So in the coming days you’re going to notice that a lot of white people (“allies”) who rightly post constantly and routinely about things like canceling student loan debt, abortion rights, LGBTQ issues, immigration reforms and other glaring social injustices, will suddenly have nothing to say about Affirmative Action being overturned. Not because they haven’t had time to form an opinion, but because they believe in “reverse racism” against white people, and deep down they agree with the ruling. Pay attention. Take mental notes. These people are not our allies. Believe people when they show you who they really are.

Paulie: Dime, ¿Cómo sabes cuándo has conocido a la indicada? Misha: Sería bonita, pero inteligente. Debe tener libros en la mesa y flores en el cabello. Paulie: (…) Y Misha dime, ¿Tú tienes novia? Misha: No. Bueno, una vez, solo un poco. Paulie: ¿Qué? ¿Cómo pudiste tener un poco de novia? Explícame. Misha: Antes de que viniera a América, conocí a una chica, estudiábamos juntos en la universidad. Charlábamos mucho, leíamos libros, los discutíamos. Era muy inteligente y testaruda. Yo entendía algo del libro, me decía: «No Misha, no significa eso». Una vez actuó en una obra frente a toda la escuela. Yo trabajaba como tramoyista en la oscuridad y la veía en el escenario. Llevaba florecillas en el cabello y la luz las tornaba de diferentes colores. Y me dije a mí mismo: «¡Por Dios, es preciosa!». Tal vez demasiado para mí. Pero aún así le diré lo que siento. Y después, cuando me acerqué a ella... Paulie: Te robó las palabras. Misha: Sí. Se casó con mi mejor amigo. Él le dijo lo que sentía. En la boda, ella me hace a un lado y dice: «Misha, tú siempre me gustaste más, pero tenía miedo, miedo de tu silencio». Es importante hablar. No tengas miedo de hablar.

— Paulie (1998)

My latest for today's Boston Globe.

Shows how much credibility Scotus has lost.

Even Harvard is *openly* bragging about it’s going to use your own loopholes to ignore you.

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.

The phrase is often translated as "Gods may do what cattle may not". It indicates the existence of a double standard (justifiable or otherwise), and essentially means "what is permitted to one important person or group, is not permitted to everyone."

BOB'S BURGERS 14x06 "Escape from Which Island?" airs tonight at 9pm on FOX

It's Raining Men ✨

When the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Samuel Alito’s majority opinion smugly declared that “nothing in this opinion should be understood to cast doubt on precedents that do not concern abortion.” Alito mocked the dissent’s concern that getting rid of abortion would ultimately imperil things like access to contraception, saying the dissent was “designed to stoke unfounded fear that our decision will imperil those other rights.”

But as anti-choice politicians and activists are now deploying Dobbs to try to roll back decades of law about bodily autonomy, it’s clear the dissent’s fears were quite well-founded.

Conservatives are not going to stop at unwinding the constitutional right to privacy, which underpins things like the right to obtain birth control and the right of same-sex couples to marry. After they destroy the agency of half the population by imposing so-called “fetal personhood” laws, they’re coming for the modern welfare state.

The blueprint

Over at the hard-right Washington Examiner, Conn Carroll, a former comms person for both the Heritage Foundation and Utah Sen. Mike Lee, has a lengthy list of laws he’d like to get rid of — everything from Medicaid, to Head Start, to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Those laws, he argues, “penalize marriage and encourage alternative family formation.” Carroll’s goals therefore dovetail not only with forced-birth conservatives but also with forced-marriage conservatives.

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Table read stuff from John Robert’s Instagram this afternoon. Exciting times ahead, gents🍔

this is always gonna be one of my most favourite belcher siblings scenes of the show. it sounds like a genuine conversation like the way their voices overlay eachother and louise sounds genuinely frustrated at the end i love everything about it

Bob's Burgers // S06E14: The Hormone-iums