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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 2h

It was and still is insane, by s5 the writers had gotten so frustrated w this they started very explicitly comparing Walt to Satan and the hatred for his bitch wife only seemed to grow

J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 2h

So it’s illegal to draw congressional districts based on race but it’s also illegal for federal courts to determine if republican state legislatures have done so, do I have this right

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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 4h

We should start establishing the principle that a Jim Crow Congress has no legal, moral, or political legitimacy

Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 8h

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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Is it racist to remedy racism? That’s the question at the heart of Callais v. Louisiana, which the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. The case asks whether the Voting Rights Act gives Black Louisianans too much political power—and if so, whether the landmark law violates the Constitution. Unsurprisingly, the Republican-appointed justices seem eager to rule that it does. Throughout oral arguments, they suggested the VRA protects minority voters too effectively, dragging the government into race-conscious considerations that offend the equal protection rights of the white voters who sued in this case. And they floated various ways to gut what remains of the statute by twisting it beyond recognition or striking it down altogether. The result would be a windfall for Republicans, who stand to gain at least 19 seats in the House of Representatives if the Supreme Court frees them to gerrymander Black communities into oblivion. Such a decision would also devastate minority representation in Congress, eliminating up to 30 percent of the Congressional Black Caucus.

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 3h

Sucks when the agreement I intentionally violate “comes under strain”

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frankenstein friday @frankensteinfriday.bsky.social · 10h

it is not hard to put on a mask in indoor places where you’re not eating. it does not ruin the experience to cover your face for 20 min at trader joe’s. establishing this as a social norm would prevent so much illness. five years in i do not understand why this breaks so many people’s brains

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

(and i think it is a demand that stems from fear more than a rational assessment of the threat environment)

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 8h

Vance thinks their 1% win in a black swan race means we relitigated the taboo against Nazism and the only thing preventing this error from obliterating the Republican Party is the cowardice and incompetence of elected democrats

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

Vance on public outrage over the "I love Hitler" group chat: "Grow up! Focus on the real issues. Don't focus on what kids say in group chats... The reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys — they tell edgy, offensive jokes. That's what kids do."

J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 10h

“Let us do monarchy or starve” compelling and relatable stuff sir bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 11h

I kinda think the fact it’s not a real person they can disregard the wishes and desires of will be a turn-off on some level

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 11h

This is fucking madness and the “well if he can’t beat Mills he can’t beat Collins” stuff is doing the work for them

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 13h

I’m Amanda Marcotte and I’m here today in my capacity as the arbiter of who has moral decency. And guess who it is? It’s my powerful friends

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 14h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 12h

From one billion Americans to anti-birthright citizenship. Straight up nihilism

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 12h

Advising you to keep saying this shit etc

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 1d

Trump really said I like people who don’t get shot in front of Charlie Kirk’s widow lmfao

J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 1d

Von Papen wasn’t wrong at Marburg but we don’t have to hand it to him

J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 1d

lol

The linked article with an ad for a poll: “is woke indoctrination an increasing danger in our schools?”

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 1d

Cool how Lee Atwater gave this whole thing away 30 years ago and still dems are furrowing their brows going hmm how do we fight against this

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck you

J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 1d

You’re welcome God

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 1d

Showing up to No Kings with a sign reading “monarchy is an affront to human dignity but, when incorporated into a liberal democratic system, may nevertheless be a useful safety valve for nationalist and/or authoritarian impulses” and then getting clobbered by a Buttigieg-supporting grandmother

Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally, I’ve been chafing a bit at the “No Kings” thing, because there are loads of monarchies that have more limits on executive power than the US does, but it has the great advantage that it makes Americans who want to oppose it sound, well, unamerican….

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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J.B. Philouza @thegreatphilouza.bsky.social · 1d

When I first read it the de jure entrenchment of state media and a parallel judiciary seemed more daunting than what we face here but the more I think about it I am honestly not sure that’s true

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