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Today's Skrmetti opinion is devastating to transgender children and families who live in states with cruel laws barring gender affirming care. But it is very important to recognize this opinion does not give private entities, legislatures, or the President carte blanche to discriminate! 1/x

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Some minor good news, but worth celebrating.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Chief Justice Roberts absurdly declared he “overturned” Korematsu while authoring Korematsu II (validating the Muslim Ban, Trump v Hawaii) Now we have a new Japanese internment - expanded to any nationality, internment in offshore gulags. Now let’s see Roberts put his money where his mouth is.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

Almost certainly an anti-Semitic hate crime. And the President who is trying to tear up the American university system on the pretext of fighting anti-Semitism hasn't said a word.

submitted 76 days ago • 62 comments

He has the opposite of fuck you money

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Stocks are soaring because it's always great when someone just stops hitting you with a hammer. But when they stop, the next step is to take the hammer out of their hands. Congress needs to take back its tariff authority. And we need to keep saying it until it happens, in this Congress or the next.

submitted 81 days ago • 47 comments

JD talked a lot about birthrate on the campaign trail, and maybe he just meant he wants people on the right to have more kids. Because I think I'm not alone in being concerned about the viability of raising children in a country with entrenched, and increasingly partisan vaccine skepticism.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

We all knew that Trump had little regard for national security, what with the shower files and all. But c'mon.

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

BUT HER EMAILS! Fr tho, this is a crazy breach and a total unforced error. Omigod.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s the problem with this framing. Both parties have advocated for certain types of speech to get less protection. It is not the case that Republicans have suddenly switched their view here - it is that, with power, they are going further in punishing that speech than they have before.

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Johnson's stupid expression going "hardy har har isn't it fun when we joke about imperialism. silly guy!"

submitted 116 days ago • 0 comments

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... Rep. Van Orden has introduced a resolution to impeach Judge Engelmayer of SDNY. Surely, Judge Edith Jones will have something to say about this.

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

The lack of all caps tells me this is Stephen Miller

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

This from the admin that is dismantling the foreign aid apparatus. These morons don’t understand the first thing about diplomacy

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

Btwn the bird flu and tariffs I’m really gonna miss eggs.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

This is a facially ridiculous claim, but it exemplifies Trump’s total lack of leadership qualities. This will not be the last tragedy of this administration, and each and every time the response will be the same: Trump will do nothing but try to cover his own ass.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Can't emphasize enough that America's undocumented problems are a GOP creation. It was Reagan who attacked the porous US border that enabled seasonal farm workers to move freely, causing many to fear leaving the US. Companies then realized they could underpay these "illegals," so jobs went to them.

submitted 153 days ago • 12 comments

What a diverse bunch

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

If you do a Nazi salute to own the libs or to troll or to generate discussion or to make a point you are still doing a Nazi salute.

submitted 160 days ago • 113 comments

Hey Siri was it a mistake to elect a spineless moron who folds to any appeal to his vanity?

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Well but you’d only have that concern if the president had a history of reneging on promises. But he’s never done that before, right?

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

Given the apparently widespread public support for keeping TikTok available after Sunday, it's really too bad that there isn't some body that could pass something ... a law, maybe ... to repeal the April 2024 statute—and then send it to the President to ... I don't know ... sign it, or something?

submitted 164 days ago • 31 comments

Question for people much smarter than me. Would conditioning federal dollars to California on debt ceiling negotiations raise South Dakota v Dole issues? @stevevladeck.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social being some of these smarter people.

submitted 167 days ago • 0 comments

Great thread. Experts are awesome.

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

Really is amazing we’ve had six weeks of takes about how Trump “remade the GOP” and no we’re getting: enormous corporate tax cuts; huge cuts to the social safety net and privatization.

submitted 195 days ago • 179 comments