foxcorporation.com/news/busines...

"Wahls conjures the bygone era of the blue-collar, river-town Democrat." Read the article here: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Giving billionaires and corporations the green light to buy our elections. Making it easier for polluters to destroy the planet. Stripping millions of reproductive freedom. Granting presidents immunity. Gutting the protections of the Voting Rights Act. The shame of the John Roberts court.

ok great now unban cassie thanks

WSJ says that 2027 will be worse.

Important to note that VA Dems were already targeting 3 GOP seats before the new map and are still doing so. The three high-profile recruits below all said today that they're still running: • VA-01: Shannon Taylor (Trump+5) • VA-02: Elaine Luria (Trump+0.2) • VA-05: Tom Perriello (Trump+12)

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💥‼️👍 Yevheniia Kravchuk @kravchukev ⚡️Finally,the #RussianUnionofJournalists has been expelled from the International Federation of Journalists. This decision was long overdue and absolutely necessary. #Russian propaganda structures cannot remain part of the international journalistic community 1-3

Today's Wikipedia page I've got stuck in, like a cow in quicksand en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

Agreed. It's not possible to reconcile "rule of law" with "one week the GOP SCOTUS will nullify a 43-year-old statute so they can allow racial gerrymandering, then the next week the GOP VA SC will block voter-approved redistricting and have themselves a laugh by citing the SCOTUS liberals' dissent."

Calls for data center moratoriums are strategic and help build needed leverage. For example, the national moratorium bill introduced by Reps Sanders & @aoc.bsky.social is explicitly designed to force AI regulation—the ban would lift as soon as laws were put in place that actually constrain harms.

Ohio Republicans overruled their state Supreme Court to implement their gerrymander anyway: Time for Virginia Democrats to do the same.

"In truth, anti-datacenter organizing is the real fight, one centered on an industry choke point... Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes?"

Alabama — another Confederate state ready to rise again. Thx, J. Roberts. "AL’s R-majority legislature is drafting legislation in a special session that will allow it to set aside the results of a completed primary later this year if courts lift an injunction on its redistricting." 🧾 is.gd/BTlqLo

Trump illegally funneling taxpayer money to his cronies again

In this article, Chris Hardee, chief for law & policy in DOJ's National Security Division 2013 to 2025, explains the motivations behind the Trump DOJ's indictment of @splcenter.org & why he believes it falls "egregiously short" of alleging a crime.

2.26 The Great Mattress Raid theeasternborder.lv/podcast/2-26... With the physical infrastructure burning in Tuapse and Kirishi from relentless Ukrainian drone strikes, the Russian state has officially run out of oligarch money and international leverage. Now, they are turning their sights inward.

VA AG Jay Jones: "My team is carefully reviewing this unprecedented order and we are evaluating every legal pathway forward to defend the will of the people and protect the integrity of Virginia’s elections."

Not enough media is covering the fact that Reform's polling has been drifting downwards for a year. Their vote share is significantly lower than in last year's local elections.

An off-cut that did not make it into the final piece: Wilson, who I first encountered in the late 2000s through his debates with Christopher Hitchens (on YouTube and worth your time) told me he “laid out the gospel” to his former sparring partner when he was dying of cancer.

Doug Wilson was once a fringe figure on the evangelical Right. Now he preaches at the Pentagon and his adherents are dotted throughout the Trump administration. My Lunch with the patriarch of America's growing Christian Nationalist movement, in this week's @ftweekend.com as.ft.com/r/a37925a9-9...

Doug Wilson and the Danger We Tried to Warn You About open.substack.com/pub/jemartis...

Helene Cooper 🔥: The Pentagon released what it called “new, never-before-seen” files on U.F.O.s on Friday, hailing the step as an example of the commitment of the department, which kicked out reporters earlier this year, to transparency. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

John Paul II publicly scolded priest Ernesto Cardenal in Nicaragua, silenced Brazilian theologian Leonardo Boff, and appointed authoritarian bishops representing wealthy elites across Latin America — all moves aimed at curbing clergy who sided with the marginalized. 🧵 2/5

The Vatican under John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger acted to suppress liberation theology — a movement that challenged power structures on behalf of the poor. Their actions arguably protected the interests of violent and thieving political and economic elites. 🧵 1/5

Yesterday, Trump pointed at Rachel Scott of ABC News and said "she's a bitch" after Ms. Scott asked him about rising gas prices. It will be old news by close of business today. Once again: Trump is held to a different standard by legacy media.

The First Amendment is clear: The federal government can't punish media organizations just because it doesn't like what they have to say. By fighting back, ABC is sending an important message: Our rights are worth fighting for.

honestly new litmus test for the California Governor election should be if you support going all the way with a 52-0 map now that John Roberts ruled the VRA is over

One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW

the White House menu today as administration officials brag about kicking 4.5 million Americans off food stamps and gas is over $4.50 a gallon -- Caprese salad -- Chicken Paillard -- Vanilla panna cotta (Kevin Dietsch/Getty)

Two press freedom groups that hold Paramount shares are demanding internal records over concerns the Ellisons have agreed to compromise the editorial integrity of CNN to secure approval for the Warners deal, Status has learned. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/paramount-...

Well tis the weekend #MilkTeaAlliance & here is the events🧵 To begin we highlight this excellent piece by @ginollopez.bsky.social, an important piece not only on the recent killings in the Philippines, the violence, grief at the loss of a friend, exploitation of migrants & much more 1/

In a worst case scenario where the US builds all of the currently proposed data centers to spec, they could emit more climate pollution than all but 4 countries.

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

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

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.

Put another way, gutting the Voting Rights Act was to gut Black representation in the government. Proposed solutions that don’t center that representation aren’t really getting at the problem at hand.

In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more.

It's not just that the bill for two-and-a-half years of fighting is so enormous, it's that the prime minister wants to keep on fighting and he doesn't recognize the idea that Israel needs defined borders. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

MAY 8 – IT’S “VICTORY IN EUROPE DAY” V-E Day - marks the day in 1945 when Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied forces. End of WWII in Europe. #VictoryInEuropeDay #WWII

Election night is my Wrestlemania. I am not a fan of this daytime counting.

haha so notice what part the media isnt mentioning here

I'm incredibly proud of everything our team has done in such a short amount of time and grateful to all of you. Although our opponent out raised us, we outworked them.

thinking of all the ancestors that fought so hard for the right to vote. may we work as hard as they did in our fight to restore it.

Babies Are Bleeding To Death Because Their Weird MAHA Parents Refuse Vitamin K Shots www.wonkette.com/p/babies-are... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

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