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The world would be a better place if we stopped thinking about “profit” only in monetary terms.
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Daniel Feldman
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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see
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No ALL CAPS. Seems fishy.
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John Schwartz
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Who's actually pushing violence? It's Trump, writes @maggieastor.bsky.social in this great NYT takedown of Kevin Roberts' "second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”"
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...
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Under the Supreme Court’s Presidential immunity ruling, not only would Nixon have been in unpunishable after the Watergate affair, his involvement might never have been exposed or provable.
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Voters waffling between Biden and Trump after the debate are the worst kind of voters because they’re only thinking about who’s merely capable of answering “the 3 am phone call” but not about how we’d want that President to respond to that crisis. These are voters who were huge fans of “24.”
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I’ve been thinking this exact thing for a while. The most powerful (richest) people all think they can keep pushing everyone and there’s no limit? The trajectory is unsustainable. And in a population of 330 million people, there WILL be people with deadly capabilities who snap.
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Adam Serwer
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www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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I genuinely think JK Rowling is so dumb that she doesn’t realize, when she claims trans women in female spaces are just straight men trying to get sexual pleasure, she’s opening the door to the idea that lesbians should also be barred from spaces where women disrobe.
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He knows the first American Revolution was to rid ourselves of a king, right? Not to create one? Fuck this guy.
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I’ve often wondered what it was like for populations in our past’s darker times to have to live through such tidal waves, powerless to stop them, knowing they could take years to recede. Now, here I am with my feet in rising water…
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When I left Twitter last month, I kept my account but locked it. I get daily emails from Twitter telling me how many notifications I have. The number is always 169. Elon is a child.
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Y'all, how funny would it be if Trump stroked out this week?
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Shit. I'm going to have to make nice with KHive to prevent a fascist administration.
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SCOTUS be like "Giving the Executive branch sweeping powers (except when it comes to writing regulations) and immunity from crimes is exactly what the Constitution's framers intended. We just happen to be the first Court to figure it out. Don't hate us because we're smart."
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Don't underestimate the damage Trump can do by using Schedule F to staff the IRS with partisans and have them audit everyone who opposes Trump. And how comfortable will anyone feel when donating to left/liberal political causes when names/donations are public record?
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When the future kids ask me how WWIII started, I'll start with "It's kind of boring actually. Decades ago, greedy people who ran American banks figured out how to make money by bundling dicey mortgages into a new kind of investment vehicle…"
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HOW CAN SOMEONE WHO ISN'T PRESIDENT PERFORM AN "OFFICIAL" ACT?
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And Project 2025 will surround him with an army of loyalists… on top of the outside militias who would LOVE a tactical op to be assigned by their King.
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Our entire system is based on the consent of everyone involved. So in theory, the only way a President can do horrible things is if people comply with their orders. There's a glimmer of hope until you remember who Trump surrounds himself with. And Project 2025 will give him an army of those freaks.
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I friend just asked me if Trump could make himself dictator. My reflexive response was "no." Then I thought about Trump being able to suspend the 2028 vote certification and how there might be know way to get him to leave office. Then I read this Drezner piece. FUCK FUCK FUCK
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Transphobia is a helluva drug
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It's not like we'd even necessarily know who told who to do what since all communications would be privileged anyway.
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January 2029. President Trump suspends the Constitution, refusing to let votes for the winner of the "corrupted" 2028 election be certified in Congress. Arguably an "official" act to protect the republic. A coup with absolute immunity, and courts cannot question his motives, per SCOTUS.
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Am I correct that it's only the President who is immune? Like, the crime isn't suddenly not a crime. It's still a crime but the President is the only one who can't be prosecuted. Or does "the Executive Branch" extend to anyone following an Executive order?
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It's a clarification of the Nixon quote: "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal FOR THE PRESIDENT. Anyone else involved will have their life turned upside down."
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We need a campaign to let everyone around a Prez know that just because they're given an order, that doesn't make it legal for everyone involved. It's only the Prez who is immune. Let them all know THEY can be prosecuted. And don't use "But they'll just get pardoned." as an excuse to do nothing.
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The greatest Presidential scandal in the recent era, that has led to adding "-gate" to every subsequent scandal, was perfectly legal according to this Supreme Court. Six disgusting fucking hacks.
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Who are these people who see a choice between 2 administrations with many dramatically different views (women's rights, LGBTQ rights, religion in govt, infrastructure, etc,) and think "I'm cool either way, but the lying one had more energy, and I liked that."?
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Don Zeko
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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I’d wager SCOTUS purposefully chose not to define official vs unofficial precisely so that they could hold one standard for R’s and another for D’s. They’ve predetermined the outcome!
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A sitting President running for a 2nd term has two separate jobs: President and candidate. His acts as a candidate cannot be “official” so asking Brad Raffensperger to find votes “we need” cannot fall under the immunity umbrella. If it does, nothing means anything.
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A sitting President running for a 2nd term has two separate jobs: President and candidate. His acts as a candidate cannot be “official” so asking Brad Raffensperger to find votes “we need” cannot fall under the immunity umbrella. If it does, nothing means anything.
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SCOTUS truly believes in protecting and defending the Constitution, which is why they made themselves and the President much more powerful than the Legislature, which is actually named first in the Constitution. Cool system!
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Tom Scocca
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Yup
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I mean, if you're asking a Secretary of State to "find" you more votes, that's you acting as a candidate, not an official act as the President. Come on. Hatch Act, anyone?
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If Trump is an "existential threat to American democracy" then it's Biden's Constitutional duty to do this. Not my opinion. Just following the logic.
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An OFFICIAL Presidential act, according to SCOTUS: "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have." – Donald Trump to Georgia's head of elections in 2020
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Hmm. Does their obsession with social media's "anti-conservative bias" override their deference to private business interests? So any public accommodation in private hands must allow you to say or post anything you want? If you refuse to make a cake with 2 men's names on it, I guess I can sue?
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"Defend Israel" is such a shallow rallying cry for so many people that they're willing to tolerate (or ignore) Israel's continued reliance on anti-Semites to sustain their myopic worldview.
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Grudgie the Whale
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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.
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Biden has already stated that Trump is an existential threat to our democracy, so Biden's Constitutional responsibility, if SCOTUS rules that Presidents are immune from prosecution, is to take Trump out. That's my read of the situation anyway.
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Squire Boone
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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.
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Thomas and Martha Wayne’s extended family must’ve been like “Who will take care of sweet little Bruce?… Wait, what?”
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Seth Masket
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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY
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Mike Masnick
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Once again, debates don't matter... www.nj.com/news/2024/06...
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If you sit through ads on Hulu (which are clumsily cut into a show with no space after the dialogue), then you rewind to catch something that happened just before the jarring ad, you shouldn’t have to rewatch the ads. Is that unreasonable?
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Gee, might a media apparatus controlled by a handful of billionaires see a two-fer from Biden withdrawing?: They get more clicks thanks to a horserace within a horserace. And no Biden in ‘25 means the Trump tax cuts might continue. I can’t imagine those obvious incentives cuz I self-lobotomized.
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