i stand corrected

What did Katie Phang know??? (I hope she is cackling right now 🤣)

"What the new documents actually show is that they’ve failed. Far from saving money, they have likely burned through hundreds of millions, and they still failed. No one wants be an ICE pilot or an ICE flight attendant. That’s the story." A fascinating story indeed.

ppl keep tagging me on this and he’s right, tho he wasn’t (as this headline implies) talking about about generic black leaders, he was talking about overseer class types in congress specifically—and william lawrence is correct

its a perfect win-win-win. if Farage wins he can't take a victory lap or claim it proves he has the voters mandate, bc the only other viable candidate was a guy with a bin on his head. if binface gets *any* substantial vote % its a referendum on how hated farage is. and of course binface might win 🤣

this isnt newsworthy but i do think its interesting: some of the Operation Metro Surge defendants are moving to have the restriction limiting their contact with co-defendents lifted bc they are each others closest friends and necessary emotional support 1/2

my first reaction to seeing her lawyer say he was gonna argue this was that its near-malpractice. but upon consideration, as far as casting a reasonable doubt in the minds of an Idaho jury, "vaccines killed them" might actually be an easier case to make than explaining how SUIDS works 🤦‍♂️

the anti-vax murder case bothers me 1. some young children die accidentally. whether its SIDS, an illness, a fall. Its horrible but it happens. 2. infanticide also happens but its *much* rarer 3. when 1 happens, police will try to find evidence of 2, and will sometimes charge parents with murder 1/

u kno theyre staying up all night in Maine rn trying to figure out if there is a humdinger of a lie big enough to get him out of this. idw give anyone any ideas but, please be aware if your local forecast starts showing signs of a "sudden come to jesus" moment. that shit will also be a lie.

did this all happen in the death of Stalin? I havent actually seen it

it occurs to me that we have created a system where people of each party are only willing to believe allegations against men from the other party. for Fiefield, the ppl villifying her are outside her community, but any leftish woman he abused risks losing *everything* if she puts her name behind it

this exactly. how many times over would we have made a publicly funded Club Penguin clone (or whatever) if the political will behind social media bans was actually about building safe online spaces for kids? instead we have a repugnant policy preference in search of a moral excuse

One day, we will say: “Where were you when Laura Jedeed braved torrential downpours, raging fairgoers, horrendous acoustics, miasma-dimmed fireworks, and waning phone battery (twice!) to live-skeet the Fourth of July in our nation’s capitol?”

Periodically refreshing the weather radar for DC like it’s a scoreboard

realizing 20 years later that my completely secular world history class in Virginia taught the Reformation in a way that highly favored the Protestant theology of personal belief over Catholic theology of actions, by focusing mainly on the grievance against indulgences

he's just doing the tragedy of Kai Winn from Star Trek: Deep Space 9

Not only was Independence Day one of the greatest summer blockbusters of the 90s, it was also (possibly) *the* greatest, pettiest cinematic diss track @secretbase.bsky.social @jonbois.bsky.social

I love the Catholic drama but I want a lot of people to see that and apply it to their own social circles where they have power. Bigots especially focused purposely confrontational bigots? Aren’t confused , and they ain’t stupid They are boundary testing . Set the boundary

You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!

important to note that, while Benedict was the one who un-excommunicated them (because he sucked), the much-more-liberal Francis ALSO made concessions with SSPX. he tried to give them a few things they wanted in the hopes that they would then offer compromises from their end, but these guys never do

This is a crazy way to think about politics: that it is "central" to democracy to translate money into “ingratiation and access” : that this is what it means to govern ourselves. It is this, not money = speech, that explains what is so wrong about this entire line of cases, laid out very baldly here

We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases

UPDATE: We learned that the folks behind Project 2025, are encouraging their base to write comments in favor of the rule. This suggests our efforts are working and they are shaken. IT ALSO MEANS WE NEED TO GO OUT WITH A BANG. MAKE YOUR COMMENT TODAY!!!

"You know it smells crazy in there" but for Grand Jury transcripts

This is the best normal article on this decision that I have seen so far. It treats everything very seriously and wonderfully. I realize now that Clarence Thomas's hateful screed gave Kavanaugh cover to be hateful but seem less bad in comparison. Their conspiracy is so many levels of gross.

this is for everybody but in particular for @clairewillett.bsky.social

waiting for @slotkin.senate.gov to explain how CO isn't really "the middle" of the country

It is grimly hilarious how much of Kavanaugh’s dissen-currence is just absolutely free-floating Framer telepathy citing to nothing but Ouija v. Board. Like five sentence in a row of “presumably the Framers would not have wanted…”. Textualism!

Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

in 2009 my music school put on a small concert on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, and more people showed up to watch 15-yr-olds play Janis Joplin songs than have shown up to this shitshow

In more uplifting news, here's a video that @danielbiss.bsky.social and @katmabu.bsky.social starred in to promote the opening of the Niles Township People's Prairie www.instagram.com/reel/DaLgydf...

"Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction....The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear."

IANAL but lawyers reacting to the birthright citizenship ruling vibe has been: What if the president issued an EO saying schools had to teach flat earth. Then SCOTUS ruled 5-4 the president cannot just decree that the Earth is flat. sure, reality won, barely, but 4/9 justices say the earth is flat

Nothing short of the modern day Plessy v. Ferguson. www.npr.org/2026/06/30/n...

We are swiftly headed for a society in which a trans kid must undergo state mandated torture, are banned from being on line, are banned from hanging out in most public spaces, are banned from using bathrooms at school, banned from accessing the health care they need, and banned from playing sports.

A handful of academic charlatans provided cover for the four justices most associated with "originalism" to vote against the plain text meaning of the 14th Amendment -- and put them on the wrong side of one of the easiest originalism calls the court has ever had to make. Racism is a hell of a drug.

I'm so pissed about this cert grant. this isn't even about GAC, it's about whether trans teens have a right to escape abusive parents and seek shelter. the statute they are challenging was amended because homeless trans youth would avoid shelters for fear of being returned to their abusive families

idk how else to look at this but "the plaintiff orgs want to stop other ppl's kids in state care from getting GAC, and these were the best plaintiff parents they could find" but they know it doesn't matter bc the Imperial Court has clearly indicated they want an excuse to rule on trans kids rights

against my better judgment i looked into the IPEC case and OOF. these facts are so bad. none of the kids have actually run away or recieved GAC! the "harm" alleged is pretty openly "it violates our rights that we cant abuse our kids as much as we want bc we're worried they'll run away to get GAC"

in a section in "Careless People", days after the 2016 US election, Wynn-Williams tries desperately to explain to Zuckerberg how FB was exploited to turn the election for Trump, and why many at the company were so horrified by that. but what Zuck learned instead was how powerful he really was

my 2 cents: the reason centrist Dems are flipping out over three (3) house seats is the same logic behind flipping out over random lefists with 300 followers posting online. its an extension of "only the left has agency" dogma that attributes all RW politics exclusively to a backlash to "woke"

To make this directly about immigration: Let's suppose the Republican position is that immigrants are criminals and too many people are crossing the border and we need to stop as much of this as we can. The Democratic position is "yes, we must strengthen the border."

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

UPDATE: The full transcript of Judge Failla's decision announcement in the NYC trans care grand jury subpoena case is now publicly available. Here it is: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

really glad to see she's fighting back. read Careless People, fuck Meta

For those without Kentuckian friends or relatives, the Bevin scandal is nuts. Like, he dumped his son in a Jamaican death camp and refused to pick him up or some shit.

this rips

turns out “who else are you gonna vote for” is not a rhetorical question