Rose Rudd @roseannerudd@qoto.org

Pride Month continues indefinitely until you fuckers get the point.

Via Elie Mystal:

I don't know what to tell you guys. We have to expand the Court. If we don't expand the Court, no liberal policy will be allowed to exist for the rest of our lives. That's why Republicans stole the court, that's why rich people pay for justices.
Govern yourselves accordingly.

The 2024 election is critical in the effort to #UnfuckSCOTUS

If I lived in the states I’d have a cafe that the whole schtick would be no Christians served unless they sign a form asserting they aren’t a homophobic bigot.

"Today, the Court, for the first time in its history, grants a business open to the public a constitutional right to refuse to serve members of a protected class," says Justice Sotomayor in her dissent.

At some point we have to talk about how one third of the Supreme Court was appointed by a guy who is indicted for espionage.

✔️ Via Angry Staffer:

Now that they’ve refused $10,000 loan forgiveness to 43 million Americans, Alito and Thomas have some multimillion dollar bribes, erm, I mean vacations—that they aren’t going to disclose—to go on. #SCOTUS

Via Kyle Griffin:

“ Reuters: BIDEN WILL ANNOUNCE NEW ACTIONS TO PROTECT STUDENT LOAN BORROWERS -WHITE HOUSE SOURCE”

"This wrongheaded decision is a devastating blow to the more than 43 million Americans who were promised relief and are now let down by a court gone rogue. It’s time now for President Biden to swiftly implement a Plan B, utilizing the Higher Education Act, which grants the Secretary of Education the authority to compromise and settle debts." - Center for Popular Democracy Action

“The offensive isn’t going very fast because we’re trying to save the troops, it takes some time to prepare the ground. We need to destroy as much as possible before sending the troops in,” A Ukrainian soldier's explanation of the recent fighting. https://www.wsj.com/articles/ukraine-hits-russian-defenses-from-a-distance-before-risking-troops-26cd2502

Another killer interview from @ikhurshudyan: “Ukraine’s top general wants shells, planes, and patience.” He says it “pisses him off” to hear complaints about the counteroffensive’s progress. This ain’t TV, and the West would never counterattack without air superiority.… https://t.co/aYFvT7p8dh

This is a statement the world should pay attention to. War is not an instant gratification scenario. War is won by courage, resolve,
pain, and sacrifice. Freedom isn't free. #StandWtihkraine

FROM FORMER FIRST LADY MICHELLE OBAMA:

“I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision on affirmative action:”

#Mastodon #BlackMastodon #SCOTUS

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish by flying him by private jet to a fancy fishing resort, you lock in a supreme court vote whenever you need one.

“Judge Clarence Thomas, who came to prominence as a fierce black critic of racial preference programs, was admitted to Yale Law School under an explicit affirmative action plan with the goal of having blacks and other minority members make up about 10 percent of the entering class, university officials said.

I'm thinking of the school district I grew up in.

The wealthiest, whitest neighborhood had a brand new middle school with a pool. The poorest, most Latino neighborhood had the oldest school building in the district, and used hand-me-down textbooks from other schools.

You think individual experiences have nothing to do with race? Fuck off, Roberts.

A bunch of racist shitstains got together and said "racism is great and there's no reason to compensate for centuries of it"

@w7voa So many thanks for always covering these things.

Taking a broader view of #FairvHarvard, the majority opinion and the concurrences fit the #Lochner paradigm. As in #Dobbs and #Bruen, Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Coney Barrett all stake out a position divorced from the reality of American life and arrived at by radical, formalist reasoning. Ultimately, dissatisfaction with this sort of decisionmaking led to the New Deal legal revolution. Dissatisfaction with it may yet birth another sea change in US law. 10/10 #LawFedi