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Knowing that they have the full support of the federal government, the Proud Boys are going to try invading Portland again.

Since Portland residents won’t passively accept it, this attack will only serve to reinforce the fascist narrative that the city is a war zone.

They think this is good.

We can’t fight or even properly discuss this if we don’t start flipping the questions

Because the question is

“Why do all of their technologies turn to abuse vectors of the least defended and respected identities”

And the abuse of those who transcend their bias

Zach Bryan continues his unbroken streak of almost being good

“Why Sergio?”: Deportation ends 36-year dream for celebrated Waco chef Sergio Garcia built a wide following for his regional Mexican cuisine over the decades, becoming a favorite of the White House press corps visiting Waco during the Bush presidency. Then in March, ICE ...

Man…man.

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look if Dolly Parton needs you to pray for her then you find a scrap of floor and get to fucking work

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

Trudeau sucked up to Trump so hard, he ran a PR campaign for him. And as thanks, Trump called him governor, started an economic war against us, and demanded he be ousted.

But this time it'll work.

This is a picture from Los Angeles in 1992 that CNN is using to illustrate a post about “anti-ICE protests in places like Portland”.

…is the White House claiming that the President has the ability to treat tariff revenue as his own private slush fund to spend on whatever he wants without the money being appropriated by Congress?

And because Republicans control both houses of Congress, they have no interest in asserting or defending Congressional authority or powers from being usurped by the executive branch.

The members of Trump’s cabinet, like Trump himself, simply do not believe that Congress has any authority to conduct oversight or constrain their actions with laws. They believe that they can ignore laws passed by Congress that constrain them & that they can ignore courts that order them to comply.

I get that everyone thinks it's a funny little joke when Trump says nonsense about "trangender for everybody" (because really, wtf does that even mean?), but I gotta say that as a trans person, I find it absolutely fucking insane that he's constantly obsessing over trans people existing. It sucks.

“The Power of Love” by Celine Dion coming on at the laundromat is something that can be so personal and so healing

I am going to ask my doctor for a DNA test so I can find out what diseases I am predisposed to and also what my “real” name is.

a biological name? I guess the GOP is going to try to make changing your name illegal next because names are apparently a biological byproduct of your genetics.

fucking incredible

Just as a reminder, Bondi’s origin story in Trump world is that she said she was going to investigate Trump University, Trump sent her a $25K check and the investigation disappeared. She later became Trump’s personal defense lawyer. So yeah, don’t challenge her integrity.

“when medical consensus is politicized and taken over by ideology” - this is SCOTUS saying that if the overwhelming majority of doctors, psychiatrists & medical experts disagree with their fundamentalist Christian religious beliefs, they will consider the medical consensus to be “politicized”

KBJ asks why Skrmetti isn't relevant since SCOTUS allowed state to ban treatment, getting FedGovt to make clear that their argument is essentially that talk therapy can't be regulated

a man in a suit and tie says are you making any sense of this snl ALT: a man in a suit and tie says are you making any sense of this snl

Chiles references McCullen, which is a case about a person talking to another on a sidewalk--how this relates to a licensed professional offering their services for pay to then talk to a minor in their private office is....unclear

KBJ's questioning gets to the perplexing idea that state-licensed clinicians can avoid regulation if the therapy they provide is words

The position of SCOTUS is that, despite the mainstream medical consensus, states must be allowed to ban medical treatment to help trans youth but also that, despite the mainstream medical consensus, states must not be permitted to ban medical treatment that harms LGBT youth.

It's really telling the hypocrisy of the conservative justices in today's case vs. Skrmetti. They were eager to enable Tennessee to "protect children" from being trans, but they are very skeptical of Colorado trying to protect children from harm. The only consistency is anti-LGBTQ bigotry.

Justice Thomas has questions about whether there's even a history of regulating therapy and counselors. There, of course, is. It sounds like he really wants mental health to be a total free-for-all. That would be so devastatingly harmful.

If they don’t want to change it or reduce it then whatever therapy they seek wouldn’t be conversion therapy and thus wouldn’t violate the ban on conversion therapy and thus these hypothetical children can’t be used to justify overturning the ban.

Kavanaugh and Barrett are obsessed with a hypothetical about a dispute in the medical community. There will ALWAYS be a vocal minority that dissents (like hate group ACPeds), but that's not a justification for undermining the mainstream medical consensus on the standard of care.

After Reconstruction, the media refused to believe that white supremacists were massacring entire towns of Black people attempting to claim local sovereignty over their own lives. It is not true that violence, even when it's "plain as day," necessarily moves public opinion.

(I still can’t figure out how to purify the waters though)

I mean. Narcissus is perpetually arching his back with his head tossed back.

ADF has a track record of representing clients with just-so standing claims, like wedding businesses that are incorporated just long enough to challenge nondiscrimination laws protecting queer couples and are never heard from again