literally all the arguments Trump is making in the birthright citizenship case are arguments that Congress and the Supreme Court already rejected over a century ago we've been here before as a nation and decided we didn't wanna be here, so get out my face ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

When you say “both sides are the same,” you own moments like this and are complicit in ignoring them.

these people are just so pathetically cruel

There should be a few hundred furious DOJ people in the national capital region, start there. Knives are sharp. You want to hire people who think their opponents should swing, not anyone obsessed with alumni weekend or hanging out at The Ned. You need true villains. Can Ds even think accordingly?

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

Heather Cox Richardson has a larger audience than almost any dudefluencer. More informed. Better values & policy preferences. And yet there are no profiles, no elevation or lionization, because there's *nothing* US media is less interested in than middle-aged lib women. No diner interviews for them.

Here's a hint. Why do you think a man who is widely supposed to be good looking, with hundreds of thousands of fans and millions of views, who is a millionaire in la, is single

I think this is true but we should prepare for the possibility that there's gonna be a pretty massive concerted media push to prop Trump up in the lead-up to the midterms in a way that wasn't true in 2018 or 2006

patriots perhaps not currently in control but barreling towards it. this is a picture from the “the fall of the regime” section of a textbook.

I know I’m a broken record on this but: A handful of law profs are engaging in an effort to convince the Supreme Court to accept a reactionary administration’s effort to redefine American citizenship and render countless children stateless.

If they succeed they will have functionally amended the Constitution and created a underclass subject to state domination. They have no good reason for doing this. The law is not on their side. We will see whether mere power is.

Yes, this is real and going forward in Tennessee. God help us.

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.

Simultaneously, they mock & degrade women athletes for not being athletic enough, and then when a few of us are that athletic, they say we must not be real women. The end state of this reasoning is a world where “real” women don’t — and then can’t — play sports. Policing gender hurts women athletes.

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

The difference between these two is racism

heh

Trump has potentially ended free maritime trade, a literally world-changing development that, if it lasts, may do more damage than anything else he has done so far What a phenomenally, historically evil and incompetent failure The Republican Party is a party of failure, defeat, and idiocy

“we bombed the crap out of Iran, killed their leader, murdered a bunch of kids, spent hundreds of billions of dollars in munitions, and we’ve achieved our goal: making the Iranian regime stronger than it’s ever been before”

they don't like AOC, so want to hurt her chances of gaining power, and they do like Trump, so want to help him rule us

Me and the boys ending American economic hegemony because Joe Rogan told us Kamala Harris would give us cooties

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

"We're going to turn out a whole bunch of new voters!" is a thing candidates who are definitely going to lose say. Unless they're named Trump, or maybe Obama.

This is a plan a Republican would come up with to destroy the new Democratic base of high income wage earners in high productivity area. It conveniently excludes the 199A handout that gives Yglesias a lower marginal tax rate than a school teacher.

Not gonna engage with this subject any further, it’s not worth your time or mine. But real-world targets of bigotry do not experience a distinction between “good” and “bad” bigotry. It’s just bigotry, and if it’s sometimes “okay,” then it’s always okay. Politicians who don’t get that aren’t for me.

Sam Moyn is not seriously at risk of existing in an exploitable grey zone of being stateless, so none of this really matters to him. Like many academics, the materiality of politics is just a fun thought experiment for him to grind an axe about whatever current thing annoys him from a colleague

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

the media made a multi-day scandal during the 2016 election about Bill Clinton having a single short conversation with Loretta Lynch on the grounds it represented outrageous interference with the DOJ's independence. They never cared about it, it turns out:

Harry Potter tattoo regret rate is an order of magnitude higher than regret for Gender Reassignment Surgery and yet no one has been brave enough to suggest we legislate Harry Potter tattoos.

It looks like I have an excuse to once again repost this @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social piece from 2017, in which I push back against a certain someone’s argument that the *real* threat to democracy isn’t Trump, but paranoid liberals and their “tyrannophobia.”

I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”

That’s impossible. Idiots who are never right about anything told me democrats never do that.

Big news: Indivisible is backing our campaign. ✊🏽

I covered this story for Defector because it falls under two of my beats, Amazon's Reacher News & Views and Suburban Brain Disorder. defector.com/suburban-hom...

seeing various pics of ICE at airports and they don't seem to be wearing their face masks which is weird because I was told it was an absolute security necessity for them to conceal their identities

the republican justices are as pickled in MAGA slop as any pardoned jan 6er

The new goal of the war is to undo the fuckup we caused by starting the war, American century of humiliation in full effect

Gonna use this one a lot

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

I know it’s unpopular on this site to point out that Democrats are largely very supportive of trans rights but they are, and we should recognize when they do the right thing

the government is saying “underage girls are testing positive for pregnancy at ICE detention centers” instead of saying “ICE agents are raping & impregnating underage girls.”

I think this is right, and shows us that when will exists, this kind of correction can happen quickly. Imagine how it must feel then for the victims of so many powerful men with many more column widths dedicated to their horrors, that so many continue to enjoy uninterrupted public power and profile

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

There are 50k frontline TSA agents. After an employment surge.. there are 22k Ice Officers/Agents, and they're already stretched thin enough they've been asking the TSA to handle deportation flights. I understand our desire for everything to be ~spooookkyy~, but this is heinously half baked.

Communism is when you return home from work at the 50 acre gravel plant to freeze bc the administrator forgot that rail construction would block the road to the heating plant that the bus line uses for 18 months bc the administrator forgot to use more than one bus to the rail construction depot

I’ve seen a lot of people repost this article with disparaging comments about the Democrats while I will almost never stop people from making disparaging comments about the Democrats, let’s note that they don’t quote a single Democrat in this article. you’re getting mad for nothing.

This thread is worth a read. Be very careful and think critically before giving to a fundraiser purporting to be for someone in Gaza.

Generally speaking, I am starting to think that Iran is probably right that it's winning.