A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

anyway this isn’t a legally difficult question it is a politically difficult question for the conservative majority and the only thing we’re waiting to see is if they will ignore political pressure and follow the clear text of the constitution or bend to the president’s demands.

Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life

They are running the government according to the logic of right-wing grievance media. I cannot emphasize that enough. The point is to create content, and they don't see an actual difference between dunking on Sabrina Carpenter, passing legislation, and bombing other countries.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

As someone who spent a decade of their life studying media consolidation: the state we were in 40 years ago was also bad. 50 companies is already far more concentration than we ever should have allowed.

I've been saying this for a year now: the Democrats have missed a gigantic political opportunity--and, at this point, have failed in an ethical obligation--to create a shadow-government health department that dispenses medically accurate information, guidance, and advice.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

The details are gross both aesthetically and morally, but Nuzzi played a consequential role in the ending of a sitting president’s re-election bid. Even if you don’t include her role in RFK then getting DHHS, that alone is worth discussing

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

this is the most consequential journalism scandal since Stephen Glass and this is a website with a lot of journalists on it! I am absolutely going to continue posting about it, sorry. Feel free to block or unfollow me if this bothers you!

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice

NEW— DC Metropolitan Police just shared a tiny bit more body cam footage from the March US Institute of Peace raid in response to my FOIA lawsuit w/ @rcfp.org One clip shows USIP President George Moose being escorted out. Moose: You know we're gonna see you all in court. MPD: Yea we figured that.

fascism is so mundane as it's unfolding and that's part of what makes it so dangerous

A major problem in the country is that for years, regular people have actually been made to feel and have sometimes been told to leave "THE LAW" to the "professionals I.e. THE LAWYERS" and that was always ridiculous for multiple reasons. But it succeeded in distancing regular people from organizing.

The only legal scholars I want to hear from in the years to come are the ones seriously thinking about how to fully disempower the Supreme Court. What would that take? THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX. Offer practical suggestions that could become political campaigns led by the public.

It's honestly kind of funny that the premise here is that students are going to gather to watch the woman known exclusively for writing a bad essay do some public speaking.

4/ Even worse on these officials account, it seems if the third view is correct, that was a reason to kill the survivors. You read that right, and I am not exaggerating.⤵️ A shipwrecked person beckoning others to come rescue them is a basis for killing them.

that woman is about to become the biggest right-wing / cancel culture / anti-woke grifter we have ever seen the Thanos of “I’m being persecuted by being made to experience one consequence of my own actions”

A competent opposition party would call a presser and explain that while their party believes that voters should choose politicians and not the other way around, the Republican Supreme Court majority had previously said that extreme gerrymandering was legal if it was about partisanship but...

I am so fucking sick of "Democrats" whose entire theory of change is "we need Republican votes." No! Fuck off! We have a name for people who are elected by Republican voters: Republicans. If you want to be elected by Republicans, be a god damned Republican, and get the fuck out of FDR's party!

Even her political commentary — the thing she is allegedly good at — is fucking gibberish. We're supposed to overlook her execrable ethics for this?! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

If Shapiro and Newsom are so concerned about Trump supporters they should run as Republicans.

tapping the sign

one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it

The country will be in a much better place once the pmc and the revolutionary guard of woke wine moms are in full control of the Democratic Party and the federal government, and are permitted to govern in some of the very ways conservatives fear monger about.

The pipe bomb suspect getting arrested by this dumbshit iteration of the FBI after 5 years just proves even more that the people in power over the last few years cared so little about getting to the bottom of the attempted coup of January 6th and just wanted to move on and hope things worked out.

"In a just world, where the career of a political pundit was somehow tied to his ability to analyze politics, this would be an extinction-level event for these morons."

There should not be a single race Democrats leave uncontested ANYWHERE in the country EVER again. I don't care if it's a 1:1000 shot, you put someone on the ticket!

it's not the most important issue right now but I would *really* like to see Democrats who want to be president announcing in no uncertain terms that anything this goober manages to carve his name on, it comes off. anything he builds, it gets torn down.

this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child

I'm still thinking about this exchange. As is often the case, we see Nuzzi acting out the most extreme version of a phenomenon that is actually pretty common in elite media: people taking umbrage at the idea that they're supposed to exercise moral judgment, and can be blamed for not doing so.

If only we had a way of knowing where Tom Cotton stands on lawless abuse of the military.

whether hegseth gets away with it remains to be seen but it is interesting to see that he thought trump handed him a license to murder with this job, no questions asked, and now questions are definitely being asked.

i will vote for any presidential candidate who campaigns on sending pete hegseth to the hague

Trump is at 60% disapproval and a bunch of Republicans are actively defying him on Epstein and the Caribbean boat strikes. Hakeem Jeffries: Time to go on the news and praise Trump for his work "securing" the border

There is a fifth wave of ska, beyond that which is known to rude boys

rfk jr wants to kill your kids, it’s really that simple.

Horror/comedy movie: being haunted and constantly roasted by these two.

I cannot convey to you the sheer fucking weirdness of Olivia Nuzzi's book.

I just want to stress that this has nothing to do with the rest of the chapter. She has an epigraph, a bizarre intro paragraph, a description of Britney Spears dancing in 2002 and then a section about Donald Trump promoting birtherism.

Call them out by name so we can more easily remember. in that group: Jim Farley, CEO Ford Motor Company Antonio Filosa, CEO Stelantis Remember their names next time you buy a car.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

"Underestimating how shitty Republicans are and will be" is the signal analytical mistake in US politics, by journos, pundits, normies, everyone. Again and again and again. And again. There's something deeper going on that prevents us -- the collective us -- from internalizing the reality.

One of the many things worth thinking about re: Steam's ban on Horses is how it highlights is the centralization problem caused by having such a monolithic (and maybe mono-something-else) retail giant. Independent studios with even humble commercial aspirations are chained to Valve's whims.