i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

The MacArthur "Genius" Award-winner was best known as the founder of the Disability Visibility Project, which highlights disabled people and disability culture through storytelling projects, social media and other channels. n.pr/47WGe0m

i'm a very biased party here but pretty much everything about the Mamdani campaign and the discourse around it thus far is a pretty thorough vindication of Africana Studies

Political parties must shift immediately and dramatically to the left to avoid alienating these frustrated and abandoned young women. Am I doing this right?

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

Quick, someone poll the 4 things in this scary, scary agenda.

someone on here the other day said it feels like we’re watching a baseball game where one team decides every inning to not take their turn at bat

having goals gives you clarity. right now the dems' goal is "win more seats in the midterms" and that gives them clarity of purpose; unfortunately, it is actually extremely damaging to spend 2 years of spreading authoritarianism stepping out of the way because you think it'll help you next election

W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee: “Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”

If you want to remember how to properly hate GWB, please read REIGN OF TERROR by Spencer Ackerman bookshop.org/p/books/reig...

Well this is grim

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

JUST IN: Judge James Boasberg has been assigned to the Signalgate lawsuit.

in like 20 years all these sports betting ads are going to be viewed the exact same way as smoking ads from the 50s

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

they have to tell this lie about harris running too far left because they're not allowed to say "look, we will not run on the left regardless of electoral performance because our rich donors pay us not to"

Tommy Tuberville blocked military promotions for months while his party was in the minority and he can’t read or write

lmao, love 2 construct a society where basic factual knowledge of the world is fully controlled by radically politicized corporations

I am hoping this this year's Kendrick Lamar Super Bowl halftime show starts a trend of Pulitzer Prize winners getting that gig, and next year's halftime show has Robert Caro debuting the first chapter of the final volume of his Lyndon Johnson biography which would then hit stores the following day.

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

This is an argument for civil disobedience, not against it.

Lessons to be learned: 1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration 2. Centrists gain nothing 3. Far-right wins more power

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

this is severe, untreatable, terminal lawyer brain. so many legal academics act like the constitution is not a vessel intended to secure actual human rights and dignity, but a mere matter of intellectual curiosity, meant to be batted around like a cat with a toy

You amazing beautiful and incredible humans. Thank you to everyone who showed up, to everyone who donated hats and time and to everyone who donated online. Today you helped us give out 78 tents in the wake of that fire. Fires are indiscriminately devastating, and we keep going because of you ❤️

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

on a plane seated next to a flight attendant who's watching flat earth videos on tik tok. not inspiring a lot of confidence

This post from @alexnpress.bsky.social is just too on the nose of how law enforcement is used and implemented to protect the capital of the obscenely rich.

The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you believe political power should be wielded to harm those who are not sufficiently loyal, you are not a "bulwark" against the fascists, you are the fascist.

good enough time as any to tell the story how how Scrubs might have saved my life. when I was 15 I wasn't happy with my weight and was pretty close to losing my spot on the crew team: I was a coxswain (little guy who yells and steers) and weighed more than most of the rowers. Not ideal. 1/

Thinking today of Carrie Ann Lucas, a shining light in the world of disability justice who died at 47 from a preventable series of infections because UnitedHealthCare needlessly denied her coverage. www.forbes.com/sites/sarahk...

Thinking today of Carrie Ann Lucas, a shining light in the world of disability justice who died at 47 from a preventable series of infections because UnitedHealthCare needlessly denied her coverage. www.forbes.com/sites/sarahk...

The idea of “social murder” is super useful, and we need to get comfortable using it. Engels is the best, man - reading him feels like finally acknowledging the obvious reality everyone wants you to ignore

I genuinely don't think I can handle the next four years of New York Times headlines. Kill me now.

intermittent hiatus over: back on bluesky for good

my newest staff pick at the bookstore. Alasdair Gray hive, rise up! review here: gibsonsbookstore.com/ben

dogs: they're good!!

just knocked on the bathroom door at the bookstore and the person in there HISSED?!?

it's going to be 90 degrees tomorrow: do I wear my Ken outfit to work?

the only NFT I believe in is No Fucking Terfs

my insulin my tamagotchi pump 🤝 keeping a weird little guy alive

underrated aspect of moving to bluesky is hitting reset on all the strange little internet friendships I made on twitter with people I've never met before. just like a bit social randomizer button!

met some cool artists today and got a lot of compliments on my shirt from @tuck.bsky.social's podcast!

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