Today is #NationalCoachesDay so here is a quick thread to explore the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Advertising agencies need to take note. No actual news network would allow its employees to defend slavery and genocide.

Twitter is now X and its ads are now Boomer

Neat visualization of the costs of different sports at youth level. Interesting to see how each sport has its own category of expenses that makes it perceived as expensive. My sport of swimming is affordable if you take travel out of the picture.

Here is @onthemedia's guide for interviewing conspiracy theorists and other disinformers running for office. The first one is by far the most important. And I'd go further: ask yourself why you're doing this— then share that answer with the rest of us.

This is spot-on. I can’t repeat enough that meritocracy is a sham. It means whatever a person thinks it means. It is a pretense to exclude. It assumes the existence of a just and logical world.

I feel this is an important thing for people outside the Midwest to know. Get a one vote majority and use it to pass progressive legislation. Full stop. It is a winning proposition.

a nice reminder that the horrors will keep on coming until someone in power actually does something about this court

As for the #SCOTUS decision on student loans, I would challenge President Biden to simply extend the pause on student loan repayment. Home Depot does not have standing in the repayment of your student loans.

Corey Robin is an excellent source of analysis on Clarence Thomas. Thomas has been derided by media for his silence, yet Robin notes that his jurisprudence is crystal clear in his writings and speeches going back to the late 1970s. #SCOTUS media just haven't read it.

Either way, the conservative project of law and jurisprudence is based on flawed thinking designed to return our laws to a pre Civil War state. The cruelty is the point.

But universities are businesses too -- very few are entirely supported by the state. What if a university wishes to discriminate against a client based on their sincerely-held beliefs about their ethnicity? Would that be permitted under the 303 decision?

This is entirely in-line with the jurisprudence of Clarence Thomas, according to legal analyst and historian @CoreyRobin. Thomas wishes to unleash the power of the market and constrain the power of the state, believing that only the market can empower Black people in America.

The Supreme Court tells us in one decision that discrimination by businesses is permissible, but that race-conscious admissions by universities is discrimination that is *not* permissible.

Violence is the end-game for people who think learning about gender poses a threat. This movement is profoundly without logic, without love, without empathy, without curiosity… without those things, all you’ve got is violence.

May I ask why Oregon, Washington, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island Democrats haven’t passed this

Inbox: MI Gov. Whitmer signed six bills today addressing difficulties with reporting sexual violence and circumstances that allow abuse to continue. Commonly known as “Nassar bills” sponsors have said the state is learning from survivors and these bills are for all survivors

Amazing! Kentucky and Tennessee gender affirming care bans were just blocked in court and ruled as likely unconstitutional. States are 0-6 on gender affirming care bans. Banning gender affirming care for trans youth is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. WE JUST KEEP WINNING!

An initial rundown of the Supreme Court's decisions in the Harvard (6-2, Jackson recusing herself) and UNC (6-3) affirmative action cases: Race-conscious admissions struck down, a 🧵... 1/21

Their fear of a 5-4 episode has frozen their assault on voting rights

While other states attack LGBTQ+ rights, we expanded the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act to cement legal protections for LGBTQ+ Michiganders. If you're looking for a state that respects your fundamental right to be yourself, come to Michigan. #PrideMonth