Melynn

Amazing!!!! Congratulations!

Thank you for posting.

I loathe Elizabeth Gilbert with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. 😆

Amazing!!!

Yes to wise. It’s sickening what’s happening in higher ed, as you know. Duke began a 2-week period of layoffs today, taking the lead among its “peer institutions” in budget cuts. All the best to you in your leadership role(s).

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This case presents an easy question: whether SB1’s ban on certain medications, applicable only if used in a manner “inconsistent with . . . sex,” contains a sex classification. Because sex determines access to the covered medications, it clearly does. Yet the majority refuses to call a spade a spade. Instead, it obfuscates a sex classification that is plain on the face of this statute, all to avoid the mere possibility that a different court could strike down SB1, or categorical healthcare bans like it. The Court’s willingness to do so here does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause and invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight. It also authorizes, without second thought, untold harm to transgender children and the parents and families who love them. Because there is no constitutional justification for that result, I dissent.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the majority "does irrevocable damage" to the equal protection clause and "invites legislatures to engage in discrimination by hiding blatant sex classifications in plain sight." She fears the damage in Skrmetti will go well beyond gender-affirming care, and she's right.

My very, very first impression of Skrmetti is that it is as horrible as people are saying, and yet, it is a more limited horror: It does not overturn bostock, it doesn't overturn rulings saying trans discrimination = sex discrimination.

Bathroom, sports, passport ruling are good under this.

Sotomayor: "The majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent."

We lost Skrmetti.

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O to grace how great a debtor
daily I’m constrained to be!
Let that grace now, like a fetter,
bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,
prone to leave the God I love;
here’s my heart; O take and seal it;
seal it for thy courts above.

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Amazing!!! Thank you for posting.

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Perfect! Ordered some soft oil-based colored pencils on Amazon. Thank you!

Just downloaded. I've never done the adult coloring thing before. What do you recommend for coloring? I'm sure I could use anything, but I would love to get some special tools just for this.

If Democrats want to win the political battle over tariffs, they need to get every American to listen to this excellent Ezra Klein podcast on the benefits of free trade.

She was the absolute worst from them moment she announced she was staying. Like who’s paying for your little Adventures in Buddhism, sweetheart?

I was so surprised by the turnout! Super fun. Sorry to have missed you.

Oh no, even this year!!! So the kids have been working so hard won’t get to compete nationally. These fuckers.

LOL

the actual texts

🔥 PETE ON HEGSETH-GATE: “An epic fuck-up… these are not serious people… if there are no consequences, all the bluster from Trump about merit was bullshit… we deserve so much better…”

This is horrifying. I had no idea.

Want to join me for this Hands Off event?

Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.

Amazing

I can’t make up my mind about this 1933 Germany thing. If that’s where we’re headed, then I should work on my family’s expatriation plan. If not, then I should focus on deciding where my son is going to middle school next year.

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I Vow to Fight Autocracy with Unprecedented Levels of Finger Wagging “Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, has reportedly been criticized by some of the party’s state governors for not resisting Donald...

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“We need to throw the old Democratic playbook out the window, see what page it lands on, then enact the boldest plan on that page.”