I’m only thinking about this article in the content of SCOTUS rehearing the Voting Rights Act case. This is what Republicans say in private. Republicans who are elected. Republicans who serve within their party apparatus. Republicans who work for the Trump administration & work in state government.

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

If you’re a parent of a child with a disability, you’re worried about how your family will be impacted by SpecEd Department of Education layoffs and you want to talk to a journalist about it, please DM, email (sluterman at 19thnews dot org) or Signal (slooterman.18).

Alito, joined by Thomas and Gorsuch, suggest that public schools violate the Constitution when they help a student transition (by acknowledging them as trans) without their parents' knowledge or consent. Would force schools to out trans kids to their parents. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

Important piece by Prof. Kate Andrias. This is why treating SCOTUS as the only word on the Constitution gives away our power as citizens. As I frequently say “we are founders and framers” of the next iteration of democracy in this country. GIFT LINK www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

In this clip, @hegemommy.bsky.social calls out politicians who cloak themselves as defenders of women’s sports while scapegoating trans kids and undermining #TitleIX, revealing the deep hypocrisy and cruelty at the heart of the state-sanctioned bullying in B.P.J. v. West Virginia Board of Education.

Ah, it's a new frontier in Republican lawfare: buying off noisome plaintiffs. :

In our latest episode of #BoomLawyered, @hegemommy.bsky.social and I talk about #ChilesvSalazar, the conversion therapy ban case. And we also explain why the Supreme Court is going to, yet again, stick it to queer kids. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eeh8...

Hard to compete with this.

Just like in Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine—the mifepristone case—ADF used anonymous complaints of harm they found on an anti-abortion forum online. Again, it's a fucking joke.

The only thing you really need to remember about Chiles v. Salazar is that ADF couldn't find any children harmed by not being able to find counselors who will practice conversion therapy— so they rely on anonymous complaints on Reddit. It's a fucking joke.

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

The Supreme Court is back and -- I regret to inform you-- already on their nonsense. Here's a preview of a trifecta of Alliance Defending Freedom cases on the docket so far this term rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/10/06/s...

I'm sorry but how does this person have standing to challenge Colorado's ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy when she has explicitly disclaimed any desire to change a patient's sexual orientation or gender identity? How is this a real case? slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Saudis didn’t pay big money for famous American comedians because they were super eager for comedy, they paid for PR like this.

This is key to understanding the FedSoc Supreme Court: the facts do not matter. They will invent their own reality and substitute it for the reality we're actually living in.

You may have heard my arguments against the Electoral College before. Here’s a new one the Founders never anticipated: If the President is elected by popular vote, he probably wouldn’t selectively punish entire states for voting against him.

This is the whole point. Newsome ain’t it and also blue state economies are real and Governors should start acting accordingly

extremely recent history

I’m no Newsom fanboy, but figuring out how to change the incentives of institutions considering capitulation is one of the big tasks of our moment.

The FDA just approved a NEW generic abortion pill and anti-abortion leaders are LOSING it. This approval means MORE PEOPLE GET MORE OPTIONS for abortion care. Conception Cops want to yank access entirely, but the agency gave the green light to ANOTHER generic version of the abortion pill.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

This week on Boom! Lawyered, @hegemommy.bsky.social and I get into the anti-trans cases the Supreme Court is going to fuck up this term. The challenge to Colorado's conversion therapy ban in Chiles v. Salazar and the trans girls in sports case: Ms. Becky Pepper-Jackson v. W. Va. Dept. of Education.

NEW: On Tuesday, FDA approved a new generic for mifepristone from Evita Solutions. The FDA also modified the shared REMS for mifepristone to include the new generic. You can see the company's announcement here: www.evitasolutionsllc.com

“‘My building is shaking. So, I'm like, “What is that?” Then I look out the window, it's a Blackhawk helicopter,’ said witness Dr. Alii Muhammad.” Raiding a Chicago apartment building from above as if they were on a mission to capture Osama bin Laden. Absolutely demented.

Bloomington, Indiana -- home to Indiana University -- has been "without consistently fluoridated tap water for nearly six years, a fact that’s not been publicized despite impacts to public health."

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

Christian nationalism at work destroying the economy

🚨 New Episode 🚨 This week on @reprosfightback.bsky.social I talk to the amazing @fatimagossgraves.bsky.social with the @nwlc.org about abortion access in the U.S. Y'all I had so much fun talking to her. You really don't want to miss this conversation. #podcast

This is a thundering ruling by Judge William Young (a Reagan appointee). He says that it's "perhaps the most important case" in his district and writes more than a dozen pages on "JUSTICE IN THE TRUMP ERA," focused on Trump's "bullying" and "retribution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING A federal judge that the Trump admin's policy targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation violated the First Amendment. His blistering, 161-page ruling starts with a threat he received in chambers and his response.

Read more: www.pregnancyjusticeus.org/wp-content/u...

We have NEW research on pregnancy-related prosecutions in the first two years after Dobbs, and there are surely more cases. They show us that giving rights to fertilized eggs, embryos, and fetuses paves the way for people to be ARRESTED and PUNISHED for all pregnancy outcomes — beyond abortion.

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

Survived homecoming weekend with my youngest basically unscathed. Taking the wins where I can these days

Literally laughable that his bullshit executive order about birthright citizenship is like 'We must protect its integrity and sanctity!!' And within weeks he's like 'alright bidding on citizenship starts at 10 grand do I hear 10 grand'

Oh hey Tenpenny's back! Here's some background on her particular fusion of anti-vax sentiment and Christian nationalism: religionnews.com/2021/09/14/t...

Old enough to remember when Republicans were so furious about a draft report warning about the threat of violent extremism by vets they forced Obama’s DHS to pull it. Huh.

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

This is the 20th time the Supreme Court has granted an emergency request made by the Trump administration since January. That's TWENTIETH.

The Roberts Court is a threat, not a guardrail. Let’s act (and plan) accordingly.

The interest in parental rights is as pretextual as the interest in state rights

Per the Des Moines Register: The superintendent of Des Moines schools has been arrested by ICE www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/e...

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

99 red trial balloons

Rocky Horror was my first outlet and introduction into queer culture growing up in ultra-conservative Omaha, Nebraska. It was nothing short of a lifeline for so many of us at the time

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.