If you were wondering how The Federalist was reacting

The worst people on earth are crashing out, good day.

One clarification: It's 6-3 on equal protection (the big question); it's actually unanimous on Title IX, but on *very* different grounds.

First (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is the two transgender discrimination cases. For the usual 6-3 majority, Justice Kavanaugh *upholds* state bans on transgender athletes in public sports under *both* Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Chief Justice Roberts just announced from the bench that *tomorrow* (Tuesday) will be the last day for opinion hand-downs this term. So we'll get birthright citizenship, the two transgender discrimination cases, and the big campaign finance case in some order at 10 ET tomorrow.

Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Chatire (the geofence warrants case). For a 6-3 majority (with Thomas, Alito, and Barrett dissenting), Justice Kagan holds that a geofence warrant *is* a Fourth Amendment search, but the Court remands to see if the Fourth Amendment was actually violated:

The Praireland sentences are incredibly awful and have been making me crash out for a few days now, but I took it as a given that right-wing accounts would be gloating over it What I *cannot* abide is purportedly moderate people pushing the DOJ's propaganda

I am still trying to write through the rage to finish writing my immediate thoughts on Prarieland, but if you'd rather hear them today's OA has everything you need to know to find your own fury podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Left: Justice Alito's description of the record in the TPS case Right: Former Secretary Noem

The FTC case against WPATH has been reassigned to Judge Reed O' Connor with no reason given. DOJ is starting to centralize all of their investigations under O'Connor in NDTX. The federal courts are a joke.

There are a lot of people out there with way bigger platforms and voices than many of us, and not a peep out of anyone that might have some power to change things. Step the fuck up.

Diane Yap was hired as a Manhattan Institute policy fellow.

30 years for moving some zines www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Third (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Landor. For the usual 6-3 majority (noting a theme, here?), Justice Gorsuch makes it *much* harder for plaintiffs to sue under any federal statute enacted under the Spending Clause. Another quietly *major* ruling: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Kim Petras feels almost weirdly under-discussed in the trans youth discourse. She transitioned as a teenager, in like 2007. And her music is so mainstream that I heard it at Subway the other day. But I rarely see people invoke her to say "See? Trans kids exist and are grateful for early transition

He looks like Frank Sobotka. And I don't mean "a young Frank Sobotoka."

Well, I'll be damned. Mike DeWine has had, in effect, an execution moratorium in place in Ohio, but this is such an important progression on his part.

This local Kentucky news station just put up a picture of young Mitch McConnell for some reason... www.wdrb.com/mitch-mcconn...

You could never make "The Office" (US) today. You could *maybe* get away with a show that had some of Jim's hijinks, but there were a fair number of episodes that escalated to outright tomfoolery, and arguably even a few cases of horseplay.

Hardest part of "Succession" rewatch is realizing that I'm literally Roman Roy At the end of season 3 when Kendall confides the waiter death thing with his siblings, and Roman is like "Oh, waiter down, that's why it took me 45 minutes to get gin and tonic", that's exactly what I would say

I can perfectly hear a latter day Leonard Cohen song called "It Don't Matter (None of this Matters)" in my head. The chorus is like the music halting and Leonard Cohen going "It don't matter" and then the female backup singers singing the same and then the same pattern with "None of this matters!"

It’s amazing to watch what has happened to the guys whose position is perpetually calibrated to “slightly more sensible then the GOP mean” as the GOP loses its mind

I love this for her.

That's a pogrom. She's describing a pogrom

First mention of Challenger explosion on Usenet

New: the FCC is trying to ban burner phones by forcing all telecoms to store ID information on all new and renewing customers. That includes a government issued ID number. Massive privacy-impacting change “We never thought that would happen here,” the ACLU says www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to...

Vincent Gallo is dating a woman who was once engaged to Charles Manson? How the fuck did I fall so behind on the Gallo lore

Lmao I think this is actually Vincent Gallo's Reddit account

At this point in his first term, the scandal was "Trump slept with Stormy Daniels." This time it's just "Trump slept."

Every text I send my friends includes a brief bio of myself in case they forgot

It's utterly shameful how Reagan did nothing to stop Ads

Jehovah's Witnesses and Seventh Day Adventists both made the cut, though. I half-suspect that this is more about trying to piss off Mitt Romney than anything else.

Roman Roy is simultaneously sex-repulsed and hypersexual and it weirdly makes sense. It's like how Television is simultaneously post-punk and porto-punk

Imagine the pure joy of getting to write this www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

The virgin "I need a gun to defend my home" vs. the Chad "Rape, But Not Gay"

Hunter Biden must have a ghostwriter. No one is *this* good at poasting right off the bat.

From 2000, don't think I've ever heard any of this. Nicholson must have a good fucking PR team.

We'll know that Trump is *actually* about to die when he has a visit to Walter Reed and then posts "The cognitive test is stupid anyway, I don't even care."

I clicked the "Draw a life" button and got James Corden. Jesus, I can't ever get a fucking break.

Fetlife claims to have a bug bounty program, but then they have a whole page about how they don't allow "bug chasing." Make up your fucking minds.

Republican law students looking around and thinking 'mmmmthis is gonna all be over soon and being involved could be...bad for me' seems like a good thing

Here is Tom Steyer personally supporting high school trans athlete AB Hernandez. I don't think I've ever seen a candidate as brave as Tom Steyer in his explicit support for trans folks. It says a lot that it took a self funded billionaire not dependent on donors to do it.

People think Vanilla Ice is only known for "Ice Ice Baby," even though he also did "Ninja Rap" from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze and "Cool as Ice (Everybody Get Loose)" from Cool as Ice Try learning something before broadcasting your ignorance to the entire fucking world

They just created a Milli Vanills

Apparently Jabba's gay uncle isn't canonically gay, even though he's literally based on Truman Capote. None of this makes any sense. I'm gonna lie down.

Why can Jabba's gay uncle speak perfect English but Jabba only speaks in that weird gibberish? One of you nerds better fucking explain this to me

Ah, thanks for the clarification Google

There are two pictures of Patriot Front marching in Virginia Beach at 25th and Atlantic. This picture originates from Reddit user GenAlphaDad on the Virginia Beach subreddit and is supposed to be from this morning. www.reddit.com/r/VirginiaBe...

Fiery but mostly peaceful rocket flight