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Jeremy Press
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Chicagoan, swimmer, lover of long walks on the beach and off short piers.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 5h
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.
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 7h
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 · 7h
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 · 9h
SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h
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
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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 8h
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.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 10h
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 · 13h
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.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h
“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 13h
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 · 12h
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 · 13h
Get that kid a 4D chess set
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13h
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 · 13h
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 · 13h
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 · 14h
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 · 14h
this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 15h
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.
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h
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 · 15h
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.
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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.
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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:
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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 · 1d
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.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d
The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.
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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
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 · 1d
Would be helpful to see what online-only subscription numbers look like.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 1d
Thomas and Alito no doubt see themselves in her.
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Jeremy Press @jeremypress.bsky.social · 1d
No doubt Thomas and Alito, who take extreme delight in recounting every graphic detail of every criminal case they see, saw (quite) a bit of themselves in this psychotic juror.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d
By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the 6th Amendment was violated when a juror completely lost her mind and viciously coerced other jurors to return a death verdict even though they opposed it and voted 11-1 for life without parole. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
On the second day of deliberations, “even when the other eleven jurors . . . voted for life without parole” in an internal poll, “Chancey would not even consider it.” Id., at 71a–72a. At that point, the foreperson wrote a note to the trial court explaining that the jurors were “‘unable to come to a unanimous decision on either death or life imprisonment without parole as a sentence.’ ” Id., at 9a. Chancey, believing the note as written would result in a mistrial, revised the note to say that the jurors were “‘currently unable to come to a unanimous decision.’” Id., at 9a–10a. The court instructed the jury to continue deliberating. Chancey then “snapped.” Humphreys v. Sellers, No. 1:18–cv–02534 (ND Ga., Sept. 19, 2018), ECF Doc. 42–7, p. 443. She yelled, cursed, and screamed that she would “stay [t]here till forever if ” that is what it took “for [Humphreys] to get death.” App. to Pet. for Cert. 9a. She threw the victims’ photos across the table and demanded, “‘[D]o you want this to happen to someone you know?’” Ibid. She reminded the jurors of the similar details of her own attack, and told them that “‘they had to reach a unanimous decision or [Humphreys] would be paroled,’” which was not true under Georgia law. Ibid. She then levied personal attacks against the jurors and refused to engage in any debate. Perhaps unsurprisingly, jury deliberations almost completely broke down. Screaming could be overheard from the courtroom. One juror “‘took a swing’” at Chancey and punched a hole in the wall. Ibid. Jurors were seen crying on several occasions. A juror later recalled that “it was as if an evil force took over . . . Chancey.” ECF Doc. 33–12, p. 13. The foreperson even wrote a note asking to be removed from the jury because of the “‘hostile nature of one of the jurors.’” App. to Pet. for Cert. 12a. The court instead gave an Allen charge and instructed the jury to deliberate further. See Allen v. United States, 164 U. S. 492 (1896). It also rejected defense counsel’s renewed motion for a mistrial. On the third morning of deliberations, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of death. The above facts constitute a likely violation of Humphreys’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. The problem for Humphreys is that these facts came to light largely through juror affidavits and juror testimony obtained after the trial. The Georgia courts held this evidence inadmissible under Georgia’s no-impeachment rule, which generally prohibits the use of juror testimony to impeach a verdict, even in death penalty cases. See App. to Pet. for Cert. 325a (citing Spencer v. State, 260 Ga. 640, 643, 398 S. E. 2d 179, 184 (1990)). The no-impeachment rule, however, is not an absolute shield, and in extreme cases it must give way to constitutional guarantees.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 1d
Our Supreme Court is so very broken.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 1d
By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court refuses to consider whether the 6th Amendment was violated when a juror completely lost her mind and viciously coerced other jurors to return a death verdict even though they opposed it and voted 11-1 for life without parole. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
On the second day of deliberations, “even when the other eleven jurors . . . voted for life without parole” in an internal poll, “Chancey would not even consider it.” Id., at 71a–72a. At that point, the foreperson wrote a note to the trial court explaining that the jurors were “‘unable to come to a unanimous decision on either death or life imprisonment without parole as a sentence.’ ” Id., at 9a. Chancey, believing the note as written would result in a mistrial, revised the note to say that the jurors were “‘currently unable to come to a unanimous decision.’” Id., at 9a–10a. The court instructed the jury to continue deliberating. Chancey then “snapped.” Humphreys v. Sellers, No. 1:18–cv–02534 (ND Ga., Sept. 19, 2018), ECF Doc. 42–7, p. 443. She yelled, cursed, and screamed that she would “stay [t]here till forever if ” that is what it took “for [Humphreys] to get death.” App. to Pet. for Cert. 9a. She threw the victims’ photos across the table and demanded, “‘[D]o you want this to happen to someone you know?’” Ibid. She reminded the jurors of the similar details of her own attack, and told them that “‘they had to reach a unanimous decision or [Humphreys] would be paroled,’” which was not true under Georgia law. Ibid. She then levied personal attacks against the jurors and refused to engage in any debate. Perhaps unsurprisingly, jury deliberations almost completely broke down. Screaming could be overheard from the courtroom. One juror “‘took a swing’” at Chancey and punched a hole in the wall. Ibid. Jurors were seen crying on several occasions. A juror later recalled that “it was as if an evil force took over . . . Chancey.” ECF Doc. 33–12, p. 13. The foreperson even wrote a note asking to be removed from the jury because of the “‘hostile nature of one of the jurors.’” App. to Pet. for Cert. 12a. The court instead gave an Allen charge and instructed the jury to deliberate further. See Allen v. United States, 164 U. S. 492 (1896). It also rejected defense counsel’s renewed motion for a mistrial. On the third morning of deliberations, the jury returned a unanimous verdict of death. The above facts constitute a likely violation of Humphreys’s Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury. The problem for Humphreys is that these facts came to light largely through juror affidavits and juror testimony obtained after the trial. The Georgia courts held this evidence inadmissible under Georgia’s no-impeachment rule, which generally prohibits the use of juror testimony to impeach a verdict, even in death penalty cases. See App. to Pet. for Cert. 325a (citing Spencer v. State, 260 Ga. 640, 643, 398 S. E. 2d 179, 184 (1990)). The no-impeachment rule, however, is not an absolute shield, and in extreme cases it must give way to constitutional guarantees.
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 2d
13. years. old.
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Jesse Mermell @jessemermell.bsky.social · 3d
He is 13. A 7th grader w/ a pending asylum case. Being held more than 500 miles from home & housed w/ adults. He called his mom crying, & reported that he’s sleeping on concrete w/ an aluminum blanket.

How is this anything other than sick & shameful? www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe
The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.
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