Magnus

Decided to get off the sidelines and join the fracas. Somewhat prone to typos. RT doesn't always equal agreement. Views my own.

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

@AlanDettlaff

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

Every word.

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

America turns 250 today.

Let me read back the resume.

We started by telling a king to pound sand, in writing.

By 1803 we bought half a continent from France for about four cents an acre.

We fought a war with ourselves and somehow stayed one country.

We strung a railroad across the entire thing.

We handed the world the lightbulb, the telephone, and the airplane in about thirty years flat.

Then a man named Willis Carrier invented air conditioning and made half the planet actually livable.

You are welcome, Texas. You are welcome, Dubai.

Twice the whole world caught fire, and twice we showed up and helped put it out.

We split the atom.

We put men on the moon in 1969.

Then we went back and hit golf balls up there, because why not.

We invented jazz, blues, rock and roll, and hip-hop, and the whole planet is still dancing to it.

We put a burger and fries on every corner of the earth.

We built rockets that fly themselves home and land standing straight up.

We flew a helicopter on Mars.

We launched a car into actual space and it is still out there cruising.

We also invented ranch dressing and somehow talked the entire world into putting it on pizza.

Priorities.

We even invented three of our own sports so we could win them.

Baseball, basketball, and football.

Real football, the kind with hands, because we named it and we are not taking corrections.

The rest of the planet can keep soccer, which is fine, we are hosting it in our backyard this summer anyway.

And yes, Canadian football exists, wider field, extra man, one fewer down, and we try very hard not to think about it.

Frankly it was generous of us to invent our own games.

If we put all that energy into soccer, nobody else would ever lift that trophy again.

We would win it so often they would just rename it the America’s Cup and hand us the keys.

You are welcome for the suspense.

And in 2026 we threw a birthday so big a German tourist live-tweeted our gas stations to 750,000 people.

Not every chapter was clean.

We argued, we stumbled, we fixed what we broke, and we kept building.

That is the whole trick.

Two hundred and fifty years in, and we are still the loudest, brightest, most improbable experiment on the map.

Not bad for a country that started as a strongly worded letter to a king.

Happy birthday, America.

🦋

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

@rosarinn

[British Embassy Washington @UKinUSA]

The greatest ex we ever had 😢

[Flappr @flapprdotnet]

Happy 250th Birthday, America.

Happy Independence Day, Patriots.

[The Dank Knight 🦇 @capeandcowell]

My family isn’t retarded enough to try to run over a fed so no definitely not

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

These are words from a person who has never understood what it means to be an American, nor what is required to maintain this particular social experimental of greatness.

[Lulu NYT @LuluGNavarro]

Why are we having so many jets scorching over DC? Nerve-wracking. I get 250 celebrations but it feels like the apocalypse.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

America is exceptional because the people who bitch about it the loudest refuse to leave

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

Good, we should make it impossible to exist in the US as an illegal

School, work, even a basic trip to the store should carry the constant fear of deportaitons

Illegals should be afraid to be in the US because they're criminals

[Sunny @sunnyright]

Jesus can you people not be pussies for once

[Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucy]

New York Times journos when a plane flies overhead

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:

“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Leor Sapir @LeorSapir]

I'm thinking of starting a nonprofit called More Than Words that matches land acknowledgers with Native Americans families. If you acknowledge that you're on stolen land, my organization will match you with a specific family whose land you or your ancestors stole. You would then transfer "your" property to the rightful owner, with More Than Words covering all associated legal and administrative fees.

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

HAHAHHAHAH good lord the poor sucker that Alito torched is gonna have *this* stuck to his permanent record for all eternity.

[Bryan LaFonte @bryanlafonte]

@EWess92 Here you go. The transcript doesn’t do it justice.

[Laura Powell @LauraPowellEsq]

Throughout her dissent in the case protecting girls’ sports, Justice Jackson insists on using the phrase “sex assigned at birth.”

The principal dissent, authored by Justice Sotomayor, instead uses the phrase “sex identified at birth,” which is somewhat better misleading because it does not suggest that a doctor arbitrarily assigns a person’s sex. But it’s still inaccurate, given that sex is commonly detected before birth. The phrase attempts to create the impression that biological sex is simply a label applied at birth that is subject to change.

In reality, sex is established at conception and cannot change. There is nothing more intrinsic to who we are as individuals.

Justice Thomas criticized the wordplay employed by gender ideology in his concurrence: “To use language to obscure reality—to show indifference regarding the truth—is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens as equals.”

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

The inability of liberal jurists to examine laws in the context of the time they were written continues to underwhelm.

[Amy Swearer @AmySwearer]

The Majority: "There's scant evidence that anyone ever disagreed with our interpretation of birthright citizenship."

Justice Thomas:

[Not Today Eric @NotTodayEric]

Ok hear me out.

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

I continue to be baffled at how KBJ ever received a single confirmation vote.

I also am truly impressed with how professional the other justices have to be to not immediately look at KBJ in undisguised horror every time she opines on any topic.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

Ketanji Brown Jackson: “A transgender woman penalized for being perceived as aggressive has experienced discrimination "on the basis of sex" just as much as a cisgender woman has, no matter that the transgender woman's behavior matches expectations of her sex assigned at birth.”

She’s actually INSANE.

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

Those look suspiciously like emdashes.

Juuuust out of curiosity, what is the punishment for a jurist, say a SCOTUS jurist, who uses/abuses AI in precedent setting cases?

Because I genuinely think that should get you disbarred, regardless of political affiliation.

[Pericles @PerryALPHA]

Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson used the tik tok slang phrase "understood the assignment" in her concurring opinion for the birthright citizenship case

[Magnus @JacksonTDawes]

Clarence Thomas is one of the greatest jurists in SCOTUS history. The man deserves to have statues out up in his honor....

For merely pointing out the obvious, which, is apparently a super power in the present times.

[Shawn Fleetwood @ShawnFleetwood]

Justice THOMAS: “Men and boys with gender dysphoria are not women or girls, even if they believe that they are. Sex is an immutable ‘biological’ characteristic … it is binary; and ‘man’ and ‘woman,’. ‘boy’ and ‘girl,’ are the terms that correspond to adults and children of each sex. … To use language to obscure reality—to show ‘indifference regarding the truth’—is to lie to the public and cease to treat our fellow citizens ‘as equal[s].’”