matt_anthony

If you live in/represent a Blue State, want to gerrymander the FUCK out of your state, support and are willing to fight for a national anti-gerrymandering law you are principled, consistent and doing exactly the right thing.

A degenerate fool.

I almost admire the blunt honesty of Hegseth saying that he honors the Confederacy.

He's right. His entire administration venerates the Confederacy and everything it stands for.

I look forward to another Reconstruction when we can honor Reconstruction 1.0 by melting Confederate statues into slag.

Americans love to hate this guy Months after being tapped by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Government Efficiency attack on the federal government, billionaire Elon Musk has been rated by the public as one of the…

Trump threatened to deport Elon Musk after their public breakup. We regret to inform you that no one wants him either.

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It would be a huge mistake to let the Trump-Epstein scandal float away like so many other outrages have. Keep posting about it. Bring it up with family and friends, especially Trumpy ones who might be persuadable.
We're running out of opportunities to stop a dictatorship. This is an opportunity.

A crucial sentence in CASA’s analysis is: “The Judiciary Act of 1789 endowed federal courts with jurisdiction over ‘all suits . . . in equity,’ §11, 1 Stat. 78, and still today, this statute ‘is what authorizes the federal courts to issue equitable remedies,’ S. Bray & E. Sherwin, Remedies 442 (4th ed. 2024).” This was the premise for the rest of its critique of universal injunctions. The Court, quoting Grupo Mexicano de Desarrollo v. Alliance Bond Fund, Inc., said that Section 11 “encompasses only those sorts of equitable remedies ‘traditionally accorded by courts of equity’ at our country’s inception.” The Court said, again quoting Grupo: “We must therefore ask whether universal injunctions are sufficiently ‘analogous’ to the relief issued “‘by the High Court of Chancery in England at the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the enactment of the original Judiciary Act.’” It then concluded: “Neither the universal injunction nor any analogous form of relief was available in the High Court of Chancery in England at the time of the founding.” The problem is that the founding was the wrong time to look under the Court’s logic. The Court looked to the state of equity in 1789 because it believed Section 11, in a 1789 statute, authorized equitable remedies. The problem is that neither Section 11 of the 1789 Judiciary Act, nor any other provision of that act, is the basis for federal subject matter jurisdiction for the lawsuits in CASA.

I would like to hear from Sam Bray (upon whose work Barrett relied) about what happened here, because it is no small thing in an opinion which claims the authority of history to interpret the wrong statute and miss the relevant time frame by about a century www.aei.org/op-eds/a-leg...

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it And they don't want you to notice.

Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.

That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.

60 years later, Voting Rights Act protections for minority voters face new threats Sixty years after the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination, legal challenges heading to the Supreme Court could curtail its remaining protections for minority voters.

60 years ago today, the Voting Rights Act became a landmark law against racial discrimination in elections.

My latest @npr.org story is about the new threats facing the law’s remaining protections for minority voters

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common

Thank you, Jamelle.
Gift link for this piece: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

I'm reading through the lawsuit now, and I'm going to live-post my reactions to it. The lawsuit is linked below. My immediate reaction: this is really bad, and egregiously misstates the law in a painfully obvious way.
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I think Mark Elias is on to something. Dems should fight on every front. Not the time to be passive.

The New Dark Age The Trump administration has launched an attack on knowledge itself.

We are being dragged back to the intellectual Dark Ages by a bunch of monarchists and anti-intellectual determinists

Under Trump, life is going to get shorter and more painful. Liberals must explain what happened “Education is everything,” says Lindsay Beyerstein.

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The Epstein case is a heavy albatross around every republican’s neck and I’m here to watch it ruthlessly drag them down.

Hopefully it destroys the entire cult of brainwashed, lawless, pedo supporting, traitor trash. 🤞🏻

The Confirmation of Trump Loyalist Emil Bove to a Powerful Court Shows that Senate Republicans Don’t Care if Anarchy Replaces the Rule of Law in America It is a deeply cynical move that would have shocked and appalled the Founders

This is the best case I've read on why the Emil Bove confirmation represents the starkest signal yet of Trump's reorganization of presidential politics around pure loyalism.

Fantastic from @greggnunziata.bsky.social in @theunpopulist.net

What We Lost When We Lost the Greatest Generation It's no coincidence that democracy is backsliding in the US exactly eighty years after the end of World War II.

We are losing the last of the generation who understand just how evil actual fascism is, how hard it is to rid the world of authoritarian governments once they’re established, and how hard it is to build a successful alternative. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...

Maybe The American Experiment Isn’t Dead Yet Death by a thousand cuts still requires a thousand cuts.

“Trumps is at 18% approval, 70% disapproval on his handling of the Epstein matter. He’s also at 31% approval, 63% disapproval, on the issue of tariffs and on that of inflation—our old friend from the Biden presidency which may well bedevil Trump, too.”

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Far-right militias adored the Constitution. Then came Trump. Right-wing activists have long warned of the coming federal invasion. Where are they now that it's happened?

Right, because, as I argue repeatedly in my book, this was all never about "federal power." It's really more about anti-democracy.
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Don’t ever let a MAGA look you in the face and claim they shouldn’t be judged based on a difference of political opinion.

That’s like someone beating you up and telling you that you shouldn’t be mad at them because you differed on your right to not be beaten.

That’s what domestic abusers do.

Opinion | The DHS adds blasphemy to its list of offenses DHS’ attempt to cherry-pick Bible verses to justify its policies is a battle it can’t win.

Religion is the last refuge of scoundrels and has been used since the dawn of history by empty vessels who use religion as a shield to hide their true intentions or misdeeds. No one fits that description better than a puppy killer with way too much makeup.

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Newsom: He knows he’s going to lose in the midterms, and we have the opportunity to de facto end the Trump presidency in less than 18 months.

That’s what’s at stake. That’s why we’re putting a stake in the ground. We’re not drawing lines just to draw lines—we’re holding the line: on democracy.

America’s Democracy Is Being Redrawn As redistricting battles escalate, Republicans trail in the polls while Musk’s America Party enters the picture

The redistricting wars are heating up, and they're threatening to take down America's democracy

Given new polling suggests the Republicans are trailing Democrats, it makes sense they'll try everything in their power to hold onto power

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REPORTER: Do you think the independent redistricting commission should be disbanded?

HOCHUL: Yes. I'm tired with fighting this fight w/ my hand tied behind my back. With all due respect to the good govt groups, politics is a political process. And to think we're gonna do this with a purity test ...

New York has entered the chat 💬

I’m about 75% through “Lawless” by @leahlitman.bsky.social, and it’s pretty great. It’s not that I didn’t know about all these cases and issues, but she has a talent for putting them into a broader story that lays bare how contradictory and obviously politically motivated the decisions are.

How Charlie Kirk turned to religion to level up his racism The "debate me" bro reveres a minister who claimed God cursed Black people to be "servile"

Charlie Kirk used to be proudly secular, but now he's among the loudest Bible-thumpers.

There's many reasons for this. But I'm going to focus on one: to justify his racism.

He admires a pastor who said God cursed Black people to "perpetual slavery."

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Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds A poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that many Democrats see their political party as “weak” or “ineffective.”

The voters aren’t aware that being tough with “the groups” is supposed to show big and bad they are.

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