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David Nir @davidnir.com · 30/04/2026

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The Callais ruling is the latest evidence that the real problem with #SCOTUS is that it can do whatever it wants without any fear of pushback from Congress. The way to fix that is by making the Court *accountable* again, something that expanding it or imposing term limits won't actually accomplish:

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Bonus 223: "They Are Who We Thought They Were"

The Callais ruling has prompted renewed calls for Court reform. It's also a reminder of why the most popular proposals *aren't* how we should fix the Court.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I eagerly await the people telling me that sinister forces deliberately hid Epstein’s suicide note as part of a plot to fake his suicide.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Me in 1991, watching “Darmok”: Communicating by allusion and literary reference? Ridiculous. Wouldn’t work. Me 35 years later: [communicates 50% by meme]

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Supreme Court and GOP are about to make redistricting a complete mess nationwide. It’s going to become pure tit for tat. Some seats flip red, some flip blue, and by the time the dust settles everything just evens out. But the whole country will be gerrymandered in the process.

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Befuddled & Bemused @befuddledbemused.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

in terms of lives saved per dollar USAID was tops, that is until a white South African shitposter decided to punish it for its work in post-Apartheid South Africa

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Unfortunately, this piece on The Great Resegregation has aged well. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

If the Great Resegregation proves successful, it will restore an America past where racial and ethnic minorities were the occasional token presence in an otherwise white-dominated landscape. It would repeal the gains of the civil-rights era in their entirety. What its advocates want is not a restoration of explicit Jim Crow segregation—that would shatter the illusion that their own achievements are based in a color-blind meritocracy. They want an arrangement that perpetuates racial inequality indefinitely while retaining some plausible deniability, a rigged system that maintains a mirage of equal opportunity while maintaining an unofficial racial hierarchy. Like elections in authoritarian countries where the autocrat is always reelected in a landslide, they want a system in which they never risk losing but can still pretend they won fairly.

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Befuddled & Bemused @befuddledbemused.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm old enough to remember when Hillary was investigated for cattle futures or some such thing

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Like if I went back in time? I would tell the guys from the Great Survey that my name was Yeoman Deez Nuts so that would wind up in the Domesday Book and people would see it and go “really? You travelled in time and you did that?”

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Befuddled & Bemused @befuddledbemused.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

imagine how much more damage these people could do if they were actually competent lawyers

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Evidence that James Comey’s absurd seashells indictment is selective and vindictive:

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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Befuddled & Bemused @befuddledbemused.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I confess I didn't see Fox News destroying our government in the particular "put airhead TV hosts in important govt positions" way

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Roberts Court is just racist Bob Loblaw

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

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.

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Befuddled & Bemused @befuddledbemused.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

as a point of curiosity I wonder if Trump realizes Comey being bad at is job is a big reason Trump won in 2016

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

An Atlanta suburb learned Flock was using livestreams from a children's gymnastics studio, a pool, and a playground in sales pitches to other cities. Residents are furious but the city renewed its contract with Flock anyway: www.404media.co/city-learns-...

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City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway

Residents of Dunwoody, Georgia are furious about the city's surveillance contract with Flock. Do their elected officials care?

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Asher HELLbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A profoundly listless campaign. Acted like the primary was an annointment, seemingly refused to (or couldn't) recognize that Platner was a serious threat, wasn't able to jump on his vulnerabilities as they emerged, and visibly all but gave up shortly afterward. A fairly sorry display all around

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

But their consolation prize is having the world's most powerful idiot in the Oval Office, always mocking the "elites" they hate (people who work hard), always oppressing communities they hate (minorities who work hard), always winking at them and giving them a circus of schadenfreude.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Because of course he did. Trump is a folk hero to the dipshits of America because he is a living retribution against a world they deem unfair for not rewarding their laziness and willful mediocrity. They need an excuse for not succeeding in life, but in lieu of that, they'll accept mockery.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 30/04/2026

"Because the Convention Against Torture prevented her from being deported to Colombia, ICE instead packed her onto a bus and tried to abandon her in Mexico." Mexico wouldn't take her, but the Democratic Republic of the Congo will.

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ICE Deports Colombian Torture Victim—to Africa

Last year, we broke the story of a woman ICE had repeatedly tried to send to Mexico or a third country. Things have gotten even worse.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The "reactionary colorblindess" of the right-wing justices has reached its logical conclusion in finding that it is racist NOT to let Louisiana—and any other state for that matter—discriminate on the basis of race in voting. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

What we can expect in the aftermath of this ruling is for more Republican-controlled states to implement discriminatory maps and call them partisan so they can pass legal muster. In practical terms, this will likely mean fewer nonwhite representatives in Congress. Diminishing the power of minority voters may also allow the Republican Party to continue on its path from reactionary color-blindness to more overt racism, safe in the assumption that it will not have to answer to constituents who oppose such racism because they are its targets. There is little risk in attacking people who lack the power to remove you from office.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

what is the fucking point of an opposition party that acts like this

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026

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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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

/2 The fact that insufferable and ineffectual dems don’t like Hasan Piker is no reason to like the little belabored-adolescent-provocateur scrote.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I am no Hasan Piker fan and therefore don’t approve of the Dems giving him a big sloppy public … ok let’s go with “kiss” by condemning him for being too edgy. Jesus. You’re putting money in his pocket. That’s like punishing a dog by throwing bacon at it.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Tennessee’s Republican senator, who is the overwhelming favorite this year to become the next governor, calls for eliminating the only majority-Black and safely Democratic congressional district

Tweet from Tennessee Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn:
“I urge our state legislature to reconvene to redistrict another Republican seat in Memphis. It's essential to cement
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’s agenda and the Golden Age of America.

I've vowed to keep Tennessee a red state, and as Governor, I'll do everything I can to make this map a reality.”

Included is an image of a gerrymandered congressional map where all nine districts are solidly red

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The practical result of adding the sum rev from yesterday to today's decision in Callais seems to be that use of race in partisan gerrymandering is permitted (because hard to prove it was race, not politics) *unless* the state is doing it to remedy a VRA violation. This is Bizarro 14th Amendment.

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Chris Seaman @cbseaman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This:is 💯 correct. The vast majority of Section 2 litigation (and settlements made under the threat of litigation) have been at the local level. Callais will gut minority representation in city councils, county supervisors, and school boards across the county.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

/7 But to the extent you see people defending the Comey indictment by saying “he’s clearly trying to inspire violence,“ that’s not a defense of the indictment — it’s claiming a different theory than the indictment claims.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

/4 To prove incitement outside of First Amendment protection you must show that the speech was intended and likely to cause imminent unlawful action. Obviously pretty hard with seashells, unless it’s, like, a friggin mermaid or something?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2026

MOULTON: You said, 'We will give them no quarter.' That's a war crime. Do you stand by it? HEGSETH: Uhm. The Dept of War fights to win M: You called for Ds to be tried for sedition for reminding our troops to follow the law. But when you tell them to commit a war crime, you stand by it. Congrats.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My quick read of Callais decision is that the majority says if a racial community votes consistently with a party, then it is okay to deny them representation because that's just partisan gerrymandering

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 29/04/2026

The FCC's genuine argument is that ABC's flimsy diversity practices are somehow discriminatory against white people, and this nonexistent discrimination against white people violates the Communications Act that's completely insane and baseless yet it's framed as a serious inquiry

"However, the FCC, the federal entity that regulates the media and telecommunications industry, began investigating Disney’s stations last March for possible violations of the Communications Act of 1934 and the FCC’s rules regarding its prohibition on unlawful discrimination.

Since beginning its investigation, the FCC said that “Disney’s ABC has purported to respond” to two inquiries. Still, the agency said that it has determined further action was “appropriate."

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

One almost expects that there was a law or something on the books that both caused and maintained those great strides . . .

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The idea that "86 47" is not protected free speech is so insulting that a copy of the First Amendment in the National Archives spontaneously combusted upon the filing of this indictment.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/04/2026

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Donald Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else, Jonathan Chait argues:

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Calling Trump a Tyrant Is Not a Call to Violence

Conservatives want to police how we talk about Trump—while excusing how the president talks about everyone else.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 29/04/2026

RIP CBS News. But the alternative - that MAGAting the news would prove popular - would have been much worse.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

There’s certainly this, but I think he may also genuinely have a rather fuzzy & childish idea of what military victory & defeat look like. He thinks if you’ve successfully blown a lot of stuff up, that means you’ve won.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The man with the nuclear codes: "He’s been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live... He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn’t do, because of his sheer power and force of will."

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Firing Tulsi Gabbard would almost certainly be a net positive for U.S. national security. But her invisibility during America’s biggest war in 20 years raises another question: Does the United States even need a director of national intelligence? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Where Is Tulsi Gabbard?

Her irrelevance during a war suggests that America doesn’t need a director of national intelligence.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Big reason for anyone to drop connections with Fidelity if they are able.

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Post analyzed the video. A security officer fired on Cole Allen four times. He missed each time. The video does not show Allen firing. Assessing other video evidence, an expert told the Post that there were six shots in all. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“Disappointed” ”Surprised” ”Betrayed”: your Golden Retriever was sure you would throw the ball for real this time

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