some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Genuinely I have tried feeding dubious companies house records in Claude and it can flag dubious patterns so quickly, I haven’t seen a clearer and better use case for AI in government.

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.

the jury questionnaire asks my sexual orientation. Both "bisexual" and "pansexual" are options. I almost chose bisexual, which is how I usually identify, but then I remembered that tiktok that said the difference between bi and pan is that pansexual people ALSO care deeply about Pluto being a planet

A redditor discovers a strange mystery object, posts on /r/whatisthis in the unlikely hope that some freak will be able to identify it...

You know that Harry Kane is a genetic freak because his hairline receded just far enough to provide a perfect surface for a header

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

we know how many non-resident women born in China have babies in the US every year: it's in the very low hundreds. Racist paranoids tend to use the much larger figure of *U.S. residents* born in China who have babies, which is in the low ten thousands.

He means Elon Musk, right?

Given Gorsuch's dissent, I think it's fair to say today's decision on constitutionality is more 5.5-3.5 than 5-4. Gorusch seems like he is saying that he thinks children born to long-time undocumented immigrants (the majority) are probably citizens, whereas recent entrants and tourists are not.

Supreme Court: upholds precedent, changing nothing. "Conservatives": THIS IS THE BIGGEST CRISIS EVER THE SKY IS FALLING WE MUST IMMEDIATELY AMEND THE CONSTITUTION AND REPLACE THESE TRAITORS

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

The upcoming midterm elections are going to be contested amid a broken Voting Rights Act, "rigorously" invalidated campaign-finance laws, and federal election commissioners who can be fired for no reason. The only people who voted for this absurd legal regime are the unelected justices on the Court

So according to the folks on the scene in SCOTUSBlog's chat, "The PIO just checking with Nina in the broadcast booth and Nina says this is a mistake and they are taking it down."

I would not be surprised if the right keeps pushing. They almost got it on the first try. Without serious court reform, what happens if they have decades of prep?

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

Among other things, a 5-4 ruling on birthright citizenship is an invitation to try again.

I think this is genuinely true. Every personal anecdote I have heard about Klein paints him as a very kind, generous guy, and he may just be deeply incapable of recognizing bad actors and inept at calling them out thanks to his sticking to the 'norms.'

If any president is displeased with the existence of a constitutional protection, why not test any radical legal theory to erase it with an executive order after this near-hit?

Surprised this was as "close" as it was.

The Wayfair child trafficking conspiracy from 2020 has mutated into a new form, with grifters and conspiracy theorists claiming adverts on Vinted and Amazon are secretly adverts for trafficked children, just like they claimed with Wayfair furniture.

If this were just Ketanji Brown Jackson walking the halls of the Capitol, meeting with “nobody” the day before final rulings, Trump and Republicans would be going ballistic.

Is there any info on the ICE agents? Because from the outside, I googled her and she's Black. And FROM MY PERSPECTIVE it seems like they thought she was a hijabi. That doesn't make it ok. But if my gut is right, it's another reminder that our liberation is bound up in each other.

When Joe Biden did press events from the large broadcast studio in the OEOB, conservative media and right-wing influencers had several-year-long freakout claiming it was fake, dishonest and a sign of his cognitive decline. Here's Trump just announcing AI slop as if it's a real gift:

Insurance, how does it work?

It strikes me that the idea of unfettered removal power would be something anathema to the post-Glorious Revolution mind, but here we are.

It'd be awkward which is why Congress hasn't done it, but they could create an Article III "court" for the sole purpose of appointing executive officers and give that court the power to appoint 99.9% of the executive branch, president cut out entirely. That's a plain text power they have.

The Constitution explicitly gives Congress the power to say all inferior officers can be, if Congress wants, appointed by the courts. Not by the president or even by presidentially appointed principal officers. That's been used very sparingly, but the option existing shows how absurd this theory is.

the revealed view of this SCOTUS is that the framers got things mixed up when they wrote the constitution and that actually, the president is the central figure of the national government and congress exists as a junior partner that really ought not get in his way

This is a dangerous pattern with this Court: They find a delegation paired with a constraint, decide they don’t like the constraint, but appear totally untroubled by the idea that Congress delegated the power only *because* prior precedent assured them their constraints would be binding.

Accepting the (wrong) premise, if Congress created agencies and officers structured unconstitutionally, then the rule of law result would be striking down their existence and powers entirely. Instead the Court treats it like a one-way ratchet: grants of power by Congress upheld, limits struck down.

Basically, the Legislature can pass laws, but the Executive has total power to decide what they mean, or if they mean anything at all.

Still think we don't need regulations? Smdh

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

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.

Unsolicited shout-out to a mobile game: Backpack Brawl. Nice pack-management autobattler, you can play it without watching a single ad and still have lots of fun. play.google.com/store/apps/d...

In case the entire thing looks real to you.

This guy is senior staff at xAI, fork found in kitchen, etc

i am reminded of this classic Tumblr-ism

This is great advice for filmmakers. It is bad advice in, say, a marriage.

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

This is a made-for-TV 90s movie.

TIL that the first guy Diego Maradona went to and celebrated with after the Hand of God goal was the kit man at Napoli whose other more important job was peeing for Maradona whenever there was a drug test

Europa: the Last Battle spends a lot of its 12-hour runtime claiming that Marx was a key part of the international Jewish conspiracy to take over the world using communism, and that the heroic Nazis stepped up to save us from global socialism. Odd position for, erm, a DSA leader...

If you're a remotely serious political organisation, you've got to yeet the "watch Europa: the Last Battle" people into the moon. Disown them, ostracise them, no equivocation, no mealy-mouthed But-Israelism. Kick them out.

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We have two government-managed ballot labels and the actual party organizations are, for the most part, completely disconnected from exercising any formal or practical control over who "their" candidates are.