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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off

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He's like an obese limbo dancer, trying to go lower and lower.

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Hard to believe the party that produced Boris Johnson and Liz Truss could falter like that

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Gregory Hays's avatar Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

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Six people did the thing that is supposed to require 2/3 of both chambers of Congress and 3/4 of the states to do

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I have friends with Irish grandparents who have Irish passports.

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M.P. Broache's avatar M.P. Broache @mpbroache.bsky.social
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“Politics would be interesting again,” no politics should not be interesting, normal people should not have to invest time and energy into saving democracy because our institutions are collapsing, give me boring, mundane politics any day

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling's avatar Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social
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Tom the Dancing Bug from 2019, when the notion of presidential immunity was a laughably ridiculous argument made up by Trump's lawyers.

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We get a little schadenfreude today...

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Gavin Werbeloff's avatar Gavin Werbeloff @travelbuddha.bsky.social
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Coming soon: "Judge Cannon, the only reason the defendant had access to these documents in the first place is that he was acting in his official capacity as President of the US, therefore he is immune from prosecution for anything arising from those actions after leaving office."

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When it comes to interpreting the Constitution to find rights and privileges not explicitly listed there, both sides are bad. Both sides do it. /1

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I rolled my eyes when he said years ago that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support. Now, I know he was right.

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That's so elected officials can isolate themselves from unpopular decisions.

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Vince Mpls's avatar Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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They'll be like Mao and send them to work in prisoner ag labor.

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The assumption by founding fathers was that social pressure wouldn't allow criminals to be elected, but Repugnicans have had no shame since Nixon.

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Yes, but I'm stocking up on ammo. At 77, I'm a hunter who was trained to never waste a shot, and I'm a much better shot than all those ammosexual lardbutts. I can survive in the wilderness, and I won't hesitate if the MAGAs threaten me. And I live on a sailboat.

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I'm ridin' with Biden! (His 1967 Corvette was a wedding present from his dad)

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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In normal times, the Supreme Court would've smacked down claims of presidential immunity almost immediately, but we're not in normal times, and there's a reason why the conservative majority of Federalist Society bagmen waited until the last possible moment to provide this insane ruling.

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Don Zeko's avatar Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.

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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.

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Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking

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Chris Hayes's avatar Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Shorter Supreme Court this term: criminal law is for little people.

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NOW they want to follow precedent, but not for Roe.

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Nicholas Wallace's avatar Nicholas Wallace @wallace.bsky.social
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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Anil Kalhan's avatar Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social
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Somewhere soon, at a right wing law school event near you 🗣️: "I would prefer that the president not liquidate members of his cabinet in cold blood for disagreeing with him as a matter of policy, but as a legal matter...."

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Especially since the Northern Marianas were next to the Marshall Islands Trust Territory, sites of underwater H bomb tests in the 50s.

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jess m. ☁️'s avatar jess m. ☁️ @jam-etc.bsky.social
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again, today's the last day to try to opt out of facebook/instagram's AI bullshit.

follow these instructions. If they refuse or something you can keep that email as proof when they inevitably get got for this

deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t...

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