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Harvester of Poirot@funkotronic.bsky.social |
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Dave Levitan
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Alex Wallace
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I think that the way that all the right-wing skullduggery around Trump works is that the man himself is just an orange ball of rage who is just incoherently mad and it's the guys around him are using his appeal to the worst people ever to advance the cause of project 2025
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Harvester of Poirot
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Came here to make sure someone said this
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Harvester of Poirot
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Beanaclava
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
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SENDING COOL FRIDAY VIBES…
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A.R. Moxon
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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.
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Dalton Deschain & the Traveling Show
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my younger self was so naive and idealistic. that person never thought they'd grow up to spend so much time wishing so many people would keel over dead at once
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ProPublica
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The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system.
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Claire Willett
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what if like for one year every single one of us collectively agreed to go as hard as the Republicans are already accusing us of doing anyway and just see where it gets us
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Harvester of Poirot
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A potato with alzheimers is more coherent than donald trump has ever been at any point in his entire life
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Harvester of Poirot
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Leonard Leo
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Harvester of Poirot
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Harvester of Poirot
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Kevin Gannon
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The Right has been licking their chops to dismantle worker and civil rights protection. This ruling was packaged up and ready to go within hours of the supreme court's announcement. Expect more of the same as this revanchist revolution against governance accelerates.
www.hrdive.com/news/texas-s...
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maura quint
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when I was a child, I thought smart people were in charge. when I got older, I realized you didn't have to be smart to be in charge. but the piece that was hardest to learn is that no one is really in charge at all. no one's going to fix it beyond us.
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Micah
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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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Harvester of Poirot
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Harvester of Poirot
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Do you even know what a direct democracy is? Nobody thinks every citizen votes on every function of government
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Harvester of Poirot
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They know, and they know we know they know. This is the part where they're daring anyone to stop them
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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER
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MENU SPECIAL…PUNK MEALS
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Vince Mpls
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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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Nicholas Wallace
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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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@nclud.bsky.social
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Democracy does not have a final win condition. Life and civilization are an ongoing process and pretending otherwise, that there's an ultimate destination, is the fascist fantasy. We don't need one-party rule, but we must win elections against the authoritarians forever, that's the "ever vigilant"
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Brooke Binkowski
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What a fucked up lifetime of being betrayed and sold out by "the adults in the room"
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Harvester of Poirot
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I'm in the mood to rant today, just FYI. If you hadn't already noticed.
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Harvester of Poirot
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To which I say "the Cuyahoga river was once on fire"
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Harvester of Poirot
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The weirdest aspect, to me, of the entire libertarian ideology has always been that they see government power exclusively as a cudgel to be used against them instead of a tool to combat corporate malfeasance, which they seem to think is nonexistent or otherwise negligible
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Harvester of Poirot
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It wasn't a perfect system, but I can virtually guarantee the average American could find an enforcement that an agency was doing that they won't like having to live without
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Harvester of Poirot
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And libertarians celebrate this, because they either think bad commercial behavior either 1] doesn't really exist (why would corporations pollute their own customers' water?) or that people as consumers have the capacity to police bad commercial behavior ourselves (vote with your wallet)
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Harvester of Poirot
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So, for example, any pollutant that is the product of recent technology, for which no legislation has yet been written? The EPA can no longer make companies stop dumping it into water systems, unless and until the other two branches grant them that authority
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Harvester of Poirot
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That's a big part of the strong reactions to the ruling, yes. It means agencies like the ATF and the EPA no longer have the authority to do anything that hasn't been laid out in explicit legislative detail, which means they basically have no power and functionally no longer exist
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DG
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SC when overturning Chevron: Executive power should be a mere suggestion to be allowed or voided at the whim of the all powerful federal court system SC considering presidential immunity: President is King, crimes are fine
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Sam
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So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
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I’m just so pleased that the court decided homeless people can be arrested for existing, the government cannot govern, and the president cannot be prosecuted for committing crimes, all in the same week. Blitzkrieg doesn’t begin to cover what has happened to the rule of law.
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Comfortably Numb
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Convicted felon appoints judges who rule it's ok for him to do crimes.
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Harvester of Poirot
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And the agencies at the time were staffed by Reagan, and they had a much softer concept of pollution than the same agency's staffers during the carter administration
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Harvester of Poirot
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The chevron deference was enacted by conservatives to PROTECT businesses from lawsuits filed by citizens demanding that they comply with environmental legislation. People were like "courts, make them stop polluting!" and the courts were like "we don't decide what 'polluting' means, the agencies do"
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Harvester of Poirot
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The ruling takes that power away from the agencies and grants it instead to the courts. A liberal court could now deem the very same daily fine legitimate
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Harvester of Poirot
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I'm firmly of the belief that virtually every person showcasing that attitude would do an immediate 180 if presented with a plan of action that felt productive
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Harvester of Poirot
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Thaaaat makes more sense than the description in the article
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Harvester of Poirot
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The AAP is the real professional organization, the ACP is the crackpot bigot fringe one. Thanks for the info on wpath
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Harvester of Poirot
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Do you know if that's a "American Academy of Pediatrics" type of organization, or is it one of those "American College of Pediatricians" kind of organizations
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Brendel
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Idk seems like either decisions are being made by some rando lib thinktank guy or Stephen Miller. Won’t pretend to be excited about either one but I know which one is worse.
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Harvester of Poirot
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All the people who worked closely with trump (who arent held back by a desire to remain active in republican politics) have all uniformly and repeatedly explained that trump has a small child's understanding of the world and lacks the capacity to learn enough to make well-informed decisions
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hammancheez
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SCOTUS : Congress just has to work together to write laws covering every question an agency might have to handle with detailed rules and formulas handling situations from now into the future Congress : gives handjobs in Beetlejuice concerts and talks about Jew space lasers
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Harvester of Poirot
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My position is that I readily and emphatically acknowledge the truth of this statement while also being acutely aware that this state of affairs is unsustainable and is fertilizer for the ground that more trumps will grow out of
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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it's wild to see the quick pivot from "enjoy the CAMPS" to this. it honestly makes me feel crazy
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Paris Marx
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Uber is racking up victories against drivers fighting for their rights and even opposing things like wheelchair accessibility in Ireland. It’s still a horrible company. More on that, plus labor updates and other tech news in the Disconnect Roundup.
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