Um?

Sometimes I question my utility as a messenger. Turns out “none of you are probably living to see the mountaintop” is not a terribly inspiring message.

Both Dems & Republicans have developed a conception of the Presidency as the locus of all political action It is a lot to ask for the 2028 democratic nominee to run on nuking the imperial presidency, as I called for several months ago in @liberalcurrents.com, but that is the Reconstruction we need

A lot of leftists, even queer and/or atheist leftists, have never overcome or questioned their Christian upbringings, nor the insane religious racism and privilege which those childhood Christianities inculcate.

I think the Radical Republicans would have a stroke at the last result

On this day in July 2, 1863, the 20th Maine held the Union line at Gettysburg Their stand at Little Round Top by Joshua Chamberlain and his men has entered America lore Just got the new book about the 20th Maine to honor the occasion

Dolph Lundgren remains undefeated as everything Chuck Norris was given credit for.

It would be very good if there was a law that would put law enforcement officials in prison for 10+ years when they lie under oath. Nothing is more corrosive to a society than police corruption.

Being excommunicated because you hate the Pope is extremely trad imho, I don't see what the issue is

Massive shout out to these university administrators who caved in to fake outrage ginned up by a few dozen chud agitators, violated the free-speech/labor rights of their employees, and then had to fork over millions of **their own money** in order to settle lawsuits they were bound to lose.

just a wild situation in Louisiana: www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

NEW: Second federal judge blocks DOJ from getting trans minors' info via grand jury subpoena. Judge Pitts issued the preliminary injunction covering a subpoena directed at Stanford. Today, at Law Dork:

Well hot damn.

Nice

Damn.

Besides the point, but… Andrew Johnson is just way too on the nose.

Just can't share & emphasize this sentiment enough: ICE has been kidnapping our neighbors in greater & greater numbers. The narrative of mass deportation having suffered a decisive defeat in Minneapolis is flatly wrong; kidnappings, inhumane detention, & deportations continue & are increasing.

Some Black tech founders still think I'm mean, because people told them that I could help them raise money for their start-ups.🤷🏿‍♂️ And I tried to! By pointing them at better VCs that had ever funded Black founders, and weren't fans of this guy. But they wanted me to help them pitch his fans instead🤡

#ELB: “Supreme Court Upholds Temporal Gerrymander That Would Cost Democrats 1932 Election” https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157028

Looking at even how, in a presidential system like Brazil, you have a socdem president (Lula) vs a far-right Congress which regularly overrides his vetoes on shit legislation, if I had to choose which I would rather win and hold control over, it would be the legislative branch every time.

real ones support legislative primacy solely on the basis of antipersonalism

Four years ago, a coordinated right-wing smear campaign condemned Monticello for "going woke." Bridget Gillespie was working there at the time, and she gives this revelatory inside account of the harassment staff endured and ultimately how the institution buckled. Amazing piece.

It almost seems too obvious to say, but no, the Supreme Court is not being moderate and sensible on trans rights while being extreme and partisan on every other case. A new opinion piece addresses Helen Lewis-ism, by @evanurquhart.bsky.social assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

They keep doing this, and they keep failing.

There is another (better) House bill that would claw back appointment and removal of the Comptroller General and vest it in a similar bipartisan joint commission, as well as use concurrent resolutions (not requiring signature by POTUS, compared to joint resolutions which do) to take effect.

"popular notion recruited athletes tend to come from minority and indigent families just false vast bulk of recruited athletes in sports rarely available to low-income, particularly urban schools crew, fencing, squash sailing And once admitted, they generally under-perform" "Affirmative action":

Tragic news: Kelly Davis, a wonderful journalist who published a lot of important reporting on San Diego and on the horrid jail conditions there, has passed away. I was really lucky to briefly be Kelly's colleague at @theappeal.org many years ago, and to work with her on a story at @boltsmag.org.

If you don’t retain a commitment to truth then you will always feel tempted to believe evil things that are convenient, because they offer a simple solution to what’s wrong in your life

“Congress, under the Bill of Rights, is required to accord the right of petition to any citizen. If a petitioner states and supports a valid ground for hearing or relief, manifestly he should be entitled to hearing or relief.” -Senate Judiciary Committee, 1946 babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hv...

Sure we’ve all seen by now, but Fox has Ossoff +13 and KLB +5 in Georgia Don’t think a big Ossoff win is unreasonable at all

trans women are women, trans chicagoans are chicagoans

Worst Case Scenario v Best Case Scenario imo

Well well well. Look who just took the lead in the #COGov GOP primary.

The Legislative Reorganization Act dismantled Congress’ infrastructure for honoring constituent petitions, as the APA assigned the duty to meaningfully consider constituent grievances to executive agencies. Prof Maggie Blackhawk: law-journals-books.vlex.com/vid/petition...

Great news everyone! New Jersey finally passed a trans healthcare shield law. It becomes the final blue state left to pass such a law. This will help fight back against out of state subpoenas targeting gender-affirming care providers and patients. Subscribe to support our journalism.

mind you, once you consciously start saying "i believe congress should be empowered because i believe in representative democracy" you start noticing how common it is NOT to believe in it, which is kind of bleak. but that's okay

Happy "SB 79 Becomes Law" Day! Let the building begin!

people on social media will really be like "you believe in proportional RCV? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, organizing against Callais" and then not organize against Callais

Terrific piece from @vtfeminist.bsky.social about the Supreme Court's trans sports ruling and how it reflects the zero-sum mindset that has infected conservative visions of the law, modern politics, and even winning-is-everything sports parents. prospect.org/2026/07/01/s...

The actual Reuters article reveals that typical gas consumption in Russia this time of year is 110,000 tons PER DAY.

Freedom to build. Freedom to live. Freedom to stay. SB 79.

Good morning California, today is July 1, some new state laws take effect today. From trans rights to clarity in food expiration labels to allowing more housing near transit, here are some of the more significant ones! www.kqed.org/news/1208923...

good morning. it is now 51-41 Kiros. with a little under 10,000 ballots left to count, this will end up a double-digit win.

Colorado is a universal VBM state, and yet notice how they managed to get almost 90% of the vote counted within 8 hours of polls closing? You’re on flop watch California (as usual)

unless someone even younger gets in, Melat Kiros will be the new youngest member of Congress, taking the title from Maxwell Frost and becoming the second Gen Z congressperson (the first being Frost)

Happy SB 79 Day!

Also the day that both the California Housing and Homelessness Agency and the California Business and Consumer Services Agency come online.