it is the Imperial Judiciary when courts say that presidents can’t unilaterally overturn constitutional text, and the Proper Order of Things when courts say that your rights rest on the whims of who happens to be in office

Conservatives’ constant reframing of “expanded rights for all” as “special rights for a few” is immensely destructive, and it flows from the philosophy (most refined in Trumpism) that if something is not personally beneficial to me, then it is a loss for me and must be opposed.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

ICE has abandoned almost all the trapping of a lawful arrest. Its officers cover their faces, conceal their identities, use gratuitous force, and transport their targets across state lines to stop courts from intervening. The distinction between an ICE arrest and criminal abduction is disappearing.

the government won't tell you this but

germ theory is real

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.

It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

The reason the conservative intelligentsia has spent decades pretending that societal shifts in cultural attitudes are the same as state coercion is to justify the use of state coercion against the elements of society they disapprove of.

Reminder that Congress can stop this shitshow anytime they want.

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

So I did the math. Columbia needs a 2.7%-ish annual return on 15 billion dollars to replace the 400 million the government is threatening to pull. Not a heavy investment lift.

As always, not a lawyer, but one thing that leaps out at me about how things are going down in the courts right now is that the US court system is not designed to be responsive to a crisis like this one. A crisis like this one is not what it's FOR.

/2 Today the demand for “moderation” calls on people to accept the Right’s hysterical bad faith framing of trans issues in a way that demeans humans and reduces liberty. If you do that their next demand will be that you abandon some other group or value.

We are lucky to have someone as fantastic as Dionne Foster running for Seattle City Council.

Do not blow this Seattle!

Elect Dionne Foster.

(guy whose business is entirely government contracts) we’re going to run the government like a business

Judge Whitehead enjoins Trump’s refugee ban!

One bishop, in one church, literally just asked the president to be nice and him and everyone in his circle been melting down for a week.

These aren't strong people. They're very, very weak people. They can be beaten.

personally i think one should just ignore anti-anti-trump academics who have done nothing but obscure the reality of the situation facing the nation in favor of grinding axes against people they don’t like

"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.

Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC