Today has me more convinced than ever that in my lifetime there will be serious push by Republicans to bring back slavery

Fix This First,Then We Celebrate...

And periodic reminder: Everything bad happening with the Supreme Court, is happening specifically because racist people wanted to destroy the Black vote, and create a unitary executive who would turn the US into a white ethnostate. This isn't my theory. This is their theory. They wrote it down.

if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

We are about to have a huge fight in the Senate over Trump installing another extremely far right SCOTUS justice to replace Alito, and both Schumer and Jefferies are releasing official statement praising the court. Unbelievable shit.

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.

if you thought that this might be a big show of clemency for the country's sesquicentennial rather than a big show of influence-trading and corruption for the country's sesquicentennial, ha ha, well,

there are so many more people in the band than in the audience 😞

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So, Flamingos have a payload of like, a 1.25 tons of explosives, & 1 job. Their guidance isn't state-of-the-art, we don't get onboard cam footage. They're missiles, not drones. They do a lot of damage, but they're not super agile. If 2 Flamingos IN A ROW are cruising unchallenged to target? Yikes.

A thing that I’ve noticed about why Dems lose the propaganda wars that’s super apparent today is they never make a big deal out of anything. They never throw a shit fit about the audacity of it all. But that’s literally like 90% of what Republicans do. They have like 4 24hr channels just for that.

Still cannot fucking believe some people think codifying Roe in legislation would have made it past these robed scoundrels. They destroyed a law passed unanimously (the VRA). The Conservatives on the Court voted 4-2 (!!!!!) to destroy a Constitutional amendment via Trump memo.

Mystery woman who is enjoying a $1500 a night luxury vacation in Iceland with Ken Paxton has been identified as right wing Christian ‘trad wife ‘ influencer Tracey Duhon Duhon is a fierce advocate for traditional marriage in her public life, but sneaks around with Paxton when no one is looking

Earnestly I think hosting the World Cup is our month-long America 250 celebration.

... When we were last there in 2023, the "memorial to the fallen" that the Junta erected. And which was always a village flashpoint was covered in fresh red anti fascist graffiti that still called out one family by name.

you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

NPR took the story down but it is very clear that Nina Totenberg didn't write up a big "Alito retires" story on accident. They just hit publish too soon. Alito is retiring.

Four out of nine Supreme Court justices find the Constitution unconstitutional, what a time to be alive

I have been killed. I am dead.

Nation Portrait Gallery.

bottom dollar it’s about commanders in the field trying to get resources they can sell on the black market they claim are being used in the fight. At the same time extorting men on the front. Corruption has always been endemic. When wars that have no idealogical basis are being lost nobody cares to

think that’s what we’re seeing now. A government overwhelmed by its realities unable to make timely or useful decisions, because of corruption and over centralised control that’s swamped under the scale of problems. Ukraine isn’t just overwhelming Crimea it’s overwhelming Russians capacity to manage

An iPad inside Independence Hall tells visitors that a second floor room was used in the 1850s to hold individuals “accused of crimes of the period.” Originally, the screen read “accused fugitives of slavery.” @fallonroth.bsky.social and I discover more retelling of history by Trump’s admin. 🎁 🔗

11 stars is a symbol of the Confederacy

Heat wave remains on pace for this week. Air temps will rise well into the 90s to potentially the century mark in the river valleys. Combined with high humidity, heat index values are likely to climb into the 105-110° range. Overnight lows will remain very warm. #NHwx #MAwx #CTwx #RIwx #VTwx #MEwx

The images are already viral. It's a low-stakes issue but in this age of memes and vibes cementing in people's minds that trump and Rs generally are a band of bumbling crooks carries over into everything else. Demoralize them and put them on the defensive

a reminder for the people who insist trump is patient zero that as you read alito's scotus decisions this all precedes trump. it's bush. it's always bush. installed in the white house by scotus, he installed judges to pervert scotus. its always bush.

At what point does a threat like this become a crime?

When you're siding with a virulently white supremacist president and how he probably bribed his way out of being removed, over the men who wrote the 14th Amendment, that might not be strictly dispositive. But it should really have you checking your premises about if you're on the side of the angels.

To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off: apnews.com/article/nun-...

If vehicles keep swelling, cities “could lose between 8.5-14% of their on-street parking capacity by 2040. London and Berlin alone are each projected to shed around 100K spaces…in dense cities, it’s a major issue worldwide.” #Carspreading pushes out more than parking spots. Tax cars by the inch.

I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.

Salutary reminder that SCOTUS has not had a majority appointed by Democratic presidents *in my lifetime* (and I'm no spring chicken). That alone makes reform a necessity; the recent rightward, lawless lurch is icing on the cake but we don't need the sophistry of Alito, Roberts, etc. to make the case

Current doctrine is: Congress can create shells of agencies with various names; President can dismantle them, decline to spend money appropriated to them, fire everyone in them, use them to break the law if he so wishes, etc. And Congress has no authority to do anything about it. Obviously absurd.

trump administration setting out to finish the job the british started in 1812

Our president is officially a rapist today. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Insurance, how does it work?

yeah, i think it's a big mistake to attempt to analyze these right-wing frameworks on their merits; the point of these doctrines is to provide plausible deniability, not accuracy or coherence

Unitary Executive, Purcell, stare decisis, Originalism, Textualism, all of it, in the hands of Republicans, simply means “heads we win, tails you lose”. Maybe we should the Roberts Court the HWWTYLCourt.

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And no more robes. I’m done with this wizard clergy shit. Wear a fucking suit like everybody else.

It was "here's how Republicans can govern even though they'll never be in a position to pass or repeal laws through Congress." In the medium-term future, Trump notwithstanding, I think it's more likely Democratic presidents who lack a trifecta. The GOP Senate is now the sticking point.

Pretending for a moment that this won't all turn out to be Calvinball: Unitary Executive Theory was a concoction for the Nixon-Reagan era when Democratic control of at least the House looked immortal, while Republicans had built up an Electoral College advantage for the presidency.

Scientists in Norway have found that exclusively breastfed babies are less likely to develop ADHD symptoms, with girls showing the strongest benefits.

☠️ Russian soldiers on the front lines live an average of 20-35 minutes, according to NYP.

The real mindfuck is thinking back to 2000 and realizing that things are so much worse now than any of the most hyperbolic, apocalyptic predictions for how bad things would get after Bush v Gore