I'm struggling to follow who benefits from this.

The middle of a fascinating story about being in an airport

This was not a dog whistle when I said it, but now I have to delete it, I guess.

There's a ton of letters in this case:

www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

Scroll down a bit and you can read them (although many will probably be infuriating)

amicus curiae

The letters are called amicus curse:

www.law.cornell.edu/wex/amicus_c...

If you have specialized experience or work with an organization in a position to have an interest in the litigation, you could probably find a letter to sign or contribute to. I don't know if any deadlines have already passed

For better or for worse, the consensus is that scholarly input about best practices very rarely is the tipping point on what is allowed and what isn't.

In other words, they are reasonably likely to rule in favor of the ADF, but I doubt it will be because of the misquoted researchers opinions.

Supreme Court backs a high school coach's right to pray on the 50-yard line The 6-to-3 decision is the latest example of the court's conservative supermajority requiring more accommodation for religion in public schools and less separation between church and state.

If you'd like to read a case where they got basic facts wrong in the majority opinion, this is a good start:
www.npr.org/2022/06/27/1...

Every case has an advocate on both sides, and high profile cases get lots of letters pointing out why other evidence is unreliable.

Which law are you referring to?

A bunch of people have interrupted federal agents and the charges against them keep getting kicked.
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

And California passed a law making it illegal for leos to cover their face (outcome unknown)
www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

Yeah, immigration - adjacent kidnappings give law enforcement a bad name.

Damnit. I failed to not learn. If you're curious, here's a good explainer

bsky.app/profile/nogo...

Discord is probably the best tool for medium to large group discussions.

This goal is doomed to fail. It's either going to close or some people are going to be dragged in front of Congress in the next couple of years (maybe sooner).

Thank you for the summary.
Can I get a similarly abbreviated summary of who Jesse signal is and what he's done lately?

Or the other witch

That was my first thought, but I can't do that to Elfaba.

Like him personally? Or his style of campaigning?

What are some good songs to play when it happens?

After doing a little research, I've decided I don't want to know.

Guilt by association is bad, but it's even more frustrating from the outside when prominent guilters by association trip into the right answer despite using bad methods.

Is "reasonable and entire compensation" typically a pre-established licensing fee structure that already exists?

Is there a particular recent event people are subskeeting?

Generally speaking, everything is way more complicated and requires more resources to work than most people realize. Healthcare, sewage, power grids, etc.

Content moderation of any group larger than maybe 1000 people is also very hard. For some reason most people think it's easy.

bsky should have never positioned itself as the twitter alternative if they didn't want twitter problems, like needing an actual trust and safety team to handle moderation. as a ✨Trust and Safety Professional ✨ i have thoughts because moderation goes far beyond deleting mean or offensive posts

Yeah, taken to it's logical conclusion that Democrats are actually the ones running the country, it is both completely untethered from reality and also bad for Team Trump.

The second amendment was written so that locally controlled militia could defend themselves against overreach like this.

With a few muted phrases or a lot of blocks, you can get the "were doomed" posts down to less than 30%

Let them eat cake

3 ways you can make noise about the shutdown if you have a GOP Member of Congress.

1) Find where they publicly said Dems want healthcare for illegals [sic] and--in the most aggrieved voice possible--berate them for claiming their constituents who rely on ACA are not real Americans.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Series of screenshots from Dr. Who World war I Judging by the uniform, yes Yes but what do you mean ... One

Unfortunately I'm not on the market for a carpet or the Seattle Opera, but I will keep an eye out for people who cancelled their ads that I can support