I’m mad about today. I’m mad that justices can’t do the bare minimum to uphold the Constitution. I’m mad that the law and our history, which I have dedicated so much of my life to, is an inconvenience than an inheritance to many. I’m mad that the academy, which I love, rewards and enables it.

Resources for opposing ballot measures that harm trans kids in Washington state:

Former AZ lawmaker and deputy to Charlie Kirk at TPUSA "sentenced to probation, a fine of at least $5,500" 👆This leniency is an engraved invitation to keep committing these crimes. Plenty of money behind this scumbag (all of TPUSA's donors)

Do I trust Nebraska to actually _help_ victims of this sordid zombie policy? Agency staffers are often vastly better humans than their dank political leaders, and try to help where they can.

2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble

I'll take the Everything Bagel, thanks

Exactly. The 14th Amendment (possibly others) now hinges on who gets the next SCOTUS appointment.

Dem campaign slogan just dropped:

Except that it's young men, too. We have entrenched cultural extremism at both ends of age demographics.

"if you think cisgender girls and young women won’t be caught up in the fallout, too, you are woefully ignorant" 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯 This empowers right-wing thugs to create second-class citizens. Up next: Return of 1940s' "Femininity Tests." I thought we got over this vile shite in the 1970s???

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

100%. This session of the Supreme Court was a blow to our democracy (especially the Slaughter decision), and SCOTUS PR chief Roberts is giving us the birthright citizenship ruling last so we'll forget how dangerous this court is. Win the midterms. Expand the court.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

The outcome is thus: 5–4 that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship for the children of all immigrants. 6–3 that Trump's order is unlawful (because Kavanaugh says it violates a statute, NOT the 14th Amendment.) www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

They'll go apeshit with conspiracy charges. Keep Prairieland sentencing in mind.

This should hang on the wall of every single Dem campaign advisor and candidate. Black women are the _Gibraltar_ of the Dem voting base. If you can't protect your base, get TF out of the way.

Have more babies! No not like that!! "still so common that there is a Japanese word for it: matahara, or maternity harassment" [Gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

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 Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

This undermines the voting registration of anyone who has changed their name for any reason (marriage, divorce, adoption, family or personal reasons).

On my calendar tomorrow: (1) coffee & scone (2) drop off library books (3) find out if my US citizenship has been summarily executed by half a dozen maladjusted a'holes

A bad day for Alan Dershowitz is a good day for America

Second (but *not* last) #SCOTUS ruling is in Chatire (the geofence warrants case). For a 6-3 majority (with Thomas, Alito, and Barrett dissenting), Justice Kagan holds that a geofence warrant *is* a Fourth Amendment search, but the Court remands to see if the Fourth Amendment was actually violated:

Applying the Katz test, the majority holds that individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy in our cell phone location information, so the government conducts a 4th Amendment "search" when it invades that privacy. I think that's pretty clearly correct. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

NEW: SCOTUS in Watson v. RNC hands the RNC/Trump a big loss, holding that federal election-day statutes do NOT preempt a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to be counted as long as they are postmarked by, and received within, five days of election day. It was a 5-4 decision.

Every single "biz school grad" joke but as an unfunny headline

Police officers are also more likely to use violence against romantic partners and former partners. I would love to see Flock get sued on behalf of victims of this reckless, warrantless data sharing arrangement.

Bloated A-pillar blindspots make me crazy. They are fat enough on a _compact_ SUV to hide an average sized adult pedestrian on a street corner, and depending on distance, even an adult with a baby stroller. For city driving, where rollovers are extremely rare, this is a BAD trade-off.

And as you watch the Trump regime's sloppy, lame, politicized "celebrations" that have been thrown together at the last minute with duct tape, please understand Congress created a nonpartisan commission for 250 plans in 2016! I went to one of its first meetings, at DC's DAR hall, SEVEN YEARS AGO.

The latest NYT investigation reports: • Trump & Lutnick helped broker a Kazakhstan mining deal. • Weeks later, the Trump sons & Lutnick family acquired financial interests connected to it. • The project later secured up to $1.6B in U.S. govt-backed financing. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/w...

Those so concerned about child athletes need to pay attention to this kind of abuse, which is not limited to one sport, one country (👀 OSU anyone?). But no, they wouldn’t get the political mileage they get by pushing for genital inspections at public rest rooms.

So Argentina’s football structure is built on the abuse and molestation of young boys and no one hardly gets punished for it. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

A majority (62%) of pregnant teens experienced sexual assault earlier in life. 70% of teen pregnancies are by adult men (not teen boys). The majority of these girls & babies will be dependent on public assistance. Oh wait...that's been cancelled too. By a white Christian man.

The metaphor to end all metaphors

imagine the panoply of mottos from the founding ("e pluribus unum," "we hold these truths") and they choose "one nation under god," something added in 1954.

By far the best thing about the Great American State Fair is that DC statehood activists have infiltrated it (with official permission!) and are lobbying attendees to support their cause. I saw several MAGA tourists receiving the polite but vigorous spiel for DC statehood and it warmed my heart.

Realizing I _really_ need to read Graff's new Watergate history. Like, immediately. To clear out some cruft, and avoid JD Vance-level derping the topic.

Oh, that (Board members include Kushner and Witkoff, plus Trump himself, who is to remain permanent chair after his presidency ends). It's the land theft.

"Blanche does not defend redacting the names of Epstein’s associates in salacious emails. Blanche does not defend redacting the names of potential co-conspirators. Blanche does not defend withholding documents containing allegations against President Trump." emptywheel.net/2026/06/27/k...

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

Was thinking about this again, especially with regional Catholic "not-for-profit" hospital market dominance in WA, characterized by: (1) stiffing the poor (2) multi-million dollar CEO pay (3) inflated costs relative to other regions of the US www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/o...

Kinda weird to do a write-up on Watergate, our fractured media landscape, and the dilution of what used to be career ending scandals while not mentioning that Roger Ailes was Nixon's media consultant (and proposed a conversative network in 1970), right? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/27/u...

In our part of western Canada thru the prairie provinces it feels like MAGA Maple Alley. The separatists and MAGA support very much help make it easy for grifters to ply their trade like the traveling snake oil salesmen of the wild west.

JAFC Nail the scumbag who did this.

Trump wants to strip current immigrant workers WITH legal status from places like nursing homes that need the workers the most. Devastating to the workers, their families, and the people who rely on their help and expertise. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Congrats, @colorado.gov. Great work here.

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

World Central Kitchen is en route to Venezuela to provide hot meals for those affected by the devastating twin earthquakes as well as first responders, a vital, life-saving service if you are able and funds allow, you can donate at the link below donate.wck.org/campaign/815...

This should suprise no one. All of the screeching, face-clawing Republican hysteria about Soros guaranteed that they had at least 3 Soros-equivalent units pouring cash into their grift machines.

BREAKING: Judge Sullivan just granted my Motion for Preliminary Injunction, ordering Todd Blanche to produce TO THE PUBLIC, on or before July 2nd, specific UNREDACTED Epstein Files documents or show cause as to why they should not be produced. Details to come! www.courtlistener.com/docket/73246...