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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 12/05/2026

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

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Mike Thompson @passwordismiket.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

1966-1999: SCOTUS rejects various challenges to VRA 2006: VRA reauthorized with 98-0 senate vote 2008: Obama elected 2013-2026: SCOTUS dismantles VRA

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The @nytimes.com reporting reveals more about the dysfunction and poor leadership at the Supreme Court. These revelations underscore the brilliant observations of @mjsdc.bsky.social , @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app , and @nanagyamfi.bsky.social at our 14th Amendment Ctr symposium last week.

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tryg72.bsky.social @tryg72.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

This is bad, only if you think society needs more minimum wage earners to support existing and future tax cuts on the wealthy. If you think life is about pursuit of happiness for all, this is not extremely bad. bsky.app/profile/garr...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

This isn't about democratizing the news. It's about elevating "vibes" and "feelings" to be on par with lived experience and subject-matter expertise.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

This allows Trump (via DOJ) to use taxpayer money to bribe eight GOP Senators. It's that simple, there's no other way to describe it. And where's the compensation for people injured by the Trump admin's unlawful conduct through DHS & DOGE? Take a bow, @schumer.senate.gov, you did this.

Because the provision is retroactive to 2022, it would appear to make eligible the eight lawmakers whose phone records were subpoenaed by investigators for Mr. Smith as he examined efforts by Donald J. Trump to obstruct the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Each violation would be worth at least $500,000 in any legal claim, according to the bill language. The bill would also sharply limit the way the government could resist such a claim, taking away any government claims of qualified or sovereign immunity to fight a lawsuit over the issue.

The Republican senators whose phone records were subpoenaed as part of the investigation were: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Dan Sullivan of Alaska, Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming. Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania also had his phone records subpoenaed but would not be eligible because he is a member of the House.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I did not expect this kind of fire from Eliot Cohen, but he has Hegseth absolutely pegged www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

There is a certain kind of Army officer who, after the excitement of company command, finds his career stalled, and who perhaps leaves the service as a major in the National Guard filled with bitterness and resentment. He may then dream of one day being in a position to make all the superior officers who failed to appreciate his leadership qualities, his insight, his sheer fitness stand to attention and hear him lay down the law about what it is to be an officer, and threaten to fire those who do not meet his standards. In this respect, and this respect only, on that stage Pete Hegseth was living the dream.

In all other respects, however, he was ridiculous...

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 17/09/2025

the premise of a lot of commentary is "how do we make trump unpopular" and my guys he is unpopular, it's just that the Washington Generals are throwing the game anyway

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

away from his job to a warehouse for further questioning. More fundamentally, it is the Government's burden to prove that it has reasonable suspicion to stop someone. The concurrence improperly shifts the burden onto an entire class of citizens to carry enough documentation to prove that they deserve to walk freely. The Constitution does not permit the creation of such a second-class citizenship status.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 06/09/2025

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

1. Remain Calm. 2. You have the right to deny entry without a valid warrant. 3. You have the right to remain silent. 4. You have the right to speak with an attorney. 5. You have the right to not sign anything.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

Know & Exercise Your Rights Flyer provided by the Illinois Immigration Information Hub.

For more information, head to: https://www.illinoisimmigrationinfo.org/

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Parker Welch @parkerwelch.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the PROPOSITION that all men are created equal.” This man takes aim at Lincoln’s words because he’s working for the same league of traitors that took aim at his skull.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Anyway...Dems need to break out of the impulse to see 200 white people protesting against Covid restrictions as "the voice of the people which we must heed" while seeing 10X as many people protesting racist police violence as "a niche special interest group that's out of step with real Americans."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 04/08/2025

[Blocking jim acosta]

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 30/07/2025

When you read about the unspeakable things new federal appellate judge Emil Bove is going to do—he’ll make Jim Ho and Stuart Kyle Duncan look like bleeding hearts—remember that it is *Democrats* who held the seat open for Trump to fill. Not Republicans: Democrats.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Yup. As I’ve said before, the right’s constant sense of grievance even as they control every branch of government stems from the fact that the base doesn’t really want specific policy reforms. They’re angry about cultural trends the government can’t really do anything about in a free society.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It gets more galling everyday that Justice Amy Cooney Barnett lectured Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson on not replacing an Imperial Executive with an Imperial Court. An Imperial Court does not apparently feel the need to explain itself with an opinion at all.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

This is a great thread. If you want to feel good about things, click it and scroll up. Then come back here. Because I have my own short thread as a follow-up and a warning. It is this: Do not underestimate these people. There is no bottom. There are no atrocities they won't eventually aspire to. 🧵

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

By popular request, linking Mikie Sherrill's "3 kinds of incompetence," which is also superb. Best part is she dings him for his Fox News tactics and then ... those Fox News tactics fail. Second best part is this kicks off her Gubernatorial campaign against a MAGAt. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fup...

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Mikie Sherrill Asks Pete Hegseth About 3 Areas Of His 'Incompetence' As Secretary Of Defense

YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

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Rebekah Jones @georebekah.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

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Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

I am heir to 2,400 year old living traditions of self-government and historical inquiry, which have weathered two millennia of setbacks and long nights. They are heirs of a 10-minute old rebrand of a murderous 20th century ideology that failed almost immediately when tried. So, yeah, contempt.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If an administration can get away with falsifying social security records to target individuals, then there is no bottom. There's also no such thing as a "citizen" because that can be changed with a couple button presses too. Mark your SSN and passport as dead then ship you to El Salvador.

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Jonathan Blitzer @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“The customs official canceled Ms. Petrova’s visa on the spot and began deportation proceedings.” One way to understand Trump effect in govt: an ever widening circle of people, like low-level customs officials, get to make categorical decisions abt lives of others. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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She Worked in a Harvard Lab to Reverse Aging, Until ICE Jailed Her

President Trump’s immigration crackdown ensnared Kseniia Petrova, a scientist who fled Russia after protesting its invasion of Ukraine. She fears arrest if she is deported there.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

We are seeing a very clear pattern of banning things that make Trumpists and their kids feel bad: - Books about colonialism, slavery and segregation - Challenging ideas about gender - Protests against genocide - Science generally It's a blanket ban on hard feelings. They called us snowflakes.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Red Wave

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

this is however a common mistake. you don't want a larger more powerful army if you're Trump. You want powerful extensive unaccountable cops. And he has that.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has *in many ways* been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The tactics Trump used with Zelensky don’t shock Black USians because the gov has always used the same with us: 1) Be respectful/“professional” even if they aren’t. 2) To get help, expect to give up resources. 3) Be thankful/grovel for crumbs or be punished. 4) Say/do what they want or expect rage.

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