In the well-over 100,000 documents written by founders included in the Founders Online database from the National Archives, no one uses the phrase "God's noble experiment." No one.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

If you were cool with this, you can shove that "Happy Independence Day" up your ass.

DC is, flatly, owed statehood after what they have been through under this man to make sure this shit never happens again

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

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As a non-DSAer. The IC sucks shit, and should have been killed off a long while ago. The organization clearly needs to move to 1M1V. And, for the love of God, when someone uses *true things* about you and/or your organization as a cudgel *fix them.* You do no service pretending shit isn't shit.

The Dem establishment and Dem centrists can wring their hands and complain about the results in Colorado. Or they can learn a lesson: Their repudiation was in large part about their perceived unwillingness to stand up firmly and unhesitatingly to Trump. So start doing so!

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Israel and Russia are both engaging in genocidal wars of conquest and should be stopped.

the use of “performative” as an insult here is why these people are losing their primaries. yes, voters want you to perform their anger and disgust! they want representatives to represent their symbolic interests! the idea that good representation is necessarily quiet and unobtrusive is wrong!

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

No legislative veto. Hampered oversight. No agencies outside of presidential control. No attempt to meaningfully enforce the power of the purse statutes. This is the Court’s doing.

I know we feel the need from left to center left to take the wins where we get them but a 5-4 decision on the literal plain text of the Constitution is absurd and this means we have to cripple the court, permanently, period, end of story.

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

Gorsuch literally says as much as this in his Slaughter concurrence. He calls this the Constitution as originally intended.

Of course, no educated individual would ever suggest that the U.S. is a functioning democracy any longer. You’d have to look at North Korea to see a nation as indescribably corrupt as America.

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.

It was 5-4 on the constitutional question and the fact you are unable to recognise this as a problem is why you are unfit for the purpose. You have to go.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

my policy priority is revenge

Court expansion should be the moderate position

The three branches of the United States government, as delineated in the Constitution, are the God Emperor, The High Council of the Six Ayatollahs, and the Federal Reserve

John Roberts handing down Slaughter and Cook together felt like a weird domination ritual in which he gets to flaunt his power to issue irreconcilable rulings that perfectly track his partisan preferences and we all just to take it because, really, who's gonna stop him? slate.com/news-and-pol...

My sincere advice to moderate democrats is to spend less time hyperventilating about Zohran and more time ruthlessly policing guys like Polis. Want to show moderate are sincerely committed to fighting Trump? Impeach him!

There are many true structural reasons why Dems can’t do things they want to, but I think it gets back to the point that for decades now people get told “well we can’t because xyz” and then see R’s get away with murder

There are many decisions that are wrong, sometimes egregiously, as to a particular policy issue. But Slaughter belongs next to Trump v. United States as doing deep violence to the constitutional structure itself, profoundly incompatible with the very idea of power being subject to the rule of law.

Slaughter belongs in the anti-canon, a decision so egregiously wrong it has zero precedential value and is self-discrediting. It is not a plausible reading of a constitutional ambiguity, it is constitutionalizing the structure of an autocracy.

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

this wouldn’t work legally because a President has no authority to remove a Supreme Court justice. however the President could instead simply drone strike them. it sounds like i’m being snarky but as a result of the immunity decision this is the actual law.

Honestly Senator Wiener is a lot nicer about this then I would be, I would have bluntly said it was antisemitic and also he's been to ever Trans march since 2004, 22 years! of support, like fucking shame on anyone not going to the mat for him rn, some allies you guys are.

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

They've established a higher standard for proving discrimination than proving murder. Not only do you have to prove discrimination, but you must prove that no other motive, plausible or not, could have existed in conjunction with discriminatory intent.

I will vote for a platform of de-Trumpification. It needs to be a scorched-earth removal of every hateful symbol.

The #BrokenTimes can't see itself in the mirror. Now daily Watergates "age like fruit flies" because news media--led by NYT--lack the diligence to keep them front of mind. The TImes blames voters and competition, accepting no responsibility. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/u...

The problem with the supreme court today is they aren't interpreting the constitution they are rewriting it

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

They are ALL Corrupt!!!😡

I don’t think it’s great that people are flirting with Holocaust denial

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

i'm not enthused about self-proclaimed socialists winning elections but the obvious answer is that voters are looking for angrier candidates which is correlated with being far-left if moderate candidates want to win these primaries they gotta start promising to put Trump and Elon in the contraption

I am profoundly ashamed of how our government treated the Iranian soccer team. They were classy the whole time. But FIFA cheated to get them out. And we treated them like shit. Not the fans. The fans were great. But the officials and organizers were ghastly. We started the war with Iran.

this isn't some 'weapon of the enemy' shit, if Dems leave the Prairieland protesters to rot they will be showing less personal loyalty than *Donald Trump* are are disqualified from leading us

Whenever I hear someone claiming that USAID was evil from a leftist perspective, I hear someone saying “yes, millions ARE dying because Musk and Trump killed USAID, but at least they’ll die free of American imperialism.” Notably it is never the people saying this who are dying.

a tangential reason why abolishing ICE is good politics is that it requires the capacity to exile these people from any left of center politics; similarly, the failure to exercise their influence from any future majority more or less guarantees the failure of any reconstruction 👍

anyway let’s check in with keir starmer to see how “conceding to popular prejudice” is working our for the labour party