Iconic line from @stevevladeck.bsky.social here in response to Will Baude’s SCOTUS boosterism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/o...

hi seth! trans civil rights lawyer in massachusetts here. if “blanket” bans go too far, what do you think is the appropriate extent to which trans people should be banned from participation?

Cartoon by @garthtoons.bsky.social

Remember these draconian Prairieland sentences when people talk about the importance of using the criminal system for "justice." A system is what it does; nothing more.

At a time when too many have tried to pit communities against one another, @jvp.bsky.social has shown that standing against antisemitism and standing up for the lives and dignity of Palestinians are rooted in the same commitment to our shared humanity. I'm humbled and energized by their support.

It's really hard to convey just how massive the scale of legislation has been to target trans people. From a few dozen pieces of legislation in 2015 to over a thousand in 2025. It started with sports bans in 2020 and now we're here. it was never about sports.

Supreme Court Upholds Temporal Gerrymander That Would Cost Democrats 1932 Election https://theonion.com/supreme-court-upholds-temporal-gerrymander-that-would-cost-democrats-1932-election/

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

in Jan, I was at the rally for the trans sports case at the Supreme Court. today SCOTUS ruled states can ban trans girls from sports. @us.theguardian.com "This hyper-focus on sports is yet another example of the ways that they are trying to erase trans and non-binary people from public life.”

I think the ban on gender marker changes for passports, trans people in the military, and a number of other Trump admin policies survive under the test they just set out under the 14th amendment. I believe protections for trans people under this constitution are effectively dead for a generation.

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.

BREAKING: Today, the Supreme Court upheld discriminatory, anti-trans sports bans in West Virginia and Idaho, allowing these states to leave transgender student athletes behind simply for who they are. All kids deserve the freedom to be, to play, and to belong. Full stop.

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States." That's the 14th amendment. And four MAGA activists in robes said, "nah." They barely lost while demonstrating how illigitimate this court is. Term limits and expansion or bust.

The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.

(1) The party of Jeffrey Epstein wants genital inspections for teen athletes. (2) Every time conservative justices can destroy a campaign finance law, they will. (3) Upholding birthright citizenship should have been unanimous. That it wasn't shows how extreme the Court conservatives are.

Well here's some good news at least - Indivisible national endorsed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social this morning after a supermajority vote of support from our locals in Michigan! michiganadvance.com/2026/06/30/a...

As always, FUCK CLARENCE THOMAS. Fuck Transphobia. This is truly disgusting, but expected coming from such a monster. From his concurrence:

1/ Transgender Americans want the same things as every other American: the freedom to build a good life, earn a livable wage, and fully participate in their communities — including, for many, the camaraderie, discipline, and sense of belonging that come from sports.

COMMENTARY from Michigan Advance Editor-in-Chief Jon King The most patriotic celebration I attended this weekend wasn’t at Freedom 250 michiganadvance.com/2026/06/29/t...

Ugh. Supreme Court rules in Slaughter, 6-3 that Trump can fire people from the FTC. But in Cook, Court rules 5-4 that Trump cannot fire everybody from the Fed. Roberts writes both majority opinions There's no real difference between the FTC and the FED other than Roberts likes the Fed.

BREAKING: Today was another power grab by the Supreme Court — and a big increase in power for unaccountable presidents. 1/4

The Constitutional Crisis started in 2000. You've been living through it your entire adult life. The reason politics feels hopeless is by design — conservatives broke our democratic form of government to guarantee that the people cannot act against them and are continuing to break it.

The notion that the president has absolute power over creations of Congress is already nuts, with no basis in law, but it reaches utterly absurd when it includes an unwritten "but not when some Supreme Court Justices feel like he's messing with the money" exception.

Police use of artificial intelligence grows as rules lag behind michiganadvance.com/2026/06/29/r... From @stateline.org

John Roberts in Slaughter and Cook: “it’s ok to fuck with consumers, but not my personal stock portfolio!”

It's pretty clear they don't want Trump messing with the fed because it has the power to destroy capital if mishandled. The FTC protects consumers against corporate malfeasance so of course the commissioners can be fired. It's so transparent whose interests are protected by this court.

Titan - March 21 2017 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/TdFQiR

I love you, Grand Rapids!

The land of dunes - sol 671 - From Thomas Appéré (thomasappere.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/nQNFV1

Shame on you @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social , but thanks for this clip, giving me more ammunition in my fight to convince my family to vote Abdul

Establishment Dems continue with the absolutely unhinged rhetoric. McMorrow is asked if her attacks on Hasan Piker backfired as Abdul El-Sayed is surging in the polls, and she responds by invoking a terrorist attack against a synagogue in Michigan, implying Piker is somehow implicated?

My not-so-hot take is that what Mamdani is doing *IS* incrementalism, and the bar is so deeply in hell that a politician just doing *anything* good consistently is a total anomaly for people. And I think for now that is good and fine, because it is restoring people’s faith that better is possible.

Every time I read "have you tried contacting the ACLU" as some random person's response to a post about a person experiencing an injustice because of some asshole DMCA issue, I want to pull out my hair. Even if the ACLU happened to give a shit, that is not what they do. Just stop.

Man, remember this morning, when it was unconstitutional for the federal government to summarily expel people from the country to their unlivable home countries out of racial animus? Those were the days.

MI House Republicans just leaked video of an empty child care facility they claim is getting fraudulent $$. The problem? The empty facility is still in the review stage, “is not a licensed child care provider in Michigan and has not received any program funding.” www.michigan.gov/mileap/press...

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

Look man, we need moderates. We need people who tell us that we should fight pointless and expensive foreign wars, racism lite, and a brand new 72 part tax cut that applies to people who complete an obstacle course on every third Friday of 2029.

A Trans woman in Kansas changed her license to M because of the gender marker ban passed earlier this year. She gets pulled over and they didn't believe the license was hers. They later charge her for driving with an invalid license. She complied with the law and was still charged criminally.

Thanks to the Advocate for helping to cover my analysis of the New York Times coverage over the last 12 years. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

“This isn’t about any individual story,” civil rights attorney Alejandra Caraballo, who said the project took her two months to complete, told me. “This is about the whole corpus of how they’ve covered trans issues over time.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

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According to a press release from Michigan AG Dana Nessel, an update filed Monday in federal court in Detroit confirms ICE has abandoned plans to convert the Romulus warehouse into a detention center and will sell the property. The parties agreed to file another update by July 17.

Reactionary centrist pundits are begging Democrats to abandon transgender people. Under Starmer, Labour did that... with trans people suffering more under their rule than even under conservative governments. And it was all for nothing. Dems must not make Starmer's mistake. Read my latest.

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Saturn's Hexagon - From Val Klavans (valklavans.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/dYsXyF

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