Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ

JFC

Yeah either women have rights or they don't. If you think you can just hurt trans women and not all women, you're wrong.

Yes, Congress should be able to do these things. A court this contemptuous of Congress deserves to be packed by Congress, not only to correct these disastrous precedents but also because Congress needs to show both Article II and Article III who’s boss.

I think a lot of their rulings taken in concert also show a view that The Court is at the top of the constitutional order as almost a ruling council whose will is executed by the President and supported by Congress.

this is absolutely wild. where does roberts think these agencies come from?!? who invested them with authority to act? whose mandate are they designed to execute? the president is the chief EXECUTive. his job is executing the will of Congress as it spells out in its duly-passed laws!

the president can negotiate with congress. the president can offer proposals and suggestions. but the only direct control the president has over lawmaking is his ability to veto! once something is signed into law, he is constitutionally obligated to "faithfully execute" it!

so yes, unquestionably, congress could totally commandeer the EPA and tell the president to eat rocks. that is well within its constitutionally-designated authority!

to repeat a point, the underlying political theory of the unitary executive is the president as tribune — an instantiation of the sovereign will of the people. it is a Bonapartist vision of the executive and it cashes out in the idea that the executive branch must follow the president's will.

the revealed view of this SCOTUS is that the framers got things mixed up when they wrote the constitution and that actually, the president is the central figure of the national government and congress exists as a junior partner that really ought not get in his way

"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M

More evidence of my theory "most big companies executives do not understand either how AI works nor what it means to do a good job." A shallow, surface-level understanding of either would have made clear in advance that this absolutely would not work.

JD Vance made up a horrific and racist lie about a group of people, and now those people will be deported because the Supreme Court refuses to acknowledge, let along regard as disqualifying, the clear racial bias of this administration.

When I was in high school it was illegal for me to get married

Recall that the decrease in teen pregnancy accounted for the majority of the decline in the U.S.'s fertility rate

what the Brits seem to want is for things to be like they were before Brexit but without actually reversing Brexit and, well

inspired by that youtube channel where the guy makes his dad listen to radiohead albums for the first time I am happy to announce that I will also be producing a series of videos where I aggressively question my dad on why he wasn’t cool in the 90s

“Juneteenth reminds us that freedom delayed is freedom denied. The enslaved people of Texas had to wait 30 months to learn what the rest of the nation already knew. Black women in Texas are still waiting.”

Mamdani truly has the mandate of heaven

"If I didn't cry when people die, I'd have a cold butt for a heart." - Finn the human

I am fully behind this “modest proposal”. It matches my own thinking: Wealthy people and Corps do terrible things b/c they have no fear of any real consequences. My solution was fines of 25% cap value + forced exec jail time for corps, & a termination list for Billionaires. This is more elegant.

Oh! I thought this was a metaphor for some other clusterfuck and not simply a factual description of what happened.

Not lost on me that we never see any articles about how a Mamdani or a Hamawy or an El Sayed represent a kind of positive reinforcement of masculinity and masculine presence

DAMN IT. I keep forgetting we have to cancel pokemon go.

okay but again I have to emphasize that no one is proposing building a hundred square miles of corn farms in my neighborhood and hooking it up to my existing water grid.

The unique thing they're doing is "fund public health enough to do its job." Other states are trying to do similar things but at the end of the day, it's the state legislature that gets final say on funding it or not.

We have to stop the machines. It really is that simple. It can't be inevitable if this is the result.

Most 80s song you can think of. m.youtube.com/watch?v=djV1...

"oh you don't want a candidate who hates homeless people and refuses to speak out in favor of or support trans rights? well what about a guy with a secret nazi tattoo"

RE Graham Platner, from Threads:

the court has effectively ended all possible remedies for voting discrimination against racial minorities (one assumes that any group of white voters faced with the indignity of a majority-minority district will have the supreme court ready to support their challenge). electionlawblog.org?p=156541

section 2 of the VRA? nullified? the 15th amendment? only applies to intentional discrimination. intentional discrimination? impossible to prove given an unbreakable assumption of good faith for a state legislature. 14th amendment? equal protection clause means the constitution can't even see race.

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

Here's the thing

Everyone loves Jarnathan but I feel the need to point out his fellow councillors are named Voss Anderton, Krix Norvixius, and Jil Torbo, which are all grade-A Glup Shitto names

The thing about them is not just that they're great, they're the exact kind of great you come up with when your players ask you in the scene what the NPCs are called and you have to vamp. "Uh, Voss...Anderton(?)"

hope you brought urine!

Current stance is nepotism is okay if your last name is Wayans

In short:

Saying that chatgpt can be used as a disability aid for ADHD is pretty much saying you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, and don't particularly give a shit whether people get harmed.

"yeah, I have trouble organizing tasks. That's why I like this machine, it turns 1 task into a dozen and I have to check each one to make sure it's not absolute fucking nonsense, and if so triage it for editing and correction"

So let my aimless wandering be the moss that finds a crevice. Let me be the small persistent light that bends traveling the long way down until it reaches earth, until it warms one small stone, and rests there.

Idk if I can deal with another decade of discourse dictated by racist illiterates man it’s been this forever, these people don’t care about history or literature or movies and are just Nazis screaming that Santa Claus is white

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

i CaN yElL At BoTh PaRtIEs, yeah, i know, you fucking moron, you’re what we call an “undecided voter” and that’s said with maximum contempt

geriatric millenials will be like "i know a banger album" but it's just "Garden State (soundtrack)"

Someone bought a bathtub for their FROG and I’m gonna fucking die if they don’t send me a picture, lol