not sure you can talk coherently about maintaining the rule of law without promising serious court reform

There’s an alternate universe where the complaint is “society has overburdened parents with a 2-income trap and kids who are either housebound or eternally in structured extracurricular activities because of it,” and this is a plea to allow parents to have their own social lives again.

Justice Jackson to Solicitor General Sauer (just now, in Trump v. Slaughter arguments):

"Individual liberty" is when conservatives decide everything. Their concept of liberty is just domination, not freedom to do what they want, but freedom to force everyone else to do what they want. bsky.app/profile/donm...

One thing about "original intent" is that the original Constitution was so hostile to the President that their rival was made Vice President, but now we have SCOTUS "originalists" happily giving the President absolute power over everything.* * So long as they're a Republican.

also you know what else is dangerous to individual liberty? a totally unconstrained executive, which we're seeing right now thanks, in part, to kavanaugh's own actions as a justice!

the whole structure of this argument — independent agencies are politically unaccountable therefore the president must have removal power — treats congress as if it were a total nullity, or as if only the president truly represents the public.

All we have to do is simply invest more wisely! Wow, why has no one thought of that!!!!

We don’t need aircraft carriers, okay than how the fuck do you get AirPower across the Pacific Ocean?

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State Sen. Julie Gonzales announces she'll challenge U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper from the left in next year's Democratic primary in Colorado. coloradonewsline.com/2025/12/08/j...

So love wobbegongs. Everything is good about the wobbegong. Its name. Its flattened Oscar the Grouch face. Its frondy bits. Its lazy life as a hungry rug. And it’s a shark. Outstanding animal 10/10

For me at least, it's that I think she is a talented politician who is well-suited to being a bomb-thrower in the House, and losing that for an absolutely DOA Senate campaign is bad.

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

In the era of slavery, free black people had to carry their "free papers" with them so they could prove to the authorities that they were free, or else they would be thrown in jail and sold.

NEW: Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal www.propublica.org/article/trum... w/ @robert-faturechi.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

Trump Awarded Hormel Peace Prize thehardtimes.net/breaking/tru...

bill and ted at the birth of jesus:

I think I am being threatened

I spoke with Any Lucía López Belloza, the Babson College student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving when ICE deported her. "My 5-year-old sister still believes that I might go home for Christmas," she tells me. www.thecut.com/article/any-...

A neat thing about birthright citizenship is how it tests whether a person cares at all about the Constitution. There's no argument against it, birthright citizenship is the unambitious text, the obvious intent of the drafters, and the undisputed way it was followed for the past 150+ years.

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

There is no sight that more efficiently puts the lie to immigration “court” than the common sight of children “representing themselves.” Children too small to climb into the chair, children in pajamas who don’t know where they are, children not yet old enough to speak.

I'm not sure it's in the self interest of America's tech bro billionaires to suggest that we bring back public executions to punish the most destructive people in our society.

It sucks that college is now totally a scam but the jobs we replaced it with are also even more obvious scams

My current career plan is to pathologize a personality trait, which I then pivot into a personal brand, creating daily content to cultivate intense parasocial relationships that eventually lead to sponsorship deals and, if I play my cards right, cult-adjacent murders.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

She voted for hepatitis?

Donald Trump, who I do not support, may be wrong to kill Venezuelan drug runners, but at least he's not as bad as Obama, who killed the Arab world's most progressive leader, Osama bin Laden, who I also do not support by Glenn Greenwald

Laws aren't real. They exist solely on account of buy-in from society's participants. Once one side disengages, you no longer reside in a society based on laws. You live in a society based on power and armed force. I am begging folks to accept this so we can get moving.

no one has ever gotten the spirit of our country as right as paul verhoeven making robocop

Mockler: It's honestly humiliating that other countries are treating our president like a child, like a baby. It's like if I created a peace prize and I gave it to myself. I'm like, I'm just going to keep this medal on all night. Our president is an actual child

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

oh god, the Jan 6th pipe bomb guy was a Brony

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

"When there’s no war, you aren’t committing war crimes when you kill people indiscriminately. You’re just a straight-up murderer."

@stephenaryan.bsky.social IKYKWIM!!!!!

Hands Reaching Up From Hell, Wat Rong Khun Temple, by Chalermchai Kositpipat, 1997

A man walked into a jewelry store in New Zealand last week, picked up an extravagant Fabergé egg locket and then swallowed it, the police said. When officers arrived, he was arrested and charged with theft. After the man underwent a medical assessment, the only thing the police had to do was wait.

Failing upwards, the American way www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They’ve nullified the 14th amendment once already, they don’t care what the constitution says, only what their political allies want it to say

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper-sprayed by ICE

“Star Wars” (1977)

Longstanding principle = plainspoken words of the Constitution

LET’S GOOOOO

Sabrina Carpenter made the White House delete their fuck ass tweet.

You know I thought it was really lame that the main tourist attraction in Geneva was a fountain, but now that I’ve seen it I will admit a fuck off huge 20 story fountain absolutely rocks. This kicks ass.

Idgaf how much Tom Cotton wants to feel like an operator, I refuse to indulge the regime's illegal framing of this as a legitimate conflict. Agents of the state are straight up murdering people on the high seas.