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Lori Dowd@elardee.bsky.social |
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retired teacher - perpetual learner: preoccupied with needle arts, cats, compassion, and deep thinking she/her
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Joanne Freeman
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Hey folks!
I became technologically brave today and launched a YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...
It's in its early teeny tiny phase. Not much on it yet. But it's there if you want to subscribe!
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Torsten Kathke
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Today is a good day for a reminder: "I don't need this energy in my life" is a perfectly fine reason for blocking people. And the best thing is, if they then say "oh guess you couldn't handle my incisive commentary" you never see it. You don't owe anyone obstinent the benefit of the doubt.
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Alan Sepinwall
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When the Emmy nominations are announced later this month, there are going to be a lot of shows getting nods in categories where they don't seem to belong. I wrote about the increasing problem with figuring out how to categorize this stuff:
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Lori Dowd
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Lori Dowd
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Joanne Freeman
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That is an open threat. Terrorism as politics.
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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social
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If you’re threatening to kill people who don’t agree with your politics, you’re a fascist.
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Susan Kiddie 🍉
@susankiddie.bsky.social
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FYI you can go to your settings and, under accessibility, turn on 'require alt text' so you won't forget. Very helpful.
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Adam Rothman
@adamrothman.bsky.social
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"Today’s Supreme Court has just recreated one of the most despicable cases in English history, a case that signified the apex of absolutism in British history and was repudiated by a revolution for the damage it caused."
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Joanne Freeman
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If you're looking for a founder who wanted an "energetic" executive, Hamilton's your guy. Many called him a monarchist. But even Hamilton believed in the vital importance of a president's "vulnerability to prosecution in the course of law." Read the last paragraph of Justice Sotomayor's dissent.
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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It is a two-box day at SCOTUS, so we are expecting up to four decisions. There are four cases remaining, including Trump immunity and the APA accrual rule case. The NetChoice cases out of Florida and Texas could come as one or two decisions. Here we go.
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Paul Guinnessy
@paulguinnessy.bsky.social
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"Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, he is an honourable man."
If you surround yourself with felons, and you're also a convicted felon, it's pretty clear you're not going to change your behavior at this point.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56968/...
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Lori Dowd
@elardee.bsky.social
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WT(actual)F?
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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social
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So.
I’m reposting this because of the howling press panic.
It’s a calm discussion of the debate and how to judge it.
Lawrence O’Donnell did a superb job of this last nite:
www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...
Watch that.
Watch this.
Take a breath.
And consider.
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Joanne Freeman
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Welp.
I think we’ll hear about presidential immunity from SCOTUS today.
The fact that this is an open question is stunningly wrong-headed.
You certainly can’t claim the founders wanted it.
Or rather, you can.
But you’d be wrong.
Here’s a brief explaining why.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Reminder that lots of people you encounter are hanging on to a thread by their fingernails so unless it's psychedelics, therapy, a meaningfully viable organizational roadmap, a hug, or some other real support, maybe ask yourself if what you're about to offer is helpful or if you're just startin shit
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Coach Finstock
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Melissa Ryan
@melissaryan.bsky.social
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A brokered Democratic convention, with massive protests just outside the convention hall, is Trump's dream scenario. 24 hours later, I'm astounded at how many people claiming to be worried about an authoritarian America under Trump want to create the perfect storm for him to seize power.
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🏳️🌈
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social
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If your state has a “sodomy law” on the books then now is an extremely good time to agitate to have it repealed. Lawrence v. Texas is likely to be overturned by this court and then oral & anal sex will be criminalizable again.
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Joanne Freeman
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Hey folks.
My webcast this AM pushes back vs. the "OH NO PANIC" message we're getting from the press concerning the debate--& offers all kinds of resources to better understand presidential debates generally, and this debate specifically.
I encourage you to watch.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2jo...
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William Shakespeare
@shakespeare.bsky.social
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Breathe you, my friends.
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Lori Dowd
@elardee.bsky.social
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Worth a watch (for those of us out on the ledge):
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court continues to choose not to livestream opinion announcements, so people not at the court can neither hear this nor understand what's taking so long.
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CNN
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JUST IN: The former Uvalde school police chief and an officer are indicted in the first criminal charges filed over the failed response to the 2022 mass shooting
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jon ben-menachem
@jbenmenachem.com
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After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays.
gothamist.com/news/nyc-lib...
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❤️🖤 tiffani 🤍💚
@tranniehathaway.bsky.social
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Kick em again
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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SCOTUS sets a new decision day for next Monday!
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CREW
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"No person in this country is above the law, and that includes the president and it includes the Supreme Court.” - Justice Samuel Alito, 2006
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Seth Cotlar
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Importing this @volts.wtf thread from the bad place. It opens with a link to a piece that used official data to establish that yes, crime rates are indeed very much down recently. But here’s the thing, Project 2025’s Trump 2.0 promises to destroy that world in which we can “know” things like this.
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Lori Dowd
@elardee.bsky.social
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Humans are such doubters
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Media Matters for America
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A Hitler-promoting antisemite spoke twice at Trump’s Miami resort alongside Eric and Lara Trump www.mediamatters.org/antisemitism...
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The Washington Post
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Breaking news: The Supreme Court rejected a Republican-led effort to sharply limit White House officials and other federal employees from pressuring social media companies to remove posts from their platforms that the U.S. government deems problematic.
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Thomas Zimmer
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ICYMI – I got to discuss “Project 2025” with @chrislhayes.bsky.social:
The radical Right wasn’t ready for Trump’s first presidency. In 2025, they will be.
What should people know about these radical plans for an authoritarian takeover of government?
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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Joshua J. Friedman
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Full opinion from the Oklahoma Supreme Court holding that the state's approval of an explicitly religious Catholic charter school violates the separation of church and state under the state and federal Constitutions (via @mjsdc.bsky.social) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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imagine being so rich you can just say things and it's news. "I feel like the capitol of England is probably, like, Toronto or something"
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
@sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*
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William Adler
@williamadler78.bsky.social
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No one could have predicted this
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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
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Happy Substack Monday to all who observe!
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will review whether bans on gender-affirming medical care for minors violate equal protection guarantees, hearing the appeal brought by the Biden administration in response to Tennessee's law. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com
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Benjamin Dreyer
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Captain Obvious says: It's a national disgrace that he's a serious candidate for the presidency, and it says as many awful things about our fellow citizens as it does specifically about him.
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Lori Dowd
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Lori Dowd
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Benjamin Dreyer
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He is l i t e r a l l y insane.
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Lori Dowd
@elardee.bsky.social
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too hot for cloaks for me
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Jimmer Cork-Bottle
@jimmerthatisall.bsky.social
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This day in history. 1964. The US Supreme Court ruled that Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer "is not obscene for fuck's sake."
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Jeff Lazarus
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I just learned that mathematicians David Cox and Stephen Zucker decided to write a paper together specifically to create an algorithm they could name the Cox-Zucker machine and this might be the best joke in the history of academia.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%...
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Mignon Fogarty
@grammargirl.bsky.social
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You get to hear about two cool topics in the new Grammar Girl episode:
1. What goes into making a new dictionary.
2. The very first words being included in the Oxford Dictionary of African American English, including "kitchen," "Aunt Hagar's children," and "do rag."
Listen: pod.link/173429229
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Chris Geidner
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NEWS: Steve Bannon's lawyers have gone to SCOTUS, asking to stay out of prison pending his appeal.
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