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It’s not like we were short on evidence for this, but the Supreme Court’s silence in response to Trump’s announcement that he’s just going to ignore a 5-year-old ruling really shows how worthless the Court is as an institution for “doing justice” ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

submitted 5 hours ago • 10 comments

Trump felt like such a uniquely awful person to be dominating politics for four straight years that it never occurred to me that someone different and substantially worse could dominate politics during his second term. AND YET ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/you-will-n...

submitted 6 hours ago • 9 comments

Elon Musk already bought one election in order to enrich himself. As the Wisconsin Supreme Court gets ready to rule on key issues relevant to Musk's wealth, he's investing again, this time in the April 1 election for the court's swing seat ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/you-will-n...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The facts of the transgender discrimination cases that the Trump EEOC wants to drop are stomach-turning. They are doing this because they want to empower the abuse of trans people, which they don't think should ever have been illegal in the first place ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

In 2010, the Supreme Court paved the way for unlimited spending in U.S. elections. In a possibly related story, the richest man in the world is basically the president now ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Personally, I wish to extend a hearty congratulations to Canada, a noble, prosperous country that I understand conducts background checks as part of its fast-track immigration application process, on their thrilling 4 Nations tournament victory

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Thinking fondly about the two-hour Slack frenzy this would have set off at the 2017 version of GQ

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Incredible to me that a president can announce that he intends to treat a clear, unambiguous Supreme Court ruling as optional, and all anyone expects the justices to do is sit there and take it. Clown show. Completely unserious institution. ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Obviously this is bad and very stupid, but the tenor of this kind of Trump communique is very funny to me. It's a real HOA energy, just someone being annoying and small who knows they're being that way, and who more or less sees that as both their highest personal calling and the purpose of the job.

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

Feel like pure shit just want him back

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It should be more embarrassing for the Supreme Court that Trump has announced he's just going to ignore Bostock, a case the Court decided less than five years ago, and the justices cannot bring themselves to say a single thing about it ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Come ON

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

we’re gonna be doing this a lot

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

I guess the only real question here is whether Chad realizes that he doesn't still work for the Trump administration in DOJ.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Look, call me a stickler for Judicial Ethics, but I am not sure a nonpartisan, apolitical judge who is likely to hear cases involving the Trump administration should be sitting down with a club for conservative law students to discuss "DOJ AND THE WHITE HOUSE: DEFENDING PRESIDENTIAL PRIORITIES"

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the DNC chair's five-page memo "detailing how the Democratic Party will fight against Trump's war on working people" does not include a single blessed detail about "how the Democratic Party will fight against Trump's war on working people."

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

You know what to do

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The crudeness of the boilerplate fake performance complaints in these mass firings has an unsettling echo of how the banks in the financial crisis couldn't begin to prove they owned the loans but got away with foreclosing on people's homes with forged or missing documents anyway

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

The result of the Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act is not just that voters are losing in court, but that oftentimes, they decide it's not worth it to even try to defend their rights in the first place ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p/analysis-s...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

submitted 4 days ago • 841 comments

Posted tonight about something awful that made me angry. Deleted after 30 seconds and instead of thinking about how angry it made me all evening, I played “supermarket” with the 4-year-old. She charged me $400 for half a bag of flour and would only allow me to buy salt or pepper, not both. It ruled.

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 846 comments

Gonna post cringe for just a second here. Not on a self-pity kick, just out of ideas and pride: I have some irons in the fire and some contract stuff, but I need a full time job in LA. Whatever I've been doing isn't working and I need help. If you have any ideas, please DM or email me (in bio).

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

It is 2029. Luka Doncic, 375 pounds now, is eating an open faced turkey sandwich during the first TV timeout of the 4th quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals. Experts wonder if he’s fat enough to win a 4th straight title. President Ocasio-Cortes has invaded El Salvador.

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

Finally figured out what the stuff that appears under “trending topics” on Elon Twitter reminds me of: the stilted, uncanny headline style of Vichy Deadspin

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

lol. this is real

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments