Vance is right. By the end of the six-year term for senators elected this fall, Sotomayor will be 78, Roberts 77, and Kagan 72. It’s quite possible that senators elected in the midterms will vote, during that term, on nominees to replace one or more of the five in the majority.

Is it common for billionaires to be able to get loans at a 3.9% interest rate? (This is a substantially better rate for Donald Trump from Charles Schwab than the US government gets on 10-year government bonds).

🚨 HUGE ongoing surge of ICE arrests, with ICE directing 80% of all officers to go out into the field and round people up, aiming to hit 2,000 arrests a day; which would be more than during the Minneapolis surge. This may be why the nun in Texas got briefly picked up. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

Trump's proposed redesign of Washington's East Potomac Park has sparked controversy because published plans reportedly eliminate public cycling paths, picnic areas and could remove Washington's oldest grove of cherry trees—part of Japan's historic 1912 gift of friendship to the U.S.

In FAFO news, registrations of ‌new Tesla ​cars ​in Norway fell ⁠43% ​year-on-year in ​June, to just ‌3,222 ⁠vehicles. www.reuters.com/business/tes...

I'm sure it was a thorough investigation of Trump's emotional support trillionaire's company's problems.

What an absolute disgrace. Kudos to the board members who exposed just how scummy his gift to an anti-democracy criminal was.

GOOD TROUBLE!!! This is worthy of the 250th anniversary.

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

This man makes me wish I lived in Georgia so I could vote to reelect him to the Senate. I guess I'll just have to wait to vote for Jon Ossoff @ossoff.bsky.social when, hopefully, the Dems draft him to run for President! 🇺🇸 #AwesomeOssoff2028

Long jealous of RFK Jr’s domestic body count, Hegseth — who made the flu vaccine optional for service members — now has someone to tout.

Chief Justice John Roberts' legacy is a far-right Supreme Court that prioritizes expanding corporate power above all else. I warned of his right-wing nature when I testified against his nomination in 2005.

Well, it's not like we prosecute white collar crime anymore, so gotta keep them busy. thehill.com/regulation/c...

He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”

We used to have charming sociopaths, like Ted Bundy.

We call balls and strikes other than when we randomly decide the player isn't allowed to be on the field.

The Supreme Court recognizes that the ROI on buying politicians has never been higher.

Kitchen table issues bore a man who has never eaten in a kitchen in his life.

Blessed be the overlords.

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

BLURRED?!?!? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Can you say "conflict of interest," boys and girls? Sure you can! "The panel selected to review the evidence in July is made up of members who have ties to the peptide industry, including some who work for companies that offer injectable peptides." www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

absolutely vital to win the senate this november. need to basically blockade judicial confirmations for the next two years.

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

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

Again, money is not speech. Cartoon all the way back to 1997. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

I'm not sure what the solution is. A disaster was barely averted. But the laundering of fringe conspiracy theories through legal academia is something our community has to squarely confront. Otherwise, legal academia becomes the handmaiden for authoritarians, cranks, and nihilists.

❗️ Russia has closed a number of border checkpoints on the border with Latvia, Finland and Estonia, — Russian media

You hollow clown. By a 5-4 decision, the highest court in the land has barely managed to affirm the plain language of the Constitution and you think it's time to breathe deep and enjoy the fireworks.

That Thomas was able to refer to scholarship made up out of whole cloth by Wurman, Barnett, and a few others points to a stark failure in the construction of the legal academy; there’s no real peer review of which to speak, and the tenure system limits consequences for bad faith arguments.

Full statement by NPR Editor in Chief Tommy Evans on retracted Alito story

2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble

That four of the justices chose to overlook or flat-out ignore the Constitution’s plain language is deeply troubling, and further proof that this extreme court is in desperate need of reform.

I’m not an expert, but I don’t think this is normal for end-June weather.

#maddow #LastWord

I just stopped on the way home to watch the end of the Morocco game on a bar patio because my favorite food truck chef is Moroccan. Everyone was so excited they won. I asked the guy who high fived me if that was his team and he said he's from Senegal actually. 🌞🦁 Starting to love le foot.

At the human level, the World Cup is beautiful snackstack.net/2026/06/29/t...

People who can barely afford food or rent are stuck paying a trillionaires bills. Fuck that.

They just continue to insist that there are massive crowds showing up to this thing despite the fact that this is also the 200th anniversary of the invention of the camera.

"Experts"? apnews.com/article/pept...

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

TMZ DC with perhaps the most brutal video from Trump's Great American State Fair, showing Dr. Oz on stage bragging to Dean Cain about how big the crowd is, only for the reporter to pan around and show absolutely nobody is there. Original post: x.com/i/status/207...

That the Supreme Court has ruled the president can without cause fire officials in myriad departments and effectively destroy our civil service -- but cannot fuck with a Federal Reserve boardmember -- says it all. Fuck over the people and how they are serviced? Cool. Fuck with the money? Hell no.

The irony of course is that like the reconstruction amendments, republicans are also responsible for ending the spoils system in favor of a merit based civil service. bsky.app/profile/pema...

Yep it’s all twitter law talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s...

There is some small comfort in how Trump absolutely, positively refuses to give his enablers the smallest fig leaf of dignity.

SANDRA SMITH: Lots of energy down there! FOX NEWS' LIVE SHOT: *shows that almost nobody is at Trump's fair*