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Adam Keiper
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If we're taking about court-packing again, here's my favorite detail from the 1937 controversy: The SCOTUS justices, learning of FDR's scheme at the same time as everybody else, were handed copies *during oral arguments*. Imagine being the lawyer arguing in front of those preoccupied justices!
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Max Berger
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I get why this is the case, but it’s so wild that one million Americans died of COVID because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and it’s not even remotely an issue in this election. What a country!
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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The first Senate Democrat to publicly call for Biden to withdraw from the presidential race said he must do so for the “good of the country"
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The Washington Post
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Breaking news: Democratic leaders called on President Biden to provide convincing evidence of a viable path to reelection following his debate performance, bad battleground state polling and growing concerns that he cannot defeat Donald Trump in November.
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Jazz.
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Just thinking about how Taraji P. Henson warned Black folks to pay attention to Project 2025 at the BET Awards and now everyone is starting to catch on
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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This is what Trump tried to do to us last time 'round. Don't see any reason why he wouldn't try again.
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@barb99.bsky.social
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@juliemason.bsky.social and what about NATO and Ukraine? And the climate?
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Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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There should be way more Dems on this.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's time to revisit the idea of expanding the Supreme Court, which means it's time to dismiss the misunderstandings about FDR's "Court-packing controversy."
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...
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@barb99.bsky.social
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Kamala and Josh Shapiro
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Guy Grossman
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I’m not optimistic. The time for open primaries has passed, and a contested convention would be a disaster. The only possible non-Biden choice is his VP who happens to be Harris. All other options (e.g., Newsom, Whitmer) are simply not viable.
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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This 2 post thread is what I favor. No one knows whether another candidate would do better than Biden. But I suspect Harris would do the best, have the most legitimacy and it would be the easiest switch logistically. I have concerns after the debate that Biden can't do the job 4 more years.
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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here's why that's bad news for Joe Biden
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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It's gonna be fucked up when, again, progressives and POC are blamed for Biden's loss and not the wealthy brunchlord dicks running the media who have been attacking Biden non-stop
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Dan Lavoie
@djlavoie.bsky.social
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One issue that's important to take off the table is that Biden stepping aside will lead to "intra-party chaos." That just won't happen. If Biden stepped aside, he (and Obama and Clinton and Whitmer and Newsom and AOC and Bernie and Manchin and Tester and...) would all endorse Kamala immediately.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among these, I always get stuck on the Senate filibuster. It did not exist in any form while the Framers were alive. The current form, in which a Senator can stop a bill permanently without doing anything, did not exist until the 1970s. But it's treated as sacrosanct.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy hearing is devolving into chaos. After some fiery remarks from Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss's lawyer, Giuliani (who called in to hearing) interrupted and said the lawyer was making "defamatory remarks." The judge threatened to cut off Giuliani's line. (via Zach Schonfeld)
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Release the Apprentice N Word tapes
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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lmao FUCK THIS. Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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"Project 2025 is not targeting “pornography” as something that’s harmful to children per se, but rather redefining anything concerning sexuality and gender that they say is harmful to children as pornography."
newrepublic.com/article/1836...
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Nicholas Slayton
@nslayton.bsky.social
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If you work in hospitality like I do you know instantly how fucked this is. Talk to friends who work at vars and restaurants and retail too about this.
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@barb99.bsky.social
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Colored?
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Anne Hill
@annehill.bsky.social
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Nagging questions: Who planted the pipe bombs on Jan. 6? Who paid off Kavanaugh’s debts pre-confirmation?
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Taniel
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Something people are sleeping on: One of the 4 state justices who voted to make abortion illegal in Iowa in late June, David May, is up for retention this fall.
This was a 4-3 decision.
One of 3 states in which justices who upheld bans this year are up: boltsmag.org/your-state-b...
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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Gee, I recall a lot of garbage from the right about rationing medical care.
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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median second term Trump staffer
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Tom Nichols
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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The Atlantic did an entire issue on "If Trump Wins," including reporting on Project 2025. But when the sitting President of the United States is clearly declining fast, you're not going to dissipate that story by saying "go read a magazine, there's some scary policies in there that could happen."
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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Biden has long been a gaffe machine, and I have opposed many of the policies he proposed since well before many of you on here were born. But if he is what stands between trump and America and between trump and the people I love, I will crawl over broken glass to help him win in any way I can.
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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As @joshtpm.bsky.social often says, the GOP is a failed state and Trump is its warlord. He has about the same relationship to a leader of a healthy party as a dominant warlord has to a conventional head of government.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Every page can be an ad. This is why I'm livid with the Trump v Biden bullshit. It's the platform! You're voting for the platform! Who wears the suit doesn't matter as much as what legislation they're fucking signing!
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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Posobiec's publisher, Skyhorse, publishes Bannon, Corsi, Naomi Wolf, etc. The blurb there tells us that the book addresses a 250 yeart long conspiracy. This puts it squarely in the Illuminati/anti-Semitic line of thought. And it uis endorsed by Vance, Carlson, Flynn, and Boghossian.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The "official" GOP platform runs 16 pages, but if we take out the title page, the dedication page, a three-page rambling "preamble" and the page with a table of contents printed in 72-point font, it's only *ten* pages long. Project 2025, the actual platform, is 900+ pages long. Focus on that.
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Tom Nichols
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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“The idea that we are going to slow walk into fascism because we don’t want to hurt somebody that we respect’s feelings?” said Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on Armed Services. “I cannot even begin to tell you how angry that makes me.”
www.nytimes.com/2024/07/09/u...
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Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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This is real
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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@barb99.bsky.social
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Someone alive, Ruth
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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Like, I don’t know what the answer is, but at least people like AOC are going out there and supporting Biden with their whole chest while a bunch of sniveling DC sleazes leak their concerns to the press on background while hemming and hawing publicly. Show some backbone! Say what you mean!
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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What *Josh Hawley* is saying www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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The doctor whose White House visits triggered a flurry of questions on Monday visited far more often under Obama — and often visited recently when Biden wasn’t in town.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Rachel Shelden
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/
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Bennett Gilbert
@bennettgilbert.bsky.social
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Over at Xitter, Musk is blocking reports confirming that it was a Russian missile that was launched at and hit the large children's hospital in Kyiv.
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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Full quote from ex-ICE director Tom Homan: "Trump comes back in January... I will run the biggest deportation force this country has ever seen. They ain’t seen shit yet. Wait until 2025.” Tonight in Florida Trump pledged to bring Homan back. Homan, BTW, is a listed Project 2025 contributor.
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Sean
@seanlynch.bsky.social
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All it takes is a few independent, fair-minded judges. That’s about the same as subject matter expertise, right?
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@barb99.bsky.social
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This is like the Nuremberg laws
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Tom Nichols
@radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Oh
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@barb99.bsky.social
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And our children. Biden is trying to hold all the parts together.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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This is a layup! No more NFL. Not only would you have angry normies but you're gonna piss off the billionaire owners? Highlight this shit! Make an ad!
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Gerry Doyle
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"I tried to carjack some u.s. marshals" is one hell of a way to answer the question, "so what are you in here for, kid?"
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@barb99.bsky.social
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Trump will kill the Palestinians and the Ukrainians
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