Sucks that we'll probably have $12 diesel and an 8 seat house majority lol

section 2 of the VRA? nullified? the 15th amendment? only applies to intentional discrimination. intentional discrimination? impossible to prove given an unbreakable assumption of good faith for a state legislature. 14th amendment? equal protection clause means the constitution can't even see race.

It is bizarre how the outrage is limited to law professors and the hyper engaged.

the best part of the new Alabama case is that it is unlawful to remedy intentional racial discrimination unless you can find a remedy which achieves exactly the same result without being racist

a reminder that Amy Coney Barrett wrote a paper about how it is important for a conservative jurist to hide their power level until they can destroy the Reconstruction Amendments.

American journalism and the American legal establishment are very similar actually; both demand all the rewards and accolades of fulfilling an important role in society while violently rejecting any of the obligations. Both defined by fawning sycophancy that they've defined as courage.

The more I think about it, the more I don't really want to pack the court; just blackbag the 6 justices and hold them in gitmo. They've declared war on the United States by nullifying an amendment under the color of law.

this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so

There is not and they should fear arrest under a democratic administration for treason under the color of law.

lmao of course. by the standards alito has set out, there is effectively no such thing as intentional discrimination in voting. also, so much for the purcell principle!

well, correction. the purcell principle is still in effect, it just means that late voting changes that might hurt republicans are verboten, late voting changes that might help republicans are A-OK.

Figuratively* *literally

Let CBS News burn to the ground.

So much for freedom of speech.

Expand the court or the space between the C2 and C3 vertebrae

This is worded wrong. Supreme Court allows Alabama to use overtly racist map that disenfranchises Black voters after falsely claiming they were not overturning the Voting Rights Act.

Free speech unless it hurts her fee fees

Old enough to remember political reporters filling their diapers over Obama saying Fox News is propaganda.

yeah I think this team’ll do it

If you don't understand why it's grotesque to respond to attacks on synagogues and harassment of Jews by talking about Gaza and Zionism, think about what you'd think if/when a politician responded to an attack on a mosque by complaining about Saudi Arabia or the Taliban.

*Obama voice* we're gonna need to kill some folks

My man does not does not miss

It's a great message. I would like to see it paired with the more libertarian-themed "keep your government hands off of my dick."

Masterful gambit.

Oh yeah, we are *awash* in near victories. All the near victories we desire.

If it was impossible anyway, then why bother putting the stamp of approval on Rubio? Make it a party line vote to at least maintain credibility.

If you got tricked by the Republican Party in 2025, then you're the dumbest fucker on the planet.

play it on the senate floor

They call him a "complete imbecile" but the smartest person you know couldn't honestly name an improvement either.

This is the kind of carefree lying from a regime that should be met with a wall.

"Mr. Voorhees. I would have never expected you to bring a machete into these chambers."

When he told his scorpion and the frog story, I was about half convinced he was talking about Talarico, and uh lol.

These gotta be some of the lowest forms of life on earth.

I mean, people should hang for this stuff.

I can't stop mentioning that Marco Rubio was confirmed in a 99-0 vote that had a celebratory atmosphere and literally none of them have apologized, explicitly, for that vote

Gender

I know when we’ll see a lot of ‘em.

AOC: Untrustworthy because different audiences like her for different reasons Platner: What you see is what you get, unless you’re one of those gay eunuchs

This is honestly making me cry a little. It's just straight up vandalism, destroying a long-term scientific investment and undoubtedly many scientific careers for no reason at all. ("Cost savings" isn't a reason. This whole system is cheap compared with days of war.) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Anyway, I recommend joining me in consequentialism land. The weather is nice and you rarely show your ass. (People yell at you a lot over their "principles", but you can ignore them.)

And that just leaves me pretty grossed out by whatever these principles are.

But maybe you're not a consequentialist. You have "principles". Okay, fine. But that means voting for people who insist on selling bombs to a country that's actively using them to kill Palestinian children does not violate your principles, but voting for Platner does.

The consequentialist view is that you vote for both Harris and Platner, whatever your reservations, because whatever their faults they are clearly better than the alternative.

I can get around the TOS but not the 8th amendment. I think they should all be pressed through a fine metal mesh.

Congrats to the Knicks, I guess.

Mostly Vance is just fully insincere and obviously so. He does not like other people and he has to pretend and he's not good at it.