my god

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

a heart congrats once again to Jared Polis

same guy

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

5-4 instead of 9-0. Just a completely illegitimate institution at this point.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch just essentially said there can be an executive order that changes the Constitution. — Catherine Christian on MS NOW

The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.

McDonald’s CEO says potential customers cooking burger at home are on a very dangerous path.

the World Cup is one of those things that reminds us we’re one humanity. Sucks that a corrupt few influence so much division in us. Day to day life around the world is still that we eat, drink, laugh, cheer for a goal. Remembering our shared humanity is so important now. If we forget, we’re doomed.

MSNBC: Clarence Thomas why are you in the Capitol Building? Clarence Thomas: lol @ the mere concept of answering for the way i wield massive government power for 35 years and counting

when it zoomed out I gasped

Checking in on MAHA day at the American State Fair. Managed to get pretty close to the stage

more people lined up last month to buy a swatch x audemar piguet pocket watch

Several large plumes of smoke billow from active wildfires across the Four Corners states, including the explosive Aspen Acres fire that ignited earlier today.

Death toll in Venezuela earthquakes rises to 1,719, with 5,034 wounded; tens of thousands missing.

This is absolute nonsense. I was an insurance agent for five years. It is not unusual for people to not use their health insurance. Also, the ACA isn't free. If people aren't using it, THEY are still paying for it. This man is a nitwit.

Protect science from RFK Jr and Russ Vought, exhibit one-bejillion ⬇️

I wish it were more broadly understood that Trump constantly and explicitly holds up his naked corruption *as a badge of honor* that his supporters are supposed to thrill to (and see benefit for themselves in). He thinks corruption is the highest form of winning.

A Russian man reacts to Putin's lie that there is "no crisis" in Russia and that fuel reserves are "almost the same as last year": "I've been waiting 45 minutes at the only gas station in town that still has gasoline after driving past eight others.

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

every Fox News live shot from Trump's fair is hilarious. I've seen more people gathered around our neighborhood Little Free Libraries

Every day it's like "Republican-Appointed Supreme Court to Decide Whether the FDA Can Stop People From Selling Ground Glass as Flour"

"What you have at the moment is a system somewhat — yes — on par with Iran in which you have the structure of democratic self-government but with a Guardian Council that assures that the bad people (i.e. non-Republicans) aren’t actually allowed to exercise power."

The humble bar graph taking a bold step into 3D here, while never losing sight of its passion: clearly showing which numbers are bigger.

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.

SCOTUS waiting until the last possible moment to release their birthright opinion as some kind of exercise in drama is extremely annoying. underrated reform is just to mandate a day when they release all of the opinions.

Democrats are the only ones who are expected to work toward bipartisanship. Republicans are allowed to talk like this.

I'll tell you one thing, any Democratic 2028 presidential candidate who says they're going to "restore balance" and not fire every last Trump appointee on every commission on their first day in office doesn't deserve a single primary vote

Investigations in to the deaths of three wildland firefighters on Saturday in Colorado, and two additional firefighters who sustained injuries, must include the extreme cost-cutting, including staffing cuts, experienced by the US Forest Service and USDA under the Trump administration.

How do you square this with Major Questions Doctrine, which basically ruled the President can't commandeer agencies either, at least sometimes. Hmm, if Congress can't commandeer agencies (except when it can) and POTUS can't either (except when he can), who is in charge, then....? who...?

but… they were cast before the election… that this case was 5-4 in favor of basic logic and not 9-0 is monumentally absurd

Justice Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench. It reads in part: "Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time. Its conclusion is wrong."

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump

Alito's argument – that counting ballots after Election Day means "the electorate’s choice does not occur on election day, and the federal election-day statutes are violated" – is some of the dumbest reasoning I have ever seen. The "choice" doesn't occur at the time of counting!

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

The TL;DR, as always, is this: SCOTUS will allow Donald Trump to wreck separation of powers and the rule of law, but they draw the line at wrecking capitalism.

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

BREAKING: The Supreme Court, 6-3, overrules Humphrey's Executor, giving the president broad firing powers over the leadership of federal agencies and limiting Congress's power to limit presidential firings. In a 5-4 decision, however, the court said the Federal Reserve is likely different.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords would come closer to serious constitutional rulings at this point

Could you rewrite this like a journalist instead of a stenographer?

This was the best they could do for our 250th birthday.

Satellite imagery taken on June 26 shows widespread damage across cities in Venezuela after two earthquakes struck the country on June 24, compared to images taken before.