Announced during a historic heat wave. These guys are buffoons.

Nationalism says “my country is the best” Patriotism says “my country can be better”. America. Do better. That’s all I have today.

Frederick Douglass' "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July" is the greatest-ever July 4 speech. Contrary to mythology it is NOT a condemnation of the Declaration and Revolution, but rather of Americans' failure to live up to their principles: reason.com/volokh/2020/...

This of course assumes Pyrotecnico doesn’t kill everyone accidentally first

25. At this point in the story, the question is whether punishment for obvious high crimes and misdemeanors is possible in a political system that's really a cartel in all but name.

23. In commenting on the ProPublica story, @maxkennerly.bsky.social said that the GOP court "does not even bother to explain the majority of its decisions. It's apparently too much to ask they at least barf up dishonest, unprincipled, poorly-reasoned excuses for their arbitrary exercise of power."

18. That last part – about "contradictory and unexplained orders" – is finally getting more attention. Today, ProPublica reported that last year, for the first time, justices decided more cases in secret than they did in open court. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

17. Under Roberts, Cohen alleged, the court has become "biased" with "decisions designed to benefit Republicans at the expense of representative government," "a pattern of ethical breaches that raises questions about the role of the wealthy" and "seemingly contradictory and unexplained orders."

I was interested

Couples should have a safe word or phrase to use during conflict, to remind them of their connection. @sakeriver.com and mine is “Matt Walsh can gargle my balls”. No am not making this up. Yes I’m allowed to say it even though I don’t have technical balls.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

If you make your grad students scared of you, that is bad and you should feel bad and also you should no longer be allowed to have grad students.

Honestly anytime someone starts a sentence with “my faith motivates me to do economic policy by hating low wage foreigners” you can assume they’re not a good person. That is just a whole ass Nazi thing to say

This. Is. Not. The. Way.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

He forgot the word barely

Happy to check off my bingo card that Thomas’s dissent conveniently forgot blacks were taken from their homeland when they were made slaves.

If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.

Thirteen years ago I told my best friend not to clean her boyfriend’s apartment. As of this month, two kids and a marriage later, she is done with her first divorce. I’m right. Even when I happen to be wrong, I am always right.

The dealership did that thing where they tiff you a nicer loaner than you car so you want to buy a nicer car. They don’t know the repair bill for this car is half what my whole first car cost 😂

It cannot be overstated that the baseline expectation of all law be that you’re not a totalitarian

The same deep water as you

I feel like we need to have a conversation about separation of powers and how John Roberts is a fascist shill but I’m not sure I’m up for it

If you were waiting to read my essay + many others in the @liberalcurrents.com Reconstruction Papers on how to normalize the immigration system when, not if, liberals retake power, it is now un-gated. My piece begins on pg. 98. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

“Welcome but be good” Make me

We teach people how to treat us

What movie are you sort of embarrassed for liking? Look Who’s Talking

It just feels to me like the fascists on the Court don’t like how broadly applicable “not be deprived of life, liberty, or property” is and to that I say tough titty toe nails

Amazon literally ran out of these books

we really don't talk about how centrists have gone insane in the past 4 years

Well, yeah

$20 says Kelly has never met a Haitian.

There is still time to comment on this proposed rule

The $2 million garnish is optional, of course

Men really do believe women exist only to serve as pleasure or breeding pieces for them. And any time spent not doing that devalues them in their eyes.

I’m not a doomer but it feels like we’re pretty far to the right side already.

It shocks me to my core that the Court would equate racist lies to statutory review.

Wow, he’s really just saying the quiet part out loud now isn’t he?

I really like it when @sakeriver.com uses his podcast voice on me

Brb gonna go drink a liter of bleach.

YOU ARE NOT GOING TO FUCKING BELIEVE THIS

It’s 10pm and I should really go to bed but I’m trying to find bagel places

Original quote from this article, worth a read: fair.org/home/media-w...

We need Article I immigration courts

Aching over the Mullin v. Doe decision today.

It's Thursday. Have you written to Congress about the power-grab, power-mad OMB rule that will put ALL federal grant-making under the thumb of Russell Vought? It's bad for all of us. Over a trillion dollars goes out around the country in grants every year. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...