@michaelblanding
Investigative journalist and author of The Map Thief (NYT bestseller) and In Shakespeare’s Shadow. Upcoming book The Gospel According to Hobby Lobby due out, July 14, 2026. www.michaelblanding.com
The lack of evangelical Christians? Let's take a little count of some of the evangelical Christians in power:
Speaker of the House
Secretary of Defense
The departing Secretary of DHS
Trump's nominee to replace her
US Ambassador to Israel
OMB Director
Director of White House Faith Office
Honestly, the only way we're going to get the urgency we need to stop this before it devolves into world war-like chaos is to tell Trump no more ballroom for as long as he's at war with Iran.
Good morning! Yes, this is he
I have used
the missiles
that were in
the arsenal
and which
you were probably
saving
for Russia
Forgive me
they were powerful
so shiny
and so deadly
kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it
Awesome
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As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it
![Kgan dissent
Substantive due process has not been of late in the good graces of this Court—and especially of the Members of today’s majority. The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind. The relevant text bars a State only from depriving a person of “liberty” “without due process of law.” Members of the majority often have expressed skepticism—sometimes outright hostility—to understanding the “capacious” term “liberty” to enshrine specific
rights. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...(2022). Substantive due process, one has
stated, is a “particularly dangerous” “legal fiction” because
it “invites judges” to “roa[m] at large in the constitutional
field guided only by their personal views.” McDonald v.
Chicago...(2010) (THOMAS , J., concurring
in part and concurring in judgment); Obergefell v. Hodges,
...(2015) (THOMAS , J., dissenting). [see footnote 2] Another has pointed to the “judicial misuse of the so-called ‘substantive component’ of due process to dictate policy on
matters that belonged to the people to decide.” Sessions v.
Dimaya, ...(2018) (GORSUCH , J., concurring
in part and concurring in judgment). And yet a third, when
defending the Court’s elimination of a 50-year-old right
grounded in substantive due process, explained that the
“Constitution does not grant the nine unelected Members of
this Court the unilateral authority to rewrite the Constitution.” Dobbs, 597 U. S., at 340 (KAVANAUGH , J., concur-
ring). There are many such statements to choose from in
this Court’s recent substantive due process caselaw. Especially given the Court’s last venture into the field, today’s..
——————
Footnote 2
For that reason, JUSTICE THOMAS has called for overruling “all” of this
Court’s “substantive due process precedents.” Dobbs...(concurring opinion). That invitation presumably extends to the
precedents supporting both the District Court’s decision and today’s per curiam.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreigdihjaovx7uch5jdwdhqiqzmuhlcpuciigewiwazym64rirfgn6m@jpeg)
Kgan dissent Substantive due process has not been of late in the good graces of this Court—and especially of the Members of today’s majority. The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind. The relevant text bars a State only from depriving a person of “liberty” “without due process of law.” Members of the majority often have expressed skepticism—sometimes outright hostility—to understanding the “capacious” term “liberty” to enshrine specific rights. Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization...(2022). Substantive due process, one has stated, is a “particularly dangerous” “legal fiction” because it “invites judges” to “roa[m] at large in the constitutional field guided only by their personal views.” McDonald v. Chicago...(2010) (THOMAS , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment); Obergefell v. Hodges, ...(2015) (THOMAS , J., dissenting). [see footnote 2] Another has pointed to the “judicial misuse of the so-called ‘substantive component’ of due process to dictate policy on matters that belonged to the people to decide.” Sessions v. Dimaya, ...(2018) (GORSUCH , J., concurring in part and concurring in judgment). And yet a third, when defending the Court’s elimination of a 50-year-old right grounded in substantive due process, explained that the “Constitution does not grant the nine unelected Members of this Court the unilateral authority to rewrite the Constitution.” Dobbs, 597 U. S., at 340 (KAVANAUGH , J., concur- ring). There are many such statements to choose from in this Court’s recent substantive due process caselaw. Especially given the Court’s last venture into the field, today’s.. —————— Footnote 2 For that reason, JUSTICE THOMAS has called for overruling “all” of this Court’s “substantive due process precedents.” Dobbs...(concurring opinion). That invitation presumably extends to the precedents supporting both the District Court’s decision and today’s per curiam.
Elena Kagan from the top rope: "The Due Process Clause, needless to say, does not expressly grant parental rights of any kind..."
Then she throws the words of Thomas and Kavanaugh from Dobbs, and Gorsuch from another case, back in their faces www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Growing up in the 1990s meant purity rings and Josh Harris books — now the loudest Christian women are countering 'toxic empathy' and shooting dogs.
The savings we're getting here by annihilating decades of American science will pay for whole minutes of the operation to create decades of death, immiseration, and chaos in Iran.
Medical experiments on prisoners?
Where have we seen this before?
I bet he autographs the coffins. 😡
This needs to be on TV, 24-7 on loop.
I will never get used to the disdain our country holds for brown and Black children.
From Palestine to Iran to Sudan, we normalize the destruction of schools and hospitals and daycares. We reduce children to death tolls and their futures to rubble with no consequence or second thought.
The journey the text of this post takes you on is something all the DeLoreans with all the flux capacitors on Earth could never dream of
Today I learned the Phillies have a pitcher in training camp named Zach Pop, who would immediately challenge Tank Bigsby for the best sports name in town
Screenshot of Riley’s YouTube suggestions with “You might also like this” above a Nature video titled “Spider mother devoured by children.”
I think YouTube just called me a sicko
NEW Reign of Error. You don't want to miss this one. I talk with @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social about how Trump's top evangelical advisors are activating voters for the midterms around voter suppression, Iran, immigration, and literally casting out demons
redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...
tweet from lisa desjardins reporting SOTU might be up to 3 hours long
It’s both funny and cosmically correct that the U.S. men’s hockey chodes will have to sit through 2+ hours of rambling from their addled little king while the U.S. Women’s team gets to skip the speech and party with Flavor Flav in Vegas
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
Oh, it sucks when someone steals your shit, doesn't it
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...
Truly a mystery
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
Human life is definitely inefficient, it's true. Probably best to eliminate it altogether. Machines as far as the eye can see: doing paperwork, trading Bitcoin, betting on Kalshi
Alternately, we could eat the rich
To think this all could have been avoided if certain people had paid more attention to Schoolhouse Rock
share.newsbreak.com/hco1t6zz
"Doug Wilson, the Pastor Who Suggested Slavery Actually Wasn’t That Bad, led Prayer at the Pentagon.
Wilson is the co-founder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, which is Hegseth’s chosen Christian denomination." Mediaite.
Separation of Church & State
i can smell this video, I don't know how to explain it, but its a combination of wet denim, damp crotch, old sweat, lashings of cologne, and divorced man smell
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, 2023. It’s a dark and rainy day in Portland, Oregon, and I felt the need for some color in my life. I think this fits the bill. #Photography #Architecture #Interior #Paris #France 📷
Donald Trump made fun of Mike Johnson for praying before meals they have together in his speech at… *checks notes* …THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST
Allegedly, Christians love this guy.
