The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court.
Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as
It is true that this is a beautiful pluralistic country with everything good you could ever possibly want in the world and also a corrupt stinking hell hole presided over by demons who want us all dead.
Musk functionally ran the US government for 6 months last year and managed to: increase spending, slash services, kill 100,000s, and help nurture both Ebola & Screwworms. Yet somehow no one mentions this when they talk about the company he is going to take public this week.
ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 4mo agoI thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
a lot (most?) people understand racism as “being a meanie” and if you aren’t a meanie then you can’t be racist, even if you believe in, say, the biological inferiority of entire groups of people based on phenotype
Nathanael 🧦 Roy@sporkredfox.bsky.social · 4mo agoHank Green did a video on how a lot of people have been doing this "I don't hate any race I just think they are inferior in some way, that's not racism" and, like, yes it is. And it unlocked something for me that feels really obvious about how people think about racism wrong
After having seen STAR WARS 500 times as a kid, I remember having my mind blown learning that the entire "the death star is about to blow up the rebel base as its being attacked" beat of the ending was invented in the editing room using outtakes and ADR. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
Marcia Lucas, Oscar-Winning ‘Star Wars’ Editor, Dies at 80
Marcia Lucas, George Lucas' former wife and Oscar-winning editor of 'Star Wars,' died Wednesday. She was 80.
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We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.
My toddler watching Curious George order a hundred dozen donuts
So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count
As a guy with half a trillion dollars, I have lots of options: 1. Enjoy a 100% stress-free life doing whatever I please in unfathomable luxury all over the world with people of my choosing 2. Have 87 meltdowns a day on a website
Shame on Chris Nolan. Temporal pincer moments aren’t possible! You clearly don’t know time if you think it can move backwards.
Razzball@razzball.bsky.social · 5mo agoDay 6 of Elon losing it about a Black person being cast in a movie
america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 5mo agoi think it is a testament to the inherent radicalism of the reconstruction amendments that the supreme court’s main project with regards to them has been to limit and weaken their impact on american society.
I wish I didn’t know as much about the end of Reconstruction as I do. If you understood what is being unleashed now, how it will touch every aspect of our civic life, and how difficult it will be to undo it, you wouldn’t be able to think about anything else.
Sometimes people get confused about tensions between majority rule and minority rights Majority rule as almost always been helpful for rights for racial, religious, gender etc minorities The minorities that the Constitution tends to protect are geographic (small states, rural) and capital
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 5mo ago5 out of the 6 Supreme Court Justices who gutted the Voting Rights Act were nominated by a president who came into office having lost the popular vote. 70% of Americans support the John Lewis VRA. The Supreme Court is historically unpopular. It is not a democratically legitimate institution.
Cannot stress enough that what's happening now and will accelerate over next few weeks is a big spike in fuel costs paid for by every American that will flow *directly* into insane, unprecedented profits for American oil companies. They're going to be the big winners of this.
yeah, so two things. first, i have been saying for some time that *this* is the message. and that it is a broad one that can fit a large number of concerns. and second, this dude has the juice.
Nathaniel William Horadam@horadam.bsky.social · 5mo ago1. I wouldn't take at face value anything a candidate up for reelection says about his future plans for a higher office. 2. He's running. 3. He's going to win. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnj-...
Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.
USAID Whistleblower Says It Was Even Worse Than People Knew
Political appointees wanted a quiet drawdown, the whistleblower says. DOGE wanted an execution.
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the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 6mo ago“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”. RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.
It’s kind of astonishing how many news outlets have published versions of a “Tucker Carlson apologized for telling people to support Trump” story by writers who very clearly did not listen to the podcast.
this is legitimately fascinating as an a real life demonstration of why trump is flailing
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo agoTRUMP: Do you think men should play in women's sports? DOORDASH DRIVER: I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips.
I think it is clear that one aspect of the US mismanagement of the war and now the negotiations is simply racism. They can't understand the way that they were outmaneuvered. And they can't accept it.
i think vance’s great asset is that the press likes him and sees him as one of their own
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 6mo agoJD Vance PR team really getting their moneys worth from American papers. Blatant propaganda.
He's going to run as the anti-war candidate in 2028 and the stupidest people you know are all going to pretend to believe it.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoWeeks after Vice President JD Vance privately warned President Trump of the costs of a full-scale U.S. war with Iran, he is now leading the charge to negotiate an end to the conflict.
In my observation, this is the modal Christian right defense of Trump's deranged statements. It's not "Hell yeah! Get 'em Trump!" More often it's an attempt to ease their consciences by framing it as a false choice: "It's either Trump or [imagined persecution of Christianity]. What else could I do?"
