It’s just more evidence of the Republicans’ illegal takeover of our democracy. It’s too late in Virginia for voters to directly make decisions about district lines, but not too late for Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana to change lines by partisan fiat?

Short thread.

Still waiting for the first hero to stand up and say something to Trump as he berates and personally attacks another female reporter who asked a legitimate question. It will probably never happen because some things are more important than decency and courage. I guess.

Yesterday, Trump pointed at Rachel Scott of ABC News and said "she's a bitch" after Ms. Scott asked him about rising gas prices. It will be old news by close of business today. Once again: Trump is held to a different standard by legacy media.

Part of what we're seeing is the long-foretold victory of Lee Atwater's covert racism strategy. Forty years later and journalists still have no ability to accurately describe a racist who doesn't use the n-word in public.

Excited to live in a country where you can mail someone a handgun but not an abortion pill

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

A man who takes the job seriously and himself not at all; playful without being funny or mugging; traversing the fantasy of gender, putting it on without wearing it like a costume; in love with women-as-such rather than women-as-parts; willing to work on himself to make his life a work of art

I love it when Republicans say things that just aren’t true in the hopes that someone will believe it

“We have no choice but to overturn the 20th century”

This dropped around the same time as this interview - Neil Gorsuch on Megyn Kelly’s show. He was talking about how “young conservatives must have courage to stand by their beliefs.” Sounds apolitical to me!

Or maybe, just hear me out, Americans are paying more attention to the Supreme Court than they used to, and they understand the difference between this Court and earlier ones where justices respected precedent.

Remember: Alito flew a US flag upside down on 1/6 and a Christian nationalist pine tree flag, and Thomas' wife paid for busses to shuttle people to 1/6 riot, but yeah, they aren't political.

Most relatable comic of all time?

We live in a time dominated by deeply unserious people making deeply unserious arguments in support of tragically serious results that serious people would have both avoided and known to avoid.

Ahh, yes, the unpopular decisions like “black people don’t deserve political representation,” or “rich people should be able to control everything,” or “women shouldn’t be in charge of their bodies.” Truly a man committed to justice.

i can’t tell if roberts is full of shit or if he is delusional and i’m not sure which is worse

At this point, I think he is just trolling us.

If we can't get Alito impeached and convicted I will settle for a Court of 15 writing opinions saying things like "Alito, known for flagrant violation of judicial ethics, should not be considered a SCOTUS justice" and having him write awful whiny dissents about how you can't call him a bigot.

I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

Against gender-affirming care for minors, in favor of Mar-a-Lago-face-affirming care for minors

anyway the most striking thing about alito, thomas and gorsuch's pissy response to jackson is that they — and the other republican justices — seem to really buy their own bullshit. they really believe that we can't plainly see what they're doing.

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.

Yes, hello. A Nazi tattoo is not a "red flag." It's a Nazi tattoo, and it's disqualifying. You voting for a Nazi tattoo guy is, however, a red flag, and I'm definitely judging you.

Warnock: “I know that there are those who are tired of the remedy. I’m tired of racism. I think it’s a strange position to be more concerned about the medicine than you are about the malady.” If this makes you uncomfortable, ask yourself why.

Still can't get over how SCOTUS says you shouldn't change voting laws in middle of election and then demolishes Voting Rights Act in middle of election to turbocharge Trump's gerrymandering war

The Gilded Age had mass inequality, government kickbacks, an imperialist war, restricted voting, and racial segregation. But it also had its bad points. by Clarence Thomas

Wait...Platner is dropping out of all five scheduled primary debates...after ripping on Mills for not appearing at a debate she had never committed to in the first place?? So if he does win the nomination he'll be going up against Susan Collins w/out ever having debated anyone?

"Throughout the talk, one student projected a photo of Epstein on their laptop—positioning it within view of the camera on the Zoom call—in protest of Karp’s appearance. "In a classwide message the day before the talk, [the professor teaching the class] wrote ...

My hope is a whole bunch of not Jewish people will sign up, discover that the location of Jewish events are frequently kept secret until 24 hours before for security reasons and conclude that is not a reasonable state of affairs.

Amanda Nelson said yesterday "'no war but class war' is the 'all lives matter' of the left" and I felt that deep in my soul.

hot take: women are less likely to use AI because we’re quick to clock flattery as a tool of manipulation

I think that I do not consider it being a function of the "Bluesky bubble" that people might consider a Nazi tattoo disqualifying.

I know I'm old because I remember a time when a person would be *immediately* dropped as a candidate the moment the party heads learned about a Nazi tattoo. And it would be so swift & thorough a dropping that no one would remember the guy's name. He'd be a niche trivia answer.

it’s always a great day to say fuck this shit

Literally cannot post on this site about being Jewish and not liking the fact a politician had a Nazi tattoo for 20 years without catching the worst people telling you that you are secretly pro genocide. Honestly just rampant antisemitism all over the place.

The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

Everything is so stupid and it makes me a little furious Thank you for your attention to this matter

It’s the “ill will.”

Constitutional calvinball.

What do conservatives always say when liberals criticize a Supreme Court decision? "Get Congress to pass a law," right? That is EXACTLY what happened here. In 1982, Congress explicitly overruled a Court case that narrowly interpreted the VRA. Today, Sam Alito said, nope, we were right all along.

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

I'll restate my oft-stated position that democratic self-government in the United States is not possible unless this Court and its manifest corruption are thoroughly reformed. civic democracy or this corrupt court. can only have one.

Unsurprising authorship. Alito is the most corrupt member of the Court - though it's hard to rank among the six GOP members. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/alito-c...

For a party that "doesn't see color," Republicans sure are obsessed with eliminating Black representation in Congress. Gutting the Voting Rights Act is one of the most shameless and disgusting assaults on democracy in our time.