After yesterday, it's 19 wins for Trump on the shadow docket.

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

“In some respects this was the most unhinged discussion of autism that I have ever listened to. It was clear that none of the presenters knew much about autism — other than the mothers’ lived experience — and nothing about the existing science. This may be the most difficult day in my career.”

Martina agreeing here I'd wager.

If the Reform-Labour Coalition wants to pay me to self-deport back to Canada, I will happily go. This country is exhausting.

You’re probably tired of hearing this but the “unitary executive theory” that the Supreme Court is using to hand Trump absolute control over the government is demonstrably false nonsense cooked up by Republican lawyers after Watergate to create an American monarchy. slate.com/news-and-pol...

"Political violence has no place in America" I just heard someone repeat on MSNBC. Or, more accurately, political violence is hardwired into America, from the constitution down.

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Sounds like the segregationists in Connecticut are having a grand ole time “While waiting for the police to arrive, the old Karen’s friend said, ‘You’re not the minority anymore.'” www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

"Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the suggested savings "have no basis in reality" and the government were already looking at restricting migrants' welfare access." - You don't need Reform, you have Labour What a time to be alive.

In this story: Sliwa shakes the hand of two different venture capitalists, one is Bradley Tusk (who finagled getting Uber into NYC by turning users against De Blasio), and then.... the guy who got to be an Andreessen Horowitz partner because he strangled my neighbor to death. Worth a read!

here's a new one for them

Who is ICE detaining to meet its target of 1 million deportations a year? As Margy O’Herron (@brennancenter.org) explains, most are not criminals, many have legal protections, and some are even U.S. citizens. www.justsecurity.org/121122/us-de...

Brett Kavanaugh has a clear conflict in a school prayer case. Will he recuse himself? The conservative justice could be in a position to overturn a Supreme Court ruling in a case he lost as a private attorney. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New: The Trump family is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election. @danalexander21.bsky.social, @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

"UK Athletics will conduct a review into Britain’s athletes after a first World Championships without a gold medal since 2003." [Telegraph] But they banned trans women, why didn't that fix everything?

"PLEAS by celebrities to encourage anyone who believes they may have cancer to seek help is fuelling the crisis in the NHS, a coroner has claimed." [Telegraph] Yes, that's why the NHS is in crisis, because people who might need it are trying to use it.

Nice fascist colours you got going on there

Free speech latest: former Meta/Facebook global public policy director Sarah Wynn-Williams “on verge of bankruptcy” after publishing Careless People, a bestselling exposé of the Zuckerberg-led social-media firm’s policies and practices.

I had ILR under the old privilege of the Commonwealth, and grandparents who were British. So they would have purged me. Ask them why they hate Empire and white people and watch their heads explode.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Reform party will eventually come after citizens, with parents who were born abroad, like myself. My friends and I have had this discussion for some time. Make no joke about it, if they get into power they will need to continue to enrage the British voting public, they need chaos to thrive.

"Homosexuals are hardly better than criminals and ought to be severely punished." - UK/Scottish national newspapers, 2025 (if you change one word)

Are You a Fascist?: Take Theodor Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality Test Created to Combat Fascism (1947)

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

trans people just want to be able to live their lives and cis people are like "due to this we need to do mandatory genital inspections to children playing sports". im sorry but the problem is cis people

they don't want you to joke about a man's death but then they're out there saying things like this

Probably just racism if I'm being honest with you

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

Did he hear these accounts from the groups that teach parents how to torture their trans kids that he likes to meet with?

It should be obvious by now that free speech in incredibly unequal societies is not a useful aim Without a level playing field, some voices are far louder and some far easier to shut down Free speech can only be worthwhile if it's accompanied by radical reform of our public space to democratise it

10 years ago, the Charlie Hebdo attack showed clearly how free speech could be weaponised Calls for absolute "je suis Charlie" free speech were accompanied with heavy policing of critique and dissent We learnt nothing and still lap up the (far-) right's hypocrisy on the matter 1/

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A trans woman was left hospitalized after being viciously assaulted by multiple teenagers in a hate crime. Hate isn't born, it's taught and these kids are learning this from adults. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Meet the support group for gender-critical gay men: ‘We gather in secret’ "The Edinburgh chapter of Human Gay Male welcomes those who feel that pressure to accept trans men is a just a modern incarnation of old-school homophobia" [Times] archive.ph/VF3rK

Nothing screams “small government, free speech warrior” like the FCC chair rocking state-mandated jewelry of a convicted felon. Brendan Carr went from pretending to guard the First Amendment to cosplaying as Trump’s mall cop.

"Up to 60 ‘ambiguous’ athletes in female finals" [Times] "Just protecting women"

I just checked and this is actually written in the Constitution. Oddly, it's written in Sharpie.

When you hate trans people so much, you have to pretend this isn't an antitrans smear in order to allow yourself to be mad about it.

How is someone from The Sun on a serious news programme, complaining about a comedian's opinion not being factual, not laughed straight off the fkn set?

In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight. David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach. British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!

"Because someone died, we have to take away your rights" -- the same pretextual rationale that authoritarians always use

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

Kash Patel's notes during his congressional testimony as photographed by Getty: "Good fight with Swalwell"

Trump to a female reporter who tries to ask him about his plans for Memphis: "Quiet. You're really obnoxious ... I'm not gonna talk to you until I call on you."

Trump to a female reporter with an accent: "I wish you'd speak more clearly. Give it to me again."

Huzzah! He just cancelled "free speech" about trans people in the UK! 👀

The bogus mortgage fraud investigation into New York AG Letitia James is at a standstill because federal agents and prosecutors don't believe they have enough evidence to get a conviction if the case were to go to trial. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.