Reposted by @DangerATXBill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Welp let’s just get ahead of things and transfer all these names right onto the National Sex Offenders Registry 33976142
Reposted by @DangerATXMicah @rincewind.run · 27/09/2026bring me the old republic give me revan, naga sadow, exar kun, nomi sunrider let the skywalkers rest 5048044
Reposted by @DangerATX"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Just going to say here, I think I've said this before, a 'historically accurate' version of the Odyssey is not possible because the Odyssey does not take place in a historical setting - it takes place in a fantastical pastiche of four centuries, mixed in with gods and monsters. 773598603
Reposted by @DangerATXKate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026good article and, crucially, a good list at the end of cookware/kitchenware lines that are still quality (and family owned) 431848752
Reposted by @DangerATXJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social. 1262756849
Reposted by @DangerATXInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Fill your garage with Hogwater. 1224529672
Reposted by @DangerATXCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Trump is not America. He's anti American. America is eating birria with some randos on folding chairs in the parking lot of the Food 4 Less watching the world cup on a flat screen wearing my knock off Mexico jersey. 321129145
Reposted by @DangerATXAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026Trump's fair has been opened for 20 minutes today and there is still not a single soul there! 3614246786
Reposted by @DangerATXJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 03/07/2026People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot. 2479831791
Reposted by @DangerATXRegime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The Trump presidency shows no one cares about corruption but the vindictive prosecutions also show that you can do an almost nakedly partisan anti corruption persecution campaign and you won’t be disciplined for that either. 1027146
Reposted by @DangerATX[Spooky Name Placeholder] @mxlabradorite.bsky.social · 01/07/2026This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since. 2756401681
Reposted by @DangerATXvictoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 01/07/2026i kinda love this answer, it’s very illuminating. it’s not about female athletes at all, it’s about the fragile egos of delusional psychopathic parents who want returns on their perceived investments 263872666
Reposted by @DangerATXDr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026So… at some point elected Democrats are going to realize that their constituents have moved left of them and want said electeds to either represent them or get the fuck out of the way, right? Right? …RIGHT??? 28965168
Reposted by @DangerATXleftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Clarence Thomas says the 14th Amendment should be read narrowly because it was written for formerly enslaved people. By that logic, the 2nd Amendment was written for muskets, not AR-15s. Funny how that kind of originalism only shows up when it's convenient. 1048286988160
Reposted by @DangerATXdave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026this is the face Sandal makes when people say the Supreme Court term "could have been worse." 1467253
Reposted by @DangerATXDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I’m not sure what the vision for this event was. Honestly I doubt there WAS any vision. There’s nothing to attract locals. Nothing to attract tourists. There’s far less to do than at any of the nearby museums. You can’t spend the day here, and there’s no public programming to plan around. 3871946
Reposted by @DangerATXDave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Do not enter the freedom truck. I REPEAT: DO NOT ENTER THE FREEDOM TRUCK! 1883577
Reposted by @DangerATXLee Cronin’s Pablo Hidalgo @infinata.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Had to dig up a hard copy for this one. 6174831458
Reposted by @DangerATXLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026static.klipy.comTim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It!Alt: Tim Robinson: Oh My God, He Admit It! 331193269
Reposted by @DangerATXderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Justice Brown Jackson's argument for birthright citizenship is very moving. I recommend reading it in full. An excerpt with alt-text below. “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” — KBJ 3854111491
Reposted by @DangerATXBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source. 480150713213
Reposted by @DangerATXDr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 01/07/2026here's my scotustake: you need a plan to both break this court specifically, and also a plan to arrive at a new and functional court system, *and also* to recognize that political contestation never ends but that's no excuse for doing nothing 141058220
Reposted by @DangerATXChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The thing you need to understand is that there are 2 (TWO) different method for amending the constitution 1) The process laid out in the constititon itself (conventions, or 2/3's of both houses followed by 3/4 of states ratifying) OR 2) find five votes on the Supreme Court. 20779591863
Reposted by @DangerATXPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 30/06/2026constitutional birthright citizenship survives by 1 vote. and to think people were worried about this beautiful institution. 444625643
Reposted by @DangerATXThe Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Four justices don’t believe the reconstruction amendments are part of the Constitution, simple as 434280918
Reposted by @DangerATXAngus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Justice Jackson: "Justice Thomas's telling elides the entire point of the Second Founding: The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery." 6893249
Reposted by @DangerATXAlexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This is what the moderates got us. 532200440
Reposted by @DangerATXBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man. 415192794459
Reposted by @DangerATXRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question. 8889382195
Reposted by @DangerATXMrSquid @mrsquid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026My honest belief is that the dissenters should just be fully disbarred. You cannot sincerely believe the 14th Amendment does not contain birthright citizenship. To hold this is to be either so dishonest or so incapable of analysis that you cannot practice law. 181452367
Reposted by @DangerATXQuinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 30/06/20262 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble 151707432
Reposted by @DangerATXAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/06/20265-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd... 9264391885
Reposted by @DangerATXErik the Pleb @erikfrechette.com · 29/06/2026Unitary executive is essential to the conservative project. They can’t lock in minority rule by white, Christian, males without a total corruption of the entire Executive. Now it’s here. With the country on the brink, this is unhinged hubris and the next phase of the MAGA SCOTUS’ Icarus arc. 0236
Reposted by @DangerATXStrict Scrutiny Podcast @strictscrutiny.bsky.social · 29/06/2026NEW - emergency ep on SCOTUS ending independent agencies, except the fed, for [reasons TK here, but maybe because confederate sympathizers were right to be hostile to the Reconstruction Congress and also our stock portfolios] pod.link/1469168641/e...pod.linkSCOTUS Kills Independent Agencies, Expands Presidential PowerListen to SCOTUS Kills Independent Agencies, Expands Presidential Power from Strict Scrutiny wherever you get your podcasts! 109233
Reposted by @DangerATXMark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/05/2026"The plan is to kill off publicly funded academic science in this country." Correct. And that means killing off the whole US science and innovation industry. Because it's all built on a foundation of basic research—which. can. only. be. funded. by. public. dollars. 141001386
Reposted by @DangerATXmtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Learned recently there's a whole subculture of halal BBQ joints in texas, originally because Texas's quite-large Muslim population couldn't eat at ones that also prepared pork, but now it's a whole thriving culinary niche. Real "glorious American melting pot" stuff 653254754
Reposted by @DangerATXTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Truly low turnout in some counties in South Texas. In Starr County, Trump got roughly 9,500 votes in 2024. 90 votes counted in the GOP runoff today. In Webb County, Trump got roughly 33,300 votes in 2024. Roughly 2,300 voters today. 28966278
Reposted by @DangerATXAndy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I get the sentiment but this use of "moderate" to mean "not an insane criminal" is kind of absurd. Cornyn is in no sense a moderate Republican! He is a standard-issue conservative who's never bucked the right on anything, nor Trump for that matter. It's not about policy. The depravity is the point. 772209354
Reposted by @DangerATXBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today. 21491772482
Reposted by @DangerATXjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026“this Court has so perverted the VRA and the 15th Amendment that they serve almost the opposite of their intended function. These provisions were adopted for the…purpose of guaranteeing the political rights of African-Americans. After Callais…they function to limit black political power.” 222965829
Reposted by @DangerATXjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026yes. the clearest path to deal with the SCVA ruling is just to say that it wasn’t a constitutionally valid exercise of judicial review. because it wasn’t! 3947031086
![Still, most freed Blacks resisted the pressure to self-deport. Instead, many started organizing toward the creation of the kind of Nation the colonizationists opposed—one that guaranteed liberty and justice for all. In the decades leading up to the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Black Americans organized and gathered at more than 600 local and national conventions across the country. There, delegates erected the political and intellectual scaffolding for the Fourteenth Amendment and, later, for the Black Civil Rights Movement more generally.
Critically for present purposes, these visionaries already understood themselves to be American citizens. “The refrains ‘we are Americans’ and ‘we are citizens’ echoed in conferences throughout the North.” Moreover, “[b]irthright figured importantly” as “delegates frequently characterized their status as that of native-born citizens.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreieuwdbxpjo22e7fg26a65dobwofwaytq6ilqp4cy7bcicw5fsk63a)
![The delegates argued that, as such, they had the requisite allegiance, so, at a minimum, the Federal Government owed them the duty of protection.
The famed orator Frederick Douglass was one of these delegates. Capturing the spirit of the moment, Douglass proclaimed that Chief Justice Taney—the author of the majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 How. 393 (1857)—“[could] do many things, but he [could not] … change the essential nature of things.” In the absence of the artificial evils of slavery and racial subordination, Douglass explained, “the glorious birthright of our common humanity, will become the inheritance of all the inhabitants of this highly favored country.”
Do note this: The citizenship thesis of the Colored Conventions was thus not that some new status should be created and conferred on freed Blacks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreidxenf7ggfe5sghdwpe5v7pwn3kfh4mqkxiccusnrknq7zfr7qhtm)
![It was instead that freed Blacks already had a rightful claim to citizenship because they had been born on American soil. After all, the Nation, from its founding, had “boldly proclaim[ed] that all men are born free and equal, and that consequently life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are inherent in every individual, vested inalienably by natural birthright.” No ideal was more inherently American. Now, “rest[ing their] cause on the republican standard of the revolutionary Fathers,” freed Blacks were “knock[ing] at the doors of the constitution and demand[ing] an entrance.” And “[i]f … asked what evidence [they] bring to sustain [their] qualifications for citizenship, [they would] offer them certificates of … BIRTH and NATIVITY.” Would the Nation live up to its promise?
Such universalist appeals were a conscious choice. Yes, Black Americans had suffered a singular wrong. And yes, they had “fought and bled” for the Union, paying a steep price for their freedom. But the delegates did not rest on these laurels. Rather, they drew upon the moral and political force of the universal principles that were already core to the Nation’s identity.
That bears repeating: Freed Blacks did not advocate for a unique set of rules that catered only to their situation. Nor did they seek to advance their own position relative to, or at the expense and exclusion of, other marginalized groups.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreig7o5wpfpkbjt7zcvghbco4zafj6m64etq7blz7r542gh7b3gn3oa)
![Instead, those whose gatherings helped galvanize the push for full equality understood that “[a] diverse origin does not disprove a common nature, nor does it disprove a united destiny.” The firmest foundation for freedom would require an anticaste reset—“both for his sake and for ours”—and would benefit all.
During his U. S. Senate candidacy, Abraham Lincoln developed a similar vision. In the lead-up to the now-famous Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln explained that the promise of liberty and equality in the Declaration of Independence “was held sacred by all, and thought to include all.” Lincoln expressly and intentionally linked the fate of Black Americans and immigrant groups (“among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all” of the Founders), and noted that the Nation’s future hinged on a universal definition of citizenship that excluded neither. He explained that the Declaration’s promise that “all men are created equal” was the “electric cord … that links the hearts of patriotic and liberty-loving men together,” regardless of race or descent.
The case was made. First, there was war. And then, the delegates’ (and Lincoln’s) universalist view of citizenship made its mark on the Constitution.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreigucpltb6mmwuwxswipazl56ki3v4dmsr7fx4lkmf5jncrsuvwp4a)
