YOUR REGULAR REMINDER THAT THE UN DEFINES GENOCIDE AS "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a group... [including] Causing serious bodily or mental harm.. .. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part..." Yes.

If 4 out of 9 supposedly expert mathematicians says that a triangle has four sides, it isn't a 'win for geometry'. @joshtpm.bsky.social #BirthrightCitizenship

It appears there was just a proposal on top of the Empire State Building.

My name is Brad Moss, and I approve this message for the Congressman. 10/10, no notes, Sir.

I thought I could put on the House Judiciary Cmte hearing for background noise - it has to be better than nonstop SCOTUS fuckery reporting. Nope. According to the barely restrained outrage and lies by White Karen and maga House members, it seems like a pre-funk for a Klan rally. Masks are off.

This didn't get nearly enough coverage when it happened back in April. The alarming, and reason for a strategic and somber response by feckless dem leaders, 5-4 (and 6-3) SCOTUS ruling on birthright citizenship today is no reason to celebrate. The fight isn't over. www.wuky.org/wuky-news/20...

what the fuck did yall think she meant

A handful of academic charlatans provided cover for the four justices most associated with "originalism" to vote against the plain text meaning of the 14th Amendment -- and put them on the wrong side of one of the easiest originalism calls the court has ever had to make. Racism is a hell of a drug.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Fourteenth Amendment protects birthright citizenship, blocking Donald Trump's executive order to end it. Roberts has the opinion for the court, which is 5-4 on the constitutional question and 6-3 on whether federal law protects birthright citizenship.

6-3??!!! Is there anyone out there that still thinks this corrupt, pro-oligarch, and anti-Constitutional democracy Court packed with six bigots is not a threat; that we have not been living in a country under attack from within by fascists and an enduring Constitutional crisis?

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 🫡🫠🙃

fuck these motherfuckers for real

It feels weird to celebrate our independence as a nation, when it’s pretty clear we are losing it.

Not sure if intentional, and with this incompetent regime it's difficult to tell, but the 11 stars and stripes (last used to represent the 11 confederate states) on this tacky variation of the The Grest Seal instead of the 13 stars & stripes used to represent the original 13 colonies is sus as hell.

Thomas was seen exiting the Capitol from the area of GOP leadership offices the evening before four major SCOTUS decisions. He refused to answer why he was in the Capitol beyond saying he was just "walking."

Been waiting for this story. ICE deports people to Venezuela three times a week, there are likely many more recent deportees with valid asylum claims in the rubble. Hope that GlobalX crew loses some sleep knowing they flew a planeload of shackled men & women, plus seven children, to their deaths.

"The two Roberts opinions are so sloppy, so thin, so cherry-picked, so obviously, repeatedly, demonstrably wrong on EVERY historical debate that, one day, it will be easy for a majority to overturn Slaughter... if & when it wants."

Noted racists with a history of discriminatory, racist decisions seek to dismantle reconstruction & civil rights. Roberts seems to feel justified in his efforts by name dropping Pres. U.S. Grant & being sure to identify anti-reconstructionist Andrew Johnson as a "Jacksonian Democrat" in his opinion.

This is a BFD. It basically says that your use of Google does not constitute consent to give your location data to the cops. It could make a good deal of the shit Trump is doing problematic.

This is pretty much it.

🚨VICTORY: Supreme Court holds that federal Election Day statutes do not prevent Mississippi from counting absentee ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterwards A huge victory for our clients and the Elias Law Group team. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's high past time we put together a survey of all the way Trump 2.0 DRASTICALLY increased spying on Americans, and confront the self-imagined libertarians on the Tea Party about their complicity.

I love this one. This was the one that made me realize these were going to work. A minute isn’t much time and I worried it was too little. But this one does more in a minute than I could do in a whole semester.

Wong Kim Ark mural unveiled in Chinatown ahead of Supreme Court birthright citizenship decision localnewsmatters.org/2026/06/26/w...

New in PN: @jbf1755.bsky.social on why Trump is an affront to the Founders "But now, the president is openly profiting off the office while destroying and misusing the physical WH as though he owns it. I am angry, because what we’re watching right now isn’t what a president is supposed to be."

Re Alito's "hissy fit" after Sotomayor read excerpt from her dissent, SCOTUS PIO says "Alito was notified in advance by ... Sotomayor's chambers that she['d] be reading a dissent from the bench. It was a misunderstanding on...Alito's part." Per @ninatotenberg.bsky.social www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

The United Nations is calling for independent investigations after at least 50 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump began his second term. The death rate is higher than it's been in over a decade, and this year is already on track to be worse than 2025. This is unconscionable.

The new centrist Democrat group boosting Polymarket is really just the icing on the cake here.

PAULA WHITE: Nobody has stood up like you have stood up TRUMP: *sitting* *asleep*

Racists like to whine about CRT making ◻️ ppl ashamed of being white. No. Learning the realities of slavery, Jim Crow, systemic racism, etc. can be hard lessons for anyone raised by racists. Those lessons may result in many feelings but none so strong as the embarassment, anger of present day racism.

But would Sam Alito think the Nazi quotes sufficient as evidence of Nazi policies being racist?

"They will get an Android tablet ... They will also receive a packet of literature that provides a sanitized, Trump-approved view of American and South African history, one that criticizes racial equity and civil rights laws and promotes claims of discrimination against white people."

e.g. A few of the not racist statements Alito referrenced: "Haitian immigration is 'like a death wish for our country.'” "Haitians, along with some others, are 'poisoning the blood' of our country." "Haitians in the United States 'probably have AIDS.'”

This may help: youtu.be/kQbpxvpaK_s?...

With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

LMAO

Buster Keaton didn't stand still while a two-ton housefront collapsed on top of him with a window cut out to barely clear his shoulders on each side so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Not only does Mamdani not work for Congress, but the idea that it's a problem that he is *good at his job* which inspired other people to want public servants to also be *good at their jobs* (or to do them, at least) is ... well, there are a range of Yiddish words for this.

Postmaster General David Steiner's admission conflicted with a rule the USPS adopted under his watch last year. The rule said the agency “does not administer elections, establish the rules or deadlines that govern elections, or determine whether or how election jurisdictions utilize the mail.”

BREAKING in Kennedy Center case: Trump's latest request for a stay DENIED. Now we will be able to move to discovery & get to the bottom of his corrupt, failed attempt to seize this national treasure. The court also put admin on a timeline regarding the tarp. They will need to explain themselves.

"Conviction beats caution." Believe in something. "The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room." "Democrats who ran from their own voters lost." The base votes. "Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper." Make no mistake, the choice of wallpaper matters (e.g. Rep Moulton).

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

101 former judges have asked New York disciplinary authorities to investigate Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, alleging ethics violations tied to his conduct at DOJ. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The ease with which democrats cast off their own members who don’t fall in line but openly embrace any MAGA fuck who senses a change in the tide speaks to their lack of seriousness as a party

I look forward to reading Justice Brown-Jackson's and Justice Sotomayor's scathing dissents. Dems: Pack the Court to at least 13 or no votes for you.

First two cases at SCOTUS today invovle the Republicans preventing victims of terrorism from suing foreign governments, but allowing oil companies to sue foreign governments. Never change, Republicans

It’s like we forget that ‘enshittification’ *retch* actually started before AI and was downstream of who knows how many scams there were on the internet casting it as The Place You Can Extract Passive Income From Forever

🧵“What she did…was to make me think why capitalism is not only efficient and practical, but also moral” - Alan Greenspan, speaking about his guru Ayn Rand in 1974. It's worth understanding the role that this partnership played in unleashing the savageries of the modern market.