There were 2 major defeats of the Confederacy and its pro-slavery rebellion. One was on the battlefield. The other is called the "Reconstruction Amendments", 13, 14 & 15, passed to undo the Confederacy's power. The 6 Supes are Neo-Confederates working to reverse those Reconstruction Amendments.

Thanks, SCOTUS!

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:

I know there are trans people right now, wondering if anyone is going to stand up for their simple right to exist. Well, I am.

grilled by Rep. Pocan, Russell Vought refuses to acknowledge that people have died as a result to cuts to USAID. Pocan then reads the names of various people who have died because of the cuts.

A spokesperson for U.S. Health and Human Services confirmed to Stateline on Friday that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/30/r...

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

I don't think people understand the degree to which outlets like The Atlantic and The New York Times set back trans rights with second-rate reporting that doesn't stand up now, let alone in the future. They have failed at the most basic journalistic duties.

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

same guy

It’s a seismic disaster that “does the Constitution exist” is 5-4.

🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ TRANS PEOPLE BELONG IN SPORTS 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

Just absolutely insane to me how many milions were spent and the massive political and legal effort exhausted just so a state can ban a single trans girl from playing sports with her friends in school.

tacky and fashy

the zoom-out on this is cinematic

So why did every app I use go through a UI update in the last week when I was in vacation mode?

The great American state fair being stupid Trump bullshit does legit make me sad, if I’m being honest. A lot of the 250 stuff does. This could have been a really cool and special thing and literally any normal president would have pulled it off.

Been half watching Panama v England while I eat dinner.. and 25 minutes in, I just realized that Panama is in white, not England.

We made it, Grant

This is quite literally the best thing you will see today.

There was a clip earlier this year of a reporter asking him whether he was going to bring back the tradition of NYC mayors jumping into the pool to open the summer season and before he even answered you could see his eyes light up like “yes i will 1000 percent be doing that”

yo I need everyone to notice this this guy just did a Zohran-style video that’s low-budget but super authentic, credible, and watchable. Proof it doesn’t take Zohran-level charisma! Sincere belief in what you talk about helps though.

Hard to think of a person who caused more harm in the last 30 years than Andrew Wakefield.

Read the damn room, Mr. Met.

Do. Not. Use. Fucking. Sticker. Mule.

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

hey man just letting you know you're on camera

Jim Jordan on the World Cup: "Look at the UFC fight where the American beat the Spanish guy in the main event. We're on a roll so let's hope the hockey team can do the same." (The World Cup isn't a hockey event ...)

This is a really really weird way to be thinking about people I'm sorry

Good.

Grok is now in the history manipulation business. And what more important history to distort at this moment than that of the 14th Amendment.

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

I think the thing I like the most about Claire Valdez is that she not only takes bold stands in support of trans people, but that when people on the right try to use those positions to attack her, she's just like, "yes, that is correct."

Seeing a lot of “the heat only kills the elderly and those with existing conditions, stop complaining” and feeling a familiar sense of disappointment. I don’t know how to explain that you should care about people etc etc but also: we are all people and vulnerable.

Isaac Chotiner: can you list some examples of systemic oppression green creatures face? Kermit the Frog: I’m sorry? Isaac Chotiner: well you do mention the difficulty quite a lot

>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

This was anonymously leaked by several Timberland Regional Library employees. Includes: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, and Thurston Counties.

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to show up in full combat gear on a hot summer day to the pool he filled with algae because he gave a paint job to one of his cigar puffing cronies. you are ordered to stop tourists from touching the green water. good luck soldier

Ahhh we've reached the boomer 'no one wants to work' part of the night

Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo

Trying to discreetly watch the 2nd half of #USMNT game while the parents and aunt&uncle endlessly discuss the details of a funeral tomorrow.

Graphic design pet peeve

You're not supposed to say this, but conservatives hate HPV vaccines because they think that removing the risk of cervical cancer from sex incentives women to be sluts. It's been a Christian thing since way before RFK Jr. was around, everybody knows what it's about, but you have to pretend not to.

... there's an Ohio tie-in in every story... But you're never going to guess it here.

It took 250 years but American cops finally racially profiled a white guy

Absolutely this. Two kinds of people talk about IQ scores like they're meaningful -- very dumb people and very racist people, and they're usually both.

wow -- Tim Kaine demolishes Kari Lake KAINE: She accused Sen. Gallego of being controlled by cartels. You had no evidence, right? LAKE: Well, we provided receipts-- K: This was rated pants on fire. You have no evidence. Isn't that right? L: I don't know K: How about an apology?

Bad sign when a minor league baseball team, which regularly puts their players in the silliest themed uniforms possible, ends up in a situation where its players refuse to wear the Pride night uniforms. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...