10 Comments on “Thursday Cartoons: FDT”

1. Mama Lopez says:

   May 15, 2025 at 11:02 am

   Dak shared this with me this morning:

   Chief Justice John Roberts warned a group of graduating laws students Monday that the rule of law is “endangered.”Without naming any names, the conservative justice also said… that recent attacks against Supreme Court justices have gone too far.www.thedailybeast.com/chief-suprem…

   — JJ Lopez (@jjlopez1970.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T16:01:06.819Z

2. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 11:22 am

   The “legal basis” for Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship involves semantic tomfoolery by Claremont Institute Fellow Michael Anton (a Peter Thiel ally) who wrote an Op-Ed that added the bracketed word “or” to a quote from one of the original supporters of the 14th Amendment. 1/

   — Jenny Cohn (@jennycohn.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T16:18:53.658Z

   Long and important set of information on todays SCOTUS hearings.

3. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 11:23 am

   A good morning to read about birthright citizenship from the perspective of the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, the plaintiff whose case in 1898 affirmed that birthright citizenship is guaranteed to the children of undocumented migrants born in the U.S. wapo.st/3F9Djae

   — Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T11:13:06.837Z

4. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 11:25 am

   https://bsky.app/profile/artcandee.bsky.social/post/3lp7rnahn3c2d

   Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is going off on the Trump administration during the birthright citizenship case: You “keep losing…every court has ruled against you.”

5. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 11:25 am

   Extremely important news day!!!

   UP FIRST: The Supreme Court will hear historic arguments over birthright citizenship today. And, House Republicans are working to advance Trump's "big beautiful bill," but there is division over policies.

   — NPR (@npr.org) 2025-05-15T10:56:16.790Z

6. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 11:26 am

   Ahead of SCOTUS hearing on Trump's executive order attacking birthright citizenship, here are a few articles I've written that help understand how we got here—and where we could be headed.The conservative effort to undermine birthright citizenship has been a long time in the making:

   — Isabela Dias (@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T14:05:50.691Z

7. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 12:23 pm

   Out of touch dotard.

   Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

   — Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-05-15T16:59:23.524Z

   • bostonboomer says:

     May 15, 2025 at 2:15 pm

     I wonder what Trump thinks the *modern* term is for things you buy at the *grocery* store?

8. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 2:29 pm

   — Gayle Bonish (@gbtoronto.bsky.social) 2025-05-15T00:45:28.440Z

9. dakinikat says:

   May 15, 2025 at 2:31 pm

   https://www.thedailybeast.com/now-ice-barbie-kristi-noem-wants-her-own-brand-new-50m-private-jet/

   Now ICE Barbie Wants Her Own Brand New $50M Private Jet

   The Coast Guard put in a last-minute addition to its budget for the Homeland Security secretary.

   Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem appears to have taken her cue from President Donald Trump with a new request for her own private jet.

   The U.S. Coast Guard made a last-minute change to its 2025 budget to secure a $50 million new plane for Noem, Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood revealed in a Wednesday hearing of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security.

   “I was horrified last Friday when we received a last-minute addition to your spend plan for Fiscal [Year] ‘25: A new $50 million Gulfstream 5 for Secretary Noem’s personal travel coming from the Coast Guard budget,” Underwood told acting Coast Guard Chief Admiral Kevin Lunday. “She already has a Gulfstream 5, by the way. This is a new one.”