*sigh*

Too much metaphor

The reflecting pool mess started funny but there's absolutely nothing funny about the DOJ securing an indictment of a man for touching a pond because the president made up a conspiracy theory about vandals that it needed to validate. That's totalitarian

This is just devastating

This man needs to spend the rest of his life rotting in a cell.

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy quits TwitterX. This should be the first of many.

coupon inside for a divorce lawyer that specializes in clawing back custody rights

Sarcastic "Are We Having Fun Yet?" at historic highs though

Someday, I hope someone writes an oral history of Fox trying to soldier on through this fiasco.

I think I'd pay to watch a Nobody Speak scenario unfold in real life

Int'l Players Anthem might be the most perfect song ever written

Minions director Pierre Coffin has confirmed in an interview that no minions have worked with Hitler because they were frozen "in that cave."

The entire GOP platform under Trump II consists of exactly fourteen words.

this is a supervillian monologue from a 80s coming of age movie

As today’s SCOTUS campaign finance decision makes clear, our job is not saving democracy in America, it is restoring democracy in America.

i frequently grind my teeth about what i find to be unproductive complaints about various elected democrats but you can have jared polis, call him whatever you want, he fucking sucks and this is how he deserves to end his political career

Statements from Dems like this one make it harder to press for Supreme Court reform. This ruling was a near-disaster and shows how unhinged SCOTUS has become—now just one vote away from overturning the 14th Amendment. But a sitting senator says they "applaud" the ruling.

Briefly breaking my paternity leave social media embargo to share my thoughts on Rep. Tom Kean because I feel strongly about the topic, in case anyone is interested-

My problem with the ratchet argument here is it assumes that the GOP in its current, extreme form is equally likely to win future elections and part of court reform is ensuring eg we restore the VRA and making that less likely to begin with.

i am the proud son of Jamaican immigrants. i am a proud "anchor baby." AND YOU BET YOUR ASS I'M AN AMERICAN.

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

I try not to do too much doomerism, but without Court reform, we are cooked

Just a completely illegitimate institution when a neo-Confederate nominates most of the bench through shear bullshit luck.

Destroying the Voting Rights Act, making Trump a king with almost sovereign power over the executive branch, and letting him turn Congress into little more than a debate club is how Supreme Court minority rule perpetuates minority rule. Court expansion is the bare minimum for restoring democracy

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

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.

It's 5 4 in that there are 4 votes that the constitution does not mandate birthright citizenship.

6-3 is absolutely appalling here, I expected Alito and Thomas but Gorsuch is a nasty surprise after the oral arguments dismantle this court

Stacking the Court and institutional reform isn't enough. The 6 need to face consequences and those consequences get more draconian with every opinion.

my god, birthright citizenship was 6-3, with alito, gorsuch, and thomas dissenting, and kavanaugh dissenting as to whether the 14th amendment provides birthright citizenship the plain language of the 14th amendment survives by one vote

Roberts is the most cynical man alive and I hope he's remembered as the evil piece of shit that he is.

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

The Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution built on minority rule. 5 of the 6 Republican justices were appointed by presidents who lost the popular vote for their first term and confirmed by senates that Republicans controlled despite Democrats winning more votes and representing more people

We need a puritanical fire of anti-corruption to burn through this godforsaken country

my policy priority is revenge

Oh look, it’s an unenforceable law, it’d be a shame if I went out and broke it

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.

Conservatives are unrepentantly evil and must be stopped at any cost.

I do not think there is sufficient appreciation for how catastrophic yesterday’s decision in Slaughter is for this country. As Justice Sotomayor said in her dissent and she intoned from the bench yesterday, “today the majority reshapes our Govt.”

You would think “your mom using AI to make it look like you were given a birthday party” is the most pathetic thing you’d ever see but then you remember he runs this account himself

Hey @governorwalz.mn.gov, Gov Whitmer et al: from here on the ground we cannot tell who was sent here for 250 and who wasn’t, they are all just occupying forces

Send that German psyop fan Freddy packin

bro that is just a brutal way to lose

Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

No, see, "overruled 90 years of precedent in order to expand presidential power" is the way *critics* describe it. *Your* side says: resisting intrusion into core executive functions, protecting the sanctity of the separation of powers, and acknowledging that the precedent has been whittled away.

i kind of think any trifecta will get one shot at this so this should be a judicial reforms and expansion package on the order of the one that let jimmy carter shape the bench for two decades.

JOKER: Not so fast, Bat-JERK! My LAUGHBangs will leave you BLIND as a BAT! BLUESKY BATMAN: Oof. Many people suffer from reduced vision. Not funny. JOKER: It's like, it's a pun. It's just wordplay. BLUESKY BATMAN: Sorry if I'm not in the mood for "jokes" while SCOTUS shreds our constitutional rights

The real mindfuck is thinking back to 2000 and realizing that things are so much worse now than any of the most hyperbolic, apocalyptic predictions for how bad things would get after Bush v Gore