Just making it up as they go along.

Had a great time talking to @parkermolloy.com about my work on the AI bubble www.readtpa.com/p/the-man-ca...

THE WORD ISLAM MEANS SUBMISSION, TOM

that specific incident that everyone points to was literally a flub where she accidentally gave her prepared answer for taxpayer funded GAC for transgender prisoners in response to a question about transgender rights more broadly. she immediately corrected herself. people have been lying about it.

Left-NIMBYism is just old school xenophobia with extra steps

President Macron has just now announced at the United Nations conference on Palestinian statehood that France has recognized the State of Palestine

The Times correctly notes that Uncommitted called for withholding primary votes and Mamdani voted for Harris in the general, but if you actually understand that, then the contrast between Mamdani's support for Uncommitted and AOC's post-primary endorsement of Biden makes no sense.

One of my all time favorites:

BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear a case over whether it should overrule Humphrey's Executor — in a shadow docket order that also allows Trump's firing of Rebecca Slaughter as an FTC commissioner to take effect while the appeal is considered, which should not be allowed under Humphrey's Executor.

Oh I see various American newspapers are writing about the perils to women's rights and free speech after years of treating all these threats as though they're just cheekily 'unconventional' politicals, not genuine threats to democracy carried out by dangerous and hate-filled demagogues

it's kind of wild that SCOTUS essentially rules as if there will be no future Democratic presidents when there will obviously be one, and any attempt to flop on jurisprudence is essentially grounds for court reform

not sure if this is a swing to anti-semitism because he thinks it'll play with his current Muslim audience or preparation for doing the full right-wing grift, in which case I assume he'll ditch Islam soon.

Trump is literally weaponizing racism and sexism as part of his efforts to fire Jerome Powell. he’s hoping to secure a favorable Supreme Court precedent against Lisa Cook because she’s a Black woman so he can turn around and use it to fire Powell. It’s insane that nobody has pointed this out

This will absolutely never happen and I am purely speaking fantasy, but the next Democratic trifecta should call Roberts and tell him he has 72 hours to resign along with at least 1 other conservative judge or the courts are going to be expanded to 15

Roberts is going to try to walk this all back when the Dems take power and will have a surprised Pikachu face when that doesn't work lol

Shana tova to all who celebrate! 5786 has not been provisionally overruled on the shadow docket, at least not yet!

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

i can never get over the monumental arrogance of john roberts, who sincerely believes in his soul that the next democratic executive will allow this court to put them back in the box when this is all over, 70 year old man who still believes in santa claus

Holy shit

This can't be like the FBI, where Republicans treat it as a purely partisan office, and Democrats respect their choices. If we're going to have a unitary executive, the next Democratic president should pledge to purge every single Trump appointee on day one.

to the Disney adult who cancelled their 150k wedding at a Disney park: thank you

thinking about this again

They rush when they want to rush and they slow walk when they want to slow walk and it’s an ideological decision always in either direction.

Chickenshit SCOTUSblog

today in wikipedia sentences that are alarming if you don't know which article they're from:

i think it's probably evil and wrong if you do know who or what is on them at least most of the time too

Now that’s what I call a pivot

Seeing people who are just not wired for anything but rage and schadenfreude try to figure out the performance of grief is genuinely anthropologically fascinating

Have we ever seen Curtis Yarvin and Neil Gaiman in the same room?

I think Charlie Brown actually did have hoes

this image will one day be referenced by historians as a chillingly accurate contemporaneous summation of early 21st century American political history

a majority of Europeans alive today would still fall for this

Cannot describe how many orders of magnitude better and more thoughtful this is than the average politician's High Holidays message.

Oh fuck wait Rosh Hashanah is tomorrow 😶 Lmaooo why is Mamdani reminding me about my own religion, thank you 🩷

this is a more meaningfully Jewish message than anything any Christian politician has ever communicated in America’s entire history

Shanah Tovah, New York City. Here's to a sweet and hopeful New Year.

Someone canceled a ONE HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND dollar wedding

it has only very recently started sinking in with my friends who probably share the rough politics of OP’s friend here that trump really *is* evil at an entirely different order of magnitude than any republican who came before him in living memory, but at least it *is* starting to sink in

I have always found the "both parties are the same" stuff incredibly grating but it is particularly absurd nowadays because you can no longer even compare the Republican party of Romney to the party of Trump and Mitt Romney fucking sucked

cartoonists handing the same 5 dollar bill around the Small Press Expo but it's the entire economy somehow

discovering Lloyd Bentsen fancams

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

"Network news is not winning back conservatives. Trying to appease them by kowtowing to Trump will only drive away the audience — disproportionately highly educated, highly engaged Democrats — that remains." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Video games being stereotyped as “for boys” is especially infuriating considering that women were instrumental in developing many of them. Centipede (one of the earliest arcade games) — programmed by a woman. Pikachu — designed by a woman. And that’s just off the top of my head.

One of the most pernicious cissexual myths is that **trans ppl** are obsessed w gender when the average cis woman would never think of wearing a bow tie and the average cis man gets angry if he has to drink out of a coffee cup w too many dainty flowers glazed on it.

Tucker Carlson tells a story that appears to blame Jews for killing Jesus (they didn’t) and also killing Charlie Kirk.