People who platform bad faith arguments like this deserve to face negative professional consequences.

What's the difference between sitting on top of a capsized boat and floating helplessly in the water?

The 14th Amendment says that all people born in America, regardless of race are citizens and have a right to equal protection under the law. For SCOTUS to be remotely confused on that text speaks to their racism, not the Constitution (1/3) www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...

Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.

Any story rather than admit the last thing they wanted to do was take them alleged combatants into custody where they would have a trial and likely successfully challenge the legality of the entire military operation as violative of US law.

“They’re trying to turn it into something scary, something sinister,” Biden said. “But folks, it’s not really about anything that’s all that complicated. At its core, it’s about giving every American an opportunity to be treated with the basic decency, dignity and respect they all deserve.”

Why is it that some medicre white dude like the Nazi tattoo bearing Graham Platner who has NEVER held public office or done anything to show he knows how to govern, a man with a history of sexist & bigoted comments in contention for a Senate seat? Why does the press give him a pass? Makes me sad.

This court never grants cert just to affirm precedent. Don't believe they'll eviscerate birthright citizenship, but they'll weaken it, narrow it, and leave it vulnerable to future challenges that they themselves will invite. Undoing the Reconstruction Amendments, piece by piece.

Trump pardoned the J6ers who were (correctly) prosecuted just days into his term. Why did he issue this second pardon recently? What did he know? Remember, this is his FBI, with career officials replaced by diehard loyalists. Entirely possible they've known and sat on it.

Universities have a quarter billion to pay guys who play games to sit on their ass, while going after educators who exercise their first amendment rights in defense of Palestinians or people of color. What are we even doing here?

There's risk here, but also opportunity. This should be framed as these specific justices, not "the Supreme Court" or "the federal judiciary". They're critical to maintaining rule of law. There are ways they could be improved, but that's not the problem now. The problem is Federalist Society judges

Sorry, no, this is not ok.

I want to be clear that impeachment is not a resolution for simple adverse rulings on the merits. Like judicial conduct matters it requires "something more". A pattern of fact distortion or ither circumstances that evidence abuse of one's legal position to engineer preferred outcomes.

This is what I mean when I say that @npr.org needs to learn to stand for their audience instead of remaining locked in the false equivalency of bad faith arguments.

Cynicism is appropriate. It's unlikely they will overturn a century of established precedent, but knowing the Roberts court, I would expect the right to be narrowed in some way that invites future cases for further erosion. This is a linchpin of the MAGA project, and the Federalist Society—

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

If it takes you 41 minutes to decide whether to kill 2 survivors, it's not because you view them as conbatants or a potential threat. It's because you're afraid of what they will say if they're ever in front of a camera—and you know that's not a valid reason to kill someone.

Listening to this, and it seems pretty cut-and-dried that Riley Gaines has slandered Lia Thomas, characterizing her as a 'predator' and lying about behavior for which there were other witnesses. I would support Ms. Thomas filing a civil suit against Gaines, should she choose.

It's reasonable to suspect Thomas has received, and may still be receiving, significantly more than that. His financial disclosures show that after the LA Times reported that he had stopped reporting Ginni's income, his assets suddenly rose beyond the income he earned that year.

More proof of what @prisonculture.bsky.social says that most people in this country have no idea what's going on: Yesterday two different clients told me they wanted to take their cases to the Supreme Court because they knew there was still a liberal majority.

This is the least emergency emergency ever. Naturally SCOTUS will take it up and grant the Trump admin's request.

"and adding the president's birthday" No, not president's day, Trump's actual birthday.

Yes, there is an intentional effort going on at the Supreme Court. No, it has nothing to do with 'rebalancing the separation', and everything to do with implementing a conservative agenda, law be damned.

Yes, there is an intentional effort going on at the Supreme Court. No, it has nothing to do with 'rebalancing the separation', and everything to do with implementing a conservative agenda, law be damned.

If it takes you 41 minutes to decide whether to kill 2 survivors, it's not because you view them as conbatants or a potential threat. It's because you're afraid of what they will say if they're ever in front of a camera—and you know that's not a valid reason to kill someone.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

What's bad for the judiciary is having 6 partisan operatives in robes leading them...especially John Roberts. Anything that highlights their bad faith malfeasance is a step in the right direction towards a return to actual law, instead of a power-driven agenda.

The trouble the Supreme Court will find, is that in not addressing the 'clear error' standard or overturning precedent, other district judges will be free to use either this order or the existing precedent as they see fit. A judge in CA could rely on this to *allow* a race-based—

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

This extends a long pattern of this court–specifically the FedSoc Six–ignoring, downplaying, misrepresenting and distorting the factual record to suit their agenda. To an extent never before seen. It seems to me valid grounds for an extensive Congressional investigation and frankly, impeachment.

This extends a long pattern of this court–specifically the FedSoc Six–ignoring, downplaying, misrepresenting and distorting the factual record to suit their agenda. To an extent never before seen. It seems to me valid grounds for an extensive Congressional investigation and frankly, impeachment.

"Oh sure, all the EVIDENCE points to the Texas lege crafting a racist gerrymander, but did you consider just ignoring that and assuming good faith?"

New: A federal judge on Thursday said she was "struggling" to understand whyTrump's administration is preventing Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk from working on campus nearly seven months after the Turkish citizen was released from immigration custody. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Wow, somehow I missed the news that Marc Andreesen's investment firm hired the guy who choked a homeless man to death on the subway. Their explanation for doing so is facially absurd, so you have to assume they're just symbolically endorsing vigilante violence.

Because they never do? Aside from being just a bad person, he is really not bright.

What percent of the population can afford to front up to $25K in expenses and wait for about $5K in reimbursement the following April? 10%? 5%? This is a plan to benefit the wealthy only.

This is possibly the dumbest notion in politics. The idea that criticizing members of your own party does the opposition's work for them. As if liberal criticism of Dems in any way resembles conservative criticism. The Tea Party attacked the GOP from the right.

Rep. Stefanik and other GOP women now find themselves dismayed by the misogynistic culture they have propped up and aided....

Dems failure to make corruption an issue despite clear evidence of presidential profiteering leads to the conclusion that many of them are also engaged in similar, if smaller scale, schemes.

A corrupt president pardons a corrupt member of Congress for corrupt reasons. With multiple guilty pleas establishing a bribery-laundering scheme, Hakeem Jeffries still called the case “thin” and sought cover in a bribery-plagued Supreme Court. A lesson in squandering potential inroads with voters.

Dems should just ignore it and keep saying the same thing: illegal orders need not be followed and in fact it is the duty of a soldier to disobey them.

Everyone valorizing Mark Kelly for his stand against Trump's attacks take note. He and several others (Gallego, Hassan, Kaine, Klobuchar) frequently vote for unqualified Trump nominees. Durbin can't go soon enough and Whitehouse also often disappoints this way.

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

Everyone valorizing Mark Kelly for his stand against Trump's attacks take note. He and several others (Gallego, Hassan, Kaine, Klobuchar) frequently vote for unqualified Trump nominees. Durbin can't go soon enough and Whitehouse also often disappoints this way.

One of the most striking things about these ICE/BP raids is not that they’re all kitted out for war while going after people who didn’t do anything wrong and don’t pose a threat, but that they always bring a camera crew.

A disgrace to our armed services

Can someone get John Roberts thoughts on this? Americans deserve to know why he crafted such vast legal protections for a grand dragon of the KKK.

Turning into America's senile and racist grandad right before our eyes

[Tapping sign:] The first strike was also illegal. -No declaration of war 'No threat of harm, imminent or otherwise -Not even any proof that the boat or crew were involved in drug trafficking And if this guy gets "foggy" in a long-distance missile strike on a single vessel, he's incompetent.