On this, the last day of Pride month, the Supreme Court declared it open season for business owners to discriminate against people they don't like.
Are you an artist, independent professional, or business owner in the US? It just got a lot more important for you to signal that you welcome and support queer and trans people 📣
It's not enough to be quietly inclusive in this day and age.
These Supreme Court rulings back to last year's Roe reversal suck. The question is -- are there enough aggrieved people in the "red states" who could oust their current senators up for re-election? Odds look good for a Democratic House. The Senate, sadly, not so much. #uspol#uspolitics#2024#democracy#democrats
The US Supreme Court ruled a business can refuse service on the basis the customer is gay.
The US filled with people who wish people like me didn’t exist. They vote for politicians who write laws and appoint judges who deny queer people of equality.
The US Supreme Court ruled a business can refuse service on the basis the customer is gay.
The US filled with people who wish people like me didn’t exist. They vote for politicians who write laws and appoint judges who deny queer people of equality.
We need to return to an understanding of higher education as a public benefit, acknowledge the last half century of failed policies, and to revisit our funding models.
A corrupt Supreme Court majority, given lifetime appointments by Presidents who lost the popular vote, operate in secret without a code of ethics, and are turning back the clock on decades of social justice in America. This case wasn’t even real.
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Supreme Court rules in favor of discrimination against same sex couples #tyrannyoftheminority#SupremeCourt#LGBTQ#USpol#USpolitics#politics
"The GOP Is Lining Up to Pay Homage to America's Newest Extremist Group, Moms for Liberty"
“This is not just concerned moms. This is not the PTA. This is a group that is fully aligned with authoritarian politicians & activists"
Most major GOP presidential hopefuls will take part in a conference this weekend organized by Moms for Liberty, a now well-funded & well-connected darling of the far-right.
Striking down affirmative action and ending Roe v. Wade didn't happen overnight. For decades, conservatives remained focused, played the long game, held their noses, and voted for imperfect candidates in every election in order to remake the courts.
There is no magic bullet to undo this. Progressives, liberals, and moderates who believe in social justice will have to be as determined and committed to voting over several election cycles. #USpol#USpolitics#politics#SupremeCourt
North carolina just passed a gender affirming healthcare ban on minors yesterday...
Our governor and the legislator will spend about a week or two vetoing it, and then overturning the veto.
Sometime in the next couple of days the supreme court is going to rule on "303 Creative v. Elenis". Which I expect will legalize religious discrimination against lgbtq people, by denying them services.
But "WooHoo!" Fourth of July weekend.
Fucking god forsaken hellscape of a place to be in.
They call it a housing crisis. I call this Great Depression level stuff. People cannot afford housing because the inflation rate has been high for decades. This is all because of failed economic theory and policy and they measure the wrong things.
"In 2022, it was the first full term of the supermajority of six very conservative justices.... And they moved the court — and therefore, the country — hard to the right in three days last June"
Day 1. "When considering the constitutionality of a gun rule, you cannot take public safety today into account"
Day 2. Dobbs
Day 3. they began "curbing the power of regulatory agencies to protect the public"
Just a general observation. I didn’t think it was possible but as of right now in terms of media coverage and storylines in the traditional media outlets - 2024 election is shaping to be even more insufferable and stupid than 2016. Not great. #uspol
Don’t look now, but a judge just wrote an opinion saying that Heller was bullsh*t, and Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia changed the 2nd Amendment— while taking hunting-trip bribes from pro-gun billionaires—which flooded our streets with guns and gets kids massacred.
The Scalia Second Amendment is fake, it was created in 2008, and the real 2nd Amendment is about state-sponsored militias only. #2A#USPol#CorruptClarence@Dahlialith
"An Arizona county elections director quit Tuesday, accusing the local elections department of caving to 'a faction of the Republican party' and failing to protect her from 'intimidation.'"
"How the Shortage of a $15 Cancer Drug Is Upending Treatment
(...) The nation’s monthslong shortage of highly potent cancer drugs is grinding on, forcing patients and their doctors to face even grimmer realities than those cancer typically presents.
(...) One of the nation’s top cancer care groups, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, is now advising doctors with low quantities of the medications to administer them to patients with a shot at a cure — and to deny them to patients with recurrent or widely spread disease."