the republican party is an explicitely pro pedophile and a pro war political party

It’s bullshit for the Washington Post to call this looting of the Treasury a “deal“ and an “agreement.” The Trump regime is self-dealing to create an agreement between Trump and Trump, with no judge allowed to weigh in. It’s a dictator stealing from the people.

That’s one way to describe stealing public money to fund an army of brown shirts

Whoopsie daisy sorry we ruined graduation. no we can’t afford someone to read names. anyway that will be $240,000

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

This is THEFT. There is no other word for it. They are stealing almost $1.8 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

If we had a functioning judiciary (lol), there’s a strong case that this is just straightforwardly a separation of powers issue where the president is using his control over the IRS to redirect public funds to causes that were not (and politically could not) be approved by congress

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

I saw this on Facebook (there was no creator credit) so now you have to as well. It hurtsses us.

I have been lectured to my entire life that the greatest sin in politics is to look down on these cosmically ignorant fuckwits, or to hold them accountable for their decisions. We're just supposed to flatter their Illusions and dutifully repair all the shit they destroy.

If we are in a position in 200 years to worry about the effects of low birth rates, that’s a huge W from a climate change perspective.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

In the paradoxical standard set forward by the Supreme Court, the only way to tell if districts were drawn for racism is if the people drawing them say so. But if the districts are drawn so that Black voters in the South get almost no representatives, that's not racism.

Ok I know it sounds bad that we’re having another potential pandemic so soon after the last one, but at least this time our public health infrastructure has been gutted and replaced by grifters, lunatics and eugenicists.

So the war was quite literally pointless. All around the world they're rationing energy, there are food shortages, people are suffering and dying, all for absolutely fucking nothing.

it makes you think!

If you hear from any lawyer brained morons that this decision was correct or inevitable, know that to get to this result the court had to twist the definition of Election Day to include the entire early voting period, with absurd results if the same definition would be applied elsewhere

MAGA wants to reduce opportunities for women and increase opportunities for quacks. Chiropractors, a male-dominated woo-saturated field, still qualify, while female-dominated evidence-based professions are shut out.

"The Switch is so old," you all said. "I need better graphics," you demanded. "Wah wah," you cried. And now, you sit here before Slippy Toad, the slippiest he's ever been, slippier than a fucking banana peel under a kart wheel, all thanks to the raw power of the Nintendo Switch 2—and you reject him?

in essence he's right, he's firing multimillion dollar missiles at butterflies. and this is why your libraries are closed on the weekends and your grandfather is working a retail job at 80

"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

trump and hegseth are presiding over one of the great Ls in american military history.

he thinks you 🫵 are stupid

This is exceptionally silly stuff, and I don't know who could be taking it seriously. The "major questions doctrine" is a straightforward insertion of the Court into political matters; so too are Roberts's revealed concerns about the effect of environmental regulation on businesses.

A state that redraws its legislative maps before every election to maximize advantage for the incumbent party is not a democracy or a republic and in any case obviously violates the guarantee clause, among many others. No country does this. No country ever thought of doing this. It is a total farce.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

On the contrary I’m kind of sick of democrats talking to voters like they’re stupid babies

You are a skilful and trusted vizier. You will advise me wisely on how best to rule the kingdom. You will not scheme or plot. You will not inveigle my other courtiers into turning against me. You will not lie to me about scheming or plotting. If you scheme or plot against me, you have to tell me,

"we are deeply fucked and in a bad place specifically because the tech is good" encapsulates my anxiety well. the denial of capability and fantasy ai will go away is extremely dangerous cope, the environmental concerns a distraction from the existential challenge, of fixing how society operates.

I'm utterly fascinated by the modern art of journalistic simulacrum at no point do this piece's four authors consider wandering anywhere close to the idea of corruption, or that Trump says a lot of things that are utterly meaningless, or that our regulators no longer function in the public interest

*lining up the ouija board so i can ask thomas jefferson how he feels about bump stocks* people who think we should evaluate laws based on intended purpose are so fucking stupid

These people are boldface liars. How many unlawful maps have been kept in place because of legal pretenses the Court drops suddenly? Alito and the five horsemen of our time are a national embarrassment to the legal profession.

what makes the SCOTUS Gang of Six acting as an unaccountable super-legislature especially intolerable is that they are not just setting up unfavorable rules, they are playing Calvinball where they selectively apply the rules case-by-case exclusively to help Republicans. A judicial dictatorship

This is interesting because it challenges two widely held political assumptions: 1) that people love it when everything at the supermarket is at least $8.99 and 2) that the easiest way to win voters over is to go on TV every day and say that you need to build a big event space or you'll die.

The Senate passed the Voting Rights Act renewal in 2006 by a vote of 98-0. The Supreme Court majority gutted it on the grounds that the Justices personally dislike the impact.

as long as john roberts has his majority, there is simply no pro democracy reform that will survive the supreme court. none.

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

I mean, among other things, this does really illustrate the anti-democratic absurdity of the idea that the state legislature can set the rules of the electoral system to achieve particular political ends

It is just pure sophistry to insist that it is not racial gerrymandering when race tracks partisanship. Absolutely insulting in its reasoning.

"The Court is thus working on two fronts: shielding the leader of the anti-democratic movement from accountability while simultaneously dismantling the electoral rules that allow the majority to vote his party out" 🎯

The practical result of adding the sum rev from yesterday to today's decision in Callais seems to be that use of race in partisan gerrymandering is permitted (because hard to prove it was race, not politics) *unless* the state is doing it to remedy a VRA violation. This is Bizarro 14th Amendment.

[ancient Greeks sitting around a fire circa 600 BC] GREEK GUY: Idomeneus [Greeks mumble and nod in assent] SECOND GREEK GUY: Antilochus [Greeks respond approvingly] THIRD GREEK GUY: Diomedes [Greeks cheer and clap]

the u.s. is shooting itself in the foot with a tactical nuke american universities are *so* good and it's a virtuous cycle: smart and ambitious people attend, elevating the whole enterprise. if we alienate the world, it becomes a vicious cycle headed in the opposite direction

john roberts has fulfilled his life's work and fully dismantled the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. these fucking neo-confederate freaks need to be driven from power forever