Matt Todd

This fall, PA Voters have an important call to duty… To protect women’s reproductive rights and maintain free & fair elections, PA voters need to show up and VOTE! #VoteYesToRetainOurJudges Sign up to receive your ballot by mail: www.padems.org/mail/ 📸 @matttodd.bsky.social

This fall, PA Voters have an important call to duty…

To protect women’s reproductive rights and maintain free & fair elections, PA voters need to show up and VOTE!

#VoteYesToRetainOurJudges

Sign up to receive your ballot by mail:
www.padems.org/mail/

📸 @matttodd.bsky.social

This fall, PA Voters have an important call to duty… To protect women’s reproductive rights and maintain free & fair elections, PA voters need to show up and VOTE! #VoteYesToRetainOurJudges Sign up to receive your ballot by mail: https://www.padems.org/mail/ 📸 @matttodd.bsky.social

This fall, PA Voters have an important call to duty…

To protect women’s reproductive rights and maintain free & fair elections, PA voters need to show up and VOTE!

#VoteYesToRetainOurJudges

Sign up to receive your ballot by mail:
www.padems.org/mail/

📸 @matttodd.bsky.social

This video by Alex Pearlman does a really good job explaining why branding changes like his aren't "woke" they're just another chapter in the big book of "Capitalism and the adventure of endless growth for the shareholders".

Bloodshot would hate transphobes and throw himself in front of a hail of bullets to protect a trans kid without hesitation. Just FYI.

Trump mentions NYC, Baltimore, and Oakland, says "they're so far gone," and adds, "this will go further. We'll starting very strongly with DC."

Fuck everyone for not protecting MY LGBTQ+ community and YES I'm looking at lots of Dem electeds and voters too.

This is great, because in one tiny posting it’s clear that Trump is so corrupt he can change his presidential position on a whim, depending on whether he likes you or not.

A federal judge is keeping this man in jail to protect him from the federal government.

Unless something dramatic happens in the interim, a birth certificate will no longer be sufficient to prove the citizenship of any child born in much of the United States after July 27.

The Government does not ask for complete stays of the injunctions, as it ordinarily does before this Court. Why? The answer is obvious: To get such relief, the Government would have to show that the Order is likely constitutional, an impossible task in light of the Constitution’s text, history, this Court’s precedents, federal law, and Executive Branch practice. ... The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along. A majority of this Court decides that these applications, of all cases, provide the appropriate occasion to resolve the question of universal injunctions and end the centuries-old practice once and for all. In its rush to do so the Court disregards basic principles of equity as well as the long history of injunctive relief granted to non-parties.

Sotomayor: Trump knew his birthright citizenship order was unconstitutional, so he went after the universal injunctions.

"The gamesmanship in this request is apparent and the Government makes no attempt to hide it. Yet, shamefully, this Court plays along." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort. With the stroke of a pen, the President has made a “solemn mockery” of our Constitution. Peters, 5 Cranch, at 136. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent.

From Sotomayor's dissent, which she's now reading from the bench:

"The President has made a 'solemn mockery' of our Constitution. Rather than stand firm, the Court gives way. Because such complicity should know no place in our system of law, I dissent." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The majority cannot deny that our Constitution was designed to split the powers of a monarch between the governing branches to protect the People. Nor is it debatable that the role of the Judiciary in our constitutional scheme is to ensure fidelity to law. But these core values are strangely absent from today’s decision. Focusing on inapt comparisons to impotent English tribunals, the majority ignores the Judiciary’s foundational duty to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States. The majority’s ruling thus not only diverges from first principles, it is also profoundly dangerous, since it gives the Executive the go-ahead to sometimes wield the kind of unchecked, arbitrary power the Founders crafted our Constitution to eradicate. The very institution our founding charter charges with the duty to ensure universal adherence to the law now requires judges to shrug and turn their backs to intermittent lawlessness. With deep disillusionment, I dissent.

KBJ, in dissent, calls today's ruling "profoundly dangerous" and an "existential threat to the rule of law." She expresses her "deep disillusionment" with the court and suggests that the conservative supermajority continues to crown Trump a king above law. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Pretty sure, in fact, that the CBP Traveler Verification System is explicitly barred from keeping pictures of US citizens?

ATOM. Urasawa's Pluto was my first manga, after years of friends telling me to read it. It's one of my favorite books, and I search out everything Urasawa's done now. It opened up the way I look at comics in a huge way.

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani is now here calling for the release of Lander (his fellow mayoral candidate)

Trailer for 'Deliver Me From Nowhere' drops tomorrow!

#JeremyAllenWhite #DeliverMeFromNowhere #BruceSpringsteenBiopic

I try to take care of myself so that I can live long enough to see Noem Nuremberg'd.

California senator @senalexpadilla physically dragged off for trying to ask Kristi Noem a question…

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

The Trump White House's ban on "pornography" includes defending Trans rights, kids books about gay penguins, and listening to Lou Reed's Take A Walk On The Wild Side. Closeup and the 2 pages of the #StopProject2025 comic chapter on Internet Freedom.

stopproject2025comic.org/comic/intern...

Just FYI because evidently Fox or OAN or whatever is pushing the lie that America accepted the Statue of Liberty and that’s equivalent to the plane.

Congress VOTED to approve receiving the statue. So congress should vote on the jet

man is the warmest place to hide!

(everyone read absolute martian manhunter by @denizcamp.bsky.social & @javierrodriguez.bsky.social)

[ #absolutedccomics #absolutemartianmanhunter ]

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.

A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025. REUTERS/Paul Ratje Detainees at the Bluebonnet immigrant detention center in the small city of Anson, Texas, sent the outside world a message this week: S-O-S. With a Reuters drone flying nearby, 31 men formed the letters in the dirt yard of the facility on Monday.

Can’t stop staring at this.

This is hilarious. They’re now going on the offensive against Amazon (again!) after having invited Bezos to sit behind Trump at the inauguration, after Bezos paid tens of millions of dollars for a Melania documentary and contributed to the inauguration fund. ‘Hostile’. Sure.

My takeaway from this: He is so fucked.

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.

We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.