Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."

The Alito Court: A rare interview with the influential Supreme Court justice

Justice Samuel Alito discussed his opinion in the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, the leaked draft and its aftermath, same-sex marriage rights and why he's not retiring yet.

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And you know, there is something obscene about using the exploitation and murder of poor Black men, women, and children as a metaphor for a largely white electorate supporting a conman. The comparison borrows the horror of their deaths while discarding the conditions of their lives.

If Jonestown is going to teach us anything, let it be how human needs can be weaponized, and how power destroys the possibility of refusal. Remember the victims as people instead of cheap synonyms for being an idiot.

That’s what disgusts me almost beyond reason — the casual assurance that these people died because they were foolish, and that our cleverness would have saved us. Like murdered families are a compliment we pay ourselves for being so smart.

There are serious things to say about authoritarianism, manipulation, and cults of personality, but “lol, drink the Kool-Aid” does none of that work. It makes the victims’ supposed gullibility the memorable part and lets the machinery of their captivity and agonizing death disappear.

At the end, children were poisoned and armed guards surrounded the pavilion. People objected because they wanted to live. They were shot for it. Whatever individual adults believed or chose, calling the whole thing blind devotion erases coercion, and children cannot consent to their own murder.

People were isolated in a remote settlement in Guyana, subjected to surveillance, threats, and intense punishment. Leaving was dangerous. Some escaped, and others desperately sought help getting out. “Why didn’t they just leave?” is remarkably easy to ask from somewhere you’re free to leave.

Peoples Temple drew members through promises of racial equality, material support, and community. Most were poor, many were elderly. 70% of its members (and victims) were Black. Wanting somewhere to live with dignity and joy was the vulnerability Jones exploited.

I am so tired of Jonestown being a stock reference for “haha, you’re in a cult.” 918 people died, most against their will, and still it has become shorthand for how stupid you think someone is. It's the McDonald's hot coffee incident of mass death — universally referenced, entirely misremembered.

An adopted St. Louis man discovered his father is five-time Grammy award winner Michael McDonald

Adopted St. Louis man discovers his biological father is a Grammy-winning artist

A St. Louis man who spent decades wondering about his biological roots was recently reunited with his birth parents—and discovered his father is a five-time Grammy Award winner

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Protect College Sports Act passes Senate: Historic bill takes first step, but uncertainty awaits in House Full story with reaction, what changed in the bill and what's next: www.cbssports.com/college-foot...

Protect College Sports Act passes Senate: Historic bill takes first step, but uncertainty awaits in House

The bipartisan bill aimed at stabilizing college sports passed its first test with Monday night's Senate vote, but more hurdles must be cleared in the House before it can be signed into law

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This is huge news, especially for all the "Bluesky isn't really decentralized" folks. Having the PLC Org as wholly independent is a big, important step forward. And great to see that Filippo is part of it...

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · last wk.

I'm excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a @standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association meant to operate the PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to atproto accounts.

Looking forward to the Drake Maye apologists #NFL

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[NFL] WALKOFF WINNER FOR TYLER LOOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! twitter.com/NFL/status/2...

What a win! #NFL

when you join a community, its posts show up in your Discover feed. you can also turn on activity notifications and get updates from communities you’ve joined. there could also be a special feed or custom feeds that show updates from your communities.

to start, there would be three privacy levels to choose from: - public (anyone can find it, read and post) - invite-only (anyone can find it, but you must be approved to read and post) - private (you need a link to find it, and you must be approved to read and post).

each community gets a handle that doubles as a URL, like community-name.bsky.social or community-name.bsky.space. go to that URL and you land on a custom homepage for the community. builders can also host a completely custom experience there instead.

on Bluesky, you’ll be able to create communities, join them, post in them, and get updates. the core features on Bluesky stay simple. the magic comes from communities also existing on the open web. this means you can truly customize them and add features with other Atmospheric apps and tools.

communities are coming to Bluesky this year. today, Bluesky is one big space. communities will be smaller spaces inside that where you can go deeper and hang out with people who care about the same stuff.

Ever been so tired that you start dozing off in the shower?

There’s a “pro-data center party” taking place in D.C. right now, with a generative AI photo booth, AI themed cocktails

Open-source isn't enough. We need ownership, governance. If these words had hit your, give a read: jeferson.me/blog/2026/07... #Activitypub #Capitalism #Cooperative #Democracy #Fediverse #Freedom #Mastodon #OpenSource #Ownership #PlatformCoop #SelfHosting

Watch what you post because Threads just might pretend you're the guy who masturbated on the plane. What just happened to Peter Shankman is a warning for all of us using Meta products.

Weird how when poor people and or those in mental health crisis “go rogue” they go to prison. Stop peddling this AI going rogue. Yet your outlet claims to be serious and reliable. Publishing contents like this is deeply concerning

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2w ago

An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet

okay i’m very impressed with @typesafeai.bsky.social. it’s a bit late and it’s time to have some beers in mexico but i’m getting some extremely promising results on real world classification tasks that historically would have needed either large models or finetunes on expensive gpus

"We tried to warn you but you wouldn't listen." -Ancient Black American proverb

The Intercept@theintercept.com · 2w ago

The hardline pro-Israel senator has been flirting with the idea of switching parties. Now he’s using Republican campaign infrastructure.

“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”

Young Black Men and Boys Are Quietly Taking On a Caregiving Crisis Few People See

5.4 million children and adolescents in the U.S. are caregivers. For Black male youth, the picture is even more complicated.

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ngl I was stunned by this article's cite to a study showing that 5.4 million children & teens in the US have family caregiving responsibilities @jessicacalarco.com has done lotsa interesting work on how the US uses women in lieu of a social safety net but I had no idea how much labor falls on..kids

I Scare You Like Sound Dog@chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2w ago

“Although Black and Hispanic teen girls are disproportionately providing family care compared to white youth, Black boys and young men are also becoming the main caregivers in their families. During COVID-19, Black and brown youth caregivers filled gaps in a broken healthcare system.”