Pink Punters, an LGBTQ nightclub in the UK filled with people, was set ablaze by an arsonist. It's a miracle no one was killed. A similar arson at the Upstairs Lounge gay bar decades ago in Louisiana killed 32 people. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The four remaining members of the "Broadview Six" are not out of the woods yet. They each still face a misdemeanor count, and the feds have promised revised charges. But today's news could significantly change any trial.

…campus admins have conceded to (rather than fight a/g) the logics of big finance, big tech, & right wing hostility. The irony is that while profs are said to be “elite brainwashers”, it’s actually these logics that seem to have everyone brainwashed. (Also see discussion under original thread)

…systemic hostility, economic & big tech infiltrating, & narratives that deflect attention from society’s real villains. Look, should some of these old profs retire? Maybe, but they aren’t the real problem. The problem is an overly instrumentalist view of education & the ease with which…

I hope the broadview six sues the feds for wrongful prosecution or whatever else they can come up with

The GOP doesn’t have a midterm turnout problem. It has a Trump problem. “Republicans just need to get their voters off the sidelines” is a much more comforting story than “voters saw the Trump presidency and decided they don't want it." But the data is clear. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-28...

you get the kirie goshima award for most horrifying-looking gerrymanders

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The right wing Supreme Court is recreating Jim Crow and pushing millions of African American voters in the South to the margins of suffrage. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about Virginia’s redistricting plan. We should do it more and do it aggressively in every Blue state.

Okay the concept sounded really dumb but 👀👀

“The Purge, but for pre-marital fucking” looks really fun, and also i’ll basically see anything with Monica Barbaro at this point

Just a reminder that in Shelby County, Roberts told us not to worry about the loss of VRA preclearance, because we’d still have VRA sec. 2 suits. That was, of course, disingenuous nonsense even at the time. Now, with Brnovich and Calllais, it’s all the more so.

your honor, my client is an enormous piece of shit who makes being an enormous piece of shit the center of everyone's attention daily, and the problem is the people who've noticed that

Absolutely one of the dumbest to ever do it

Germany - Investigators seized as much as €2.5 million ($2.9 million) worth of assets in Tuesday's raids on premises associated with the Hells Angels biker group, according to the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia p.dw.com/p/5Cvvs

There is not other than a settlement that comes out of tit-for-tat. Which is why, much as we do counter-gerrymandering, we should set up a unit of DOJ focused on prosecuting Republican politicians and donors. Only for real crimes, but they all do plenty of those.

"With Iran, Trump’s options are accepting a humiliating defeat or escalating, which could end up in a more costly humiliation. Not wanting to do either, he’s strung things along." Useful overview of where things are, especially the stuff about how Trump's pathologies are to blame for everything:

This is correct. There is no future of democratic self government in the US with an unreformed Supreme Court. The Court is riddled with corruption and abuses of power and rooting out that corruption is a sine qua non of civic democracy in the United States.

Today is another good day to remember that Congress has the power to take away the power from this SCOTUS without court expansion, without term limits and without Congressional amendment. We just have to use our power. Thread:

For the first time, a Polish court has ordered recognition of a marriage between a same-sex couple who were resident in Poland but specifically went abroad to marry then returned. But there remain doubts over how and when the government will implement the necessary changes in the registry system.

Like I don't necessarily want to call for this, but the people that the Rs are going after are squeaky clean. If we turned around and did fishing expeditions on them, they would be significantly less squeaky clean.

because the conclusion is effectively that the legislature chose to gerrymander on the basis of race because it wanted to protect Mike Johnson's district. Unless I'm reading it wrong, it seems as though the plaintiffs' preferred districts might meet the test handed down today?

Alito's discussion of the play-by-play of HOW the Louisiana legislature drew its second Black-majority district is interesting. It's a bad opinion, but there seems to be a suggestion (intentional or not) that if the legislature had adopted a BETTER map drawn by plaintiffs, it would've been different

A reminder that parts of GA shifted blue in '24 v '20 - as opposed to standard uniform swing of 6 points towards the Republican.

It's Emerson, but the main thing to do here is comparing the current number versus the '25 numbers.

This dropping the day Florida is supposed to vote on new congressional maps.. The state believed Alito was going to entirely overturn Section 2 of the VRA. And they said that (expected) decision would mean Florida's anti-gerrymandering law was null and void. Lawyers are gonna have a field day.

It looks like the worst possible outcome—no more VRA §2 for racial gerrymandering claims—was avoided here. But SCOTUS also rewrote the test for applying it and made it much more difficult for plaintiffs to prevail.

A whole legal movement devoted to prestidigitation, prevarication, & the deliberate debasement of the profession. They must be pulled out of our judiciary root & branch.

A really painful thing we have to deal with over the coming decades is that Trump killed the goose that laid the golden eggs www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

No, I do not agree with this opinion and I think it’s very bad that many Americans seem to think (incorrectly) that our privacy is already hopelessly compromised by evil tech companies and the government, and that there’s no point in fighting back.

this is very rapidly becoming the standard American opinion, and our lawmakers have absolutely not figured this out yet

Yeah I think relations with the US are going into the shredder in loads of democracies as a result, at least under Trump.

Really curious as to how the politics of “what if we had a global economic shock and it was really clear that it was caused by one person, really clearly and obviously” plays out in democracies, but I could have lived with finding out at say, the age of 90 not today.

Even the guy who can't think says something

This image actually unironically became real

There is a serious proposal that the New Hampshire Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education needs to add Holocaust deniers to the commission in the name of "balance."

Still waiting for evidence to be produced that Cole Allen personally discharged a firearm during this incident

Are Republicans accidentally going to end mass surveillance

NEW: After 404 Media reported that the FBI accessed Signal messages on an iPhone due to an iOS notification data storage issue, Apple has fixed the bug. Our latest: www.404media.co/apple-fixes-...

A former producer of Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show, who was fired in 2020 when he was exposed as a white nationalist misogynist, who was then hired by Charlie Kirk, with whom he frequently co-hosted Kirk’s podcast/show.

lmao this man is so stupid

Gonna a hit cable news ratings here pretty quick.

lmao

Kinch Na Shannach goes to rob spectators at a hanging. One of those being hanged is a woman who tried to kill him and was spared. “She looked at me and seemed to be asking me not to look away because I would help her more than some mumbling priest, or even her own folk, who’d be ashamed of her.”

Like one of them very quickly made the connection of “if I punish somebody for being a shithead and they cry wolf to the secretary on social media, am I going to be the one getting in trouble and if so, what is the point of good order and discipline?”

I actually talked to a few O-2 to O-4’s who were absolutely furious about the whole thing, the question is, how do the GOFO’s feel?

It continues to be a very underrated problem that the military has been the most trusted institution in America for the last 30ish years, that’s just not healthy for a constitutional republic, and frankly has not been the norm in American history

I love reading before bed. Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief is fantastic. Snarky dark fantasy. Every so often it lands a kidney punch. And tonight it happened right before I decided it was time to go to bed 😭