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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Ellis on the bench. She gets right into why we're here.

"I live in Chicago if folks haven'r noticed. And I'm not blind... I have a phone, I have a computer, and i tend to get news," she says.

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 19h

Great question. Do you know a legal journalist who could look into it?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 6h

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 16h

Really unexpected, given the current longevity of the big stars’ careers in the pool. But it’s a very hard sport to stay on top of over the long term and, reading her comments, it seems like the right move for her. A very classy swimmer, and a titanic talent, who will be greatly missed.

Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 19h

Significant swimming news.

Australian swimming star Ariarne Titmus just announced her retirement. She made the announcement on her IG... writing a letter to "seven year old Ariarne"

"The dreams you had... they all came true"

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21h

SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 20h

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 21h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Jacob Schriner-Briggs @jschrinerbriggs.bsky.social · 1d

Read the Reconstruction Amendments! It’s *insulting* to trot out vapid, debate-brain formalisms like the “colorblind Constitution” given the document’s most basic history and the words of its literal text.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 1d

Letting Kavanaugh write it will be just one last “fuck you” to anyone who cares about black people voting.

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 1d

Get that kid a 4D chess set

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

When Brazil adopted quotas for higher ed, the percentage of Afro Brazilians in higher ed shot up 400 percent and all of them did as well as non-affirmative action students.

The idea that affirmative action is stigmatizing and elevates unqualified people is a BS argument.

Screw SCOTUS. Higher Education Needs Racial Quotas. (Updated)

If the United States leaned into racial quotas instead of running screaming from them, we might have seen results like Brazil's.

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 1d

The greatest trick the FedSoc devils ever pulled was pretending that "considering race while trying to fix structural racism" is itself racist. It's a bad-faith argument, made by "polite" white supremacists.

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 1d

Kavanaugh is a paint by numbers level thinker but I know a whole lot of white people who think just as shallowly and are gonna think he "made a great point!". 🤢

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 1d

Scolding the site for its chosen social media topic of the day is so fucking hackneyed and tedious.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 1d

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

Unprecedentedly illegal & unconstitutional crimes - things that make Nixon's presidency-ending crimes look like harmless high school pranks - now happening daily:

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is no longer even pretending to have any kind of argument that his murdering of people in the Caribbean Sea has any kind of statutory validity. Just straight up declaring that he has quasi-unlimited power to execute people based on (nominal) suspicion.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2d

The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 2d

It's especially rich for Clarence Thomas to suggest that the Constitution requires public schools to obtain parental consent before acknowledging trans students' identity.

Such a right would be rooted in substantive due process—a concept Thomas dismissed as completely illegitimate in Dobbs.

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 2d

Would be helpful to see what online-only subscription numbers look like.

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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 2d

Thomas and Alito no doubt see themselves in her.

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