Rose, Sapphic Seraph
@thesapphicseraph.bsky.social
Musician, Security Researcher, and nerd extraordinaire. She/Her/Hers, 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺
The oral argument in Slaughter is maybe the single most terrifying thing I've ever heard. Feels very much like watching the literal moment the republic actually ended. #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The oral argument in Slaughter is maybe the single most terrifying thing I've ever heard. Feels very much like watching the literal moment the republic actually ended. #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS
@strictscrutiny.bsky.social Re: Learning Resources. On these historical points, I keep wondering if it matters that some broad delegations of authority to Art. II are the consequences of not having tools like 16A. Stat. 251. and other non-tariff revenue, funding sources
November 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
@strictscrutiny.bsky.social Re: Learning Resources. On these historical points, I keep wondering if it matters that some broad delegations of authority to Art. II are the consequences of not having tools like 16A. Stat. 251. and other non-tariff revenue, funding sources
They passed it...heaven help us all...
July 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
They passed it...heaven help us all...
And let me get this right, its fine for the "democratic process" to decide whether women bleed out and die or are used as incubators, but its somehow not equally well suited to allow introducing the existence of people with identities different to their own? Make 👏 it 👏 make 👏 sense #SupremeCourt
June 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
And let me get this right, its fine for the "democratic process" to decide whether women bleed out and die or are used as incubators, but its somehow not equally well suited to allow introducing the existence of people with identities different to their own? Make 👏 it 👏 make 👏 sense #SupremeCourt
This line in (4) is rich. You can't possibly draw any sound conclusion over how use of directives and classroom materials actually cashes out in practice without some concrete showing of what's happening on the ground. Everything else is just assumption on vapor and innuendo #SupremeCourt #Mahmoud
June 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
This line in (4) is rich. You can't possibly draw any sound conclusion over how use of directives and classroom materials actually cashes out in practice without some concrete showing of what's happening on the ground. Everything else is just assumption on vapor and innuendo #SupremeCourt #Mahmoud
Reading Alito's opinion in Mahmoud. Le sigh... 😩 This thing is as tedious as it is insufferable. So much legal word salad to barely mask an incessant whinging over the inescapable fact that LGBTQIA+ people exist. #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Mahmoud
June 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Reading Alito's opinion in Mahmoud. Le sigh... 😩 This thing is as tedious as it is insufferable. So much legal word salad to barely mask an incessant whinging over the inescapable fact that LGBTQIA+ people exist. #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #Mahmoud
EOD, as a trans PoC, its a devastating ruling. Another in a long line of decisions undercutting the spirit and purpose of bedrock civil protections like 14A. AFAIC, the Roberts court has been doing its best Taney//Rehnquist impression for years, and this is just their latest number #Skrmetti
June 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
EOD, as a trans PoC, its a devastating ruling. Another in a long line of decisions undercutting the spirit and purpose of bedrock civil protections like 14A. AFAIC, the Roberts court has been doing its best Taney//Rehnquist impression for years, and this is just their latest number #Skrmetti
Maybe another ? For our friends at @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, but I wonder whether a test case for exploring that tension with Obergefell is already en route via 5C, 6C, or even 8 or 11C. Would imagine marriage equality for homosexual couples an easier target than interracial unions. #Skrmetti.
June 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Maybe another ? For our friends at @strictscrutiny.bsky.social, but I wonder whether a test case for exploring that tension with Obergefell is already en route via 5C, 6C, or even 8 or 11C. Would imagine marriage equality for homosexual couples an easier target than interracial unions. #Skrmetti.
Maybe @strictscrutiny.bsky.social will have more insight on this, but can't see how the majority & concurring opinions dont create tension with Obergefell & Loving. If simply not saying the quiet part out loud work around 14A, what work is left for 14A or 1983 to do? #Skrmetti #SupremeCourt
June 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Maybe @strictscrutiny.bsky.social will have more insight on this, but can't see how the majority & concurring opinions dont create tension with Obergefell & Loving. If simply not saying the quiet part out loud work around 14A, what work is left for 14A or 1983 to do? #Skrmetti #SupremeCourt
Equally strange (from Oral Arg. too) are the frequent references to Geduldig v. Aiello, a decision Congress despised so much they adopted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978 to contravene the decision. #Skrmetti #SupremeCourt
June 18, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Equally strange (from Oral Arg. too) are the frequent references to Geduldig v. Aiello, a decision Congress despised so much they adopted the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978 to contravene the decision. #Skrmetti #SupremeCourt
Read the opinion in #Skrmetti today...just the latest in a string of tragedies in law. The only way the majority makes any sense is by ignoring the first order question SB1 is asking, which is centrally concerned with an individuals sex in order to determine what follows from that initial position.
June 18, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Read the opinion in #Skrmetti today...just the latest in a string of tragedies in law. The only way the majority makes any sense is by ignoring the first order question SB1 is asking, which is centrally concerned with an individuals sex in order to determine what follows from that initial position.
The way this world is being shattered by the small minded dreams of doddering old men...smh.
June 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The way this world is being shattered by the small minded dreams of doddering old men...smh.
It's hard not to wake up every morning, and send mass text to everyone I know who voted for Trump and ask, "so this...this is the world you wanted?" More horrifying than that might be just how many of them would reply "yes"
June 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
It's hard not to wake up every morning, and send mass text to everyone I know who voted for Trump and ask, "so this...this is the world you wanted?" More horrifying than that might be just how many of them would reply "yes"
Just caught a glimpse of Sabrina Carpenter's latest album cover? 😬😬😬. Like...babygirl are you okay because this? This ain't it. So sad.
June 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Just caught a glimpse of Sabrina Carpenter's latest album cover? 😬😬😬. Like...babygirl are you okay because this? This ain't it. So sad.
The dedication to hate against trans people, and particularly transwomen, is so...disappointing.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
UK's highest court to rule on definition of 'woman' under equality laws
The United Kingdom's top court will issue a ruling on Wednesday on the legal definition of a woman under equality laws, a case that could have far-reaching implications for the fractious debate over transgender rights.
www.reuters.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The dedication to hate against trans people, and particularly transwomen, is so...disappointing.
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks...
Watching reruns of both #TheWestWing and #TheNewsroom. Scary how real some of these hypotheticals like, one man unilaterally rewriting birthright citizenship out of 14a, have become 😬😬😬.
January 28, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Watching reruns of both #TheWestWing and #TheNewsroom. Scary how real some of these hypotheticals like, one man unilaterally rewriting birthright citizenship out of 14a, have become 😬😬😬.
Watching the new series of XO Kitty on @netflix.com. Julianna isn't playing ANY of these games rn 🤣🤣🤣.
January 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Watching the new series of XO Kitty on @netflix.com. Julianna isn't playing ANY of these games rn 🤣🤣🤣.
It really doesn't matter if deportations begin in 24 hours or 24 months. The timetable for fascist, authoritarian acts has no bearing on whether said actions are thus.
January 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
It really doesn't matter if deportations begin in 24 hours or 24 months. The timetable for fascist, authoritarian acts has no bearing on whether said actions are thus.
I feel like r/Republican is one of the most delusional places on the internet. Nearly every post for three days reads, "Ah ha! See, he's invoking a fascist agenda on day 3 instead of day 1 so all the dire warnings are wrong"
January 23, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I feel like r/Republican is one of the most delusional places on the internet. Nearly every post for three days reads, "Ah ha! See, he's invoking a fascist agenda on day 3 instead of day 1 so all the dire warnings are wrong"
Some advice for our American friends:
- Use Signal for texting. E2E encryption is best in class, doesn't store Metadata which is a plus
- Add NoScript extension to your browsing experience. Disables a lot of tracking and cookie services.
- Enable encryption on phones, tablets, laptops etc.
- Use Signal for texting. E2E encryption is best in class, doesn't store Metadata which is a plus
- Add NoScript extension to your browsing experience. Disables a lot of tracking and cookie services.
- Enable encryption on phones, tablets, laptops etc.
January 21, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Some advice for our American friends:
- Use Signal for texting. E2E encryption is best in class, doesn't store Metadata which is a plus
- Add NoScript extension to your browsing experience. Disables a lot of tracking and cookie services.
- Enable encryption on phones, tablets, laptops etc.
- Use Signal for texting. E2E encryption is best in class, doesn't store Metadata which is a plus
- Add NoScript extension to your browsing experience. Disables a lot of tracking and cookie services.
- Enable encryption on phones, tablets, laptops etc.
Justice Sotomayor firing with both barrels in this Trump v. United States dissent. Feel like she, Kagan, and Jackson are just writing for history at this point, but still...good sense still got bars 😜
January 20, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Justice Sotomayor firing with both barrels in this Trump v. United States dissent. Feel like she, Kagan, and Jackson are just writing for history at this point, but still...good sense still got bars 😜
In other news, excited to hear how @strictscrutiny.bsky.social covers Free Speech Alliance v. Paxton, because that argument was a doozy lol. #SCOTUS seemed really split on various issues in the case, but it was honestly just hard to follow.
January 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
In other news, excited to hear how @strictscrutiny.bsky.social covers Free Speech Alliance v. Paxton, because that argument was a doozy lol. #SCOTUS seemed really split on various issues in the case, but it was honestly just hard to follow.
Woke up this morning to a request from Instagram to subscribe for €8 to go ad-free. Really dislike how many of these platforms require subscription tiers to not be inundated with unwanted content.
January 17, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Woke up this morning to a request from Instagram to subscribe for €8 to go ad-free. Really dislike how many of these platforms require subscription tiers to not be inundated with unwanted content.