A solid chunk of the economy is companies with names like Dales Bolts or “precision equipment LLC” that employ 15 people, make something you’ve never heard of and do a reliable $150M in revenue a year forever

I knew it

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Vance says the midterms are big because Republicans are one SCOTUS seat from ending birthright citizenship

wanna hear a wild cover www.youtube.com/watch?v=upge...

lol the DHS booth is a fake bag scanner and an ai generated activity sheet

Why does this look like a bad vrchat room

The National Endowment for the Arts stage has a solo performer up there right now. He is playing an audience of one. He just urged her to follow him on Instagram. I have seen larger audiences at 8am academic panels. I feel bad for the guy.

Exhibit hall for DHS. Random ladder in front of a broken TV.

"The government can arbitrarily declare stateless undesirables it deems unworthy of citizenship" is *insane.* It's thinking you can crack open the gates of hell just a little to warm up the place and things will be fine. *Nobody* wins then. Not Democrats. Not Republicans.

NGL. 5-4 has me shook just in terms of the extent to which conservative elites are willing to burn it all down. I mean obviously, as a trans woman, I dislike being openly despised. But this is flirting with breaking down the fundamental political settlements that keep society from collapsing.

Here are Minnesota National Guard members patrolling in DC's Farragut North neighborhood, more than a mile and a half from the entrance to Trump's celebrations on the National Mall.

yo yo yo what's up yggdrasil?

The general reaction to Rep Kean being in inpatient care for depression goes a long way to answering the question of why he didn't tell anyone what he was doing

this is an admission that they're not going to do shit.

the sheer amount of favorable coverage rufo's gotten out of the times over the years makes me think that at least some of NYT's editorial leadership is considerably more radical than even some of their harsher critics suggest

partly inspired by this post we gave our 4 year old a raspberry pi based desktop and he's been loving the thing, a+ would recommend

As I understand it, there are only three major disagreements in the "Stop Killing Games" movement: - What does "Stop" mean - How do you define "Killing" - What is a "Game", exactly

my god

i have a mostly vibe-coded UI for an internal tool and claude decided to hallucinate some little sidebar icons for the various sidebar menu items. Some of the icons are exactly what you'd expect, but some are "nothing in particular" but in a way that does feel like they represent the text label 1/

lol this building is gonna be a disaster

If there was anything missing in the GOPs plan to avoid a total wipeout in November, its a two-day, nationally televised Trump rally where he talks about how much everything is perfect and Republicans take turns saying in front of the camera how much they love him.

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

companies on july 1st

i don't think the decision is worth celebrating — it's far too close for something that's literally in plain text. but i do think this was the best shot they had at ending birthright citizenship for awhile, and they lost it, which buys us time, and time's what we need.

In times like this it’s important to focus on the real villain: Chuck schumers comms team

Rogan: marmalade…that’s like jelly? Paddington: marmalade typica- Rogan: that’s what fucks me up, people and dogs having different words for things Paddington: no sir I’m a bear Rogan: we had a Dr on that said bears evolved from dogs finding mushrooms, it’s one of those things that blows my mind

It's good to celebrate birthright citizenship and Trump losing

A republic, if you can keep it

me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???

Local DC interest: How Trump in enshittifying life in a truly beautiful city. And it *is* the capital, scene of real celebrations most July 4's: -Nat Guard etc all over -East Wing -Hains Point -Kennedy Ctr -South Lawn/Mall/Pool And now fireworks at 11pm!! After DJT speech. What families will attend?

I am low-key obsessed with this pair of Chinese designers, in no small part because the model guy is SERVING.

There are three things I think could truly break the country. War with another Western democracy, declaring citizenship can be arbitrarily stripped, and Boston Massacre 2. The fact the first two were narrowly avoided has caused a lot of people to think It Can Only Good Happen. I'm not convinced.

not a lawyer but at some point the legal profession needs to grapple with their academic publication system being completely batshit ass backwards relative to every other area of academia

Stop calling them “conservative.”

Ds can't block a SC appointment from the minority. they can expand the court when they are in the majority though.

They’ve got a team drafting up lists of dudes who look like thumbs with felony fraud convictions and documented histories of domestic violence

I think this is genuinely true. Every personal anecdote I have heard about Klein paints him as a very kind, generous guy, and he may just be deeply incapable of recognizing bad actors and inept at calling them out thanks to his sticking to the 'norms.'

ilan wurman is all over thomas' dissent. congrats to the worm man. he did it.

Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Sigh. It really is scandalous. This was not a close question.

Holy fuck the fact that it's only 6-3 is as sure as a sign as anything that the court is broken

im actually kinda curious about what sort of real world impact this will have because there's probably diminishing returns at some point

By “leaders in Congress” he means some guy that used to be a Booker staffer

we will overcome this gross bigotry in my lifetime

Even if SCOTUS strikes down Trump's birthright EO today, under no circumstance do you have to hand it to them when the text, legislative history/ intent, doctrine, supporting federal law is crystal clear AND as they lay waste to separation of powers, due process, rights in so many other areas.

Guys, there are now multiple polls indicating a dead heat. I recognize that pessimism is a useful emotional defense mechanism, but this is real.