Peppermint
Peppermint
Peppermint

Reminder that Grimm can lose his Supreme Court case without it meaning that his school board was right/HB2 is constitutional.

Bathrooms and locker rooms are (some of the?) only public places we still overtly segregate based on sex/gender, so that’s where the conservative attempt to enforce rules about wobblies occurs.

You’re definitely the first person to make that joke.

Yamamoto also directed Space Dandy’s second episode, which, for friends, I have used as a hook into Space Dandy’s absurdly high-quality animation. What happened with Yuri on Ice?

I really don’t understand why that wasn’t Christoph Waltz.

What is Joe Biden going to do now? I assume he’s not going to kick a fellow Dem out of Delaware.

Do they have a permit?

Praying daily for RBG.

Didn’t Bill Clinton get sued while he was in office for things that happened before he was president? Fuck this.

I did that in fifth grade, but I lived in SoCal.

Yes! So here’s the thing: Gavin brought claims under Title IX and the Fourteenth Amendment (EPC) and sought a preliminary injunction on the basis of both to allow him to continue using the boys’ facilities while the case was decided on the merits. The Department of Education came out swinging in Gavin’s favor, which

Gavin has a dysphoria diagnosis, so the Supreme Court’s decision (they make decisions based on the facts before them, not sweeping proclamations) will apply to people with a dysphoria diagnosis.

The transcript of the school board proceedings is fucking brutal.

Gavin was using unisex bathrooms at the time the complaint was filed. (I read the trial court and appellate court filings but I haven’t read the SCOTUS briefings.)

Did anyone else watch this? (It was on CSPAN and streaming on YouTube, and I’m sure you can watch it now).

As a lawyer, Michelle knows that the most important constitutional amendment is the right to bare arms.

It’s part of the Boulder public school system, but it’s a school for at-risk/got expelled/suspended kids.

My first boss was named Biff (short for Bruce, I think). He was an honestly fantastic gentleman who single-handedly kept youth sports in our area running.