Mamdani really has the mandate of heaven. Severe thunderstorms just missed NYC and wrecked Connecticut instead. Fireworks went off without a hitch. Meanwhile, in DC...

it's crazy when you see a photo for the first time and recognize it's gonna be used as a shorthand for the era you're living in right now by historians in 100 years

Today we celebrate the PDFing of "Declaration FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE - SIGNED.docx" (Jefferson's draft was heavily edited by the Committee, then again by Congress, and he was big mad about it.)

Wearing heavy clothes and covering your face really raises your risk of heat stroke

My sweet Gnocchi at age 2 in the photo and today at age 16 on the chair #caturday Her black patterns have really faded with age!

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

"modern situations that were unknown or unanticipated by the Constitution’s Framers" i can think of some other examples brett

My husband worked from our son’s ICU bedside for 4 months so he could get paid

me talking to magically resurrected founding father: and so sir you can see how the supreme court has become a deeply illegitimate institution that threatens the very republic you created founding father: there are *how many* papists on it???

A whole term of catastrophically toxic rulings just to throw us this bone at the end, as if it will wash the taste of corruption away. Fuck you John Roberts.

Final #SCOTUS ruling is birthright citizenship. For a 6-3 majority (Thomas, Alito & Gorsuch, dissenting), Chief Justice Roberts *strikes down* President Trump's executive order purporting to limit which individuals born in the United States would automatically be US citizens; preserves status quo:

Last case is Trump v. Barbara. SCOTUS upholds birthright citizenship. 6-3 by Roberts with Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenting.

New AP gov curriculum: just do citizens united and then delete the rest of the campaign finance stuff in unit 5 and you’ll have more time for Adam smith! (This is a very niche post)

Gotta love someone who claims gender is biological and then cites the journal Philosophical Studies in support of the point.

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

Sticker I made for my students….feel free to use!

There’s an old metaphor about education and business that likens students to blueberries. You can just toss squishy or bruised blueberries and sell the best product. Public schools are for everyone, bruises and all. Credit to newsroom.unl.edu/announce/csm...

If there were a European cup for the country that hates a/c in the most petty way I’m giving it to Germany. Took IC train from Amsterdam to Berlin last summer. As soon as we hit the border the German crew turned the AC off (the Dutch turned it back on on their side on return trip, bless)

How is it that this person is our Reedie congressional representation? I spy a Ren Faire Pict.

It's not easy being meme-d. #Oh-Gee-I-See-Algae 👀

Paid a visit to the Strand on a trip to NYC this week and send these images to my son (adult, nerd) with the caption “picked up some souvenirs for you!” Not proud of everything I’ve done as a parent but raising a kid who laughs at this text is one of them.

It is difficult to read the Supreme Court's opinions over the last week and not see the general trend toward accretion of Court power. Interpretive philosophies like originalism give way to "plain text" readings (by judges) and historical "standards," without any specific guidelines. /1

Straight facts about originalism in one sentence from Justice Jackson.

Is there any part of DC that is *not* fenced off at this point??

The silly little ritual of Supreme Court opinion days is a perfect illustration of the justices’ self-absorption. “We’re gonna decide cases but it’s a SURPRISE which ones, so just keep refreshing this browser tab to find out who still has civil rights!” Profoundly stupid institution. I loathe it.

Since he's returned to office Trump has attacked the Smithsonian as "out of control" where everything discussed "is how horrible our country is, how bad slavery was." Lonnie Bunch has been the person who has put himself between Trump and the Smithsonian. This is the story of his work to protect it.

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

MAYBE STOP FUCKING WITH HISTORY TEACHING THEN

To the “AI is useful” crowd, it might certainly be in theory, but we can’t ignore that it is being shaped by right wing extractive logics mired in cultural hierarchal commitments, that have very little interest in a utility that serves a broader social good.

Versailles really holding up as a fantastic place to sign a treaty

Biiiiiig ancien regime Versailles energy here.

These are not serious people

Happy Loving Day to all who celebrate! 💗 www.oyez.org/cases/1966/395

this is a cat check point. relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. I had to scroll through a lot of chicken pics to get to a cat 😂 This is our bonus cat who technically lives down the street but is basically our 4th cat.

Maybe not a hot take but… Fit guys with no medical background who have always been fit and never thought twice about their weight don’t get to have an opinion about GLP1s I don’t want to hear it online or in my personal life but at least I can block them online. That is all.

This asshole taunted me all evening yesterday but wouldn’t let me see him Finally got him in my apple tree this morning! (Is this who I am now? Getting up early just to see a goddamn bird? Omg.) Pic sucks because I don’t have a telephoto camera. (It’s def this warbler. The song is distinct)

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

This is the funniest thing I have seen all week

Frenemies

This is EXACTLY it. Everything feels uncanny and wrong and I hate that my students are growing up in a world where this is “normal” to them.

10 minute Merlin recording in my VT backyard this morning! That damn catbird woke me up 😆 🪶

The first thing the editor in chief of the Roosevelt school newspaper did when she got home was hug her father. Then she opened her computer and started to type. Her article went viral. Lila Dominguez said running the newspaper during the ICE surge showed her “the power of truth.”

Majority rule is brutal like that.

Between this and the yougov poll on whether people think they can take Trump in a fight, public opinion polling is having a helluva week

What a time to be alive

Say what you will about Felix Frankfurter but never would have done this

This is so true. I tell my HS students all the time that I don’t care how messy or incomplete it is- I just want it to be *theirs* I’ve never been so happy to read half-assed writing as I am now.

This was the favorite movie of my very best friend who left us in 2021 and I shall rewatch it this weekend in her honor ❤️

Me going to teach the Supreme Court to high school students while the court is just doing this to my entire curriculum (and justice and basic rights)