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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/06/2026

the revealed view of this SCOTUS is that the framers got things mixed up when they wrote the constitution and that actually, the president is the central figure of the national government and congress exists as a junior partner that really ought not get in his way

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Absolutely. For example, Trump obliterating USAID, the Dept of Education, and CFPB, plus arbitrarily refusing to pay appropriations to states, cities, and grant recipients, should all have been non-starters—but SCOTUS jumped in to make clear the laws passed by Congress don't matter.

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

This is perhaps the most significant Supreme Court race-related decision in modern history. While people will focus on Congress, this decision will dismantle thousands of districts electing representatives of minority communities at the state and local levels

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 29/04/2026

ANALYSIS: son of a bitch

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

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Rachel Cohen @cohen489.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

the only legal analysis take I trust within an hour of a highly technical opinion coming down is that Samuel Alito is going to hell, which is helpfully also evergreen

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever

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Joel @jandcochran.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

For John Roberts wept, as there was no more VRA to dismember

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

i mean it’s both. there’s a real burden on voters to deliver the opposition to power but then there’s a burden on the opposition to use that power appropriately for the task at hand. we are where we are in part because voters delivered them to power in 2020 and they catastrophically flubbed it.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

"Nothing good can happen and if it does then it doesn't matter" ok brother thanks for your input

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Aaron Bruhl @aaronbruhl.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I can’t find the bill text yet. Setting aside the part of the proposal that is about defenses to criminal liability, the discussion about civil liability makes it sound like qualified immunity is main barrier to liability. The main problem is instead the lack of a cause of action (i.e. Bivens). 1/2

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran CBS news reporter who led the story: “I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight.” The reality is that she is much more likely to be fired than Weiss, and that should tell you all you need to know about CBS now.

In her note, Ms. Alfonsi said that her team had requested comment from the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote.

“We have been promoting this story on social media for days,” Ms. Alfonsi added. “Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of ‘gold standard’ reputation for a single week of political quiet.”

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

“The Free Press” www.wsj.com/business/med...

"The 60 Minutes report on "Inside CECOT" will air in a future broadcast. We determined it needed additional reporting," a spokesperson for CBS News said in a statement. Over the course of this weekend, Weiss made the decision not to run the piece as planned, according to people familiar with the matter.
"Our story was screened five times and cleared by both
CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. is factually correct," Alfonsi wrote in the email. If the standard for airing a story became the government agreeing to be interviewed, she wrote, the network would cede editorial control. "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state," Alfonsi wrote.
CBS parent Paramount PSKY 0.31% A purchased

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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Federal ban on healthcare for trans youth passes the House. Horrific day, horrific precedent. We continue to hurtle toward genocide.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This story confirms something I’ve long held: everyone who can afford a home in Georgetown doesn’t deserve it and should sign their deed over to me

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The modern Republican Party has so many pedophiles and rapists that it makes me feel like I'm crazy because how is this even possible

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Emma the Sewer Socialist @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Also like, the Dem leadership can't make a big show of making it about healthcare because it's the only issue that polls well enough for them to risk taking a stand on, blow out the Republicans in state and local elections in apparent vindication of that strategy, and then cave on healthcare anyway.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

one of the reasons voters believe the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans is because the democratic party itself believes in the caricatures of the democratic party pushed by republicans

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Hassan @hassana.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

they’re calling it The Art of the Self-Deal

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn" tapping the 'bring back shame' sign www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

so what's in the news today

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 10/10/2025

It’s this or nothing

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

my most boomer belief is that you can often get a malfunctioning appliance to work again by slapping it

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

NEW — Freedom Flotilla Coalition says there may soon be an attempt by Israel to intercept the Global Sumud Flotilla. Say radars show roughly 12 unidentified vessels, just 5-15 miles away. Some flotilla boats seem to be losing connection, possibly experiencing signal jamming.

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 30/09/2025

Very important to understand that this is the posture of a flailing loser who has no idea what he’s doing, and is keenly aware that the people he’s in charge of hate his guts

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Senator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I was pretty confident the admin would go full ham. What I didn't really expect was the degree to which the democratic party specifically would just... give up fighting

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I have always gotten the sense that membership in European sports federations goes a really long way towards convincing Israelis they have international support. (they can't participate in Asian competitions bc so many nations refuse to play them)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

WOW. The lead plaintiff is a Latino man who's been here legally for 24 years. He was grabbed off the street by plainclothes federal agents who didn't even ASK about his status. He was detained overnight and only released once a supervisor realized he had been illegally arrested.

PARTIES3. Plaintiff José Escobar Molina is a 47-year-old man who has lived in D.C. for 25 years. He has maintained valid Temporary Protected Status (“TPS”) for El Salvador since 2001. On August 21, 2025, Mr. Escobar Molina was walking from his apartment building in Northwest D.C.to his work truck, about to start his workday, when two cars pulled up next to him. As he was about to get into his truck, plain-clothed and unidentified federal agents exited the cars and—without conducting any inquiry—seized Mr. Escobar Molina, grabbing him by the arms and legs and immediately handcuffing him. The agents arrested him without a warrant and without asking for his name, his identification, or anything about his immigration status. The agents also did not ask him where he lives, whom he lives with, how long he has lived here, or anything else about his ties to the community prior to arresting him. After ICE detained Mr. Escobar Molina overnight at its processing center in Chantilly, Virginia, the next day an ICE supervisor finally realized that he had valid TPS, which statutorily prohibits ICE from detaining him, and released him. Due tohis Latino ethnicity, Mr. Escobar Molina fears being arrested and detained again while going about his daily life in D.C.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

You see this is why I'll never make it in the podcast game. I'd just say "No it's not" and the episode would be over.

The Daily asks if killing people is legal

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

JUST IN: A new class action lawsuit challenges ICE's warrantless immigration arrests in Washington, D.C., which they say are occuring without probable cause and based largely on perceived ethnicity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

unilateral polarization of the right is in fact the big problem facing the democratic world but unfortunately you cannot stop it by lying about why it is happening

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Again Bouie from the top rope

Here I am reminded of Abraham Lincoln’s 1860 address at Cooper Union, where he defends his opposition to the expansion of slavery. Responding to Southern critics who insisted that the Republican Party was a conspiracy to abolish slavery, Lincoln said that the truth of the situation was that there was nothing either Republicans or the entire North could say, short of outright submission to the slave South, that would calm Southern anger or assuage the South’s paranoia:

What will convince them? This, and this only: Cease to call slavery wrong, and join them in calling it right. And this must be done thoroughly — done in acts as well as in words. Silence will not be tolerated — we must place ourselves avowedly with them.
We can say something similar of our time. Neither Trump nor the MAGA right wants to discuss or deliberate; it wants to dominate. American politics is no longer a fight over policy; it is a fight over the character of the nation itself. The task of this moment, then, is to defend the old vision of a more perfect union — of a more democratic and egalitarian American republic — not hope that one can avoid the fight by having the right conversation.

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 14/09/2025

A statement dripping in contempt for his own voters and his colleagues. Hakeem Jeffries isn’t suited for office, let alone leadership.

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Hassan @hassana.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

fine i’ll hand it to kathy hochul

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

The horrors are amassing.

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

you really have to step back and admire it: they just released a winking SIGNED love note from the sitting US president to the most notorious pedophile sex trafficker in history, and nothing much is happening

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

When govt loses in court and appeals, should they be allowed to continue the allegedly illegal activity until a higher court says they can’t, or should the lower court order stand unless a higher court rules they can? No answer in statute. The Roberts court answer is whatever enables Trump’s abuses.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 09/09/2025

Millions of people will die horrible deaths globally, likely for many years to come, because Elon Musk, a single individual, wanted to punish USAID for investigating Starlink. This is why we cannot allow people to become billionaires if we want our species to survive.

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