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Just "calling balls and strikes" is impossible as a judge when faced with vague questions like "when is it too close to an election for courts to alter election rules?" And worse, these questions are ripe for judicial manipulation. This is why our judges' values matter. SCOTUS is proving this.

"have you tried going for a walk" i will grab your head by your face like a bowling ball

much 2 think about here

i am excruciatingly overstimulated and very close to making it everyone's problem

At least in cases where the politics matter, the supreme court does politics, not law. A lot of smart people will dispute that. Mostly because they are paid to.

abject rage

This result is what that Alabama state Senator meant when he talked about hoping SCOTUS would “overturn Amendment 14”

Roberts majority, citing Callais, throws out lower court’s 571-page finding that AL’s 2023 maps intentionally discriminated against Black voters. Sotomayor, with Kagan and Jackson, dissents bc Alito et al said intentional discrimination claims survive Callais www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Don’t talk about teenagers’ sperm

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

the Newsom/AOC ticket is going to rend this country in twain

if i were going to run a left campaign for the democratic nomination for president i would also spend a lot of my time in black churches, fwiw

oh no the genxers are starting to talk about their music

The horrible irony is that tiebreaking vote Cassidy “cast to advance Mr. Kennedy’s nomination — would erode much of his life’s work. Mr. Cassidy… has recounted loading an 18-year-old patient into a medevac helicopter to get a liver transplant, knowing that a $50 vaccine could have saved her.”

the definitive white upper-middle class suburbanite millennial

The dumbest people alive were mad that Zohran threw this woman under the bus lol

these two images remain side by side without explanation in my photos app and sometimes i just admire them. also they're dating.

i see synthol is making a come back?

This is pure joy and it happens every single day of the year. Food for 1300 dogs. What i love the most is that the Thai team do it and we share the videos in Thai to millions of people. I'm hopeful that changes hearts and minds at scale!

John Schuerholz has 24 hours to do the funniest thing

a nice gesture by the dodgers

From the creators of "Platner is Not a Nazi Because his Wife is Jewish"... the new blockbuster "MTG Sacrificed her Career to Stand Against Genocide."

Celebrating the WNBA season opener by once again sharing my favorite sports graphic of all time.

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I like this tradition of gripping the flag while being sworn in.

Bobby Cox provided me with what I still believe to be a deep insight about baseball, which is that a big part of a manager’s job is to scream at the umps until they throw your ass out of the game

In case anyone needs a reminder that ICE still needs to be defunded & DHS eliminated & its functions rolled back into DOJ

But those good memories still exist. Those bonehead decisions, while less consequential in the bigger picture, still exist for better or worse. The afterthoughts of wondering what other horrible things were covered up for the sake of hanging pennants. So you’re never sure how to feel.

Seriously tho. It’s tough reckoning with the death of someone like Bobby. There are thousands of nights in my childhood tied to him, proudly. There are thousands of nights in my adulthood tied to him, bitterly. He’s a face most of us saw almost every night for seven months growing up.

actual professional dodgeball just isn't all that exciting to watch, i hate to say

Jason Esteves is the candidate for and by the people of Georgia. KLB is the candidate for herself and of the dipshit donor classes in DC, NYC, and California.

An absolutely massive failure of our systems--in particular, judicial--is the inability to promptly stop this kind of blatantly unlawful shit when it starts.

[extremely ron howard narration] “You can’t.”

Not a lot of fun stuff in politics but watching Orban’s defeat is fun.

A must-read thread 🧵

This just put the battery in my back this morning. Happy Saturday!

Grant should have shot Lee in the face in front of his men.

And how unready Dems were, for that matter: schemes like California and Virginia sprang up in response to Texas, quite late for Virginia. But it was clear what was going to happen with Callais in June 2025, as soon SCOTUS punted on the prior hearing and ordered expanded one.

The most insulting thing in all this is having to pretend there's any reasoning going on. It's just a fundamental principle of all these justices and the Republican Party that the Consitution isn't written to give Black people power, which requires ignoring or twisting the 14th and 15th amendments.

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

i had no idea these dipshits we're literally little freaky mouse boys like holy shit

I see the allure @jasonkirk.fyi

Lol. Ole Miss baseballers put on a Storm Trooper helmet when they hit a home run? Not beating the allegations. 😬

i follow the creator on IG. Screenshotted caption for more details on what they describe as an “incredibly dumb bit”

Yeah, there really is a book for sale on Amazon called Infinite Jeffs, where they replaced all the words of Infinite Jest with the word "Jeff". It's 25 bucks. www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jef...