I'm not checking every single one of these races but I know at least one of these candidates, Marie Glussenkamp Perez, still has a primary to win before November and could end up off the ballot if enough people back one of her opponents

Atop every flag pole in the United States rests one of the silver spheres from Phantasm, just waiting to be unleashed. This is our ultimate weapon. Our great plan to deter the Soviets from invading and stealing all of our very cool and good flags.

Boggles the mind that the entire world saw ICE execute defenseless people in the street and somehow there are still sitting Democrats who have a wide open flank on abolishing the agency

dialectical approach is needed. obviously majoritarian society is gonna do the This is Gonna Hurt Real Women and Black Women bullshit song and dance. We get it. But like, the end goal is a return to racial segregation. It doesn't feel great to say out loud but it is true

22 House Democrats just voted with the GOP to kill a resolution from Rashida Tlaib to restrict the U.S. from assisting Israeli military operations in Lebanon.

This is bone-chilling. A conservative hedge fund manager wants to require little girls to pass genital inspections for their “safety.” And it’s only for girls’ sports. There’s a clear link between transphobia and child sexual abuse.

I keep seeing people thinking this is a bluesky problem. If you're seeing this it thinks you're in a state or country with age verification laws. This is what every social media site will do if KOSA and the KIDS Act succeeds. Running to another socmed won't fix it, we have to fight the source.

This part! Did y'all collectively forget rage face Brett from the articles around his confirmation hearings?

Very happy to see that @underwood.house.gov voted against this disaster of a bill.

An update on the KIDS Act: the package of censorship and surveillance "kids safety" bills that Congress rushed to a vote, passed out of the House last night on a 267-117 vote (with 47 members not voting). This is bad news, but not the end of the road. KOSA is not law yet.

the thing that keeps striking me is that the National Mall is usually FULL of people. It's not just that people aren't coming to this. It's that they are actively avoiding it.

It's the same picture

The second stupidest part of this is that they did in fact anticipate this. The Senate debated the issue of Chinese people overrunning the US when debating the amendment in 1866. Rep. Luna here is making the same argument that Sen. Edgar Cowan made 160 years ago. www.congress.gov/congressiona...

among the other things ... this idea/rhetoric/ignorance/lie that the 14th amendment was drafted by, let's say, Alexander Hamilton & co

I'm pissy because 1. I have negative money right now and he got paid for this drivel selling out our community, and 2. I spent three hours talking to him about this very subject and man might be harvard educated but he does not know what he's talking about, and 3. man, just fuck him.

Last day :-/

Just wanted to point out that Schumer has not yet said a single word about SCOTUS' anti-trans ruling.

also "biological sex" is a meaningless house of cards that falls apart at the simplest push.

Matthew Vines is way too young to be making this argument. He's never lived in a world where groups like Queer Nation and slogans like, "we're here, we're queer, get used to it," didn't exist, and being raised fundy doesn't explain it because fundies loved to complain about those things.

People, for the love of God, please stop treating birthright as some kind of sweeping victory. It was 5-4 on the constitutional issue. The dissent laid out a fucking ROADMAP for what Trump should do next. The court always gives Trump multiple bites at the apple WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU HAPPY ABOUT?

I really am not surprised if D&Q would turn the other way wrt stealing other people's works (LRT) since they did it to me for Constitution Illustrated. "Fair use" was their excuse for tracing wholesale.

Guaranteed: 1) Black girls will be harassed and demanded to be tested over and over again regardless of how competitive they are. 2) Winners from public schools will be relentlessly hounded by the parents and coaches of losers at private schools, with the goal of making them quit the sport.

“the voice of Willy Wonka is that of Gene Wilder, recreated by GenAI”

It’s really beyond time for the Dems to be real opposition on this very clear human rights issue. www.hrc.org/press-releas...

The trans panic and vaccine refusal are, like the Satanic Panic before them, niche beliefs seeded by fringe lunatics and built whole cloth by the media Just Asking Questions. Normal people have to be taught to think this way. They can be taught to forget.

i have run out of things i can legally say about the supreme court

Second apparently this was a close case for this Court. As it stands the decision is 6-3. In 1898 the Court’s decision protecting birthright citizenship, Won Kim Ark v. U.S., was 6-2. That means this SCOTUS is either on par w/or to the right of the 1898 Court - the same SCOTUS that decided Plessy!

The court held that "sex" in Title IX refers to "biological sex" but then doesn't define it. Is it DNA? Endogenous hormone profile? Gametes? Primary sex characteristics? Those can all be incongruous.

The aftermath: Expect the Department of Education to try to implement a national trans sports and bathroom ban by arguing that Title IX requires it. The EEOC may follow suit with similar regulations under Title VII. This decision does not support those readings but Trump admin will try.

If the problem is that the platforms are acting as orwellian panopticons and not that people are communicating over the internet, then we should be regulating how platforms retain and share user data and also how ai services especially, such as claude, chatgpt, gemini, grok, etc retain and share it.

Honestly, I wish the conversation around whether Buttigieg is Queer Enough revolved around stuff like him throwing trans women to the wolves in re: sports bans, not stuff like him once admitting in an interview that he used to wish he was straight before he self-accepted: www.them.us/story/pete-b...

14th Amendment (1868): “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It couldn't be more clear. Alarming that this ruling was so close.

Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as

have like 29 and get the next Dem president to appoint 20.

Justice Kagan: "So the Court ushers back in the same opportunities for quid pro quo corruption that the contribution limits were meant to check."

I'm so sad. No one should be forced to remain closeted in order to meaningfully participate in the sports they love. That's what I was forced to do and no one should experience that.

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

Aaaaand that's enough news my headspace can take for the day.

I've hated Thomas since I was 13 years old and it's always amazing to me that I was right on the money

BREAKING: AFTER EXTENDED PAUSE, SAMUEL ALITO FOLLOWS RETIREMENT ANNOUNCEMENT BY SAYING “NOT!” “You know, like in the Wayne World,” said the conservative Supreme Court Justice.

We were one vote away from the Supreme Court saying the Constitution is unconstitutional

Court can't go on like this. The Constitution as plainly as possible says people who were born here have an unequivocal right to citizenship. Four people whose ONLY job is to read the Constitution for the rest of their lives just tried to overturn it because they're tired of brown people. Pack it.

Four Supreme Court justices inventing the "nuh-uh I don't like it ewww" defense to the actual text of the Constitution.

This is what the moderates got us.

My apologies, this decision is actually 5-4 where it counts. Kavanaugh says in a concurring opinion that he thinks Trump’s EO violates a federal statute that restates the Citizenship Clause, but not the clause itself.

Kavanaugh’s concurring opinion attempts to divine the intentions and desires of the Fourteenth Amendment’s drafters without a single citation of anything they wrote.