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Jonathan Blanks

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D.C.-based criminal justice writer and cultural critic who spends a lot of time at the library.

Hoosier by birth and college education.

Some would call me a libertarian. I would not.

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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Republicans are literally running a man at the heart of a criminal conspiracy to overthrow a free and fair election. We don’t need post-Monday hypotheticals. Happy birthday, America.

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Republicans are literally running a man at the heart of a criminal conspiracy to overthrow a free and fair election. We don’t need post-Monday hypotheticals. Happy birthday, America.

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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The National Guard buzzed my home with helicopters bc the Trump administration wanted to intimidate District residents and protestors.

Trump would go full Tiananmen Square if he could, and now there’s no reason to think he won’t try if he’s reelected www.nytimes.com/2020/06/06/u...

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Not one more minute of defensiveness from the Biden campaign, please. Not one more question answered about age or debates. All day, every day, a referendum on Trump's criminality and assault on the constitutional order, on what he would be like with blank check for his lawlessness.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

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Nicholas Wallace's avatar Nicholas Wallace @wallace.bsky.social
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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::Ace Ventura spears in both thighs dot Gif::

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Julian Sanchez's avatar Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social
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Again, the problem is: What’s the audience for a televised debate? Politically engaged people who are interested in policy details & fact checks made up their minds long, long ago. Debates are for folks who don’t follow politics and tune in at the end for a vibe check.

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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I’m not sure the story/startup is legit so I deleted, but that anyone even considered it /threw it in LLM makes me stabby.

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👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Oklahoma mandates book rife with sex, violence, mass murder, and incest in every classroom. Won’t somebody think of the children?!

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Emily L. Hauser's avatar Emily L. Hauser @emilylhauser.bsky.social
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🧵If you agree that Congress should disinvite Netanyahu, please call your US Rep & Senators 202-224-3121 Sample script: "Hi, I'm [name] from [zip code]; I'm calling to let the [Rep/Senator] know that I agree with the Israelis who wrote a piece in the NYT calling on Congress to disinvite Netanyahu."

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Ned Raggett's avatar Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social
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Annnnd that’s a lot of music reporting history and more down the tubes. (Always save your work.)

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Jeff Lazarus's avatar Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social
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It’s not that Trump’s racist or antisemitic or a misogynist (though he is all of those things) but his most direct through line is that he doesn’t give two shits for anyone who’s not him, and nothing is out of bounds for making another person feel small.

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Jeff Lazarus's avatar Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social
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Daily reminder that underneath everything else Donald Trump is just a shitweasel of a human being, a small terrible person with a shriveled heart who cares only about himself and thinks nothing of causally debasing anyone in his vicinity just because he thinks it's fun.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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It is incredibly infuriating that all the complaining about cancel culture paved a path to this, where state officials are saying that they are allowed to censor any faculty speech that contradicts them.
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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Roberts: wait Bruen says WHAT? Fuck fuck fuck I gotta stop voting on shit when I’m drunk. Okay. You can do this Johnny. You went to Harvard. Let’s parse our way out of this mess. Fuckin’ Thomas, I should have known better.

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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One would hope, but one would also hope the Court wouldn’t read a virtually absolute right into 2A as if written by some gun nut undergrad. Yet Bruen exists!

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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Gun regulations can only do so much to curb gun deaths given current political environment, but the one area where they can be most effective is taking guns out of the hands of domestic abusers.

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Daniel Drezner's avatar Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social
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PLEASE SEND ME ALL OF THE ALCOHOL.

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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Absolutely. Also, a lot of the nonfiction overlaps with fiction (eg Down and Out In London and Road to Wigan Pier)

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Dara Lind's avatar Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social
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Me, in the forthcoming print issue of Vanity Fair, online today, accompanying a tremendous photo portfolio by Go Nakamura of border-crossers caught waiting to formally be apprehended by a country wholly unprepared for them. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Walter Olson's avatar Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social
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Good for Maryland @govwesmoore.bsky.social: he's issuing more than 175,000 pardons for misdemeanor cannabis possession and use convictions. It's "one of the largest state-issued pardons in United States history."

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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The worst white liberal guilt: The Chaitification of the American Center Left

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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You know you’re getting old when Insta is trying to sell you on cool and manly metal daily pill cases. (Also what it says about my generation’s insecurities)

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof's avatar Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a floof @evanbernick.bsky.social
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Whenever the Supreme Court says that it does not have the power to do something it is invariably distributing power elsewhere. The mife decision is saturated with language that can and will be used by opponents of abortion to press their cause another day in another forum with greater success.

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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Could Biden win? Of course. But it’s felt like an eternity that the race has been stuck in no country for old men / what’s the most you’ve lost in a coin toss territory

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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WWJD? Throw the first stone, obvs.

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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Good. More reporting on the institutional insurrection underway. Gift link:
Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second term wapo.st/3VyftdG

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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Standing athwart history flinging a flaming bag of dog shit.

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Margarita Noriega 's avatar Margarita Noriega @margarita.bsky.social
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She put the work in. It's Martha Stewart's time to shine

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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This error is so egregious it’s kinda like referring to the 4th Amendment as a loophole in the criminal law.

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Jonathan Blanks's avatar Jonathan Blanks @blanksslate.bsky.social
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Says the anonymous cartoon shitposter who spent an hour alone in my comments section.

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