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For real. Even as a white guy, I have felt such “outsider” energy in many small towns throughout the US, leaving me eager to get on down the road as fast as I could before they could learn my beliefs don’t closely align with all of theirs.

FOX NEWS: The money Trump has made while in office -- there's also a story about his sons making money off a deal in Kazakhstan. What's the White House's response? WH SPOX ANNA KELLY: Americans wanted a businessman in office. He's had a tremendously successful career.

so like....jesus and the apostles?

holy shit -- get a load of Fox News' live shot of Trump's state fair on the National Mall. There's somehow fewer people there today than ever!

YIKES!!!! -- People have climbed atop the spire of the Empire State Building right now

Wow -- one of the climbers atop the Empire State Building appears to have gotten down on one knee and proposed to the other

Talk about taking the ultimate plunge.

Julie Chen Moonves says "controversial people will be factored in" to #BB28 and hints fans of reality TV beyond Big Brother will be excited. Multiple sources tell me at least one #Survivor alum is expected to be part of the season. www.mensjournal.com/entertainmen...

Brian Kilmeade suggests to an agreeing DHS Secretary Markwayne Mulling that pregnant foreign women should be barred from traveling to the United States

Free agent guard Marcus Smart has agreed on a two-year, $13 million deal with the Houston Rockets, plus a player option for the second season, sources tell ESPN. The former Defensive Player of the Year reunites with Ime Udoka for significant opportunity in the Rockets backcourt.

“This is the first time the Supreme Court has given its blessing to redistricting across the boundaries of four-dimensional space,” political scientist Jonas Neuhaus said of the decision in RNC v. Garner

The ban is heinous for what it does to transgender athletes. But if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant

The same way that just a dozen people are behind over half of all the book bans, this entire goddamn nazi movement is a fucking handful of freaks who are loud enough in billionaire nazi sex pest social media empires to be confused with an entire crowd. This *is* their irl numbers and popularity.

Gov. Jeff Landry on Trump's fair: "It's unbelievable to see people out here" 😆😆😆

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

this is a supervillian monologue from a 80s coming of age movie

An administration of just the shittiest people.

Brett Kavanaugh's opinion in the trans sports ban case is an all-timer in his I Am a Reasonable Guy Please Don't Be Mad At Me genre. Talking about how he is "acutely aware" of what trans people go through and "greatly admires" their desire to play sports while he slams the door in their faces.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

The whole "original intent"/"original public meaning" two-step has always been a two Spiderman meme. But admittedly it doesn't get much more bald-faced than "history doesn't count if anything has changed since the relevant text was framed and ratified"

Here’s a member of the Texas State Board of Education openly bragging that they excluded “false religions” when they k-12 overhauled curricula last week.

we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system

SCOTUS just denied cert in this and several other cases challenging gun sale age requirements www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Apparently picking up on the implicit invitation in Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, President Trump is asking Congress to turn his EO mangling birthright citizenship into a statute. He doesn't seem to clock the fact that five justices said today that the 14th am thwarts any such effort.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will consider next term whether the Second Amendment protects the right to own an AR-15 or other semiautomatic rifle. That is one of three new cases the justices agreed to hear next term before leaving for the summer recess. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Nothing short of the modern day Plessy v. Ferguson. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

If Nina Totenberg accidentally published her pre-write before she was supposed to and blew Alito's retirement announcement, I am going to die laughing at my desk

Slow down on Alito, y'all. NPR is taking their post down.

The language Kavanaugh uses to describe transgender students in this opinion is so relentlessly bad www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

need total court reform, expansion, god knows what else voters are going to hate it but if we don't do we won't have a country anymore

Among lots of things that are striking about Kavanaugh's opinion in the birthright citizenship case is the totally unnecessary dissent on the constitutional question. He could've just concurred in the judgment on the statutory question *without* discussing the 14A, but went out of his way to do so.

Trans rights are human rights always and forever.

Donald Trump came one vote away from getting the Supreme Court to say that the 14th Amendment does not guarantee birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented and temporary immigrants, a view held only by fringe far-right nativists until VERY recently. This is shocking. I am stunned.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

As Kagan sharply points out, Kavanaugh's opinion simply transforms Thomas' dissent in that 2001 case into controlling law of the land. She highlights how radically the newer justices have changed campaign finance precedent. Whole thing feels like a farce. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The supermajority's decision in NRSC allows wealthy donors to circumvent limits on contributions to individual candidates by donating much larger sums to political parties, which can now spend the money in direct coordination with specific candidates. An open invitation for quid pro quo corruption.

The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Kavanaugh doesn't decide whether rational basis review or heightened scrutiny applies, because (he says) the state laws satisfy both. This gives him an opportunity to gut heightened scrutiny for anti-trans laws by applying it in a weirdly deferential way. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

In a concurrence, Gorsuch tries to distinguish Title IX from Title VII to explain why Bostock's reasoning doesn't control here. I am unconvinced for the reasons Sotomayor lays out in dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, agrees that the trans plaintiff's Title IX claim fails, but accuses the majority of reaching an overly broad conclusion about Title IX's tolerance of anti-trans discrimination. The three fully dissent on equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Kavanaugh's opinion for the court describes transgender women and girls as "biological males" and claims that their exclusion from women's sports teams does not offend Title IX or equal protection because states may insist that only "biological females" play on those teams.

The Supreme Court's first decisions are the trans athlete cases. By a 6–3 vote, the court holds that Title IX and the equal protection clause do NOT stop states from excluding trans women and girls from female sports teams. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Texas Senate race is a toss-up, according to a NYT/Siena poll. Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton are tied at 47%. The result, driven by massive Hispanic support for Talarico, is Democrats' best Texas showing in nearly a decade of the pollster's surveys.