#MorningVibe Monroviaboy (IG) had me teary with this one. This is “heavy foot,” — a song for these times. Stay vigilant, stay together.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

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The rumor is donnie plans on attending a Knicks game in NY. If he shows up the fans should chant PEDOPHILE nonstop until he leaves. That would make the news worldwide and grind his ass to no end. Get er done NY.

EXCLUSIVE: I just revealed that Rep. @tomsuozzi.bsky.social lives at C Street. That’s the DC townhouse run by The Family, the secretive Christian group that runs the National Prayer Breakfast. Suozzi pays $800/month. He's kept it secret for years. There’s more…

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

*taps sign* pixelframe.design/the-mandalor...

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America.  He embodies the broken system we’re running against. It’s time to come together: The People vs. Ken Paxton

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

/22 Heads should roll. Careers should end. If DoJ won’t do it, the legal community should do it for them. This is appalling and unacceptable behavior throughout, at all levels of this office. The lower attorneys committed misconduct. Boutros was complicit in hiding it from the court.

People who lost family members in the fight for the Voting Rights Act tell @talkingpointsmemo.com how they feel about the Supreme Court’s decision demolishing it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/their-l...

Wow! This man shouldn’t be anywhere near a courtroom, let alone a custody case. Some folks can wear a suit and still sound like the ugliest part of American history.

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans and Forward Latino, my law firm won our latest DOJ voter file case. We are 7-0. DOJ is 0-8. Not tired of winning! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

The American empire is failing because of one man's greed, hatred and stupidity.

History repeats

great video on Bari Weiss www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiX2...

SIGN OF THE DAY…

The End of the Line … Corrupt Court Edition

Democratic attempts to re-gerrymander their states to offset losses in the South are proper and necessary. But they can’t stem the destruction of black political power. Here’s my latest @thenation.com newsletter:

Impeach and remove Polis. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...

I’d argue that this was the week we learned of the biggest Trump corruption scandal of all.

This This and This ... are not 3 things... they are one thing

Longmeadow, Mass this week voted down a plan to build a citywide fiber network to deliver cheap broadband to everyone. This article doesn't mention it, but a telecom funded group named Mass Priorities spent weeks on a massive PR text/flyer/phone campaign lying to locals about the risks:

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The relevant portion of the Jason Collins discussion

What “distressing” ideas? How are they “cocooned”? It’s amazing how much publicity one can get by reinforcing cliches that accord so little with the experiences of so many of us who actually teach college students.

In the original Alien Enemies act case, 174 former judges join in asking the entire DC Cir to rehear the appeal "in light of the profound implications" of the decision by a three-judge panel to "peremptorily halt" Judge Boasberg's contempt of court inquiry: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72029...

Incredible how the NYT includes villifying trans people as a sign of authoritarianism while simultaneously pushing that vilification in its editorial choices and opinion pages.

"The Patriot-News, for example, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for its landmark reporting on the sex crimes of Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky... On May 9, The Patriot-News published an article headlined, 'Kalshi promo code PENNLIVE: UFC 328 Preview'..." popular.info/p/pulitzer-w...

Reminder: The very first enactment passed by the GOP and signed by Donald Trump in February 2017 deliberately made it easier for the mentally ill to acquire firearms. Gun violence > fear > gun sales > gun violence > fear > gun sales > gun violence... MASS SHOOTING ARE MARKETING EVENTS.

RICK RUBIN on why Hollywood keeps making soulless movies: "So many big movies are just not good because they're being made by people trying to make something they think someone else is going to like. That's not how art works. That's commerce."

Vincent Bolloré is a public danger to France. By putting Xenia Fedorova, the former head of RT France, on CNEWS as a ”journalist,” he is officially doing Putin’s job. Bringing a Kremlin propagandist into the heart of French media is nothing short of traitorous

The tent is for everyone’s safety

The Supreme Court on Monday lifted a stay on an old Alabama map that had been found to intentionally dilute Black voters, likely setting the state up to eliminate at least one Democratic district.

Anyone with a passing familiarity with current events understands that Roberts’s argument — that the public is somehow mistaken about the Court’s function as the judicial arm of the Republican Party — is irreconcilable with reality.

interesting: on page 3-4 of ABC's filing to the FCC they accuse the Carr agency of working with right wing non-ABC owned affiliates to concoct a scandal surrounding The View's decision to host James Talarico last February (I'll explain) www.fcc.gov/ecfs/documen...

With the setback Friday in Virginia, the Republicans now have what is widely considered an 8-seat advantage over Democrats that could grow to as many 10 seats depending on how aggressively Republicans target majority-Black districts in Louisiana and Alabama. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

ANOTHER WAY THEY ARE TRYING TO TARGET BLACK VOTES.

Chris Stapleton continues to do cool Chris Stapleton things. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

The Roberts SCOTUS is rotting from the head down. open.substack.com/pub/cmarmita...

Most analysis since Callais has focused on Congress. But the devastation in state legislatures may be as bad or worse, and the consequences even more immediate for people's daily lives.

so far, much of the analysis of Callais out there is focused on what the Court's rulings did to the Voting Rights Act, which is reasonable but now I want to talk about what the Court did to the Constitution bc the threat of Callais goes far beyond the VRA alone ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

Congrats to Julie K. Brown! She was awarded a #Pulitzer Prize special citation today for her groundbreaking reporting in 2017 & 2018 for the Miami Herald exposing Jeffrey Epstein's systematic abuse of young women and the justice system & powerful network of associates that protected him for years.

Same energy:

THE. OLIGARCHY. MUST. DIE. IT. IS. A. SURVIVAL. IMPERATIVE.