Michael Ryals

“In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[Justin Baragona @justinbaragona]

Just a funny little addendum here. This "alternative to your current woke wireless provider" that Ben Shapiro is peddling here is nothing more than a mobile virtual network operator of AT&T -- which Shapiro has repeatedly decried as a "woke corporation."

https://t.co/R6yFciKGbG

[Eric Columbus @EricColumbus]

This will likely remain true until Tuesday’s arraignment and it’s true both for the take you love and the take you hate.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Texas GOP Proposes Bill To Allow Sec Of State To Overturn Election Results In State’s Largest Blue County https://t.co/clyxEY9TqM via @TPM

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

All of these “good” Republicans keep failing a basic threshold test of leadership. @GlennYoungkin & @RonDeSantisFL haven’t read indictments. Reacting like this is bad citizenship but also bad politics. Makes you smaller & reduces any possible impact once you have read indictment.

[Jules Eileen Roscoe Fitzgerald @julesaroscoe]

NOW: @Harvard is hosting an event for its grad students to sign up for federal food assistance. You know, because it doesn't pay them enough.

@hgsuuaw grad student union pres. @kljungz told me about it this morning:
https://t.co/qG5VtyJ3ZG

[Michael Ryals @ryals13]

@INVR_Team @lionel_trolling From the “legal theories” to the antisemitism, it’s all in service of maintaining/strengthening their status as the in-group. Not bound by law but protected from it. Wilhoit had these fuckers pegged.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

Nixon's "Well, when the president does it that means that it is not illegal" is the working legal theory of these people

[virtue (here for 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️) @activevirtues]

Her stepdad had beat her. Called her horrible, homophobic things. She ended up getting sent to live with her aunt.

Safeguarding requires listening to the child about their own safety.

I'll never forget that child. I'll always wonder how she's doing.

[Jemele Hill @jemelehill]

Also Arkansas:

[b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie]

jd vance simply expressing the common conservative view that whether something counts as crime depends on who you are

[Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz]

Regular reminder that it's just insane that one pissant federal district judge can purport to enjoin enforcement of a federal law or administrative action nationwide, and it's not really clear why the other branches should acquiesce in this exercise of power.

[Valerie Insinna @ValerieInsinna]

This story was insane but I was unprepared for the introduction of the sidepiece of one Russian pilot, who then turns out to be connected to a Russian intelligence organization

[Brian Lyman @lyman_brian]

Important to remember the Sullivan plaintiffs (in NYT v Sullivan) were segregationists who wanted to crush coverage of civil rights through libel suits. These were not people acting in good faith.

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

1. Josh Hawley, of Missouri, has demonstrated that he’s one of the most dangerous men in the United States Senate. He took to the floor Tuesday, the day after a shooting massacre in Nashville that left three 9-year-olds and three adults shot to pieces.

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

8. Fact is, the massacre of believers is committed by white men, almost totally, according to a new study of 58 religious massacres over 10 years by the International Commission to Combat Religious Racism.

[Thomas Zimmer @tzimmer_history]

Walter Huss and the history of Republican radicalization, from the 1950s to today

A conversation with @SethCotlar – on the past and present of the Far-Right, and the paths that led to Trumpism’s rise.

New episode of @USDemocracyPod: https://t.co/lvCu88bSdJ

[Will Stancil @whstancil]

Like @owillis points out, if you take out the one word in Tucker Carlson’s diatribes that situates them in a present-day politics, it’s pretty easy to see this is rhetoric aimed at whipping up violence. You could drop this language anywhere in history and instantly recognize it

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

Librarians in Missouri fought back against a book ban and in response, Republican politicians are trying to defund the state’s entire public library system. https://t.co/9P9hfhD6Ta

[Dr. Joanne Freeman (@jbf1755 on lots o’ platforms) @jbf1755]

Signing off for the day with this.