MagnetCarta

The English language as she is spoken.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

The #BondiTop

I can pretty much guarantee that there were sensible, experienced bureaucrats arguing that CBP needed to try to be ready for such an order.

I would like to be present when government lawyers tell a 78-year-old judge “we can’t follow your order because the computer won’t let us.” That’s always fun.

I've had my eye on Neguse for a while and he's a real talent.

ending her career lying about an orwell quote while the entire room is getting news notifications about how she’s been fired and clearly doesn’t know it, perfect

Trump is going to make him go by "Mark" or "Wayne," not both.

He'll shame you a lot faster than him ever feeling shame.

private equity reading this like "I smell an opportunity to improve operational efficiency!"

THERAPIST: Jabba Allen White isn't real. He can't hurt you.

JABBA ALLEN WHITE:

It’s a real tribute to AI’s terribleness that everyone thinks the AI George looks like a different celebrity and everyone is right

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

The Nine

"I didn't scam you, I gave you capital losses" is fucking *art*

put it in a museum so people can see how a great civilization collapsed

Musk testified Wednesday that he ended up completing the deal because his lawyers advised him that Delaware Chancery Court Chancellor Kathleen St. Jude McCormick, the judge in charge of the case, was "extremely biased" against him and he had no chance of prevailing. He pointed out that McCormick voided a $55 billion pay package awarded to him as CEO of electric automaker Tesla, but that decision wasn't made until January 2024 — 15 months after he completed the Twitter takeover. The Delaware Supreme Court overturned McCormick's ruling late last year. By tying his belief that McCormick was biased against him to his lawyers, Musk insulated himself from extensive questioning about the decision through legal protections shielding discussions between attorneys and their clients.

holy fucking shit

“There are no merits” is amazing.

There is no reason in the world for Sheehy to get involved.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

“At the end of the day, she didn’t sound any better than some of these ultra-conservative people who were demeaning Black and Brown folk on a regular basis,” said Rev. Rodney Sadler, a Bible scholar and longtime community activist in Charlotte. “It felt like a betrayal of the utmost.” Cunningham’s comments proved so problematic for Sadler that he said he realized that she was “no longer worthy of being our representative” and he had to run against her. “It drove me to a point of saying, ‘She needs to go, and she needs to go now,’” the 58-year-old pastor, who works at Charlotte’s Union Presbyterian Seminary, told Bolts.

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%.

boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

These are all answers given by trump and his various sycophants in the last five days to the question, "why are we doing this?"

And just now, 52 US Senators shirked their constitutional responsibilities.

Any moderately popular pundit who gets criticized by people on Bluesky

It's like a 90s movie where these kids are about to play a ragtag bunch of misfits.

"It is fraud" -- Neguse nails Kristi Noem for lying during her testimony yesterday when she told the Senate that DHS's $220m ad campaign starring her "went out to a competitive bid" (it did not), and tells her "I think there's gonna be accountability" (1/2)