Finally! I hope she buys something completely frivolous and indulgent today to mark the moment that DJT actually followed a court order.

That picture of Mitch McConnell is obviously not real. It’s not a good sign that major news outlets are reporting on it uncritically.

Everyone brings joy—some by coming, some by leaving.

I guess he was serious about going to check on Mitch McConnell.

Women’s rights have expanded—and been rolled back—through the Supreme Court, making the fight for judicial reform central to the future of feminist democracy.

Reasons for decline in fertility involve greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the desires of men and women, from Claudia Goldin www.nber.org/papers/w35425

“They kind of treat us like it’s part of the comment section." #MsReads via @19thnews.org

"Nearly every woman can recall a situation where she technically ‘consented’ to something she didn’t want. … These women all said ‘yes.’ Legally, that holds up. Ethically, it’s another matter entirely."

Health departments, universities and nonprofit grantees had spent months adapting to President Trump's executive orders. They say the funding cut was completely unexpected. n.pr/4eYWqSk

Doing her best Mitch McConnell imitation.

Found it for him: Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton "appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in 6 elections in the past 2 years...according to records obtained by ProPublica & The Texas Tribune." electionlawblog.org?p=157141

WTAF?

I had a spirited debate with Mitch McConnell today about his role in bringing about the downfall of the United States. I said he played an enormous role, and he had no response. I guess he agrees.

More than one founding father knew that to be truly free, women needed control over their reproduction. #MsReads via @thenation.com

By his own admission, he had no idea what a red card was, but he knew -- better than the ref, better than FIFA -- that what Balogun did did not meet the standards for getting a red card, which, again, he had never heard of before. This is like watching JD lecture the pope, but more corrupt.

The outgoing senator has finally cracked after Donald Trump screwed him over. trib.al/dqutBCi

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

This is Trump’s MAGA racist America. CEOs of the Business Roundtable should speak up. Silence is an act of complicity. Kristen Silverberg, President and COO of the Business Roundtable. #leadership WaPo story (gift link) wapo.st/44w47e5

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

This headline is insane. Trump has not enjoyed a ”windfall." He's abused his office to take bribes & steal public money - if you can't say that, you are not reporting news. Oblique comparisons to corrupt foreign dictators in the body of the article are not enough. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

An HHS spokesperson confirmed last week that the agency is canceling 53 out of 67 grants, worth about $68 million, under the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, affecting grantees in more than two dozen states. This story was originally published by @stateline.org.

What was once an online subculture largely confined to the darkest peripherals of internet forums has now emerged as a cultural and political force. And women professors are experiencing it firsthand.

Only one kind of person resorts to white sheet imagery.

This is what happens when someone learns Catholicism through a game of telephone.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

With her victory over Rep. Diana DeGette, 29-year-old Melat Kiros is the second democratic socialist to beat an incumbent progressive Democratic House member this month. https://bit.ly/4p1qxNB

Looking forward to all the schoolchildren in Texas, being taught the Bible under Texas's new Christian nationalist law, finding out that Ken Paxton and his mistress should be stoned to death for committing adultery. Glory!

Tom Kean Jr. was healthy enough to authorize stock transactions up to $190,000 during his nearly 4-month absence from the House. There’s more to this story than he’s saying.

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

there were more people in my garage watching the World Cup last weekend

As the mom of two girls who play sports let me just say: I could give a fuck about the sex at birth of any child they play with or against. Condoning the policing of youth sports in this manner is bigoted.

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

Jackson.

The vote on the constitutional question in the birthright citizenship case is an absolute scandal slate.com/news-and-pol...

My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law.

Just finished Alito's dissent in the mail-in voting case and... it's so stupid. Even for him. THERE'S NO LEGAL ARGUMENT. It just rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the word "choice." It's not surprising that the man who overturned Roe doesn't understand what the word choice means, but Jesus.

Good abortion news!! 💚 🇱🇺 Luxembourg officially enshrines abortion rights in constitution MPs voted for the second time on Tuesday on putting the protection of women’s rights into the constitution 🎉 #Abortion #AbortionEurope

"The Leonard Cohen Estate has learned that the song 'Hallelujah' is to be performed at a Donald Trump rally on June 24. This use is not authorized, and the Estate does not support or approve of this or any similar usage. Thank you for your attention to this matter." www.rawstory.com/trump-rally-...

"A Constitutional right millions of us had lived with for nearly 50 years disappeared in a single morning with a vote,” local organizer Marie Follayttar said, WGME reported. “And every single one of us who fought to stop it knew exactly how we had got there. Susan Collins." #SusieTheEnabler

Folks, as a number of people have noted, if Trump IS the guy who got special access to a new obesity drug, the more important detail is that he may have pulmonary hypertension, which might explain the swollen ankles and the constant sleeping in public.

Reform here is much needed, as hiring has absurdly moved to midway through 1L year.

In a new court filing, SPLC provided evidence that the prosecution into the org came directly out of a letter that extremist groups sent to Stephen Miller complaining that they had been included in SPLC's Hate Map. emptywheel.net/2026/06/23/h...

Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.

Very interesting paper finds that when South Korea suspended its “low-skilled” guest worker program, the result was not a rise in wages for native Koreans doing those jobs, it was the opposite; current employees got reassigned to those jobs and took pay cuts and firms went under.

That the CIA had nothing to do with it and Nixon tried to have them lie to the FBI and say they did is, like, the whole scandal. We literally have it on tape!

Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.

The Gross Ole Pedophiles once again block attempts to ban child marriage. This time Ohio with one Republican declaring he knows 13yos who are more responsible than adults. Funny how that claim is never used to extend voting rights to kids, just the ability for men to rape them.

“Juneteenth reminds us that freedom delayed is freedom denied. The enslaved people of Texas had to wait 30 months to learn what the rest of the nation already knew. Black women in Texas are still waiting.”