This just passed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

a reminder that watergate was legitimately bad. nixon weaponized presidential power to cover up crimes committed by his subordinates, illegally spying on americans and using agencies like the IRS to harass political opponents.

also this is basically republican orthodoxy, they just don’t say it out loud. the main intellectual project of the conservative judicial movement for example is to make watergate legal bsky.app/profile/theb...

vance is basically nixon if nixon were a dipshit and not a genuinely impressive guy

There are a few of course but “made out-loud gutter racism acceptable in the GOP” is among Trump’s primary legacies

For years, the anti-immigrant go-to line was that they were anti *illegal* immigration, because they believed in rule of law and had compassion for immigrants who "did it the right way." Now, from the White House and Supreme Court on down, it's openly anti-rule-of-law and anti-nonwhite-immigration.

Every hometown’s got the ominous megastructure. What’s yours?

and this isn't just some random evil racist congressman. he's the majority whip, the third most powerful member of the house! this *is* the party.

Yeah that's what you want to hear from the sitting Vice President

I thought the AC war was fought and won in 1888

On one level, I get the take that the Reflecting Pool saga is kind of frivolous. But it has also produced some of the most blatant examples of this administration and its allies trying to prosecute and persecute innocent people to make propaganda we have seen.

Laughed until I (actually) cried at this

Tired: Alger Hiss Wired: Algal Bloom

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tired: artists cancelled on these events because of trump's politics wired: artists cancelled on these events because milli vanilli is used to playing to way bigger crowds than this

"Mr secretary! The floor is hers. You know, there is a chairman. That's me" -- even the Republican committee chair is losing patience with Markwayne Mullin, who is gripping a stress ball as he clearly struggles to control his temper

Everyone talks about how it's a problem the president is an 80-year-old senile racist who makes shit up, but let's not forget that Sam Alito is a 76-year-old senile racist who also makes shit up.

Dismal turnout for Trump’s “massive rally” mars Fox’s America 250 smear campaign www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/dis...

Why would the pipes need fixing if the only problem was vandals and their giant box cutters and their buckets of algae?

Kagan thinks too much of her colleagues. Very good chance that the reason the majority doesn't think this language is "racially inflected" is because they agree with it. bsky.app/profile/uhac...

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

In dissent, Kagan takes issue with the Doe majority’s claim that the Trump admin. offered a race-neutral reason for TPS revocation, citing Trump’s numerous racist statements.

6-3: It is constitutionally race-neutral to just kick out all the foreigners. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

There was a graph going around a few weeks ago comparing gun deaths in America vs heat deaths in Europe and 1) This per capita graph works better, and 2) highlights to some extent how much of it is people sticking to their guns... or their lack of air con. hannahritchie.substack.com/p/heat-guns-...

As I point out in this newsletter, it is tempting to describe this administration wide conduct as North Korean. that is however unfair as North Korean officials generally have markedly superior message discipline.

We had 4 opinions today and 3 of them were 6-3 written by Alito. :(

Today's SCOTUS decision means that the Trump administration may prematurely terminate TPS for Haiti, Syria, and any other country it wishes, without bothering to offer any legitimate justification or following the procedures required by Congress, because courts cannot review the decision.

Fourth (and *last*) ruling from #SCOTUS is in TPS. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Alito holds that federal law forecloses judicial review of statutory challenges to the executive branch's termination of temporary protected status for Haiti, Syria, etc.: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court's fourth and final decision is Mullin v. Doe. By a 6–3 vote, the conservatives hold that federal law prohibits judicial review of non-constitutional objections to TPS terminations, and the constitutional claims here fail. The liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts Thursday blocked federal agencies from implementing President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order attacking mail voting before the midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

One of the modern Supreme Court's very unhealthy practices is that, in order to reach the outcome they want based on their partisanship and ideology, they pretend words mean whatever they want them to mean. Constitutional words need to mean what most of the American people think they mean.

next term Thomas is going to be posting straight up lorem ipsum in his decision overturning the Clean Air Act

Love to catch up with my buddy, the heir to an international manufacturing conglomerate, during my meetings with foreign diplomats.

yeah what about all those farmers who are in it for the love of the game

And Justice Sotomayor goes there in her Al Otro Lado dissent (where SCOTUS allows the Trump admin to nullify asylum guarantees if they stop people at/outside the border): "The current asylum system developed in response to the international moral reckoning that followed the Holocaust...."

The Supreme Court's third decision is Mullin v. Otro Lado. Another 6–3 decision, this time allowing the government to "meter" asylum-seekers by forcing them to remain on the Mexican side of the border. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The third and not last decision is Mullin v Al Otro Lado. Alito, again, has the opinion for the 6-3 court, holding that a person does not "arrive in the United States" if stopped on the other side of the border. Sotomoyar is reading from her dissent for the trio. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

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More death from the Supreme Court. The Republicans overruled a Hawaii law that prohbited guns on private property open to the public without express consent of the owner. So, if you need to shoot up a beach in Hawaii, the Republican ammosexuals on SCOTUS, as always, have your back.

Accurately describing a Trump crowd on the National Mall is a tiny amount of progress for some outlets

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

The Trump admin has an almost-complete failure rate at efforts to punish sanctuary jurisdictions. There are only a small handful of exceptions across both terms. Courts are clear: these policies are legal.

JD Vance has smug confidence of a man who has seen trump’s cholesterol numbers.

Congress just yesterday passed a concurrent resolution disapproving of that war. The White House just today spat in lawmakers’ eyes canceling a bipartisan bill signing and arbitrarily attaching it to passage of a rankly partisan and antidemocratic measure.

hate to keep having to say this but none of this would have happened if anyone in the supposedly tough-daddy GOP had laid this guy out the first time he insulted their kids or wives on the debate stage, that's how tenuous his abilities as a candidate were

Cassidy got into a shouting match with the president today on the Iran war, telling the president it has failed to achieve any of the goals he set out at the beginning, has lasted four months when he said it would take four weeks, and has failed to fully brief the Congress or the public.

I still think he stays a Dem because you can get a lot more attention as The Dem Bashing Other Dems On Fox than you can as Just Another Republican but if he swaps after the midterms this is the excuse he’s going to make

It used to be I'd ask the worst cook coming to my party to bring the chips. Now I ask the friend with the best-paying job.

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party