Picture of AOC talking to RFK Jr. She is gesturing and has an expression that reads "Are you a fucking dumbass?!" (Rhetorical)
Her expression right here:
Are you a fucking dumbass!?
You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂
Great job by @rikiwilchins.bsky.social on this interview.
![What the founding generation understood as an establishment of
religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to
be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must
make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal
question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry
requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561
U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical
analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03,
605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and
bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by
appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error
review on appeal.57
_________________](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aw426jbgw7drhivb4ijrizlu/bafkreicuhm57wg3uztocexdatbhgzvoarrnm2afvhfffhqrvtoh4iinnle)
What the founding generation understood as an establishment of religion is a legal question to be decided by a court, not a “fact” question to be decided by experts, no matter how credentialed. To be sure, courts must make a determined effort to grasp the relevant history bearing on that legal question. Hilsenrath, 136 F.4th at 491 (“This kind of historical inquiry requires serious work.” (citation omitted)); McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742, 803 (2010) (Thomas, J., concurring) (noting “[h]istorical analysis can be difficult”). See generally Heller, 554 U.S. at 592–95, 600–03, 605–19. They do so by consulting articles, books, and historical sources and bringing their own independent judgment to bear on them—not by appointing an “expert,” whose “findings” are insulated by clear-error review on appeal.57 _________________
And then, in one last bizarre twist, the Court says that judges aren't allowed to ask experts in history about questions of history, because experts impact "independent judgment."
Brb going to scream.
But this principle has no application to government use of religious language or symbolism. See Lynch, 465 U.S. at 687 n.13 (declining to apply denominational preference cases to city crèche). Nor could it. Consider the cities of Corpus Christi, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Fe, San Jose, St. Augustine, and Sacramento, to name just a few. Do those names represent “denominational discrimination”? Or take our national motto. See 36 U.S.C. § 302 (“In God We Trust”). Does it show “favoritism” for monotheism over polytheism?
The Fifth Circuit says religious freedom doesn't apply to religious symbols posted by the government because place names exist.
I am not joking.
That is what they said.
Moreover, Plaintiffs have not identified a shred of founding-era evidence equating the government’s use of religious text, displays, or symbols with an establishment of religion. To the contrary, it appears that no one “ever claimed at the founding that the display of religious symbols was a form of religious establishment.” Chapman & McConnell,
See, the Ten Commandments in schools isn't coercive because that's not what the Founders considered coercive.
And then, we get to the most remarkable and batshit part of this whole opinion.
Cocaine Bear and Cocaine Shark might have just been campy horror films, but Cocaine Salmon are the real deal. 🐟🧪
While Trump is an indictment of the GOP, to an extent, he is also an indictment of Democrats.
He is proof of how far the party allowed the Overton window to move rightward.
The party needs fighters. Hopefully this midterm, we see a new class of Dems ready and willing to kick fascist teeth.
Elon Musk spent billions of dollars to push white supremacy and has a compound where he’s keeping the children he’s trying to breed into little supermen and he’s never described as a fanatic for white supremacy.
A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread has a penciled version of the one comic page, a small black and white comic, as well as notes in the margins.
A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread has a small comic drawn by Mel Gillman as well as notes in the margins.
A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread has a three black and white comics, a digital drawing by Ajuan Mance, and notes in the margins.
A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread has a small comic drawn by Mel Gillman in the margins.
Gender Queer will be 7 years old in May. It's spent 5 of those years being in the top 3 most challenged books in the US. I am so grateful for everyone who is still reading it & defending it. 🧡💛💚💙 Read banned books! Fight for freedom of speech! Share trans stories! No on HR 7661!
Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffeetable size book, held open in front a background of green leaves so that the full wraparound cover art can be seen
A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. The book is so heavy it's rather hard to hold to up with one hand.
A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread has penciled versions of the two comic pages as well as notes in the margins.
A spread from Gender Queer: The Annotated Edition, a large coffee table size book, held open in front a background of green leaves. This spread a small colored drawing by Rani Som as well as notes in the margins.
The Annotated Edition of Gender Queer is almost here! from @oni-press.bsky.social
In stores May 19. Many people, including myself, added notes, comments, thoughts, drawings, & extra comics to this edition! Pre-order here: bookshop.org/p/books/gend... more photos & gratitude in thread.
I’m interested in creating a writing crit group for trans femmes that will meet regularly online. Comics and prose, generally. Genre fiction, mostly. It will be a small group, 4-6 people or so. This is a group for serious trans lady-types who have professional writing goals. DM me if interested!
Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
RFK Jr. is a guy who was meant to commit a series of themed animal crimes in Gotham City with the ultimate goal to “eat the Bat” before being subdued and returned to Arkham.
We're blown away by all the solidarity with and love for our announcement! If you'd like to read more about why we're unionizing, check out this press release from @wgaeast.bsky.social. Excited to share where we go from here!
RFK, Jr. has spent a couple of days up on Capitol Hill just repeating repackaged Nazi eugenics talking points and no mainstream media outlet will make that connection
I can say this as a retired immunization RN: every immigrant WANTS every single vaccine available to them because they have seen what these preventable diseases do to people.
If we had a qualified HHS Secretary with any science background, we wouldn’t have so many outbreaks.
Behold my first Berkeleyside byline!! It’s about gaming, but moreso about perseverance and togetherness, aka what we need more of these days.
www.berkeleyside.org/2026/04/21/g...
Image 1. Museum photo of a cream coloured Japanese women's coat in silk and wool, seen from behind. The coat is to mid-calf, cut fairly straight, with very large full length sleeves in a traditional style. The principle design element is an embroidered (?) peacock, covering the full back of the coat. Its body sits across the upper back, with its tail feathers sweeping down to the hem. Its head and neck extend into the right sleeve, and further tail feathers in the left.
Coat by Takashimaya, Japan, 1900
A long time since I've posted anything Japanese. This is a beautiful coat. The detail of the peacock is incredible - more pictures attached in the linked post. Always a fan of these very large sleeve ends too.
1/2
#fashionsky #fashionhistory #dresshistory #TheMet
A family of Ravens is putting the goth back in gothic at NYC's largest cathedral--St John the Divine. There are five mouths to feed, so the parents are staying busy! ⛪️⛪️⛪️ #Ravens #Cathedral #birding
I going on a week-long trip with two very long days of travel (saving money by not taking direct flights). Once again trying to figure out how many books I need to bring 😅 I don’t need more than 3, right? 😅
Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
calmatters.org/investigatio...
If only we had a button that would tase RFK Jr. every time he lies in a congressional hearing.
We could charge for a chance to push the button and pay for 100 years of single-payer healthcare.
To understand monstrification, and how to replace it with something better that I call monstrofuturism, check out my latest book: HUMANS: A Monstrous History. it's a history of the category of the human, told through ideas about monsters and monster-making.
www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-mon...
American Nationalists—No. 5 Nationalists' Youth Group Begun in Englewood Church Editor's Note: This is the fifth of sir articles on the growth of the Nationalist movement in the United States. The series describes the organizations, their leaders, methods and programs. By EUGENE SEGAL Scripps-Howard Staff Writer CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 20.-Adopting the pattern of political organization successfully followed in Germany, Italy and Russia, American Nationalists have created a youth movement. On Jan. 6, 1944, a convention the dissident groups of the coun was held at the Englewood Baptist i Certain other religious leaders Tabernacle, at Englewood, near have added their support to the Denver, Colo. This is the church of Rev. Harvey Springer, a rabble- Nationalist movement. The worst rouser in the Gerald L. K. Smith of these is the Rev. Gerald B. manner. Winrod of Wichita, Kan. He is Present at the meeting were 350 under indictment for sedition. Win- young people and pastors from "Jayhawk rod, widely characterized as the churches in seven Nazi," publishes the Midwestern "Defender." states. An organization was In 1935 Winrod and the Rev. formed with the "Christian Youth George D. Blomgren, another pro-for America" and national headquarters at 3170 S. Broadway, En- Nazi preacher, toured Germany. glewood. Winrod was granted interviews A call was issued to "all Chris- with Hitler and other top Ger-tian youth organizations in Amer- man leaders and, on his return to ica to join us in a united front this country, began a full-scale against the flood of Communism pro-Nazi campaign. in the land." Has Clerical Cousin in L. A. Goff Heads Youth Program Winrod is a cousin of Rev. Jon- A man prominent in Nationalist athan Perkins of Los Angeles, who formed a committee of California activities was named chairman of the youth movement. This was pastors to sponsor Gerald L. K. Kenneth Goff. Smith's San Francisco appearance Goff is a former Communist at the time of the United Na- who, in late…
It's July 21, 1945...the war has ended in Europe but in the US there are already concerns about fascism re-emerging here. "Adopting the pattern of political organization successfully followed in Germany, Italy and Russia, American Nationalists have created a youth movement." The name highlighted...
FASCISM Springer Spreads Old Lies About the Jews • This is the fifth installment of a book-length feature on Harvey H Springer, self-stuled cowboy pastor of the Englewood, Colo., Baptist Tabernaele. BY THEODORE WILSON IN THE columns of The Western Voice, personalities are the rule, not the exception, especially where Jews are concerned. We saw last week the snide remark about Sidney Hillman. Here are some about Walter Winchell, a favorite target because of his exposure of fascist elements in America! "Walter Winchell, with his super-ra. of speech is struck down. No lengthy cial conscience and 'persecution complex, details of facts are needed. hey are which he evidently inherited, is doins already notorious; far more so than will more to awaken true Americans to the be wished ten years from now. stark reality of what's coming than any "Colorado knows that a broadcast of living American." (From "SENTENCE purely Gospel preaching was taken from SERMONS," by James Bryan, Novem the air, the speaker being insulted, ber 16, 1944.) harassed and abused. If this had been a Under the heading of "Walter Winch- mere outbreak of passion and prejudice ell, the Pop Gun Patriot," a blast is the baser maddened by made against the columnist in which he whiskey and hounded on by some wily is termed "character assassin," politician to serve some immediate pur- "phony patriot" and an "all-American -a mere exceptional affair, it might faleer." Included with the artiele io « be allowed to But the leadere ot photograph of an idiotic-looking youth this violation of free speech are gentle- with a silly smile, who says "Sure, I'm men. They were men who pride them-for Walter Winchell." selves upon their respect for law and TIRADE・…・ order. .. We hear two voices: one denouncing the Jews who were respon- The of February 23, 1943, sible for contained an this and another, 1len Under the heading deprecating and regretting that such a "Winchell's Chickens Come Home." Par: program was on the alr. When …
It's notable how frank some US newspapers were in the immediate post-war period to call out American fascists using the "f-word." The people they were describing called themselves "Christian patriots" and "anti-communists," but they were clearly American fascists and many papers called them that.
Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.
A 10/25 article says there has been a campaign to depict Katie Porter as abusive to undermine her. “[She] is disliked by the Sacramento establishment…because she’s more populist than they’d like & more willing to challenge the corporate interests that rule CA politics.”
prospect.org/2025/10/13/k...
It's normal in libraries to see a small number of book challenges by parents & patrons who have concerns about content. Today, however, 92% come from organized groups, including officials and dark money groups like Citizens for a New LA. It's time we reclaim our libraries for the people they serve.
Heyyy everybody! Coming to yal because I need yal to watch and share this cartoon! This is the FIRSTTTT Haitian-American cartoon in America EVER! It premiered on Cartoon Network today and they need our support! youtu.be/RyFlefn92N8?...