anyway i think the proper takeaway here is that a bare majority of the court thinks the plain words of the 14th amendment mean what they say, that four members believe there is a secret hidden meaning only recently discovered by hack lawyers

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.

no it was 5-4 actually. kavanaugh said it didn't violate the constitution but did federal statute

only a 3-3 split for the conservatives on overturning the unambiguous letter-of-the-law in the US Constitution. "All persons born in the United States." 3 votes to overturn that on totally imaginary grounds. It's scary, not reassuring.

Zaheer from The Legend of Korra-coded

If The Matrix Revolutions has no defenders then I am dead

even if it was good policy, this shit is completely ancillary to the goal of actually limiting the power of big tech. Elon Musk has a trillion dollars and is trying to start a global race war, your response to that can’t be “kids should be on their phones less”

@bsky.app posted this on Threads and it’s made them very angry. Bluesky had to “apologize” lol www.threads.com/@bluesky_soc...

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This would be a naked usurpation of congressional power either way, but the real tell that this is totally unmoored from anything except the conservatives' policy preferences is the bit about the federal reserve. "The president can do whatever they want, uhhhh unless it would crash the economy"

good that its overturned but note that there were 4 justices ready to basically make up a fake federal statute if they thought it would help republicans steal elections. very dangerous!

First sentence: ugh. Really don't care for him but it's a free country. Second sentence: uhhhhhhhhhhhh

God, Myst is just the best. What a great series.

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

sure is funny how right wing billionaires keep buying up media outlets, converting them into right wing propaganda mills, and driving journalists into exile

I just want to add, since this is breaking containment, that this can't be made right. these people, each one a whole universe, are gone. there can only be justice for the perpetrators; public remorse & restitution; & reform to ensure future aid systems are more just and less prone to imperial whims

Oh, you can just… expand the court?!

"The Indian is my wife" i don't have much sympathy for usha vance but still the way he talks about her is wild

Of fucking course this guy would retire from ExxonMobil and go straight into DOJ's Environment and Natural Resources Division.

Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal

good lord

I basically learned GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), the open source photoshop equivalent, so I could make shitposts for my family group chat. Not that hard and it was fun to learn!

Starmer’s resignation is a warning, but we’ve run this experiment at home. Sinema, Golden, and Fetterman made the same bet: that poll-tested moderation is a safe harbor. All saw their support crater. In a moment like this, tacking right isn’t the safe play, it’s the thing that sinks you.

UK just has constant "Year of the Four Emperors" energy these days

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

As is mentioned downthread, this chase was taking place near the National Zoo. If you've never been, it is an*extremely* pedestrian dense part of the city and it is particularly reckless for the cops to be erratically pursuing someone there

My kids walk to school every day on this route, along with dozens of other children who could have been killed. DC statehood now

Liz Truss-tier PM

TFW you're a Dumbocrat

This is like when the ancient Greeks argued that because there was an Arctic that has bears, there must be an Antarctic that has no bears

Holy shit I immediately recognized him from the picture. I grew up near Youngstown, Ohio, and the Cafaros are a very wealthy family that made their money, I believe, largely in real estate development. JJ's dad being the one to really make the initial fortune, JJ being the failson

If you think this is the best option I think you're not actually a totally implacable opponent of Trump. You in fact seem at least somewhat placable.

Nothing infuriates fascists more than being held accountable for their own failures. YOU did this, Pete Hegseth. You and Donald Trump. For nothing. An absolute catastrophe. If you had a shred of integrity you'd resign and disappear from public life forever.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Justices Gorsuch, Sotomayor, and Jackson concur in Hunter v. US to get pretty close to saying that plea bargaining is unconstitutional. Worth a read.

It's interesting that one of the proponents of this "theory" brings up Soviet genetics research because I immediately thought that this feels like the geophysical equivalent of Lysenkoism

Not to be glib about it, but is there anyone less qualified to opine on what it takes to beat Donald Trump?

Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.

The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool turning green with slime is like a Shakespearean Misrule Signifier

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

This is bombshell stuff.

gotta be the best scam text I’ve received this year

Probably because the MOU is just too good

Only Donald Trump could bring peace with Iran. It takes a savvy business genius to understand that you have to lay the groundwork - a humiliating military loss - to create the conditions for a lasting deal.

He's been saying this thing about how easy it is to walk over the Qatar-Iran border for many months now. Clearly no one around him is brave enough to correct him. That's pretty terrifying.

Trump's public vs actual negotiation stances