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"History ended in a sealed file, history ended in a silent scream, history ended with the last man warning you that if you tell anyone, you'd end too."
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
RIP Virginia Giuffre
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
RIP Virginia Giuffre
April 26, 2025 at 3:27 AM
"History ended in a sealed file, history ended in a silent scream, history ended with the last man warning you that if you tell anyone, you'd end too."
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
RIP Virginia Giuffre
-- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)
RIP Virginia Giuffre
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I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.
July 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.
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again, the NYT does not mention in this article that Trump was held liable for sexual assault. that seems like important context it is denying its readers.
Yiiiiiikes
July 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
again, the NYT does not mention in this article that Trump was held liable for sexual assault. that seems like important context it is denying its readers.
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My friend, David Pepper of Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy . This is what he was talking about.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
July 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
My friend, David Pepper of Ohio, wrote a book called Laboratories of Autocracy . This is what he was talking about.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
Our states have been run as authoritarian proving grounds for decades. What they’ve done to us, they plan to do to the entire country.
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Again. The Supreme Court is illegitimate. And just continuing to go along with all of this, accepting this garbage, pretending that it'll get fixed by a party that showed no desire to reform the Court or codify our rights or protections, will get us nowhere.
This is a legitimacy crisis. Period.
This is a legitimacy crisis. Period.
June 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Again. The Supreme Court is illegitimate. And just continuing to go along with all of this, accepting this garbage, pretending that it'll get fixed by a party that showed no desire to reform the Court or codify our rights or protections, will get us nowhere.
This is a legitimacy crisis. Period.
This is a legitimacy crisis. Period.
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This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is an assault on the Reconstruction Amendments by a Neo-Confederate Court wedded to the far-right argument that those amendments were illegitimate and destroyed the original intent of the Founders, which was to create a white man's country
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We heard it straight from the wallet inspector!
Prediction: Footnote 18 from the universal injunction opinion will not stand the test of time
June 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
We heard it straight from the wallet inspector!
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
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Mm-hm. How weird, right?
I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.
June 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Mm-hm. How weird, right?
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This Supreme Court is not a judicial court, but a royal court.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
this court says that allowing EPA to regulate carbon emissions is a "major question" that demands congressional debate. but allowing the president to, with a flick of the wrist, end a straightforward constitutional right is something that must be allowed to stand?
June 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
This Supreme Court is not a judicial court, but a royal court.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
They exist not to apply the laws of this nation fairly for all its citizens but rather to prop up the king and attend to his needs and his needs alone.
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the whole "six unelected crazy people tip us a few steps closer to the apocalypse every june" routine is not getting any more fun the longer it goes on
June 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
the whole "six unelected crazy people tip us a few steps closer to the apocalypse every june" routine is not getting any more fun the longer it goes on
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Don't forget that the Supreme Court has undertaken this radical expansion of executive power and personal immunity not for some ordinary Republican but for the most corrupt president In American history. They're doing it for THIS GUY, who is guaranteed to abuse every ounce of power he's given.
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Don't forget that the Supreme Court has undertaken this radical expansion of executive power and personal immunity not for some ordinary Republican but for the most corrupt president In American history. They're doing it for THIS GUY, who is guaranteed to abuse every ounce of power he's given.
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Got nothing to add to the expert commentary on SCOTUS. But: it’s one more iteration of a common phenomenon of this time: people with immense power seeming to live in a different reality over those they rule.
June 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Got nothing to add to the expert commentary on SCOTUS. But: it’s one more iteration of a common phenomenon of this time: people with immense power seeming to live in a different reality over those they rule.
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Fmr. Energy Sec. Ernest Moniz told me it “would be simple. It’s just cylinders filled with a gaseous form — uranium hexafluoride, to be precise, in basically metal tanks, and you can just load them onto a truck and move them.”
“If I were a military planner, I would be assuming all of it was moved.”
“If I were a military planner, I would be assuming all of it was moved.”
June 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Fmr. Energy Sec. Ernest Moniz told me it “would be simple. It’s just cylinders filled with a gaseous form — uranium hexafluoride, to be precise, in basically metal tanks, and you can just load them onto a truck and move them.”
“If I were a military planner, I would be assuming all of it was moved.”
“If I were a military planner, I would be assuming all of it was moved.”
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“We are witnessing something without precedent: a Supreme Court that appears to be at war with the federal judiciary's core constitutional function.” data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
The Supreme Court Is at War With Its Own Judiciary
Between May 1 and June 23, federal judges ruled against the Trump administration 94% of the time. The Supreme Court backed it 94% of the time.
data4democracy.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“We are witnessing something without precedent: a Supreme Court that appears to be at war with the federal judiciary's core constitutional function.” data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
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This is actually the second decision from the Roberts court endorsing plessy-like reasoning. The first was Dobbs. bsky.app/profile/jame...
one thing i think people should ask the court conservatives given this ruling is what, specifically, was wrong with plessy?
🚨By a 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors, concluding that it does NOT discriminate on the basis of sex, is not subject to heightened scrutiny, and survives rational basis review. All three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This is actually the second decision from the Roberts court endorsing plessy-like reasoning. The first was Dobbs. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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On the St Louis tornado, and the hardship that preceded it: open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
May 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
On the St Louis tornado, and the hardship that preceded it: open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
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A cast bronze memorial to the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 declares that "their heroism will never be forgotten." But the memorial itself has been forgotten, left in storage because Johnson's office has not had it hung @joeheim.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
GOP won’t install Jan. 6 plaque honoring law enforcement, Democrats say
More than three years after it was approved by Congress, a plaque honoring members of law enforcement for defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is instead sitting in a Capitol basement utility room.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 25, 2025 at 4:09 PM
A cast bronze memorial to the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 declares that "their heroism will never be forgotten." But the memorial itself has been forgotten, left in storage because Johnson's office has not had it hung @joeheim.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Here's another example of using the "scold the stupid child" approach.
She reads the law to him, slowly and carefully, and boxes him in to the point that he turns beet red.
She reads the law to him, slowly and carefully, and boxes him in to the point that he turns beet red.
"You shouldn't be within a thousand miles of the directorship of the IRS" -- Elizabeth Warren grilled IRS commissioner nominee Billy Long so hard that he was left stammering and shaking by the end of her questioning
May 20, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Here's another example of using the "scold the stupid child" approach.
She reads the law to him, slowly and carefully, and boxes him in to the point that he turns beet red.
She reads the law to him, slowly and carefully, and boxes him in to the point that he turns beet red.
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Paying to replace the signs is surely waste, fraud and abuse.
May 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Paying to replace the signs is surely waste, fraud and abuse.
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No, you’re not crazy.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
May 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
No, you’re not crazy.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
They are deporting brown people and importing white people.
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#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1862: Robert Smalls, an enslaved person and ship’s pilot, takes over the CSS Planter, an armed Confederate transport. Smalls steered it past Confederate defenses and surrendered it to the Union Navy, while also freeing himself, his crew and their families. /1
Today in history, 1862: Robert Smalls, an enslaved person and ship’s pilot, takes over the CSS Planter, an armed Confederate transport. Smalls steered it past Confederate defenses and surrendered it to the Union Navy, while also freeing himself, his crew and their families. /1
May 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
#ResistanceRoots
Today in history, 1862: Robert Smalls, an enslaved person and ship’s pilot, takes over the CSS Planter, an armed Confederate transport. Smalls steered it past Confederate defenses and surrendered it to the Union Navy, while also freeing himself, his crew and their families. /1
Today in history, 1862: Robert Smalls, an enslaved person and ship’s pilot, takes over the CSS Planter, an armed Confederate transport. Smalls steered it past Confederate defenses and surrendered it to the Union Navy, while also freeing himself, his crew and their families. /1
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Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com
May 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Exciting news! We were just named a 2025 Pulitzer Prize finalist in Explanatory Reporting alongside The Center for Public Integrity and @revealnews.org for our “40 Acres and a Lie” investigation into how formerly enslaved people were given land—only to have it taken back: 40acresandalie.com
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I’m afraid this is correct. bsky.app/profile/grav...
I don’t really give a shit how much of a conservative this makes me sound like, but the United States has suffered an existential collapse in the civic virtue of our citizens necessary to sustain a liberal democracy.
April 14, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I’m afraid this is correct. bsky.app/profile/grav...