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Michael@fleerultra.bsky.social |
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History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
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Jesse Raub
@jesseraub.bsky.social
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time and time again people are confused that the content they see is directly related to the people they follow and that they’re absolutely lost navigating the internet without an algorithm force feeding them lowest common denominator dreck
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Sharon Kuruvilla
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i genuinely dislike moyn on a personal level
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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also who presides over the counting of electoral votes if there's no VP? mike johnson???
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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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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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George Pearkes
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Really good thread analyzing results of posting the same client science analysis on Twitter, Threads, and BSky. TLDR: BSky has the highest engagement and Twitter comments were almost pure climate denial.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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my favorite scene in michael clayton
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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5-4 Podcast
@fivefourpod.bsky.social
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🚨 EMERGENCY EPISODE: Trump v. United States 🚨 By a 6-3 decision, we live in a monarchy.
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Dave Weigel
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I don't want to sound too patronizing! If you want to create the public support for a future Dem trifecta to term-limit the court or expand it, go ahead. The dream Dem scenario for 2025 is another 51-49 Senate - GOP picks up WV, Allred beats Cruz, no other flips.
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Michael
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extraordinarily render him to gitmo, you have immunity
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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man how far up your own ass do you have to be to think "that's not how you DO things" is at all persuasive a day after the immunity ruling
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Michael
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scotus is ripping up abortion rights, pre-ordaining a future donald trump a lawless god king, rolling back the new deal and gains of the civil rights movement. nobody has to give a shit what dave weigel thinks is the "right" way to do anything
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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our episode will be out in a few hours and we make this exact point
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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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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Michael
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I was and remain HIGHLY critical of how they handed Dobbs but also have come to realize that they just are generally slow. took them a few days to roll out a response to Trump’s conviction too. less than ideal but I’m gonna wait and see where they land in the next few days
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Joshua J. Friedman
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I think people are overreading that Jim Clyburn quote x.com/MSNBC/status...
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Michael
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same
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Michael
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i think this is right as far as it goes, but illustrates why his posture on court reform, ethics investigations, etc, is inadequate. the norms-respecting response to this insane power grab is to put together a package of legislation to reinstate the proper constitutional order, not "do nothing"
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Brendel
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I choose not to acknowledge whatever this is
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Jacob T. Levy
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A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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"These are not justices; these are Trump cronies. This is not legal reasoning; this is vandalism."
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Jamison Foser
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will any of the feckless idiots who have over the years repeatedly assured us of John Roberts' nobility and seriousness of purpose devote their next column to explaining how they came to so thoroughly misunderstand the precise thing their job is to understand, or nah?
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David Noll
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Think about the baselines here. Taney inherited a vile political system and dedicated his career to perpetuating it. Roberts inherited a system that, although flawed on any number of dimensions, sought to uphold a modest version of democratic equality. He's dedicated his career to dismantling it.
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Joshua Erlich
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folks, lists are great
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La Captain Oblivious
@whatthefoxy.bsky.social
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I can only say “that’s crazy” so many times before it becomes noticeable that I in fact don’t care what you’re telling me.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history
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ceej
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Sure, it's not all fun and games living in the Lands Between. There's all the monsters and dragons to contend with. Sometimes the Tarnished comes out of nowhere and whacks you over the head. But every time I die I'm right back in this chair eating the best goddamn stew I've ever had in my life
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i don't know whether AOCs call for impeaching the justices will be the right one (it doesn't have a chance in hell of getting through), but the conversation has to start with congress, who are prime offenders in letting the court get to this point, and i'm encouraged someone there recognizes that
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Quinta Jurecic
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Micah
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on top of addressing the lawless corruption of the Supreme Court, I think this is necessary a better Court could overturn this decision, but the danger of a President imbued with the power of a dictator at the whim of the Court is too great and must be explicitly rejected in the Constitution itself
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Michael
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just something to chew on!
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Michael
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since commander-in-chief is within the "conclusive and preclusive" authority of the president, and therefore all his actions pursuant to c-i-c powers are entitled to absolute immunity, trump would've been better off ordering the military to take congress on january 6 than riling up a mob
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Michael
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yeah I’m def not a life long democrat who made a typo, must be a republican op
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Peter
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reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.
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David Noll
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Saying someone is presumptively immune from prosecution then barring the introduction of evidence of their mental state is a neat trick.
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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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Michael
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sweet release
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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one valiant gargoyle is crap. two valiant gargoyle is, frankly, bullshit.
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Parker Molloy
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BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That We Can All Go Fuck Ourselves
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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Micah
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what arrogance - what extreme, unearned hubris - it is to hand this man a license to do anything he wants and assume that power will never be used against you and yours "feels empowered to violate federal criminal law" motherfuckers he tried to overthrow the government
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Michael
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he’s a 300 page report Biden commissioned on it, that doesn’t even come close to covering all the available options. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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southpaw
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On page 8, Chief Justice Roberts decides that no prosecution of the president can be premised either on a use of the pardon power or on the firing of an executive branch official (like, say, the Special Counsel investigating the president).
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Michael
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I’m talking about court reform you fucking morons
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