Obama talks down to black voters because (1) he can’t/won’t talk down to white voters; big no no (2) dems take black voters for granted; they can disrespect us and still expect our vote and (3) it makes white liberals who ARE excited feel good to know that they’re better than the “low-info” blacks.

Today, Meena Jagannath and Felipe Mesel of the Movement Law Lab kick off a series that explores how movement lawyers across the world are challenging rising authoritarianism and neoliberal hegemony. lpeproject.org/blog/movemen...

Movement Lawyering in Times of Rising Authoritarianism

In a time of rising authoritarianism and neoliberal hegemony, movement lawyers understand that the law and legal institutions primarily serve to protect capitalism, rather than everyday people.

They had a non-aggression pact, not an “alliance.” And the development of the USSR was not colonization. The feelings of the Poles, as a Black American, is not a metric I use to evaluate for the USSR’s support of liberation movements throughout the third world.

I don’t know if you’re joking or you genuinely don’t even have a high schooler’s understanding of the 20th century but the USSR very publicly had the most merciless war against Germany and Israel has backed every single ethnic cleansing state of the 20th and 21st centuries.

I agree (but the case name consolidation is in no way an issue lmao)

I would say that the USSR’s foreign policy was, objectively, vastly better for humanity than Israel’s has been, by every metric.

I know like ten of these guys. One is an outright libertarian public interest attorney who was a Trump supporter but fought for custody of his daughter to help with her gender affirming care. He also volunteers with planned parenthood and is racist.

This is a great story/thread on the Democrats' move toward a post-neoliberal, progressive economic agenda that takes market power & antitrust seriously. But regarding its perceived failure, neither mentions real income dropped '21-22 due not just to inflation but the end of COVID-era income supports

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Good @awprokop.bsky.social chronicle of Dems' leftward shift on econ policy in the last decade. Substantively, this was a development I loved to see--but its sheer failure to yield any political benefits in the Biden years was dismaying, and warrants sober reflection! www.vox.com/2024-electio...

The rise — and fall? — of the New Progressive Economics

Progressives conquered economic policy under Biden. Would they lose it under Harris?

If you're reading about the judge rebutting the Georgia election board tonight, keep in mind: there are other places that may fall in the hands of election deniers this fall. this series of counties in Florida, for one: boltsmag.org/florida-supe...

Six “America First” Candidates, Vying to Take Over Florida Elections, Advance to November

Prominent election deniers are supporting a slate of Florida Republicans who are running to lead local election offices. But roughly half of the slate lost in Tuesday’s GOP primaries.