by @liminal-lds.bsky.social
Curated feed of breaking SCOTUS news and commentary to help you figure out what the court did today. Avatar image from Joe Ravi (CC-BY-SA 3.0)
Chris Geidner BREAKING: In responding to one of two lawsuits challenging the legality of the Trump-praising DHS propaganda ads, DOJ tonight does not defend the ads on the merits — instead arguing that the ads are set to end on Sunday, so there will be no irreparable harm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Jay Willis Cal leading by 5 points and coming out in the “five guys defending the goal line” defense with *10 seconds left* and the ball on the Cal 27 was one of the funniest plays I’ve ever seen. Just conceding 20 yards and a Virginia Tech first and goal to win the game for no reason. Beautiful.
Cristian Farias No running, they said.
Jay Willis The color guy for the Cal game was the baby brother in the family down the street from me. His oldest brother coached my eighth grade basketball team and he’d toddle around on the sidelines all practice. Anyway, I am one million years old.
Anthony Michael Kreis From @waltgjohnson.bsky.social and I, happy pride y’all!
Adam Serwer The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
Cristian Farias I just got out of ‘14th,’ Ava DuVernay’s new Netflix documentary out in December, premiering today at the New York Film Festival. I won’t review it here, but its undisputed star is @sifill.bsky.social, whom the director introduced as “the Meryl Streep of our film.” And that’s not an overstatement.
Jay Willis An absolutely exquisite experience is getting pulled over in the freeway carpool lane, only to hit the trooper with the SURPRISE 3-YEAR-OLD