valabama.bsky.social

valabama.bsky.social

@valabama.bsky.social

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Third Way Democrats plan to spend $15 million attacking democratic socialist House and Senate candidates. We need every single seat we can win in November, but these folks seem to be of the view that we should "vote blue no matter who" only when centrists constitute the who.

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Alabama officials are done pretending. 11 hours. That’s all it took from when SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act until Alabama officials began doing what should have been expected.

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WATCH: The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first six months of the second Trump administration, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases. Full story: propub.li/4tHp2Wd

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Notice how a book can make you gay, a vaccine can make you autistic, a mask can make you sicker, and a poster of the Ten Commandments can make you moral, but guns don’t kill people.

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Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹

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it is important to emphasize that this was *the point*. this was *intentional*. elon musk is a vicious white supremacist who thinks poor african children ought to die, so that the world can be whiter

David Roberts@volts.wtf

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

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NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

thehandbasket.coWhistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new bookRead an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

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Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .

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Three conservatives on the Court are trying to do him a favor by rescuing the Trump economy from the hole he dug for it, but he’ll never forgive them because they shut off his spigot of bribes and favors and checked his power to do wholesale harm out of boundless ignorance.

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ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

mprnews.org‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respondICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

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Prediction: We won’t see US law enforcement yanking Epstein class predators out of their limos, throwing them to the ground, zip-tying them, spiriting them off to detention centers w/o letting their families know, and defying court orders to free them. That kind of stuff is reserved for hoi polloi.

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New Jersey. You got a problem with that?

Arya Sundaram@aryasundaram.bsky.social

NJ lawmakers introduce the FUCK ICE Act. The bill "permits civil action for violations of US Constitution related to immigration enforcement."

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The current Court majority is a classic captured court. The Justices pick the outcome they want, and work backwards from there, inventing and disregarding legal theories on the fly in the process.

Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social

GOP SCOTUS first explicitly applied "major questions" in 2022 and it's already in shambles. Roberts & Barrett struggle to explain why it exists; Gorsuch's extremist version is untethered from reality; Thomas's "core" is invented out of thin air; Kavanaugh & Alito essentially admit it's Calvinball.

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The way the word elites has become devoid of all meaning is interesting. It’s a placeholder for “someone I don’t like” and it fascinates me that the people who use it most are wealthy, went to “elite” schools and hold positions of power. Look in the damn mirror. You’re talking about yourself.