Sorry I was absent from my job as the Baby Healthcare Slasher. I had depression for reasons that I’m sure are entirely unrelated to that. Anyways back to my job giving everyone infectious diseases and driving teenagers to suicide.

we are one john roberts heart attack away from the complete dissolution of the reconstruction amendments and instantiation of a formalized caste system

It matters that the president is more loyal to foreign enemies than he is to America.

you know i was kind of dreading the world cup bc of the state of the US right now but i’ve come to realize i was really shortsighted. this is just one example proving it’s exactly what humanity as a whole needed.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying. teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

Breaking: E. Jean Carroll moved to the collect $5,779,783 from the bond Trump deposited in the court's registry, since that verdict reached the "end of the line" at SCOTUS. Trump's lawyers are still trying to delay, per the filing.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

That's right.

Jackson.

I’m very worried about many important things but let me just ask, are the Yankees having a collective nervous breakdown?

Roger Waters & Eddie Vedder - Comfortably Numb youtu.be/_F3wHorqpNY

Sotomayor is reading her dissent in the trans sports case from the bench, which is an extraordinary, rare move reserved for what is essentially considered to be the most grievous injustice from a court majority. She did it yesterday too in the case allowing Trump to fire agency heads.

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution.

Justice Alito, in dissent, says the constitution does not "degrade the concept of United States citizenship" by confering citizenship on the children of "birth tourists." Degrade. As if the quality of Alito's citizenship depends on excluding others from citizenship.

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Jimi Hendrix – “The Star-Spangled Banner” Woodstock youtu.be/sjzZh6-h9fM?...

250 to 250 Hendrix’s “The Star Spangled Banner “ Narration, Justice Brown youtu.be/xAU-FvTPNys

historians of american decline will spend a lot more time talking about john roberts than donald trump imo

Slaughter belongs in the anti-canon, a decision so egregiously wrong it has zero precedential value and is self-discrediting. It is not a plausible reading of a constitutional ambiguity, it is constitutionalizing the structure of an autocracy.

Happy 100th to Mel Brooks Here’s to a life well lived!

Brooks once said that he went into show business “to make a noise, to pronounce myself.” and, pronounce himself he did indeed (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Alito’s standard for racial discrimination in the TPS ruling, that racism has to be the *sole* motivation to count as discriminatory, is so deranged that it could arguably cover neither Jim Crow nor slavery. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

the way it works is that if i say, "i'm a black american," sam alito thinks that is "dividing people up by race." but if someone says, "get that jigaboo out of my country," alito thinks, "looks like nothing to me"

This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

Texas now requires New Testament passages to be taught in public schools. Christian Nationalists at work.

issuing a draft report from the president’s Religious Liberty Commission that says the separation concept is a legal error and that Americans should view religion as an “essential support” and always remember “the Creator who made us and bestows our rights.” (gift link) wapo.st/43YNcR4

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Napoleon Bonaparte made his servants break in his shoes before he wore them. His entire wardrobe was two different outfits repeated. When he arrived at St Helena he had a meltdown about the house smelling like paint. His stare was so unnerving other heads of state believed it was magical.

“They support ideological violence, and are willing to harm others and themselves in the name of their chosen ideological cause.”

“…people who demonstrate cognitive rigidity in this kind of task tend to be the most ideological and dogmatic. They tend to reject evidence and alternative perspectives in their reasoning. They are the most authoritarian – championing obedience and conformity over care and individuality.”

Shout out to the European Data Centre Association for saying out loud what they're working towards

Only half, Mike? You underestimate our thirst for justice.

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

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carried down alive to wondrous depths

God damn they should write promo copy like this for albums again

BREAKING: Judge Sullivan has GRANTED Katie Phang's preliminary injunction concluding she has standing, has been harmed, and will likely succeed on the merits of her case demanding the full release of the Epstein files. Blanche has until 7/2 to respond. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I became so lost that I knocked on the wooden moon and my dead father answered. I asked him why he wasn’t in my heart (…) “Guiding Red” -Victoria Chang www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

When you've won the war.

not to sound radical or anything, but have you considered a government that fulfils campaign promises

Mamdani got the rent freeze

“Leadership has been so unresponsive, uncharismatic, and tentative, that they are reaping what they have sown.” (comment) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Jesus Christ. Run your own fucking campaign how you want. But don't go out of your way to give Republicans ammo against Democrats running in other districts. Such stupid assholes.

his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!

here’s a gift link to the full article if anyone’s low on schadenfreude

The quiet part out loud he said