incredibly depressing that the reimposition of jim crow districts across the entire south is getting nothing more than generic horse race coverage

I am sooo tired of GOP elected officials dodging responsibility to say what they really think about an unsound president's remarks or posts with some version of "I haven't heard it." We elect them to address reality by being up to the second informed. So much lying. #resist #mepolitics #VoteBlue

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

ICE shot a guy right down the street from where I live, lied about him trying to run them over, and then just dropped the charges after wasting taxpayer dollars on a BS trial for six months.

Remigration is a white nationalist idea: immigrants of color voluntarily leave America for their native countries,making America whiter. That the State Department and White House are openly promoting it is an obvious tell - as if another one was needed - about the Trump regime’s goal.

"everyone should be appalled at your music teacher" an actual thing said by this school board member about an instrumental woodwinds piece (which the kids should just play anyway)

Surprise! Anti-woke slopwriter Jeremy Peters gets the irony exactly backwards.

NEW: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson's "reign of terror" in Mississippi "is over," Gov. Tate Reeves says, urging the ousting of the state's only Black member of Congress through redistricting before the end of 2027. He made that pronouncement even as he canceled a special session on redistricting.

I am very tired of the stupid-savvy 'oh you think politicians were honest before Donald Trump' take, like yes there has in fact been a qualitative change in the way modern american politics have been conducted that is largely attributable to him, and is bad.

Those who promoted the rewriting of state constitutions in the former Confederacy during the Jim Crow era were explicit about their twin goals: white supremacy and Black disfranchisement. Here is a headline from the Atlanta Journal in 1905, as Hoke Smith ran for Governor on this platform.

The court had applied Purcell inconsistently across cases, eventually expanding its application to redistricting cases.... But now the court appeared to adopt an anti-Purcell principle: The Supreme Court should intervene during imminent (or even ongoing) elections to favor states over voters.

My new one @slate.com: Why is John Roberts in a Rush All of a Sudden? slate.com/news-and-pol...

I’m sure some people who work with AI are perfectly lovely and some applications of AI are net positive but AI has absolutely brought out the lowest class of sleazy grifters we have. They make the NFT folks look like Atticus Finch

First time above 5% since 2007.

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

THIS IS WHAT RIGHT WING EVANGELICALS ACTUALLY BELIEVE — "personal relationship with Jesus" translates to an unlimited and unqualified indulgence for wickedness, at least if you're a powerful white man who serves their cult.

“Allowing a sitting head of government to select his interviewer runs afoul of ethical norms and runs counter to the editorial standards of "60 Minutes” CBS is turning into a propaganda outlet right before our eyes. Read @status.news: www.status.news/p/mathias-do...

This is the state that WA conservatives think we should emulate because CEOs and big corporations are threatening to move jobs there. WA rejecting Jim Crow and embracing democracy is our competitive advantage.

Really hard to imagine a crew more comprehensively crude, malign, incompetent, corrupt and shameless getting hold of a previously mostly functional state than the appalling specimens now running this country into every available ditch.

Ending Reconstruction before hanging every Confederate was a mistake

Jim Crow 2.0 needs a scorched earth response of the kind we haven’t seen here in the US before. The kind that five generations from now still has white supremacists shaking. Kill the monster properly dead.

Reminder that Florida voters passed a Constitutional amendment in 2010 banning gerrymandering with 62% of the vote and the Florida GOP just stole the courts and ignored it. By contrast retaliatory gerrymanders in CA and VA passed with the approval of voters. Yet media portrays them as equivalent.

Trans rights are human rights and this administration is an abomination of hate and greed.

they don't ignore Bluesky though there's like fifty news cycles a month obsessing over what people at bluesky are saying. replete with hand-wringing, ironically, about whether they're appropriately well rounded

It is ridiculous to pretend X moved to the right because people left and not because it got bought by a neo-nazi who deliberately runs it with the overt goal of promoting his views and suppressing those he dislikes.

A bunch of rich people lost their minds in 2020 because of it and decided that should never happen again, so here we are. Not a lot of good reasons to keep looking backward.

You can't have influence on X, The Everything App by design because it was purchased with the explicit goal of keeping you from having influence on there, no matter how much less important you feel here. That's the end of the discussion.

Star Wars (Ronald Reagan, entire 1980s)

i know this is all audience of one stuff, but does patel genuinely not realize that bondi just got fired for a congressional performance that was less juvenile and unprofessional than this?

It's a beautiful day to enjoy the Branch Trail! Unless you are an armed militant then I'm not really sure why my tax dollars are paying for you to just stand around with a gun in the sunshine #bikedc

If MTG wanted to fight trump, the thing she should have done is stayed in the house and voted against him. instead she resigned because she thought she'd have more fun and make more money as a pundit. so no, that's not particularly admirable.

In a 6-3 decision the Supreme Court declared the law of gravity unconstitutional, effectively ending the centuries old practice of not floating into space.

Just vile, vile racism.

I’m really just totally gobsmacked that this man is the FBI director. He’s an internet troll turned podcaster with a drinking problem.

Let the record reflect that Abrego Garcia has no convictions, has no association with MS13 save a photoshopped hand tattoo, has never been accused of rape, and that it was El Salvador that put salt rimmed water glasses on the table when Van Hollen went there to try to free his constituent. Shameful

Still can’t believe that mook actually said “under-babied” on live television and everyone just nodded along. *UNDER-BABIED* What in the everloving fuck is wrong with these freaks?

”Moderates” willingness to compromise with white supremacists bent on destroying Black political power destroyed Reconstruction and led to a century of Jim Crow. Democrats need to play hardball, not compromise with segregationists.

Yes, thank goodness we are represented by a president who begins his big trip to negotiate with a foreign power by posting a fake photo of his political opponents bathing in sewer, followed by racist videos of black people stealing fried chicken.

“Grampa, what was it like living during The Dumbest Time?”

If Obama or Biden had called the White House a “shithouse,” right-wing media would have screamed about nothing else for months and the GOP would have said they’re traitors.

I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

The WSJ employs a lot of actual journalists but if you are one of them it's important for you to know your bosses and your colleagues in the opinion section prefer you personally to go to prison for doing your job than for trump to lose

It's almost like it was all part of an a-factual ideological project!

Can you imagine if Obama called the White House a “shit house” after saying “praise Allah” on Easter as he tries to build a $1B ballroom during a reckless war with Iran that is raising prices on Americans while he enriches himself? Right-wing media would secede from the union.

This Supreme Court's majority doesn't care if they cause chaos, so long as it benefits their political party.

STATESMEN LINCOLN: "[O]ur fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." JFK: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." TRUMP: "He kept me out of jail for years!"

ok I know everyone is saying exactly the same thing at once but christ on cracker this is the president of the United States bragging that a fellow crook 'kept me out of jail for years.'

i think it is a testament to the inherent radicalism of the reconstruction amendments that the supreme court’s main project with regards to them has been to limit and weaken their impact on american society.