all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

It’s like Trump University but for the pope.

Friends, again with respect because this is a complex issue: children born to citizens of tribal governments do not have constitutional birthright citizenship under many, if not most forms of constitutional argument and authority (incl. Supreme Court precedent relied upon in this case)./1

Will just note that the grocery tax holiday envisioned here would take place in May and June. That the Alabama primary is May 19 and state primary runoffs are June 16 is a coincidence, no doubt.

It's always hilarious when a petitioner runs into this version of Gorsuch

Today in things your Alabama Senators spent their time on. “The bill passed 27-6 after Senate Republicans limited debate with a cloture petition. Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth, the presiding officer of the chamber and a Republican, refused to recognize Democrats who wanted to speak on the bill.”

I was hoping somehow someway I could watch Italy play in Atlanta. I should’ve known better than to have hope in Italy making it to the World Cup. forza azzurri 😭

I was in Italy visiting family when they won the 2006 World Cup. Absolute incredible memory and everything since has been crushing disappointment.

i just think there's something deeply misguided about deciding the villains today are trans people who weren't polite & understanding enough to a cis guy reporting on yet another institutional threat to their existence. context collapse is a problem! so consider the context of trans people's anger.

there's absolutely no benefit to screenshoting and blasting small trans accounts to your giant follower bases. every single time, this leads to harassment or even worse of the trans people in question, which makes your concerns of harassment seem unfounded. you're the public figure, not them!

the uwu-ification of journalists has to stop. if you're a journalist, cis or trans, and talk about trans rights, sometimes trans people will criticize you. sometimes they will be mean out of anger. if you really think they're being unfair, block them. but why screenshot them and send harassment?

Flashback: If Sen. Smitherman hadn't filibustered in 2024, a bill criminalizing librarians would have been introduced and probably passed: www.al.com/news/2024/05...

Meanwhile the House is currently filibustering-but-not-filibustering because reps are mad about senate rules that allow senators to speak for significantly longer on bills than reps get to speak. In effect, a few senators can speak for multiple hours every day, which significantly slows down bills

I struggle to think of a worse way this case could go. I’m struggling to put into words how much blood, sweat, and tears went in to Louisiana to get representative congressional districts in the first place.

Or, at least, strong odds that he received the *initial* assignment in Callais. It's at least possible that he could lose/could have lost it; indeed, we're pretty sure this happened two terms ago in Gonzalez v. Trevino. But as if anyone needs further ominous signs about what's coming in Callais...

I’m sitting in the press room at the Alabama State House on this our most holy day of TDOV, as an out trans person mind you… and the second thing I see on this app is about Noem’s bimbo husband. What is even happening.

Mira was so important to our community. Also if you’re trans femme or love a trans femme you owe it to yourself to read the zine Fucking Trans Women. It’s an incredible repository of knowledge, beautifully written and illustrated.

For what it’s worth a lot of the people (normies) we spoke to today in St. Paul explicitly connected what trump has done to them and Minnesota with what the administration is doing to Iranians today

This is the second legislative day this week the Senate Dems have brought everything to a screeching halt. The best part is none of us really know what they’ve been filibustering about.

My column this week. The "Power To The People Act" is being sold as a way to give Alabamians a bigger say in addressing the state's higher power bills. In fact, the bill would flood the PSC with political appointees, likely nullifying elections that might result in a pro-transparency commission.

It's fractal. Do you disrupt domination & supremacy patterns wherever you find them (even, maybe especially) in your own heart/mind? Do you strengthen mutuality & interdependence wherever you can? The little moments build strength, wisdsom, & pattern recognition for the bigger ones, in my experience

Also, these people aren’t just betting on outcomes. They’re actually driving them. The Army wrote about using Polymarket data as an important input to their analysis and decision-making process. mipb.ikn.army.mil/issues/jul-d...

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

Fun fact, US passports did not have a gender marker until 1977, when a rising trend in unisex fashion started freaking the government out.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.

Local DMV man forced to face the consequences of his actions.

If Alito writes the Callais opinion it will be such an unmitigated disaster. I don’t exactly have high hopes for how Callais is going to play out, but an Alito decision in a key redistricting/voting rights case has got to be a level of hell.

The framing in this piece is the difference between understanding “Epstein was one super evil guy” and “this is a systemic issue that protects powerful and wealthy abusers”. Which then of course beggars the question: how do we dismantle it?

Jumaane Williams posted last night that he was gonna make this video so I had been waiting for it — thanks to @erinbiba.bsky.social for flagging just now. Williams speaks from a place of deep consideration for everyone involved and it shows in the way he discusses the impact and solutions.

After I heard about the incident a few hours ago, I spent some time reading about N-word tics and intrusive thoughts and what I came away with was a feeling of deepened anger about the way white supremacist society has associated “Black person” with this word so it’s there, in people’s brains

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

John Roberts's legacy is spending literally decades putting a genteel face on a movement to replace representative democracy with sloppy authoritarianism, and his reward is getting absolutely stomped out in the White House briefing room. Pathetic. Good riddance.

If you think sponsoring a bill while having spent no time researching the topic is unusual, let me introduce you to 90% of the Alabama Legislature.

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

imo, the reason women of color and especially trans women of color are stereotyped as angry is because we are constantly mistreated by white people, including those in our communities, and the response is either righteous anger or deep sadness that would eventually lead to suicide. I choose anger.

me (writing an essay about a breakfast sandwich): man the dutch really do not get enough smoke for how fucking brutal they were as an empire. god damn they sucked they were terrible

Did y'all know that NYC was such a slave city that Mayor Fernando Wood proposed that NYC secede from the Union? www.untappedcities.com/on-this-day-... How many New Yorkers do we think know this today?

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

My column from Monday. The Alabama government’s ceaseless panic over DEI and Black history reminds us that the fundamental principle of state government over the last 200 years is silencing Black voices and pushing Black Alabamians out of public life.

The backdrop to all of this is that candidate petitioning begins in New York on February 24.

It looks like Republicans are taking the case challenging New York’s congressional map on state-law vote dilution grounds to SCOTUS on the shadow docket.

do you have any idea how chill you have to be for sex workers to say they felt unusually safe around you WHILE you smoked crack?!

The fact that mainstream media stopped covering ICE kidnappings in LA isn't because ICE stopped kidnapping (they didn't) Or ICE slowed down (they have actually increased their tempo) Or that resistance to ICE slowed down (it never stopped, it grew) It's the "political showdown" that stopped.

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

I’m begging lefties and liberals to stop posting things that erase the reality of how violent the US has been to Indigenous people and Black people (among other US populations) ever since its inception and along the way. PLEASE. Do not copy conservatives by erasing history.

Look, if the cops are justified in killing you because you have a gun on you, then you don't actually have the right to bear arms. And no one at the NRA wants to address that.

“This was not supposed to happen to white people” At this point? Is an open admission that WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT Because it causes a lot of decisions that were the ACTUAL fail points