Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...

🙏🏼 I’m lapsed now but I’ve been mad ab Opus Dei my whole damn life. If Leo does the thing? Damn, idk, could be enough to get me back

and I just think Leo went “yeah no fuck this, they had their chances, there’s no compromising with these people,” and I think the reason this is all so satisfying even to non-Catholics is that we all want to see people like this actually removed from their access to power but it happens so rarely

We have no recourse for the US government deleting decades of studies/research/whatever in a fit of pique. Fucking nuts

They’ve truly lost it

Mamdani gives me hope in a p hopeless time

Mamdani: "Therein lies the work of America -- a striving, a bettering, the reaching toward perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before."

Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"

THIS is the America I want

let's be clear: Trump tried to exclude people with disfavored ancestry from citizenship at birth--a brazen effort to restore an antebellum white supremacist legal order that the 14th Amendment *already repudiated* and 4 Supreme Court justices said LET'S DO IT ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

So scary!!! 😱

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

it matters to have a pope whose official position is "nope actually your virulent antisemitism is a cancer that must be immediately sliced out to save the rest of the body and I simply don't care who that pisses off" that's not just about these guys. that's a warning to everybody else

Her connection to this city is that sometimes she works here and she’s decided to get married at her place of employment

I have gone round the bend re the wedding at the weirdest wedding venue in the world

Man, when it’s getting a little untoward even for the WSJ editorial board…

You bet your ass it is -a proud member of UAW ALAA 2325

BREAKING: Federal judge blocks DOJ from requesting or receiving patient information about those who have received gender-affirming medical care as minors at Packard Children's Hospital (Stanford). The is the second order blocking these grand jury subpoenas: www.lawdork.com/p/doj-trans-...

i saw more cis people online losing their shit over playstation ending physical game releases than any part of this since tuesday, but madiba doesn’t miss and gives a fuck and this is what the big picture looks like. which seems not great when you put it into a 234-word graf.

Dear Media. Vatican II wasn’t just about praying or not in Latin. *Vatican II decided to be less antisemitic. By a lot. * And now Pope Leo (like Francis) is reading the Bible HARD, all that “love immigrants” & “care for others” “🖕 Empire” stuff?! This story is not complicated.

Are they actually “traditionalist” if they’re consecrating bishops without Leo 🤔

Every tiny bit of information we get about this weekend’s nups makes me hate those two ppl more? Closing all streets around MSG ✅ Building a castle inside MSG ✅ Requiring guests to sign NDAs ✅ Taking phones fr MSG workers ✅ They’re the fucking worst

try to imagine @gluesenkampperez.house.gov arguing that we have to make black people second class citizens because theyre only 15% of the population. it would be bs. we must moralize on trans rights because trans rights are human rights. either you're for it or against it.

I asked my SIL for her brothers address and she gave me the results of an internet search? Rather than her contact for him? 😳

lol her attorney was prob like ohh that's a tough one...FUCK NO

The snide riff about Uganda in here demonstrates why Goldman is a clown who deserved to lose his seat.

ProPublica conducted a new analysis that shows the Supreme Court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in largely unsigned orders with little to no explanation. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

Me. I was so mad when my dental hygienist to me I had to floss and water pik bec Jesus how long do I need to be spending on my teeth every day but both are necessary apparently

I feel bad for every person on a valid student or work visa or green card in the US who has to work and function today like things are normal while people openly express increasingly hostile anti-foreigner sentiments in response to today's SCOTUS ruling

America! The great melting pot*! *-we will take your country of origin's greatest cuisine and fry it

The upcoming midterm elections are going to be contested amid a broken Voting Rights Act, "rigorously" invalidated campaign-finance laws, and federal election commissioners who can be fired for no reason. The only people who voted for this absurd legal regime are the unelected justices on the Court

love to my trans friends. fuck SCOTUS.

Friday is not *actually* Independence Day but lol that NPR ruined his big announcement - feels like when Dobbs was leaked yet more proof it was Alito who leaked it

Trans siblings, it's a bad day If you need to remind yourself why it's worth it to stay alive, here's an essay I wrote a few years ago about a new translation of the Book of Job: archive.is/UXHPD It might help a little 💜🏳️‍⚧️💔

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

It was never just about sports. It sure as hell was never about protecting women. It’s about trying to erase trans people, which will never happen, and it’s also about restricting bodily autonomy.

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Holy G-d, Alito is legitimately going full Great Replacement in his Barbara dissent. This is batshit. A SCOTUS justice is legitimately complaining about "the overall foreign-born population" and its "grotesque results" 😬

Alito's father was an immigrant. He is LITERALLY who he's talking about

I think Alito and Thomas are both trying to get who they want to repalce them but, no one could be worse than them. No one. Not even that guy from Texas Kascmaryk or James Ho. I mean, the Senate does seem to just give Trump what he wants but depending on who he picks idk man maybe it'll be better?

i dont have any sympathy for people who vote to kill health care for millions when they have medical issues of their own.

Rep. Tom Kean (R-N.J.) voted to give tax breaks to billionaires and pay for it through cuts to Medicaid -- cutting people's healthcare, increasing cost of medications including those that treat mental health issues, and closing hospitals.

like i don’t know if he has a special pen for it or if there’s an excommunication chasuble they break out of storage but if he’s already gone to the trouble? c’mon it’d be so funny. a bunch of SSPX weirdos and also most of the supreme court. why? who cares. funny.

ppl with depression get told by his party every day that theyre evil for feeling that way and bootstrap pulling and more hard work is all they need, he should have been working the sad away

same guy

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

expand the court. no more half measures. this is intolerable.