Like many things in this country, the omnipresence of DraftKings and FanDuel is largely the Supreme Court’s fault.

How the Supreme Court Kicked Off America’s Sports Betting Addiction Crisis

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i personally think polymarket and all companies like it should be regulated out of existence and their assets seized by the state

So essentially you don’t feel it’s worth using your platform to call attention to Republicans campaigning for child abusers, because they should not be expected to have any moral standards, especially when there’s a Muslim who the people of Michigan may choose to represent them in the senate.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · last wk.

The article will be called “Republicans and Democrats are different”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social care to weigh in on why Republicans supporting the campaign of a child abuser for Congress will be less of a concern for them electorally than which podcasts AES went on? Which subject will get you more clicks, surely that will be the best one to write about

Molly Jong-Fast@mollyjongfast.bsky.social · last wk.

So TRUMP world intervened to keep Max Miller on the ballot?

Abdul El-Sayed on capitalism: “I’m capitalist who just knows about capitalism. I have a bad habit of reading, I’m so sorry.”

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

my core thesis remains Everybody Makes Good Americans

Like the hypocrisy and the open corruption, the naked, brazen lying is itself aspiring authoritarianism. They aren't lying to cover anything up. They're saying, "We know we're lying. You know we're lying. And we know you know we're lying. And there's nothing you can do about it."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen? BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests. BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool? BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you keep questioning it

The Supreme Court invited exactly this when it held that the president's attempt to conduct "sham" "investigations" was a core executive power immune from all regulation, including criminal prosecution, in Trump v. United States.

Deborah Pearlstein@debpearlstein.bsky.social · 3w ago

"Secret Service agents who questioned the former FBI director James B. Comey were told to send details of the interview to Air Force One so President Trump could review them....One government document said that 'POTUS was requesting a copy of the interview notes to use in his 6pm press conference.'"

A letter from the mother of Alex Pretti, six months after he was murdered by ICE.

The wild eyed radical communist continues to destroy capitalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape

Initiatives including cutting permits just to serve ice-cream amount to a sweeping program of deregulation

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As unpopular as the Iran war is, the coverage still doesn't do justice to the fact that they just could have not done any of this. There was literally no reason beyond general bloodthirstiness and incompetence.

one thing ezra klein does not seem to understand is that the democratic party has been proscribed insofar as all of its political priorities are illegal. court reform must precede literally everything.

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social · last mo.

Klein asks Allen what liberals should prioritize if they win the trifecta in 2028. Allen suggests the following: 1) Putting an end to Citizens United; 2) Creation of national service; 3) Ending gerrymandering

I have a piece in the NYT today arguing that the law should permit victims of ICE abuse to sue not just individual officers, but supervisors and policymakers like Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino. A Democratic president and Congress could do this in 2029. And they could make it retroactive.

Opinion | ICE Is Out of Control. Here’s What to Do About It.

Congress must push back against our inhumane immigration tactics.

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The Republican president of the United States just paid $5.62 million to a woman he raped. Here's my 850-word essay on the Democrats' Platner problem.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

i think there are two, and we should pass them: mandatory multimember districts and court reform

ellie lockhart (she/they)@eleanor.lockhart.contact · last mo.

I don't know how to tell you that there are literally no laws we can pass that Republicans cannot then unpass

You didn’t need to be Ken Jennings to see something like this coming bsky.app/profile/kenj...

Ken Jennings@kenjennings.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.

No one is emphasizing to nonlawyers enough that the pace ay which this Supreme Court is changing the law has never been seen before in US history, and all of the history of common law for that matter

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

The Death of Renee Good Has Yet to Be Properly Investigated

Six months after she and Alex Pretti were shot on the streets of Minneapolis, little has come of the probes into their killings.

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We are a nation of immigrants and we should welcome anyone who wants to come here to make a better life for themselves. If you reject that idea you reject the very idea of America.

2/2 And while I'm at it: Reminder that DC has more residents than two entire states w total of 3 Reps and 4 US Senators (WY and VT, closing in on ND). We pay *more* federal tax per capita than any other jurisdiction—really, top even NY and CA. And have zero vote in Congress. Statehood for DC.

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

hey is the word “eliminate” good when they’re talking about You. just wondering

NEW from me: Americans are set to lose nearly $250B gambling this year—a record high, up more than 60% since 2019—and that's before counting unofficial betting via prediction markets or crypto Can anything stop America's gambling boom? 🧵

This is a decision that should be 9-0. Millions of American citizens cannot spend the next decades of their lives in constant suspense, wondering if an unlucky change in the judiciary will result in the revocation of their previously-unquestioned constitutional right to exist in this country.

Congress has the power to do pretty much whatever it wants with the Supreme Court. It can expand the membership of the court, and it can punish it in several ways too. We simply need to fill that Congress with a Democratic majority that has the will to use that power.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.