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We are living in a country where the president can touch an underage girl's genitalia and there will be no repercussions—but if you DARE touch a pool of green water, you *will* be arrested and jailed. What a world . . .

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The thing is you gotta be obsessed with the Nazi regime to even reach for a Bonhoeffer reference here and you gotta be an incredibly twisted soul to think Bonhoeffer’s nonviolent heroism is the tragedy we can’t repeat in that story.

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Thune's body language in this entire conference tells it all

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Here is the indictment in the Minnesota conspiracy case: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Donald Trump decided the day Jay Clayton lost his MISDEMEANOR case against Brad Lander was a good day to claim Clayton is a brilliant lawyer who should be Director of National Intelligence. 😜

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The verdict is in!

Graphic that says "Not guilty. In a loss for the fascists, a federal judge ruled that Brad Lander is NOT guilty in the trial resulting from his arrest by ICE last year at 26 Federal Plaza."

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Not when it didn’t require court approval, unfortunately

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

he just confirmed that is still in place. FFS

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

And because they know he’s absolutely not above bribes, like them.

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Wait, I thought all protestors were well outside of the curfew area? And, even if not, press was allowed to stay beyond curfew. Regardless, I watched footage for an hour last night during the arrests and was absolutely disgusted. Sherrill’s local LE officers are just as bad as ICE.

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

💯 her post today is the opposite of reality

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Share this far and wide. Everyone must understand what’s happening at Delaney. Protestors are supporting detainees on hunger and labor strikes because of worms in food, deplorable conditions, lack of medical care (a woman miscarried and was denied a doctor), denial of HIV meds, and far more.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

They are standing up for hunger strikers for fcks sake. Detainees are being fed worms. People are being forced to sit in their own menstrual blood. A woman miscarried inside with NO medical help. Protestors were gassed last night to the point of blindness. Medics were targeted. WAKE THE FUCK UP.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Fox reporter to protester: You have a dirty mouth Protester: You are a Nazi bitch

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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Sotomayor: “the District Court remains free on remand to decide for itself whether Callais has any bearing on its Fourteenth Amendment analysis or if its prior reasoning is unaffected by that decision.” District Court: FREEEEDOOOOOM

III. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION MERITS - CONSTITUTIONAL
VIOLATION (MILLIGAN)
The Milligan Plaintiffs' constitutional claim is that in 2023, the Legislature knew from court orders that a map without an additional Black-opportunity district would unlawfully dilute Black Alabamians' opportunity to participate in the political process, intentionally enacted just such a map, and purposefully tried to prevent a

remedy.
More particularly, the claim is that the Legislature knew that to dilute the
Black vote, it could crack the Black population in South Alabama by submerging much of the Black Belt in one majority-White district while simultaneously submerging Black voters in Mobile in a separate majority-White district (that keeps the Gulf Coast whole). In addition, the Legislature knew from our preliminary injunction and the Supreme Court's affirmance that this was unlawful vote dilution, and did it anyway. Accordingly, these Plaintiffs allege that the 2023 Plan was
"designed with the intent to crack Black voters into congressional districts in a manner that prevents the creation of two congressional districts in which Black
voters have an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice." Milligan Doc.
445 at 9.
Our earlier constitutional analysis and conclusion, on the same record that is
before us now, are undisturbed by Callais. See Milligan Doc 490 at 466-542. The Supreme Court had no occasion to consider in Callais the standard for intentional discrimination under the Fourteenth Amendment, nor did it opine on how a state's purported goal in drawing electoral maps may be unconstitutional.

IV. PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION MERITS - SECTION TWO
Although our finding of a likely constitutional violation is sufficient for us to
find that one set of Plaintiffs will prevail on the merits, we also discuss all Plaintiffs'
request for a preliminary injunction under Section Two. All Plaintiffs argue that
although Callais made changes to the applicable legal standard, it did not change the
outcome of the analysis in these cases. Milligan Doc. 531 at 22-33; Singleton Doc.
357 at 15-17; Caster Doc. 437 at 7-27.
We begin with what Callais instructs must be "the focus" of Section Two:
"enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment's prohibition on intentional racial
discrimination." 146 S. Ct. at 1155. As Callais explained, although a proper
interpretation of Section Two "does not demand a finding of intentional
discrimination, it imposes liability only when the circumstances give rise to a strong inference that intentional discrimination occurred." Id. at 1156. The circumstances
here give rise to more than a strong inference —
- they support our separate and
independent finding that intentional discrimination occurred. Accordingly, we are
unsurprised to conclude at the end of the fresh analysis below that the Plaintiffs are
likely to establish a Section Two violation under Callais.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The best way to honor fallen soldiers is to avoid careless reasons to create more of them.

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Jaime Harrison @jaimeharrison.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

SC, it’s time. Early voting for the June primaries starts May 26. It’s about our voices, our communities, & the future we leave our children. Let’s send a message to the SC legislature that our voices will not only be heard, our votes will be felt. Vote early. Take someone. #VoteEarlySC

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Thomas Massie isn't going quietly: “Today is the six-month anniversary of the Epstein Transparency Act. We’ve taken out two dozen CEOs, an ambassador, a prince, a prime minister, a minister of culture, that was just six months. I’ve got seven months left in Congress.” (The US gets little credit.)

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Blanche's opening statement started with "President Trump's budget request ... "

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/05/2026

Didn't the Supreme Court say Texas couldn't use their old maps back in December because it was too close to the primary elections? But it's okay for Alabama, where voting has ALREADY BEGUN?

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/05/2026

1. Flip the Senate this year 2. Block all GOP SCOTUS nominations 3. Hold the Senate and elect a Dem POTUS in 2028 4. Kill the filibuster 5. Pass HR1 6. Pass 18 year term limits on SCOTUS 7. Fill the 5 new vacancies with liberal justices 8. Have nice things

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Brooke Payne @brookeisapayne.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Alex Pretti would like a word. Fuck off, KL.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/04/2026

Leavitt: "Nobody is recent years has faced more bullets and violence than President Trump. This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators -- yes -- by elected members of the Democrat Party, and even some in the media."

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