The great @michaelhattem.bsky.social in today’s @inquirer.com www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

"The Park Service, in a separate document, similarly said that people should ‘wear an n95 mask when outdoors’ and ‘remain indoors as much as possible during and after the show.’” The guidance is to remain indoors ... during the fireworks. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

I don’t know anything about this but the idea of accountability sounds nice

Sickening

I stepped outside to look at the fireworks happening down at the stadium (apparently) and it’s so weirdly hot and humid and we are barely into the heat wave! Saturday is going to be hot beyond belief?

regular people must be as sick of 250 as I am right?

Biking to work across the Ben Franklin brings so much joy (& I am already joyous from living in the best city in the world and teaching at the best college) and @farfarraway.bsky.social captures some of that magic www.inquirer.com/life/ben-fra...

If DR Congo hold on to win, they get to fill a museum with all of the English players' possessions.

to mark the 250th i wrote about the ways that black americans did vital work to invest the declaration of independence with the universalism and egalitarianism that we now see as its core promise. (gift link)

citizenship means nothing if these dudes can just strip it from you

ok but why all the secrecy, why disappear and not be heard from, with noone able to make a statement about your whereabouts, why can't anyone act like an adult or a staffed office, why do we live in a time of deranged rejection of the premise of society

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

"that favors lower immigration rates" LOL fuck off what rate do they favor? one brimelow per annum?

Jackson.

A temporary reprieve is not a win. Learn the difference.

birthright citizenship has never ever been enough, not during Redemption or Jim Crow, not when Asians remained racially ineligible to naturalize, not when trans people are stripped of equal protection

It doesn’t feel much like it but we get to decide what citizenship means, not them, we get to embrace our neighbors and afford each other dignity

I want stoppage time added on as my children grow up for all the miserable exhausting moments it was too hard to cherish

Birthright citizenship is the floor, and it’s sickening that we are on the defensive when this is the time for more expansive conceptions of rights and full throated celebrations of pluralism

Excited for tomorrow

Wow holy shit www.them.us/story/daught...

My child gets excited at the mentions of Elizabeth Taylor on the simpsons thanks to Taylor Swift

The shame of all this will be with us forever

Between this and the new Mr Mom I would say that our overlords are trying to foment a politics of reaction

Ctrl+F fascism, panel by panel

SCOTUS waiting until the last possible moment to release their birthright opinion as some kind of exercise in drama is extremely annoying. underrated reform is just to mandate a day when they release all of the opinions.

some people who have experienced exclusion and gain rights recognize the pain of having their rights be contingent, the injustice, precarity of it, while some people who gain rights think they have to pull the ladder up, keeping rights contingent for others, that this is power, freedom to dominate

At least this will wreck that psychotic fair

I was explaining the concept of a clip episode to my kid, derisively, and then realized it’s the premise of an enormous amount of the internet now

These weeks where it never goes under 80 are very difficult

Based only on vibes and my experience in Philly but it seems like having so many different hosting cities was great

In retrospect the Duff beer hall of presidents seems better

“One may of course oppose oneself to bloodshed in all cases. But it is not serious to swim in a sea of blood and faint at the addition of another drop.”

I think it’s psychotic that we let those Toy Story people continue to build their fucked up universe where toys are constantly undergoing emotional agony that we impose on them

Today in semiquincentennial schlock

Oh man

There is no way people think these Facebook pervert glasses are good

Cape Verde advancing is so much fun

What if we all had to put on a show …to save democracy

They could never make two documentaries about that now because everything is like that

Fyre festival was the roadmap for 250

My plan to rebuild society involves every local community staging a full production of the simpsons’ streetcar musical

One of the best thinkers who I’m always excited to learn from, @lilacb.bsky.social writes for Made by History @inquirer.com on the history of American Jewish citizenship and what it tells us

every day this Taney ass Supreme Court announces that the migrant has no rights the white man is bound to respect

Nativism is eroding democracy and our non-democratic institutions are violently enforcing and spreading nativism

Can’t take the grief of the suffering caused by the Supreme Court visited upon us any given day

This is so funny, as though his “medical treatments” have been working towards sheer invisibility

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“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV