United Statez v Wong Kim Ark, mother-ucker. A decision made 30 years after the 14th was ratified. It’s about as clear an indication of the amendment’s intent you can get. This would be an originalist’s nightmare if they really cared about originalism.

Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU. You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.

If you’re interested Shout is live streaming Get a Life including some with commentary and boy was this ahead of its time, Charlie Kaufman wrote a couple of eps!

Colin Jost as Pete Hegseth this week was the first SNL political sketch w teeth since the Tina Fey years youtube.com/watch?v=WWG5...

will never not be weird that the white, nearly-70 year-old DJ for SiriusXM's top-40 station uses the same name as a famous black DJ (Spider Harrison,who sued dockets.justia.com/docket/flori...) , but..

if the executive invents a new & novel issue to shore up its power, but then invents a new & novel justification to defend it, that post-hoc rationale deserves the strictest scrutiny bonkers theories are "relevant" in proportion to how well they prop up power, even if they're created after-the-fact

also why articles like the one recently about @andybeshearky.bsky.social are profoundly disappointing shows a deep understanding about what a community wants, but not what the country actually needs newrepublic.com/article/2040...

Sincerely, if I was a Dem executive and had an idea this was going to happen, I’d deploy armed officers to bar any intruders from the citizenship ceremony until it was complete. A sacred space and a sacred obligation, and letting fascist goons pick people off at the front door is an abomination

wow Beahear is really the perfect candidate (for 2024) newrepublic.com/article/2040...

"Sean Combs: The Reckoning" is interesting, but good lord, the whole "Sean Combs was selfish -- but Suge Knight was a generous, loyal, and misunderstood businessman" was a totally insane take

At MPR now: Across the Twin Cities, ICE agents and activists are playing a high stakes cat-and-mouse game. The goal is to make ICE agents' jobs as difficult as possible, and protect their immigrant neighbors. share.google/4LfU58LW6iUR...

"[...] explains the impacts of past technologies, such as electricity and the internet [both of which AI has sought to run into the ground]"

"All Americans have a duty to call out this hateful rhetoric when we hear it" ~ @ilhanmn.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

litos in richfield has the best breakfast burrito on the planet -- hopefully this new spot takes off 🙏

"How the mighty sambusa became a Minnesota school lunch hit" -- this is wonderful www.startribune.com/sambusa-hoyo...

A blustery day at the Capitol 🥶

bigotry fits seamlessly into fascist logic: if you're part of a disfavored group, "illegality" (re immigration or otherwise) permits any punishment imaginable but if you're part of the in-group, punishment has one completely mitigating factor: being part of the in-group

The “garbage” destroying America isn’t in Minnesota’s Somalian community. It’s in the Oval Office. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

All of these 'Ghislaine Maxwell wants to be released' stories should do a better job of reminding folks about the heinous crimes she committed against children. Here's what the DOJ said after she was sentenced: www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...

i'm surprised the administration doesn't take up chain smoking, to own the libs

the GOP saw a broad, emerging multicultural coalition and decided to hunt them link.email.startribune.com/view/682c7c6...

The indictment against Cuellar showed evidence that he tried to amend the FY2015 National Defense Authorization Act at the direction of a foreign government static.texastribune.org/media/files/...

Congressional leaders' stock-picking acumen is truly amazing Perhaps they should offer their incredible investing services to the constituents who elected them 🙃 www.nber.org/papers/w34524

This is a BIG DEAL. Roswell used to be as conservative and stereotypically Southern as it gets. It's one of the most affluent parts of metro Atlanta. But it's been liberalizing a lot the past 10-15 years, becoming instead a haven for upper-middle class professionals.

so does this mean that one billboard over 94 will have to come down

"America’s biggest unions and institutions like the AFL-CIO could quite easily fund a Labor Party along these lines just by redirecting a portion of the money that they already give to the Democrats" www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...

"Policymakers who only look at prices and ignore paychecks are missing a huge set of affordability policy lever" ~ @hshierholz.bsky.social www.ms.now/opinion/infl...

No value, no villain, no vision. Sounds like the tagline for the earnings call of a collapsing appliance retailer

reminds me how my alma mater is advertising its "guardians of democracy" this month, when it employed a torture memo author (despite protests of students/faculty!) and now has a guy working overtime to undermine the plain meaning of birthright citizenship law.umn.edu/magazine/fal...

🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana. Trump deported her there. This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years. All the details below are worse.

Yeah. Before the fall, CK's act—and his fandom—rested on the premise that his worst self wasn't his true self. Now it's the opposite, and that's just not interesting as comedy.

exchanging "consequence" for "cancelled" in these sort of write-ups exposes how little writers center victims in favor of "just asking questions" the more interesting "limbo" is how those w a victimless framework created a vital pipeline for *wronged* folks to gain right wing celebrity or power

“Are you wearing flip-flops on a plane?”

sounds like a news report in children of men ... real dystopian stuff

So currencies. Much medium of exchange. Very store of value. Stablecoins are no more a replacement for dollars than Mexican or Argentine pesos were a replacement for dollars in the 1980s or 1990s. They're the equivalent of a fixed exchange rate peg with ever-present credibility/reserves questions.

I know there's still a month to go in 2025 but I'm ready to award the trophy for Take of the Year in the Caping for Fascists category.

when its definitely not a hostage situation

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: @chriscolin3000.bsky.social invented Admin Night, a strategy to turn the drudgery of completing dreaded administrative tasks into a party. "We’re social beings. We’re meant to update our password apps together!" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/aint-no-pa...

Updating "George W wasn't a true conservative" for a whole new generation

Kavanaugh stop. Smashed the kid’s car windows and arrested him. He told them he was a U.S. citizen. The officer replied “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

"People drove 1.8 million fewer miles on city streets, according to government calculations, and emissions dropped by 24,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year. That’s the equivalent of taking 5,200 vehicles off the roads." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/c...

given the names already known, it ain't hard to figure out some of these

trump understands politics national dems rely on consultants who clearly don’t

great night at the @swaempls.bsky.social election debrief heard insightful, actionable election insights from @joshmartinmpls.bsky.social , an update on the Roof Depot project, and met a ton of neighbors who were checking out SWAE for the first time

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

For how much the national Dems could improve -- in leadership, media strategy, etc -- they are still light years beyond UK's Labour party Why is Labour so consistently terrible? It's amazing how bad they are at all things