Imagine what enforcement of this would look like. Imagine what "detection" would look like.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

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

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

14th Amendment > 14 words

two things. first, always an irony that alito recapitulates the exact same arguments made against his immigrant forbearers. second, if this is all the 14th amendment did it would not have repudiated dred scott

what

“Will deranged and paranoid partisan Fox News fantasies be spectacularly validated by six justices or, much less frequently, be refuted by the barest majority?” is not a particularly great way for the highest court in the land to operate

This was the best they could do for our 250th birthday.

I did some fact checking, and a tiny thing: the festival of festivals is still happening... just not in DC

specifically, if either the leader of the united states or israel had cared about their country's national interest we would not be here

Futures market is about to open, you know what that means:

this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.

I've seen counter arguments that we hadn't before realized that software is bottlenecked and one possible future is fewer one-size fits all software solutions and far, far more specialized one-offs. Will be interesting to see how things play out.

IMO, consolidation of the Bay Area hamlets into a proper metro wouldn't solve every problem, but it would give traction on some long unaddressed issues.

PUNISHING heat wave Wednesday through July 4 in DC. NWS now forecasting highs of 104 Thursday, 105 Friday and 102 on July 4 -- all record highs. High indexes 5-8 degrees higher. Forecast update: www.capitalweather.com/live/#confid...

Incredible chart from @propublica.org. If you don’t follow enviro stuff closely, your instinct might be that the hold-your-nose solution (carbon capture from fossil fuels) would be the “pragmatic” one versus covering Earth in solar panels, which seems utopian. In fact it’s the opposite

Along with the prior repost of UK being halfway to net zero and Australia getting free electricity from renewables there are a lot of these quiet victories going on. The fossil fuel industry is in full thrash and thunder trying to assert how irreplaceable it is but inch by inch we’re getting there.

In his decision for SCOTUS published this morning, Justice Alito dismissed the idea that the Trump administration would halt all asylum seekers as a mere "hypothetical" not even worth considering.

I don’t particularly have strong views on originalism as a method but it does seem like practitioners of originalism are awfully dismissive of originalism as a method

Samuel Alito's dad was born in Calabria, Italy in 1914, which was a completely failed state shithole at the time. You either spent your life farming dirt or got killed at 16 working for an Ndrangheta underboss. Now his son spends all day panicking about uncivilized Haitians.

defending this stuff, pandering to it…it destroys the soul

John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."

On the one hand, placebos are okay, but IMO there should be fewer placebo stores (acupuncture, chiropracty, supplements, etc) & tighter regulation. Animal acupuncture, however, should be banned as animal cruelty.

Weird. apnews.com/article/pent...

genuinely crazy to watch these people freak out over what is essentially 21st century new dealism

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

correct, that’s the thing, ellison didn’t just put weiss in charge because she’s a proven suckup to power, he did it because the wealthy, privileged people he knows and associates with all think the free press is the mainstream of what americans think. he’s wrong.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

Today the Court only issued a decision in case number 4: Blanche v. Lau. A 6-3 decision declares that green card holders returning from trips abroad may be deemed "applicants for admission" in some situations, despite their permanent resident status, via a rapid decision by a frontline CBP official.

Increasingly clear that the only thing to do is mass rapid enfranchisement of immigrants of all statuses and to put President [AOC | Harris | Pritzker | Whoever]’s face on the citizenship paperwork.

😹 come on now who is writing this season

to understand this you need to understand that for decades the American right has said that socialism is when the government does stuff, and now a significant portion of people who want the government to do stuff call themselves socialist for many people Obamacare *is* socialism

to take stock of things: 1. Trump has no legislative agenda and the DOGE-like stuff is dead 2. The Trump/Miller/Bovino ICE crackdowns have decisively failed 3. His major war abroad against Iran is stuck in limbo 4. He is now raging about algae

You know I haven’t noticed a lot of triumphalist cocaineposting from Karp recently now that the stock is down 50% in 8 months

Surprising nobody, the "Joe Biden doesn't even know what he's signing" BS was just projection again

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

🤞 If it's mostly measurement error, that could explain the lack of solid evidence of demonstrable effects.

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

I wish the very best for Britain, and I wish Britain's elites wished the best for Britain as much as I do

At last, a 71 minute video about ceiling fans.

As ever, Trump appointing himself warden and country club Albert Speer of our capital underscores the need for DC statehood to happen right out of the gate. Next trifecta ends the filibuster, adds at least one state and passes court reform in that order.

Y’all really got Elmo fucked up🤣

It's been incredibly obvious for a while that Labour's strategy of "loudly agree that dangerous foreigners coming to our shores is the number one issue, hope the right wing press give you credit for what bastards you are to aforementioned Johnny Foreigner" would not, in fact, reap dividends. But...

just underlining that argument for statehood every day

They pardoned J6 rioters for destroying the capitol and now they’re arresting people for touching water.

national guard deployed to keep people from touching the reflecting pool