Maxine Kaplan

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

There are way more people in the world than I, as a young person, would have believed that consider their children their property, rather than people. I credit my own parents with the way that I struggle to understand how people can justify that attitude.

Kgan dissent Substantive due process has not been of late in the good graces of this Court—and especially of the Members of today’s majority. The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind. The relevant text bars a State only from depriving a person of “liberty” “without due process of law.” Members of the majority often have expressed skepticism—sometimes outright hostility—to understanding the “capacious” term “liberty” to enshrine specific rights. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...(2022). Substantive due process, one has stated, is a “particularly dangerous” “legal fiction” because it “invites judges” to “roa[m] at large in the constitutional field guided only by their personal views.” McDonald v. Chicago...(2010) (THOMAS , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment); Obergefell v. Hodges, ...(2015) (THOMAS , J., dissenting). [see footnote 2] Another has pointed to the “judicial misuse of the so-called ‘substantive component’ of due process to dictate policy on matters that belonged to the people to decide.” Sessions v. Dimaya, ...(2018) (GORSUCH , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). And yet a third, when defending the Court’s elimination of a 50-year-old right grounded in substantive due process, explained that the “Constitution does not grant the nine unelected Members of this Court the unilateral authority to rewrite the Constitution.” Dobbs, 597 U. S., at 340 (KAVANAUGH , J., concur- ring). There are many such statements to choose from in this Court’s recent substantive due process caselaw. Especially given the Court’s last venture into the field, today’s.. —————— Footnote 2 For that reason, JUSTICE THOMAS has called for overruling “all” of this Court’s “substantive due process precedents.” Dobbs...(concurring opinion). That invitation presumably extends to the precedents supporting both the District Court’s decision and today’s per curiam.

Elena Kagan from the top rope: "The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind..."
Then she throws the words of Thomas and Kavanaugh from Dobbs, and Gorsuch from another case, back in their faces www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Conventional wisdom is a really fascinating phenomenon. We're at the point where "everyone knows" kids were being rushed into inappropriate gender transition.

There are between zero and 10 recorded cases of this happening (depending on your definition of rushed).

This is truly the crux of it. It’s not about shielding kids or promoting “traditional values” — it’s about straight up removing options, and the ability to imagine, from their worldview

Put this on a T-shirt

The Ensh*ttification of the Institute of Museum and Library Services Trucks On: What's Happening and What You Can Do Nearly a year after the Institute of Museum and Library Services was dismantled, what's happening at the agency? What can we do to help out?

Take 10 minutes this week and engage in one of the suggested activities to help the IMLS. Still. Again.

bookriot.com/the-enshitti...

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Contacting Governor Hochul will encourage her to protect the rights of students & educators to access a wide range of literature.

Even if you live outside of NY, you can still write to Governor Hochul since vetoing the Freedom to Read Bill directly impacts those who work for NYC-based companies.

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"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

It’s on for images now!

Hey I seem to have lost the ability to add alt text...?

D.C. students walk out of school and fill the city’s streets to protest ICE Organizers said more than 1,000 students gathered at the Lincoln Memorial. Among the signs they held, one read, “We skipped our lessons to teach you one.”

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Let me be crystal clear on something: were this law to be passed, every one of the 13 states with Freedom to Read laws would cease to have those laws to protect them anymore.

We have poured so much energy into those state laws–which matter, hear me–but they are not going to solve the big issue.

Yes

Hey folks, I hadn't thought of it in these terms, but protesting planned AI data centers in your local area *could literally bring the entire fascist house of cards down*, b/c the big fascist tech cos have bet HEAVY on AI, but the demand ain't happening so their $100s of billions of Nvidia chips...

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FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.

The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize

Arrest them.

ICE Arrests Beloved Fighting Game Community Member Ludovic His family has been working non-stop, even in the face of the grief of losing a family member, to bring him home before the government can deport him

aftermath.site/ice-ludovic-...

are we just going to have to collect a fleet of Charming Guys to go ask the president for things for the next three years

i am losing my fucking mind over here

I know the cruelty is the point is cliche and reductive by now, but there’s literally no other conceivable reason for this. It’s just sadism. And abuse.

I always think this because, IMO, the constitution bakes the need for evolution and change--the idea that this is a jumping off point--from the very first line "In Order to form a more perfect Union." MORE perfect, not perfect, meaning that it is going to NEED to be perfected by later generations.

This is, after all, why the amendment process exists!

“I think it would be great if we started trying to normalize the idea that the Framers could have gotten things wrong.”

So they’re going to cripple healthcare for the poor in Minnesota to make an example of the state. The warning is “don’t resist.”

The party of “life”

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Is anyone doing a high spice Amelia Bedelia new adult yet? Honestly wouldn’t be the weirdest IP take I’ve seen all week (‘tis the season)