If you make me demonstrate that I’m not a robot just so I can interact with your robot, I’m not going to like you.

Last night, the Supreme Court ruled that the VRA cannot protect even against *intentionally* discriminatory voting policies When we say there is no federal statute remaining the enforce the 15th Amendment, this is what we mean

It fucking well will not. The "AI assistance" is basically human bias concentrate.

Umm…

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

“A new section of the NDAA would give Israel unprecedented access to American technology and would force the United States military to integrate Israeli defence technologies into our own critical military supply chain, giving Israel incredible leverage over America’s own defence priorities"

Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.

Shira Scheindlin is one of a group of 35 former federal judges who filed to reopen President Trump’s settlement with the IRS, accusing him of using the judicial system “for an improper purpose." She said, "The president was on both sides of the case; that's called collusion." #Velshi

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 🧵

It’s weird how Trump can go scorched earth on any Republican who advocated releasing the Epstein files and the media doesn’t treat it like a pretty conclusive admission of guilt.

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

He said he aced his 2018 cognition test by remembering five words for 15 minutes. What does it mean if I still remember them 8 years later?

The SpaceX IPO and the flurry of rules-changes around it should really be a bigger scandal. It's not only one of the biggest swindles in human history, it's proof of nearly universal corruption. We are simply ruled by thieves and gangsters.

They make a similar point: that although the U.S. Constitution is notoriously difficult for the people to amend, it actually is amended all the time by the Supreme Court, which, you know, lacks legitimacy at the moment

(Turns out I do not enjoy reading the posts that got people blocked.)

To be really clear, Patagonia did not sue to stop Pattie Gonia, the drag queen, from using the stage name. Patagonia sued Pattie Gonia Productions to stop them from trademarking & selling Pattie Gonia apparel in competition - seeking damages of $1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Joe Gebbia should be in prison at least until this has all been fully investigated and all responsible have been prosecuted. thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

Impeach him.

A President ordering the Justice Department to criminally investigate a woman who won a sexual assault lawsuit against him makes Watergate look like an unpaid parking ticket.

It's good that universities are making six-figure payouts to people who got fired for their comments about Charlie Kirk, but now the universities need to do some new firing, of administrators who carried out those illegal actions. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

NEW REPORT: After Chicago shut down ShotSpotter in Sept. 2024, CPD response times to priority 1 calls improved by an average of 4.2 minutes. Read more here: uchicago-justice-project.github.io/chicago_crim...

The oath of office *obligates* Dems to seek Trump's removal. Republican obstruction may be a reason why they should mostly seek to highlight Republican complicity with Trump's crimes. But it really can't justify abdicating the impeachment power altogether. www.offmessage.net/p/the-revisi...

Every new AI user makes AI less profitable, as does every new use for AI, and each generation of AI loses more money than the last. AI is the money-losingest endeavor in human history: pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e... 41/

Pick a Bond villain from the photos you already have on your phone.

Worst crossover ever: X-Men: Apocalypse Now

“The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the U.S., or any of them.” [i.e. state govs]

Morning everyone. Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws? You are subject to the law. Now he is not. No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

In case you're wondering, yes, Trump's schedule lists him at his golf club in New Jersey this weekend. You can't expect him to attend his son's wedding with a demanding schedule like that.

Lutnick paid off Republicans before his Epstein testimony. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Note to Democrats: theft of the public's money is what you would call a "kitchen table" issue. If someone broke into my house, took my money, and then gave it to people convicted of crimes, I would not only talk about that at the kitchen table, it would alter the very fabric of my existence.

It is EXCEEDINGLY important that if you have a R MoC, you find SOME WAY to ratchet up the pressure on both the Bunker-Ballroom and the Terrorist Slush Fund. I suggested earlier you pick an awful Jan6er and make him the poster child of the Slush Fund. Put up wanted posters or something.

This is Enron-like. SpaceX has committed $1.6 billion to lease a data center in Mississippi. But instead of simply saying that, they structure it as an unconsolidated 49.9% interest in a joint venture. The only source of revenue for the "joint venture" is... the SpaceX lease. /6

If you’re a historian who studies the Founders, the lying by these jurists is blatant. First and foremost, with the ludicrous idea that the Framers would approve of presidential immunity—the precise OPPOSITE of their views about executive power.

big team of tech reporters peeling out what you need to know about the SpaceX IPO plan here... SpaceX spent $131 million on Cybertrucks y'all.

Cool. Now let's talk about how He-Man's creator was left so destitute, he had to create a GoFundMe for his medical treatments. And how multi-billion dollar company Mattel, who made a mint selling He-Man action figures, only donated $5000. Now let's ask how much this stunt probably cost them.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Ask yourself: Why would a settlement over leaked tax filings include a prohibition on examinations of previously filed returns? One answer, which lots of people are missing: For years, Trump has been fighting an IRS audit that could have resulted in a $100M bill. No longer, apparently.

Why does Bluesky smell like my dad’s sock drawer? Ah…https://bsky.app/profile/playboy.com/post/3mma5y4wpns2j

"Literacy test." Herblock on new lessons in democracy and citizenship for southern law enforcement, March 1965.

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

I will just add to this that, during the Biden presidency, I made a point of regularly calling out the good things the administration was doing -- which were continuous &, in aggregate, enormously consequential -- and ... none of that went viral. Very, very little engagement or amplification.

There’s no way Trump could have won his frivolous lawsuit against the IRS in court. There’s no way the J6 criminals and conspirators could have won any lawsuits in court. But they didn’t have to, because Trump installed his criminal defense lawyer to steal our money for them.

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Let’s do it.

<<taps sign>> This an illegal and unconstitutional impoundment, it's what got Trump impeached the first time around, and in any sane world he'd be impeached and removed for it before noon tomorrow.

"It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't." @maitlis.bsky.social