The reviews for Greta Gerwig’s Barbie are in…and we can’t stop laughing at the guys mad that the movie is too “woke.”

@jackiefmogensen scavenged the bowels of Rotten Tomatoes for some truly golden one-star reviews of the film. Here’s a thread of some of our favorites. 🧵

THREAD: Here are all the Twitter teams @elonmusk has cut (so far). 1. The Global Human Rights team. (That seems pretty important...)

(🧵) Since 1976, elections for Kentucky’s highest court have traditionally been, at least on paper, nonpartisan as mandated by the state Constitution.

Enter Republican Joseph Fischer. For decades as a Republican legislator in Kentucky, Fischer has pushed bills to restrict abortion. He sponsored the state’s 2019 “trigger law” making the procedure a felony. which went into effect once the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Wade.

🧵: You don’t have to wait until after the midterm elections to know what many of the GOP have in mind.

A little-noticed budget document, the Blueprint to Save America, released by the Republican Study Committee, details the group’s priorities. Let's get into it 👇 Some context: Nearly 75% of GOP House lawmakers are RSC members, so these priorities are shared by a majority of the GOP caucus. From cracking down on trans rights to expanding gun rights, here's an overview of the 122-page manifesto.

Inside Massachusetts' family separation disaster bit.ly/3flmrAf When child protective services removes a child against the will of their parents, state laws typically require a hearing within days to ensure that the right decision was made.

In Massachusetts, these court dates are called “72-hour hearings.” bit.ly/3fljn77

With Roe gone, where do we go from here?

Today, in collaboration with @RewireNewsGroup, we explore this fraught moment, the fight ahead, and the future of abortion. bit.ly/3yWoK42 @RewireNewsGroup First up, we've got @msjpauly on why progressive prosecutors won't save us in a post-Roe world bit.ly/3ANGdgt

Private equity is everywhere.

1 in 14 work for companies tied to PE whether they know it or not. Maybe you do and don’t even know it.

It’s why college tuition is skyrocketing. Why pension programs are fucked. Why your pet is in peril (seriously.) bit.ly/3kV1L1r These titans of finance hide behind complexity, and most people are too intimidated by financial lingo to look closely.

Our tremendous new package today breaks down how private equity's singular role in destroying our quality of life.

.@LeaderMcConnell has said that passing voting rights legislation is unnecessary because states are "not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever.”

Facts on the ground in Georgia tell a different story.

A brief thread. According to our analysis, the number of voters disenfranchised by rejected mail ballot applications skyrocketed after the GOP-controlled legislature passed sweeping new restrictions on mail voting last year. bit.ly/3u8sUnf

We uncovered the impact of GOP voting restrictions in one key state. It's staggering. bit.ly/3u8sUnf A new data analysis by Mother Jones shows that the number of voters disenfranchised by rejected mail ballot applications skyrocketed after the GOP-controlled legislature passed sweeping new restrictions on mail voting last year. bit.ly/3u8sUnf

Republicans are rigging elections for the next decade bit.ly/3oU5UEa 2/ In Georgia, Republicans passed a new congressional map on Monday giving their party 64 percent of US House seats in a state Joe Biden won with 49.5 percent of the vote.

Texas Republicans are pulling out all the stops to dilute the voting power of people of color bit.ly/3a5XJxN Take a look at this map of Texas’ 24th Congressional district in its current form—vs. a proposed GOP plan. The GOP map removes diverse Democratic areas and adds in whiter Republican ones.

The Supreme Court of the United States just gave the green light to Republican-led efforts making it harder to vote.

But that shouldn't come as a surprise. Here's why👇
motherjones.com/politics/2021/… In 2013, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion gutting Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. That ruling in Shelby County v. Holder led to a wave of new voter suppression laws that helped Donald Trump secure his 2016 victory—and more.

The Trump family has trouble with depositions.

A (brief) thread. In 2007 testimony, Donald Trump was repeatedly shown to be a liar.

In February, Donald Trump Jr. was deposed in the Trump inauguration scandal lawsuit, and on several key points, under oath, he provided false testimony.

Huge congrats to our senior voting rights reporter @AriBerman for his investigation into Heritage Action's role in writing the wave of GOP voter suppression bills across the country, which just won a @SidneyHillman award! bit.ly/2TKaHME @AriBerman @SidneyHillman In leaked video, @AriBerman and @NickSurgey revealed that the dark money group had bragged about crafting the new voter suppression law in Georgia and doing the same with similar bills for GOP state legislators.

"We did it quickly and we did it quietly." bit.ly/3itZni7

During the protests last year, police shot photographer Wil Sands in the eye with a tear gas canister, leaving him partially blinded. As part of his recovery, he traveled around to photograph others who were blinded by cops around the same time.

A thread. bit.ly/3wVnAlA Frank Hunt, 31, was struck by a foam round. For a time, all he could see out of his left eye was silhouettes; His vision has since improved, but he can’t see well at night, and the sun bothers his eye. He’s sought out lawyers, but he says he doesn’t care about the money.

Jim Crow killed voting rights for generations. Now the GOP is repeating history. bit.ly/34CU7AL In 1868, just two months after the 14th Amendment granted full citizenship to Black Americans, Georgia’s white-dominated legislature voted to expel its Black lawmakers, who weren’t even allowed to participate in the vote.

Over the last century, the proportion of farmland owned by Black farmers has dropped dramatically—by about 90 percent—while white land ownership has remained steady.

This didn’t happen by accident. Here’s a brief history. After the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman moved to grant each recently freed slave a plot of farmland. But after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, his successor, the Southern white supremacist Andrew Johnson, hastily canceled the plan.

Politicians are passing new police reforms. The problem? Cops keep ignoring them.

A thread. After last summer’s uprisings, more than 30 states and countless municipalities and police departments have set new rules to reduce police violence—including funding cuts, crowd-control restrictions, body-camera mandates, and bans on no-knock warrants and neck restraints.

Donald Trump put a right-wing radio host on the board of a national park. Emails show the chaos that ensued.

A thread. First, some background: Michael Savage (real name: Michael A. Weiner) is a right-wing shock jock whose 27-year career has left a trail of racist, xenophobic, and homophobic comments.

Back in 2019, we profiled Rep. Matt Gaetz. Here are some fun/terrible things we found out about him.

It’s a bit of a long thread. First, you should know that Gaetz is from a place called Niceville, a town of about 15,000 nestled on Choctaw­hatchee Bay, just off the Gulf of Mexico. The Gaetzes owned a second home, in the nearby town of Seaside. The Truman Show was filmed in their house.

In September 2020, photographer César Rodríguez visited Matamoros, Mexico, the site of a large migrant camp that had become an emblem of the Trump administration’s harsh immigration policies. Rodríguez went with the idea of collaborating with the people there—working together creatively. He started taking photos of the people and the camp, then getting them printed at a local copy shop.