“The Ref Red Carded Falorin Balogun the Right Way” -Ezra Klein

I take Shapiro similarly to Rahm—he sets the floor of the possible

The court is rapidly beginning to openly assert that *they* are the constitution. Not that they merely interpret a document whose language binds them in any meaningful sense, but that their own creative efforts are the *substance* of a new American constitutional order

Having already read much of this, it’s some of the most vital and creative work happening right now. A lot of people are thinking in these terms; not many are *working* on it. If we want a better republic, this is kind of shit we need to see Support Liberal Currents.

The Reconstruction Papers provides an ambitious but achievable path forward beyond the Trump era, but also beyond the decades of institutional decay that preceded it. Buy a print copy or download the PDF (or both) today www.liberalcurrents.com/the-reconstr...

I don’t like to judge other people’s relationships too much but I think if I patted my wife’s leg like that and did not make it absolutely clear to the camera that it was a bit I would be woken up that night by the sensation of suddenly swallowing my own teeth

This paragraph is almost enough to make voluntary human extinction sound appealing

The strength of the Democratic Party is that it’s a big tent and it has to deal with the challenges of a big tent. If you aren’t prepared to handle them, I don’t think you understand the party or how to manage it. It’s not a party of fellow travelers like the GOP, it’s something different and better

"On June 14th, 2026, Donald Trump took the occasion of his birthday to turn the Lincoln Memorial into a catwalk for the fragile machismo of the American right. Immediately thereafter, he turned the mirror at Lincoln’s feet into a man-made swamp." www.liberalcurrents.com/let-us-refle...

Took me a few hours, but I gotchu

First post that will be read correctly by both the sports and politics halves of this site no matter what

Big day for dads I’m hearing. Shout out dads. I’ll never forgive you for raising zoomers inside a psychic steel trap that locked them in a decontextualized nostalgia loop with Creed and Toby Keith

people writing like this have nasty, polluted hearts

Joe Rogan won’t see your posts about him, but other guys who look like Grimace in whiteface might

they shaved Barney the dinosaur

you gave up 4 runs in 4 innings to take the loss, maybe you should be less focused on quoting Genesis and more focused on Job and Numbers

Never has someone who looks worse talked so big for so long. World historic debt of mouthrunning. Jawjacking. Buddy looks like a sock stuffed slap full of yogurt and owes every impression he’s left on this earth to his equally evil but far more capable wife

Walked into the bedroom, wife sleeping in defeated Yamcha pose

This is a remarkable distillation of that particular delusion. Both the paternalism that suggests only America has agency, and the very Christian-shaped belief that the only solution for sin is penance

People used to get sent home dripping for shit like this and it wasn’t even that long ago

Ken Paxton's entire strategy

Viral marketing campaign for the new Air Bud sequel, calling it now

Avocado tree pond update

There's plenty of good reasons to want @dogsinautumn.bsky.social's aggressive wealth capping but one reason to want them NOW is that the biggest beneficiaries of the old settlement have destroyed it, so we'd best make sure they don't have the power to destroy the next one we put in place

Read @dogsinautumn.bsky.social today on why taxes are good and Democrats cannot cave to the temptation to campaign on lowering them

too many stupid people have money; that's why I'm launching protein cigarettes

"woah, hold your horses, champ. Before you run off, let me spend 75 minutes explaining my latest discovery: a kind of gem that turns your pokemon into a Pride float."

SCOTUS reform in '29: - Panels of appellate judges for blocks of cases - No more discretionary the writ of cert, they just take most appeals, then - Alito, Gorsuch, and Roberts are reassigned to the 9th circuit's Anchorage courtroom See @dogsinautumn.bsky.social plan in @liberalcurrents.com

The American military’s most effective adversary is the muscle car revival

It would be good if we did this imo

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

It’s 2003 and she’s looking at a computer screen. She just said “okay…I’m going in”

Wonder if this kinda stuff is related to other things that happened today. Anyway, we should break up the Supreme Court just to be sure

anyway I think this is the best realistic court reform proposal I've seen. double the federal judiciary and make SCOTUS a random draw of the entire federal bench www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

We must break the supreme court

Pond update

You can still do a lot of things with your life, but you will never be able to beat this tweet

liberals have become much more agressive, pushing for sweeping reforms & 'nuremberg 2.0' my latest for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...

In light of the latest revelations of purely partisan motivations, and given their many abuses of their office, @dogsinautumn.bsky.social today argues that it is time to break up the Supreme Court and fix the federal judiciary www.liberalcurrents.com/break-up-the...

Pure heat

Think whatever you want about the guy; his ability to find a stupider option is all-time status. First ballot hall of fame moron.

Just played Pokopia a bit. I knows the Sims ladies have not been this up since they were 13

MUPPET TRENT REZNOR: what have I become / my swedish friend? SWEDISH CHEF: ervie wurr ye durr gurrs awerre en de ern

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

It’d be dope to have a hambone like MattY’s. You kinda stand on a stump and say the clouds should all look like dinosaurs. That doesn’t do anything. You can’t make the clouds look like dinosaurs. Some do, some don’t, there’s no cloud king. So there’s always your thing to gripe about. It’s the dream

If somebody wrote about me like this, I think I would file a restraining order and issue a preemptive statement apologizing for talking to someone who would ever be that weird, let alone giving them permission to…do whatever this is

This would be the biggest strategic defeat ever inflicted on the United States by a wartime adversary

I can’t wait for everyone to meet Silicon Valley’s next big thing they’re gonna be antisocial and offputting freaks about: Underresearched peptides