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Grudgie the Whale
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You can’t get me to care about a Nate
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Progressive.
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Grudgie the Whale
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You can’t get me to care about a Nate
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Grudgie the Whale
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To clarify. Not that you agree with the sentiment. But that you know people like this.
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Grudgie the Whale
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Also forget 20 week ban. By FAR the most likely outcome of a Trump victory is a total 50 state ban.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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If you hear next week that the RNC has "moderated" on abortion by dropping a 20-week-ban from the platform or somesuch, here's me telling you now that it doesn't mean anything close to "moderation" when it's these guys running the show.
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Grudgie the Whale
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Here’s something I bet many of you would agree with: I know a LOT of people who are moderate, hate Trump, are scared of Biden’s age, and simply do not believe Trump will do all the things he’s planning to do. They’ll almost all vote Biden but they don’t believe the danger is real.
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Philip Bump
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If the right is fighting a "second American Revolution," as Heritage's guy put it, it's worth identifying what they are rebelling against. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Grudgie the Whale
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Can’t begin to describe how Republicans are DEMANDING discrimination
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Assigned Media
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Hillary Cass, whose Cass Report has further damaged the ability of young trans people to access quality healthcare in the UK, is on a grand tour saying a bunch of ignorant transphobic things.
More from @alyssaur.bsky.social here:
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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jesse
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entirely unclear why the founders set up a system where the congress could remove someone from the office of the presidency for conduct that was absolutely, unquestionably and at all times legal
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Grudgie the Whale
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Young people notoriously want to ban abortion and never vote again
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Faine Greenwood
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The Heritage Foundation is absolutely making overt terrorist threats and everyone you know needs to be aware of this.
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Michael Hobbes
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I actually think people are getting a bit over their skis on freaking out over Biden! We're talking about one terrible debate performance, something that can be turned around with a few good TV appearances. And bowing out could hurt Dem polling more than it helps.
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Grudgie the Whale
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Got it. Yeah Trump is savvy enough to not write down “The Handmaids Tale”
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Grudgie the Whale
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I think there’s zero chance of Trump not banning abortion everywhere. He’s going to abandon the base that made him king and side with people who didn’t vote for him??? Utterly impossible.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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yep, it’s the obvious next move
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Daniel Schultz
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"Tell the United Nations that I will turn away the death ray when I have been paid...one million dollars." [Staff confer]
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Jacob T. Levy
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"I think they're wrong and the president shouldn't be a dictator. But if you're stuck with a dictator, do you want one who's going to use his dictatorship to overthrow elections and commit financial fraud, or one who's going to forgive student debt and fight pollution?"
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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"she can block" actually we can all block, check this out
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Vikram Bath
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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NO, ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!
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emptywheel
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I keep coming back to the passage of Washington's Farewell Address in which Roberts cloaked his bid for authoritarianism. Roberts took a passage warning against corruption, foreign influence, insurrection, and authoritarianism, & said, "sign me up!"
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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Popehat
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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election
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Kevin M. Kruse
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They don't even need to imagine! The individual literally named in the case is one of the worst people on the planet. He's got a track record of doing or attempting some of the worst shit imaginable. This isn't some distant hypothetical!
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Grudgie the Whale
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“Lower Courts must show fealty to SCOTUS over the Constitution. SCOTUS can rewrite the Constitution as they wish. Also lower courts can do anything they want if Republican.”
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Grudgie the Whale
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It’s very funny to me that lawyer types are saying “Merchan must interpret a discussion about Trump’s coerced bad sex as official” as if we didn’t just witness SCOTUS completely ignore the Constitution, the document they swore an oath to uphold
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Grudgie the Whale
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I don’t see why Merchan has to hew precisely to the SCOTUS dicta if SCOTUS doesn’t have to follow the Constitution at all. He can apply his own judgment to their dicta.
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Grudgie the Whale
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If I’m Merchan I’m interpreting literally all evidence in his trial was unofficial business and imposing the sentence. Make some appeal do the Supremes dirty work.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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The only two permutations of this that work are: 1) Biden stays in 2) Biden steps aside for Harris but remains in office Everything other permutation of this idea is either a fantasy or propaganda whose discussion is designed to get the Dems to lose the election and usher Trump into power.
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Grudgie the Whale
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I really think it’s up to Team Biden to honestly assess if he’s up to this. I’ve seen lots that make me think he is. I’ve seen at least one night that makes me think he’s not. I don’t think any of us really know. We are just projecting our desires.
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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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Grudgie the Whale
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Lots of Republicans want to go back to Jim Crow but there also some who want to back before Copernicus.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Something grimly funny about how like 10 years ago, every harmless crank who believed in stuff like flat earth and fake moon landing would either be radicalized into antisemitism or gradually revealed it, but now all these people are open antisemites and they stumble into flat earth
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Greg Pak
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I recommend taking five to ten minutes to put your US rep, US senators, and state and local elected officials into your phone contacts so you can instantly call them whenever you get mad, which will be every day from now until we die.
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Alexander Tin
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Last week, CDC's wastewater tracking of SARS-CoV-2 officially reached "high" across western states
Some of worst levels in this region have been in Hawaii, which has also been seeing COVID-19 ER visits higher than recent peaks
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-t...
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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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Nicholas Grossman
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When I say the Supreme Court went beyond law, I don’t mean that I disagree with their interpretation of any legal text. I mean their immunity grant isn’t based in any. The Constitution does not address it either way. They invented new powers from nothing.
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Grudgie the Whale
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I didn’t realize this and totally retract my thought that Biden should resign if he’s going to drop out
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Hayes Brown
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Quinta Jurecic
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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not
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Grudgie the Whale
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Goodbye Emoluments Clause too
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Pwnallthethings
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occurs to me that bribing the president is now /always/ legal, since in every case the only way to distinguish gratuity from bribe is via evidence that could never be admissible
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Grudgie the Whale
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They seem to enshrine the exact thing they claim is dangerous bsky.app/profile/grud...
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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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Grudgie the Whale
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Gee I wonder if Trump will be able to find anyone willing to commit murder for him
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Brendan Nyhan
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Reminder that POTUS can direct the DOJ not to prosecute the trigger puller and, failing that, pardon anyone who carries out his order and still faces federal charges. Utterly lawless.
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Hayes Brown
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New from me: the SCOTUS immunity decision gave Trump’s cronies all the ammunition they need to completely destroy the firewall between the White House and DOJ in a second term. That is, in a word, bad.
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Tom Scocca
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Also a little more subtly “SEAL Team Six” is the framework here because it was the original shockingly funny hypothetical but none of this military law stuff applies if he just sends the Marshals to kill someone—which, again, he already bragged he did
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Grudgie the Whale
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It’s true that SCOTUS can constrain things like this but it’s also true that POTUS can just have them killed or audited or imprisoned or whatever to keep them in line.
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Grudgie the Whale
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One only need to look at Mike Pence to see what Trump does to loyal soldiers who disobey one (historically) illegal order
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Grudgie the Whale
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While it’s woefully insufficient, I do think Sotomayor & Kagan should have resigned contingent on a successor being confirmed. Any path forward out of this mess relies on a Biden victory and subsequent Court reform.
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Grudgie the Whale
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It’s legitimately mind blowing that SCOTUS sought to protect Presidents from political prosecution while simultaneously giving them license to perform endless political prosecutions of all candidates to the office.
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