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Here’s the long-awaited Volume I of Jack Smith’s report: Trump’s attempt to hijack the 2020 election www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 48 days ago • 96 comments

The stories saying that the ERA, although duly ratified by 38 states as required by Article V, won’t become law until some functionary at the National Archives agrees to publish it, have no constitutional basis. I’ll be writing about this soon. Watch this space for a link. search.app/LLn9cfhPfmEw...

submitted 45 days ago • 145 comments

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That “our institutions won’t save us” — and that “we are on our own” — mustn’t mean that those of us who have some experience with and expertise at using our institutions on behalf of others can just hang back and tend to our own gardens. We have a sacred duty to do all we can to help save others.

submitted 44 days ago • 104 comments

I can’t get over the irony of someone who would be a racist King or worse being inaugurated as our president . . . on Martin Luther King Day. Vive La resistance!

submitted 42 days ago • 89 comments

This is a MUST read from @sherillyn.substack.com on MLK Day: sherrilyn.substack.com/p/it-is-mlk-...

submitted 42 days ago • 43 comments

“It is always dangerous to experience a narrow victory as an overwhelming mandate. Voters — angry about the cost of living and disappointed by Biden — still barely handed Trump the White House.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/o...

submitted 41 days ago • 86 comments

This ACLU suit challenging Trump’s birthright citizenship EO includes some plaintiffs unlikely to have standing given the order’s Feb 19 starting date, but the EO is bound to be invalidated in the end. The harm it’ll do in the interim is nonetheless incalculable. www.aclu.org/cases/new-ha...

submitted 41 days ago • 43 comments

https:// The most shameful pardon ever issued: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

submitted 41 days ago • 114 comments

Here’s the unconstitutional EO that seeks to undo the birthright citizenship guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 40 days ago • 59 comments

It’ll be interesting to see how the 22 States seek to establish their standing under Article III: what concrete injury will they be able to show they suffer from the unconstitutional Trump EO stripping birthright citizenship? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

submitted 40 days ago • 110 comments

Section 3(b)(i) of President Trump’s 01/21/25 misleadingly named EO “ending illegal discrimination” provides: “Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965 (Equal Employment Opportunity), is hereby revoked.” There goes six decades of progress toward justice begun by LBJ.

submitted 40 days ago • 79 comments

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 40 days ago • 318 comments

Yikes. Sen. Jack Reed, the top Dem on the Senate Armed Services Committee, spells out all the details of the sworn affidavit recounting Pete Hegseth's specific incidents of alcohol abuse, abusive behavior toward his second wife + offensive public misconduct.

submitted 40 days ago • 227 comments

Trump's attempt to nullify the 14th Amendment's birthright citizenship provision is an attempt to reverse one of the most important outcomes of the Civil War, the idea that American citizenship is not based on race www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 40 days ago • 92 comments

Molly Ivins made a whole career reporting what happens when you release 1000 drunk hill billies onto S Congress every other year. Them boys going to go find something they can't get in Mineral Springs.

submitted 49 days ago • 5 comments

I think Michelle Obama is instinctually on the right track for how you politically approach Trump in term 2. You largely ignore him, and go about your business. You deny his people what they actually want from you -- your anger and frustration.

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

Republicans have long since given up on insisting they be taken as serious. They know they're unserious, and now they just demand your time.

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Agreed. It's a product of partisanship, but also people are just more disconnected from their legislators and congressmen, because those offices no longer do anything for them. Small state Senate seats are now basically bought and sold like commodities by hedge funds. -OS

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

The first image is polling data about Vietnam. Only 29% of Americans supported withdrawal in 1969. The second image is a poll from 1967 showing 83% of respondents saying that they're tired of "Negro protests." Vietnam didn't bring down the great society. -OS

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

Folks of a certain age have a hard time grasping that men dying in Southeast Asia was more tolerable to the average American voter than the presence of Black People at the public pool. -OS

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

The only political contemporary of Johnson's who could match wits with him was Martin Luther King, Jr. They distrusted each other, each also had a keen sense that he needed the the other and that their fates were bound together. -OS

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Stanley Levinson, who was one of King's closest inner-circle advisers, was the first in the world of SCLC to get the sense that LBJ was someone they could work with, more than Kennedy or Eisenhower. -OS

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If you live in the West and have water, you can thank Martin Luther King, Jr. Because that's the trade that passed the Civil Rights Act -- water for Westerners in exchange for an end to apartheid. That broke the Southern/Western filibuster alliance. -OS

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

People will finally now understand that in Revenge of the Nerds, it was the bad guys who won. -OS

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

If you saw his words disparaging the prelate, she made him feel small, and embarrassed him. I attended both Catholic and Episcipol services in DC. The Catholic archbishop is usually a suckup. The Episcopal prelate is usually a politician.

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

To be honest, I'm surprised they didn't get to it the first time.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

The Capitol Police should've opened up and shot the sonsofbitches. Afterward, there should've been heads on pikes. Bloody Lucchese Priscilla cowboy boots and Louis Vitton bags hanging from meathooks in the rotunda. They should've paraded the bodies through the streets like Mussolini.

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

Biden should've given the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the DC women who used dating websites to find Jan6 suspects and trick them into confessions. I would have.

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🔥DAILY MEMPHIAN on @SenBrentTaylor trying to oust elected DA @SteveMulroy901: “His district is 70% white. That’s the constituency Taylor is pandering to… Taylor’s whiter than Wonder Bread… using the hot-button issue of crime to advance his own image.” dailymemphian.com/article/4921...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

this whole interview is just the “Charlie brown had hoes” meme. “FDR had dictatorial power.” No he didn’t. That’s not true.

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of Ferrone Claiborne and Terence Richardson. In 2022, Paul Kix reported on how their lawyer, Jarrett Adams, worked to free the men, who had been imprisoned for life:

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump won the election largely on the promise of cracking down on border crossings. When he takes office next week, he will be inheriting a quiet border, with crossings plummeting for the past few months.

submitted 44 days ago • 48 comments

NEW: "Pardons for January 6th would mark the first time in U.S. history that the leader of an insurrection pardoned insurrectionists. Globally, though, this brand of clemency is not original." Here's what happens when authoritarians pardon paramilitaries: www.thebulwark.com/p/get-ready-...

submitted 44 days ago • 9 comments

It’s perversely amusing that in their rush to give Trump the early victory he craves by passing a terrible immigration bill, Republicans may have inadvertently handed Bannon a potent weapon to use against their new tech overlord.

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This part of Los Angeles is gonna be really concerning going forward Lot of congressional districts here and margins haves dropped from 80% Dem to 60% Dem (some are in the 50% range) in just a decade

submitted 44 days ago • 5 comments

The Houston Texans are at the Kansas City Chiefs in an AFC divisional playoff. The Texans have never advanced past this round. www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/texan...

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Despite limited evidence to improving school safety, many HISD students and families are expressing support for new weapons detection systems. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

For an election that was a disaster on the national level I think it's fascinating that were atleast 100-200 precincts (predominately whiter ones) in metro Detroit that swung towards Harris

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

@laist.com has tips from California's insurance commissioner on how to contact the state and start the claims process, and how to keep you and your loved ones from falling for scams.

submitted 50 days ago • 19 comments

There is a powerful disinformation and propaganda apparatus (1) for which Trump can do no wrong and (2) which, in all cases of conflict, will instantly advance a narrative, whether true or false or somewhere in between, that it’s the fault of Democrats, liberals, or the woke left.

submitted 50 days ago • 50 comments

No municipal water/hydrant system is designed for the entire city burning at once.

submitted 50 days ago • 36 comments

Hundreds of Utahns rallied at the Utah Capitol advocating for the protection of public lands.

submitted 50 days ago • 6 comments