It is important to remember today on America's birthday that the Seattle Seahawks won the super bowl

Weird how this never applies to the Second Amendment.

waiting until the last decision on the last day to reveal a big consequential outcome like it’s Best Picture instead of existential for real people is bullshit

A shockingly close call on how to read plain English in the first sentence of a constitutional amendment.

Running for president, or really any federal office, without a plan to deal with this out of control institution is pointless. You might as well play pretend

The dictionary definition of "crushed" has now been updated to the following ⤵️

Cole Young you are everything to me

I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government

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

Can Buddy manage a baseball game

What does he need to build another arch for when he already has this one, just plop this masterpiece somewhere in DC and call it a day

I now fervently believe this. Relatedly, I think celebrating good news and embracing joy are equally radical. You have to remember what you’re fighting for. We cannot sustainably organize around sorrow.

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As @leahlitman.bsky.social points out, if you’re a corporation you are in good hands in our nation’s Supreme Court. If you’re a live human being, it’s another story. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

We are going to lose some fights Some important ones Some big ones But we must not lose our fight

This is so fucking funny why would our passport say this 😭😭😭

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.

That he can get this much done in 6 months It’s almost as if … wanting to get stuff done … gets stuff done

I’m starting to believe he ruffles feathers of centrist dems not because of his policies…. But because centrist dems are more beholden to corporate interests than the good of the people

JD Vance found the moral loophole in Catholicism to work for the most morally repugnant human being of the modern age to serve as president Maybe we need a closer examination of his faith

Why do the Mariners hate us so much all we want to do is love them

Dan Wilson, baseball terrorist

With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

Kagan points out in the dissent here that Alito is too much of a coward to even put Trump’s supposedly non-racist statements in his opinion.

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Have you seen approval ratings for the Democratic Party? You’re gonna run out of people with this attitude

WATCH: Chris Hayes looks at how Elon Musk’s assault on USAID became one of DOGE’s most devastating legacies—and why Musk is now trying to rewrite the record.

“you’re a world historic mass murderer” is getting to him, huh maybe he shouldn’t have chosen to be a world historic mass murderer

Cal!!! Yes!!!

Watching Mariners vs. Pirates aka The Battle of the Gullet

Abrams: I'm gonna make A New Hope but with different masks Johnson: I'm gonna challenge the audience in a very genuine way Abrams: Well hey, everyone likes getting a faint whiff of pungent trash as they walk by their old friends, right

In the last 24 hours, Musk has claimed: -The study showing USAID cuts caused mass death was "bogus" and funded by George Soros. -The kids aren't real because aid workers wouldn't put them on the phone with him -USAID funded the creation of Covid -Biden imported "judges" to rule in Democrats' favor.

MAYBE STOP FUCKING WITH HISTORY TEACHING THEN

“Vance admits that, about ‘half the time these days, we attend Mass at home.’ (Your book is called “Communion,” my brother!)”

RAAHHHHH

CAL’S BACK CAL’S BACK

"Trump lost a war he never should have started" is the line here. That and "Obama was right, we had a good deal, and then this stupid fucker scrapped it for no reason."

i have been obsessed with this for years. allowing manufacturers to sell direct to consumers would be good for consumers and also destroying the car dealership would be an existential crisis for republicans

Maybe the dumbest bit that still seems to have purchase in American politics is “that really rich guy can’t be bought!” I assure you, his wealth is *proof* that he can be bought, despite a weird elite class of Americans who want you to believe they won their fortunes in single combat or something

Self-proclaimed centrists, as a class, seem far more preoccupied, not to say obsessed, with the flawed attempts to do good on their left than they are with the open, naked, ugly determination to do evil on their right. I would just like them to grapple with that fact, a little bit, for once.

Go Mariners

winds of winter next

going to laugh forever about the Knicks only losing the Trump Game immaculate scriptwriting, no notes

(before the series) this will be a fun competition between two likable, entertaining teams (Game 5) let us stamp out any remaining joy in the heart of victor wembanyama, a man i hate in real life

The American taxpayer is responsible for making Musk a trillionaire: without the billions in public funds that have repeatedly bailed out and kept afloat his multiple failing businesses, he'd be just another serial bankrupt. His fortune was built on OUR backs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

that’s right

Huh, the Spurs were up big a little while ago, and now the Knicks caught all the way up, scoring just enough points to take the lead. Seems fishy, no…?

this has to be very common. the reigning opinion in recent politics is that caring about climate change is kinda dead. I just think it might be more like, everyone's too depressed to talk about it but would enthusiastically care under the right conditions