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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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I sure did not have "Harlan Crow paid for a yacht and private helicopter trip for Clarence Thomas to visit a palace in Vladimir Putin's hometown" on my bingo card, but in hindsight, why the hell not. www.thedailybeast.com/clarence-tho...
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Mary Lewis
@profmarylewis.bsky.social
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Good. Let’s change the discourse.
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Lauren Ashley Davis
@laurenmeidasa.bsky.social
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BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced articles of impeachment against conservative US supreme court justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, the Democratic congresswoman’s office said in a statement on Wednesday.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Chris Ingraham
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It's 2016 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2017 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2018 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2020 and Trump has a new tone. It's 2024 and Trump has a new tone.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin
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I guess I just fell off the turnip truck, but I'm still shocked that they're writing 'analysis' that is trying to push members of Congress to openly come out against an incumbent president from their party running for re-election. Just wild stuff.
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Joshua J. Friedman
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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Call your rep today to encourage them to support AOC’s articles of impeachment. I will block anyone who tells me why they, personally, cannot and therefore why it’s pointless.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's time to revisit the idea of expanding the Supreme Court, which means it's time to dismiss the misunderstandings about FDR's "Court-packing controversy."
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/unpacking-...
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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the framing of the attack on Chevron (gobbled up by a lazy press, libertarians, and rubes) is this was a good faith action taken to rebalance goverment power, which of course is why all the shittiest people and companies imaginable support it and it was dropped on a Friday before a major holiday
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Karl Bode
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"the lobbying fueled attack on Chevron didn't kill what's left of federal regulatory power, it simply made it so regulators can't do anything without the extremely-explicit approval of a grotesquely corrupted congress and a bunch of corrupt, right wing judges"
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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the FCC under the leadership of Carr is also 100% going to dismantle net neutrality and telecom oversight, and levy a multi-billion dollar tax on tech companies (that you'll pay for) to fund fiber connections you'll never actually get (not that anybody cares about telecom policy anymore)
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Stephen Wolf
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A reminder that if Trump wins & purges the civil service to replace it with loyalists as planned, all sorts of govt data will become totally untrustworthy. The House GOP is already trying to rig the census to screw Democrats in redistricting after Trump's first-term attempt failed
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Crooked Emily
@wrenispinkle.bsky.social
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This piece of shit
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Jay Schiavone
@jaytingle.bsky.social
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The right wing is permanently aggrieved, and constantly needs to identify new affronts in the social order. The backlash that Susan Faludi identified in 1991, and @msignorile.bsky.social in his book in 2015, has realized its potential in the new judiciary. This is revenge on people for existing.
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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“why don’t you believe kamala could be the candidate?” is a question reporters ought to be asking anyone who suggests another plan.
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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2005 political media: You can't impeach George W. Bush, because that will just be seen as "tit-for-tat" for the Clinton impeachment, and that's no way to govern. 2024 Donald Trump: "I am your retribution." 2024 political media: Biden should drop out.
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Elizabeth Spiers
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Yep. And I’ve had people I grew up with in AL make insane arguments to me about why rural voters should have more of a vote than voters in cities so it ain’t just Texas!
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Frank Lynch
@fplynch.bsky.social
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I assume you read what the Texas GOP is trying to implement? www.houstonchronicle.com/business/col...
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Elizabeth Spiers
@espiers.bsky.social
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Republicans are literally running against democracy: www.al.com/news/2024/07...
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LG Katzen PhD Votes Biden
@lgkatzphd.bsky.social
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terrifying & mostly insane things Trump said at his rally yesterday was that he didn't know what NATO was before he became POTUS, but he learned in 10 minutes. It shows how stunningly ignorant one can be while narcissistic grandiosity says: 'I'm fit to lead this country.' 2
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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right wing propaganda's greatest success is seeding the lie that our overwhelmingly center-right corporatist press is somehow "too liberal" in reality, anything vaguely resembling progressivism is defunded and marginalized (ask me how I know)
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Rachel Shelden
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It cannot be stressed enough that adjusting the size of the Supreme Court in the 19th c. was a serious solution to serious concerns about how the Court functioned. As @earlymodjustice.bsky.social points out, reform often addressed imbalances. And these imbalances were often about REPRESENTATION. 1/
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George Takei
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Today on The Big Picture, writer Todd Beeton unpacks Donald Trump's 'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose' politics. This insightful piece explores how Trump's persistent fraud claims and refusal to accept defeat have permeated GOP doctrine, influencing voter perceptions and undermining election integrity.
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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How greedy a litigant is Donald Trump? (It is said that) he "won" his immunity argument before the SCOTUS. But now he moves to block his trial judges from... carrying out the Supreme Court's orders on remand. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Molly McKew
@mollymckew.bsky.social
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Has anyone bothered asking the trump campaign for a comment on the missile strike on the Ukrainian children’s hospital?
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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Why are so many raging perverts hanging out with the only American president to live in a private sex dungeon club, and how come they're always falsifying FEC paperwork to cover up their predatory perviness? newrepublic.com/post/183468/...
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Mark Paglia
@markpaglia.bsky.social
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I listened to Greg Pak, and so can you! Turns out doing something material feels way better than posting about the election.
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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social
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CaffeineIsLife
@caffeineislife.bsky.social
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Melanie D’Arrigo
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Impoundment Learn the term. It’s how Donald Trump plans to defund any agency or program he wants, and there will be nothing Congress can do to stop it. This is how he defunds education, climate action and everything else on day one. This Project 2025.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Reduce administrative burdens in voting and more people will vote
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SharG
@hapkidogal.bsky.social
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Why? Because he is guilty and doesn't want America and the world to hear the evidence!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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"Imagine a world in which GOP president Donald Trump vetoes the national abortion ban that is sent by a GOP Congress. You cannot imagine that world, because it doesn't exist."
On the pod, D strategist Jess McIntosh is brilliant on Trump's softening GOP platform scam:
newrepublic.com/article/1835...
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Chris Levesque
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What this article leaves out is that if you hand your unlocked phone to a police officer, they can legally search it. Unless companies develop a method that allows you to show officers insurance cards and driver license without unlocking the rest of your phone, don't.
www.zdnet.com/article/digi...
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Uncle Dude
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It always astounds me how cartoonishly stupid the far right are. For all their highbrow talk of classical western civilization and obsession with IQ they're just a bunch of losers yelling at meteorologists for not making the weather be good.
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Jonathan Cohn
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"In 1863 and 1867, revisions to the Judiciary Act sought to rein in a supreme court that was potentially pro-slavery. Now, we need to rein in one that is pro-authoritarian." newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Aaron Huertas
@aaronhuertas.bsky.social
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Lotta media dudes who used to be the smartest kid in class seem more emotionally invested in being able to say I-told-ya-so if Biden loses than relentlessly conveying the stakes of the election, let alone obsessing over Trump’s uniquely compelling electoral baggage.
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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The “Did Trump read it?” question elides the far more important “Is this something horrible Trump or his guys wanted to do the first time around but were limited by civil servants or law?” because it’s almost all that.
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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Without a doubt John Roberts has the air of a spoiled rich kid who’s been told he’s a special boy his whole life and got straight A’s on C- work because his parents cut a huge check to the school every year.
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Kevin Collins
@kwcollins.bsky.social
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Ideally with a comparison to the equivalent numbers for stories on Trump's authoritarian campaign pledges on social media and at rallies
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David Waldman
@kagrox.bsky.social
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The country can't survive the invention of "presidential immunity" unless we also recognize that when voters revoke it, that has to be regarded as the most solemn rebuke imaginable. You can't use the immunity they grant to steal more immunity for yourself, or we're finished. Oh wells!
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Gregg Gonsalves
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.@nytimes.com home page this AM has no mention of the Biden/Parkinson's story. Baumgaertner, Baker & the editors offer no update, no mention of the White House doctor's letter. The story was poorly reported, launched a rumor-stampede and they'll get away with it. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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THE GOP PLATFORM IMPLIES A NATIONAL BAN ALREADY EXISTS THROUGH THE 14TH AMENDMENT
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Gerry Doyle
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I am not the first to make this point but if the whole premise is that the president is not competent, and the president outmaneuvers you....
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George Takei
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This is incredibly disturbing... bit.ly/4bzuwsj
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Adam Smith
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"Of the 38 people involved in the writing and editing of Project 2025, 31 of them were nominated to positions in Trump’s administration or transition team – meaning 81% of the document’s creators held formal roles in Trump’s presidency." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...
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Julia S.
@booktweeting.bsky.social
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look, the answer to “crops will rot in the fields” after mass deportation is “chain gangs from for-profit prisons” they’re just not showing that card right now
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Marc N Cunat
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If you believe the crap coming out of the Trump campaign, then you’re probably one of those folks that still believes the Roberts Court will follow precedent.
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Karl Bode
@karlbode.bsky.social
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you'd think a corrupt supreme court dismantling what's left of federal corporate oversight (something that absolutely will result in mass fatalities and endless suffering) would have enjoyed a news cycle longer than twelve hours
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