9th Circuit rejects a challenge by owners of Korean spas over refusal to allow preoperative transgender women, prompting Trump-appointed dissenter to launch a screed about "swinging dicks" that itself leads to a harsh rebuke.
All is not well in the judiciary.
I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is.
People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)
What stands out to me is the arrogance. The surefootedness that this was the correct thing to do despite no experience in government. The presumption that they were entitled to use their own uninformed judgement to cut funds to things that they don’t personally value www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...
I know I’m a goddamn broken record, I really do, but Congress had a way to change that, it worked for decades, and the Supreme Court blew it up in the 1980s in a way that was impossible for Congress to fix. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Voters in eight states have changed their constitutions to ban slavery in prison, but nothing has actually changed for incarcerated people. Now a groundbreaking ruling in Colorado should make forced labor a thing of the past. boltsmag.org/colorado-rul...
The last thing you should do in a country where dental insurance is barely real and widely unavailable is to take fluoride away
Fascism has a shallow playbook, and so Kirby speaks to past and present with this stuff.
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
The US is another casino Trump bankrupted
A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable
Made it to Friday but at what cost
Holy shit
If I were a medium sized country/middle power without nuclear weapons, I would be having frank discussions with my defense minister and nuclear power industry about how long it would take to have an operational prototype.
this is more or less gunboat diplomacy but in a world with a much wider array of (literal) weapons of the weak
the response I'd guess would be
1) a rush to nukes if possible
2) developing capacity for assassination strikes against wealthy nations
seems bad imo. was a reason for the norms.
Just assuming the epic fury at Biden for the tragic American deaths withdrawing from a war will not be matched for starting one.
The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it
we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
Again, it is interesting that a single generation was entrusted with the richest, most advanced empire the world had ever known and was just uninterested in keeping it going
The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.
Lionel Hutz from the simpsons editing a business card which reads "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - NO MORE FOREVER WAR" to read "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? NO, MORE FOREVER WAR"
I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.
Insane and evil shit
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
Daylin and her family, now full U.S. citizens, consider themselves conservative, Christian voters — but she’s rethinking her choice in this last election. “We voted for this guy. We all voted, every single one of us,” Daylin said. “But we never expected something like this to happen. It’s just inhumane. It’s inhumane, and it’s wrong. And I think most people who voted for him did not expect this, and a lot of them don’t even know this is happening.” Rolando was detained during the first Trump administration, but ultimately released. Daylin said that’s because their family are considered political exiles for fleeing during the Cuban Communist Revolution, and Cuba won’t accept them back. This time around was different. On Feb. 7, Rolando was deported to Mexico. “We’ve never been to Mexico. We know no one in Mexico. We’re not Mexican,” Daylin said. “It’s just very, very upsetting. It’s terrible.”
Oh, they "expected something like this to happen," just not to them.
If you don't want "inhumane" things to happen to your family, maybe don't vote for the people promising to do inhumane things to anybody.
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Do not invite him back to deliver a SoTU again. This can be an email.
“Ok”
"Eliminate presidential immunity" needs to become as common a refrain as "eliminate Citizens United"
The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of ex- treme hypotheticals about a future where the President “feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” Post, at 18 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.); see post, at 26, 29–30; post, at 8–9, 10, 12, 16, 20–21 (opinion of JACKSON, J.).
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
If the options are either accepting that the justice system is actively perpetuating injustice and we need a drastically new system of righting wrongs OR minimize and pretend sexual abuse is not a real problem at all, of course some people are going to prefer the latter. It requires us to do nothing
Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.
a pedophile nazi is trying to take away your right to have a say in how you are governed
