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David Bailey@drgdave.bsky.social |
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Old, White, cisgender straight guy who believes that all people of all ages, ethnicities, genders and sexual orientations have inherent value and are worthy of respect. Pretty radical, I know. Joe Biden is the best president in my lifetime. He/him
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The Onion
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The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.
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David Bailey
@drgdave.bsky.social
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Maybe he really *IS* too old ---
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David Bailey
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Agreed, but consider what else the media find boring: - Trump promising to bring Liz Cheney (and Biden, Harris, McConnell, etc.) before a military tribunal - Trump effectively admitting that Russia is holding an American hostage on his behalf - SCOTUS ending democracy The media are a tough crowd!
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.
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David Bailey
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Why would Trump II even bother with lawyers now? SCOTUS says he can do literally anything with impunity! Who cares if it's 'illegal'? No one can punish him! The only thing that might slow him down is impeachment, and if any R Senator steps out of line, he'll get a visit from the proud boys.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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David Bailey
@drgdave.bsky.social
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Yes, it's horseshit. But --- clearly SCOTUS will eat and excrete horseshit these days!
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David Bailey
@drgdave.bsky.social
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Yes, Biden's debate performance was bad. But it appears to have made very little difference in how he's polling.
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Grudgie the Whale
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I said this. Trump’s lawyers were just thrill with delay. Even they’re stunned at the lawlessness of the Court.
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Josh Chafetz
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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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Grudgie the Whale
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The model to contemplate is Putin’s Russia. Trump aspires to it and SCOTUS just gave him the ok. Putin is the richest person in the world. He has oligarchs who do well as long as they stay loyal. And the nation suffers terribly. Sham elections. Detained/murdered opposition. State media.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans
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David Bailey
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Well, not quite no one. I think the Washington Monthly did as well, but this is the most prominent call I know about.
But yeah --- there should be THOUSANDS of these.
www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
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Chris
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There is also every reason to think that this court will expand Trump v. U.S in his second term to extend immunity to those doing his bidding. I.e., “Our holding in Trump v. U.S. demands that government officials be able to enact the will of the executive without fear of criminal proceedings.”
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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yep, it’s the obvious next move
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hilzoy
@hilzoy.bsky.social
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Honestly, any business leader who does not stop to consider the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky or someone like him really needs to.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail...
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Brendan Nyhan
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A world where the President can murder their enemies with impunity, direct the DOJ and FBI not to investigate the crimes, and pardon anyone who participates is not a free society www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Phil Lewis
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Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, anti-settlement watchdog says.
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David Bailey
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Yes, but more likely Trump will just ignore SCOTUS in the unlikely event it tells him he can't do something. I mean, there's only 9 of them, and most of them are really old. What are they going to do about it? One irony of Monday's ruling is that SCOTUS made itself irrelevant.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.
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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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Sarah Posner
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I sure hope all the Dems calling for Biden to step aside have gamed out the fuckery that the Heritage Foundation is planning
www.notus.org/2024-electio...
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David Bailey
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Oh, but they absolutely do! They want everyone else to stop bringing up unpleasant topics like racism, fascism, and abortion, and just agree to let the fascists be in charge. I think you'll find the fascists *VERY* friendly, once we accept those terms.
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David Bailey
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If a president illegally murdered a political opponent, their corpse would be entitled to a court order to be resurrected.
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David Bailey
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No question. If Biden is no longer the candidate, it will be a shitshow no matter what. But this is by far the option which minimizes the chaos.
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David Bailey
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Meanwhile, the Biden economy continues its historic winning streak. Not that anyone cares.
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Daniel Feldman
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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J.M. Berger
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Everyone else is focused, rightly, on the threat, so let me just remind you that it will not remain bloodless, whatever the left decides to do or not to do.
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Lupita Nihongo
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Makes my skin crawl that these people have to spend the twilight of their lives being denied justice by people who weren’t even alive when they were brutalized and that what were supposed to be the best years of their lives was stained by an overt rejection of justice.
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ryan cooper
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Trump's people are straight up promising Nazi-grade mass deportations, stacking the Justice Department with cronies, and the biggest tax increase on the middle class/cut for the rich in American history. this is the thing you spring on everyone after November www.axios.com/2024/07/02/t...
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Director, Basque Space Program
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This is your enemy. His pinned post is unhinged racist trash, but he is serious about the agenda
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David Bailey
@drgdave.bsky.social
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Yes! WHERE ARE THE PROTESTS?!? I checked the MoveOn website, and Women's March --- nothing. And I haven't seen anyone on here mention protests. What the hell?!?
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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Hey so…we are in the middle of a far right coup and the far right is telling you they are going to continue and if we try to stop them they will resort to open violence.This is cartoonish and people need to push these fascist now. Not tomorrow not next week we need massive protests and direct action
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J.M. Berger
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Let's check in on the candidate of cognitive superiority www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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David Bailey
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Biden and the Democrats need to resolve this issue no later than Monday night. Either he resigns so that Harris can run as the incumbent, or Harris, Whitmer, et al make unequivocal statements of support and confidence in Biden as the D standard bearer. We need to get this crap behind us and focus.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary…
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David Bailey
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I think that yesterday, SCOTUS told the world that NO ONE can prevent a president from doing anything he damn well pleases, and that includes SCOTUS itself. And if SCOTUS did try to block Trump from doing something, he wouldn't care. The irony of yesterday is that SCOTUS made *itself* irrelevant.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
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People are understandably excited about statewide votes on abortion, but they could be gutted—if not voided outright—by a future Trump administration via the Comstock Act, or by conservative judges upholding fetal personhood. New for Jezebel:
www.jezebel.com/abortion-bal...
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David Bailey
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Short of a trifecta in November (not impossible, but odds are against it), IDK how we accomplish that. The good news is, if Democrats *DO* have a trifecta in January, it will be one that doesn't depend on the useless bastards Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema, and so court expansion is a possibility.
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David Bailey
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Okay, I checked the MoveOn website and the Women's March website. Nothing. Is *SOMEONE* planning any kind of large-scale protest in response to 6 fascists ending American democracy? If so, could you please point me in their direction?
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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David Bailey
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This is the value proposition in a nutshell. Obviously, we should require that those with dangerous jobs have at least a modicum of protection. However the GOP opposes such regulation (Florida has banned it at the state level), bc it hurts profits, and the affected people are mostly non-white.
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David Bailey
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Shame it's too late to primary the SOB.
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David Bailey
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Man, I knew Golden was useless. I didn't know he was more useless than Dean Phillips (and that's saying something)!
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David Bailey
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I know this suggestion is just way, way out there, but hear me out: How about if we all vote for guy who DOESN'T have credible allegations of sexual assault against him (and in Trump's case, a court finding that he raped a woman). Maybe?!? Admit it --- there's something there ---
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Laura Helmuth
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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪
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David Bailey
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I think it's the 'not great' option, sadly.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/scotu...
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Ed Burmila
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Things are going very well when we've reached the "Don't worry, the military won't obey orders to kill civilians" stage of democratic backsliding. It's the sweet spot, where good things happen. Right where we want to be.
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