NEW: Trump's gross Aliens.gov site claims to map where immigrants have been taken into custody, but it includes more 83 spots where Americans alone were arrested. Over 700 locations include citizen arrests. The counter is fake. The music was ripped. And Puerto Rico is listed as a foreign country.

Timeline cleanse post cute bugs (throwback to when the redbud was blooming)

Unfathomable levels of corruption.

A new report used census data to estimate that more than 100,00 U.S. citizen kids had an immigrant parent detained since Trump took office in January. Brookings’ analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on detentions, which can lead to family separation www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Hard to overstate how devastating the end of Restore-Rebuild is for Chicago. 19,000 unused deep subsidies left over from the Plan for Transformation just got that much harder to bring back.

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*aggressively focuses on the good in life*

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

A perverse incentive of Callais: the more racist a party is, the more its gerrymander is insulated from any VRA challenge. boltsmag.org/scotus-calla...

In December, SCOTUS stayed a district court ruling blocking TX from using its new maps because the lower court ruled "on the eve of an election." That district court ruling was issued 15 weeks before the TX primaries. Callais was issued *17 days* before the LA primaries.

Book delivery day!! Featuring my first hardcover buys in a minute, from @chanda.blacksky.app and Joey Santore.

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

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Tennessee’s Republican senator, who is the overwhelming favorite this year to become the next governor, calls for eliminating the only majority-Black and safely Democratic congressional district

Alito flatly ignoring congressional intent in Callais — Congress specifically clarified that you do not need to prove racial intent when bringing a racial vote dilution claim because it's so hard to do. If the effects of the map are discriminatory, that used to be enough. No longer

sometimes the difference between "it's over" and "we're so back" is an impulsive book purchase.

Over 50% of American adults can't read above a 6th grade reading level, and this is an absolutely catastrophic civil rights crisis with implications for every facet of individual and collective life, including processing political statements by politicians, doctors, and so on

One thing I have really appreciated as an @inquirer.com subscriber is how Inky journalists stay on top of developing stories, like this highly sus RE situation near Temple. (Also @arianedatil.bsky.social if you end up finding the best chicken Caesar, hook me up!!) share.inquirer.com/Mz6sCj (🎁)

I will not be participating in the discourse. Instead, I will be ripping some Japanese Spindle bushes out and replacing them with Bottlebrush Buckeye 😌

In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

They think you're stupid.

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Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

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Calvin Duncan, a man imprisoned for 30 years before he was exonerated, won an election in New Orleans promising to fix a judicial system that failed him Now, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and the GOP-controlled Legislature are racing to eliminate his job before he can be sworn in

WELCOME HOME ARTEMIS II 🎉🌕👩🏼‍🚀

these colors don't run 😤💪🌭

I WILL win against the fig buttercup that has taken over my neighbor's front and back yards.

Not the main point here, but I do not ever recall a federal agency making significant programmatic and personnel changes as a result of the PRESIDENT'S BUDGET PROPOSAL, which does not change any law or funding allocations. Congress hasn't acted yet. What are we doing here?

we cannot live this way.

SEPTA MENTIONED 🚇🦅🚬

Well,

oh my god oh my god oh my god www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail... www.nasa.gov/image-detail...

Microsoft, to its billions of customers: You must use this product to be hired or promoted. It is the future. We are spending billions per day, choking the rest of the economy. You cannot avoid it. You cannot uninstall it. It is risky. Do not rely on it for anything important. It is a toy.

This is so rad! Also took me a second to realize this is an "upside-down" perspective. Thought Australia looked pretty strange for second!!

Everyone remember to hide when the astronauts comes back.

Go, Artemis II !!!!! 🌕 Take lots of pics!!

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Always so amazed at how quickly everything springs back to life! 🌿

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, holds that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint, subjecting it to strict scrutiny and likely rendering it unconstitutional when lower courts apply today's decision. Gorsuch writes for the court; Jackson dissents.

Grabbed weekend HH and then caught James the Seventh and Valencia Grace putting on a top tier live performance at Milkboy. We are so back.

Been thinking about it since I saw JK Rowling posted this yesterday about the IOC's new policy, calling Imane Khelif a man. Imane Khelif was born female. She was raised as a girl. Her original birth certificate says female. She's always been a woman. But sure. "Men punching women."

As an early-career attorney, I find it appalling that more senior lawyers keep parroting the line about using AI like a junior associate. I think that shows a lack of understanding of how junior associates or genAI work, or both.

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - “In dark times, should the stars also go out?”

That’s equivalent to almost six years of the nation’s funding for Housing Choice Vouchers, which make housing affordable for 5 million Americans.

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

Epcot, the Disney park you could most plausibly claim was educational. Or the Kennedy Space Center.

We're so cooked

Would commission a study on why torties are such menaces