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Justice Sotomayor dissenting on birthright citizenship case: "The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. Because I will not be complicit in so grave an attack on our system of law, I dissent."

SCOTUS allows deportations to "third party countries" anntelnaes.substack.com/p/scotus-all...

Worth reminding everyone that the current highest ranking Democrat in America openly admits he bases his decisions on what he thinks an imaginary person would want and today he and most of his allies are struggling to understand how somebody like Mamdani won by talking to voters who actually exist

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

I tweet about this so much but it just kills my soul a little bit. I will tweet "AI stuff is boring trash" and get comments like "Yeah I totally agree but not in the case where I use it' and then they post their boring trash.

I’m sure if Cuomo had won they had a similar article ready to go, reminding us that his dad was…(checks notes)…governor of New York

insane that mamdami is getting accused of being an antisemite with like 100x the furor of elon musk, who runs stormfront 2 and did a hitler salute on national television

"The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?" "Really?" said Arthur. "No, I didn't. For what offense?" Trillian frowned. "What do you mean, offense?" "I see." #HitchhikersGuide #DouglasAdams #quotes #quote #bot

JD Vance made his first big speech all about the need for European free speech, and now a Norwegian is banned from America because of this pic.

"I paid $18,000 for a car I couldn’t drive" “I was played" “What they did to me was insane" Americans looking for an affordable car were scammed by a predatory company. The Trump Administration is letting the company get away with it.

What? I... WHAT??

NANCY PELOSI: We must find the next generation of Democratic leadership. Young, charismatic and exciting candidates who can energize the party. People that voters love because they're not 80 years old and sold out to big capital. CHUCK SCHUMER (behind sniper rifle): Found one PELOSI: Take the shot

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The easiest way to explain ranked choice voting is that it's a sandwich order, not a tier list. If I said your choices are turkey, ham, or dogshit, you wouldn't be like "ok my third choice is dogshit", you'd simply omit the shit sandwich.

Delete Spotify.

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Amazing. NYT has more confirmation that Trump's decision to bomb Iran was motivated in large part by the way the Israeli strikes were "playing" on Fox News, which drove him to want credit for it

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

His whole pretending-to-know-what-he’s-on-about schtick might be entertaining for a minute or so if you encountered it from a fella on a street corner selling pencils. Somewhat less charming when it’s coming from the world’s richest person.

USAs helseminister har gjestet podcast igjen, og forteller at vaksiner hadde skylden for spanskesyken. Gleder meg allerede til han forklarer hvordan dinosaurer ble utryddet i trafikkulykker.

Stealing from Wizards cracked 100k plays on Spotify! That's not much in the grand scheme of the internet, but it's pretty dang satisfying for a little baby audiobook podcast like mine. open.spotify.com/show/09gtDBf...

Scoping out the possibility of becoming a right-wing influencer this Summer by doing the most mundane shit imaginable, like coming back from a doctor’s appointment, except it’s in New York so I pretend to be terrified the entire time.

Mindre aktivitet på norsk sokkel, mer aktivitet på norsk sykkel. Stem på meg!

Hypatia von Zoomington III recommends Stealing from Wizards both for your reading pleasure and a general life policy. stealingfromwizards.com

Newsletter: Coinbase’s sponsorship of Trump’s military parade angered some in the crypto world, who described the move as “an insult to everything our industry stands for”. But this is only the latest example of crypto companies aligning with state power. www.citationneeded.news/issue-86/

the destruction of chattel slavery is one of the great accomplishments in our nation's history and the reason conservatives hate celebrating it is because doing so legitimizes the black counter-narrative of the united states

In 1953, Iran had a democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, who committed what, in the eyes of the British Empire and the United States, was an unforgivable sin: he nationalized Iran’s oil industry. (1/11)

Imagine hearing that your friend has quit therapy and decided instead to ask the 'tell you exactly what you want to hear machine' for advice instead and saying "great I'll mention this in my article and encourage others to do so!!" ...without referencing the suicide of the child who also did that.

Our entry for 'hyperbole' is probably the greatest thing ever written in the English language.

Everyone: don't rank Cuomo, a serial groping disgraced grandmother killer New York Times: don't rank Mamdani, a visionary young man

Black person jaywalking: “throw them under the jail” White assassin: “I mean, surely we’ve all belonged to a religious cult that thinks leftists should die”

Looking for a desk mat on Etsy that isn’t an AI mashup of stolen art seems to be a fruitless endeavor. Any recommendations for cool artists who sell desk mats?

Wow, NYTimes be like, “Andrew Cuomo is our problematic fave." The editorial board willfully misunderstands something I figured out in early adulthood: that sexual harassment tells you everything about someone’s relationship with power, and on its own, ought to be enough to disqualify from office.

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

“Historically, no one lived past age 35” "I’ve heard *so* many versions of this claim, including recently from a menopause doctor (implying menopause is not “natural” because noone lived long enough to go through it). Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul"

det som er så rart med norgespris på strøm er at man ender opp med å subsidiere forbruk, istedenfor å subsidiere sparing så ender man bare opp med at det aldri lønner seg å spare strøm med mindre det turbo-subsidieres istedenfor å gi folk trygghet gjennom flate utbetalinger

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

Carlos should be spending #Father’sDay with his family. Instead, he has been disappeared to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador, with no way for his partner or daughter to contact him. We demand the immediate release of all those disappeared to CECOT. We must #BringThemBack.

I have these two sentences stuck in my head these days: A French minister: we need to prepare ourselves for a future when temperatures are 4°C higher. A climate scientist: with a raise of 4°C above pre-industrial age, up to 90% of the world's population may die. #ClimateCrisis #Climate […]

Forrige valg fikk AP flest miljøengasjerte stemmer. Denne tilliten har de sløst bort. WWF er tydelig: hverken AP eller Høyre fortjener miljøengasjerte velgeres stemmer i år. Det beste for miljøet er å få de miljøengasjerte partiene over sperregrensa. www.tv2.no/nyheter/inne...

The Nazis targeted disabled people first & pioneered the term “useless eater” They convinced the masses that we were less than”. People taking up resources & not contributing in any way. When Dr Oz says we must “prove our worth” to get Medicaid, he’s just resurrecting the concept. Don’t let him