If my child or parent was among the 18 dead, I would lose my mind over this

NEW: Aurora Police say an ICE detention center employee shot a protester last night. She is expected to survive. 42-year-old Brandon Booth, who works for the ICE contractor GEO Group, is being held on suspicion of attempted second degree murder and other charges.

It's amazing that Trump have a speech dedicated to pushing his election fraud lies, still get in weird comments about trans people, and pundits will be like, "Are DEMOCRATS too focused on trans issues?" No, dummies. There's only one side that's obsessed with trans people, and it's certainly not Dems

"Be quiet or we'll keep killing you" is one hell of a message for the midterms.

Head of the Heritage Foundation in July 2024. It’s not like voters weren’t warned.

My crush on Jon Ossoff is growing.

conservatives are state mandating transitioning from male to male

The American family is DEAD and liberals have killed them. Tune into The Jim Haggerty show LIVE tomorrow, 8/7 c.t.

Sounds like gender-affirming care to me.

Thank god there are no gender studies classes anymore otherwise we might be able to figure out what's going on here.

Imagine a time where it was considered kinda weird to study the history of masculinity and the military.

OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...

When guys are like “that’s not rape, all my friends have done that,” that’s exactly what we’re talking about. That’s the problem. Rape is so common and unpunished that a guy could casually reveal all his friends are rapists and not see it as a problem.

Man, Philadelphia is brutal 😂

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

The news should be covering ICE like a serial killer on the loose

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Authorities say ICE shot and killed a person this morning in Maine. www.wmtw.com/article/signific...

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Lotta guys calling their lawyers to see if those NDAs are still binding.

Funniest possible breaking news banner on this amazing headline from a few months ago

This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.

Directing Graham Platner’s campaign

This week, I’ve recorded a talking head interview for a documentary as well as an interview for a podcast, given two book talks in amazing locations to great audiences of book lovers, and worked on the final formatting of my co-edited volume. Feeling pretty good!

The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?

Like many, many dynamics in US politics, this only goes one direction. Only one party is held to any moral standards. Only one party is asked to ritually reject its most ideological members. Only one party is held collectively responsible for anything any of its activists say.

cannot imagine how debased and degraded your personality must be to make your lockscreen a picture of your boss

This bit from the NYT Vance story describes basically all of ultra-right-wing chud classics and medievalism: it *feels* ancient or medieval - or what they think that should be - despite actually being very modern, because it fits their neo-fascist ideology.

The men in that photograph believe they represent America’s future. The historian in me knows better than to make predictions, but the record is clear: those who have bet against Black Americans claiming their rightful place in this country have always lost. 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

I really hate this new coinage, which to my mind serves to legitimize the malignant fiction that there’s some kind of a hierarchy of American citizenship.

When new Bills receiver DJ Moore was in a suburban Buffalo mall recently, he saw a store selling T-shirts with his name and number. He spent $1,200 to buy out the entire stock and asked the manager to give them away for free to Bills fans.

I'm still seeing people talk on this app like it's only the children of immigrants who are born here who benefit from birthright citizenship. Everyone born here benefits from it. It's how you are a citizen.

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

I’ve been screaming this all morning but my husband and kids are not interested. If you were born in the US you are a birthright citizen!

Moving Justice Jackson concurrence invoking Frederick Douglass on memory. "The distortion of historical facts—retellings that reimagine and repurpose past events to lend credence to misbegotten aims—may be an even greater threat."

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.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

SUPREME COURT UPOLDS OBVIOUS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO CITIZENSHIP.

This year, when I taught Reconstruction and the revolutionary power of the 14th Amendment, I almost cried thinking of the case before SCOTUS. For those freedpeople who helped shape the meaning of the Constitution & on the eve of 250 years, I am deeply relieved that birthright citizenship lives on.

What if it is not a civil war but just the natural evolution of a party at a moment of generational transition?

Exactly! I genuinely can’t understand the establishment reaction - centrist Dems have LOST dramatically and in ways that have fundementally and in some cases irreversibly, hurt many Americans’ lives. They’re asking for something different. Just, like, listen to the voters????

My pithy comment: the difference between the Democratic Socialists winning and the Tea Party winning is that the press gave favourable coverage to the Tea Party

sometimes i am struck by the sheer wickedness of this man

Of course NYC and downstate results take up a lot of air around election talk. But if you wonder about a smaller rust belt city in New York State, the DSA candidate won the state assembly primary (and therefore like the seat) over a Democratic candidate supported by online sports betting PACs.

Help Me Buy the Enemy's Archives #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

If the Fuhrer were a football fan...

Buzz Aldrin had one way of responding to conspiracy theorists. In our latest mailbag, @lornawallace.bsky.social offers some alternate approaches.

This is really good. newrepublic.com/article/2112...

I heard that there are thousands and thousands of cases of Rep. Claudia Tenney drowning kittens in her kitchen sink. It happens all the time. But Rep. Claudia Tenney will tell you it doesn't happen because you can't prove it.