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DAME Magazine@damemagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

Trumpism didn't just normalize corruption. It normalized cruelty, spectacle, and the idea that power no longer has to answer to decency. The greater damage? Convincing Americans that institutions can't be trusted, decency is for suckers, and shamelessness is a virtue. Read @zeblarson.bsky.social

How Trumpism Is Destroying America's Civic Morality

Trumpism has normalized cruelty, corruption, and public spectacle. Rebuilding democracy requires restoring civic morality, accountability, and decency.

damemagazine.com

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Democratic attempts to re-gerrymander their states to offset losses in the South are proper and necessary. But they can’t stem the destruction of black political power. Here’s my latest @thenation.com newsletter:

There’s No Way to Compensate for the Loss of Black Voting Power

In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent examines Democrats’ strategy to combat GOP gerrymanders. Plus: a look at the next major anti-trans case.

thenation.com

Ronan Farrow@ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

(🧵1/14) When OpenAI board members hired the law firm WilmerHale to investigate Sam Altman's firing over two years ago, many executives at the company expected to see extensive findings. Instead, OpenAI released a brief announcement with few details.

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Adam Bonin@adambonin.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star

The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

penncapital-star.com

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 4mo ago

The Supreme Court is fundamentally corrupt & after the NYT reporting there's a big opening for Democrats to make a huge stink about the shadow docket and that it was born to stop the first Black POTUS's climate agenda. We must talk about how the shadow docket has become a racially weaponized tool.

The Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Signaling and the Racial Politics of Immigration Enforcement | Stanford Law School

This post is part of Challenging Precedent, a blog of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice examining race, law, and regulation in the Trump era. Whe

law.stanford.edu

Zeb Larson@zeblarson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Democrats love to talk about affordability but they really don't seem to have a playbook beyond hoping that Trump tanks the economy and they get elected behind it. Their rhetoric is just...bloodless. I wrote about what they could learn from FDR here for @damemagazine.bsky.social.

FDR Playbook for Democrats on Affordability

As economic anxiety rises, Democrats have a proven model in FDR. Why they’re failing to sell it—and what they must do to win on affordability

damemagazine.com

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 6mo ago

THREAD. Every day new evidence emerges of ICE agents committing the *most serious violent crimes* in our criminal code and then *lying about it.* It's important to draw correct lessons from this, but anyone with sense is excluded from mainstream news.

Two screenshots of news articles from oxnard and minneapolis showing ICE lying and charges dismissed against people who had themselves been victims of ICE violence.Bild
Arizona Right Watch@azrww.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Americans have a habit of trying to compare all authoritarianism to Nazi Germany. I think in some ways i think it is comforting to view authoritarianism as a foreign ideology. If you want to understand our current authoritarian moment, you need to look to our own past, not to Europe 1/x

Heba Gowayed هبة جويد@hebagowayed.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ok so there’s nothing to watch so we’re watching the golden globes and between the fact that this is going on as masked police are shooting people in the face, all with a polymarket ticker at the bottom… just… dystopia doesn’t describe it.