🎯 @mikenellis.bsky.social : “If @scottjenningsky & Thune can have calls with McConnell, he should be able to shoot a proof of life video… they know the special election deadline is 8/3.” If they’re Weekend At Bernie’s-ing Mitch to 🦆 an election that should be a crime. (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )

Platner holding Maine voters hostage would be the biggest gift possible to the establishment Democrats he claims to oppose. It would prove their theory of candidate selection 100% correct.

Erdogan clutches a wandering Trump's arm to guide him around

BREAKING: U.S. forces are launching a new wave of strikes against Iran in response to its attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz This round is far more intense than the previous ones A U.S. official told PBS News: “Iran has clearly demonstrated they’re not listening. We’re turning up the volume”

UPDATE: A federal judge denied DOJ's request to pause an injunction against Trump's mail voting executive order, confirming the order remains blocked in 23 blue states and D.C. The DOJ appealed the injunction to the First Circuit last week.

Scott Jennings is playin' "Weekend at Bernie's" and he wants you to join in. Film at 11.

Hey Texans: Is this really what your Christian values look like?

THIS SHOULD ALARM EVERYONE Trump’s DOJ is sending election monitors to Detroit, Lansing, and East Lansing for Michigan’s August 4 primary. The real target isn’t just the election. It’s public trust in blue cities.

President Macron became the first major world leader to visit Syria after the success of the revolution. Israel, Russia and ISIS-linked terrorist groups strongly opposed the visit and the presence of France. At least two bombs exploded near Macron’s hotel, injuring 18 people.

The other day the Washington Post editorial board criticized the Supreme Court for not issuing a narrower ruling on birthright citizenship. This is why you don't issue a narrow ruling, this is why institutions need to explicitly defend the constitution.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

underappreciated that the racist and lawless position adopted by 4 justices in the birthright citizenship case a few days ago was considered and rejected by justices in *1898* who were like oh woof that's too racist and lawless even for us ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...

This here is the entire crux of the issue. We had sensible regulations requiring years of testosterone suppression and hormone therapy to play in women's sports. This had not been a problem for nearly twenty years, including at the olympics. Then the right made it one by straight up lying about it.

In conjunction with RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine organization, a woman named Andrea Shaw is a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics. She claims that vaccines caused the death of her 18-month old twins. She was just charged with first degree murder in their deaths.

Listen. I spent more than a decade as a theatrical technician, rigging stages, hanging lights, flying scenery, etc. The number of times I have dropped anything on a stage with performers on it is zero. The number of times I’ve dropped something that might’ve killed someone is zero. This is major.

Trump: "Almost anything my kids do -- if they buy a truck -- they have inside information"

Two years ago, my colleagues and I were sued by Stephen Miller's America First Legal. The Hines v Stamos case — built atop a number of false allegations — was a central element of the "censorship industrial complex" myth. Today, that case was dismissed (by a Trump judge in LA). We won.

In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽

Major Watson calls for the impeachment, conviction, and removal of Donald Trump and JD Vance. For starters: #ProudBlue #MajorWatson #DefendersOfOurRepublic

Trump's lawyers asked for E. Jean Carroll's consent to delay the $5 million awarded to her. Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, informed Trump's team that "Carroll does not consent." Kaplan says Carroll wants the immediate disbursement of the funds she has waited years to receive.

The fundamental problem here is that we condition college affordability on participation in sports. If we had free public colleges like Europe, this wouldn't be as much of an issue. Instead, the issue of college affordability gets scapegoated onto trans people.

Here we see @stevevladeck.bsky.social vindicated again bsky.app/profile/prop...

If you're a CLAHS s alumn who got the VT survey on what you want from the next president now that Timmy Sands is "stepping down," please fill it out. Make it clear we want someone who actually cares about the whole school, not just the football team, the corps of cadets, & engineering, in that order

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

Florida has executed more prisoners this year than all other states combined. Gov. Ron DeSantis has complete control over whether and when to set execution dates, which he does behind closed doors.

The great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, whose 1898 case established birthright citizenship, reacts to today's SCOTUS decision: "He was one man, only a cook, and yet he stood up for what was right... Today's ruling shows that his victory remains as important now as it was in 1898."

Birthright citizenship remains constitutionally protected by the 14th Amendment. But today we learned that U.S. constitutional guarantees — even the "right to have rights" — can be one vote away from being nullified via executive order, if enough justices agree with a fringe legal theory.

If you're curious about how ALPR (Automated License Plate Readers) work or what info they gather, visit Deflock. While you're there check the maps in your area... maybe there's a route with fewer warrantless searches.

Fact check: Vought has, in fact, repeatedly expressed support for Christian nationalism by name. He has been very public about that. religionnews.com/2025/06/23/o...

While this ruling is a win, it is also absolutely insane that four justices were willing to allow the president to rewrite the 14th Amendment.

This is simply not true. Congress cannot do this without a Constitutional Amendment. No gray area here.

That image of a golden eagle on the exterior of the White House is AI-generated. There is no such decoration on the Truman Balcony—at least not at this time.

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

yikes

Holy G-d, Alito is legitimately going full Great Replacement in his Barbara dissent. This is batshit. A SCOTUS justice is legitimately complaining about "the overall foreign-born population" and its "grotesque results" 😬

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

It's going to end up being a surveillance state that requires severe privacy risks for girls to participate in sports going forward including invasive genetic testing and physical examinations.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court upholds West Virginia and Idaho's laws banning trans girls and women from women's sports. Justice Kavanaugh has the opinion for the court, holding that states "may" make sports eligibility based on "biological sex." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

This should never have even been up for debate. If you are born in America, you’re an American. Period. 🇺🇸

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will consider striking down assault weapons bans, in Connecticut and the Chicago-area.

So he's gonna advocate for all people with depression to get four months off for rehabilitation, right? And he's gonna tell RFK jr to fuck off with his quest to limit the medication that Kean is very clearly taking to be functional?

If Nina Totenberg accidentally published her pre-write before she was supposed to and blew Alito's retirement announcement, I am going to die laughing at my desk

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

Gorsuch literally says as much as this in his Slaughter concurrence. He calls this the Constitution as originally intended.

My read on the birthright citizenship cert grant was that the court, and particularly Roberts, wanted to use it as a fig leaf—an easy way to buck Trump & distract the public from their cooperation with him. The razor-thin margin of today’s ruling makes me think even that view was too optimistic.

BREAKING: Trump’s rule change for the Office of Management and Budget will not only require agencies to ensure grants advance the president’s priorities, it will also kill up to 5,000 clinical trials — including 1,000 cancer treatment studies fight2win.standupforscience.net @standupforscience.net

The Supreme Court just overturned 90 years of precedent to transfer unprecedented new powers to the executive:

NOW: The Supreme Court DECLINED to hear Trump’s appeal, leaving the $5 million verdict against him for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll intact.

Leave it to Alito to dissent and argue without evidence that voting by mail promotes voter fraud.

JUST IN: In a major blow to Donald Trump, the Supreme Court ruled that election officials can count mail-in ballots received after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked beforehand, rejecting a challenge by the Republican National Committee.