We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
I decided to write about at each & every one of the 32 states with supreme court elections this year.
Why? On abortion, redistricting, death penalty, & more, these institutions & their elections remain so critical.
So here's everything you need to know. NEW from me:
my angry post about this case this morning is now an angry article
Roy Anthony Scott was in a mental health crisis and called 911 asking for help
Cops came and killed him, & now the Court is casting doubt on whether the cops can be held accountable for his death
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/smith...
I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via
@archive.org
I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection.
blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...
Update: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...
May 13 - Join NY Philharmonic for a free concert at the historic Cathedral of St. John the Divine as two outstanding artists — conductor Enluis Montes Olivar and trumpeter Pacho Flores — make their New York Philharmonic debuts.
Tickets available May 1 at 10 am.
www.nyphil.org/concerts-tic...
“Marshawn!!!!” (Me when I saw Marshawn Lynch on Euphoria.)
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
😭😭😭
Right now where you live healthcare for trans kids is either being made literally illegal by your state or made functionally illegal by the unlawful threats of the federal government and a care infrastructure glad to sacrifice trans kids on the altar of appeasement.
www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...
One reason that we cannot have professional diplomats representing the interests of the United States is that it would disrupt a pattern of personal enrichment for the Presidents allies and families.
I’m a take this opportunity to shout out www.blackmen.build because they’re doing it and they have chapters across the country.
This was one of the formative incidents in my young life. And I watched almost an entire city of people across racial lines absolutely lose their minds. It was the equivalent of a lynch mob and the NY press was leading the way.
Charles Melton’s weird little mustache in Beef is unsettling!
The Israeli army struck civilians in the Lebanese city of Mayfadoun.
And then, the Israelis double-tapped the medics who arrived onto the scene.
And then, they triple-tapped the next wave of medics.
And then, they did it one more time for good measure.
I’ve finished the finale and I’m still aghast at the woman insisting on having a “wild birth.” WHAT #ThePitt
Whew
If the so-called free speech purists and “diversity of thought” crusaders cared about anything but promoting conservative nonsense, this reporting, which shows the most powerful university in the world suppressing research on their ties to slavery, would be a massive scandal.
Infuriating that Roberts said the Court should rush in bc states and businesses would "suffer irreparable harm" and the EPA rule was "highly unlikely" to be legal
Like I said at the @the14thcenter.bsky.social Symposium, no such concern existed for birthright citizenship!
youtu.be/lIYOIrtWrzY?...
Don’t get me started.
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
It is convenient that the Supreme Court’s conservatives confirm our collective sense that they are unprincipled hacks by writing memos basically saying as much.
Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.
Do you live in Chelsea, West Village, Hell's Kitchen, Hudson Square, Garment District, Flatiron, Greenwich Village, or Times Square?
Today is the first day of Early Voting in the special election for NYC Council District 03. Vote @lindseyboylan.bsky.social.
www.vote.nyc/election/spe...
Eligible voters of GEORGIA, KENTUCKY and WEST VIRGINIA!
You have only days left to register to vote in the May primary elections.
Already registered? You may want to check your status, especially if you have moved, changed your name or haven't voted in a while.
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A trans woman was tracked and monitored using AI technology at a Knicks game just for being trans.
This isn't 1940's Germany this is right now
www.wired.com/story/madiso...
It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office
