SCOTUS Rules on Birthright Citizenship Case: But not on birthright citizenship. The six hollowed out corpses of the nine-justice Supreme Court ruled that federal judges had overstepped when temporarily pausing the enforcement of Trump’s executive order. The court will allow Trump’s executive order restricting birthright citizenship can go into effect in 30 days. BUT, they did not rule on the constitutionality of upending birthright citizenship… which seems like an important thing to do, especially in this context. But what do I know? I’m no ghoul in a black robe with unfettered power. Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the decision, “a travesty for the rule of law.”
Sotomayor issues a blistering dissent that states plainly that this decision renders constitutional protections meaningless.
— Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) June 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
This Is a Huge Deal: No more nationwide injunctions? This SCOTUS ruling limits the main legal tool judges had to resist Trump and stall executive orders. Now, only class action lawsuits can challenge these orders.
all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power – all of it – can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.
In Other SCOTUS News: A 4-4 decision upheld a block prohibiting Oklahoma from using government money for a religious charter school, but they did allow parents to pull their children from classes that teach LGBTQ books. And in the usual 6-3 split, they ruled that Planned Parenthood can’t use Medicaid laws to fight state-level efforts to defund them. In her dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote: “Today’s decision is likely to result in tangible harm to real people… At a minimum, it will deprive Medicaid recipients in South Carolina of their only meaningful way of enforcing a right that Congress has expressly granted to them. And, more concretely, it will strip those South Carolinians—and countless other Medicaid recipients around the country—of a deeply personal freedom: the ‘ability to decide who treats us at our most vulnerable.’”
Fourth of July Cancelled in SeaTac: No, no, this isn’t some commentary on the state of the world. The city is cancelling any and all festivities at Angle Lake Park due to public safety concerns. Last year, Angle Lake’s Fourth of July shindig drew more than 10,000 people. That’s three times the capacity than the park should safely hold. And, only 10 officers were on duty. This year, the threat of overcrowding complicated by understaffing of first responders means no party. Officials say last year’s drone show debacle, where 55 of 200 drones dropped like stones into the lake, is not the reason for the cancellation. You can swim at the lake on Independence Day this year, but that’s it.
More Measles in King County: Public Health – Seattle & King County identified two more measles cases in the region, this time in an adult and child. Washington has now seen 10 confirmed cases of measles this year. Get vaccinated, guys.
The Weather: Another day of clouds and then the sun and summer returns. Not for good, though. Never for good.
Grocery Workers Might Strike: A few weeks ago, 97 percent of the union representing 30,000 grocery employees from stores like QFC, Fred Meyer, and Safeway voted to authorize a strike due to dissatisfaction with wages, working conditions, and staffing. The threat of such a massive strike seems to have been a wakeup call for the companies, because this week, they’re voting on their latest contract proposal and the union is recommending that their members vote “yes.” We’ll see! The final tally should be in late tonight.
It’s Supervillain Wedding Weekend: Ah, look, St. Mark’s Square in Venice, Italy is already celebrating Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s cursed wedding. Celebrities like “Tom Brady, Leonardo DiCaprio, Orlando Bloom, Oprah Winfrey, Usher Raymond, and a raft of Kardashians” according to the New York Times, have already arrived. The whole thing is shrouded in secrecy. For now.
Meanwhile auf dem Markusplatz in Venedig.
— DennisKBerlin (@denniskberlin.bsky.social) June 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Looking for a new place to bike ride? Try under the freeway! No, really. The Seattle Parks Department just unveiled its $314,000 overhaul of the mountain bike skills park underneath the I-5 colonnade on the downslope between Capitol Hill and Eastlake.
Sore Loser Alert: You already conceded, Andrew Cuomo, just go away. If only it were that simple. Giant sore loser Cuomo will register as an independent and run against democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani in the general election for mayor of New York. Does he have a humiliation kink? What’s even funnier is incumbent NYC mayor and friend of Turkey Eric Adams is also running in the general as an independent. These two will surely split the clown vote and hurt their chances of winning even more.
Meanwhile, Mamdani Keeps Inspiring a Movement: The young people are inspired.
Generational change is coming: Since Zohran Mamdani won on Tuesday night, more than 1100 young people have reached out to @runforsomething.net to explore a run for local office — one of our biggest spikes of the year yet.
— Amanda Litman (@amandalitman.bsky.social) June 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Another Bling Ring Is Definitely a Recession Indicator: Brad Pitt is the latest in the string of celebrity robberies around Los Angeles. This week burglars broke into his $5 million Los Feliz home and ransacked it. He’s been off in Europe promoting some movie I won’t see. In recent months, burglars have hit the LA homes of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, Austin Butler, and Olivier Giroud of the Los Angeles Football Club.
How small is Bezos’ dick?
“These two will surely split the clown vote and hurt their chances of winning even more.”
So what The Stranger is admitting is that a Progressive citywide candidate can’t win a majority of voters, even in NYC.
@2, It doesn’t matter. He can buy whichever wife he wants.
Nyc is a pretty conservative city overall by big us city standards but there is nothing about the construction of that sentence that implies the author believes a progressive can’t win without splitting the vote
“and rejected Texas’s effort to limit kids’ access to porn”
Are you sure?
“Supreme Court sides with Texas’ age verification law for porn sites”
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/27/nx-s1-5422424/scotus-texas-porn-law
@2,
So in the first portion of your comment you demonstrated abject failure in reading comprehension at like a middle school level. And in the second portion, you somehow misidentified the person you were replying to despite his comment being the only one in the entire thread at the time you posted.
Solid effort, Neale.
Y’all dumb? SCOTUS upheld the Texas age verification law.
@4/6 – Yes – that’s a glaring 180° error – let’s see if Nathalie corrects it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN2p0QJwxSk
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/wa-child-welfare-agency-sees-surge-in-deaths-near-deaths-as-budget-shrinks/
Time to hold the public employees responsible for the deaths, near deaths, and abuse from these acts and omissions that are costing Washington State taxpayers $201 million per year. Go after their pension fund.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/times-watchdog/seattle-chop-killing-lost-evidence-official-secrecy-a-note-home/
Antonio Mays Jr. killed at peaceful protest where cops stayed away.
Is MLK Labor buying into The Stranger? Interesting article all but hidden yesterday:
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/political-kingmakers-as-co-owners-of-the-stranger-how-will-that-play-out/
@9, Article says the deaths are due to a care facility being shut down from funding cuts made by the state legislature, not acts of direct harm committed by state employees. This is a case for saving money and lives by investing in public health, not punishing people for wrongdoing.
@12, And if you read deeper into the article also not removing kids from homes when they should into places and environments that the article stated were often better for the kid’s outcomes than the closing facility.
@11, I have been asserting that the narrative focus on The Stranger has shifted under Noisy Creek.
Not only is MLK Labor Council now part of the ownership, but 18 other investors unrevealed by the Seattle Times piece.
It’s become a bit less reactionary and strident to every local and regional death perpetrated by a human with a car or firearm. It’s become bit more balanced and nuanced with the idea that the human, particularly a cop, committing homicide with a firearm could legitimately meet the legal criteria for a non-criminal homicide. A bit more sympathetic to the idea that the person who died also had agency, and could introduce dynamics that the cop would have to react to without time and space to make less-lethal options viable.
@11, @12, “As of Saturday afternoon, there were no arrests in the case,”
Meaning that, at least at the time of publication, had not yet found probable cause that the shooting death was a crime.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/deadly-neighborhood-shootout-under-investigation-near-sedro-woolley/
Unlike most homicides where self-defense assertions are likely in play, they have more witnesses to the event than the sole survivor of the gunfight.
We will see what, if anything, The Stranger 2.0, does with this tragedy.
Ok. The problem is still a shortage of resources, not incompetence or malice.