Weird he can’t bring this kind of energy towards his colleague who is accused of beating up his daughter.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Food safety and trans justice are connected via Project 2025 where both are threatened.

Devonian Stone@devonianstone.bsky.social · 3w ago

chase strangio is in the news but for something different today

Such a good episode of the Guardian’s new podcast, featuring @samtlevin.bsky.social, @chasestrangio.bsky.social and some of the trans kids who just want to play sports

'Gratuitously cruel': Chase Strangio on how trans youth became political targets

Podcast Episode · Stateside with Kai and Carter · July 8 · 39m · Video

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From @theathletic.com: It’s time to admit the uncomfortable truth: The U.S. may never win a men’s World Cup. "This sport belongs to the world. We borrow it every few years," our columnist writes. "America is not built for the beautiful game."

Let’s admit it: The United States is never going to win a men’s World Cup

It’s OK that America, with its NFL addiction and countless other diversions, might never lift the trophy. It's not surrender. It's normalcy.

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Vile: Mike Johnson just said GOP might try to undo birthright citizenship with legislation, which is unconstitutional. I've noticed a pattern: He and Vance are using sleazy new language to sell this as a trivial reform. The threat is very much alive. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2127...

Trump’s Vile New Birthright Stance Is So Toxic, Even Fox Admits It

Mike Johnson is now floating a “legislative fix” to birthright citizenship. That’s an assault on the Constitution—and a vote that vulnerable Republicans will hate, if recent polling from Fox News is a...

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The Supreme Court has ruled that states can prohibit trans student athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports teams. These bans are part of an “effort that we’re seeing escalate to push trans people out of public life,” says Chase Strangio, co-director of the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.

“We Continue to Fight”: Chase Strangio on the Supreme Court’s Ban on Trans Girls & Women in Sports

The Supreme Court has ruled that states can prohibit transgender student athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports teams, with the court’s conservative justices finding that such bans — cur...

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Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in the trans sports ban case in West Virginia contains some of the ugliest transphobic stuff I have ever seen in a legal opinion. Straight-up gleeful. Vile man. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

You knew this weeks @strictscrutiny.bsky.social was goign to be dark when @kateshaw.bsky.social was droipping f-bombs 5 minutes in.

SCOTUS Keeps Rewriting Gun History

Podcast Episode · Strict Scrutiny · June 29 · 1h 21m

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I have been focused mostly on litigation lately, but I took a moment to reflect on two things I love: sports and queerness. chasestrangio.substack.com/p/june-is-fo...

June is For Sports and Pride

My love for sports and queerness go hand in hand.

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Some pertinent reading for anyone outraged by what happened to Pete Buttigieg and his family:

Building a World Without Family Policing

Far from promoting the well-being of children, the so-called child welfare system weaponizes children as a way to threaten families, to scapegoat parents for societal harms to their children…

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With seven decisions with the *same* 6-3 lineup over the last three days, I really can't wait for all of the hot takes from the folks who keep insisting that #SCOTUS *isn't* defined by its ideological division.

It's weird the way the Democratic alleged leadership (Jeffries too) think that the party is a club with rules rather than something the voters choose. It's....undemocratic. But also didn't the voters choose these people because of their policies, not just because of Mandani?

Julianne McShane@juliannemcshane.bsky.social · last mo.

“All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party. But you don’t blow it up. That’s what MAGA has done.” - Tish James on Mamdani 👀😳

Today was an absolute blood bath at SCOTUS for the less powerful to enforce civil rights in the federal courts. TL;dr - SCOTUS rules 6-3 that only corporations have rights that are enforceable in federal court??

Leah Litman@leahlitman.bsky.social · last mo.

And the final case, 6-3 (usual split) - SCOTUS says immigration officers can deny admission to lawful permanent residents *without having clear & convincing evidence that the LPR committed a crime that renders them inadmissible* www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The young voters who elected Mayor Mamdani have lagged way behind in early voting counts this month. If you want to do the mayor a solid and replace the status quo in Congress with new progressive energy, Election Day is tomorrow from 6a-9p. Check your poll site at vote.nyc and remind your friends.

OK, so, we don't quite know what's up here — and it appears to have to do with the judge's availability and nothing to do with the case — but ... The TRO hearing that was supposed to be 2:30p Monday in the NYU Langone (and NYC) trans care grand jury subpoena case has been postposed.

Late last night the Supreme GOP Court made it virtually impossible to prove racial discrimination in redistricting in a shadow docket case from Alabama. Just beyond awful. Read this by @rickhasen.bsky.social electionlawblog.org?p=156541

Breaking: The Supreme Court, Over the Dissent of the 3 Liberal Justices, Allows Alabama to Use Maps that a Lower Court Found to Be Intentionally Discriminating Against Black Voters (Now Updated with A...

You can find the 21 pages of order and dissents at this link. In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court is allowing Alabama to change its congressional district lines at the last minute to impose a ma...

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Alabama Legislature is meeting on redistricting; we are under a tornado watch, and it’s flooding in the building. These metaphors are too on the nose.

Hmmmm, who do I trust more to look out for women, Smith College or a Trump appointee currently being sued for covering up years of sexual abuse?

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation Monday into Smith College, an all-women’s institution in Massachusetts, for admitting transgender women. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

A banner week for Louisiana winning court rulings that hurt its own people.

Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 3mo ago

NEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.

The ACLU is raising alarm over a facial recognition app loaded onto the smartphones of immigration agents to identify and arrest people. "It's being used on the street in ways that are dangerous, that are totally unprecedented in this country, and that are, frankly, blatantly illegal."

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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“We are a Minneapolis 2nd grade Brownie Troop of 12 including trans and neurodiverse youth and 75% BIPOC kids. We want to go to summer camp and try horseback riding! During the current ICE occupation we need your support more than ever...” And that’s how I ordered 4 boxes of thin mints.

Mary (geographile)@geographile.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

ICE activity has not noticeably tapered off yet here and in fact this week they seem to be focused on terrorizing kids at bus stops and schools.

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 6mo ago

yes, there are no real signs of any big change in DHS activity here yet. In Chicago there really was after Bovino left and they basically ended "Midway Blitz" not so here so far.

Congrats to Kennedy and Trump—living the dream

Eileen Ridge@eileen4ever.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases

"Those who were violent and those who were not have equal responsibility to be nonviolent" should lead to some pretty obvious conclusions. Unless you're NYT editorial in which case, "both the perpetrators and the victims had a responsibility not to do it but never mind who did it."

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · 6mo ago

This is from the NYT masthead editorial about the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. The highlighted line invalidates not just the editorial, but the very idea of newspaper editorials crafted by the consensus of a board. Better to publish nothing at all than to publish a line like this.

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

For "One First," I wrote about DOJ's unprecedented attempt to secretly strong-arm a widely respected district judge in the Cities Church protest case—and why everyone, especially other federal judges, should read Chief Judge Schiltz's two letters in response: www.stevevladeck.com/p/205-chief-...

205. Chief Judge Schiltz and the Department of Justice

Every federal judge (and justice) should read the two letters from Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz in the church protest case—and what they tell us about the Department of Justice's litigation behavior.

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If I hear one more big name former prosecutor attorney call for better training of fascist military forces that are killing people, I am going to yeet my phone into the sun. As I said yest, there are legal commentators who are built for this moment, and PLENTY, including those on MSM, who ARE NOT.