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The fetishization of legal academia and media of the Supreme Court--writing exhaustingly about the politics, the justices themselves, tea-leaf reading doctrine, coding opinions--has made us all forget where 99% of the real law actually happens & who does it. Don't forget. Don't give up.

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The purpose of the Supreme Court has always been to disguise as objective legal imperative the prejudices & tastes of justices who are selected precisely because they are median avatars of privileged classes. It is the branch designed to protect status from the risks of democratic governance.

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You will go broke betting on Collins to do the right thing. She have us the anti-Roe majority on the S Ct. and now will push the big betrayal along. Maine you must throw her out in 2026.

submitted 9 hours ago • 136 comments

In light of stripping Harvey Milk's name from a Navy ship, on this anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, & in the sad aftermath of the assassinations of Melissa Hortman, her husband, & her dog, I need to observe that Milk and Mayor Moscone were also assassinated by a white male conservative.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

submitted 5 hours ago • 524 comments

Holy Crap. Just straight up looting at this point. Or like was already looting. But just bringing in a semi to haul out the loot faster.

submitted 1 day ago • 411 comments

If the symbolism was any heavier, it would pull the rest of reality into it like a neutron star

submitted 9 hours ago • 34 comments

#utpol Mike Lee is a tool, lickspittle for maga, a maggot who brings shame to Utah with every thing he does. Also, remember. less than 2 weeks ago, Lee mocked the assassination of Mn congressional leader Hortman & her husband and dog. No apologies or truth from Lee. #Humans_Against_Mike_Lee

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Flashback to the time I came dangerously close to being hypnotised into joining a lamb cult.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

THREAD. After a tough few months (involving my ex-publisher Unbound ceasing to pay their authors, then disintegrating) I am enormously relieved to reveal Joe McLaren's fantastic cover for my 3rd novel. The book will be published on September 11th. I believe it's the best thing I've ever written.

submitted 6 days ago • 49 comments

JUST IN: Effective Saturday, ALL of Utah public lands will move into Stage 1 fire restrictions. A portion of Zion National Park will move to Stage 2 fire restrictions: www.fox13now.com/news/utah-wi... via @fox13news.bsky.social #utpol #Utah

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"For the child born this summer in Texas, whose parents receive no documents, whose name never appears in any system, and who grows up asking why she can’t go on field trips, apply for scholarships, or open a bank account, the consequences are not legal theory. They are her life."

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Pros And Cons Of Banning Fireworks theonion.com/pros-an...

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It's a trick question: The Civil War hasn't ended yet.

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“and every June you’ll have to spend a day rapidly reloading the page to see how many of your rights have expired” -the Founders probably

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It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

submitted 1 day ago • 447 comments

As @asgvisalaw.bsky.social pointed out of the SCOTUS decision on the birthright citizenship EO injunction today, the location of birth is not controlling, the US Courts of Appeals borders wil. Here's a map. How many Americans know US Courts of Appeals borders?!

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I was doing okay about Melissa and Mark Hortman lying in state at the Minnesota capitol, and then I learned their Golden retriever Gilbert is being honored with them. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/u...

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Would you please fucking add alt-text to your Jake Tapper dunks

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Ughhh, this feels extra shitty today after Mahmoud v Taylor. Parents can decide they don’t want their kids hearing that disability happens to people not because of some inscrutable god’s plan, but because human beings come in different shapes and sizes that change throughout their life.

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Amy Barrett wrote this birthright opinion, so now scotus conservatives are trolling the NYT and having a good laugh after that story last week.

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In a win for police transparency, an appeals court has tossed the CA AG's case vs. Diana Teran for her use of LASD deputy files. The ruling is scathing: “The placement of public records in confidential personnel files does not transform them into confidential records." boltsmag.org/the-curious-...

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Sorry, what?

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Happy Lottery Day, belatedly. Or not.

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Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

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So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?

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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

submitted 6 days ago • 597 comments

Would it be wrong to call the Supremes the Steven Miller band?

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If you ever see John Roberts in person and don’t tell him to go fuck himself, you’ll regret it forever.

submitted 1 day ago • 295 comments

The Supreme Court handed Trump immunity when he asked for it, and undermined Judicial oversight when he asked for it. They absolutely would not have done it for Biden for the very clear reason that their interests are Trump's interests.

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I really do think this might be the worst Supreme Court of all time, which is saying something for an institution that coexisted with slavery These motherfuckers are even worse imo bc they are also out here using antebellum reasoning and pursuing antebellum goals but well post bellum!

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Biden tries to forgive student loans SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. Trump revokes part of the constitution SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

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I get to be the proud alum who explains to everybody in the group chat how the governor pushed people onto the board and those new members began working with DOJ to threaten the president so he would resign so they could do a coup and replace him with someone that would destroy the university

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Expert historian of the Constitution: “Once a constitutional crisis becomes an endemic condition, the term no longer usefully describes our collapsing system….we live in an era of constitutional failure when the relevant institutions cannot fulfill their responsibilities.” Fr @jrakove.bsky.social

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you can’t spell unicorns without unions

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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

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They did it.

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Inexplicably very on sale today, thanks @raygunsite.com.

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Yes, this is bad for porn. But porn famously has no clear legal definition. As such: This is a direct path to censoring anything the GOP wants to censor and can argue is “adult” - info on birth control, queer identity, anything about trans people or gender diversity or safe sex or HIV or drag or

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The position of the Supreme Court's majority is that the state may impose its will on transgender people's private medical decisions but our public existence is an unfair imposition on the lives of others

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just spotted

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