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AJ@aje.bsky.social |
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Pop culture, sports fan, politco, history dude
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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AJ
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You'd think on a day like this, the POTUS could issue a statement talking about the country's refusal to be ruled and how leaders need to be accountable and how they aren't kings.
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Greg Pak
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If someone's telling me not to vote, I'd like to know their take on actual policies that are at stake in the election. The NYT, apparently, does not think that's relevant.
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Jonathan Ladd
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Article 1, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.
constitution.congress.gov/browse/artic...
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Kevin Collins
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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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Bump
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Bart Bonikowski
@bartbonikowski.bsky.social
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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.
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AJ
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Dems need to win it all. Definitely the House. We need a Dem speaker just in case Harris becomes President. The stakes are too high for the speaker to be GOP.
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AJ
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Well, he wouldn't actually be VP but he is next in line of succession and I don't trust GOP or Trump to not confirm and to put her at risk of death.
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AJ
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Regardless of is Dem nominee, Trump remains a danger. And since SuperPacs can't coordinate with campaigns, there really isn't anything stopping them from attacking Trump, SCOTUS, or GOP right now. What are they waiting for?
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AJ
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Donald Trump and John Roberts
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AJ
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All they care about...
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AJ
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get ready for the Purge....
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AJ
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AJ
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Politics would be interesting. Who cares about actual life and death matters.
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AJ
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If Biden ends campaign, he has to stay in office. Harris having incumbency is important but not at risk of death given she'd not have a VP. And Speaker Johnson is next in line. She could select one for new term though. If Biden stays in and wins, this issue doesn't go away unless Dems win House.
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AJ
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Been saying this for years, and was very nervous when GOP got the House for this reason. Yet, if Biden is clear that Harris is his successor for the nom, I can live with it. Can she select a running mate then? Dems must have a top2bottom argument about SCOTUS/Trump/GOP to vote for all Dems.
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AJ
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Often, the most qualified is the one who accepts the pay we offer. Also, if all the applicants have the same background, ofc subjective factors play a role. Besides even in "prestigious" factors, it's subjective. Ppl choose "lesser" thgs for good reasons-- no finaid, distance from fam, etc
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Steve Silberman
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Thought experiment: Imagine if Obama, after claiming an election had been stolen from him and being convicted of 34 felonies, was granted immunity by SCOTUS justices who had taken undisclosed luxury trips on George Soros' dime. The fact that you can't even imagine this scenario tells you something.
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AJ
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Hard to argue with this. Given the MSM, while Trump is the danger, Biden's age seems to get the clicks.
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Avi
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George Lucas in 1999 making a movie about how the senate and Supreme Court are hopelessly corrupt:
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Katie Mack
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Joanne Freeman
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Popehat
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.
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Adam Serwer
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“Korematsu is overturned, but here is a decision whose logic echoes and reinforces Korematsu” is an example of the paradigmatic dishonesty of the roberts court
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AJ
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These work for me.
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AJ
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It seems like an essential key to reelection for Biden would be to run against the Roberts Court. Their unaccountabilty and decisions damage the health of the country. It would be so easy to have them as foils, yet Biden probably won't do it and he should.
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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness
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My advice to you: Take today off. Go for a walk. Read poetry. Nap. Call your loved ones. There is a 4 month battle ahead where the outcome is uncertain. Rest up. Nothing more you can do today- or this July 4th week to be honest. Remember what what America could be, if we have the will.
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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness
@indyfromspace.bsky.social
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This is so true. Most of y'all are not ready, nor are you ready for just how quickly your longtimefriends and neighbors will snap into full compliance.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.
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AJ
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I always wondered about the smiles of racists and how such evil could look so normal.
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AJ
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If he weren't fiction, I'd think Palpatine orchestrated all of this. If Biden were serious, he'd arrest Leo, the Roberts 6, Trump, and others for treason against the Constitution and USA.
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L O L G O P
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The problem of a Supreme Court that would prefer a Republican king to a Democratic president who would replace them had not been adequately considered.
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AJ
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Pretty much. That is impressive.
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Ian Boudreau
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Between today, Chevron, the reversal of Roe, and Citizens United, I feel like it would be pretty tough to name a more destructive Supreme Court than John Roberts'
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Grudgie the Whale
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Gutting the VRA, granting Trump immunity, unlimited campaign spending, legalizing bribery, extinguishing the Constitutional prohibition against insurrection for candidates, co-signing racist gerrymandering, are all of one project to enshrine permanent Republican rule against the wishes of voters.
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Victor Ha
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Americans have no idea how many Americans will be hanged or otherwise assassinated if the voting results are not hugely decisive. It’s f’g enraging the Dems have been useless they have left everything to the voters. Dictators move extremely fast once they have the upper hand.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Could be president again in 203 days. Now covered by a broad grant of immunity from criminal prosecution. What will he do this time?
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AJ
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Dems would be wise to respond to this and have a game plan. But they are busy deciding who should be the nominee. If Palpatine was real, he'd be behind all of this.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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Eric Rauchway
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VERY SERIOUS JUSTICES: The New Deal was unconstitutional and Watergate was constitutional.
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AJ
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If Biden was that bad to them, they'd ask him to resign now since he is the president. But I don't think they want Harris to become the president.
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AJ
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Basically. If Biden is such a risk, he is president now and they could ask him to resign now rather than keep him in office for 6 mos.
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AJ
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Yet, they aren't asking him to resign now? Just stop running for president, but not stop being president? They aren't serious people.
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AJ
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As I've been saying, if Biden is so bad, why aren't ppl asking him ti resign now as president and to not just run? Why are ppl ok with 6 mos of him in this condition? Also, if it's hard now about whether to drop out, why do ppl think it would be easier IDing a replacement?
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AJ
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Let me know when they say the danger is so great, he needs to resign now. That wouldn't make them serious people, but would make a little more sense.
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