Happy 10th anniversary of this essay about the dangers of Donald Trump, written by... JD Vance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

In my day, $18 of Taco Bell was enough food to kill you.

is Taylor even Reform?

Just saw an ad for an ‘entry level’ position that requires a college degree and five years’ experience in the job title.

movie pitch: what if the North won the Civil War

Some Dreamcast love. ♥️

Commanders told soldiers they were in a “holy war” with Trump at the helm when they were preparing to invade Iran. These aren’t exactly normal times. If we ever make it out of this alive, we can revisit all these rules people are so fond of applying to everyone but those in charge. Until then…

Galling that this happens to the rank-and-file but Hegseth gets to play dress up and go on national television to bash Democrats.

By speaking out, this Major has likely relinquished his right to millions of dollars of future benefits and entitlements of his service. Health insurance, pension, etc. When Hegseth was threatening Mark Kelly an other veteran members of Congress, that’s what he was after. Not a small show of courage

I absolutely refuse to believe the pheasant who regularly visits my mum and dad’s garden is real and has not in fact been crocheted.

"Juvenile male elephant seals need to practice for dominance battles in which adults rear up and crash their chests together... with no other juveniles to practice with, Neil can only rehearse on Toyotas." Neil the seal, welcome to The War on Cars.

Going with my mum to the supermarket and this meme pops into my head every time. I’m 54.

Happy July 3rd, 2026, which would have been our nation's 250th birthday if Jefferson didn't have to deal with his editor's track changes and do a readthrough.

What if Chekov made the whole play out of the gun

This is the most purely anti-American thing I've ever heard a politician say, but the media is too obsessed with 3 DSA candidates winning local elections in NY to pay any attention I guess.

PITTSBURGH—Noting that the man could often be seen waiting outside O’Malley’s Tap with his hands shaking in anticipation before the doors even opened, sources confirmed Thursday that local 54-year-old Brian Munson, who goes to the bar every day at 10 a.m., must be a huge soccer fan.

4th Cir. holds that it was clearly established that it would violate the law for jail officers who suspected an inmate had been beaten and listened to him moan for help to delay responding to avoid paperwork. Inmate later died from his injuries. No QI. www.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinions/251...

Vance, you’re next.

it’s true! bullying 15 year old girls and calling it good politics is utterly mainstream!

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Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Minions director Pierre Coffin has confirmed in an interview that no minions have worked with Hitler because they were frozen "in that cave."

twitter is going wild that the woke usmnt isn’t playing hiszegovina

Now we appeal the Balogun suspension in the Northern District of Texas

weather has the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

I feel like we're not talking about how "gender tests" for participation in girls sports IS SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS STATE SANCTIONED SEXUAL ASSAULT OF MINORS

This is cope. It was, in fact, *incredibly* radical and subversive to be an out gay person for most of American history. Casting yourself as a pick-me and publicly shaming other LGBT people for Doing Activism Wrong is not going to make the bigots like you. You are doing the bigots' work for them.

Your two options in American politics are the "let's raise taxes and give rural America subsidies" party and the "let's cut taxes and give it all to billionaires" party. I think it would be neat if there were a "raise taxes and invest in urban areas" option!

… which is why I, as a 30 year old, want to deny that same sense of self-worth and belonging to everyone else in the community.

I have a friend who lives in Orange County (boo, hiss) and has one of these signs specifically so that friends of her daughter, who’s queer, know that they have at least one safe space to be.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

it's going to rule when he gets denied communion

Anybody else immediately think of the joke “Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship…as a tax” yesterday?

All that textual analysis, and the fundamental question is never asked: under my rule, could you have chattel slavery? Get the fuck out. You cannot have an eternally replenishing population that never gets rights under the 14th amendment. That's the point.

The DOJ directed federal prosecutors to prioritize investigations of so-called birth tourism schemes after the Supreme Court rejected President Trump's attempt to restrict birthright citizenship. www.reuters.com/world/us-doj... @agoudsward.bsky.social

what’s the deal with our semi literate populace

See, what happened here is the same process as happens when a newspaper commissions a pre-written obit and then the subject goes on a murder spree two days before dying and the editors forget to update the headline.

Can we spare some hatred for the NYT opinion page, which, by publishing Ilan Wurman’s scantily researched and poorly argued essay, did a significant amount to advance the illusion of a groundswell of support for the anti-birthright position?

NGL. 5-4 has me shook just in terms of the extent to which conservative elites are willing to burn it all down. I mean obviously, as a trans woman, I dislike being openly despised. But this is flirting with breaking down the fundamental political settlements that keep society from collapsing.

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble

Nina Totenberg is reporting that on his deathbed Samuel Alito received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

So say this the same day he writes that civil rights law and the 14th Amendment couldn’t possibly apply to trans people is the cherry on top of this shit sundae.

it was 5-4 on what should be the most dog-brained fucking easy question in history, i wouldn’t be popping the champagne personally