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Clutch@clutch3-16.bsky.social |
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Calvinball practitioner
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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It's pretty interesting what the media decides is front page news and what they don't decide is front page news! Trump being a child sex abuser with close connections to Jeffrey Epstein somehow doesn't merit the same coverage as "unnamed Dem insider has concerns about Biden's age"
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible
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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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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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I’m pretty sure the violent suppression of those they view as the peasants is exactly why they gave him that power
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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That didn’t happen, but posts like these are always a wonderful indication of whether a poster has any actual anti fascist politics or if they are mostly trying to find a socially acceptable way to hate liberals without consciously identifying as a republican
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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This man is making his evil intentions as crystal-clear as they possibly could be, and everyone who cares about humanity should be blasting that message out in every possible venue.
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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This scotus has given me way too many days where I wonder why the fuck I ever became a lawyer.
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scott⚡️mccloud
@scottmccloud.bsky.social
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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I am once again begging the democrats to yeet James Carville into the closest nuclear reactor if they want to have any hope of ever connecting with a single person under the age of 195 ever again
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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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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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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She still concurred today
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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Well even if we expand the court, we still need a president to commit an extremely obvious crime, leave office, then get charged to challenge this
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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if john roberts et al are going to cosplay as politicians then they should at least have to face the voters once a term
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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4/4 . . . same way that the Soviets used political troops to execute tens of thousands of soldiers who refused orders during World War II. According to Chief Justice Roberts and his cabal, there is not a thing that anyone could ever do to bring that President to justice. For shame.
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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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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Robert Black
@hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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You don't actually get to usurp the Court and use it to tear down the edifice of republican government and then whine about how we're violating your judicial independence when we try to hold you to account
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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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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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.
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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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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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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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"Hey Mark, cut a check and we'll have the federal government seize land in Texas and give it to you to build casinos on" isn't really the best way to save American democracy, but it might be the only way
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We Put the FBI Man Into the Medicine Lodge
@2facedjanus7927.bsky.social
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-This is not the end of days. Even Trump winning, as horrible as that will be, will not be the end of days. For the sake of those who came before us, those alongside us, and those who live after us, we must continue to live, breathe, and fight for that which is good in the world.
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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Why in the absolute fuck did the libs change their dissent in the Colorado case to a concurrence?
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.
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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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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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Despair creeping in? Worried things ultimately won’t work out for you? Is Hell getting a bit too Hellish? Consider setting those worries aside and trying Grim Determination and focusing on helping who you can however you can Ask your doctor if Grim Determination is right for you
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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Justice Sotomayor suggests under the majority's reasoning, presidents would be immune from prosecution for "ordering Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival... organizing a military coup to hold onto power... taking a bribe in exchange for a pardon. Immune, immune, immune."
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.
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Popehat
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The NYT call for Biden to step down would seem momentous if not for the fact the NYT has been absolutely beclowning itself on Biden v. Trump for several years now.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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i don't know, man, i'm just some humble idiot shitposter, but i do not think that the democratic party trying to usurp the sitting president from the nomination and then also throwing the first black vice-president under the bus will be very popular with the democratic party's voter base
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geoffrey
@parsnip.bsky.social
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"it is not our job to fact-check" should be taken as a damning admission of deliberate, calculated irresponsibility permanently marking every ostensible journalist it describes, and it's a sign of the dire health of our news media that this is seen as barely worth remarking upon
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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The financial criminal also attempted a violent coup just a few years ago
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Kaitlin Ruiz
@kaitlinruiz.bsky.social
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I wish we could get people to understand that the only way to position our government for someone better than Biden is to settle for Biden at this moment
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Kevin Collins
@kwcollins.bsky.social
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If you thought the court was bad at doing history, just wait to see how bad they are at molecular biology
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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We’re in the middle of an election cycle where one candidate is a criminal authoritarian running on a platform of bloody revenge against Democrats and the only time in the entire campaign you’ve seen a bit of sincere emotion from the Dem insider class is a panic attack over their own guy.
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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How much do you think I could get Friedman to pay me for an NFT right now?
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
@chathamharrison.bsky.social
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"publicly break from Biden" I struggle to understand what pundits' obviously limited conception of political science is. Biden won 87% of the primary vote. Why are we angry Democrats aren't summarily invalidating this result? What do these people think democracy is?
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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Bad sign for the immunity decision
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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One of the many enraging, scary things about the Chevron decision is that it could mean that reasonable people who AREN'T willingly and knowingly chugging raw milk will ALSO be subject to incredibly dangerous food safety practices that have been struck down by idiot judges
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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Arguing that it doesn’t matter is like arguing that keeping global warming to 2 degrees instead of 3 degrees doesn’t matter. Every bit that we can prevent matters.
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Clutch
@clutch3-16.bsky.social
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It can only overrule the cases it takes and as we’ve seen, some of the Republican justices are sometimes reluctant to go too far too fast because they’re conscious about the need to maintain an appearance of legitimacy.
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