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So those anti-Klobuchar mailers that surely must be from a Republican operation have twins in Wisconsin traced to a Republican-linked operation. popular.info/p/mailers-fr...

Gamer chuds went apeshit about “wokeness” and women in games while kissing the asses of the rich guys and big corporations who would end up running the best firms into the ground. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Noted radical... Hillary Clinton... now in favor of court expansion. :)

The obsession with keeping Black kids out of quality schools is really something else.

SCOTUS has repeatedly refused to hear cases reviewing the mess that has been made of qualified immunity which insulates police ofcrs from accountability for brutality,but has decided to prioritize the all-important rights of moonshiners on its docket this year. www.courthousenews.com/scotus-takes...

"No one wants to see a pasty bald man spew racist venom, or hear it delivered with the world’s most discomfiting “valley girl” affect, which tends to come out when his rhetorical flourishes approach Original German level." substack.com/app-link/pos...

A great deal happened today. But nothing more important than this. SCOTUS allows Trump Administration to continue sending detained migrants to third countries with which the migrants have no prior connection. Just appalling.

Morally vacuous … Well, a useful reminder from @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Finally watched this and can't recommend it highly enough. It's free on Youtube atm

I did a book talk with @nikobowie.bsky.social and @daphnarenan.bsky.social on their fascinating new book Supremacy, about the Supreme Court, which you can watch here tomorrow! tinyurl.com/supremacyboo...

Yeeesh Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...

My man looks like he owns a Hooters-branded Discover Card

Trump continues to disperse disaster recovery funds based on how states vote, which for any other president or public official, in any other time, in any other country, in any other context would be a morally horrific scandal that would dominate headlines for months.

“The Secretary of the Treasury is using the IRS to advance a pro-White Nationalist agenda. That is extraordinary.” —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on @npr.org with @steveinskeep.bsky.social #highered

So cool! www.newyorker.com/best-books-2...

A career lawyer at DOJ said “she received a message from DOJ leadership asserting that all of the Dept’s lawyers - including its civil rights attys - needed to be fully on board with the President’s agenda.”

NEWS: Two unvaccinated people in Pennsylvania have died from measles, according to state health officials. They are Pennsylvania’s first measles-related deaths in 35 years and the first reported measles deaths in the U.S. this year.

READ: If you read (& perhaps clutched your pearls over) that Tyler Austin Harper piece in The Atlantic about DEI and Bates College, then I hope you’ll have the integrity to read this rejoinder by Andrew Baker, a Black male professor who preceded Harper at Bates. open.substack.com/pub/thedrift...

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

federal law *used to* ban sports betting throughout much of the country but in 2018, the Supreme Court struck that law down, freeing states to partner with the gambling industry to profit off their vulnerable residents Americans are now paying the price ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

THANK YOU www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug - The MAGAs, in "Stigmatized!" IN WHICH the intrepid couple do their own scientific research.

As someone who was in college under Trump's Betsy Devos DOE and saw the attempts to gut the sexual harassment prevention of title IX, DO NOT LET THEM TOUCH IT She nails it here, it's not just sports they are going to try to COMPTELEY remove the protections against sexual harassment AGAIN

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The Court's decision last week in Slaughter expanded the president’s control over executive agencies, yes But it also laid the foundation to further shrink those agencies’ ability to actually *do anything* that conflicts with *the Court’s own policy agenda* ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...

The individuals releasing statements saying they spoke with McConnell all say they spoke with him for about 20 minutes:

Can't wait for the national media freakout about this!

Congressional Report Alleges Fraud in Fundraising for ‘Christian Nationalist’ Freedom250 talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Legacy corporate media is permantely broken.

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

Between this and the bribery case a couple of years ago, they've really decided to let Kavanugh be the point person on *allowing billionaires to buy politics* and *unvarnsihed public corruption.*

Now read THE APPEAL by John Grisham.

i think it is great that conservative students functionally work as a volunteer stasi for republican politicians and conservative media

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

This is a fantastic piece by @jaywillis.net on Clarence Thomas's villain origin story. ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/clarence-t...

"The mere existence of trillionaires is a major political and economic problem, probably the defining issue of our time," writes @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. "When the power of wealth is wielded by sociopaths, the consequences are a matter of life and death."

Trump’s election was, in effect, the passage of the Crimes Are Legal If You’re a Republican Act.

Public health researchers and advocates are making a huge mistake by partnering with MAHA on this

Let's be clear: - Hantavirus is NOT a bioweapon - Ivermectin doesn't help. - It has nothing to do with COVID vaccine - Etc etc etc Uncertainty & fear fertile ground for bunk. Hantavirus conspiracies are spreading open.substack.com/pub/garyschw... by @garyschw.bsky.social

Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...

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

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

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the will instead attend the White Collar Crime Strategy Session

Alito has now written two opinions drastically limiting the fundamental rights of ethnic minorities and women, which was the kind of thing you would have expected from a guy angry about both groups being admitted to Princeton, something known at his confirmation www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...