Republicans packed the Arizona Supreme Court

With abortion now a state issue, never forget that Republicans are enthusiastically in favor of packing state supreme courts. So Dems, don't feel shy!

2016: Arizona GOP adds two seats to the state supreme court.https://t.co/1CM7MBhWLf
— Jeffrey Sachs (@JeffreyASachs) June 30, 2022

I remember early video games in malls

I remember seeing the first video games in malls. They were black and white and they were amazing for their day. The games I recall were Pong and Computer Space.

Every inch of US soil categorized

Every inch of American soil, mapped and categorized. https://t.co/mjcqhYVXJw
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 2, 2022

Will Republicans be unwilling to accept losses?

2020 was just the beginning.

the position of many republicans is that the election of a democrat is de facto illegitimate fraud https://t.co/oKfH8goXz3
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) July 1, 2022

An uncomfortable truth from @SykesCharlie about the Big Lie:

“millions of Americans don’t necessarily believe something that crazy and bogus. They believe something much worse…the other side simply cannot be allowed to win.” https://t.co/OLIayvqfkZ
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) July 1, 2022

To conservatives it’s all winning and losing

The proper long-term goal is not neutrality, but victory. The time for playing jurisprudential and judicial defense is thus over. The time is now right for legal and judicial conservatives to go on offense.

My latest @NewsweekOpinion. https://t.co/2YnNulSMqH
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) July 1, 2022

Examples of Republicans who are distorting history in school textbooks

I expect red state textbooks to say Biden didn’t win a fair election in 2020.

One concerned teacher said Christian nationalism is "just baked into" every part of DeSantis' new initiative. (via @MaddowBlog) https://t.co/em2PS2tZLw
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) July 1, 2022

Teachers told the Miami Herald the new standards portray the founders as against the idea of the separation of church and state, downplay the role of the colonies in slavery, and push conservative judicial theories. https://t.co/CXFuVAalTL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) July 1, 2022

Included in the new civics training for Florida public school teachers is the statement that it is a “misconception” that “the Founders desired strict separation of church and state.” https://t.co/5zP5psfdb2
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) July 2, 2022

Wisconsin school board members dismissed a book on Japanese American incarceration during World War II because it created an “unbalanced” account of history, outraged parents say. https://t.co/qXesk4nfRQ
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 1, 2022

Restricting voting access is about changing the electorate of today; censoring the teaching of race/gender/sexual orientation and banning books is about changing the electorate of tomorrow. https://t.co/fkHERTj3zZ https://t.co/k1uVI5tH7M
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) July 1, 2022

I wasn’t planning on speaking today, but when a GOP Senator stepped up to the mic to MOCK @SenErikaGeiss and me for walking out of a second “CRT” hearing in the Michigan Senate, I couldn’t let it stand. pic.twitter.com/ZKmBRyKXPA
— Senator Dayna Polehanki (@SenPolehanki) June 9, 2022

Republicans now refuse to use the word “slavery”. https://t.co/77OGlCfape
— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) July 1, 2022

Kudos to @washingtonpost for being the only one I've seen to get the headline right on this. Everyone else went for the clickbait/panic effect.

Horrifying that it was proposed, but the right thing did happen.https://t.co/xe4UZwoSWT
— Natalie Jackson (@nataliemj10) July 1, 2022

Terrible Supreme Court Decision on the EPA

"The [anti-EPA decision] is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by GOP attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders to use the judicial system to…weaken the executive branch’s ability to tackle global warming."https://t.co/VIS0mKfZ4b
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) June 30, 2022

The Supreme Court’s EPA ruling could make it impossible for President Biden to meet his goal to cut U.S. pollution by half, experts said. https://t.co/KAyWaM63or
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 30, 2022

Justice Kagan: "The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decision- maker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening. Respectfully, I dissent." https://t.co/L3sGnqB8Zg
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 30, 2022

The issue isn't just that the *current* Congress is subject to the filibuster-induced deadlock; it's that *no* Congress will ever have the *capacity* to regulate across every issue with the specificity that "major questions" requires. It's not pro-democracy; it's anti-regulation.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) June 30, 2022

The Supreme Court fundamentally rewrote America's separation of powers in its big EPA decision, effectively placing the judiciary at the head of much of the Executive Branch of government.https://t.co/S9rvUwhKun
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) June 30, 2022

Covers: Down by the River

“Down by the River” (1969) is a Neil Young song that has been covered by artists like Norah Jones and Buddy Miles.

More bad news for local newspapers

The pandemic has been bad for U.S. local newspapers.

Overall, 2,500 newspapers in the U.S. — a quarter of them — have closed since 2005. The country is set up to lose one-third of its newspapers by 2025. https://t.co/061KNzRUl8 pic.twitter.com/k0XEO9dekh
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2022

Perspective | Every week, two more newspapers close — and ‘news deserts’ grow larger https://t.co/EkHfnOvIZ5
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKessler__) June 29, 2022

Red states will use the abortion decision to overturn all kinds of rights

And so it begins. The Alabama AG cites the overturning of Roe v. Wade to argue for a ban on trans health care. Alabama says b/c the Supreme Court said abortion is not 'deeply rooted' in the nation's history, the same can be said about access to gender-affirming care.
— Don Lewis (@DonLew87) June 29, 2022

Taken to its logical extreme, this is an argument that each state has the constitutional right to forbid *literally any* specific treatment for damn near any medical condition.

Because there are *no* modern medical treatments that are "deeply rooted." https://t.co/fdcO8zUAlx
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) June 29, 2022

The Democratic response to the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has been pathetic

There is so much in this column that is outstanding. Democrats had months to prepare for the decision and should have announced a plan the minute the court released it.

Just a few things:

like him, I have been deluged with fundraising requests. Telling us to give money and vote is not enough
I was very offended by Biden’s compliment of Mitch McConnell. Has he forgotten about McConnell’s unwillingness to even have a hearing on Garland? I haven’t. I assume that if Republicans win the Senate majority this year, McConnell will block any Biden Supreme Court nominees and probably others as well.

President Biden and Democratic leaders had months to prepare for the fall of Roe v. Wade. Yet as Republicans celebrated the culmination last week, the initial response from the president and his party struck many Democrats as painfully inadequate. https://t.co/ETtM2KOHyb
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) June 29, 2022

If they don't like this, they should have had other ideas ready. https://t.co/ZVV5VB2Elr
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 28, 2022

Democrats have had almost 2 months since the leak to prepare a response. They should have had an immediate response with specific actions ready to go when the decision was released. This is pitiful. https://t.co/3u5La2qUvF
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) June 28, 2022