The Supreme Court is playing a central role in the overthrow of the Second Reconstruction - just as it did in the overthrow of the first. Color blindness has been used to excuse and justify both. 1/

Hey Dana Bash, rather than asking Dems if their comments caused an assassination attempt, how about asking Republicans if their support for a sex offender, convicted felon, bigot, corrupt, hate-spewing president may have caused the attempt?

For my generation, the 1965 Voting Rights Act wasn't just a law but a statement that we were never again going backwards on race. I saw Black political power thrive in the '80s, and never thought I'd live to see the VRA get crushed What do we do now? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/supr...

I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

Want to stand up and take action to protect voting rights in response to SCOTUS' dismantling of the Voting Rights Act? Here's a place to start: www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

37,964 games have been played in the NBA since the 1996-97 season, regular season & playoffs. Knicks/Hawks is the first game where the road team scored 100 points before the home team had 50.

The solution to gerrymandering has been known for nearly two hundred years at this point. When we take back power we should do a new VRA that requires proportional representation (after we deal with the Court, of course, to ensure the law sticks) youtu.be/T7_LmqR0a04?...

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NEW: Trump had begun comparing himself to Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon in private conversations. My look, w @michaelscherer, on Trump, his legacy, and the long scope of his history: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It’s the 250th year of American independence, and the Pope and the King of England are reminding Americans of their revolutionary values, principles, and ideals Somewhere, John Adams is confused as fuck

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

no surprise that an institution that has always been highly solicitous of privilege and power would look suspiciously on those amendments and that project

the fact of the matter is those amendments write a principle of anti subordination into the constitution and empower congress to do whatever is necessary and proper to uproot subordination and its effects.

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.

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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Unfortunately the administration seems to have latched on to a key vulnerability in our constitutional order, which is that if you charge ahead and do the illegal thing, you often get most of the result you wanted even if you later lose in court.

Jimmy Kimmel is 'not' backing down. This may be the best pharmaceutical ad I have ever seen.

"The Fox News contributor is the founder of a supplement business that develops 'clean, thoughtfully crafted tinctures'... "Her Instagram account is peppered with dubious wellness claims such as 'rosemary and sage decrease Alzheimer’s risk'...” arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this

Multiracial democracy in the American South has briefly existed twice in American history, both times enforced from outside, and both times has lapsed the instant the rest of the country lost interest.

Americans reject Trump's White House ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a WaPo-ABC-Ipsos poll. 56% oppose the ballroom. 28% support the project.

The Court's decision overlooks reality for a self-serving right-wing fantasy and it will live in infamy.

In the 24 hours since the Supreme Court's majority ruled to demolish the Voting Rights Act's remaining protections, Louisiana and Tennessee have already signaled that they'll redraw their congressional maps with the clear effect of shutting Black voters out.

A Supreme Court that upholds gerrymandering in one breath and denies any protection from the overt use of race in the next is as destructive to this republic as any court that ever beat down Homer Plessy or Dred Scott. This is a betrayal of everyone who ever fought or died for American civil rights.

The new crank nominated for Surgeon General, replacing the previous crank nominee arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

In remarks to a private audience in 2023, Russell Vought, who is Trump’s budget chief and the intellectual force behind Trump’s unprecedented power grab, said he championed the term “invasion” because it “unlocked” extraordinary presidential powers. (Published May 2025)

The reason so many of us keep bringing up Reagan and the 2000 election, 2016, 2024, is because elections matter. They determine whether people live or die. And too many people, especially white people and people of color, show every election how much they don’t don’t give a damn about Black people.

This is literally going to kill people Test strips allow people to check their drugs to see if they contain deadly fentanyl IDIOTIC immoral fuckery www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

Allowing an exception for rotisserie chicken and rotisserie chicken only really drives home the cynicism at the heart of all this.

🧨 NEW: Trump’s DOJ is preparing to weaponize the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act and challenge maps that protect Black and Latino voters — starting with California.

looking forward to Oh No The National Debt becoming the single most pressing issue for the national media the second a Democrat takes office again, as is tradition

Flight attendant gets on comms after pilot says we are having to circle above Louisville due to other flight traffic, "show of hands if you think it is gulf stream private jets we are waiting on. Yeah, just so you know what we are dealing with."

*and getting away with it

Red states officials across the nation are already calling for changes to congressional maps to be made as soon as possible — meaning the decision can and likely will still have an impact on President Trump’s push to predetermine the results of the midterms.

🚨 "The US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by President Donald Trump’s sons" Annie Massa for @bloomberg.com

You Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court — Not Both talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-c...

it is racial discrimination to try ensure that the representation of a minority group is roughly in line with its proportion of the state’s population. it is equal protection to allow a state to obliterate a minority group’s representation.

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

“Under Trump and the contemporary GOP, a great national Southernization of politics appears underway. The Supreme Court’s decision this week threatens to help strengthen and accelerate this process.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-supreme-...

To be clear as day, this is, of course, absolutely intentional. It has happened with every Republican president of my lifetime (with the notable exception of HW Bush). It's what the GOP does. www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...

Sometimes people get confused about tensions between majority rule and minority rights Majority rule as almost always been helpful for rights for racial, religious, gender etc minorities The minorities that the Constitution tends to protect are geographic (small states, rural) and capital

would love to know where all of these maniacs come from jewishinsider.com/2026/04/harm...

someone make an ad of grandma working in a coal mine

🔴PAY ATTENTION: The Governor of Louisiana is declaring an emergency to cancel an ongoing election so that his party can rig the rules moving forward. This is not just about redistricting... www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

1/3 Today, 40 Associated Press guild-covered employees across the U.S. who accepted buyouts left the newsroom for the final time. We’ve been told layoffs will be coming, with no clear timeline. In solidarity, our members in office, at home, and in the field wore their union red today.

A call to end birthright citizenship is a call to end any hope of constitutional freedoms in this country.

Hell of a graph

I’m not ready to read this and maybe I won’t be. But maybe you are.

My New One at Slate: Justice Alito is a Coward (and Possibly a Liar) slate.com/news-and-pol...