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California state senator Scott Wiener — who has attended every Trans March since 2004 and authored some of the most pro-LGBT legislation in the country — was surrounded, screamed at, and physically intimidated at a Pride Shabbat event because he won't call Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide. The mob told him he's 'no longer queer.'
The Supreme Court just ruled that ballots postmarked by Election Day can be counted days later — authored by Trump's own appointee Amy Coney Barrett. Conservatives had a 6-3 majority that functionally collapsed to 4-3 the moment Barrett and Roberts crossed the aisle.
Alito's dissent called the ruling 'inconsistent with statutory text, legal context, historical practice, and precedent' — and predicted it would spawn a slurry of troubling election law questions that further undermine confidence in election integrity. His oral argument framing was simple: Labor Day, Memorial Day, and Election Day are all single days.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin went on CNN and told Haitians they could still apply for permanent residency or a visa — not that they were being deported. The backlash from conservatives, including Mike Davis publicly on X, was immediate. Mullin has since reversed course, but the damage to his credibility on the right was done.
While Ohio Governors Mike DeWine and John Kasich pushed to let Haitians stay, Megyn Kelly aired a reel of violent crimes committed by Haitian immigrants — murders, rapes, a school bus crash that killed an 11-year-old — then cut to Springfield community members describing a community in decline. The contrast between elite sympathy and ground-level reality is the core of the Haitian TPS debate.
Stu Burguiere drew a sharp line between legal immigrants who assimilate and enrich America — like his Indian-American neighbors — and mass TPS programs that import entire dysfunctional cultural ecosystems. The Bahamas requires tourists to prove financial self-sufficiency; the US gave 350,000 Haitians 20 years of subsidized living.
National Review's Rich Lowry explains why pro-Palestinian activists see supporting Israel as a betrayal of queerness: they conceive of queerness as revolt against oppression, and view Israel as Western, white, and settler-colonialist — making it as bad as the gender binary in their framework. It's race theory, not Gaza policy.
Supergirl opened $12 million below its already-disappointing $50 million projection, on a $170 million production. The star openly mocked 'dads' and Christians, suggested her character is queer, and celebrated the film having no male love interest. Stu Burguiere's verdict: this isn't misogyny — it's merit.
Justice Sotomayor delivered a passionate oral dissent, stumbling over her words, staring at Roberts who refused to meet her gaze, and predicting 'chaos will follow.' Justice Kagan looked 'overcome with emotion.' Megyn Kelly's verdict: performative outrage from the bench is not good for womankind.
Hollywood spent 15 years printing money by putting capes on anything. That era is over. Making a merit-free, ideologically preachy movie with an actress who lectures her target audience is not a formula — it's malpractice. The recent Superman release got decent reviews and collected hundreds of millions of dollars. The bar is not that high.
Community meeting footage from Springfield, Ohio shows residents describing food being eaten off store shelves by Haitians, women afraid to go to the gym, squatters near schools, and car insurance tripling due to surging accident rates. These Americans voted for Trump's immigration promise precisely because their political class was ignoring their testimony.
Mike Davis predicted the ruling will produce 'third world elections' where Democrats can keep counting until they find enough votes. His diagnosis: when conservatives win, they defect — when liberals win, they hold the line every single time.
The bipartisan housing bill passed with 85 Senate votes and 358 House votes, addressing a crisis that young voters care about intensely. Trump held it hostage over the SAVE Act — an election provision that polling shows barely registers with voters — and then dismissed the housing bill as 'a big yawn.' It may still become law without his signature.
The Supreme Court's 6-3 conservative majority reversed 91 years of precedent, ruling Trump can fire FTC commissioners and leaders of other independent agencies without cause. The president can now paralyze these bodies by stripping their quorums. The Fed alone gets a carve-out — because even the appearance of political pressure on monetary policy could destroy economic faith.
The same Supreme Court term produced two contradictory rulings: Trump can fire executives at the FTC, NLRB, and 18 other agencies, but can't fire Federal Reserve governors. Mike Davis jokes there must be a secret 'Article 7' creating a fourth branch of government — because the Constitution certainly doesn't explain the distinction.
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