The present makes me really understand Adorno. Like yeah my man everything is fascist actually and everyone is secretly a fascist and every new movie and song and book and social media trend is a sign society is decaying into fascism

the big thing here is that there is a postmodern crisis at the level of the courts today. it’s not just that we must formally pay our obeisance to the courts but also that they must rule Rightly. Brown and Obergefell are Right decisions, and a progressive legal jurisprudence must begin there.

what i think is interesting is how this is, in some ways, a genuinely familiar definition of the rule of law... but one that has wrapped around entirely into "the rule of law ACTUALLY means these seven assholes have absolute power"

wait wat

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

Gender is innate and immutable but also so fragile that it can be destroyed by drinking out of a straw 🤔

Baude on Boerne. Basically right, IMO. "Boerne is wrong ... to the extent that it equates the meaning of the Constitution with the Court’s understanding of the Constitution. The Constitution and the Supreme Court are not the same thing." blog.dividedargument.com/p/problems-w...

gays 🤝 autozone out of lube

This must be the worst take on deconstruction Ive ever read. Pre-AI first year undergrads could do 5 times better Im not sure what would be worse. Him having never read a single one of these authors-which seems likely. Or having read them and coming away with a take so wrong it diminishes us all.

just saw project hail mary. the movie is a treat, but i’m also pretty convinced there is a strangely postmoderno-imperial thread running through the film. the movie is not about the old violent encounter between your white man and an unknown other; it still ends with him trying to educate/save them

him being gay in 2026 while accepting “concerns” about trans girls in sports is completely unacceptable to me. gays be normal while seeking political power challenge impossible, apparently

this is disgusting

It was a privilege to speak at the African-American Research Library and Cultural Center and stand with Black leaders fighting DeSantis' gerrymander and the Supreme Court's assault on the Voting Rights Act. Thank you to @browarddems.bsky.social for hosting a powerful forum.

lmfao basically just trolled him

none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities

Lorde is possibly the greatest songwriter of my generation. (Buzzcut Season 2013).

this is a great res ipsa hypo for torts profs

Per brilliant NYT analyst Jeremy Peters, the problem is that the American education system is radicalizing students by introducing them to radical ideas, while simultaneously cocooning them from such ideas.

never trust someone who would take Burke over Paine, in general

This idea is also deeply Sartrean/Lacanian: Dostoevsky feared that if no one believed in God, “anything [terrible] was possible.” No, said Sartre, it’s *because* people believe in God that everything [terrible] is possible. Lacan located this obedience in the superego as absolute command to enjoy.

pretty fascinating how gas prices crossing the 4.50 threshold makes ppl politically hyper-aware. couldnt be the images of vicious exercise of state power. its the gas.

is it me or did Zizek take a recent heideggerean turn?

does anyone have any recommendations for a book on the american revolution and, particularly, the nitty-gritty revolutionary tactics of the founding generation? currently reading crane brinton’s classic “anatomy of revolution,” and he keeps making fascinating statements abt john adams and jefferson

Fire Emblem, no contest. Recent entries have us eating good. 3H has Fodlan Winds, Tearing Through Heaven, those sickass boss themes. Engage has Bright Sandstorm. 😩

sure we as consumers can buy a large TV for a relatively small amount of our discretionary funds, but we effectively have no economic power as workers this is an understated part of the "vibesession" - it's not only the perception that everything costs more but also that we are losing power

Extreme SCOTUS reform that strips the court of most of its power is the moderate position.

i love how his conception of evil is just childish sadism and not, as hegel thought of it in his philosophy of right, the fact that he forces his own personal subjective morality to be the morality of all. *that* is what hegel meant by evil. PR § 142R(b).

In Louisiana and likely Alabama, actual, cast votes are going to be tossed out as officials speed ahead with new (or previously enjoined) maps. This is such an extreme use case for the Purcell principle that the court ignoring it here signifies that it was always a made-up toy, not law.

i have said this for a while now but wall street is basically pro-maga. they have hitched their speculative wagons on the predictability of trump's whims precisely because securities markets have become detached from the economy's inner workings

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha (Analysts at JP Morgan get paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to write this bullshit.)

“is it going to deter me? No.” say no more fam. take more.

the amount of intellectual cowardice i see from some academics is staggering frankly

Cool economic indicator, NPR telling their core audience not to be ashamed for *checks story* shopping for groceries at Aldi and Costco

definitely think any “vibecession” theory requires a book not a thread

i think the game is stacked when certain decisions—decisions, like Skrmetti, Chiles, Callais, that change the destinies of people—get described as “decision[s] you don’t like.”

The Washington Post laid off so many incredible journalists so that they could put out banger content like this.

i’m begging those of us who dont hang around lawyers all day to go ask your random bloke at the grocery store or at the bar what they think of this court

this court has no idea what it is generationally doing to itself

the existence of the unconscious

“Judge Ho should worry more about his favored Administration using the coercive power of the fed’l government to pressure universities, law firms and tv networks who criticize the President more than the localized free speech implications of mild a dust-up at UCLA.” www.dorfonlaw.org/2026/05/the-...

i log in to see that ppl have gone certifiably insane

A court that abrogates a popular referendum to change the constitution by a clear margin on the basis of a fake technicality has ceased to be a court in any meaningful way and should be liquidated.

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

anyone willing to tolerate MTG is showing they view her absolutely vicious persecution of the trans community as a minor character flaw

she was introducing genocidal legislation against the trans community *six months ago*

un-american and frankly antithetical to the founding vision, whatever that is worth

Any "leftist" taking MTG's side over AOC's is either an op or the biggest mark at the carnival