That's why it's not a court. It's a Politburo. They are there to implement the conservative political agenda.

Major questions doctrine is insanely stupid. It’s a pre-Trump Republican wet dream that has just been entirely mangled by MAGA trying to bring unitary executive into vogue.

We will not be able to achieve Democratic policy priorities with a court so brazenly captured. Any Democratic candidate who can't commit to expanding the Court demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of the crisis we are in.

Today's ruling is a typical outcome in countries with a captured court: - advances the ideological movement of the Court, even if that occasionally (rarely) conflicts with the leader of that movement's current goals - legal theory to justify ruling is convoluted

Quake II (1997)

Well when you make shit up on the fly the visions are very unlikely to align.

"this doctrine we made up, we can't agree on what it is, but we all agree it's very important and gives us the ability to do whatever want"

The King *didnt* have power to raise revenue through tariffs! Britain fought a whole civil war about it, and the power to tax was a strictly parliamentary power

The current Court majority is a classic captured court. The Justices pick the outcome they want, and work backwards from there, inventing and disregarding legal theories on the fly in the process.

i love paying more for less every year. i love feeling like I'll never get ahead no matter how hard i work or frugal i am. i love further concentrating wealth in the hands of our overloads. this is what i was born to do

a lot of you are probably too young to remember this but there was a time when the married dhs secretary using taxpayer money for a custom built fuck palace in the sky for her to bang coworkers wouldve been a big deal

The Supreme Court:

We may never know how many products were truly delayed or canceled due to RAM — but we do know that RAMageddon is coming for your phone next. Read more from @seanhollister.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/880812/...

Sir we all agree you can violate civil rights and start wars but we will not stand for you messing with the most important and sacred idea that protects every American citizen: the money

if generative ai takes down the cloud, i might finally have something good to say about it

A Sociology class without those topics/discussion is no longer Sociology.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

I looked up recently what the success rate for LLMs tuned for doing accounting is because that’s an ideal use case and it was like below 70% which is super unacceptable, like if your accountant fucked up that much you’d go to prison.

Sympathy for the pedophile, none for the victims. I see a pattern here.

Absolutely true. Never just him. But he's also been poisoning people beyond finance/real estate for decades. Makes me ill to think of all the people who bought into whatever he said unchallenged. Especially regarding the Central Park Five: They still haven't gotten justice for his damaging lies.

it is perhaps time to recognize (or rather, confess) that trump's aesthetics do not *resemble* or *recall* fascist aesthetics - they *are* fascist aesthetics, in that 1) he is a fascist and 2) these are his aesthetics.

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

During the first year of Trump’s term in office, the U.S. manufacturing industry lost 108,000 jobs.

Watching the slow-dawning horror that this is why we have anti-trust law. And, this is literally why having a functioning government not run by the same people is so dang important.

Shutting down Direct File was a direct attack on working people. The Trump administration took something that was free and easy, and is now forcing people to turn to expensive tax prep companies. This administration only serves corporations and the ultra-wealthy.

cbc just loves to give credibility to this guy’s self-aggrandizing delusions, regardless of whether that means they’re misinforming their audience

While some people are celebrating the arrest of the pedophile formerly known as Prince Andrew, and while this is tentatively a good step, it remains to be seen if he'll get a real trial or if they'll put on a "show trial" where they find excuses to ignore evidence in order to "clear his name."

really not a well thought out joke up top bc there never was a cancel culture, just consequences for being a piece of shit that makes the world a worse place and they bullied the country into making that a “free speech” issue

deep societal rot in this country, cancel culture was load bearing im afraid

Ex-receptionist who helped him steal documents mind you and deleted her trip to St. Petersburg

The rich really do want y’all to die for the economy. Masking is resistance. Never thought much about it before sars2 but now?! Yup.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

it's so funny to try to legitimize a moronic argument by claiming that it is supported by a growing movement of diverse thinkers and then you list the people who belong to that movement and every single one is stupid and/or racist

Every single time.

Every AI company

Whole Foods AI stores were entirely Indians watching on video feeds and ringing you up. Waymos have live human support partially driving them. And the AI that has “Hollywood shaking in its boots” is…stock footage. With face replacement. Yeah. We are sooooooo cooked, AI bros. Call me when it works.

We knew that Fox was covering for Trump again after the latest batch of Epstein files, but these numbers show just how badly they don't want their audience to know. My latest for @mmfa.bsky.social www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/com...

EFF sent a letter to the entire Wisconsin Legislature urging them to reject S.B. 130 / A.B. 105, an age-verification bill that effectively bans VPN access to certain websites and censors lawful speech. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Pfft that's great Source, from @historyofhyrule.com!: historyofhyrule.blogspot.com/2022/04/firs...

Really drives home how inessential and parasitic oligarch sports franchise owners are that the super bowl champs are owned by a guy who's been dead almost a decade.

Hey. You know the sleepy ghost blocks in Kitsune Tails? I did the art for those lil guys

A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

As someone who had (has) 400K+ followers on X, and still nominally follows more people there than I do here, your claim does not line up at all with my experience. X is a shithole of disinformation, hate, and yelling. If you follow a larger & more diverse crowd here, you'll probably learn more.

Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.

StarCraft (1998)

This is a good time to point out that there remains a significant ICE presence in Minnesota, despite the reduction of media coverage, the reduction of journalistic scrutiny.

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

2026 basically

X's algorithm is in fact doing what you think it's doing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...