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Yeah so throwing dildos at women athletes on the court is an actual example of gender-based violence against women in sports—one that transphobes and acquiescent Dems will surely make 1000% less noise about

Palestinians and trans people are not purity tests, man.

Wall Street Journal headline and deck: "New York Shooting Puts Mamdani on the Spot Over Policing Views: The killing of four people in a Midtown office building rattled a city where mass attacks are rare and violent crime has declined."

It's really weird to demand accountability from a NYC mayoral candidate for a deadly NYC shooting rather than the current NYC mayor, an ex-cop who campaigned on a "tough on crime" platform and promptly got indicted for crimes

*Every* single time a politician uses the phrase "Jumping the queue" with respect to migrants as James Cleverly has just done they should immediately be asked "What queue?" and the journalist should insist on the details of how people can join this queue.

“HOW TO WRITE SCENES IN A 2010s PUNK HOUSE” I fear

There is NO way of doing a meaningful conversion therapy ban in the UK in 2025. Conversion practices are fundamental to the NHS under 18s healthcare service. Criminal ban on medication + Transition denied + Search for alternative cause + Mandatory identity investigation = conversive practice.

Off we go into the wild pale yonder.

the brazenness astonishes me - the cognitive dissonance between the story i was indoctrinated with about the constitution and the bill of rights and what this court has chosen. i have known america to be false for at least 1/3 of my life, but this? this still has hit me like a wet fish to the face

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

Most of the beautiful things you think represnt the US? The constitution's equality before the law, life liberty and all that jazz? Great news! Most of that stuff's from the Kayanerenko:Wa, the Great Law of Peace of the Haudenosaunee.

Justice Jackson in dissent: "The Court's decision to permit the Executive to violate the Constitution with respect to anyone who has not yet sued is an existential threat to the rule of law."

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.

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority just took away lower courts' single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration's lawless excesses, stripping them of authority to issue universal injunctions that block illegal policies nationwide. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

It cannot be stressed enough that the UK Parliament has responded to a planned mass lobby of MPs by trans people by instituting a bathroom ban on the day of the event. We are literally locked out of your state and your democracy.

ok I LOVE Kate Bush, but I think the relationship most gay ppl seem to have with her I have with PJ Harvey what does this say about me thanks in advance

Went into gory detail breaking down the potential impact of the reconciliation bill on student debtors and the field of higher education more broadly. Part of the larger war on working people that we (as ever and even more urgently) need to connect to wars abroad.

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What I really hate about literally everything with this administration and it's bullshit right now is that nothing, NONE OF IT, is for any real reason. Just dismantling shit and blowing up shit just cause. And that makes me furious at the people who thought letting this fool back in office was ok.

courage was not a sentiment; but a thing simply useful

Christ. Yes

yeah :( the british library also feels weaker than it was in like 2021? but it’s been so hot this summer i just kinda feel like it’s more of a “the aircon is working at a pace it cannot maintain”

my assumption has always been that it’s more that the heat has gotten higher and worse and more prolonged, which given how the infrastructure of the UK is, just that the aircon isn’t able to make a dent in this kind of heat?

yeah it just feels completely… untethered from the material reality that courts mean very very very little anymore

not to be doomer about it but, like. maybe we need to stop trusting a system that’s consistently shown to not care?

honestly, it feels insane to see people treating the court order to resume processing passports correctly as a guaranteed thing. the administration has consistently defied the courts, so why would this be any different

it doesnt matter what the fucking language is, ffs