Right. Heller v DC, where Scalia and Roberts made up a wholly new second amendment, was not just wrongly decided.
The Court did not decide it honestly.
Scalia and Thomas were both taking bribes from pro-gun billionaires. That decision was corrupt and we should not accept it.
People develop a theory of mind for this stuff that essentially is nonsense. It has nothing to do with these soldiers being Jewish and therefore they do bad things. They do bad things because the state and the army is Jewish *supremacist* and Jews who commit crimes are not prosecuted.
We pay taxes. They steal our money and they use the government we pay for to make their rich friends richer. My latest on how Donald Trump is using the federal government as his private ATM Machine.
open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...
a hopeful reminder that the spectrum of political possibilities is as wide open as they've ever been & that—if we elect a bold new class of dem leadership who will press their advantage—we could forge a political coalition that will annihilate the maga movement
The ideologization of the ‘natural’ - from raw milk to home birth to vaccine rejection and fantasies about a rural life that is as artificial as cities - is one of the most depressing trends of the past few decades and literally the opposite of progress www.theguardian.com/food/2026/ap...
The US Constitution is fatally flawed without a way to enforce the law - or even basic loyalty - on the President.
We will never again live under the rule of law, so long as we live under this Constitution, bc of impeachment being a dead letter and the pardon power.
totally fascinated by this protest in Western Sahara. It is illegal to display the flag, so activists tied them to feral cats. Troops had to ridiculously chase cats around to confiscate them. A brilliant "dilemma action". ht @HiddenBrain
1/ All the hallmarks of a neo-royalist lollapalooze. Syrian billionaire, ties to Kushner, sanctions relief, preferential contracts. This is not the rules based order or spheres of influence. Global politics is being run by court insiders.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
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Riding the NYC subway with my extremely smiley firstborn was a great way to witness the inherent goodness of humanity. I remember a very tough looking gentleman shaking his head and muttering “I guess I’m having a good day today“ after my infant son beamed at him
Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.
Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
It's really remarkable how Roberts finds higher power prices from environmental regulations to be an emergency worthy of extraordinary preliminary action but economy-wrecking tariffs not to be.
He just hates Dems and thinks Republicans automatically get the benefit of the doubt.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz reignites plans for alternative transportation routes, many of which include Turkey’s, whose geography “condemns the country to geopolitical significance,” as one diplomat eloquently puts it. (🎁 article.)
A related problem:
Trump so dominates the Justice Department that
when his friends (and he) file a lawsuit against the federal government,
DOJ can settle the case (no matter how dubious), &
the govt pays out millions of $
(out of the Judgment Fund).
E.g.:
DOJ $1.2m settlement w/ Michael Flynn
The IRG attacks reopened talk of Shias being a dangerous 5th column. Moving more in the direction of Bahrain, where they try diluting the Shia pop. Sole GCC state to give non-Muslims citizenship
Weirdly in all this KSA has a pretty moderate policy with its Shia population domestically
Cover of report "Mission Aborted: how NASA illegally implemented the president's budget request without congressional approval. Minority staff report, prepared by members of the committee on science, space, and technology, us house of representatives, April 2026
This report came out today by minority staff of the House science committee on how three NASA missions were aborted due to NASA illegally following the FY26 president's budget request instead of congressionally approved budget. Very important reading. 🔭🧪 democrats-science.house.gov/staff-report...
Someone who used every tool at his disposal to overthrow our democratically elected government is most emphatically not a "good man," and most emphatically does deserve to have his career destroyed.
Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.
“We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
All of these transactions must be subpoenaed, unmasked, and prosecuted
Dear Member of Congress: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants. Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH: • Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities • Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants • Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one • Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects • Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color
U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year.
For example👇
1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year).
2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants.
🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...
Obvious in hindsight, nonetheless jaw dropping
Try as they might, renewables are gaining momentum.
"Last month, fossil fuels generated less electricity than in any March going back at least 25 years, while renewables generated more."
e360.yale.edu/digest/us-re...
Exactly one year ago today:
having to recapitalized the federal government while actually facing constraints on the credit card is gonna be a nightmare, and i don't know if anyone has the stomach for a fundamental reshuffling our of fiscal cards
Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 3, 2026 ~ Strangers on a strange planet.
"Since climate change is also fundamentally disrupting atmospheric circulation patterns, we now have mega-unprecedented extreme events occurring with regularity."
yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/04/the-...
To everyone accusing me of not reading her statement: I did and even the most charitable reading sucks. Greene is an unrepentant fascist engaged in a blatant attempt to launder her reputation under the guise of anti-Trumpism. Statements like this directly facilitate that and Omar should know better.