The Supreme Court issues a decision on what appears to be a made up case. Justices don’t disclose getting gifts from billionaires with business before the court. Both complete on brand for the Roberts Court. Both also are scandals.
Impossible for me not to express my rage today at so many progressives who “couldn’t get excited” or didn’t show up in 2016. You were blind to the fundamental rights that were at stake. The most vulnerable citizens will pay the price of your fucking privilege. Vote.
It is INSANE to me that the Supreme Court took on this completely hypothetical, non existent situation. I don't really care how people run their business (though I stop patronizing places with this mindset because screw bigots) but to make that ruling based on THIS?
The Supreme Court is supposed to be an unbiased body that makes their rulings based on the laws of our land and judicial precedent, but ALL the recent SCOTUS rulings are aimed at keeping marginalized communities oppressed in order to protect the fragile egos of the white Christian Taliban.
A truly equitable system would scrutinize all forms of preferential treatment, but the SCOTUS decisions only dismantle the preferential treatments aimed to lift up those who have been horrifically marginalized by our society.
We have two choices: expand the court to save our democracy, or let the MAGA appointees of the Christian Taliban destroy everything that makes America great.
Clarence Thomas.
You just voted to gut affirmative action and student loan forgiveness.
Let’s take a look how you got into Yale, shall we?
During your 58-page concurring opinion, you wrote that the foundational policies of affirmative action "fly in the face of our colorblind Constitution and our Nation's equality ideal.”
But Justice Thomas, we did a little digging and it turns out that Yale university followed an affirmative action policy at the time you attended its law school.
There’s more.
In 1991 a New York Times article about you reported that Yale University officials confirmed you were admitted to its law school "under an explicit affirmative action plan with the goal of having blacks and other minority members make up about 10 percent of the entering class."
It appears clear from the testimony of Yale officials that your admission to the Yale School of Law was made at the time of affirmative action policies and was almost certainly influenced by it.
We should also mention that
you secretly accepted $150,000 in tuition payments from rightwing billionaire Harlan Crowe, but you just voted to strike down loan forgiveness for students who need it.
There is something absolutely tragic about the fact that the benefits of
affirmative action helped create a Justice Thomas who will now deny many young African American talented individuals the same opportunity.
Justice Thomas, if you’re so against affirmative action, I suggest you resign from the Bench.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court said it will consider whether a 30-year-old federal law that prohibits people under domestic violence restraining orders from possessing guns violates the Second Amendment. https://t.co/md0hGrfdPH
I’m sorry. In America, your right to exercise your religion doesn’t give you a right to discriminate.
If your business is open to the public, you don’t retain some license to discriminate based on religious belief. Religious bigotry is still bigotry.
SCOTUS should be ashamed.
Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness.
After the gifts, Alito voted to overturn. This SCOTUS’ corruption undercuts its own legitimacy by putting its rulings up for sale.
Of course the ideal is to judge college applicants on their merits and nothing else. But opportunity is not equal. Doing away with AA is pushing everything back. I'd rather crack down on people's parents mattering so much - as alumni or because they can pay their way in.
Last, while any challenge to Putin’s dictatorship is historic, we should remember: Prigozhin & Wagner are not good guys coming to liberate Russia & make it a blooming democracy. Remember, Prigozhin troll farms & influence operations targeted U.S. elections in 2016.
Tequila tweet: None of us in America know what’s truly going on in Russia tonight, but all of us in America should once again be so fucking thankful tonight that Joe Biden, and NOT that Putin puppet Donald Trump, is in the White House.
I'm thankful to live in a state that doesn't want to ban learning actual facts and history. And if our small town school doesn't teach it, I will. They deserve to know the good AND the bad, so we can continue moving forward instead of backward.
I sadly didn't know what Juneteenth was until the last few years. I don't remember ever learning about it in school. I think it's important for my kids to know the real history of the US. How far we've come, and how far we still need to go.
Juneteenth is about Americans feeling the progress we can make for America.
It's about remembering history, not erasing it.
It's about reading books, not banning them.
That’s what great nations do, and we are a great nation.