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This will go down as one of the most incredible screwups in recent campaign history, and it happened because brain-fried Republicans like Ramaswamy can't imagine that voters don't actually want politicians to be gigantic assholes. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/vivek-rama...

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

Pop quiz: Which rhetoric is Trump discussing Somali Americans, and which is Hitler talking about Jews? A/ “Parasites … criminals … The ultimate goal must definitely be the removal of the [ethnic group] altogether.” B/ “Garbage. … crooks … They contribute nothing. I don’t want them in our country.”

🚨 Schedule Update 🚨 Games 3 and 4 of the 2026 WNBA Finals between the Valkyries and Dream will be played at State Farm Arena. Game 3 is now Wednesday instead of Thursday and Game 4 has been moved up from 3:30pm/ET to 1pm/ET.

"Targeting those who bankroll the Russian war machine through oil purchases will crush Putin's ability to fund his war." — Senate GOP, July 28 Ten weeks later, Trump is making oil deals with Putin. A brief history of Republicans being against this, until they weren't 👇

Zelenskyy approval rating: 54% Trump approval rating: 32%

The headline is awful but it doesn't reflect the story which is fantastic.

The next administration needs to clearly define what successful immigration looks like: 1) Legal 2) Peaceful 3) Orderly 4) Self-sufficient And just implement that system. If Republicans stop it, then the chaos will be on them. But it's the system most people want to see.

Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit www.garbageday.email/p/why-choosi...

Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.

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We’re not changing it.

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

This is absolutely WILD. Here's the dashboard video posted by @fritschner.bsky.social. Fast forward to about 1 minute. An ICE officer jumps out of a van and pulls a gun on this woman immediately before lying and claiming she "almost ran us over." *profanity warning if watching in public.

Chris Hayes: Sen. Bernie Moreno spent his morning raging at Anthony Fauci. But if you ask him about the Republican colleague who’s accused of holding a gun to his own daughter's head, he has no comment.

When you say “AI models went rogue,” you manage to skip the part where OpenAI manually removed its cybersecurity blocks and ran tests on a machine with a live network connection. Remember that when they insist they’re the “AI safety” people.

Did you know King Charles II had a favorite censorship czar by the name of Roger L'Estrange? His job was to carry out the duties of the Crown's shiny new Licensing Act which required publishers (including printers and booksellers) to have a license to publish any works. He LOVED his job. 🧵

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Invisible Jobs that keep everyone safe. There's a reason we employ them as a government. Trump and Elon used DOGE to eliminate them because they are maliciously careless people who think what they don't understand is unimportant.

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

QUIT CELEBRATING ROBERTS' SUPREME COURT, a totally corrupt institution where 4 members failed the equivalent of the easy questions on the LSAT.

Yes quite possibly, but as I commented on the piece, frankness from us darker shades isn't always acceptable in our society (see Sis Jasmine Crockett). The Key & Peele "anger translator" hit for a reason!

For those too young to remember the “halcyon days” of the pre-Trump GOP, I think it’s appropriate to remind them that in 1980, when Reagan launched his general campaign, out of every location in the US, he chose the Neshoba County Fair in Mississippi. Main talking point of the day? States’ rights.

Important to remember that the legal profession will never take the lead on Supreme Court reform. Its leaders have too much invested in the notion that the Court is fundamentally Good and Right, and that solving for the real-world consequences of its worst decisions is someone else’s problem.

The historian Gordon Wood, who died yesterday after being run over by a motorist in East Providence, was my dissertation advisor. He was 92. Here are some memories of him. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/gordo...

You can always use the fact that SC just mandated non-partisan municipal elections. They did not do this for benevolent reasons.

Telling SCOTUS that Alabama can’t push through its racist maps because it’s too busy honoring Jefferson Davis’s Birthday is perhaps the best thing I’ve ever read. That we’re here because Clarence Thomas ignored Alabama’s request for a SCOTUS decision by this morning is just the cherry on top.

Me: In the future, every car will be like KITT The Future: Pretty Much. Me: And TV will only show me what I want to watch. Future: Absolutely. Me: And robot girlfriends Future: We’re working on it. Me: Sounds great! Future: Actually, you’ll hate all of it and realize it’s a dystopian hellscape.

i was wondering why y'all was talmbout on the job sex yesterday ... nypost.com/2026/05/28/u...

This is an important thing to understand about the 1-2 step the Supreme Court engaged in to gut the VRA: they first said that partisan gerrymandering was bad, but there was nothing they could do about it in 2019. That paved the way for Callais. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

What's so infuriating about this headline and SCOTUS blinkered jurisprudence is both pretend not to know why voting has *always* been racially polarized in the section of the country that 1) allowed racially-based enslavement of people and 2) started a bloody war to preserve that system.

The enormity of Trump's blunder is difficult to comprehend. He listened to Benjamin Netanyahu who promised him the regime would collapse so fast they didn't need to worry about Hormuz.

This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act..

The voice of a deeply corrupt man running a deeply corrupt Court.

a three game win streak should warrant free tacos for everybody mr cohen

Great post from Steve, as usual (whether or not one agrees with him). I will take another opportunity to note that Court expansion can, depending on how it is structured, operate as the kind of leverage Steve envisions for other reforms. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/abstrac...

My own view is that the central problem with today’s #SCOTUS is the extent to which it isn’t—and doesn’t think it should be—accountable to other government institutions, especially Congress. Today’s “One First” walks through eight of the levers Congress *used* to pull to keep the justices in line:

#OnThisDay MAY 3, 1898: SEPTIMA CLARK BORN Educator and civil rights organizer Septima Clark was born in South Carolina. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/se...

Tell the kids we use to go days, weeks even, without thinking about the president.

Wrote a piece for @slate.com on how our theories of partisan polarization gave the SCOTUS majority more intellectual cover to kill the VRA slate.com/news-and-pol...

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

New, from me: This should be a clarifying moment about the relationship the Supreme Court's opposition to representative democracy in America. Lets look at some graphs that make this point. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo...

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1