the fundamental misunderstanding that this mistake requires is *wild*

Can you imagine how many people approved it before publishing? Shameful.

“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

Someone sent me this.

I don't read threads unless they're this

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Therapist: So imagine a post on the Internet. BlueSky user: It makes me angry Therapist: I meant like a joke BlueSky user: I'm even angrier

if i was the richest man in the world i would still be willing to spend every single cent to have Gorsuch write this opinion and start it with a land acknowledgement

Elon Musk expresses surprise that a rocket can take off without exploding.

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

"Tony wrote the first scenes for us to cheer for Dedra, but in the end you don’t do it anymore. She is not just a woman in a man’s world, but a fascist in a world of fascists. It was important to see that power corrodes women as much as men” — Denise Gough

Bondi's worst legacy is her destruction and perversion of DOJ's storied Civil Rights Division, and the resulting impunity of federal agents who have not had to fear prosecution for wide-scale abuse and even murder. But she did all that in service to Stephen Miller, and he's still there.

The thing about authoritarian politics: loyalty is never enough. The DOJ is not a personal revenge machine, and the American people should oppose any nominee chosen to further weaponize law enforcement against political opponents. No loyalist AG. No rubber stamp.

Red States: We are canceling all programs that don't support our theology. Blue States: We're canceling all the same programs, but because they don't support our business school.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

Mike Pence got totally owned here: Jewish plaintiffs won a ruling against Indiana's abortion ban, using the law he signed 11 years ago as governor to help evangelicals refuse to cater gay weddings and such. Now similar challenges could win in other red states. We tell the story at @forward.com.

I think Kagan is trying to do a kind of constitutional politics here: hammer the principles and the conservative justices will follow them in the future. But it doesn’t work and legitimates bad outcomes. KBJ offers another (better): hammer the politics and delegitimate.

the new X-Files should have one minute section at the end where Mulder sits down on a chair and says "We've had some fun here tonight. But of course, aliens aren't real. What is real is the destruction of government services by conservatives."

2040: “President Ocasio-Cortez is facing fierce criticism for her chaotic withdrawal from Iran.”

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite. if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

As a Jewish historian who works at a university, I think it’s great that an administration committed to destroying “the internal globalist enemy” which is staffed by groyper antisemites is collecting lists of Jews. Can’t see any potential downside here at all.

workboy, game boy peripheral, cancelled, displayed at the consumer electronics show (1992) 'a pda-style, keyboard addon for the game boy with calendar, phone book & convert measurement functions.' archive.org/details/mico... gamehistory.org/ep-16-the-el...

This is delusional, and reflects a level of disconnection from knowledge about internal American political debates that actually explains some of Israel's behavior over the past few years. The Iran War is going to harm Israel's standing in the US, on right and left, like nothing else ever has.

NYTimes has spent years breathlessly repeating claims that objecting to the treatment of Palestinians is antisemitic, but when right-wingers say they're “J-pilled,” NYTimes calls this "slang for skepticism of Israeli influence." Where's the "J" in "Israel"? Might that "J" mean something else?

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

Same article in which they declined to name "Christian nationalism."

This feels weird. A lot of reporting is sounding very much like "how long will this take to get back to normal" when there's no sign in the short term that normality will return at all It's like 2020 Covid reporting

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

One time I ran into Trump in New York, and I asked him whether Hegelian philosophy is fundamentally totalitarian, or whether it can be reconciled with liberalism. He grabbed a placemat and finally completed the system of Absolute Idealism. It challenged a lot of my assumptions about him.

Why does the fawning media always call these stains on our democracy “a first” like Trump broke the four-minute mile as opposed to the Constitution

It is extremely wrong how Dems talking point on this is that paying TSA by EO is totally legal and he should have done it sooner. It is not legal, that $10B is only for border security and TSA is not border security. He's stealing the power of the purse, stop saying he should have done it sooner!

It's my answer every time for this: National identity is, with some exceptions, more modern than the steam engine.

Medical neglect in detention is classified as torture by the Anti-Torture Convention of the United Nations. It constitutes cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

"why your protest aesthetics should utilize the most median established sentiment and visual language"

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Got til It's Gone

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

Trans rights, ending ICE, and freeing Palestine all got huge cheers at my local No Kings protest. These are mainstream positions for the Democratic electorate. The party needs to fucking catch up.

BREAKING: After weeks of organizing, @pressley.house.gov reached the majority needed to force a vote to extend TPS for Haiti. HBA is grateful for her leadership and for the house members who signed on to protect our Haitian Brothers and sisters.

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Bruce Springsteen: This past winter, federal troops brought death and terror to the streets of Minneapolis. Well, they picked the wrong city.

*checks notes* Brookhaven and Chamblee, Georgia... Welcome to the War on Cars. Atlanta's northeastern suburbs in DeKalb County have lapped the city in its rapid build-out of bike friendly infrastructure. This is an issue of political will.

Atlanta is showing up to say no ICE, no war, No Kings. #NoKings

It pisses me off so much when I see those ChatGPT ads where someone gets advice for sticking to a running routine or opening a restaurant — all that information is stolen from folks who have done actual research studies, run trials, written blogs, published essays & books. Fucking thievery.

Any Shabbat table where you hear someone say “they’re animals” or “there are no innocent Palestinians” or “the whole nation is culpable” or “force is the only language they understand” is a chance to step in and interrupt the dehumanizing language that’s now normalized in parts of the Jewish world.

Maybe my favorite sign of the day for its sheer simplicity