And yes, "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is an entirely straightforward phrase whose meaning has never been honestly questioned. We know what it means. The drafters knew. Every president and congress has known. SCOTUS knew, and knows. There's no goddamned ambiguity.

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

If you want to know why Pete Hegseth is confident he'll face no consequences for blatant war crimes, just look at the list of people who attended Dick Cheney's funeral.

OH SWEETFUCK THERE ARE ARGUMENTS YOU NEVER MAKE, EVEN IF THEY HAVE THEORETICAL MERIT.

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

I like how Steam is using "Because you played Dispatch" as an excuse to recommend me even more hentai games on its front page than it already did

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

if simply associating with depraved pedophiles is enough to get a professor fired how is anyone ever going to learn economics

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

this is a very important part of her legacy, her support for Palestine. one of the things i will always remember is that one of Dr. Refaat Alareer’s last liked posts on Twitter before it turned into x and removed like history is a photo of Alice.

Alice Wong was a fierce advocate for disabled rights. One of the first disabled people I ever saw go on national TV just to talk about how our existences are politicized. May she rest in peace.

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

"Why do you just attack democrats? Why don't you ever go after republicans?" Same reason I think it's necessary to warn people off an inexplicably popular restaurant that keeps giving everyone food poisoning but don't see the need to warn people off of eating directly out of an open sewer.

“By doing this, YouTube is being complicit in silencing the voices of Palestinian victims,” said Basel al-Sourani, an international advocacy officer for PCHR, the oldest human rights organization in Gaza. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

It's a really bad joke considering she subsequently doubled down by calling concerns about Nazi tattoos "hall monitor liberalism" Again, "Strasserism bad" is a good litmus test

Speaking as a Teamster embarrassed by our president spewing nativist boilerplate on his podcast, it's fucking disgusting for Emma to say that an "authentic" working class would quietly abide Nazi tattoos as well as their talking points "Strasserism bad" is a litmus test we SHOULD have, actually

Old man who dragged his feet for two years to condemn a genocide for what it was also wants to push a Nazi tattoo under the rug, imagine my shock We have outgrown the need for Bernie Sanders

“I was with you, until you said ‘pregnant people.’” I get this a lot. I’m an abortion provider, and the CEO and President of an org known for abortion advocacy. Let’s talk about why I use inclusive language — and why I’m not stopping. 🧵

people weren't mean enough to charles murray and steven pinker

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS "A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

How do we know Bari values diversity of thought? On her website you can find men saying conservative things, women saying conservative things, queer people saying conservative things and minorities saying conservative things!

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

If trans rights get taken away then that opens the door for them to take away others’ rights also. Saying trans rights are human rights is not hyperbole or an exaggeration because you know it’s not so don’t leave anything to chance. especially when dealing with legitimately gleefully evil people.

i wish i still believed in hell, because that's where every ice agent belongs.

Disinvite them from the tailgate. Do not go to the baby shower. Call out their bullshit on Facebook. Do not just purse your lips and nod politely. Ostracize the living shit out of them. Leave their church potluck casserole untouched. These people are extremely vulnerable to social shame.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

Hey, FYI: You cannot simultaneously insist there are legitimate fairness concerns around including trans girls/women in sports with other girls/women and ALSO avoid demonizing/vilifying trans girls/women. "Including you is inherently unfair" is demonization/vilification. Hope that helps.

There's such a perfect and maddening irony about the fact that two of the biggest names in the Democratic establishment have Marxist professors for fathers yet zero class consciousness

The 1912 article gets rolled out a lot but it’s my solemn duty as a historian to remind folks it’s *worse* than that Eunice Foote published greenhouse gas studies in EIGHTEEN-FUCKING-FIFTY-SIX (of course, as a woman she couldn’t read her OWN paper at scientific conferences - god FORBID 🙄) 🗃️🌎🏭

They look like someone asked Midjourney to generate a fascist polycule

There's never been a time where "debate pervert" has been more applicable. Kirk's hagiography is a monument to how fixating on debate as something that only happens in the abstract, is being used to pervert society's ability to even discuss a firehose of documented fascist violence for what it is

Using Bari Weiss as a framing device to revive a tantrum of how cancel culture went too far is particularly obscene, when she 1) got started by trying to get professors fired on the basis of their subjects, and 2) is about to take over CBS and has fascist billionaires funding her media empire

Better Off Ted Closely followed by Dead Like Me

look Charlie Kirk started, maintained, & promoted turning point usa’s professor watchlist I’ve been on it for over a decade and until this year I was the *only* UVM professor on it which means his life’s work = my death threats

"Kirk never laid a finger on anyone" is abject, shameful revisionism. He was in the WH vetting staffers in 2016 and bought buses to ferry people to Jan 6. Every single person ever harmed by Trump's policies were harmed by Kirk being in the exact position to curate the people who enacted them.

Doug's Substack is a wonderful case study in how important lying by omission is to reactionary centrism's fascist project. Here, Doug is in such a hurry to sanitize CK as just a 1A debate bro that he skips over Kirk's role in vetting Trump staffers and... *checks notes*... ferrying people to Jan 6

Every centrist hagiographer: he said some very important stuff Everyone: oh, like what? Every centrist hagiographer: very important things Everyone: Can you repeat some of those things he said? Every centrist hagiographer, looking at their legal department frantically shaking their heads: no

This is extremely on brand for Shapiro in particular, an IDF freak so committed to free speech that he tried to sic PA's anti-BDS law against Ben and Jerry's for not selling in Israel's illegal settlements, and who compared anti-genocide protesters to the KKK. Of course he's gonna eulogize a fascist

I saw this and was like, hmm yeah it'd be interesting to compare the two statements....and now after searching I'm like wait did he really not issue a statement for hortman at all?? That's wild

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.