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Brooke Binkowski

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Tlönista. Shitposting merrily downward. Weird plant, cat, books lady. Sci-fi, fantasy, art, jazz, etc. Profile photo is a selfie with the bottom half of my face hilariously covered by my cat's. Banner pic is of crows in a tree.

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Andrew Otis Weiss's avatar Andrew Otis Weiss @thatweissguy.bsky.social
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The way to defeat the right politically is to enact meaningful policies that actually improve people’s lives.

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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I'm kinda being a downer today tbh but I'm just so fed up

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Bethany Brookshire's avatar Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social
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In case you need something kind of neat to think about: Every at Wimbledon they employ a Harris Hawk to scare away pigeons and other unwanted birds from the tennis courts.

His name is Rufus. He may this year (?) get a co-worker named Rhea? www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Okay this is actually getting worse than the inside of my head so I'm going to go touch some grass now

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

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Shiv Ramdas's avatar Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social
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the fact that the left and centre in France have both said that the third place candidates will drop out is getting basically no play in a US press going full apeshit over Round 1 results and yes it is so that you think fascism is inevitable globally so why not here

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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lets see if Bragg or Merchan refuse to chicken out or if they'll give the guy saying he wants military tribunals for his political opponents the benefit of the doubt

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Dr. SkySkull's avatar Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social
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Y'all are being so overly concerned. Remember when SCOTUS ruled on Citizens United, and everyone was worried that it would critically harm democracy? Or when people said that overturning Roe would lead to a huge health crisis for women? *finger to ear* I am being told to shut the fuck up now

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arr's avatar arr @arr.bsky.social
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[guy who is very unfamiliar with the democratic party] well, surely somebody will do something about this

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Sean's avatar Sean @publichealth.bsky.social
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lest we forget, at least two of the justices who voted on this case either supported or were involved with the insurrection themselves

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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I will take the L here. I absolutely did not think the Court was going to do this. You may mock me now

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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Like I just had a fundamental misunderstanding here, I thought only alito and thomas were the really stupid-evil ones, but I was wrong, they're all nuts

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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Also I would have expected them to game this out a little further and realize this is putting a sword at your own neck. If Trump wins and you piss him off at any point for the rest of your life you're going to be arrested or worse and good luck drawing a distinction about official acts then

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Fuck everything about his smug misogynistic ass. He was ever thus

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Sara Luterman's avatar Sara Luterman @slooterman.bsky.social
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“‘Figure it out,’ she said a supervisor told her. ‘You’re not the first person to have a baby.’

This time, Emery knew she could push for more.”

@chabeli.bsky.social’s latest at The 19th.

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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Saying someone is presumptively immune from prosecution then barring the introduction of evidence of their mental state is a neat trick.

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Paul Crider's avatar Paul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com
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With the stated intent to engage in a massive deportation roundup, the option to use the Insurrection Act, and SCOTUS-bestowed immunity, I think it's worth noting how fast the total Trump takeover will occur. Weeks. That's it.

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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If I log off, it's just me and the inside of my head, which is worse than this clamor somehow

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Dr Henry's avatar Dr Henry @cmhenry.bsky.social
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you should see the bloody froth in some of these telegram channels this morning

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Justin Mikulka's avatar Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social
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"The fossil fuel industry chases short-term profit and leaves longterm wreckage in its wake, both as the specific damage to extraction sites which may be gouged out or poisoned or both, and as climate chaos. It’s like this all over the world." There it is. From Rebecca Solnit.

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Brendel's avatar Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social
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Sorry this actually pisses me off right now. This entire thing is seen as a legendary blunder, Dukakis was in a tank! It destroyed him! Trump saluted a North Korean general! The dictator of North Korea stared at him doing it like what the fuck man, but Dukakis was in a tank and ruined forever!

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Rose Eveleth's avatar Rose Eveleth @roseveleth.com
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I know there are much more important things happening in the world but this is my recent inbox -- each of these is a different email account, with slightly different wording, so I can't blacklist phrases or addresses and I'm really at the end of my fucking rope.

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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This is really really really really bad.

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Sarah Posner 's avatar Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social
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Just started reading the immunity opinion and it is *so* striking how Roberts emphasizes this is the first time a former president has been criminally prosecuted, addressing it very antiseptically and without reference to the first time a president tried to block the peaceful transfer of power.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) — Karen Read’s deadlocked jury leads to mistrial in Boston police boyfriend’s death.

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Ed Burmila's avatar Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social
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The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Oh I was being heavily sarcastic, that hadn't even occurred to me

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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He's a fucking dipshit who never was bright enough to understand what he was used to do to us all

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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No shame in feeling scared, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do. To me feeling one's feelings doesn't preclude taking action. These are confusing times. Give yourself some grace.

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Spencer Ackerman's avatar Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social
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At least there's no War on Terror-built surveillance and detention apparatus for an elected American Emperor to wield. Really good we dismantled all that long ago. Oh wait

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) 's avatar Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social
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In a functional democracy Congress would recall itself from vacation and start time process to act against the Supreme Court and protect democracy

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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Fair. I got nothing other than impotent rage at the moment but I figured giving people targets might help in the short term

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Rachel Shelden's avatar Rachel Shelden @rachelshelden.bsky.social
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I say this to my history students every semester. Lawyers do not have a monopoly on law, courts, & especially the Constitution--despite how often they are told otherwise. It may be in the best interest of lawyers to claim that unique authority; it's in everyone else's best interest not to let them.

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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It won't solve anything but it will keep them scared and that's nice

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Karl Bode's avatar Karl Bode @karlbode.bsky.social
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matty yglasias an embarrassing engagement hound and poster child for how all the real money in media is now in contrarian trolling

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