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.

Be more specific about what DSA candidates actually say about Israel and Jews challenge

A trans sports crackdown doesn’t affect “just a few people.” I’m in a local bowling league. So I’m a trans person who plays sports. I play as an adult to be social, like so many others. The objective of mandatory government bans isn’t “fairness.” It’s banning trans people from public life.

Expected NYT Headline: Mixed day at SCOTUS For GOP as Conservative Justices Cross Ideological Lines

Just heinous antisemitic harassment of @scottwiener.bsky.social. The goal of these extremists is to drive Jews out of public life, no matter how progressive they may be.

Slippy, no!

This asinine behavior is not about Gaza. It is about hatred of Jewish people. It is antisemitism. Mr. Wiener was targeted for being Jewish. Target a Jewish person in an LGBTQ space when I'm present, and I promise your day is not going to end well.

So, Contrapoints was right about this crowd.

Welcome to the British Labour Party, where we believe trans women are men but also Andy Burnham will be the first female Prime Minister.

ABC’s decision to settle Trump’s 2024 lawsuit not paying much in the way of dividends.

The overlap between UK pundits saying they’re deeply confused about why Keir Starmer is so unpopular and that we may never understand, and the people who advocated for his political strategy is a perfect circle. Interesting!

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

I think this is actually a fair point, but that in itself contains the answer: his actions collapsed any coalition of supporters he originally had, from every direction. He failed to please /anyone./

Cool story, bathroom cop in chief.

Taylor Lorenz going from NYTimes/WaPo internet understander to a walking caricature of the worst parts of the internet is unfortunately a predictable pipeline.

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting

Is that…Gatorade?

GW never said this and neither did anybody else. The only official symbolism in the Flag Resolution is the stars are "representing a new constellation." The rest is just an iteration on the Red Ensign, and likely the East India Company's white stripes on it. The colors have no particular meaning.

sorry i know its fun to be conspiratorial about everything but let me tell you from decades of experience in labour, it's totally normal to put up a tarp for this kind of thing. Not everything has to be some grand, shady mystery.

Extremely appropriate for her to join Riley Gaines in the 5th place loser club.

It’s sad this works but I’m here for the easy win.

It’s a choice between letting just 10 kids in the whole state play with their friends, or every kid without access to healthcare taking their pants off for a volunteer in the gym.

Next Democratic president should prosecute every January 6th rioter for perjury who was granted a security clearance and answered “no” to the “have you ever attempted to overthrow the U.S. government” question on their SF-86.

Team Paxton wants to debate whose testosterone level is highest while Team Rogers makes photo edits to make him look like he has the body of elderly Clark Kent. Everything is gender!

There's something like six divisions with fifty events each for each of fifty states, so when you do the math you can see how 1/15,000 titles per year going to a trans kid is an urgent national issue.

Me, a Jewish Democrat, watching Maureen Galindo win 41% of Democratic primary voters.

A long but excellent article about how Britain repealing trans rights (or those of any minority group) with no democratic vote signaling demand for this, no parliamentary vote on the repeal, and no court ruling actually saying it’s necessary, is collective evidence of democratic collapse.

British politics is the Tories promising hard Brexit with an open border in Northern Ireland, and Labour promising a national bathroom ban without "marginalizing already marginalized communities."

The Labour Party is telling literally every single business and nonprofit in the country with a bathroom to hire a lawyer to clean up the mess they made. It was either all of this, or supporting inclusion and moving back to economic issues people actually care about, but they chose this.

“Examples of stereotypes in relation to religion or belief [include]…that persons who hold or manifest the belief that same-sex sexual activity is sinful necessarily have negative attitudes towards gay people.” Did Anita Bryant write this?

Labour realizing in real time while signing on to their bathroom ban guidance that you can’t make transphobia kosher as a “protected belief” without doing the same for homophobia.

Hope Labour selling its soul only to continue to lose to Reform by massive margins is worth it!

Over 25 years ago George W. Bush invented the word “misunderestimate” but he didn’t have a parade of Republicans behind him ready to also use it to please him.

Activists on the left have to understand that too many people who say the things in the first image espouse the beliefs in the second.

If you’re “boycotting Eurovision” by not having it on your TV but posting nonstop about Eurovision and Eurovision acts during Eurovision, you’re not actually boycotting Eurovision.

I know I’m a broken record when I say this, but make no mistake: if this is successful, the next step is federal prosecutions of abortion providers.

As someone pointed out to me offline, this is a really funny typo in Alito’s mifepristone dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Wes Streeting’s numbers are what happens when your signature “achievements” as health secretary are sharing NHS medical records with Palantir and a gender affirming care ban.

I am so here for some ✨Chaos With Ed Miliband✨

NYU Langone has a moral and legal obligation to stand up to this power grab and hold the line to protect their patients.

Have British council and Scottish Parliament elections on tonight like a real sicko

The year is 2042. The line at Heathrow for “GP certification” of your genitals is longer than the line for immigration because there’s only one privacy stall open with a creepy dude inside who takes his sweet time.

Data, political, digital

How many journalists in one room does it take to report a story correctly?

“We have all the cards” but we’re playing Uno.

The problem with this is that Bari’s role is less about appealing more to the right and more about the Ellisons wanting something that appeals more to them and other Republican elites who think like them. Turns out, that’s a very small group and not a viable business strategy.

🧵 A huge number of Republican beltway consultants live in VA. Many are old enough to have lived there since it was much more red in the 90s and early 00s. And they cope and seethe harder than anyone else every VA election night.

Who does Marvel think they are? Atlus rereleasing Persona games?

If men were held to the same standards Pete Hegseth would have been fired twice over by now.

Obsession over Piker's most contentious opinions about Israel and Jews has diverted attention from his broader worldview, which is deserving of just as much discussion and scrutiny. For example: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...