Strait of Hormuz traffic remains steady, with 34 vessels passing through yesterday, according to Kpler. Vessel flows have improved since the U.S.-Iran agreement two weeks ago, but remain far below pre-war levels of about 100 ships per day.-Bloomberg

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a third confrontation with Iran was possible "if necessary," following last year's war and another earlier this year.-The Times of Israel

Yes, it's what you think. Nobody bought the crypto on the market, it was sold directly to entities like UAE Sovereign Wealth ($500m), Alt5 Sigma ($1.5B, after which the company essentially collapsed and it's about to be delisted), and "Whale 0x0249," an unknown person who funneled $80 million.

You know what makes me even more mad? SCOTUS is prolly smug right now thinking they must be right if both sides are mad, but come on. Dont clutch your pearls about Marbury when you wanted to overturn over a century or two of precedent with birthright citizenship

Overturning a century of precedent to restructure the govt is no small thing. And now that’s on the table…

The best thing you can say about the founders: they didn’t limit the scope of their political imagination based on the ideas of people who died centuries before them—and neither should we.

MAGA's unhinged fury over the birthright citizenship loss is not going to help with this dynamic very much. One wonders whether they're stopping to ponder even for a second how they're utterly destroying Trump's standing on what was once his strongest issue.

Precedent is absolutely meaningless and SCOTUS has made that incredibly clear. Don’t feel bound to the traditions of the past when they aren’t working for us anymore. Change things to make them the way YOU think they should be. Don’t box yourself into thinking about precedent.

If these were things SCOTUS cared about they wouldn’t have overturned Humphrey’s. Get comfortable with change bc it’s happening whether you like it or not. And don’t be a spectator

Lack of govt stability? Who the fuck cares!

Over a century of precedent? Who the fuck cares!

We need to act with the same boldness as SCOTUS is showing. Is it not inspiring you? 😉

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Maybe that’s what Project 2029 can do to deal with SCOTUS. Revert their powers back to only those expressly and narrowly defined in the Constitution and come up with a new system to wield the powers they take for themselves.

The right is not going to stop working to destroy birthright citizenship. They know now that it’s close.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

1) Requires nearly unanimous, continuous support across the entire country and political spectrum 2) Can be accomplished by losing the popular vote twice

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

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 🫡🫠🙃

🤔 Israel is preparing for the immediate resumption of military operations against Iran.-i24 News

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Andreessen, Andreessen, Andreessen. (He’s very close with Peter Thiel.) 1/

Whoa. New NYT poll has dead heat in Texas Senate race. Talarico +27 among independents. This will push Dem groups to spend big there, now that it's clearly in play.

I need you to tell your depression that it's a liar. The tables can turn. Few tables don't.

Qatar says US envoys Kushner, Witkoff, are in Doha but will not meet with Iranian officials, instead will meet with mediators to discuss progress of negotiations.-Al Jazeera

A direct communication line for deconfliction in the Strait of Hormuz has been used to contain confrontations over the past few days, according to a Qatari foreign ministry spokesperson.-Iran Intl

Britain is announcing one of the biggest shake-ups of its armed forces in decades, and it’s using the experience of the war in Ukraine as a model. www.politico.eu/article/brit...

Iranian Foreign Ministry: Access of IAEA inspectors to damaged nuclear facilities is blocked. We will not hold a meeting with the US in the coming days; we have emphasized this very clearly.

It's bad bad. But it's also a tool that we'd better be prepared to use on Day 1 in 2029. Every single Trump appointee anywhere in government terminated immediately. Restaff the government with professionals. And then use the resulting chaos - and there WILL be chaos - to push an Amendment

Would it be TDS to try to convict him if he kept this list in the bathroom of Mar a Lago after his term? Just asking since it seems the GOP thinks Trump can do whatever he wants www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Imagine there is a chemical spill that harms hundreds or thousands. But the manufacturer is a friend of Trump & the Chemical Safety Board, authorized to investigate the disaster is filled with Trump cultists who, fudge the findings & obscure the truth to protect Trump’s friend.

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

Independent agencies set standards that keep us safe across a wide range of areas. Imagine Trump’s friends want to market an unsafe product - for children, for elders, in construction. And the Consumer Products Safety Commn is run by Trump cronies who will approve whatever he wants.

Mark Zuckerburg can fuck right the fuck off. You really wanna start something with me?

Every day it's like "Republican-Appointed Supreme Court to Decide Whether the FDA Can Stop People From Selling Ground Glass as Flour"

sigh

"In some cases, employees said, they felt as though their employers had started living in a completely different reality. The workplace had become a constant battle between their version of reality versus the AI’s — and their boss, these workers said, always chose the latter."

Trump doesn't understand the difference between communism, socialism, and democratic socialism; employing a decades-old scare tactic.

Today’s decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!

The Roberts Court seems to have settled on the idea that it will hand Trump tactical defeats so that it can give him strategic victories.

OBAMACARE ENROLLEE: ahahaha I have decided to scam the government by paying thousands upon thousands to an insurance company and receiving nothing in return. But will Dr. Pillhawker see through my evil plans?

A century of congressional laws, passed by both parties, about the shape and functions of executive agencies need to be done away with because independent agencies offend Gorsuch’s simplistic ideal of what the government should be.

Republicans: If we take power, we have a plan to sidestep the constitutional limitations on executive power and destroy every institution that doesn’t actively support white nationalist oligarchy. Democrats: If we take power, we’ll slightly tweak the ways tech companies can exploit us. 🥰🥰🥰

In light of this mess, Gorsuch says, it becomes that much more important for the court to have an expansive major questions doctrine, because *otherwise*, the president who controls all the executive agencies would be a king with obviously far too much power! 3/

He also engages with the mess this makes of all the legislation Congress has passed creating and empowering these agencies on the assumption that they would be independent. Sounds like a dissent! But it's not. It's a declaration of further judicial superintendence over everything. 2/

Gorsuch's concurrence in Slaughter is very interesting. He's considerably smarter than some of his conservative colleagues on the bench. On the one hand, there's a very blunt assessment of *just how bad* the consequences of this decision are, how much of a king they've made. 1/

It’s weird to feel like, “of course it’s no surprise the Supreme Court overruled a hundred year old precedent that Congress had relied on to build the modern state.” But here we are.

I’m not the kind of person who asks for a lot, so when I ask for something, I really mean it and you can know that it’s very serious

In the words of a unionist at the turn of the century, “In this country, life is cheap and property is sacred.”

I would read an essay on the growing “have more kids than you can afford” trend, race, and welfare.