A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

Was reading Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent in Chiles v. Salazar, and I was fascinated by this passage. Between the IOC’s inane testing decision and today’s (bonkers) SCOTUS ruling it feels like we’re getting to “drained-pool politics” on gender and sexuality… (1/2)

I hope the UAE is paying Wood for this garbage, because one of the few things more disgusting than being a paid propagandist for a slave society is being an unpaid propagandist for one.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

THIS is the story. That the feds are spying on people doing completely legal stuff and characterizing them as “anarchist violent extremists.” The story is NOT that you need to be afraid to court watch or patrol your neighborhood for ICE activity. DO NOT SELF-REPRESS.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

*pointing upward and nodding sagely on Tiktok*

Dividing the world into a bunch of segregated ethnostates is a terrible and bigoted idea. We don't need to be separated from each other. We need to embrace each other, accept each other, celebrate each other. Interfaith, interracial, and intercultural exchange make us better. They're the future.

Bari’s key insight as an entrepreneur is that there is a bottomless demand for rich people to have their existing opinions sold back to them as forbidden knowledge

The single most telling moment about the purported antisemitism epidemic on college campuses was when I, a Jew, was accused of being "anti-Jewish" by a non-Jewish college lawyer when representing some antigenocide protesters and when I said I was Jewish the lawyer responded "you don't act like it."

The reason I despise Stephen Miller so much is the same reason I am so ardently antizionist: We, as Jews, should know better than ANYONE the human consequences of throwing in with fascists. Being a fascist is a betrayal of every Jewish value I hold dear. It's beneath contempt.

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

i hate that we are in a resurgence of the r-slur as a result of the current political climate. don’t use it. it’s not cute.

i keep reading statements from democrats saying they find mahmoud khaleil's views to be abhorrent and despicable before going on to say that he should nonetheless be given due process. but no one has been able to demonstrate what khaleil's views are beyond the admin's assertions. except for cnn:

The Always Disappointing League strikes again

Columbia University sold out to fascists and brutally cracked down on kids whose only sin was opposing genocide. The fascists threw the University under the bus anyway. I feel like there's a lesson in there about complying with fascism.

Republican rhetoric sounds anti-government. But that’s just a cover. Great explainer quote from @keeanga.bsky.social “The right is not anti-statist…they love the war state. They love the police state. They love the business state. It’s the social welfare state that is the problem.” #StopTheCoup

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

From the perspective of US foreign policy, it is the job of the IDF to be cannon fodder in service of American interests in the region. As soon as that dynamic is reversed, the relationship becomes worthless to even the most hawkish hawks.

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“Haha can you believe McDonalds is doing a Squid Game promo” easily yes because capital subsumes all critiques of itself and no popular TV show or piece of art will ever threaten or unsettle it

If someone wishes you "happy holidays," it doesn't mean they hate Christmas. They're simply acknowledging that there are *many* sacred observances that take place this month, including the anniversary of Muntadhar al-Zaidi throwing a shoe at George W Bush on this date in 2008.

#OtD 14 Dec 2008 journalist @muntazer_zaidi threw his shoes at President George W Bush in protest at the US occupation of Iraq, shouting "This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq." He resumed his activism after 6 months jail stories.workingclasshistory.c...

maybe it’s just me but I think I’d be more comfortable sometimes riding in a subway car with a homeless man than I am knowing you can apparently be choked to death by a stranger and have the law say they were justified because you were making them anxious or something.

Daniel Penny acquitted after literally killing someone on camera for being disruptive on the train the same day a person of interest in the shooting of a shitbag healthcare exec gets grabbed pretty succinctly sums up who in this country is allowed to kill and who they’re allowed to kill.