Just a constant horror show as the privacy of trans patients is constantly eroded. As a former patient of Mount Sinai, this is a massive betrayal to their patients. Your medical records are not safe with them. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...

it's fascinating that in the midst of a historically unpopular presidency driven almost entirely by voluntary choices made by a rapidly declining president with an adversarial relationship with the press, we see a complete dearth of "gop needs to change course" thinkpieces and coverage

This graphic compares how South Carolina's Republican gerrymanders target Black voters. Current 6-1 map: The GOP packed them into the 6th District to make the other 6 heavily white and GOP. Proposed 7-0 map: The GOP would crack Black voters among 6 districts to make all 7 majority white and GOP.

Genuinely this is the moment where it's very clear that without explicit protections, conservatives will seek to eliminate minority success and achievement at all levels. I don't care what polls well. We either affirmatively support living in a multiracial society or we don't.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

Republican partisans on the Supreme Court have gone from putting their thumb on the scale, as in the days of Bush v. Gore or even Citizens United, to setting their whole ass on it.

A political party tries to court your vote. An authoritarian regime tries to keep you from voting. The Roberts Court is continuing to serve its billionaires backers, offering the ruling regime the chance to pick their voters as it becomes more and more clear voters will not pick them.

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for Alabama Republicans to pursue a congressional voting map more favorable to their party ahead of November's midterm elections, the latest fallout from the court's seismic voting rights ruling.

I know that it's Calvinball now but saying you're going to dismantle a district because it's 47% African American sure seems like the intentional racial discrimination that's still banned

The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

Democrats have now lost a net of six House seats in enacted or likely mid-decade redistricting across the U.S. They will need to win the House popular vote by 4 points to win the majority of seats. New House elec. simulations from Strength In Numbers www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-05-10...

Weekend reading: I wrote about why Reconstruction is such a key historical reference - and about the lessons from the way America’s first attempt at biracial democracy was drowned in ostensibly “race-neutral” laws and white supremacist violence. This week’s piece:

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

It’s telling that Alabama took 14 years to implement Brown (you MUST desegregate) and < 14 days to implement Callais (you CAN eliminate Black districts if you call them Democratic, but you don’t HAVE to).

BIG: Democrats will control the Michigan state Senate through the remainder of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's term.

What's especially funny about this is how hard Ilya worked to try to persuade people that he hadn't meant anything nefarious by referring to Justice Jackson, at the time of her nomination, as a "lesser black woman." When people show you who they are, believe them.

Why is it always a problem that liberals are over-represented in higher education or media but it's not a problem that conservatives are over-represented in the military or law enforcement? What's the military doing to solve its catastrophic viewpoint discrimination problem?

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

CONGRATULATIONS to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social for being awarded a Pulitzer Special Citation in recognition of her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein in 2017 and 2018! (www.pulitzer.org/winners/juli...)

The New York Times writes about transgender people a lot, and yet it rarely talks to them. www.advocate.com/news/new-yor...

In its latest ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Roberts Court has inverted the Reconstruction Amendments to justify the same racist devices and practices they were adopted to dismantle (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

i was told by john roberts and sam alito that racism is over so i won't worry about white republicans in the south jumping over themselves to end black political representation wherever they can

Anyways. You can make Alito mad by preordering our book about the disaster that was Shelby County bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

A hundred years ago, the Democrats were deeply divided between a progressive wing and a conservative wing, and maintained what party unity they could by allowing white supremacists to set policy on anything touching on race.

Colorado's Supreme Court just heard arguments on whether Children's Hospital Colo. should resume gender-affirming care to trans plaintiffs in the face of federal threats. Everyone sees the hospital is caught between Trump and the child patients. Justice Rich Gabriel summed up the existential problem

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.

Orbán turns out to be more of a democrat than the U.S. president and a nontrivial number of GOP candidates.

😮🇭🇺🗳️ THIS IS MASSIVE. Hungary’s parliamentary election turnout hit 74.23% by 5pm (62.92% at this point in 2022; final: 70.21%). Opposition stronghold Budapest is at 77.18%, big cities 75.55%. Final turnout is set to exceed 80% – unprecedented. Polls close at 7pm CET.

Literally a hole in the ground countries and corporations can throw bribes into

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If I'm a GOP member of Congress and I'm in this table, I would be worried about re-election — especially if Trump keeps doing what he's doing and I keep voting to let him www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-07...

The Spain's Prime Minister and his official reaction to the #ceasefire this morning (translated from Spanish). "The Government of #Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket."

Doing a basic calculation using a chatbot instead of a calculator uses between 2.5 million and 62 million times more energy. And using chatbots for calculations is *extremely common* - the companies have marketed these systems as general purpose, everything-apps!

So there’s no regime change, we lift all sanctions against them going back decades, they retain missile and drone capabilities, they control the strait and can charge tolls, and keep their enriched uranium. So much for “unconditional surrender.”

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County. Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

Easter is one of the best fashion days of the year in NYC, and that is saying something

Taps sign.¹ There is no path back to anything approaching "normal" politics that doesn't go through impeachment and removal. ¹ See bsky.app/profile/davi...

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.

No Kings #TwinCities

HUGE-won with the tobacco lawsuit playbook

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“We’re trying to get a child out of a jail to do a spelling bee,” Ms. Rachel told me. “I just never thought those words would go together.” Read my story on Ms. Rachel’s new mission to help shut down Dilley and free kids trapped there — starting with two she met over Zoom last week.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

The Pentagon calculated it was spending $1 billion a day on Trump and Netanyahu’s war. The truth? It was $3 billion…and that’s just for munitions. Plus they’ve alarmed everyone by burning through scarce munitions in a matter of days.

Send these fuckers to The Hague.