This should be more than sufficient to get all these sentences tossed out as massive violations of the First Amendment

This is real banana republic crap here

Vance chastisement of the bishops for not understanding the Catholic faith correctly in 3...2...

"Ohio's Catholic bishops call Trump administration's attempt to end TPS for Haitians a 'moral failure'" www.wosu.org/politics-gov...

Third (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Landor. For the usual 6-3 majority (noting a theme, here?), Justice Gorsuch makes it *much* harder for plaintiffs to sue under any federal statute enacted under the Spending Clause. Another quietly *major* ruling: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Don't be fooled by the fact that none of today's 5 #SCOTUS rulings were "big" ones. Four of them split the Court along its usual 6-3 ideological lines—one of which guts accountability for human rights abuses; one that makes it harder to enforce Spending Clause statutes; and one that's bad for LPRs.

Lots of military flights over Savannah yesterday and today. And I mean lots.

@chrisgeidner.bsky.social This isn't SCOTUS but can't this be challenged by the folks? I mean 50 years for showing up at a protest? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Today the Court only issued a decision in case number 4: Blanche v. Lau. A 6-3 decision declares that green card holders returning from trips abroad may be deemed "applicants for admission" in some situations, despite their permanent resident status, via a rapid decision by a frontline CBP official.

Of course it did.

So much for SCOTUS and it's supposed support of religious freedom Hypocrites

I have to assume this could go to SCOTUS and even with this SCOTUS, would not survive a challenge. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

China and Russia must be absolutely delighted at idiots voting Trump in www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Trump cuts off his own Energy Secretary: "Nobody cares"

Trump last month: If you had a knife, you can't even cut the Reflecting Pool. So strong. Powerful rubber.

no. no no no no no no no. Beyond horrific, my God

Reading proceedings in lawsuit that attempted to stop Trump's sabotage of reflecting pool. In attempt to stave off a TRO, NPS posted this pic showing what the test sample of what the surface would look like. Note it is rubbery as what is coming off pool. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Who among us has not referred to our spouse with a definite article followed by their ethnicity bsky.app/profile/atru...

And there it is.

Here's an idea. Instead of giving MAGA your millions, fight back a litte. "The Disney-owned broadcast network launched an on-air campaign Monday urging viewers to weigh in against the Federal Communications Commission’s early review of its broadcast licenses." www.wsj.com/business/med... Gift link

Just remember, though, that anytime the Trump administration wants to use race as a basis to persecute vulnerable people, the Supreme Court swiftly suspends its "colorblindness" principle. The Constitution is only colorblind as needed to subjugate racial minorities. slate.com/news-and-pol...

A scale model of Trump “triumphal” arch made of plywood has been erected on the National Mall and my gosh it’s ugly. www.popville.com/2026/06/is-t...

The vote to overturn Roe entirely was 5-4. Kavanaugh was one of the five, and the court might not have even taken up the case if he wasn’t on it.

Every "centrist" believes political views are a great big bell curve with the overwhelming majority of people near them, but that's just not true. The number of people truly in "the middle" is vanishingly small—the real middle is "incoherent mixture of views"—and courting them is a guaranteed loser.

The fences are down, Dupont Circle is open again, and the fountain is back on. Fuck Trump. Fuck this administration. DC statehood now.

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Meanwhile Kentucky couple learns that irony is not always the way.

the thing about Donny’s Reflecting Pool debacle is that everyone can see with their own eyes just how badly he’s fucked up. this isn’t like some don’t-you-dare-call-it-a-war half a world away, or some loony policy decision whose ruinous effects won’t come to light for months or years.

Jeanine Pirro's wild threat over Reflecting Pool sparks mockery: 'Going to get hilarious' www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirr...

There's not a judge in this country, no, not even a Trump-appointed one, who wouldn't laugh these charges out of court. www.fox5dc.com/news/felony-...

LNG is one of the dumbest ways to make energy ever invented. Frack -> feeder -> pipeline -> terminal -> liquify -> put on ship -> de-liquify -> terminal -> pipelines -> plant. Every single step generates waste and leaks. Or you could just put up solar and wind where the energy is needed.

...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I'm beginning to think the folks in the UK would do better if the cat was made PM. I know we in the states certainly would do better if you replaced Trump with a cat.

If I were Greenspan seeing Warsh running the Fed might kill me too. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

Another Monday in June with major cases lingering and thus dread as a committee of 9 government officials who we don’t hire and can’t fire make decisions for a country of over 300,000,000 people with enormous consequences most of them bad #notacourt

The Department of Justice is trying to get the NAACP’s Clean Air Act suit against xAI tossed because it claims the government should be able to block *all* citizen suits it opposes to avoid “Article II” concerns. As today’s “One First” explains, this argument is as scary and alarming as it is novel:

Very interesting paper finds that when South Korea suspended its “low-skilled” guest worker program, the result was not a rise in wages for native Koreans doing those jobs, it was the opposite; current employees got reassigned to those jobs and took pay cuts and firms went under.

The real constitutional crises is Congressional Republicans who spend most of their time on bent knee to Trump. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I don't know why I should expect better, but I was struck by this framing of the DOJ's anti-civil-rights campaign as actually a pro-civil rights campaign in the Bloomberg Law Brief from Friday. See alt text for the whole summary.

Well, this is a crime.

If you are the person who took a long knife and cut a, uh, 250 foot gash (?) in the reflecting pool and also, let’s see, did vandalism by putting algae in it? Pretty mean. Not nice at all.

Stop putting whatever Trump says in the headlines, I say. presswatchers.org/2026/06/stop... Washington Post says:

Can someone tell me why the hell none of the media companies are calling BS on Trump's claims of vandalism? Are they all so compromised, so cowardly, so useless that they can't print an obvious truth?

A new study by Katherine Pompilio reveals for the first time that almost one in 16 Jan. 6 insurrectionists subject to the president’s clemency order has been arrested for and charged with—and in the vast majority of cases convicted of—other crimes.

Graham is such a whore

Here's a non-comprehensive list of all the Truth Social posts abt the fucking reflecting pool, just from the last month (his obsession started in April, w/even more AI slop fr earlier months), plus 3 attacking Obama library. [Fixed] Helps to see his pathology. emptywheel.net/2026/06/21/t...