Antifascist "alarmists" were right about all of it. And I really, really hope folks can think about what that means for who they should listen to moving forward.

The “alarmists” were and are right about COVID and climate change too. Maybe we should stop calling them alarmists and start calling them the people who can correctly read a room.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

jurisdiction stripping, packing, forcing an ethics code on them, congressional investigations, meaningful oversight the court is as controllable as an aggressive Democratic party wants it to be

the evidence in favor of the traditional understand of the birthright citizenship clause is so overwhelming that a bunch of conservative legal hacks had to conjure a fake literature int existence to create the appearance of dispute. i expect the court to side with trump, of course.

the court is a solvable problem if they have the courage

gotta remember that no one likes this shit

Kagan on the “asserted harms” to the Trump’s foreign policy, to which the conservative justices deferred in their unsigned order:

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The majority's implicit argument that only the president has the authority to determine America's interests or values nicely supports @jamellebouie.net's most recent NYT column. They really do think (or want us to think) that he's the purest representation of the people.

Feel like if this is how the law works, there’s no reason to make a budget deal because there’s no reason to believe anything that you win via Congress will actually happen anyway.

until there's a Republican congress and a Democratic president, in which case it will suddenly be very important. the country cannot function as a real democracy with corrupt, partisan serial liars controlling the Supreme Court; it has to be the first priority of a new administration.

Like I get that it's supposed to be addressed to a Certain Type of hopeful adoptive parent but like. Abusive parents and orphans will still exist. And not everybody DOES have extended family that's able to take care of a kid!

I am very supportive of the ongoing conversation about the adoption industry but I just saw an Instagram reel that claimed that if you're "hoping to adopt" you're hoping a child is displaced and that's some fucked up bad faith shit right there

Another example of Ezra Klein believing and repeating complete nonsense because he consumes huge amounts of right-wing propaganda

he’s right. I do want to have transgender for everybody. everybody get transgender now

definitionally you can't engage in blood libel against people who are openly rounding people up and putting them in camps and disappearing them blood libel is a whole different thing

Disbanding ICE and prosecuting everyone who led and worked for it is, in fact, the moderate position.

So far there have been zero trans women reported as having visited epsteins pedo island. But lots of people who want you to think trans women are threats to children seemed to have gone there at some point. Curious...

STOP THE GENOCIDE

When these ICE agents are inevitably punished, I don’t want them shown any mercy. Not a single one. I don’t care if they have 10 kids and 50 grandchildren and donate 10% of their paycheck to the Red Cross and have ptsd — do not give a fuck.

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

Do not bow down to these people. Do not allow them to convince you that you must. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Great column by @melissagiragrant.com behind to the push to criminalize trans people. newrepublic.com/article/2008...

really interesting to me that pete hegseth — who incidentally was accused of domestic abuse — is obsessed with war crimes

2020: lol dumb libs think words are violence 2025: president trump issues memo declaring words are violence

"Additionally, we will be charging a 30% Tariff on Upholstered Furniture"

very cool that trump is singularly dedicated to making everything in your life more expensive

Oh my God www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

And yet, The News York Times will undoubtedly continue to beclown itself. www.lawdork.com/p/our-leadin...

If they had a right-wing, “tough-on-crime” coded mayor there would be endless national profiles about him and how he finally brought sanity back to Chicago.

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

I'm a reporter not a political strategist, but one answer to the question of "What can the opposition do?" is "Use the extraordinary investigative powers members of Congress have even when in the minority to get new information courts and journalists can't get."

Thanks. But, no, we do not need “TBF” to such bullshit from Kavanaugh.

coward behavior.

unforgivable.

feeling this again today

A lawsuit laying out, step by step, just how cluelessly, dangerously wrong Justice Brett Kavanaugh's opinion and the majority's vote from earlier this month were. www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru...

A federal judge has said that multiple DOJ employees appear to have violated Luigi Mangione's right to a fair trial by posting social media posts that “baselessly link him to unrelated violent events, and left-wing extremist groups, despite there being no connection or affiliation.”

If you don't personally know a trans person I'm asking you to read this. If you haven't sat next to a trans person at a bar who just got out of the hospital from being placed into a coma after an attack I'm asking you to read this. If you don't know what a pogrom is I'm asking you to read this.

it was not so much the fear of striking hidden rocks, as the fear of that hideous whiteness that so stirred me

I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV

Chotiner: and then you didn't send him to jail, and he ran again? USA: I mean yes but we do have pretty robust institutions, you know, the supreme court and so on Chotiner: I see. So they were able to stop the worst of it? USA: Well now it um the thing you have to understand

Ted Cruz wants you to stop talking mean about ICE because it leads to 'political violence' but Musk, Vance, Trump, and Nancy Mace wont stop inciting violence against trans people. Assailants in this story *cite Trump*. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Home prices skyrocketed during the pandemic — and have stayed high. For some Americans, making their budget work means having fewer children than they'd envisioned.

Second nullification of the 14th Amendment by the Supreme Court incoming bsky.app/profile/reic...

BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

Good job, mate. Top notch. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Student journalists are at it again!!