‼️ By refusing to hold officers liable for violating rights unless other officers have previously been held liable in identical circumstances, the Court’s qualified immunity jurisprudence effectively nullifies those rights altogether
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and in fact, we are only getting a 1% raise while the university scrambles to make up a budget shortfall by increasing tuition, etc. I would love to know how the President and Chancellor manage to randomly fork over $2 million to OpenAI in the midst of all this.
"We are pleased to share more than 125,000 U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs. These materials which span nearly two centuries of American law are now freely accessible online."
"Includes records and briefs spanning cases from 1830 through 2019."
"This is how political dysfunction is seeping into American capitalism: not through one sweeping reform, but through a steady erosion of stability. And that erosion hits hardest where the economy is most dynamic: among the smaller and midsize businesses that drive job creation and innovation."
"A growing number of economists and executives describe this as a period of heightened hesitation, when businesses are delaying and canceling investments and hiring because they cannot predict the rules under which those decisions will play out." Stanford GSB Finance Prof Amit Seru.
The only way we unfuck our country is through a puritanical anti-corruption drive. We need to rip out a vast substrate of corrupt elites and marginalize an even larger contingent of mere incompetents and cowards.
Ppl need to be terrified of the white-collar criminal laws of the United States again.
i guess the point is that the speed, scale, and methods of modern ultrawealth accumulation are so new to us that, with that in mind, it's not surprising at all that societies — including the wealthy, the poor and everyone else alike — have absolutely no idea what to do with or about it
Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.
As we read this about the Roberts Court let’s remember the shadow docket grievously harmed American scientific research, cancer cures, and public health over the past year.
For ex, KBJ’s “Calvinball” quote was in an NIH case. More, short 🧵 1/
It's the combination of all of that stuff that makes the Shadow Docket, that gives it this quality of like, "we have replaced the ancient tradition of deciding cases through the giving of reasons with a new tradition of not doing that"
Normal extraordinary relief pending appeal isn't like that!
when there are no longer cops on the beat, criminals no longer need lawyers to defend them www.ft.com/content/befa...
Trump recently posted AI images depicting himself as a Christ-like figure, drew backlash, deleted it — then posted a second image of Jesus guiding his actions.
These aren't jokes gone awry. He and his hardcore supporters really believe he's the rightful Christian leader.
PS: Trump has also been doing the exact same thing regarding Judaism. He sees himself as the rightful leader of all American Jews, even though he is not Jewish.
He thinks that all religious people should follow him. It's an evangelism of toxic narcissism.
People often mock Trumpers as cultists, but the disturbing nature of their beliefs is still underestimated.
If you go to Amazon, you can find hundreds of children's books about Trump, including a series depicting him in Bible stories. Here he is at the birth of Christ:
The central identity point for all reactionary politics is one you almost never hear about in the MSM: They literally hate modernity and want it destroyed.
For 11 years now, the media keeps wondering why far-right Christians love Trump. It's not a mystery. He is their destroyer.
Here's Roberts's reasoning:
This court will eventually hear the case, and I have already pre-judged the outcome, so we will decide it in advance.
He has deemed the Court's own process irrelevant, rendering it nothing more than an unelected voting body.
Again, you might want to primarily identify by class and not by race/sexuality/gender/gender-identity, but *they're not going to let you*. That's the *point*.
oh man. iranian state media reporting that the strait of hormuz is open, but only to those who can answer the blind old man’s riddles three. not a long term solution, to say the least.
"Technology is depriving us of our secretaries, whose work we now have to do" was a popular complaint from dudes throughout the nineties
The leadership Trump put in to agencies he then successfully ordered to break the law must go to prison. All of them.
GSA implemented significant staffing cuts without analyzing impacts on its work, and agencies throughout government are feeling the impacts via @seanthenewsboy buff.ly/rqia6uf
If this actually happens, it may rank as the single most corrupt act in the history of American politics. I cannot believe this is even under discussion.
If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit
damn girl, are you a tiny chunk of cat food? because i just accidentally ate you off a cutting board because i thought you were a banana bread crumb. i don't think i'm doing this format right
Me: [idly looking up info on popes]
Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.
Me: wut?
Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]
ICE Arrests 85-Year-Old French Widow Who Married Her G.I. Sweetheart www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...
Women and BIPOC people were doing a lot of this work not going to lie here.
the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.
I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort
