Hypatia

Mathematician. She/her. Profile pic by @elkers

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

The indictments of Trump are obviously huge deals & I'm not trying to minimize them. But ultimately the solution to the Trump problem is political, not legal. He's almost certainly going to be on the ballot next year, & it'll likely be close. No prosecutor is going to change that

[Shawna Benson @shawnabenson]

If it is cheaper for studios to pay penalties rather than do things as mandated, the penalties are too low.

[Hypatia @torquetastic]

@NIllcord @lbrothers @ouranosaurus Thirded. It actually got me into the “weird and difficult space opera”

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

If you didn’t know already, if Republicans win control of the House and Senate in 2024, they are going to pass a national abortion ban. It’s 100% certain.

Just so we’re clear about the stakes.

[Heather 'Retired-SAG-Capt' Dowling @SaysHeather]

To NON-UNION Actors: under the SAG-AFTRA Strike Notice and Order, "NOTICE TO NON-MEMBERS: Any non-member seeking future membership in SAG-AFTRA who performs covered services for a struck company during the strike will not be admitted into membership in SAG-AFTRA." 1/2

[Kelly Turnbull @Coelasquid]

The wild thing about the whole “we’ll pay you for one day’s work to scan you and use your likeness in anything we want forever” is that they aren’t even offering the same licensing expectation you would give to a font.

[Jay @jaywillis]

I think the end-of-the-Supreme-Court-term punditry is useful in that it reveals who thinks about the law as something that affects the real lives of people who aren’t fancy lawyers, and who conceives of it as a series of fun little logic puzzles for their big brains to ponder

[Jill Filipovic @JillFilipovic]

Insert "this is fine" dog here

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

You can't square John Roberts 2023 ruling that POTUS cannot authorize student debt relief with his 2018 ruling that POTUS can ban Muslims from entering the country, unless you account for the fact that Roberts is a partisan plant.
My latest in @thenation
https://t.co/92gC9Az2e3

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Last June we lost bodily autonomy, this June they came after affirmative action, student debt forgiveness, the clean water act. This Supreme Court is radically remaking our country.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Satire by Alexandra Petri | Supreme Court: “I am tired of people who have had adversity and obstacles handed out to them liberally since birth being treated differently than those of us who haven’t.” https://t.co/NqpxFekOqj

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cardona: Markwayne Mullin had more than $1.4 million in pandemic loans forgiven. He represents 489,000 eligible borrowers that were turned down today. Marjorie Taylor Greene had more than $180,000 forgiven. She represents 91,800 eligible borrowers who were turned down today

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Would the Supreme Court permit somebody whose student loan balance jumped ten thousand dollars today to cite their sincere religious belief in the sin of usery (Exodus 22:25–27) in refusing to make interest payments or does this exemption only apply to hating gay people?

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

What strikes me about the affirmative action and 303 Creative cases is they're both clearly borne from the delusion that white Christians are somehow a marginalized group, and that anything short of dominance by white Christians must mean they're being oppressed.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

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