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

I'm up early enough that I look forward to these rolling in as the day goes on. Pacific time is going to be good stuff.

🎶 Morning glow, morning glow Starts to glimmer when you know Winds of change are set to blow And sweep this whole land through Morning glow is long past due 🎶 🤞

Rev. Carl Ruby of Springfield, Ohio: "This month, the U.S. Senate could vote on a bill to preserve TPS protections for Haitians for three more years (the same bill passed the House with bipartisan support). Now is the time to stand up for Ohio communities." ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/10/t...

Another one of my prominent critics exposed a child molester? That's crazy.

This is the part I'm begging people to pay attention to. Nothing will get passed if folks allow them to keep chipping away at the Black Vote. I know that's not a glamorous statement and we're not considered a priority or exotic enough for a good chunk of America but Black Voters stand in the gap.

Inside you there are two wolves, because that was a crazy tornado in wolf country.

Makes sense. The ones I know have raised their white children as "soldiers of Christ."

the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable

This did so much damage to the exact sort of message we desperately need right now and candidates who can convey it who do NOT have a Nazi death's head tattoo on their chest. God Fucking Damn it.

Every single fucking time you fucking fucks try to blame the woman for being assaulted and then you wonder why women don't come forward, it's because they get dragged through hell and then the men get forgiven for their atrocities anyway. Read the fucking room you incredible shit heads.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

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"Sex with a minor" "Unwanted sexual contact" "Sexual contact of an unwanted nature" "Sexually explicit messages" "Sexually charged language" "Sexual battery" "Sexual conduct with a minor (if) the offender is a peace officer and the offender is more than two years older than the other person.” 🫠

oh for the love of exhibit 39248320 why when someone has a Nazi tattoo, you don't need to wait and see what else is behind the tattoo!

I'M LEAVING THE WHITE HOUSE SOON

Even funnier because, at least where I live, the right side of the aisle is actually pretty invested in alternative energy. But they're not great at voting for their best interests, are they 🙃

This is about as close to #EuclidMentioned as it gets for a NE Ohio kid 🥳

But did he sh*t in the Capitol? If he had done that, he'd be getting paid right now.

This, to me, reads like one of those things where cults like JW purposely have their members go door-to-door *not* to actually proselytize, but to have their belief in the evils of the outside world continuously reinforced. "See? Look how terrible they are, they won't even let us talk, waah"

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

Yes. I miss the “nuance” of “unconstitutional bigotry against an entire class of people is necessary to my kid has a better chance of getting a hockey scholarship.” Clearly, the fault is mine.

Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

"I... I guess I'll just go back to Galilee then :(" --Joseph

Birthright Citizenship is poised to become the next Roe v. Wade: A rallying cry for Republicans bent on revoking human rights. People claiming victory today should know that the Supreme Court gave Trump a roadmap to destroy it. My latest in @thenation.com

Doesn't help her case that she had to skin the cast of Monsters, Inc. for that jacket.

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

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...

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.

We are ruled by the Council of Nine. They rule for life & are completely unaccountable. Their agent, the president, is empowered to enact their will but will be placed on a short leash when he displeases them. Congress can raise and appropriate funds the president can use or not to his liking.

I'm sure I've already missed the window for Appalachian Trail jokes. Darnit.

For non-lawyers wondering what they're missing and how to reconcile the Court's rulings letting Trump fire anybody anywhere *except* at the Federal Reserve: It's money The explanation is money ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

James A. Garfield bombastically orating from his grave

They held off the good decisions until he was distracted by his big dumb MAGA state fair fiasco

I was just reviewing some of the materials I got at the @dosocialjustice.bsky.social Juneteenth event last weekend, and this reparations flyer is very well done, I think: It calls for compensation for the stolen labor of slavery, while remaining clear that anti-Black exploitation is v much ongoing!

"Epstein Class" isn't just a clever marketing phrase, folks

Clarence Darrow might be needed here: "I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

I bought the NYT the day Scalia died. Been a long, long time since I bought a copy of the NYT. I'm going to have to set aside a few dollars in an envelope for the day I get to buy another one. That's my #SCOTUS commentary for the day.

Alito authoring opinion saying fixing a racial gerrymander is also racist and then musing, 2 hours later, during oral argument about Trump's racist effort to end humanitarian protections against deportation for Haitians, about how he doesn't like dividing up people by race I loathe this man so much

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

BREAKING — Judge in Coe vs. Blanche provisionally certifies plaintiffs as a class and grants temporary restraining order against DOJ accessing private medical records of trans youth treated at NYU Langone

"The campaign’s credit card spending has jumped dramatically in recent months. Just since April, Ramasawamy’s campaign has put $280,892 on an American Express card." H/T @rooster.info and excellent work, as always, by @ohiocapitaljournal.com. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/24/o...

I'm a single issue voter and that single issue is seeing Stephen Miller behind bars. Prison, zoo, sure. Whatever works.

seemingly underrated aspect of DSA's electoral successes against incumbent moderate and centrist democrats is simply that the latter got lazy

"Civil rights 0%" How do people live in a way that brings them to "Civil rights 0%"?