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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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Reading a story about the election that casually referred to "Biden's slide in the polls" and it just remains remarkable to me that narrative reporters can just drop stuff like that into copy and never think twice about whether it has any basis in fact.
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Greg Pak
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Biden was one of my last choices in the 2020 primary. I'm sick to my stomach about many of his policies. If he drops out, so be it. But I'm furious with the cavalier way these "moderates" are kicking out our feet in the event he DOESN'T drop out.
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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People really discount the extent to which The Squad are incredibly talented politicians, and mostly because they're young, women, and not white. But they've been more effective at getting policy positions across than most of their senior colleagues...
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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Updated: I read the NYT Front Page so you didn't have to.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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This. It's meant to be coded in headlines as moderation (thanks again NYT!) but personhood opens the door to existing criminal law to regulate women's healthcare.
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Jesse Berney
@jesseberney.bsky.social
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The lesson from France is that sometimes you have to hold your nose to defeat fascism. You can't beat it with your own ideological purity.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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I think we should start expanding how we think about responding to a rogue court. Congress should pass a law rebuking this decision and dare the court to overturn it. Oh and of course Congress should restructure the court, not just add seats. Not possible today, but let's build the framework now.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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Of course. A real response requires having control of Congress and presidency. We should have a day 1 plan ready though. It should become part of how we vet candidates. No more Sinemas!
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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Major papers still have not internalized that they need to get rid of dedicated SCOTUS reporters. As a class they missed every scoop on their beat over the last 10 years. Totenberg admitted to being too friendly to actually report. Just outsource to propublica.
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Brendel
@brendelbored.bsky.social
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A fun thing about the Supreme Court is if it didn’t exist and you described how it worked as a good idea for a functioning country people would laugh at you and call you a dumb stupid ass bastard
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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I would add that since this court has shown no respect for its precedent and has invited a pipeline of 5th circuit courts to do the same, Congress should ignore this decision and pass a bill explicitly rebuking this decision. Congress is the first of equals and needs to speak on this.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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The best part is we can speculate as though John "Taney2" Roberts actually has a legal theory underpinning his calvinball. It's all word vomit to reach the conclusion he wants. Very bizarre to think the president can kill or jail his opponent but cannot regulate power plants.
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Jason O. Gilbert
@gilbertjasono.bsky.social
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In awe of this tweet, which truly captures everything bad about mainstream journalism in 2024
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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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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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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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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Aubrey Gilleran
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That “Black jobs” seems to be the main thing from the debate to go actually viral on social media should give certain columnists some pause about their pulse on the campaign.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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I do not understand how an entire culture seems to have spawned around this absolute loser shit. bsky.app/profile/badm...
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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Democrats own the nomination process and could certainly put rules around it. Democrats could just exclude anyone who coordinated with corporate money during the primary from their party line. The general is different but parties control their own nominations.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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A fair question to Democrats would be "Why do you let corporate and dark money groups flood your primaries?" That's been a problem for a while, tho it doesn't seem to be Bowman's only problem here.
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José
@acabybara.bsky.social
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Posting this randomly and not for any recent headlines or whatever
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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The contrast should be THE story of the election, honestly. Stochastic terrorists cannot be part of the political process.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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Ah but they don't want free markets. They want to corner markets so they can seek rents!
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Daniel Radosh
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Biden has to say he won't pardon his son because he knows the media would absolutely savage him if he tried. Yet the same media completely takes it for granted that Trump will pardon himself if he's re-elected, it's just baked into assumptions about his future cases and they don't even bother to ask
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Blake Emerson
@blakeprof.bsky.social
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This from @jbouie.bsky.social gets to the heart of the ideological juncture we’re at: MAGA voters identify with Trump as the embodiment of their collective, arbitrary will. The presidency has always carried this risk, but it’s reached its apogee today.
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The Wainscoting Guy
@squigglymips.bsky.social
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If it were Clarence Thomas instead of a juror, you’d have 5 hosts on Fox talking over each other about how it’s his right as an American to take gifts like this. Jk Fox would bury this story
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Klovar: foot fetishist
@klovar.cc
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man had his license reinstated, but the courts fucked up and didn't file proper notice he's had valid driver's license since 2022 and spent two days in jail because of the fuckup ☹️
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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like the fattest, slowest political softball imaginable, and yet Democrats are anxiously pondering whether to bunt or let it go by abcnews.go.com/Politics/plu...
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Finally read this. The context for the slur makes it entirely believable. But the rest is just as awful. NBC knowingly resurrected a washed up, racist, misogynist, parasitic con man, and presented him to the country as a brilliant, cutting-edge businessman. It felt dirty just reading it.
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Noel Murray
@noelmu.bsky.social
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Would not have expected this well-reasoned rant from the smug, front-running sports shouter Colin Cowherd but right is right.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Alito and Roberts: We are august impartial jurists, how dare you question us or accuse us of partisanship
Johnson: I talk to our guys on the court all the time, they’ll fix this whole trump conviction thing
www.axios.com/2024/05/31/m...
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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I'm fact, the same revanchist reactionary part of our body politic that supports Trump lost the civil war and didn't accept that result either! They eventually managed to overturn it. You have to beat them everywhere. Never turn down a chance to beat them.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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Clearly not English professors.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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In fairness to Alito “if liberals are rude it’s ok to support overthrowing the government” is as concise a distillation of trump era conservatism as you’ll ever see
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Justice Alito announces his support for a woman’s right to choose *looks back at letter* flags.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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I tend to agree. What stood out to me from the start was that I didn't know the symbolism of those flags before. Bet the neighbors didn't either. These are red-pill symbols the Alitos appear to be fluent in.
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Abu Aardvark (OG)
@abuaardvark.bsky.social
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White House preparing firm response to Israel’s crossing of its red line with massacre of civilians who fled Rafah to designated safe area: sanctioning ICC, criticizing college students who protest it, leaking that Biden is pissed, and begging Saudi Arabia to normalize relations with Israel.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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The mainstream SCOTUS beat is rotten to its core: days after January 6, 2021, the Alitos were interviewed by a Washington Post reporter on the Supreme Court beat about the upside-down “distress” flag flying at their house—but the paper decided it wasn’t a story and sat on it until today.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Even if the floodgates open to aid tomorrow, malnutrition experts say many more people will die...“We have never ever seen anything like this anywhere in the planet,” said Janti Soeripto, the president and chief executive of Save the Children U.S."
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/w...
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Sorry, election coming up, can't give you Senate hearings on SCOTUS, best we can do is invite Netanyahu to give a speech about how Democrats are terrorists and antisemites.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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Congress can take away their ability to grant cert and make them decide the actual controversies. They'd be so busy they'd have no time for mischief. The olds would retire immediately. They'd beg to expand the court and use panels to work the caseload.
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crossery
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Joe Biden specifically and credibly warned BiBi from this course. Yet he's done nothing to forcefully prevent it and has marginalized the constituencies that recognize that fact.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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I'd love to see a question about Hillary's email practices alongside these. The media can push a narrative when it chooses to.
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Patrick Cosmos
@veryimportant.lawyer
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Bill Maher is the only person brave enough to take everything bad about boomers and combine it with everything bad about gen x
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Every low level lanyard job person in DC: please don’t wear a campaign button in my house, someone could see it and I might get in trouble SCOTUS: first you take a loan from someone with business before the court and then you just don’t pay it back. Did you see my insurrection flag.
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crossery
@cdg864.bsky.social
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Isn't "national security" the only legal, WTO-acceptable way for the President to impose tariffs?
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