I wish there was an outrage organ in the human body that just wore out in about five years and catastrophists like this would die and go to an eternal Zoom meeting where they are tortured forever in the manner of Tantalus, the mute button pulling away as they desperately try to block all the people from their life telling her in great detail how she wasted her’s.

Do you feel like you are running out of your supply of cope? Are your cope levels unnaturally low? Are you ready to recharge?

Can Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Take on History Be a Corrective to Amy Coney Barrett’s?

You’ve got the conservative majority doing history and tradition—what they call “originalism”—in a totally illegitimate way: butchering the historical record, cherry-picking historical evidence that supports their position, starting with the outcome they want and just working backward. No credible historian thinks that what the court is doing here is how anyone should practice history.

So I do think that the liberal justices should, and do, point that out in their dissents. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is especially deft at doing this. She did it in the Planned Parenthood case about the 1871 Civil Rights Act that the Supreme Court partially butchered. Justice Sonia Sotomayor does it in Trump v. CASA, where Justice Amy Coney Barrett runs through all this history from the 18th century and suggests that it points reluctantly toward her conclusion that universal injunctions are disallowed. Sotomayor says, Wait a minute! This is really, really narrowly focused on a little sliver of history that does not lead where the majority claims it does. She brings in her own historical evidence and shows that at a bare minimum, Barrett isn’t telling the whole story. I think that’s really useful. It undermines the legitimacy of the majority’s decisions, and if the court ever flips back toward the center, it makes those decisions more vulnerable to being overruled. A new majority could say, Well, that was based on bogus history, so it doesn’t really stand as a particularly strong precedent.

It’s like staring into the sun, but the sun is made of craven partisan idiots pretending to be journalist.

On a personal note, if any of you know anyone that works for WordPress, I want you to kick them in the dick as fucking hard as you can. Like kick them so hard their grandchildren won’t be able to have kids. And then do it again.