Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

@gneilyo @jrconlin @BobRobertsonXI @SrRochardBunson @lednabm But it's going to take some time. Rendering people who discriminate on the basis of their religious beliefs unable to claim protected and thus subject to enforcement actions for civil rights violations. And the Supremes need to be careful how they legislate, because the Law of Unintended Consequences was not repealed by their actions yesterday...

Pumping Groundwater Has Changed Earth’s Spin, Study Finds - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/climate/groundwater-earth-spin-axis.html

Elena Kagan Has Had Enough

“From the first page to the last, today’s opinion departs from the demands of judicial restraint,” Kagan wrote. “At the behest of a party that has suffered no injury, the majority decides a contested public policy issue properly belonging to the politically accountable branches and the people they represent.”
She continued: “That is a major problem not just for governance, but for democracy too.

#SCOTUS

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/opinion/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court.html

It's funny that all these billionaires are paying zero or near zero in taxes on all the money they make but I have hard limits on the relatively small amount of retirement savings I can shelter from taxes.

And it's not like I won't pay taxes; the taxes are just deferred until I actually spend the money.

And this is determined to be reasonable in a neo-liberal economy where I have to fund my retirement with my own savings.

It's not actually funny.

#Billionaires suck

If the recent SCOTUS decision means Congress can write off student debt, then we've got work to do.

We need to take back the House and get a few more seats in the Senate.

We need to elect Senators (and get serving Senators) on board with:

1. Codifying Roe v., Wade

2. Authorizing forgiveness of student debt

3. Passing federal legislation protecting LGBTQ folks

The moral arc of the universe bends toward justice only if we bend it.

#VoteBlue
#ReproductiveRights
#LGBTQRights
#StudentDebt

80 years ago today, Willem Arondeus was executed by Nazis after he bravely bombed a building to destroy 800,000 identity cards.

He was an openly-gay Dutch artist who forged documents for Jewish people.

His last words were "Tell people that homosexuals are not cowards."

@RIDDLES happy caturday

Over on tumblr a whole lot of people are contemplating the irony that 'regret rates' for HP tattoos are probably easily far far far higher than for gender confirmation surgeries.

https://www.tumblr.com/scorittanius/721607286951460864?source=share

#Trump is bragging that his ancestors never owned #slaves, as if that's some high bar of personal character. Note that he doesn't mention the fact that his ancestors were documented members of the #KKK who were arrested for actions against #black people. Or the fact that Trump and his father both have a documented history of #discrimination against black Americans. Trump is a verified #racist regardless of the fact that his family didn't own slaves.

https://eurweb.com/2023/trump-gloats-over-reuters-report-that-his-ancestors-never-owned-slaves/

I'm sure Jefferson Davis looked good in a dress.

Putin is terrified of the Wagner Group. So much so, that he is building them a new base in Belarus!

Satellite photos, reports suggest Belarus building army camp for Wagner fighters
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Wagner #Prigozhin

https://apnews.com/article/russia-belarus-wagner-ukraine-mercenary-mercenaries-lukashenko-82d304924c6531b95fba279acd783a84

So #Twitter made tweets inaccessible to anybody who's not logged in. That'll make millions of tweets disappear from articles, news and blog posts all over the internet. I'm sure it'll do wonders to their search rankings.

At this point it's like the Titanic if the captain were like: "Not that iceberg, it's way too small! Let's try *that* one instead."

These members of Congress had their loans forgiven.

#FascistCacus #Republican #scammers

Trump Ambassador Gordon Sondland Named in Illegal Donations Scheme (Roger Sollenberger/The Daily Beast)

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-amb-gordon-sondland-named-in-illegal-donations-scheme
http://www.memeorandum.com/230630/p113#a230630p113

Also, I hope everyone is clear now that this Supreme Court's rulings no longer are based on erudite and well-informed analysis of complex legal issues, but rather on the answer to the question, "Which way should I rule in order to accomplish what's shown in the image below?"

The orb. #comics #funny #SuperPowers