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.

When you present made up BS as historical research, and being proven time and again to be wrong, and keep doing it, it is reasonable to conclude you do so on purpose. If this is not academic fraud, I don't know what is.

The contradiction between what Wurman put in his scholarly writing, versus what he put in a court document, where he is under penalties of perjury, is enough, IMO, to initiate tenure review at any self-respecting academic institution.

military discipline used to be one of those things the centrist gatekeepers in the media said they took really seriously but it went out the window the moment their boy trump had problems with it.

I am convinced there is a sizable percentage of this site that not only can't read, they want to punish people for suggesting they should

by far the worst tendency on this platform is its tendency to interpret a description of something that happened or is happening as an endorsement of that thing I have been reading Mark on conversion therapy cases for years and he has always been very clear about how awful it is

Between illegal boat strikes, illegal war with Iran, and who knows what else is coming down the road, clearly there is a institutional and cultural rot in the senior American officer corps that they refuse to fix themselves

I’ve come around to the idea at this point that a not to insignificant number of 3 and 4 stars need to be purged from the service

We’re going to need to arrest a lot of people if we want to impose adult supervision on the military before this is all over.

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

Something that stuck with me from that conversation — someone asked about who inside Iran could lead an opposition movement and she said, “they’re all in [Evin] prison.” Worth remembering Israel bombed Evin last July.

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"

yeah they're gonna demand an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon to reopen the Strait, which your local TACO-obsessed equities trader appears completely oblivious to

Ta-Nehisi Coates was raked over the coals for comparing Israeli apartheid to Jim Crow and to be frank you have to put effort into not seeing it. This in some important ways goes farther than US segregationists did.

Once again, this site has a significant problem with people who cannot distinguish between "here is what the law is"/"here is what happened" and "I endorse that law/what happened."

Please don't run really smart guys like Mark off the platform because you can't read or are addicted to getting mad online

Perhaps now more European news media journalists can openly acknowledge that the President of the United States is no longer sane

I’d transfer or drop out, immediately.

I’m watching a Bourdain about Oman because I cannot WAIT to go back to Oman and literally in the first 3:35 he mentions that the strait of Hormuz is a major oil choke point and gosh it’s not like that was a secret huh

Now rewatching

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It is so striking how all this resembles Covid so much. The primacy of the power of positive thinking, arbitrary deadlines where they announce something out of their control to be over, large portions of media/business believing them, because "wouldn't it be great?"

We literally threatened to invade a NATO ally THIS YEAR. TWO MONTHS AGO.

These are metrics in search of a theory of victory that they can be applied to.

i'm glad i'm not a lawyer so i don't have to pretend banning child torture and speech are in any way related

Destroying desalination plants is an unspeakable atrocity, according to the woke lib, four star general, Normal Schwarzkopf Jr

at some point, "distraction" talk became the ultimate thought-terminating cliche, as online users sincerely believed that there was a Final Boss out there and that any discourse not about that mueller ex machina would ensure that the fairies never got their wings

The University of Arkansas is moving ahead with terminating Shirin Saeidi, a scholar who literally wrote the book on Women and Politics in Iran, over tweets critical of Israel. Just colossally stupid in this moment. arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...

Nice to see this from the Dem account. But oh boy, are the replies on this post of theirs on Twitter a straight up superfund site.

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There is no answer. Trump doesn't know. He's just saying stuff. No one is driving the bus.

To honor Trans Day of Visibility: I had a trans student years ago who asked me to write them a letter of rec for grad school. They didn't tell me if they wanted their birth gender or their real gender used (they said maybe birth but ?) SO I wrote the entire letter without using ANY gender refs.

While the Internet Archive is not an archive and doesn't follow sound library or archival practices, without it we wouldn't have most of the web's history. It's good they exist, and they couldn't do so while maintaining the high collection standards my industry requires.

On this day. March 30, 1979, Hüsker Dü’s first public performance. It happened at Ron’s Randolph Inn, 1217 Randolph Ave in St. Paul. Image provided to Hüsker Dü Database by Greg Norton.

Today is the Transgender Day of Visibility and I'll take the opportunity to once again say that trans people matter, their lives have meaning, and what's being done to them by so many politicians and people in this country is wrong.

Hats off sir, it takes a special kind of genius to tank the stock of an EV company when oil is over $100 a barrel

Amazingly the Hegseth-picked press isn’t asking him tough questions in an attempt to hold his feet to the fire, hold power accountable, and inform the public. They’re asking these basic questions because they assume Hegseth knows what he’s doing, is succeeding, and will therefore have good answers.

this is a place of honor. something extremely cool is buried here.

They’d rather the country be poorer and whiter than rich and diverse. Of course when the pie shrinks, the rich will demand the same amount and will tell you the crumbs you’re left with are because of immigrants or trans people or DEI. bsky.app/profile/apne...

this account is just incredible content

Honestly considering the number of people in fandom space who absolutely crash out if the moral isn't one they exactly endorse stated as explicitly as possible with everyone who dared act against it very harshly punished, indeed if they are even comfortable with evil depicted at all...we need this.

Happy Birthday to Tracy Chapman.

The whole thing about Democrats searching for a winning message for the midterms is infuriating because it is staring them in the face: Rule of Law — People who do illegal shit should face consequences. For insider trading. For illegal wars. For ignoring court orders. For being a pedophile.

to be clear tho, "sovereignty" over the strait is in fact not legal in terms of international maritime law, so it's unlikely oman will sign on and even if they do it's even less likely anyone will recognize this outside iran

every time I see a clip like this it is more and more explicable why biden was calamitous

Israel has pushed ground forces into multiple areas of southern Lebanon They've displaced huge numbers of civilians... Yet it barely registers. Russia did the same in Ukraine and the world responded with sanctions, outrage and coordinated pressure The double standards are UNFORGIVABLE.

I think it's actually essential to children's moral development to be exposed to short stories moderately beyond their reading level where a bunch of fucked up shit happens and then instead of offering a moral lesson or any sort of emotional or narrative resolution it just ends.

reading a book about iran. apparently the gov there is run by a Supreme Leader who has conducted mass deportations, sent forces into cities, uses state licenses to control media, labeled protestors "enemies," slapped tariffs on industries, and is supported by religious extremists. didn't know this.

you notice this everywhere when you really start paying attention, and it’s totally infuriating

The stupid choice of this war is only eclipsed by abominable conduct in war. I would say we're going to screw up the post bello too, but it doesn't look like we'll be the ones deciding that.