The best way to start the day.

Just here to post this again like I do every year, not only because Douglass was one of the founding philosophers of American liberty but because I am so moved by the kids Frederick Douglass’ descendants deliver “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July”

It’s only going to get funnier. The funniest thing in the world could happen tomorrow.

The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.

10 cubic yards of mulch is so many wheelbarrows of mulch. I'm going to be very sore tomorrow.

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

you cannot expect the public library to be ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE because you shuttered all of the other services and public spaces and then get mad when they need money

there is nothing but failure all around us and library workers are doing their fucking best and all that happens is we get MORE work and MORE grief with LESS material support at every turn

Nothing like waking up the day before a holiday to an absolute shit show in my inbox (and both of the experienced members of my team are already on vacation).

Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Physical media was our best hope for getting people to even see the damn thing.

I kinda wish we'd retire this talking point tbh. They're coming for everyone. They hate everyone. They specifically hate trans people tho, more and above everything else. They're not a stepping stone to more oppression, and they're not pawns in your political chess games, they're people.

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

We white settlers simply don't have any more right to be here than anyone else. That's the bottom line. That's what "no one is illegal on stolen land" really means. We simply do not have any moral right to exclude other people from a country built by force and genocide.

A global murder-suicide by the US oligarchy in one neat graph:

As always

Nothing bad in the United States is ever over, including constitutional things. These were the same arguments rejected over a century ago, and they'll be back again and we'll have to kill them again. Con law is basically about shotgunning zombies. rarely do you get a headshot.

The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.

What's troubling you, little half Edvard Munch-styled half Super Mario inspired sea monster, screaming in a sixteenth-century map of the Indian Ocean? Tell us, how are you doing, little fella?

About Trump v. Barbara: Do not give the Court and the CJ credit for reading and upholding the Constitution. It's a travesty that this is not a unanimous decision... it's also a travesty that the Court let this question percolate for a year, giving credence to a crank theory of citizenship.

every time trans people lose some rights, it's always "what about cis people they get affected too" and I Understand why this impulse exists but I wish for once I wouldn't have to see our oppression be turned into "won't someone think about the cis"

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oh holy shit it’s only 5-4 on the constitutional question! the plain words of the 14th amendment only get five votes! this is much worse than I thought, these people need to be stopped

This is what the moderates got us.

This ending with an erroneous Alito retirement announcement sure is something (strong odds he does actually announce any day now).

I am obviously so fucking relieved the birthright E.O. was struck down but this is despicable.

there is no group of people who deserve quasi-suspect class status more than trans people. I swear to god, people need to read Carolene Products. They are a discrete and insular minority with zero political power as evidenced by the fact that they're being attacked left right and center.

thomas simply couldn't join the opinion, this corrupt, misanthropic bigot had to throw in his two cents and put his bigotry into the record

Also the biggest of Fuck Yous to Clarence Thomas.

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

Trans fam: your lives are precious no matter what the fuck these people say translifeline.org/hotline/

Watching the SCOTUSblog live chat with such dread.

Al >>>>>>> A.I.

My most optimistic take is that they are saving birthright for last just to be like "you may keep this scrap of rights and you will thank us for it, SCOTUS OUT."

Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America

Slaughter belongs in the anti-canon, a decision so egregiously wrong it has zero precedential value and is self-discrediting. It is not a plausible reading of a constitutional ambiguity, it is constitutionalizing the structure of an autocracy.

Tricky questions to decide, such as: "Does the text, purpose, and +150 years of consistent public and legal interpretation of the Constitution matter at all, or can a demented corrupt racist pedo declare otherwise?"

Hot take: lecturing people about their a/c use and commercial airplane flights is a psyop to make us feel climate doom instead of climate rage

Ishmael u dog

I think I finally solved my scoring issue cause these babies look perfect.

Happy pride to the super bisexuals

"The lawsuit also alleges that OpenAI knowingly stripped copyright management information from publishers’ work — including author bylines, copyright notices, and terms of use information."

Taking this moment to sing the praises of the Culver's veggie burger. It is awesome? Probably not. But it is a very decent vegetarian road trip food option. Add grilled onions and mushrooms.

Goodbye, champagne socialism. Hello, Culver's shrimp communism

We can get Culver's to the top of the trending list. I believe in us.

It would be so funny if this ended up being the brand that came to Bluesky because they were like damn people are really talking about butter burgers like crazy over on this website

Wisconsinites when there is Culver's discourse

AND I got an m&m concrete mixer

Reading "Notes on the House of Bondage" again and this, once again, hit me like a bolt of lightning.

Today's TPS decision is so fucking cruel because Haitians and Syrians followed all the rules that they were supposed to follow and now they're all of a sudden here "illegally" because a bunch of racists said so. I'm feeling so much fury on behalf of the many Haitians I know.