Hopper’s night owls, but with a whiff of postmodern ironic nostalgia

Calling people abnormal then saying to be less judgmental is a funny bit

The anti-intellectualism modern art haters who criticized abstract paintings like Rothko as “anyone can do that” are now malignant AI ‘Artists’ who praise AI because “anyone can do it”

Murdering shipwrecked people is just like healing on the sabbath.

Blowing up shipwrecked people is just like Jesus healing people on Sunday!

Left out the best part: "She compared these strikes to a story in the Bible, when Jesus healed someone on a Sunday, contradicting religious rules that forbid work on that day. Some laws are worth breaking for the betterment of mankind, she said, just like the biblical story was trying to show."

well, if we follow this logic,

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

Repudiating the idea behind the fourteenth amendment is the goal of the conservative legal movement as such, so i’m not optimistic

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Delaying the BBB killed it, double the supplemental poverty rate, and lost the election.

The social spending bill would have put hundreds of billions into programs that people would have seen before 2024. -extended Child Tax Credit increase -20 workdays of paid family and medical leave -child care, universal pre-K -health care subsidies The Blue Dog Coalition Dems delayed the bill.

House Democrats could have passed their major reconciliation bill first in 2021, before the corporate infrastructure bill. The Build Back Better Act would have created paid sick & family leave, child care & more. The CBO found a tiny deficit impact over 10 years; Treasury found it revenue-positive.

You could write this. Or you could write: “That notion, which has been the rule in nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere for over a century, is grounded in the language of the 14th Amendment.” All how you choose to frame it.

tis the season

*youth pastor voice* Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

People need to boycott this show and not just half ass. Shame everyone who plans on watching it. This isn't about Eurovision, it's about Israel getting away with committing genocide because THERE ARE NEVER ANY CONSEQUENCES. They should be untouchable by now. Everybody needs to walk the fucking walk.

That’s just nationalism.

Kinda wild the extent to which they straight-up say they will be interfering in the domestic politics of other countries at the level of parties and movements, including (especially?) notional allies—“we will reward and encourage… political parties and movements… aligned with our principles”

Portland and Seattle are the same thing right? Like how sometimes you call someone by their middle name?

Likewise, the only question that matters for Democratic senate candidates is “will you commit to holding a SCOTUS vacant until 2029?” because if not, you might as well believe I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them.

“What’s your plan for the Court?” is the only question that matters for 2028 Democratic hopefuls, because if they don’t, the Republican Super Legislature is hatcheting their agenda before it can get off the ground.

These nazis belong in or under prison.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.

I wish there was a way they could sue Justice Kavanaugh.

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

I will be filing this in a recusal motion one day, probably soon

Having the same company provide both news and gambling in the news is pretty bad. It was bad when it was espn promoting gambling, cnn and kalshi is even worse. What happens when the whole economy is people using chatgpt to summarize the news then betting on it ?

I may not be an expert in maritime law, but you can’t kill shipwrecked at sea! That’s like rule 1 or 2 of the laws of war!

I find this to be a strangely poetic way to describe a situation where a person refuses to accept the outcomes of their actions. Eg, conservatives wondering why they’re surrounded by nazis. It’s adjacent to“jaguars eating faces” and “we’re all trying to find the guy who did this.”

I cannot imagine the level of moral bankruptcy to describe the actions of people whose boat has just been hit by a missile from nowhere (this was the FIRST such strike) and who were most likely making a desperate attempt not to drown in the ocean as trying to "stay in the fight."

I propose giving the sea lions guns.

This opinion from E.D. Mich. on Rule 11 and generative A.I. is an absolute *banger*. law.justia.com/cases/federa... The court specifically explains why the problem of A.I. is not limited to "hallucinating" case citations. Even plausible legal "analysis" *from an A.I.* is trouble! #LegalWriting 1/

“I’ve been called a racist simply because I want to exclude the immigration of other races” -nick “literal nazi” fuentes

I’m mildly embarrassed by this

The rhetoric today is nearly indistinguishable from Know-Nothing rhetoric about the Irish, the Italians, and the Jews.

It’s charitable to compare them to know-nothings and not the literal damned nazis.

You can’t even call them an opposition party at this point

Ancient Roman construction workers:

We’re doing vast and trunkless legs

John Browns body should be the national anthem.

Dereliction of duty for her party to not defend her with this racist garbage, why is it up to her and only her to respond to this

they hung Lord Haw-Haw after WWII.

This is one step closer to death camps. I don’t think it’s alarmist to say so. So what is to be done?