@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social
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3d ago
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
@LiamOMaraIV@mastodon.social
Snarky history professor; autistic bibliophile; anti-Zionist Jewish humanist; anarchist internationalist; antifa mountain man; geeky cat & bird dad; lover of Emily; views expressed are my own.
mastodon.social
The #SCOTUS decision in #PlylerVDoe, from #ThisDayInHistory in 1982, ruled that “all children, regardless of immigration status, have a constitutional right to a free public education from kindergarten to 12th grade.” This was a debate question in the 1980 presidential primary.
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@gregolear@bird.makeup
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5d ago
Greg Olear
@gregolear@bird.makeup
Lapsed novelist, #DirtyRubles author, PREVAIL columnist & podcaster, co-host of "The Five 8," enjoyer of Friday Manhattans. This account is a replica from Twitter. Its author can't see your replies. If you find this service useful, please consider supporting us via our Patreon.
bird.makeup
Is the Supreme Court just a shell of its former self? This video dives into why some now view the highest court as a purely parasitic, political body operating without checks. Watch the full take below. #SupremeCourt #Politics #SCOTUS #Accountability
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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Jun 03, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
Unreal
#SCOTUS allows #Alabama to use #GOP-friendly map for #midterms, cutting seat held by #Black #Democrat
#law #redistricting #gerrymandering #SouthernStrategy #JimCrow
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/02/politics/supreme-court-june-trump?cid=ios_app
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@SluttyWhovian666@gaygeek.social
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May 11, 2026
CarmillaCumslut
@SluttyWhovian666@gaygeek.social
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@stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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May 11, 2026
Steve Vladeck
@stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
@ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com Bio: law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephe... "One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb 🌉 bridged from 🦋 stevevladeck.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact
bsky.brid.gy
Over at “One First,” I wrote about how the redistricting chaos we’re seeing in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Virginia is something #SCOTUS chose, and how it belies both the entire purpose of the “Purcell principle” and the Court’s claim that it’s staying out of the political process:
- “We’re All Trying to Find…
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
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May 07, 2026
Scary Austin
@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social
The Last Rose of Summer is a true story about corruption in #cancer research. I discovered a cheap, plant-derived drug that could replace some much more toxic (but more lucrative) therapies. #BigPharma got involved and suppressed the research. Eventually I had to publish the story in thinly veiled fiction and survive a bunch of murder attempts. "Mary Austin" is a pseudonym, as my publisher forced me to use one. So... hi, I'm "Mary." 🤷♀️
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@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
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May 07, 2026
wendythedruid
@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
53yo Druid, Trans, Mom, Resister, Shitty Writer @HarahCookie / @keirax17 - Trusted Friends @wendythedruid everywhere else. #liberal #reading #author #druid #nature #meditation, #spirituality #Pagan #earth #eco #trans #queer #lgbtqia
thistlenfern.org
The administration calls it a "little detour." One hundred seventy-four civilians dead. Twenty-five billion dollars. Zero congressional votes. When the past RNC chair calls it war crimes, you're not reading partisan screed—you're reading a smoke alarm. The land is keeping score. It always has.
https://twp.ai/4hr1bc
#Politics #War #Accountability #QueerHistory #ClimateJustice #Resistance #VotingRights #ClimateScience #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+
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@blogdiva@mastodon.social
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May 05, 2026
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦
@blogdiva@mastodon.social
am liza sabater (she/they) the og blogdiva & resident afroboricua #antifa #dyslexic #ActuallyAutistic #GenX tití. surviving breast #cancer and still chronicling #AmericanFascism. thank you fediverse for #dogs, #cats, #sports, #sewing, #cooking and #Monsterdon. so #fuckCancer #COVID19, mask up, join a #union & fight for #UBI & #Medicare4All
mastodon.social
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116520032707782074
i co-wrote, with other feminist bloggers, a letter to the US Congress asking them to reject Samuel Alito for #SCOTUS.
the lawyers in the group had a long list of cases but there was one case that stood out. we all agreed it was THE red flag about his extremism:
HIS CRUELTY TOWARDS A BLACK TEENAGE GIRL in a decision that allowed prosecutors to treat her as an adult instead of a child.
that case felt like a foreshadow of this #MAGA coup & #civilWar
#USpol #racism #fascism #elections2026
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But Sam Alito just cannot handle a dissent from Brown that explains that he and the other Roberts Court judges who went along with him are nakedly using their privilege and authority to advantage the Republican Fascist Party and its white supremacist agenda. 7/
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@fsinn@mas.to
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May 05, 2026
Francisca Sinn
@fsinn@mas.to
Grateful for much and many. Believer in the Rule Of Law. Defender of truth. #TeamDemocracy #TeamHumanRights #AbortionIsAPrivacyIssue #AbortionIsHealthcare Intellectual Property Lawyer, L.L.B. ‘98, B.A. ‘92 Political Science & Economics Images are my own unless otherwise identified. #1000Breaths My opinions do not represent the views of any other individual nor any client. @mcfslaw & @SinnFrancisca on the bird app she/her
mas.to
RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116519999064276706
DO NOT MISS THIS.
*ALL* OF THIS.
AND YES I AM IN FACT SHOUTING.
#MustRead all of this @heidilifeldman@mastodon.social thread.
#Law #Racism #Misogyny #Patriarchy #WhiteSupremacy #Judiciary #RuleOfLaw #Fascism #SCOTUS #RobertsCourt #Alito #ImpeachAndRemove #ExpandTheCourt
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All of this has happened on the shadow docket. So the Roberts Court has ok’d election cancellation without merits briefing, oral argument, etc.
This would be extraordinary and pernicious enough. But because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and pointed out how exceptional and dangerous the Court’s order is, Alito, joined by Gorsuch and Thomas, wrote an opinion basically calling her uppity. 4/
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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May 02, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
A manufacturer of the #AbortionMedication #mifepristone asked #SCOTUS Saturday to immediately restore full access to the medication, putting the contentious issue of #abortion back before the justices in an #election year.
#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #health #medicine #AbortionIsHealthcare #WomensRights #ReproductiveRights #Republicans #ViolenceAgainstWomen
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/us/politics/supreme-court-mail-abortion-pill.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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May 02, 2026
Steve Vladeck
@stevevladeck.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
@ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com Bio: law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephe... "One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocketpb 🌉 bridged from 🦋 stevevladeck.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact
bsky.brid.gy
Me on the Fifth Circuit’s massive Friday night ruling purporting to re-impose the in-person dispensation requirement for Mifepristone; how it’s déjà vu all over again; and how it’s a good reminder of why, sometimes, we need an emergency docket at #SCOTUS:
www.stevevladeck.com/p/224-the-re…
- The Return of the Mifepri…
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@sccdp@sfba.social
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May 01, 2026
Santa Clara County Dem Party
@sccdp@sfba.social
The Democratic Party of Silicon Valley #democrats #democracy #politics
sfba.social
GA Governor Brian Kemp won't redistrict Georgia - THIS election. So gear up to fight him for 2028 as he engages in the usual GOP racism to try to reduce minority representation. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/iran-war-60-day-authorization-threshold-trump-hegseth-congress-rcna343015/rcrd109325?canonicalCard=true
#uspol #democracy #scotus #georgia #vra
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@sccdp@sfba.social
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May 01, 2026
Santa Clara County Dem Party
@sccdp@sfba.social
The Democratic Party of Silicon Valley #democrats #democracy #politics
sfba.social
A new lawsuit is challenging Louisiana’s extraordinary 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 Voting Rights Act.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/louisiana-sued-for-suspending-active-election-nullifying-votes-to-draft-gop-gerrymander/
#voting #democracy #uspol #scotus #vra
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
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May 01, 2026
Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai
#law, #climate, #science, #geopolitics, #politics, #democracy, cool stuff &… #BabySquirrel Recovering lawyer. Spending less time on world news since US voters re-elected a rapist/convicted felon, who tried to end democracy, but who Americans decided to give a mulligan, cuz democracy shlemocracy right? Occasionally I’ll come across something that I feel compelled to share, but… …these days… I've stopped my dreaming …these days I sit on corner stones & count the time in quarter tones to ten
masto.ai
#GiftArticle
#SCOTUS kills #VotingRights
The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics.
#law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/politics/supreme-courts-voting-rights-gerrymandering.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fFA.NAaT.LyRxcoyihmGB&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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@xankarn@mastodon.online
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Apr 30, 2026
Alexander Karn
@xankarn@mastodon.online
Associate Professor of History at SLAC (NY, USA). Not representing employer. Interests: power and the production of historical knowledge, public history, historical justice, historical dialogue, reconciliation, museum studies. Commentary: Mother Jones, The Progressive, Salon, HuffPost. Resist Much, Obey Little. #RMOL
mastodon.online
They sacked the Capitol and brought the Confederate flag, but racism poses no threat to democracy in America, so there’s no cause for concern, according to Roberts et al.
#uspol #voting #SCOTUS #democracy
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@HamonWry@mastodon.world
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Apr 30, 2026
Ham on Wry
@HamonWry@mastodon.world
Twittercide wasn't the end, it was a new beginning on Mastodon.
mastodon.world
‘This isn’t what I voted for’
Oh, Hell yeah you did!
You should have stopped playing Candy Crush and updating Facebook every 3 minutes and paid more attention to who you were voting for. The writing was on the wall the whole time.
#MAGA #gop #republicans #democracy #politics #trump #scotus #dictatorship #constitution #epstein #EpsteinFiles #iran #middleeast #Israel #news #worldnews
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@DeliaChristina@sfba.social
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Apr 30, 2026
Diligence Jones
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social
By day, a woman who knows and does some things in the social impact space; writer of romantica; by night, shenanigans, political side eye, & snark. Y'all, I'm TIREDT.
sfba.social
It's hitting me how the slow arc of justice my elders fought and died to set in motion has been halted by the Calais decision.
This morning, I was on a call with another (highly accomplished) middle-aged Black women and this is how we processed it together:
We are realizing that we (including our younger elder millennial sisters) are likely to be the LAST generation of Black women who will achieve so much.
This decision is not just a gutting of the VRA but the highest court's massive rejection of the idea that this country is, indeed, a land of opportunity for everyone.
The court is now an overt and explicitly complicit engine of white nationalism.
THAT is how much anti-Blackness has been simmering underneath this facade of 'American democracy.'
So now, Black folks, we need to decide. Retreat, close ranks to protect our own, and/or fight for a renewed Reconstruction on top of the smoldering ruins of this gotdamn system?
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFedi
#SCOTUS
#CivilRights
#BlackHistoryEveryDay
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@HamonWry@mastodon.world
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Apr 30, 2026
Ham on Wry
@HamonWry@mastodon.world
Twittercide wasn't the end, it was a new beginning on Mastodon.
mastodon.world
Today, SCOTUS pounded another nail into the coffin of American democracy.
#scotus #johnroberts #democracy #MAGA #votingrights #Midterms #constitution #trump #epstein #EpsteinFiles #america #news #worldnews #iran #war
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@990000@mstdn.social
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Apr 29, 2026
@990000@mstdn.social
@990000@mstdn.social
red-deleon.com • he/him • NYC • Vaxxed & still masking • I'm into #Technology, #Architecture, #Art, #History, #Movies, #GraphicDesign, etc. I do web development, focusing on Craft CMS and WordPress these days.
mstdn.social
https://bsky.app/profile/cristianfarias.com/post/3mkncgolkc22y
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #VRA #VotingRightsAct #ElenaKagan
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@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
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Apr 29, 2026
@GottaLaff
@gottalaff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Progressive political commentator (print, radio, podcasts) in US for years, now in Canada. I post (A LOT) breaking news + legit info you can use, prone to snark. Bite me, Musk. Now where's my trough of wine? 🍷🇨🇦 🌉 bridged from 🦋 gottalaff.bsky.social, follow @bsky.brid.gy to interact
bsky.brid.gy
As predicted.
#SCOTUS
"Alito writing"
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j7eliwxzqpvvwu6jbxr5ggaf/post/3mknblmcd6s2j
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