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Corporations Can Vote in Some Delaware Elections, Judge Says (1)
Corporations, partnerships, trusts, limited liability companies, and other “artificial entities” have the right to vote in Delaware elections under some circumstances, a judge said in a novel ruling T...
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SCOTUS in 2022: Five months before Election Day is too late for Louisiana to redraw its GOP House map that harms Black voters. It must wait until 2024. SCOTUS in 2026: Louisiana may cancel its imminent primary—where >40,000 already voted—to enact basically the same old map that harms Black voters
Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: The Supreme Court has frequently admonished lower courts for intervening too close to elections but is now facing accusations that it is doing exactly that in a way that helps Republicans draw new districts at breakneck speed: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!
Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEW: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson's "reign of terror" in Mississippi "is over," Gov. Tate Reeves says, urging the ousting of the state's only Black member of Congress through redistricting before the end of 2027. He made that pronouncement even as he canceled a special session on redistricting.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
Really is a problem that for every Mark Cuban ("omg I can buy sports teams yay") there are, like, 25 billionaires who believe God has chosen them to cleanse the Earth with fire and to seed the future of humanity. It's just too much damn money, brains can't handle it.
Philip Gourevitch@pgourevitch.bsky.social · 8mo agoFactory farming humans — one more reason there should be no billionaires “Videogame executive Xu Bo, said to have more than 100 children, and other elites build mega-families, testing citizenship laws and drawing on nannies, IVF and legal firms set up to help them” www.wsj.com/us-news/chin...
lol the ACIP committee let Aaron Siri speak for some 90 minutes and cut off CDC experts and scientists off after two minutes (sometime yelling at them to shut them up). Incredible stuff.
Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.
The Trump administration has removed MLK Day and Juneteenth as holidays that include free entrance to national parks, adding the president’s birthday instead
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
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www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
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“We believe that in the near future half the people on the planet will be AI, and we are the company that’s bringing those people to life,” said CEO Jeanine Wright, who was previously chief operating officer of podcasting company Wondery www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
5,000 Podcasts. 3,000 Episodes a Week. $1 Cost Per Episode — Behind an AI Start Up’s Plan
Former Wondery exec Jeanine Wright is leading a new firm, Inception Point AI, that's betting on flooding the zone with audio content: “I think that people who are still referring to all AI-generated c...
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90 yrs ago SCOTUS told FDR directly that he couldn't fire an FTC commissioner over policy disagreements--only for cause. This court has now for at least the 3rd time this year indicated *on the shadow docket w/out explanation* that it no longer considers Humphrey's Executor to be good law
Humphrey's Executor v. United States, 295 U.S. 602 (1935)
Humphrey's Executor v. United States
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Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 11mo agoNEW: Chief Justice Roberts has halted the reinstatement of FTC Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—whom Trump fired in direct violation of federal law—while the full court considers the case. In other words, Slaughter just got booted from her job again. It's a worrisome sign for her ultimate prospects.
Not to belabor a "I told you so", but it's been clear for years that the whole "lab leak" discourse has absolutely nothing to do with a potential lab leak and everything to do with a broader anti-science agenda. I really, and truly, hope more scientists will realize this and take corrective action.
Greg Folkers@gregfolkers.bsky.social · 12mo agoAtlantic: Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign Is Working The Trump administration’s COVID-revenge campaign has laid the groundwork for Kennedy’s larger agenda. by Katherin J. Wu bit.ly/4mfxk3S
Parking a bunch of military vehicles outside Union Station is extremely weird.
Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 12mo agoMore photos:
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.
Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)
there are so many thoroughly antisocial behaviors that would shock and disturb you coming from any other human being but are completely standard for cops
I want to emphasize that this is 18,000 avoidable deaths per year *of Medicare enrollees.* They aren't in CBO's "uninsured" count — they're older people and folks with disabilities on Medicare who won't get extra financial help because of a proposed moratorium on a regulation.
Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH@joefigs.bsky.social · last yr.CBO projects that House reconciliation bill will cause 1.38 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries to lose Medicaid coverage We estimate that this will lead to over 18,000 avoidable deaths per year stemming from loss of drug subsidies Link to our memo led by @pennldi.bsky.social: bit.ly/4mwfcDA
Every Harry Potter book or shirt you buy directly funds the persecution of trans people. There's absolutely no excuse to support anything Harry Potter anymore unless you hate trans people.
Was quite a moment, a sense we reached some kind of inflection point in U.S. history. You can now personally pay a U.S. president to gain an audience.
Yep. It's not possible to understand politics today, much less predict future trends, without recognizing that a large segment of the population lives in an alternate reality increasingly untethered from the real world via nonstop right-wing propaganda on every issue.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last yr.Because I use FB to monitor “conservative” content, my algorithm is just swimming with emotionally activating and entirely false propaganda like this. [Billy Joel has a medical condition that caused him to cancel.]
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a cross, and the New York Times will tell us we are all overreacting.”
The NYT piece they link, which does not lead with “separation of church and state.”
Elon and his goons are still stealing your data. They're still assaulting the Constitution. They're still terrorizing federal workers. Don't buy his bullshit. "Stepping back" just means "please stop protesting my business." You know what to do. #teslatakedown
Justin Hendrix@justinhendrix.bsky.social · last yr."Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."
this entire paragraph is Stephen Pinker openly saying, "I think race science is real and correct."
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · last yr.amazingly fucked up that the NYT is uncritically publishing the claim, “Race has some biological reality.” that is, definitionally, racism. textbook.
boy if I was the editor of the NYT (Harvard class of 1987) I might be thinking twice about why I empowered a racist attack on the institution for weeks, laying the groundwork for the deranged policy attacks of today.