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Dr. William Horne
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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.“
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Remembering the Birmingham Children’s Crusade: State Violence, Rebellion, and Liberation - Bucks County Beacon
Black children forced a reluctant country to respond to their demands. Destroying fascism today requires similar tactics, militance, and solidarity, writes Historian William Horne.
https://buckscountybeacon.com/2026/05/remembering-the-birmingham-childrens-crusade-state-violence-rebellion-and-liberation/
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jamelle
about 7 hours ago
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.”
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Adam Serwer
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Jessica
about 10 hours ago
‘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
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Rachel Maddow
about 24 hours ago
"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...
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Kevin M. Kruse
1 day ago
I'll give the man credit -- every day I think I can't hate him more, and every day he proves me wrong.
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jamelle
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dudes rock
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Kevin M. Kruse
1 day ago
It's amazing how the war keeps taking a positive turn right before the markets close for the weekend.
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The Tennessee Holler
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Philip Bump
2 days ago
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:
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Greg Sargent
1 day ago
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...
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Trump Has No Clue What His Supreme Court Has Just Unleashed
The Supreme Court decision on gerrymandering points in one direction only: Come 2028, Democrats have to declare a take-no-prisoners redistricting war on the GOP.
https://newrepublic.com/article/209830/trump-supreme-court-gerrymandering-voting-rights
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James Medlock
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“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/...
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What Trump’s 250-Foot Triumphal Arch in D.C. Would Look Like (Gift Article)
The Times created a 3-D model of the 250-foot monument to show how it would affect a symbolic sightline.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/04/29/us/trump-triumphal-arch-dc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.tJVV.7F65gsO3Fsqe&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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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)
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Medicare portal database exposed health providers’ Social Security numbers
It is the latest technical problem related to the Trump administration’s push to create a national directory of health providers.
https://wapo.st/4cHHlVn
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Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes, including a more extreme form
A study analyzing 1,154 children and adolescents breaks new ground in how to think about the growing diagnosis.
https://wapo.st/4cWw1Ub
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“The Geology of Norway” fr Songs for Relinquishing the Earth -Jan Zwicky
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Adam Serwer
2 days ago
Getting AI to read to your kids is crazy. Don’t you want to do the voices???
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Ida Bae Wells
3 days ago
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.
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Kevin M. Kruse
2 days ago
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.
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Andrew Lawrence
2 days ago
its resegregation, jamelle bouie has been saying it since day one and its how this era is going to be remembered
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Andrew Lawrence
2 days ago
which stage of democracy is this
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“Perhaps its origin lies in New York.” 😁💪
www.stlmag.com/dining/Ask-G...
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sarah jeong
3 days ago
[small brain] trump is napoleon [medium brain] trump is napoleon with every major caveat [large brain] iran is britain and oceans are now battlefields
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she’s not wrong
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jamelle
3 days ago
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
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Matthew Kirschenbaum
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Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game
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“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)
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Louisiana governor prepares to suspend House primaries after court ruling
Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told Republican House candidates he plans to suspend the May 16 primary elections so lawmakers can redraw the congressional map.
https://wapo.st/4vWGlnX
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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.” 🎁
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On chaotic day, Johnson navigates multiple internal revolts in House
Over hours on and around the chamber’s floor, the speaker and fellow Republican leaders cajoled holdouts on a surveillance bill, a farm policy bill and funding for DHS.
https://wapo.st/3QF4Buy
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jamelle
3 days ago
as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.
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“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)
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Voters Can Be Disenfranchised Now
Just say it’s because they’re Democrats.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/04/vra-supreme-court-callais-decision/686997/?gift=NcECMClJu29tok2Lxatt1o1-3bsnBQZpzA52D1k-t1w
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 days ago
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
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Jay Willis
3 days ago
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."
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Six Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louisiana-v-callais-opinion-recap-voting-rights-act/
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Jay Willis
3 days ago
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
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Six Conservative Activists Killed the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent their careers working to kill the Voting Rights Act. They just did it.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/louisiana-v-callais-opinion-recap-voting-rights-act/
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Chris Hayes
3 days ago
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.
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Kevin Morris
3 days ago
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
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William Shakespeare
3 days ago
You speak of him
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Ashton Pittman
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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.
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Mississippi Official Calls to Axe Its Only Majority Black House District After Voting Ruling
A white Mississippi state leader called to eliminate of the state’s only majority-Black congressional district after a landmark voting rights ruling.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-official-calls-to-eliminate-states-only-majority-black-house-district-after-voting-rights-ruling/
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Jessica writes "some messed-up stuff"
3 days ago
The ballroom, the arch… I have a PhD in Egyptology and I know a mortuary temple complex when I see one.
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“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.”
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William Shakespeare
3 days ago
Blessed are they that have been my friends, and woe to my Lord Chief Justice!
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 days ago
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.
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William Shakespeare
3 days ago
thou furnace of foul reeking smoke!
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jamelle
3 days ago
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.
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Adam Serwer
3 days ago
From December:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Conservatives Want the Antebellum Constitution Back
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments are in trouble.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2025/12/antebellum-constitution/685354/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8NCOt1KEadYxaUU3UllQaTw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Kathleen Bachynski
3 days ago
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.”
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Kashana
3 days ago
Always lovely to wake up and discover that the Supreme Court was like are you a person? nah
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David Rothschild
3 days ago
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.
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David Rothschild
3 days ago
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.
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Ari Berman
3 days ago
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...
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Supreme Court deals a death blow to the Voting Rights Act
The "now-completed demolition" of the law could take us back to the Jim Crow era.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/04/supreme-court-louisiana-vra-callais/
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
3 days ago
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
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