Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The degree to which Trump has screwed up the World Cup and screwed over the USMNT is…a lot. 731005100
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026The have reversed the logic of democracy: they are no longer accountable to us; we are accountable to them 191985717
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Philip Bump @pbump.com · 06/07/2026Believe it or not, it was once GOP orthodoxy that the government shouldn't boost specific companies or industries and that Obama in particularly was somehow tangentially corrupt about doing so. 21940195
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anywaytheatlantic.comThe Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly InvestigatedSix months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings. 222108644748
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The 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/theatlantic.comVoters Can Be Disenfranchised NowJust say it’s because they’re Democrats. 10627257
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Hey 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? 421501338
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 30/04/2026For 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...inquirer.comSCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wakeup call from a dream | Will BunchBoomers growing up in am era of rising Black political power thought America had changed for good. What went wrong? 652014752
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I 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. 1042196531
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Want 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...mobilize.usPledge to Participate: Good Trouble Weekend of Action · John Lewis ActionsThis recent ruling, SCOTUS essentially authorized partisan gerrymandering to override Black voters' right to meaningful representation, erasing decades of progress in a single ruling. People fought,... 01815
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Keerthika Uthayakumar @keerthikau.bsky.social · 01/05/202637,964 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. 12570123
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 01/05/2026The 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?...youtu.beJust do proportional representation!YouTube video by Liberal Currents 1941898
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Micah @rincewind.run · 01/05/2026now playing for the new york knicks 191382213
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Ashley Parker @ashleyrparker.bsky.social · 29/04/2026NEW: 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...theatlantic.comThe YOLO PresidencyTrump is focused on becoming one of history’s “great men.” 8225795
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Angry Staff Officer @pptsapper.bsky.social · 30/04/2026It’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 9875951931
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 29/04/2026One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S." 6463882026
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026no surprise that an institution that has always been highly solicitous of privilege and power would look suspiciously on those amendments and that project 81820155
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026the 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. 21853178
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026i 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. 132427376
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2026The 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. 232136533785
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Unfortunately 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. 162076572
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺ncperiodista.bsky.social @ncperiodista.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Jimmy Kimmel is 'not' backing down. This may be the best pharmaceutical ad I have ever seen. 7480111
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/04/2026"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/...arstechnica.comTrump nominates Fox News doctor to be the next surgeon generalTrump lashes out at Cassidy while announcing his new nomination. 53329811338
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Nothing summarizes the modern right better than this 1443238777
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Multiracial 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. 222940824
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Americans 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. 822010525
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The Court's decision overlooks reality for a self-serving right-wing fantasy and it will live in infamy. 542135405
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026In 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. 649105294392
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 01/05/2026A 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. 11638185
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The new crank nominated for Surgeon General, replacing the previous crank nominee arstechnica.com/health/2026/... 57733
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺ProPublica @propublica.org · 01/05/2026In 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)propublica.orgThe “Invasion” Invention: The Far Right’s Long Legal Battle to Make Immigrants the EnemyThe Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending habeas corpus, part of the constitutional right to due process. A faction of the f... 8301137
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Y’allsey @aisling206.bsky.social · 30/04/2026The 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. 15821
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Joshua B. Hoe @joshuabhoe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026This 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...cbsnews.comTrump administration ends funding for fentanyl test strips, baffling public health groups: "It doesn't make sense"Test strips cost about $1 each and can be used to check drugs for dangerous contaminants, including fentanyl and xylazine. 24412194
Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺 @echo-fish.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Yep. Red states will redistrict to benefit white voters and that’s, of course, allowed per this corrupt Court. 030
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/05/2026Allowing an exception for rotisserie chicken and rotisserie chicken only really drives home the cynicism at the heart of all this. 181569416
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 01/05/2026🧨 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.democracydocket.com‘We are ON IT!’: Trump DOJ vows to weaponize Supreme Court ruling against minority votersVoting rights advocates have warned that districts designed to comply with the Voting Rights Act — including majority-Black and Latino districts — could now be challenged as unconstitutional. 33372236
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Micah @rincewind.run · 30/04/2026looking 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 4945851078
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺patrick.kennedy @thedotcity.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Flight 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." 552235359
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 30/04/2026*and getting away with it 629634
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/04/2026Red 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.talkingpointsmemo.comWhat’s Happening on the Ground After SCOTUS’ ‘Radical Rebalancing’ of PowerHello, and welcome back to The Franchise! By now you’ve heard about... 1111056
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/04/2026🚨 "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.combloomberg.comTrump Family-Backed Drone Firm Signs Weapons Deal With USThe US Air Force agreed to buy an undisclosed number of interceptor drones from a company backed by President Donald Trump’s sons, according to the firm, deepening the military’s ties to defense contr... 88795456
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 30/04/2026You Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court — Not Both talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/you-c...talkingpointsmemo.comYou Can Have Democratic Self-Government or the Corrupt Court — Not BothIt’s a good day to return to the question of the Supreme... 15730223
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026it 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. 372703346
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026this 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 844684916
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 30/04/2026“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-...liberalcurrents.comThe Supreme Court Delivers Another Victory for the Jim Crow Southernization of AmericaWe must not forget how poorly buried the racial tyranny of the South's past is in America's present. 13371107
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026To 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-...wsj.comU.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDPFederal debt exceeding the size of the economy is a potent symbol of the gathering fiscal stresses on the U.S. 16153111782
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Sometimes 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 10958198
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026would love to know where all of these maniacs come from jewishinsider.com/2026/04/harm...jewishinsider.comDOJ’s Harmeet Dhillon compares contemporary antisemitism of ‘educated elites’ to 1930s GermanyThe assistant attorney general for civil rights emphasized that Nazis often had advanced degrees and impressive credentials 6578386
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026someone make an ad of grandma working in a coal mine 30862071483
Reposted by Stephanie 🌻🇺🇦🌺Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026🔴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/...democracydocket.comLouisiana governor suspends active election to allow for gerrymanderEarly voting was set to begin Saturday in Louisiana’s May 16 primary election, and mail ballots have already been sent out to voters. 949114155781