"The Massachusetts Department of Correction... formally partners with ICE to transfer people who have finished their sentences." Healey's office has also not responded to my calls about this (and why would they) BUT maybe if a lot more of us call and keep calling, they'll get the drift. 617-725-4005

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW: Of all the states that voted for Harris over Trump in 2024, there's only one where a Dem governor is overseeing an ICE's 287(g) program: Massachusetts. Other blue states have quit, or even outright banned it. My colleague on what's happening: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

it is very simple folks. "unqualified DEI hire" is when you're not a white male, "merit-based promotion" is when you are a white male and also pete hegseth's personal assistant. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

Hey @mayorwu.boston.gov, can you chat with mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about budgeting so you don't cut out things like free garden beds (Food Project) and youth programs/jobs and all the grants going to Black and POC orgs in the city of Boston? Please? Take$ from the cops & the dumb bus lane

Skye@simplyskye.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Zohran Mamdani has fully balanced New York City’s $12 billion deficit — an uncomfortable reminder to the political establishment that governments can, in fact, function when taxpayer money isn’t funneled toward lobbyists wealthy benefactors

Note: Virginia supreme court justices are "re-elected" by state lawmakers, meaning the legislature chooses whether to reappoint them or replace them. Two of the four justices in the majority today against the new congressional map will be "up" by early 2028.

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

The Supreme Court is trying to *fast track* the elimination of Black Congresspeople in the upcoming midterms. Its destruction of the Voting Rights Act has devolved into a pure political power play for Republicans BY the Republicans on the Court. I explain in @thenation.com

The Supreme Court Just Made Its Voting Rights Ruling Even Worse

The court has fast-tracked its decision demolishing the VRA, helping southern states redraw their maps before the midterms.

thenation.com

NEW: In a brief filed with SCOTUS, civil rights groups contend that under the court’s own history of applying “the Purcell principle,” it is too late into the election season to suspend it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Civil rights groups say Purcell principle prevents Louisiana from suspending elections when votes have already been cast

Black voters are pressing SCOTUS to apply the Purcell principle, which says voting rules and maps shouldn't be changed too close to an election.

democracydocket.com

There’s a staggering loophole in Georgia law that seems to say that, if a justice loses reelection, they could resign and cancel the election post facto. One of the 2 justices on the May ballot told Bolts they won’t do that. The other (=a Justice who upheld that loophole in 2020) didn’t answer.

Blow to Voting Rights Act Amplifies Stakes of Georgia's Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

A pair of unusually heated Georgia Supreme Court elections grew even more consequential on Wednesday, when the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically weakened the Voting Rights Act with a 6-3 decision... Rea...

boltsmag.org

🚨BREAKING: A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s decision to suspend congressional primaries already underway — arguing the state is illegally nullifying votes and plunging an active election into chaos following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the VRA. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Louisiana sued for suspending active election, nullifying votes to draft GOP gerrymander

More than 100,000 absentee ballots had been sent to voters across the state. Some had already been completed and returned.

democracydocket.com

🔴PAY ATTENTION: The Governor of Louisiana is declaring an emergency to cancel an ongoing election so that his party can rig the rules moving forward. This is not just about redistricting... www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Louisiana governor suspends active election to allow for gerrymander

Early voting was set to begin Saturday in Louisiana’s May 16 primary election, and mail ballots have already been sent out to voters.

democracydocket.com

This "presidency" in pictures.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker MB Ghalibaf accuses Trump of lying, saying he made “seven claims in one hour, all false.” He adds Iran—not the U.S.—will control the Strait of Hormuz, with ships requiring “Iranian authorization” to pass.

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

András Tóth-Czifra@minczifra.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

Just wanted to remind folks, especially the GOP and the FDD, that Barack Obama’s 2015 nuclear deal didn’t give Iran control of the Strait of Hormuz or allow it to keep 60% enriched uranium. It sent $1.7 billion to Iran versus the tens of billions Iran will now make from tolls. 🤷🏽‍♂️

If I was Iran, I’d be saying “We will only negotiate with Obama”

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Georgia Is Letting a Railroad Seize Land a Black Family Has Owned For 100 Years

Descendants of enslaved people are fighting an attempt to use eminent domain to carve a spur through one of Georgia’s largest Black‑owned farms.

capitalbnews.org

If someone had told me ten years ago that in 2026, there could be evidence of the president raping and threatening to kill children, and he would *still* be allowed to stay in office, I would have politely asked them to put down the meth pipe.

I stopped listening at "I voted for you." SMH Racism is a helluva drug.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo ago

"We are hearing the administration say they intend to investigate various Dems who were friends with Epstein. I beg you President Trump -- please stop making this political. It is not about you. Show some class. I voted for you, but your behavior on this issue has been a national embarrassment."

BREAKING The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states. The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms. Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...

Healthcare is a human right. Democratic Senators should fight for it like lives depend on it because they do.

Wow

Wajahat Ali@wajali.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

Hard to see @schumer.senate.gov being able to stay in leadership after this or in the senate, he was not the man for this moment

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag

media.tenor.com

Dem Senators @senangusking.bsky.social @fetterman.senate.gov @sencortezmasto.govpeeps.us @shaheen.senate.gov @kaine.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @senjackyrosen.govpeeps.us betrayed the American people by caving for nothing but a promise from those who have proven they can't be trusted. Vote em out

They all need to be voted out.

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 9mo ago

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen