Devastating news for the two people who were there

The right-wing attack on birthright citizenship is not just about birthright citizenship itself. As MAGA’s reaction to the Supreme Court ruling proves, it is part of their opposition to a broader ideal, that “All men are created equal.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

During a photo session with a young fan, Egyptian staff are assaulted by cops in Dallas. Egypt is Australia's opponent tomorrow morning. Aus squad include six players of African heritage plus another from Sri Lanka. This could easily have been us ... #Profiling #WorldCup #AustraliaEgypt #Socceroos

It is seriously alarming how many of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people are just screamingly mentally unwell in deeply toxic, dangerous ways.

No school should be on X or oblige parents to get updates from it. A site that actively promotes porn, bullying, hate and fascism is not an appropriate place to post pictures of sports days.

Kudos #BookSky

US legal history is not linear and one of inexorable progress. For wins like the Voting Rights Act and Roe v Wade, there will be a long fight to roll it back, and we must fight anew once more. There is no "deep precedent" that can stand the test of time if the losing side doesn't stop fighting.

As an American history professor, I regularly read new books, articles, and dissertations, and also evaluate unpublished manuscripts for journals and book publishers. I would not categorize the recent and emerging historiography in the binary way that Ezra Klein does.

USAID was manipulating the charts to promote rap, says the guy everyone must go to for approval for some reason.

When you say the quiet part extremely loudly, and yet somehow it isn't a massive scandal but Hunter Biden www.realitytea.com/2026/07/03/d...

The premise here, repeated throughout American history, is that only some kind of mental manipulation could make white people enjoy art by black people. You start acknowledging black cultural contributions as valuable it’s a slippery slope to seeing black people as people bsky.app/profile/left...

Serena Williams lost at Wimbledon yesterday to Maya Joint and this is significant because when Maya Joint was born, Serena Williams had 7 Grand Slam titles

Last year ICE said a man tried to murder a female ICE officer while she was trying to arrest him. They swore under oath he grabbed her by the neck and tried to choke her to death. He was even indicted for attempted murder. Problem is, it never happened! Bystander video unraveled the lie.

He has to go.

Here’s some straight talk from someone who knows some things.

Democrat Phil Weiser is the overwhelming favorite to be Colorado's next Governor. He says Colorado would be better served with a more competitive Republican party. "Competition makes us stronger," Weiser said. "It's not healthy for any state to have one party that's dominant."

This is what an actual true patriot looks like. God bless you and protect you for your courage!

It's just like MAGA, except it wants a more tolerant, egalitarian society, where everyone has healthcare and the material prerequisites of a life of dignity. I guess from the perspective of the theater critics in media, that difference is invisible.

movie pitch: what if the North won the Civil War

It will never make sense. They don't pretend to make sense. They just hope the people voting for them are dumb (with a "b" at the end).

if I were an elected representative and my constituents were coming up and saying "our daughter can't go to college unless she gets an athletic scholarship" I would be like "this is why we need universal free college" not "we'll pretend to solve this by being cruel to trans people." crazy right

to everyone at risk or redundancy in academia right now:

Whenever NYT talks about Trump and Iran, he is the agent, even when Iran is handing him his ass. Here, when talking about Trump bilking investors?

Today's bonus issue of "One First" argues that one of the real unifying themes of #SCOTUS's October 2025 Term is the numerous opportunities the justices *missed* to appear to be above politics—and the (entirely unnecessary) wounds they inflicted on the Court's credibility along the way:

AOC has changed the trajectory of American politics and inspired a generation to believe that government really can work for working people. I am deeply honored to earn her endorsement for US Senate. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/u...

Happy “liberal arts professor helps save the Union” day to all who celebrate

People : oh wow they ordained those illegal bishops i wonder what the pope might d- Pope : EXCOMMUNICATE DAY WOO People : u didnt let me fin- Pope : I DIDNT STUTTER JIMMY

it's so cool these guys bought the presidency to give themselves a few more years of runway so they could finally build a product that makes money then failed to build a product that makes money

JFC

worst red card in my two weeks of watching soccer

"US is preparing subs right now" - Things you want to hear during a soccer game and not a nuclear crisis.

Could there have been a blackmail situation? Are he and Tina secretly in love? The mind boggles.

The White House is openly saying they want to eliminate a minority group and people still want to say this is about sports.

Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering

President Claudia Sheinbaum is rolling out Universal Healthcare for 120 Million Mexican residents. Now that is leadership, I’m both jealous and very happy for the people of Mexico.

Mitch McConnell’s heart attack raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health.

prepare the soccer attorneys

Go Phil!

Cosign with a friendly amendment: all dogs. I love a joyous dog and have two of them. Number three is solemn and quiet but also a delight.

If you cannot bear to read about this person and her views, then don't. I am trying to listen and learn. Because I can't control many things but taking a breath and trying to understand where other people are coming from is important to me.

We need to listen to the young people even when it's uncomfortable. They sense a crisis and they are acting.

Go Phil!

Advocates say the decision to allow Trump to end temporary protected status will send Haitians to “violent, needless deaths.”

A new state tool lets you tell data brokers to stop tracking you. Will they comply? Help us investigate.

This story will be taught in journalism classes. www.propublica.org/article/alic...

A year a half a ago, this professor made a plainly false statement that “an entire literature” existed— it didn’t—and then got multiple justices to buy into the historical fiction he backfilled, covering 800 years in a few weeks. A bastardized history, not in the search for truth, but for power.

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

All fields have bad scholarship. The production of bad scholarship is an indictment of the scholars who produce it. That some justices chose to cite the bad scholarship is an indictment of those justices. None of it is an indictment of an entire segment of the academy.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Mike Johnson's latest effort to force through the SAVE America Act to rig elections just failed. The House failed to clear a procedural vote 198-224 on the NDAA largely because the SAVE Act was attached.