Brandon Steenson

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record:

This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

What could the Ds have done today in anticipation of Roberts Court positioning to gut Sec 2? Basics:
- coordinated press releases from Schumer, Durbin (SJC, Jeffries, Raskin (HJC)
- pr/email from DNC, DCCC chairs
- blasts from Dem Govs
- TV appearances
- Saturating social media to pressure scotus

If the Democrats get back control of both chambers of Congress and the White House - restructuring this rogue far-right #SCOTUS needs to happen on day 1.

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Fossilized Northeast Democratic machines running sclerotic candidates is going to be the death of America

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

It’s time to abandon the idea of chasing after “swing voters.”

We gotta start targeting the angry. Those who have been failed by the system. Those who are being screwed every day despite giving it their all.

"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

3. It's the last birthday for me before going over a big milestone in 2026. This isn't really a number thing, but just appreciation for everything that has happened since the last big one in 2016. There's been a lot of bad during that time, but it's important for me to remember the good. (3/end)

2. Both my age and the 2-digit number for this year are square numbers! This happened once before in my life (2001), but it will not happen again for me, so it's a cool thing to celebrate!

(2/x)

I love numbers, and it gives me great joy to have a birthday today. Why? Let me count the ways:

1. Month + day = year. 10+15=25! This happens maybe once in your life unless you live more than a century, and I get it this year!

(1/x)

Unless Jeffries's every line is "I am not going to acknowledge the Speaker until he seats my duly-elected colleague", he's just giving up the game entirely

this is today's Supreme Court oral argument on the Voting Rights Act in a nutshell

SCOTUS conservative justices say you can engage in racial profiling in immigration stops but can’t consider race under Voting Rights Act to remedy centuries of racial discrimination

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Trump saying out loud why there is no reason for Democrats to negotiate with Republicans over the budget

Someone ask if he ever plans to swear her in and then ask for the date. Problem solved. Maybe Mike is in the files and that's why he is helping. You could ask that too

Happy birthday, birthday neighbor!

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

More of this! The answer to every such demand ought to be, "Make me, motherfucker."

Demonstrating once again that, by holding that partisan gerrymandering is a nonjusticiable “political question,” SCOTUS set up a situation in which voters and their representatives are essentially punished in Congress if they choose to run their own states fairly.

This press release from a North Carolina GOP figure portrays the current redistricting wars as something *Democrats* started in Calif., ignoring the fact that this all began with the Trump White House and first unfolded in red Texas.

According to them, Republicans are once again The Real Victims™

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

The Speaker of the House isn't allowed to give that answer. He's not some guy who missed the local news that night.

Anyone not following up with "isn't it your job to know? What were you doing instead of paying attention to services being cut for American children" isn't a journalist

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

I want to live in a world in which every type of civil servant’s threat to walk if a certain person is elected is taken exactly as seriously as a cop’s threat to walk.