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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

compared to what actually needs to be done, dems in va steamrolling the state supreme court in this gerrymandering fight is very very very easy and they need to do it just to show us the entire party understands the assignment

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We've reached the point where one party has so obliterated the rule of law that everyone else continuing to abide by it will only hasten the end of our democracy. That's a recipe for chaos and violence. It's terrifying, and I don't know what we do about it.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

EXCLUSIVE: In 2022, a Georgia grand jury investigated Trump’s alleged interference in the 2020 election. It heard from more than 60 witnesses. For years, the full record of what those witnesses said under oath has remained hidden from public view. Until now. www.lawfaremedia.org/projects-ser...

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

It’s really nice that the Temu Taney Court recognized that he felt down about failing to overthrow democracy one way so they gave him another shot.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Man, that sounds terrible. Killed with impunity by agents of the state for just being on the street and protesting? Hard to see how regimes like that can continue to claim a popular mandate.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

A perverse incentive of Callais: the more racist a party is, the more its gerrymander is insulated from any VRA challenge. boltsmag.org/scotus-calla...

"Levitt: And I think this is worse than blessing partisan gerrymandering: It incentivizes partisan gerrymandering in the worst possible way. The more racist you are as a party, the more insulated you are from Voting Rights Act liability under this decision. If you can make all of your partisan cues about race, then you will never be able to disentangle the two, and you will never face VRA liability. If there were a party called the Klan party, right now, it would trigger an awful lot of nonwhite opposition based on the party’s platform. But this opinion says, you have to set the party’s platform entirely aside to figure out if there’s been any damage based on race. So the more you can tie the two together, the more insulated you are. That means the most racist partisan gerrymandering is going to be the most immune from a VRA challenge. "

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Knowledge Fight was and remains one of the all-time great podcasts. It is the rarest kind of thing: a show that entertains while having a real-life impact. Dan and Jordan helped defang and neuter elements of a powerful propaganda network. Excited to see what both do next.

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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Trump’s net worth has nearly tripled in his second term, reaching $6.5 billion. His administration is the most brazenly self-enriching in American history. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

How is this being treated as normal? A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel n ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My New One at Slate: Justice Alito is a Coward (and Possibly a Liar) slate.com/news-and-pol...

In the end, Justice Alito is afraid to stand up and say what his opinions necessarily imply: that Congress cannot do anything to protect minority voting rights short of banning intentional discrimination despite the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee, despite the Fifteenth Amendment’s ban on race discrimination in voting, and despite the fact that both amendments explicitly give Congress the power to enforce the measures by “appropriate legislation.”

Maybe Alito is worried that a ruling forthrightly saying what he is doing would sully the reputation of the court, which has already faced public criticism for killing off another key part of the Voting Rights Act in 2013’s Shelby County decision. Perhaps he is worried that a frontal kill of Section 2 would energize Democrats, leading to greater losses for Republicans in the midterm elections and in future elections.

Whatever the reason, Justice Alito lacks courage, a word which ironically has been embraced by the Trumpiest of judges and legal commentators to describe taking positions that are extreme, unpopular, and I would argue, in conflict with the rule of law.

No one is fooled by Justice Alito’s act of cowardice, unless it is Justice Alito himself. If that’s the case, he is more deluded than he seems to think the rest of us are.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

this 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

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Has the Supreme Court ever previously struck down all or part of a duly-passed, constitutional law on the grounds that Justices feel like the law achieved its goals and feel like the goal would stay achieved without the law so therefore it shouldn’t be in force anymore? Because that’s legislative.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

"you can elect anyone you want as long as it is a white republican"

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Racism is over says the Supreme Court, which you can tell because it took literally a matter of minutes after they gutted the Voting Rights Act for Republicans in the South to start moving to make sure Black people in their states get no representation in Congress

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Bit of a problem how huge swaths of our court system prioritize partisanship over ordinary functions. This is a bankruptcy sale of a business. Happens all the time. The sole cause for years of extraordinary procedure is that the business is part of right-wing extremist media.

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Rick Hasen @rickhasen.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My New One at Slate: “The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century; This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.” @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Wednesday’s 6-3 party line decision in Louisiana v. Callais will go down in history as one of the most pernicious and damaging Supreme Court decisions of the last century. All six Republican-appointed justices on the court signed onto Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion gutting what remained of the Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters, while pretending they were merely making technical tweaks to the Act.

This decision will bleach the halls of Congress, state legislatures, and local bodies like city councils, by ending the protections of Section 2 of the Act, which had provided a pathway to assure that voters of color would have some rudimentary fair representation. It’s the culmination of the life’s work of Chief Justice John Roberts and Samuel Alito, who have shown persistent resistance to the idea of the United States as a multiracial democracy, and a brazen willingness to reject Congress’s judgment that fair representation for minority voters sometimes requires race-conscious legislation. It gives the green light to further partisan gerrymandering. It protects Alito’s core constituency: aggrieved white Republican voters. It’s a disaster for American democracy.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 29/04/2026

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

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Section 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Unless I’m mistaken it seems like VRA now means that white people can successfully challenge majority minority districts as drawn with racial animus against white people, but black people cant because they vote overwhelmingly for democrats and gerrymandering for partisan advantage is ok.

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

Regarding Callais, I think it would surprise the crafters of the 15th Amendment that when they wrote "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation," they had left it up to SCOTUS—and not to Congress—to decide what legislation is "appropriate."

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Micah @rincewind.run · 29/04/2026

the basic reality is that this court has already destroyed the united states as a functional republic and none of the reforms necessary to rebuild it will survive the court as it currently exists any democrat not committed to expanding the court is not serious about fixing this country

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

SCOTUS is telling us that there's no choice left but to pack the court. Congress can pass whatever laws they want to, but the Gang of Six will veto them if they think it'll help Republicans cling to power.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Supreme Court rules in ways that they hope will keep Democrats from ever having the power to keep them from ruling that way.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Trump started the Iran war illegally, without Congressional authorization or imminent threat, so it's on him. But any time Congressional Democrats try to rein it in with a War Powers resolution, Republicans have blocked it. They enable Trump every step of the way. Wouldn't be possible without them.

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Every Democrat's platform for 2026 and beyond must address the needs of real people AND structural reform of our broken government. That includes an expanded Supreme Court, a strong push to make DC & PR states, changes in Senate rules, an end to Citizen's United and serious campaign finance reform.

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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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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"I dissent because Congress elected otherwise. I dissent because the Court betrays its duty to faithfully implement the great statute Congress wrote. I dissent because the Court’s decision will set back the foundational right Congress granted of racial equality in electoral opportunity. I dissent."

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Tell me if you notice anything odd in the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint against Cole Allen.

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 28/04/2026

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 28/04/2026

Vought needs to be in the first rank of the dock at The Tribunal, along with Elon Musk

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

It's an understudied element of our media environment that Republicans can insult Democrats in any way they see fit, regardless of propriety or truth value, without repercussion, but Dems are consistently forced to use measured tones to describe Republicans no matter how outrageous their actions.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

The American press is having trouble covering the Iran war, because “Donald Trump Messed Up, Committing Big Unforced Error With Massive Negative Consequences” isn’t allowed. Fiction must balance out reality. For fairness. Anything else would be biased.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

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Elon Musk Is Playing God

The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

The fact that Trump had appointed a totally unqualified donor to be Secretary of the Navy leading into what turned into the biggest crisis for the US Navy since World War 2 could be covered like the media covered Michael "Brownie" Brown during Hurricane Katrina. They choose not to do this!

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19): NYT: 5 of 58 WashPost: 1 of 43 WSJ: 0 of 40 AP: 0 of 26 CNN Wire: 0 of 18 NY Post: 0 of 17 Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4 LA Times: 0 of 4 Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The Democrats sense that they're gonna cruise to midterm victory by doing nothing and offering nothing and are using it as a freebie to punch left to make sure the voters don't get any ideas.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Chief Justice John Roberts should be impeached and removed from the Supreme Court.

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The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

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Robert Maguire @robertmaguire.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The only president or major party candidate in half a century not to disclose his tax returns—who fought for years, at taxpayer expense, to keep them private, and lost—now wants the IRS to MORE THAN DOUBLE HIS NET WORTH at taxpayer expense as a part of the systematic pillaging he calls a presidency.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Hi! A responsible title to this article would have been something like, "Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas calls for violent right-wing revolution against most of the American populace".

Thomas called on Americans to stand up for their principles and endure personal "sacrifices," if necessary, to preserve the nation's democracy.

“In my view, we must find in ourselves that same level of courage that the signers of the Declaration have so that we can do for our future what they did for theirs,” he said.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/04/2026

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 08/04/2026

"This is what you get when you elect Republicans." Every Dem within 100 feet of a camera needs to be saying this repeatedly. Every time we elect Republicans, we get dumbass wars, tax cuts for rich people, and financial crises. Every time. Fucking say it!

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

What if the United States had a Congress?

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

If the Supreme Court votes to repeal birthright citizenship it must be understood as a yet another vote to repeal themselves as justices. A Supreme Court seat doesn’t carry the power to overturn the Constitution. Elected leaders and citizens both must recognize all six of them as illegitimate.

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