The whitewashing of the civil rights movement & the state it countered is a huge part of how we got here. My latest: “Black organizers of the civil rights era didn’t organize against ‘racism.’ They organized to sabotage the laws and institutions of a white nationalist government.“

clear goal of republicans in these states is to, in the words of carter glass, “eliminate every Negro voter who can be gotten rid of, legally, without materially impairing the numerical strength of the white electorate.”

‘The things you care about are the things that break your heart, are the things that give rise to excellence, are the things that fill your life with meaning and joy’ - Brad Stulberg

"Right now, our industry is afraid of the wrong things. We’re afraid of offending power. We’re afraid of losing access. We’re afraid of another baseless lawsuit... "There is a fine line between being a team player and being an accomplice...” www.theguardian.com/media/2026/a...

I'll give the man credit -- every day I think I can't hate him more, and every day he proves me wrong.

dudes rock

It's amazing how the war keeps taking a positive turn right before the markets close for the weekend.

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I demonstrated two things today: that driving faster increases the risk that someone will die and that, after the pandemic, people started driving like bigger assholes. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

NEWS --> Dem can redraw anywhere from 10 to 22 additional House seats for the party in time for the 2028 elections if they aggressively redistrict in 7 key states, a new Fair Fight Action analysis finds. This would neutralize GOP's post-SCOTUS advantage. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2098...

“It is grotesque and a desecration of the most important site in America - the resting place of those who died to give us freedom.” It is quite frankly, obscene. How Trump’s Proposed Arch Would Change D.C. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Among the words I would not be inclined to use to characterize the goings on w the Trump administration: inadvertently, unintentionally, unknowingly, or unwittingly. (gift link) wapo.st/4cHHlVn

(gift link) wapo.st/4cWw1Ub

“The Geology of Norway” fr Songs for Relinquishing the Earth -Jan Zwicky

Getting AI to read to your kids is crazy. Don’t you want to do the voices???

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.

The claim that he has served three terms as president -- not the usual lie that he was elected three times, but that he has actually served three terms -- seems to contradict the claims that he passed the dementia test.

its resegregation, jamelle bouie has been saying it since day one and its how this era is going to be remembered

which stage of democracy is this

“Perhaps its origin lies in New York.” 😁💪 www.stlmag.com/dining/Ask-G...

[small brain] trump is napoleon [medium brain] trump is napoleon with every major caveat [large brain] iran is britain and oceans are now battlefields

she’s not wrong

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

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

“It’s naked partisanship, but under the Supreme Court’s approach to voting now, naked partisanship is more of a defense than an indictment,” Richard Hasen, law prof UCLA & director Safeguarding Democracy Project (gift link) wapo.st/4vWGlnX

GOP pass controversial surveillance bill “civil libertarians in Congress, including conservative House Freedom Caucus, have long argued that the tool could infringe on Americans’ privacy rights, e.g., by collecting data on U.S. citizens communicating with foreigners.” 🎁 wapo.st/3QF4Buy

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

“Congratulations to Justice Roberts. When the history of this era is written, he will eclipse Justice Roger Taney in infamy for presiding over the worst decision since Dred Scott.” (comments) (gift link)

Especially since that black president actually discussed race much less than any president before or after him. But racists thought it was all he did. Rush Limbaugh called Obamacare "reparations" for African Americans. They even insisted the Wall Street bailout was somehow targeted to black voters

The conservative justices talk all this shit about how they are mere faithful "interpreters" of laws that Congress passes. They are lying, but they are never lying harder than when, as here, their response to Congress passing a law they don't PERSONALLY like is "nah, we know better."

I have spent my entire career listening to FedSoc types complain about liberal “activist judges” who “legislate from the bench,” and none of them are going to say a single blessed thing about Sam Alito rewriting the Voting Rights Act to say what he thinks Congress ought to have said

A genuinely astounding display of bad faith and duplicity. Honestly this is the kind of little nugget that if we had in a script *in our daily cable news and opinion show*, we would cut because it’s just too misleading to use in good faith without abusing the audience.

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x

You speak of him

A white Mississippi state leader is calling for the elimination of the state’s only majority-Black U.S. House district after the U.S. Supreme Court diminished the Voting Rights Act. "Mississippi might no longer have a district drawn to protect Bennie Thompson," State Auditor Shad White said.

The ballroom, the arch… I have a PhD in Egyptology and I know a mortuary temple complex when I see one.

“The path the justices are walking leads to Calhoun’s paradise…It will be a society of the dominators and the dominated. But it will not be a democracy worthy of the name.”

Blessed are they that have been my friends, and woe to my Lord Chief Justice!

100%. Until the Supreme Court is reformed and the corrupt members removed, nothing else matters because the Supreme Court and its corrupt members will just stand in the way of everything else. Any Democrat who can't get behind that simple fact should leave politics now.

thou furnace of foul reeking smoke!

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

From December: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

What a striking and justified quote at this moment in time: “It might be one of the areas where Europe in general, and France in particular, has an asset, which is to guarantee the freedom of thought,” Mr. Vassy said.”

Always lovely to wake up and discover that the Supreme Court was like are you a person? nah

There are not 6 conservative and 3 liberal justices, there are 6 Republican and 3 Democratic justices. Using ideology rather than partisanship is an absurd lie about what is going on here. There is *nothing conservative* about shooting down established constitutional congressionally-legislated laws.

Make no mistake: Roberts is striking down popular & constitutional law signed by a president, with no plausible justification other than he has a lifetime appointment to empower his fellow rich, white, Christian, male owners of capital.

Today's demolition of Voting Rights Act by Roberts Court will likely trigger largest drop in Black representation since end of Reconstruction. They're taking America back to Jim Crow, when white supremacy and one party rule enshrined across South www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Alito authoring opinion saying fixing a racial gerrymander is also racist and then musing, 2 hours later, during oral argument about Trump's racist effort to end humanitarian protections against deportation for Haitians, about how he doesn't like dividing up people by race I loathe this man so much