Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

A new court filing suggests that Border Patrol lied about the basis of a traffic stop that led to the shooting of a US citizen, a German tourist, and a Border Patrol agent. Only when cases go to court do we find out about DHS lies and its unlawful tactics come to light.

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 4w ago

Preaching that God has assigned black people to "a civilizational station of subordination and dependence" due to the Curse of Ham, Christian nationalist pastor Dale Partridge calls for a "return to European Christian colonization of African nations." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Administration officials must be criminally prosecuted for violating US law. Even basic human decency would make you think twice about doing this, but that's too much to ask for this goon squad.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 4w ago

The Trump administration violated U.S. law by providing Iran’s government with confidential information detailing the asylum applications for Iranians it planned to deport, a new lawsuit filed in D.C. alleges.

The media (I mean NYT, NPR, and WaPo, not Fox) have most of the blame. The people who report on this stuff do an absolutely horrible job.

3 Dog Dad@3dogdad.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thank you for laying this out so clearly. One of the great cons pulled on America is describing a tax issue that applies to very few, mostly very wealthy, people and pretending it's widespread in order to provide relief to those wealthy people. Estate taxes are the best example.

This @juddlegum.bsky.social / @atrupar.com piece on how CNN & CNBC commentators regularly cite Kalshi odds, as if they're truly predictive of markets, is very much worth your time. And seeing people like Enten and Sorkin playing along is really disturbing. popular.info/p/how-kalshi... 1/

How Kalshi infects the news

After inking financial deals with CNBC and CNN, Kalshi's prediction markets have become ubiquitous on cable news.

popular.info

Abolishing ICE should be the moderate position for any 2028 candidate. Every ICE employee and officer should be investigated for criminal conduct. Their actions are lawless anti-American and must not be allowed to continue.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

If there’s an issue Democrats could run on and win in a landslide, it’s anti-corruption. But first the Dem establishment needs to deal with its own corruption problem. It’s not enough to be right about Trump’s corruption—they also have to be credible.

Not only is it a skill issue but "You need to work within the system and within the Party" is what the people freaking out about this have explicitly been telling critics to do for decades. I guess they didn't mean it, didn't think anyone would try, or were confident it couldn't work.

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · last mo.

My basic view of primarying house incumbents is that if they are beatable then they have been very shitty at their jobs beyond taking some bad positions. Just didn't try, got caught sleeping. Spend 5 minutes in your district and it won't happen

The end goal of the conservative project in the US - aided by Republican lawmakers and the far right ecosystem - is to enact something like this here. They literally want to make America more like China, and we need to oppose at the ballot box and everywhere else.

China tells its minorities to integrate or face consequences with sweeping new law | CNN

For years, Chinese leader Xi Jinping has pushed ethnic minority groups like Tibetans and Uyghurs to adopt an identity rooted in Chinese nationality and allegiance to the ruling Communist Party.

edition.cnn.com

Can everyone just step back and realize how insane it is that the US Supreme Court had to rule on the constitutionality of the US CONSTITUTION and the vote to uphold the Constitution wasn't unanimous!!!

It is a fool’s quest to try and appease anti-immigration advocates. Their goal is to destroy everything that’s good about a multi-racial and multi-cultural society and make the US a Christian nationalist state. Any concession - like repealing TPS - is simply a step towards ethnic cleaning.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last mo.

Here's the argument: MAGA can't accept a sealed border, an end to TPS/asylum, and the closing of other legal pathways as success. Their movement isn’t really about securing the border. It’s about ethnically cleansing the country. My exchange with Raul Pinto on this: newrepublic.com/article/2125...

They want to convince their followers that we are un-American, in the wrong country. But it’s them. THEY are in the wrong country. Their goals, plans, ideology are no less than an insurrection against the Second Founding - the constitutional framework for our country created after the Civil War.

Also a Big Yikes for reactionary centrist pundits (yes, that one in particular, but also others) with the bad habit of treating poll numbers as some sort of immutable assessment of values rather than messy metrics of temporary and easily moved attitudes of a generally mid-to-low info electorate.

Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · last mo.

Big yikes for Texas Republicans. The thing about strong disapproval on an issue of high salience for a community is that it's more likely to drive their turnout & determine the direction of their vote. Very different electoral consequences from high disapproval among less interested groups.

if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:

Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts

Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.

boltsmag.org

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

court packing is the moderate position. constitutional redesign is the only way, and we need to get serious about it.

5–4 on a constitutional question that is older, more settled, and just as clear on the text and purpose as "can women vote?" They're coming for that one too, it's currently in the "right-wing extremists on social media" stage, same place where "there's no birthright citizenship" arose.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.

The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"US One Supreme Court Vote Away From Stripping Basic Constitutional Rights" should be the headline for every news outlet in the country.

Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social · last mo.

What that says to me is we’re one vote from basically no rights being secure. A court that could flip on this easy a question could flip on anything.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

Oh my god, I thought the aversion to AC in France is some inside joke about technology or bureaucracy but they actually hate AC? How is France's national psyche one of austerity? We need more electricity, we need more low-carbon electricity, and we need everyone to have AC and heat.

To cool or not to cool: French politicians draw battle lines over aircon

As heatwave intensifies, far-right champions air conditioning while the left calls for renovations and green spaces

ft.com

Here’s what the air conditioning discourse illuminates: to deal with climate change we need to electrify & we need zero carbon electricity, we also need more electricity- like double or triple what we have. And we need more cooling & cooling equity. There will be folks fighting against all of that.

Is it just me or are these good comments? The email starts by clearly stating that these are suggestions. More often than not, this is the kind of feedback we want from readers, collaborators, and funders. Too often, we don't because folks are busy. But this type of critical feedback is *useful*.

Maddie Stone@themadstone.bsky.social · last mo.

Something jumped out at me right away: This email by BP climate advisor Chris Mottershead, praising Socolow and his colleague Steve Pacala’s latest draft of the paper, and offering specific editorial feedback that would make the paper more useful to his company. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

I will vote for any Democrat who runs on a platform of De-Trumpification modeled on post-war Germany. Get rid of the ideology root and branch and prosecute those eligible.

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · last mo.

Johnson: If we lose the midterms, these Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you.

I am more bullish about CCS than many of my peers but this is a stunning chart about our inability to predict how technologies can evolve. At this point, I think it's up to the proponents of CCS to prove that the technology can scale up. projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

"I have enough money to do research," says Shu, laughing. Meanwhile HHS shut off the NIH grant that funded related work on gene therapy for deafness at Harvard Medical School, because “woke” or something like that Shu trained in the very same lab that HHS defunded

NPR@npr.org · last mo.

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first. n.pr/4weVi49

How the U.S. is losing ground to China in university research

Two researchers — one in Massachusetts and one in Shanghai — hoped for the same breakthrough: a gene therapy for deaf children. New Chinese investment in science propelled the one who got there first.

n.pr

The Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com

The Supreme Court Once Again Endorses Trump's Racism

The court took a look at Trump's obviously bigoted handling of the Temporary Protected Status program and said, "Nothing to see here."

thenation.com

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service