Today in Politics, Bulletin 409. 6/30/26 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Supreme Court's conservatives OK trans sports bans open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...

MAGA Melts Down After Supreme Court Protects Birthright Citizenship newrepublic.com/post/212543/... via @newrepublic.com

Far-Right Host at Trump State Fair Lectures Kid on Salem Witch Trials newrepublic.com/post/212559/... via @newrepublic.com

Marco Rubio Finally Admits Trump’s Iran Deal Is Worse Than Obama’s newrepublic.com/post/212532/... via @newrepublic.com

Must be nice to have no scruples, or morals, or whatever.

Trump’s vanity ballroom is three times more expensive than initial estimates, with taxpayers on the hook for half of it. Now, it’s been revealed that it’s being built through a $500 million no-bid contract the White House secretly awarded last year. What else is Trump hiding?

Roberts Trashes Alito’s Dissent on Supreme Court Birthright Ruling newrepublic.com/post/212541/... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Threatens to Break the Law Over Birthright Citizenship newrepublic.com/post/212548/... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Skipped Normal Process to Award $500 Million Ballroom Contract newrepublic.com/post/212528/... via @newrepublic.com

Trump Begins Another White House Renovation Project With No Notice newrepublic.com/post/212529/... via @newrepublic.com

Trying to make headlines and energize Trump supporters before November.

The Supreme Court Gave Trump Almost Everything He Wanted newrepublic.com/article/2125... via @newrepublic.com

The Coming Census Time Bomb newrepublic.com/article/2117... via @newrepublic.com

How Trump Plans to Crush Fast-Food Workers newrepublic.com/article/2124... via @newrepublic.com

Well enough to have stocks traded?

😳 a screaming match just broke out between Mike Lawler and Jamie Raskin

Donald Trump does not decide who is American. The Supreme Court affirmed a defining principle of this great nation: If you are born on American soil, you are an American.

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

Trump Erupts in Fury at SCOTUS as His Plot to Rig Midterms Collapses newrepublic.com/article/2125... via @newrepublic.com

Legacy corporate media is permantely broken.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

Schumer: WE WON, WHOOP WHOOP. SUCK IT DONALD! Kav: Meh, just change the statute. Schumer: IMMIGRANTS WELCOME! Gorsuch: Lolz. Lmao, even. Schumer: THE CONSTITUTION IS UNDEFEATED! Thomas: Unlike me, Roberts won't live forever.

The crazies are in control, perilous times are ahead.

Bannon on new top intel official Christina Norton: “My understanding is that there is going to be real revelations about the stealing of the 2020 election” www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon...

🧵Some real alarming signs in right-wing media chatter about elections this last week. Election deniers demanded a “national emergency” declaration so Trump can give himself “king-like powers” over the midterms -- and now he's echoing their calls www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

Given Gorsuch's dissent, I think it's fair to say today's decision on constitutionality is more 5.5-3.5 than 5-4. Gorusch seems like he is saying that he thinks children born to long-time undocumented immigrants (the majority) are probably citizens, whereas recent entrants and tourists are not.

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When you start hunting down people of the “wrong” gender, you’re going to traumatize anyone you target.

From the party that brought you “no boys in girls’ locker rooms” comes their new product, The Genitals Inspectors!

I can't deep-dive rn as I'd like to (I have to write about the *whole opinion after all) but from what I've read so far, KBJ's birthright citizenship concurrence is a masterpiece, and gonna be so important for building the future that I call for in The Originalism Trap bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

These arguments fail to hold up when you realize Biden could've laid comatose in the oval office for four years and we STILL would've had better leadership than what we see right now under Trump, mainly because the Biden administration was nowhere near as corrupt as the flunkies surrounding Trump.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Mike Johnson's latest effort to force through the SAVE America Act to rig elections just failed. The House failed to clear a procedural vote 198-224 on the NDAA largely because the SAVE Act was attached.

At the behest of GOP partisans, the Roberts Court blew up campaign finance limits today in NRSC v. FEC & handed corporate donors a green light to funnel cash straight to political parties Six Republican justices sided with billionaires over the American people @msnowreports.bsky.social 👇

It’s like these people don’t actually believe anything

This is not today's most important news but THAT IS THE POINT. Anyone who doubts that the Roberts Court deliberately hides their most partisan rulings with careful timing should consider how little reporting there is today on NRSC v. FEC. It gives Republicans a major boost in November's elections.

When someone tells you they stage coups, believe them the 1st time The president who thinks everything besides suppressing millions of votes is a “big yawn” is showing us his plan to steal the November election The time for stopping this is now. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Tuesday Afternoon News Updates: Trump Ghosted in Doha + SCOTUS Delivers Final Rulings – 6/30/26 open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

As we await the birthright citizenship decision, I think it's worth saying that it's bullshit that the court engages in this drama of releasing the decision the most important cases last. If it's done, release it. This isn't a goddamn TV show.

We wouldn't need the Epstein Files if we just listened to women.

Born in America, you are an American. It’s that simple. The Constitution backs this up. Thankfully, the extremist Supreme Court supermajority did not trash this. In a sane world, the ruling would have been 9-0, not 6-3.

Mayor Mamdani and the NYC DOT announced today that each member of the champion New York Knicks will be honored with a temporary street co-naming in Manhattan. Here are the street locations for each player:

This is simply not true. Congress cannot do this without a Constitutional Amendment. No gray area here.

It's too bad most Texans are so dumb that they don't realize that if the traitor-in-chief had gone to jail for Jan 6 we wouldn't have screw worms in Texas today!

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

The President is, was & always will be a rapist.