Zack Ford

Press/Editorial: @AFJustice
Formerly: ThinkProgress (RIP).
Cis, gay, atheist, pianist, gaymer, union member, progressive. Opinions my own. (He/Him) 🏳️‍🌈🖖

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

I sure hope when tides turn that Democrats remember that Republicans openly admitted how much they abused the blue slip to obstruct judges, because it was a lot more than the Democrats!

[Chuck Grassley @ChuckGrassley]

The 100 yr old “blue slip” allows home state senators 2 hv input on US attys & district court judges In Biden admin Republicans kept 30 LIBERALS OFF BENCH THAT PRES TRUMP CAN NOW FILL W CONSERVATIVES

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

I just don't know what to do in a world without empathy. There has to be a path to convincing people to care about the lives of others without their own lives being threatened.

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

The arts are for everyone, except people who want to see the gay men's chorus or a play about vaccines or a children's musical about a fish who doesn't feel like he belongs.

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

We need Senate Democrats to be proactive and thoughtful in resisting the judicial nominees we'll see under Trump 2.0. The latest from @AFJustice at @DemocracyDocket: https://t.co/awlhHXAXHK

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

@cincopedia Heyyyyy... any chance that S2 physical book is coming to go with my S1 book? :D

[& Juliet Broadway @AndJulietBway]

Permission to make herstory, your honor?

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

I grew up near Carlisle and remember learning as a kid about how the school helped "civilize" Native Americans. 🤮 I'm glad this proclamation gets the history right in all its ugliness.

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

Today, Biden signed a proclamation establishing the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument in PA.

The proclamation "acknowledges the painful past of forced assimilation of Native children through the implementation of federal Indian boarding school policies."

[Andrew Fleischman @ASFleischman]

In Loving, Virginia argued that laws prohibiting interracial marriage applied to both races in the same way that Tennessee argued that laws against gender affirming care applied to both sexes.

It's confusing because Justice Jackson is very smart and most blue checks not so much.

[Elie Mystal @ElieNYC]

Joe Biden was right to pardon his son. Trump pardoned his criminal co-conspirators. He's gonna pardon terrorists. ENTIRELY MISS ME with your dumb arguments about how Democrats must follow rules Republicans ignore.

My latest in @thenation

https://t.co/cMB4S5Hxmv

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

Happy @pathofexile 2 early access day to all who are celebrating it!

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

This is simply not correct. The Civil Rights Act bans discrimination on the basis of religion, which is not an immutable characteristic.

[Rep. Zooey Zephyr @ZoAndBehold]

I'm happy to see that this proposed ban failed and am grateful for my colleagues—particularly my republican colleagues—who recognized this as a distraction from the work we were elected to do.

I'm ready to represent my constituents & look forward to working on behalf of Montana.

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

Forget that for a sec and think about how cool it is that in 2024 you really can change your gender if you want to. Everyone should be so free.

[Fred 'Just Wear a Mask' Walsh Ⓥ @Fred_J_Walsh]

Jane Fonda sets Bill straight.
Maher: "[People] just think the far left has gone so nutty on so many issues."
Fonda: "That's what they're being told, by people like you."

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

Kavanaugh thinks it's a 50/50 split that kids are harmed either way because detransitioners exist. He thinks it's difficult to choose. Well, when one is <5% and the other is everybody else and every medical expert, it seems pretty ease to me!
#Skrmetti

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

Justice Alito questions whether it's clearly established that transition improves mental health and reduces suicidality. He's really married to that Cass Report and ignoring anything the trans community says about itself. #Skrmetti

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

Strangio does a great job dismissing the "desistance myth." To learn more about why these claims of massive regret are false, read my investigative report from many years ago — the facts of which have only become more robust. https://t.co/ixmTK1Z4gq #Skrmetti

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

Chase Strangio becomes the first trans man to argue before the Supreme Court!

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

Jackson notes parallel to laws banning interracial marriage and the facts of Loving v. Virginia. "Was it discriminatory because it applied to both races?" Yes, it was. So too does Tennessee's ban discriminate against sex by targeting both trans boys and girls.
#Skrmetti

[Zack Ford @ZackFord]

Kudos to Prelogar for flagging that Tennessee's law still allows for "corrective" surgeries on intersex infants, with huge implications for those individuals' fertility. #Skrmetti