Derek Carr

Caleb Wilson is fun

Aaron Boone is a terrible manager with no feel for baseball and you can’t convince me otherwise

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

I’m not downplaying what ICE and CBP will fee empowered to do now.

I’m not downplaying the real costs of grinding thru a BS charge before the courts toss it.

But it is also important to stress this is just an EO, not a law, bc the media is going to frame it as law.

It.
Is.
Not.

Some fire from Justice Sonia Sotomayor in dissent:

"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

Drug trafficking is not a capital crime; it doesn’t carry a death sentence. I genuinely cannot think of anything under U.S. law that would permit premeditated government assassination of people suspected of drug trafficking.

RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns “The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

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Here's the quote: "Acceptance of lesser evils is consciously used in conditioning the government officials as well as the population at large to the acceptance of evil as such."

There is something here that I want people to remember.

The only way shit like this happens is governance structures that make it way too easy for unpopular shit to happen and popular shit to get veto-gated. This is minoritarian rule.

Shabbat Shalom to everyone who recognizes that the safety, freedom & thriving of Jews and Muslims are bound up together — in Israel & Palestine, across the five boroughs, and in many other beloved places.

This

I mean, obviously, you use whatever tools are available, and there’s plenty to do with the law. Movement lawyers always have and always will figure out ways.

But if the question is, is this court going to be a dependable means of resisting fascism? Absolutely the fuck not, and often the opposite.

as for the upshot of the decision, the republican court has put the citizen children of non-citizens in a position similar to that of free blacks during the antebellum period. their right to enjoy the privileges and immunities of american citizenship will vary according to state borders

2026 midterm dems should be running on the explicit platform of completely neutering SCOTUS with a massive overhaul of the judiciary act

It's not hyperbole to call this case the death of meaningful constitutional rights in the United States. If you do not have an attorney that can litigate against the government, you no longer have rights. This will go down in history as the gutting of the constitutional order.

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The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Unqualified support for immediate court expansion MUST be a litmus for all federal Dem candidates

Remember that Emil Bove made sure that the case against Eric Adams would be dropped so that Eric Adams would do something exactly like this.

Adams got his case dropped, and Bove got a judicial nomination. (www.lawdork.com/p/emil-bove-...)

Adams must be voted out, and Bove cannot be confirmed.

The House plan threatens SNAP for many Kentuckians, including by:
--putting 135K older adults & children at risk of losing benefits from paperwork requirements
--shifting up to $190M/year in costs to the state budget, the equivalent of hiring 2,354 public school teachers
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This. People celebrating the outcome while ignoring the details. The court all but invites Trump to issue a new proclamation that says the magic words and thereafter becomes an unreviewable political question. Extraordinarily dangerous

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: "Medicaid Work Requirement". Description: Some lawmakers are considering changes to Medicaid that would require certain Medicaid recipients work, volunteer, or train for a job to maintain their healthcare coverage. Do you support or oppose a Medicaid Work Requirement? All likely voters — Support: 50%, Oppose: 44% Democrat — Support: 35%, Oppose: 59% Independent / Third party — Support: 53%, Oppose: 41% Republican — Support: 63%, Oppose: 32% Female — Support: 47%, Oppose: 45% Male — Support: 54%, Oppose: 42% Under 45 — Support: 55%, Oppose: 41% 45+ — Support: 48%, Oppose: 45% No College — Support: 48%, Oppose: 45% College — Support: 54%, Oppose: 42% Black or African American — Support: 51%, Oppose: 43% White — Support: 49%, Oppose: 45% Latino — Support: 60%, Oppose: 36% No, I do not identify as disabled. — Support: 50%, Oppose: 46% Yes, I identify as disabled. — Support: 53%, Oppose: 39% Urban — Support: 56%, Oppose: 40% Suburban — Support: 46%, Oppose: 47% Rural — Support: 50%, Oppose: 44% Persuadable Congressional Voter — Support: 55%, Oppose: 38% April 18–21, 2025 survey of 595 U.S. likely voters.

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: "Medicaid Job Loss Penalty". Description: Some lawmakers are considering changes to Medicaid that would require certain Medicaid recipients work, volunteer, or train for a job to maintain their healthcare coverage. Do you support or oppose a Medicaid Job Loss Penalty? All likely voters — Support: 38%, Oppose: 53% Democrat — Support: 29%, Oppose: 62% Independent / Third party — Support: 31%, Oppose: 59% Republican — Support: 52%, Oppose: 41% Female — Support: 38%, Oppose: 53% Male — Support: 38%, Oppose: 55% Under 45 — Support: 29%, Oppose: 59% 45+ — Support: 43%, Oppose: 51% No College — Support: 36%, Oppose: 54% College — Support: 42%, Oppose: 52% Black or African American — Support: 27%, Oppose: 67% White — Support: 43%, Oppose: 50% Latino — Support: 30%, Oppose: 59% No, I do not identify as disabled. — Support: 39%, Oppose: 53% Yes, I identify as disabled. — Support: 37%, Oppose: 53% Urban — Support: 39%, Oppose: 54% Suburban — Support: 37%, Oppose: 56% Rural — Support: 39%, Oppose: 51% Persuadable Congressional Voter — Support: 38%, Oppose: 58% April 18–21, 2025 survey of 576 U.S. likely voters.

If you repeat the phrase "Medicaid work requirements" — even if you think you're being clever with something like "medicaid work requirements don't work" — you're helping MAGA destroy Medicaid. Don't repeat their disinformation frame.

Instead, reframe: Medicaid Job Loss Penalty

Hey, political scientists:

Is there a term for a regime whose official law enforcement leaders call for the arrest of independent judges w dehumanizing, absolutist language?

Asking for the headline writers at the NYT, CNN, etc.

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It is entirely appropriate to call a concentration camp a concentration camp.

Here's the Bluesky post. This is incredible. Now the goal will be to get him home. And I want to hear what Senator Van Hollen learned from him.

What this shows is that Bukele is very much susceptible to pressure.

Now we can't forget about the other 237 people sent there on March 15.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.