I have to assume that the devs of BSky are still using AI to write code and that’s why images aren’t showing.

Everyone’s enjoying the excommunication drama but there are also lessons for pro-democracy political actors. Decades of accommodating and appeasing this sect did not work and only emboldened them. You have to go whole hog. When you have power, break the back of the reactionaries. Shut them out

This probably isn’t interesting to most folks, but I model and print a decent chunk of my pottery tools. Unfortunately, progress has become stagnant because I dumped windows and used to use Fusion 360 which does not work on Linux. Been trying to learn FreeCAD, but the learning curve is rough.

My posts most days. I'm sorry.

Describe the economy in a single sentence

Again, charges here are so, so absurd that you really need to look at what happened in the grand jury. we've seen the evidence. grand jury misconduct is rife in the Trump DOJ. We've seen the evidence. It comes from the top.

Some donors who intended to give to the bipartisan, congressionally chartered America250 initiative were instead steered to the partisan, Trump-backed Freedom 250, according to a report from House Dems. The report says that could amount to "potential wire fraud and charitable solicitation fraud."

Already hard to breathe in the heat and humidity and they’re going to set off over 800k fireworks (instead of the usual 7k). They’re definitely going to kill someone.

There’s a metaphor somewhere in this video.

every one of these you're going to have to check what happened at the grand jury level since grand jury misconduct is endemic in the trump doj

The other day I noted the only way Trump would keep paying Event Strategies to put together humiliating public events is if it were a vehicle for corruption. Today, Natural Resource Dems released a report substantiating that corruption. emptywheel.net/2026/06/29/t...

Statement from Counsel for Olympian Davey Hearn:

I wrote about the Supreme Court's latest disgusting anti-trans ruling. I wrote about it because I refuse to act like taking away constitutional rights and allowing legal discrimination is okay just because it's happening to people who don't poll well in a diner in Ohio. In @thenation.com

I like my chances against Mike Rogers😊

Competitive high school sports are not about gladiatorial domination; they exist to teach kids teamwork, comradery, promote exercise, and give them a sense of accomplishment. I can think of no better way to accomplish those goals than to compete alongside our trans brothers, sisters, and siblings.

Thanks, SCOTUS!

A pox on every single transphobe, especially those with the political and social power to make people’s lives better or worse who decide: hm, let’s go with WORSE. This includes not only rabid rightwingers, but also ostensible allies who cannot wait to sell out our trans brothers and sisters. POX!!

Ever the relentless liars….

Stephen Miller says the Trump administration will take “a hard look” at banning foreign pregnant women from the country

Vance says the midterms are big because Republicans are one SCOTUS seat from ending birthright citizenship

"DiD yOu kNoW hE dOeSn'T tAkE a SaLaRy?"

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

the egg price thing under biden was all fake lol

This is about as over as Roe V Wade. Today was not a win.

Nothing bad in the United States is ever over, including constitutional things. These were the same arguments rejected over a century ago, and they'll be back again and we'll have to kill them again. Con law is basically about shotgunning zombies. rarely do you get a headshot.

Posts like this should be considered a call for violence. We know exactly why they’re trying to stir up and if something happens to anyone they’re trying to target, they should face criminal proceedings.

The fact that libs of TikTok is posting this kind of shit about literal 7 year old girls genuinely terrifies me. The right has been aggressively accelerating the eliminationist rhetoric over even just the last few weeks.

"It's over, right?" a journo asked me this morning about the birthright citizenship case. No. No legal or political result is final unless the losing side gives up fighting. They will try again. New prez, new judges. There's a social movement based on racial grievance + scapegoating immigrants.

if you don’t think some asshole softball dad will humiliate a cisgender girl for hitting an oppo bomb off their daughter by challenging their gender you have never met a youth sports parent in your life.

the question isn't "do you have faith in the democrats" the question is "do you have faith in the ability of people to work collectively to impose their will on the political system?"

The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.

this framing, the court standing up to trump, is precisely why this withered old piece of shit is unfit to even hold office, let alone lead the caucus

This is striking. New NYT poll, which shows Texas Senate race tied, also finds: *More see Paxton as "extreme" candidate *Talarico winning 9% of Trump voters *Talarico +32 with Latinos This is doable, and there's a lesson here about liberalism and MAGA. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

Two thoughts: - The Trump EO applied to people whose parents are here legally, including those on visas here for many years who are fully domiciled here. So Walsh's framing is based on a lie. - It's amazing how terrified these supposedly alpha men are of their fellow citizens.

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

i have run out of things i can legally say about the supreme court

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.

It’s important to keep today’s birthright citizenship decision in context. First, SCOTUS left the status of a fundamental, explicitly articulated constitutional right uncertain for over a year all to affirm what was clear from the issuance of Trump’s EO. Birthright citizenship cannot be abridged.

I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

Yeah this is not the tone of alarm I’m looking for, try again.

We are ruled by the Council of Nine. They rule for life & are completely unaccountable. Their agent, the president, is empowered to enact their will but will be placed on a short leash when he displeases them. Congress can raise and appropriate funds the president can use or not to his liking.

In a sane world (an alt reality) today's dissents would sufficient to warrant Thomas, Gorsuch and Alito's impeachment and removal from office. If you defy the plain words, meaning, intent, history, precedent of a black letter constitutional injunction u are abusing your power and should be removed.

Running for president, or really any federal office, without a plan to deal with this out of control institution is pointless. You might as well play pretend

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.

Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country

people got mad at me yesterday when i said the dems were not ready to take court reform seriously. 5-4 for non-racial citizenship is not a win, it's a reprieve bsky.app/profile/schu...

I remember North Carolina having to back off its bathroom bill after a concerted pushback and its been wild to witness the wholesale abandonment since.

This is what the moderates got us.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

fixing the court is table stakes for any Dem running for national office, you are not a serious candidate if you can’t get on board with this and refusing to do so is disqualifying in a primary because it doesn’t matter what your policy positions are if SCOTUS will just overrule them