‘The Supreme Court upheld a Texas anti-pornography law on Friday that is nearly identical to a federal law it struck down more than two decades ago.

Rather than overruling the previous case — Ashcroft v. ACLU (2004) — Justice Clarence Thomas’s opinion spends at least a dozen pages making an unconvincing argument that Friday’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is consistent with the Court’s previous decisions. Those pages are a garbled mess, and Thomas spends much of them starting from the assumption that his conclusions are true.…’ Ian Millhiser via Vox

Tr*mp wraps his speech on the big bill: “Schumer – our great Palestinian senator. He’s changed. He used to like Jewish people, now he’s totally against Jewish people. Try the weightlifting numbers some day if you want to see big differences. In a million years women will never catch these numbers.”

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Tr*mp: “A 23 year old electro… uhhlineman. He loves, he lives the… loves being an electrician, but in this case the lineman, and these are guys that take big risks…” Maureen Herman via Boing Boing

‘I’ve spent most of my adult life in public service — as governor of Texas, U.S. secretary of energy and a proud veteran. And few things have moved me like what I’ve witnessed with a psychedelic drug made from a shrub in Africa.

This month, Texas became the first state in the nation to allocate public funding for FDA-approved clinical trials of ibogaine, committing $50 million, the largest psychedelic research investment ever made by a government. It’s a bold, bipartisan move rooted in science and urgency. Ibogaine is a naturally occurring plant medicine derived from a shrub native to Gabon and surrounding countries in West Africa. It is quite literally a plant root, yet it’s changing the way we think about healing trauma, substance use disorder and brain injury.…’ _ via The Washington Post_