The American Fair for the 250th looks like its going great

I absolutely want to know the thought process behind including Tim Kennedy, Alma Adams and John Mannion here.

The right is salivating over this movie because a migrant family gets butchered by the main character.

There are very few human activities that should even raise the question of legal prohibition. But not none.

Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

Sorry but this is one of the dumbest fucking things I’ve ever read.

The number one victim of Israel and Israeli action is Palestinians. If you think anything else, like the US, or Jews, or Europe, you're an abject idiot.

I'm also pretty confident red state governments and utilities make the exact same suggestions during heat waves.

There is a certain irony in an ethnic cleansing campaign that was built off of aging rural white supremacists kidnapping the people who are installing the fiber optic cable that makes it possible for them to continue engaging in the fever dream nazi slop that drives their white supremacist fervor

The cool thing is several IC members love to tweet, so we can know what they thought.

blueskyism are all the replies here saying that it's unfair that ordinary people are asked to conserve energy when THE CORPORATIONS are still allowed to use power

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.

Kirkmeyer is a deeply socially conservative state senator with a strict anti-abortion record. As a county commissioner, she led a movement to get several Colorado counties to secede. But even she's not MAGA enough for the crazy party, so here's the guy she might lose to.

I'll just add that between handwringing Dem centrists and young Dem-adjacent socialists is a large group I would label "self-described liberals who are enraged/sick of this crap" and are ready to vote left/progressive. Don't underestimate them. And FFS don't scold them; they're also sick of that.

That was hot.

John Roberts out here reffing World Cup games I see

also like the total depravity of Elon and his sycophants aside: WE DID WITH OUR TAX MONEY THROUGH USAID WE WERE LITERALLY DOING THAT YOU SUBHUMAN FUCK

I think the Colorado House of Representatives should impeach him.

this is such a funny illustration of the hold that the US’s rigid racial categories have on the american mind. this guy clearly looked at south africa and said, “they’re all black!”

Dismantle means abolish. DeGette lost due to age and AIPAC.

sadly x-men '97 S2 intro absolutely mogged my nerd heart with an X-Force intro. brother, i was on my feet with both fists in the air.

If Rs win in 2028 and replace Sotomayor, it's gone. I don't know why a bloc of left-wing voters convince themselves "the court shouldn't matter, you can't blackmail me" but that happens every decade and a half for some reason

Thing about Bennet is that he's actually fine. he's a moderate, but he'd have been fine as Governor (though I'm a Weiser guy). gotta think a *lot* of this is driven by anger at Polis.

LOL Cooper.

My disagreement with the Vines piece is that I think the drop in support for gay marriage among conservatives is not caused by us. It is algorithmic. You cannot have the same manicured and message disciplined PR machine that gay marriage activism had in the '90s - '10s anymore because of algorithms.

Something they don’t want you to know is Talarico is performing perfectly fine with Black Voters

I just think "queer" is a suitable substitute for LGBTQ because it's easier to say out loud. I recognize how some people who associate it with a slur might not be comfortable reclaiming it, but the essay here irritates my inner descriptivist. "Queer" isn't defined by its most radical users.

We are staying with some friends from church while our air-conditioning is broken, and one of them just triumphantly said to me that the Supreme Court birthright decision was 6-3, so I also think the media isn't doing a great job here.

Is there some interpretation of this more innocent than that Musk is endorsing executing those responsible for liberal immigration policies?

Still cannot fucking believe some people think codifying Roe in legislation would have made it past these robed scoundrels. They destroyed a law passed unanimously (the VRA). The Conservatives on the Court voted 4-2 (!!!!!) to destroy a Constitutional amendment via Trump memo.

Steve Miller is freaking out now that the Supreme Court knocked down Trump’s/his Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship. The court’s decision was closer than it should have been - but many babies were saved from Miller’s maniacal hatred. And that’s a win!

A sizable amount of progressives made damn sure to not vote for Hillary in 2016, and to tell other people to do the same. The politics of holding society hostage because perfect is the enemy of good is a big part of what led us to this moment.

once again, with awful feeling: biopolitics

Gorsuch literally says as much as this in his Slaughter concurrence. He calls this the Constitution as originally intended.

Just like unitary executive theory (embraced by this court) and independent state legislature theory (rejected 6-3 in Moore v. Harper), it turns out you can get some high-profile conservatives to believe anything if you have the right credentials.

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

Yeah, I hate to say this is true, but it is. Four justices agreeing is a signal that this is now the benchmark for any conservative jurist. “No more Souters” will turn into “no more Barretts.”

Also we *have* to win the Senate before we lose Sotomayor (or someone else). And we have to win it by 2 or 3 because Fetterman is a useless in a showdown

It’s mostly what Bush v. Gore got us, since Roberts and Alito were appointed by Bush.

5-4 is too close. Roberts or even Sotomayor could have a heart attack tomorrow, and then someone like Reed O’Connor could write a majority opinion shredding an entire constitutional amendment.

The Supreme Court today addressed one of the most pressing threats to the nation today: banning this high school sophomore from playing school sports with her friends 🫡🫠🙃

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Yup, if you are concerned demographic change is a problem, you are at least a little racist, and Rufo correctly points out this means most people are at least somewhat racist. But since that was a premise that people like Klein refuse to accept (because it was a central premise of Black Lives 1/

The future belongs to the terminally online, it seems, both right and left.

Really gets to the hear of Slaughter. What do statutes mean when Congress wrote them under the impression that independent agencies would be interpreting and adjudicating them?

Truly read a bit like a villain monologue.

I also think judicial reform in particular is an area in which we shouldn’t take a Constitutional amendment off the table. It seems to me quite plausible that Republicans would trade away the ability to pack the court in the future in exchange for Democrats taking a more measured approach today.

I really can’t get over how wildly arrogant Gorsuch’s concurrence is. He fully recognizes how a president could abuse this new expanded authority. He points out how it’s dangerous how simple majorities can delegate authority but how it would require veto-proof majorities to take those powers back.

1.) Pete Buttigieg was born in South Bend, Indiana in 1982. This is how he is. 2.) he wished -- as in, in the past tense -- that he could be straight. which is a thing many, many, many LGBTQ people, including myself, have wished.

Even without court packing (which I support), the MSPB could be morphed into a specialized Article III court, like the Court of International Trade.