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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Morally vacuous … Well, a useful reminder from @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
“How the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction Crisis
Like many things in this country, the omnipresence of DraftKings and FanDuel is largely the Supreme Court’s fault.

LAW & POLITICS
SUPREME COURT HISTORY
BY MADIBA K. DENNIE
AUGUST 17, 2026

In 2017, Americans legally wagered $4.9 billion on sporting events. Last year, they bet over $165 billion. And the true costs of their bets were even higher: One-quarter of sports bettors, surveyed by U.S. News last summer, worried that they couldn’t control their gambling. Over 30,000 people reach out to the National Problem Gambling Helpline every month.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Finally watched this and can't recommend it highly enough. It's free on Youtube atm
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Pride Official Trailer #1 (2014) HD
YouTube video by FilmIsNow Movies
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I did a book talk with @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social on their fascinating new book Supremacy, about the Supreme Court, which you can watch here tomorrow! tinyurl.com/supremacyboo...
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LIVE: Roberts Court gets RUDE AWAKENING as the Plan to RETAKE SCOTUS is REVEALED!!!
The Supreme Court under John Roberts has gone rogue. We’ve been convinced that the Court has the final say in our laws and that they can’t be stopped, leadin...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Yeeesh Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...
Steven Johnson, a lawyer who often represented Mr. Marshall in debt cases, defended the warrants and ensuing arrests as necessary to ensure that debtors attended court dates. "If defendants were allowed to appear only when they wanted to without any consequences the court would get no business done," he wrote in a text message. He said that Mr. Marshall was "no different" than his other clients in allowing his law firm to take the steps they felt were necessary to pursue an outstanding bill. As a client, Mr. Marshall was not involved in decisions about when to seek warrants, arrests, or garnishments, Mr. Johnson said, but did set the 18 percent interest rate in a contract he had patients sign. Mr. Marshall's office did not respond to a question from The Times about who set the interest rate.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card
Secretaryof Homelandsecurity Markwayne Mullin
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/09/2026
Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.
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POLITICO Pro: Trump rejects disaster appeals by four Democratic governors
New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Rhode Island will have to pay the entire cost of recovery from a major February snowstorm.
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James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“The Secretary of the Treasury is using the IRS to advance a pro-White Nationalist agenda. That is extraordinary.” —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on @npr.org with @steveinskeep.bsky.social #highered
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Wesleyan University president on administration's efforts to revoke tax-exempt status
NPR's Steve Inskeep asks Wesleyan University president Michael Roth about U.S. Treasury and IRS efforts to revoke tax-exempt status from private schools that help students based on race.
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Niko Bowie @nikobowie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So cool! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...
Summary of Supremacy in The New Yorker’s best books of 2026 so far: This formidable, sharply argued history of the Supreme Court tracks the ascendance of "judicial supremacy" over two hundred years, focussing on how the Court seized the power to strike down acts of Congress. Its power to invalidate state and local laws is a double-edged sword, but its ability to overrule a coequal branch, the authors maintain, has reliably served regressive ends. By tracing the origins of this self-conferred authority, the Harvard Law School professors make the provocative case that the Supreme Court needs to be cut down to size, and that Congress should reclaim its rightful authority.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A career lawyer at DOJ said “she received a message from DOJ leadership asserting that all of the Dept’s lawyers - including its civil rights attys - needed to be fully on board with the President’s agenda.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 25/08/2026
NEWS: Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to state health officials. They are Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years and the first reported measles deaths in the U.S. this year.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
READ: If you read (& perhaps clutched your pearls over) that Tyler Austin Harper piece in The Atlantic about DEI and Bates College, then I hope you’ll have the integrity to read this rejoinder by Andrew Baker, a Black male professor who preceded Harper at Bates. open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...
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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story
Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
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Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1 Trillion and 114,000 Lives Every Year, Yale Study Projects
A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026
federal law *used to* ban sports betting throughout much of the country but in 2018, the Supreme Court struck that law down, freeing states to partner with the gambling industry to profit off their vulnerable residents Americans are now paying the price ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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How the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction Crisis
Like many things in this country, the omnipresence of DraftKings and FanDuel is largely the Supreme Court’s fault.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
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What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia
Expert testimony from two historians helped overturn a school board's 2024 decision, and showed exactly why the profession still matters.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
THANK YOU www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
More important, the bat viruses that the grant paid the lab to study are so genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 that they could not have produced it, a point that independent virologists have made repeatedly. That disposes of the specific charge that research that Fauci’s agency funded produced the virus. It did not.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026
Apparently DEI was the only thing standing between us and death lettuce
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Everyone knows what the problem is: The organizations that bring young staffers to Washington, D.C. have spent the last decade prioritizing blind ideological loyalty instead of competence or intelligence,” said a senior GOP congressional staffer, granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel issues. “We have a generation of rabid, incompetent idiots.”
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - The MAGAs, in "Stigmatized!" IN WHICH the intrepid couple do their own scientific research.
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Gene Locicero (he/him) @code-kobold.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
As someone who was in college under Trump's Betsy Devos DOE and saw the attempts to gut the sexual harassment prevention of title IX, DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH IT She nails it here, it's not just sports they are going to try to COMPTELEY remove the protections against sexual harassment AGAIN
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Ben McKenzie @benmckenzie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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‘OC’ actor Ben McKenzie urges Senate to vote down crypto bill
Actor Ben McKenzie, best known for his role on the TV drama “The OC,” urged Senate Democrats on Tuesday to vote against a cryptocurrency regulation bill over the lack of an ethics provi…
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 10/07/2026
The Court's decision last week in Slaughter expanded the president’s control over executive agencies, yes But it also laid the foundation to further shrink those agencies’ ability to actually *do anything* that conflicts with *the Court’s own policy agenda* ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...
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The Conservative Justices Attached Some Major Strings to the Latest Decision On Presidential Power
The Supreme Court is not only transferring political power from Congress to the executive branch. It is also reserving a ton of political power for itself.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/07/2026
The individuals releasing statements saying they spoke with McConnell all say they spoke with him for about 20 minutes:
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/07/2026
Can't wait for the national media freakout about this!
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Ohio Republicans stand by Rodney Creech despite child sex abuse allegations
State Rep. Rodney Creech — accused in state investigative records of climbing into bed with a minor female relative while erect and wearing only his underwear — remains the GOP nominee in House Distri...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Congressional Report Alleges Fraud in Fundraising for ‘Christian Nationalist’ Freedom250 talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
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Congressional Report Alleges Fraud in Fundraising for ‘Christian Nationalist’ Freedom250
Hijacking the 250th An explosive interim staff report, released this morning by...
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Legacy corporate media is permantely broken.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Between this and the bribery case a couple of years ago, they've really decided to let Kavanugh be the point person on *allowing billionaires to buy politics* and *unvarnsihed public corruption.*
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Once again, today:
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Now read THE APPEAL by John Grisham.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/06/2026
i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:
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ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses. What does it really mean?
A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
This is a fantastic piece by @jaywillis.net on Clarence Thomas's villain origin story. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/clarence-t...
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Clarence Thomas’s War On Affirmative Action Was Never Just About the Law
As law students, Clarence Thomas and Sonia Sotomayor both had memorably awful experiences—and took very different lessons from them.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 16/06/2026
"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."
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The era of trillionaires will be dire for democracy. Here is how we can fight back | Gabriel Zucman
There is a fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. That’s because extreme wealth is always an extreme power
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Trump’s election was, in effect, the passage of the Crimes Are Legal If You’re a Republican Act.
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Trump Pardons Former Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Public health researchers and advocates are making a huge mistake by partnering with MAHA on this
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Top ultra-processed food researchers call for sweeping policy change: ‘The system is rigged’
A survey finds that ultra-processed foods are a cross-partisan concern. And yet policy has been slow to follow.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Let's be clear: - Hantavirus is NOT a bioweapon - Ivermectin doesn't help. - It has nothing to do with COVID vaccine - Etc etc etc Uncertainty & fear fertile ground for bunk. Hantavirus conspiracies are spreading open.substack.com/pub/garyschw... by @garyschw.bsky.social
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Hantavirus conspiracies are spreading
Claims that it's a bioweapon...that ivermectin should work...it's a drug company plot
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/05/2026
They left out admin keys for govcloud accounts for 6 months in a public github repo in a file called importantAWStokens. Any script kiddie could have compromised critical government systems with that. Who knows how many state actors did so. gizmodo.com/the-worst-le...
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‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub
Passwords were stored as plain text in a public GitHub repository.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026
The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The president’s mental health is a global crisis.
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annheiser.bsky.social @annheiser.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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The Continuing Strain of Racism
The Supreme Court's redistricting ruling last week has unleashed a Jim Crow fury by Southern legislators to deny the voice of Black voters and ensure continuing economic failure
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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
the will instead attend the White Collar Crime Strategy Session
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...
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From Alito's Past, a Window on Conservatives at Princeton (Published 2005)
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Most Corrupt SCOTUS in History
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision www.naacpldf.org/press-releas...
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Supreme Court Strikes Down Louisiana Map and Destroys Key Voting Rights Act Provision
The Supreme Court today struck down Louisiana’s congressional map and issued a ruling that eviscerates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act and opens the door for states to enact discriminatory maps wit...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Tennessee Republicans salivating at the chance to draw out the last Democratic seat in Tennessee We get 40% of our budget from the federal government. At what point to Blue states stop sending us money? This all has a very secession-y vibe to it. #SCOTUSReform #UnpackTheCourt
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Another low point for the DOJ
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I'd love to see someone like @davidhogg.bsky.social make the point many of us are: What WHPC went through last night only begins to approximate what school kids across the US experience far too frequently. Thus far, this is being treated exclusively as a Trump thing, not a gun violence thing.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/04/2026
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)
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That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
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