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Boring Knucklehead@brazuca.bsky.social |
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Trying to avoid discourse and the crushing reality around me
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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every supreme court ruling these days
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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Yeah, just like he claims he never met any of the over two dozen women he's sexually assaulted.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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Let me be clear. In my opinion, John Roberts has joined Roger Taney (Dred Scott - slavery) as a Chief Justice who will be remembered as an evil man. Not just wrong, but worthy of eternal condemnation for trying to destroy the Republic.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Very Serious People can't resolve the cognitive dissonance involved in the knowledge that Trump was involved with Epstein's pedo ring and so pretend its a conspiracy theory or didn't happen. Trump inexplicably gave the guy who let Epstein skate a cabinet post! All out in the open!
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Four months ago, the Economist thought the country was being run pretty well.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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“A senior source involved with…Trump’s 2024 effort… and another person working with the Heritage-based Project 2025 (the conservative policy agenda project) tell Rolling Stone that the point of these multi-pronged legal attack plans and potential blitz of challenges isn’t necessarily to win…”
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Noel French
@noelfrench.bsky.social
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Neither the panic over Clinton's health nor the email scandal turned out to have any merit, neither lasted beyond the media's attention, and both were initiated, and, in the case of the emails, sustained by media focus that was totally disproportionate to their seriousness.
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ryan cooper
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"Roberts may as well have dug up James Madison’s corpse and micturated directly into the eye sockets." prospect.org/justice/2024...
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Timothy Ryan
@tjryan02.bsky.social
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I still can’t wrap my head around what Roberts did. Basically, he argues that the Constitution itself is unconstitutional! (I.e. that an implicit thing Roberts believes about separation of powers trumps the plain text.)
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 69
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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"over the past 20 years, the Republican-nominated Supreme Court justices who have now given Trump and other presidents a significant measure of immunity from criminal prosecution for their official acts assured Americans that nobody — not even a president — was 'above the law.'"
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Missing The Point
@missingthept.bsky.social
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I like presidents who didn’t rape children.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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Is this real? www.courthousenews.com/rape-allegat...
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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I think they are just bad people. They have bad principles and in times like these it shows.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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Dude, Biden is old. He is still 1000000x better than trump. Both things are true. The thing is see though is a media that has normalized trump and will spend 120% of political coverage on Biden’s age (also ignoring trumps own decline). This is the “but her emails” comparison
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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I disagree.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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I don’t disagree. I think he has been the best president we’ve had in many decades, but he only had one term in him. He should have seen that and passed on the torch much, much sooner.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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I saw the same thing, but don’t you think the focus is excessive, especially without comparing the cognitive issues with trump? Or his crimes? It doesn’t seem like an honest comparison, just media piling on.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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This is the “but her emails” all over again. The media is playing the same tune
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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under the opinion in trump v. united states there was no need for john yoo to come up with an elaborate justification for torture. george w. bush could have ordered an interrogator to crush the testicles of a child, no questions asked.
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Elad Nehorai
@eladn.bsky.social
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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.
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Popehat
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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Yeah but on the other hand here is a list of things that are more important than murder-kings: emails and age
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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Funny how we all see this SCOTUS inventing laws and rewriting the constitution, but despite being shocked we just transition to accepting it as the law of the land and move on. Why should we give legitimacy? Because we believe in a system that they destroyed?
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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The SCOTUS has betrayed America. I want much more from democrats and loyal republicans. Biden needs to lead the party and tell us the plan to restore our system. We need more than “vote for me or we are all lost”. Eventually they’ll win an election, so what to do about an insane dictatorship court?
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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What democratic presidents? This is the last one
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Adam Serwer
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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I think about this line a lot these days.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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Jonathan Ladd
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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Jonathan Ladd
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The words in the constitution don't give the president immunity, nor was that the intention of the authors. But you must understand that the meaning of the constitutional vibes have evolved over time in a way only I can detect. Now there are penubras and emanations that tell me he is in fact immune.
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Radley Balko
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My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.
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John Pfaff
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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“The Aristocrats!” I mean, “Official Acts!”
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Josh Gondelman
@joshgondelman.bsky.social
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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That’s the point though. They don’t want the government to work. It’s drowning in the bathtub, and it just took a big gulp of water
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Adam Bonin
@adambonin.bsky.social
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The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it right.
x.com/adambonin/st...
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@darkwebmallcop.bsky.social
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I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Oh and the "historical context of our country" is that the Founding Fathers knew from hard personal experience that the mixing of religion and government had caused centuries of war and chaos across Europe, so when they set up a new country here THEY VERY EXPLICITLY DID NOT DO THAT.
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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Cannon: Can anyone ever truly judge anything? Maybe all we can do is hear each other and let time go by, living. Who is to say what “the law” says or means. Just vibe and live!
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Bonnie Berry
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Boring Knucklehead
@brazuca.bsky.social
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The wizards are the Fed governors . Gandalf is Powell
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