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Narrator voice: no, that really *isn’t* what it is all about.

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The wildfire risk has not decreased; the prevalence of dumbassery has increased.

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Adam Serwer made a great point on Chris Hayes: the mainstream media cannot affect Trump’s prospects the way they can Biden’s, b/c MAGAts live in a hermetically sealed world. Another reason NYT is obsessed with hurting Biden: how else to prove to themselves their continued relevance?

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Wealth beyond dreams of avarice.

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Dunning-Kruger at your service.

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Hold what? As if the trial was going to happen this year before the Supremes made Trump emperor.

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Will the MAGAts wear them, or is wildfire smoke another thing made up by us lie-bruls?

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Supermarket vending machines selling *bullets.* Bullets. In a vending machine. In a supermarket. Every time I think we have reached bottom, the elevator drops another 50 feet.

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Worth repeating: The. Republican. Nominee. For. Governor.

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The ventriloquist with dummy is a nice touch.

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“Criminals” is such a pejorative. I think Altman and Musk prefer the term “creative disrupters.”

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Happy National Get Drunk And Play With Explosives Day to all who celebrate.

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An imperial newspaper covering an imperial court creating an imperial presidency.

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The most salient difference at this point between the NYT and Fox News is relative subtlety.

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“No, sorry. Guns existed at the time of the founding; bicycles did not. Ergo, firing to scare or even wound cyclists is protected under the 2nd Amendment.” Clarence Thomas for the Court, 2026.

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If you’re talking about whether or not you practice cannibalism, I submit that you are not willing.

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Tip of the iceberg. They’re coming after every policy, every rule — anything that mildly inconveniences a corporation or tightens the sphincter of an Evangelical. Without Chevron deference, say goodbye to clean air, clean water, safe food and so much more.

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“Officer-involved shooting”

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I think the so-called Fermi paradox has been conclusively resolved.

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Kent Brockmans, all the way down.

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That’ll rub out with a little Scotchbrite.

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And Tesla turned his tens of PayPal millions into hundreds of billions.

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Do you mean that the people who think Biden ended Roe will understand what SCOTUS just did, and will understand how it affects them?

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I understand how important it is that we try. But I have to ask: in your heart, do you really believe the people who never listened before are going to listen now? I don’t think I have ever felt less optimistic than I do now.

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I only vote for Presidential candidates who eat dogs *while* committing sexual assault.

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I’m sure it sounds better in the original German.

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Fortunately our political system refuses to tolerate such actions by candidates for high office.

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I hiked on the Franz Joseph glacier in NZ about 20 years ago. It has retreated by at least a kilometer since then.

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Edgelord whose fortune has depended on environmentalists goes all in on climate denial. I’m trying not to fall into a doom spiral but holy shit are a lot of things going to hell all at once.

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Alas, I agree. If Biden does any of this, Republicans won’t conclude, “I guess we need different neutrally applied rules.” They will conclude, “See? This is why Democrats can never hold power.”

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In 2020 they didn’t even *have* a platform, right?

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Because the “principle” here is really unconstrained Presidential power, I’m confident this Court would rule that the President could not be compelled to testify. I mean, we don’t want underlings questioning the king’s power, or prosecuted for doing the king’s bidding, right?

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this is 100 percent right. the SCOTUS decision here is part of Project 2025, it is preemptively helping Trump consolidate his dictatorship crookedtimber.org/2024/07/02/s...

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Nope, sorry, the Supreme Court will rule that the President can shoot people in the middle of 5th Avenue, but is barred from helping them.

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It is all just Constitutional Calvinball. The Supremes know they can rely on Dems not to abuse the absurd powers they grant, because we always uphold the Marquis of Queensbury rules even as they shank us.

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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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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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This. I’ve been sounding the alarm since at least 2004. And for 20 years I’ve been accused of shrill, alarmist exaggeration. Call us Cassandras if you must, but remember: Cassandra was right.

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We shouldn’t underestimate the willingness of the Roberts Court to ignore such inconveniences as the linearity of time.

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Con Law casebooks will now consist of the few paragraphs of Plato’s Republic in which Thrasymachus argues that justice is the will of the stronger, and the Wilhoit aphorism in 48 point type.

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White supremacy is arguably an institution.

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