This is a Trump rally, not a July Fourth rally. My tax dollars should not be paying for this. Trump should have to.

There is no reason to concede that this is a live issue. It’s settled law and clear text and even the original legislative debate about the 14A makes clear what the words on the paper mean apply-liberally.ghost.io/birthright-c...

we have, empirically, discovered that there is such a thing as Too Many Fireworks

Possibly the most absurd lie that large constituencies of both British and American people have been brainwashed into believing is that people who arrive with *absolutely nothing* are somehow being given £400k "starter homes" to live in.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

I’ve lived in D.C. for nearly 20 years, and I have never seen this kind of Lord of the Flies panic on the National Mall. (video credit: MikeCarterTV)

USMNT captain Tim Ream: "We've said this as a group with all our different backgrounds, where we all have grown up, it's a true representation of what America is." www.espn.com/soccer/story...

we’re about to see the first american struck by lightning, fireworks, and a fighter jet at the same time

God out here like “do I have to send locusts?”

I'm not racist! I hid inside the African-American History and Culture Museum when inclement weather hit my white supremacy rally!

You know they’re asking if there’s a nearby white history museum they can shelter under instead

A federal agent fired a pepper ball launcher from the vehicle he was driving, striking a protester in the stomach. This was outside the ICE detention facility in Broadview this afternoon. 📸 Evan Stone www.instagram.com/evan_stone_p...

Sometimes if people want to get hit by lightning you just let them

I like how BlueSky is live posting the July 4th disaster in D.C. as if it's a sporting event

People are sheltering at the African-American History & Culture museum

can’t imagine secret service would react so passively if the people disobeying their orders weren’t predominately white.

Here's the situation: The fairgoers have been expelled by force They have been told to shelter in nearby buildings, but all the buildings are locked because it is the Fourth of July People are clustering at the entrance points and blocking traffic for blocks The clouds are growing darker

NEW: Two-hundred-and-fifty years in, Justice Jackson is doing the work that is needed from our leaders. The United States needs leaders willing to speak forthrightly about our past and ambitiously about our future in order to make it through the treacherous present. This Fourth, at Law Dork:

I can keep two thoughts in my head at the same time: 1) that AI poses serious ethical and social questions that cannot be brushed aside in the name of "progress", and 2) that we can't simply cede leadership in AI development to China. Each can be true without invalidating the other.

I also highly recommend the chapter on Monticello in this book by Clint Smith. The whole book is great, but that chapter is especially moving. www.clintsmithiii.com/how-the-word...

You should go to Monticello. There are still lots of good folks who work there. And when you go, be prepared to be a counterweight to the harassing trolls who might be on the tour with you. It shouldn't have to be like this...but thanks to the flying monkeys unleashed by the MAGA verse, it is.

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

💪 The Lancet comes out swinging on how the MAGA/MAHA Administration is destroying US science Trump’s new OMB rule will “silence independent experts, codify ideological censorship, prioritise politics over data, & erect new barriers to international collaboration” www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A bit of bliss

USAID was manipulating the charts to promote rap, says the guy everyone must go to for approval for some reason.

When you say the quiet part extremely loudly, and yet somehow it isn't a massive scandal but Hunter Biden www.realitytea.com/2026/07/03/d...

remember when Trump abducted Maduro all the FL politicians like Rick Scott, Salazar and Giminez told their constituents that Trump was going to bring freedom and democracy to Venezuela when we all knew he just wanted to steal their oil.

The premise here, repeated throughout American history, is that only some kind of mental manipulation could make white people enjoy art by black people. You start acknowledging black cultural contributions as valuable it’s a slippery slope to seeing black people as people bsky.app/profile/left...

Monticello spent decades working to tell a more full and honest story about Jefferson and slavery. Then the right wing trolls came for them, and the institutional response was…not great. prospect.org/2026/07/02/w...

🎁 🔗 By Kate ShawWilliam Baude and Stephen I. Vladeck www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o... www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

if youre too afraid to say it you shouldnt be the nominee

So, I think it is important to say the following, order contingent upon who you're addressing and in what context: 1. Birthright citizenship is good 2. Birthright citizenship is the law 3. Birthright citizenship should remain the law

In case it isn't obvious, that work also needs to continue re: Obergefell

Obergefell was a 5-4 decision. It's not vote counts that make SCOTUS decisions stick (or not). It's whether people at all levels and levers of power generally take them to be common sense, the price of admission into legit political conversation. That's the work ahead for birthright citizenship.

President Donald Trump will temporarily lift duties on phosphate fertilizer from Morocco as the administration seeks to aid a struggling farm economy and appease consumer fears over food inflation.

If Nina Totenberg accidentally published her pre-write before she was supposed to and blew Alito's retirement announcement, I am going to die laughing at my desk

i have run out of things i can legally say about the supreme court

Hang it in The Louvre.

Yeah, I hate to say this is true, but it is. Four justices agreeing is a signal that this is now the benchmark for any conservative jurist. “No more Souters” will turn into “no more Barretts.”

It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.

it’s bananapants to live in a country where the 14th amendment basically hung on Amy Coney Barrett’s understanding of the world

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery."

Those fools damn near wrecked the 14th Amendment and a lot of pseudo scholarship in the legal academy was used to nearly get there. Should be a badge of shame in a just world.

Among lots of things that are striking about Kavanaugh's opinion in the birthright citizenship case is the totally unnecessary dissent on the constitutional question. He could've just concurred in the judgment on the statutory question *without* discussing the 14A, but went out of his way to do so.

They could have decided the substantive question a year ago, as the ACLU and plaintiffs requested. Instead, they let it sit and gather steam for a year, while so many people waited breathlessly for them to deign to speak. Do not laud them for getting to the right outcome today.

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

I understand SCOTUS, know who they are, & by all rational accounts it feels so naive to say: "I can't believe 4 of 9 justices said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship." And yet, I can't believe 4 of 9 justices just said the Constitution doesn't protect birthright citizenship.

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.