@davedaley.bsky.social
Author, "Antidemocratic," "Ratf**ked," "Unrigged." Likes democracy, Boston College basketball
I think it’s 24 Hour Party People that sets a scene at the show too and annotates who was there
29.01.2026 14:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
They say to understand politics follow the money. This excellent article does that for the expanding 'civic institute' scam. Tracing the money trail leads back to a shadowy network of right-wing billionaires like the Koch family.
prismreports.org/2026/01/27/c...
On Tuesday, a Virginia judge ruled a proposed constitutional amendment on congressional redistricting violates state law because the process Democratic state lawmakers used to create it was improper. Virginia Democrats are expected to appeal
28.01.2026 14:59 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Today’s Wordle is braver and bolder than Schumer and Jeffries
28.01.2026 13:39 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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26.01.2026 20:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0totally autobiographical. he might even think he is the hero. somewhere i have my interview with him from the 1998 CMJ Monthly lol.
26.01.2026 19:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Hey, let’s go check the top stories over on the Fox News site
25.01.2026 19:30 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0Absolutely reprehensible that AG Bondi is offering ICE stand down in exchange for access to voting rolls. Outrageous and disgusting. It shows ICE is in Minneapolis is not for law enforcement purposes. Instead it’s a way to stir up shit in blue states and extort them.
25.01.2026 02:21 — 👍 6760 🔁 2450 💬 268 📌 134A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
25.01.2026 01:18 — 👍 47049 🔁 18227 💬 1021 📌 1873
You observed on Wednesday that a lot of the justices sounded pissed. They were like: How did we get to this point? And it’s their own fault! They gave Trump so much leeway in all of these earlier cases to break the law. Then they seemed irked when he crossed the line that they had tried to draw in the sand over the Federal Reserve. They seemed to wonder: How could this happen? Well, look in the mirror. When you capitulate, you empower Trump to push further past your limits. That’s the lesson that the international community seems to have learned, and that our more courageous judges in the lower courts have learned. Let’s just hope that John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett are learning it now, because it’s one of the few things that could turn around this catastrophe. With Trump, you’ve got to hold the line, or else you just get bowled over. That is what everyone out in the streets in Minnesota is doing right now, and we are seeing the results. The average protester blowing a whistle on the streets of the Twin Cities has shown more courage than John Roberts has in maybe his entire career.
Trump is weak, Bondi is weak, Miller is weak. The administration is filled with cartoon bullies who crumple when they face real opposition. Minnesotans get it. Denmark gets it. Lower court judges get it, and the best have moved into DGAF mode. When will SCOTUS get it? slate.com/news-and-pol...
23.01.2026 21:10 — 👍 1472 🔁 352 💬 54 📌 21Brilliant. Alito certainly suggested the two cases were analogous and both partisan gerrymanders.
23.01.2026 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This Court could well be searching for a way to pause the CA map while allowing TX to stand.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
It's the Unitary Executive Theory, except when it affects Roberts's 401(k)
22.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 130 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1
Billy Corriher’s work on state supreme courts — and his chronicling of assault on democracy in NC — has been viral. He has a new book on brilliant Anita Earls, the NC justice and voting rights activist at heart of fight for the vote. Back it at this Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/206...
Alabama Republicans are proceeding to lay the groundwork for gerrymandering their congressional map once the Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act
21.01.2026 16:36 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1Trump looks likely to lose Cook case, as he should. Which means usual apologists will herald Roberts for bravely reining Trump in ... when in reality the chief justice created this entire moment. This is mildly turning down heat on a pot that the conservative supermajority already brought to boil.
21.01.2026 16:32 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0State supreme court races are some of the most important in the nation. In North Carolina and Ohio, it's the reason why state and congressional maps remain gerrymandered. Not running candidates in what could be a wave year is crazy-making.
20.01.2026 20:43 — 👍 563 🔁 189 💬 15 📌 8
🚨 NEW: Obama-era Democrats sold a myth of presidential powerlessness to excuse inaction.
Trump is now demonstrating, in real time, how false that myth was.
The US Supreme Court has too much power. And once the Court was packed with pro-billionaire partisans, the Roberts Court used that power to break Congress, the most democratic branch.
@duncanhosie.bsky.social :
In a democracy, 57% disproval of the masked federal agents invading cities, shooting citizens and violating the rights of millions of people would result in a massive shift in policy.
The American people oppose the fascist project--but the fascists don't care about the American people.
“What makes life tenure in America so pernicious is our Constitution is among the hardest to amend in the world…the Court’s decisions are effectively unreviewable except in the long run and even then only if political cards and random events play out the right way.”
www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/01/the-...
It’s the year of the horse. Here is a new interview of 90 minutes of Leonard Leo shoveling horse shit and calling it gold.
youtu.be/RM04X5O9GV4?...
I’d argue just for a brief mid-00s renaissance when he’s funny and sparkling again. Nothing that rivals the 80s. But a handful that can join Viva Hate/Your Arsenal/Bona Drag highs
15.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The Supreme Court only cleared the way for Kavanaugh Stops four months ago and ICE now openly engages in violent racial profiling, snatching anyone who looks non-white and treating them as presumptively guilty of a crime. Remarkable how quickly our liberties can be crushed when courts go along.
14.01.2026 16:29 — 👍 4289 🔁 1599 💬 68 📌 39
today's updates:
- I listened to the Supreme Court's oral argument in the trans sports cases so you don't have to
- John Roberts and co continue to have their heads lodged, firmly yet comfortably, in their asses
- I am very tired
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/john-...
Really fun to join @maryharris.bsky.social on @slate.com’s @whatnext.bsky.social to present the (I guess???) optimistic case for the midterm elections.
13.01.2026 16:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0North Carolina Republicans are making it harder for Black voters and college students to vote after usurping control over election administration in violation of NC’s separation of powers.
Republicans undermined voting access this way when they last ran the election boards under ex-Gov. Pat McCrory
If you’re looking for a book to explain how the Roberts Court came to be, today is a good day to order Antidemocratic
bookshop.org/p/books/mino...
New, from me: The Trump administration isn’t just using social media to shape a narrative. They view the world through a social media lens in a way that is plausibly corrupting their judgment and undermining their performance.
Welcome to the clicktatorship. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/life-under...
