3am at the diner after a 4 martini night asking for more tzatziki on my gyro but I can't remember the word tzatziki

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You know they’re asking if there’s a nearby white history museum they can shelter under instead

I love America because it is a place where a young couple paid a penny to cross the US-Mexico border, worked in sugar factories and the fields of California. And then, thanks to hard work, Pell Grants and community college, their great grandson could work covering politics at the White House.

My favorite detail here is that Thomas Jefferson literally died mad about these edits. Also "we hold these truths to be self-evident" is a huge improvement over the original "sacred and undeniable."

Trivia: The first local printing, the one that was read in the RI General Assembly, had a misprint and read "June" instead of "July." They had to do a rapid redo to correct it before distributing it to towns. RI Historical Society holds copies of both the misprint and the redo.

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

I can't believe this, but I have a personal example of this from my family: my great-great-great grandfather was born on a ship in New York Harbor that had just arrived from Cobh in 1848, but had not yet disembarked. Was he a native-born citizen? Nobody cared; the whole ship was allowed to live here

The first time I was there me and my buddy got hammered, yelled out on the street to ask where we should get a cheese steak, and two other guys got into a fistfight over the recommendations

“digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing” Fully 33% of all my archival research.

Cape Verdeans are now honorary Philadelphians because that was basically ROCKY. They weren't "supposed" to be there, much less going the distance with the champions and the GOAT, who had to give it everything they've got just to eek out a win in overtime. Bravo.

Hey so this flyover schedule is a nightmare

Today's NYT jobs report coverage (left) compared to exactly 2 years ago under Biden (right). Notice the numbers.

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Let's hear it for President Dealmaker, who negotiated and signed USMCA (calling it the “best and most important trade deal ever made"), then ran against it, won, and breached it while asking "who would ever sign a thing like this?' from the same desk where he signed it, and now won't renew it.

No firearms? Why not? "The overwhelming weight of historical evidence supported the right of the public to peaceably carry handguns for self-defense." So said SCOTUS six days ago. Then they struck down a law which "provided that no one carrying a firearm may enter without express authorization."

The Art of the Steal. https://readsludge.com/2026/07/01/trump-bought-hundreds-of-stocks-the-day-before-he-paused-tariffs-and-sparked-a-historic-rally/

As a former professional athlete, this is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. Your kid has a less than 1% chance of getting an athletic college scholarship. You’re better off putting the money into a 529 plan.

It sure was "performative politics," in the sense of "you're underperforming" and "we want you to perform your job." If you are not doing a good job "performing" in front of your base and showing them you share their values and beliefs, you can and should be replaced by someone who will.

this is such a funny illustration of the hold that the US’s rigid racial categories have on the american mind. this guy clearly looked at south africa and said, “they’re all black!”

By itself, this is both impeachable and cause for radical reform. The GOP Supreme Court does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power.

One thing that I’ve learned in my study of backlash politics from Reconstruction through the Civil Rights Movement is that backlashers are a persistent bunch. The undoing of Reconstruction took several decades, and post-WWII backlashers looked back on that patient counterrevolution as a model.

Yeah. I don't even like baseball but for a lot of these incumbents it's a simple VORP analysis. Dan Goldman was below VORP, Brad Lander is above VORP. So we do a trade.

It's bonkers to say the Constitution predicated citizenship on other countries' laws but also, uh, wouldn't this strip citizenship from every Jewish person born in America? They are all "subject to" Israel via its Law of Return. That they didn't choose it is irrelevant to Alito, foreign law wins.

It's not as damning as the >500,000 child deaths per year that Elon Musk personally caused, but, yes, he also personally caused our weather forecasts to be worse. All to run a larger deficit than 2024 when Biden was still President—which was intentional too, MAGA is 100% cruelty and theft.

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.

This was correct in 2014, as was "Sotomayor & Kagan should immediately retire in Jan 2021," as was "Thurgood Marshall should have retired in 1978" etc. Pretending Justices were irreplaceable geniuses instead of aging partisan votes in a 9-member super-legislature has been Democrats' fatal error.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

When Ezra Klein had Ta-Nehisi Coates on to discuss his book about Palestine, Klein basically called him an extremist and obliquely referred to Tareq Baconi as a terrorism-supporter, and then a year and a half later Klein is now saying exactly what Coates said but acting like it's his original ideas.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

Do people who've never lived in Washington have a sense of how titanic a labor it is to get the Mall this empty, especially near the Fourth of July? Normally the monuments and Smithsonian would look _carpeted_ with tourists right now. Even 'Gigli' didn't chase people off like this.

What I always know is joy in the struggle, @anthonymkreis.bsky.social! It would have been much, much worse because you, @evanbernick.bsky.social, @gowder.io, and @unlawfulentries.bsky.social put truth on the table and made the Supreme Court eat. You made it undeniable.

And where is the left wing Hoover Institution, the left wing Heritage Foundation/AEI/Manhattan Institute, the left wing New York Post, the left wing Bohemian Club?

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.

5–4 on a constitutional question that is older, more settled, and just as clear on the text and purpose as "can women vote?" They're coming for that one too, it's currently in the "right-wing extremists on social media" stage, same place where "there's no birthright citizenship" arose.

5-4 on Birthright Citizenship means it can go down in the future with a different composition of the court.

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 🫡🫠🙃

Think of constitutional law scholars as mechanics, they are experts in the underlying mechanics of a complex system... ... none of which matter much when, like now, they're saying "the car is hitting trees because the driver is drunk idk what you expect from me."

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.

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Tried to read Gorsuch's concurrence in Trump v. Slaughter but the hypocrisy in the first sentence was already too much. Quick question, Neil: how many times have you held Trump to "his constitutional duty to ensure the laws are faithfully executed?" And how many times have you let him violate it?

Every single word of this @joshtpm.bsky.social piece: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s... (I "grew up" as a lawyer in the Obamacare litigation, clerking on 2 courts, including SCOTUS, that heard the initial challenges. It forever shaped my perspective on courts, the law, & right-wing movements.)

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.

Absolutely. For example, Trump obliterating USAID, the Dept of Education, and CFPB, plus arbitrarily refusing to pay appropriations to states, cities, and grant recipients, should all have been non-starters—but SCOTUS jumped in to make clear the laws passed by Congress don't matter.

Tomorrow there will be a certain sort insisting that the birthright decision, assuming it goes as expected, proves the Roberts Court is some paragon of judicial independence. It proves nothing except that they're marginally less insane than the craziest white nationalists in Trump's inner circle.

Tricky questions to decide, such as: "Does the text, purpose, and +150 years of consistent public and legal interpretation of the Constitution matter at all, or can a demented corrupt racist pedo declare otherwise?"

One thing I'll never understand is the perception of Trump as a "successful businessman." His reputation has *always* been "cheap shit," from the vodka to the steaks to the airlines and, of course, the casinos that lost money despite being run as cheaply as possible and never paying subcontractors.

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.