WSJ: “.. the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors, some of the people said ..”

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The Roberts #SCOTUS sure appears to be working to do their part to help Trump/Republicans lock in a de facto Congressional majority (unless there is a overwhelming blue wave). The Q is why are Dem leaders silent about this MAGA subservient Court?

If the Supreme Court refuses to let Congress to outlaw Republicans' racial gerrymandering of single-member districts, the best remaining option becomes straightforward: update the Apportionment Act to ban single-member districts.

i've said for a while that Trump's whole selling point is basically giving people permission to be their worst selves

i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris

it's like they're *trying* to increase turnout

Military pay is appropriated one year at a time, with a one-year period of availability. The fiscal year ended on September 30th, and we did not pass new appropriations bills (the government is shut down), so there's no money available to pay the troops (or to do lots of things).

Under the Constitution and under the ADA, it is illegal to spend money without funding for that purpose. The president may not spend money to do something unless there's actually money to carry it out and that action is expressly allowed.

The Constitution is literally dead letter at this point. This is very extremely explicitly unconstitutional.

Republicans lose cities by massive margins and their response is to defund the cities

Democrats lose rural areas by massive margins and their response is to increase rural funding

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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.

The transcript for today's alarming argument about the Voting Rights Act at SCOTUS is now available:

www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...

what’s most damning, IMO, about the “swastika flag in the background of a Zoom call” thing is that it’s clearly been up for a while, like, he didn’t put that up this AM, and nobody has said anything to him about it (nor did he think to take it down) because it’s just expected behavior among the GOP

The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
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yuuuuup

Bernie 2016 also did tons of media and man he was awesome on Fox

Democrats need to relearn politics and persuasion

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

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

One of the cool things I'm looking forward to this year is attending a conference field trip. I've never seen the K-Pg boundary sections before, so it should be a lot of fun to learn about the geology/paleontology of the mass extinction from folks who are experts in their field!

The "don't call us Nazis" crowd sure has a lot of swastikas

Huh what do you know

Remember: when white professionals in their 20s do bad things, they're "kids." When PoC teens are accused of wrongdoing, they are hardened criminals unworthy of mercy.

F them consumers