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The artist formerly known as Barrett's Privateer.

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I’m still optimistic.

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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

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Maybe this is a stupid question but I’ll ask anyway: why do the police need to have any involvement with automated traffic enforcement? Isn’t the whole point that it requires no actual officers to operate them?

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Elizabeth Tamny's avatar Elizabeth Tamny @etamny.bsky.social
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Coalition and alliance is everything. Be like a Harold Washington voter.

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I'm pretty sure the folks behind the wheel understand that Jaimie Dimon is not a viable replacement for Biden on the 2024 ticket, and I really do question the motive of anyone floating that as an even remote possibility.

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I'm in the "July 4th belongs to me more than the fascists" camp.

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George Pearkes's avatar George Pearkes @peark.es
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Meanwhile in France, polling models that take account of the dropouts post-first round suggest a completely different result than the as many as 300 RN seats that were predicted after the first round. Huge. *FRANCE'S LE PEN GROUP WOULD GET 190-220 SEATS: BFM CITES HARRIS

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If Democrats feel that this is a core threat, then what's the political education plan? Are they turning the document into an audiobook? Are they hosting Project 2025 teach ins? Are they creating a Democratic Project 2025? Like what's actually happening in reality?

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Today I am choosing to be optimistic. The only thing we know about the future is that it’s coming. There is still goodness, and kindness. There are more decent people in the world than jagoffs, and even some of the jagoffs are alright.

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If I understand correctly, due to the lack of tow points on that monstrosity if they didn’t move it in time the warranty is voided and it will cost 30k to repair the damage.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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oh, you might say, the president can’t issue corrupt pardons. ah. but john roberts says that not only can he issue corrupt pardons, but if he tells his staff they are corrupt in the course of issuing them, that evidence is inadmissible in the event that you could somehow prosecute the corruption

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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Yeah she's never bucked the party on a deciding vote.

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I’m even more worried about a unitary executive Vance or Scott

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She’s big on positioning herself as the kind of blue dog WA republican voters can pivot to with someone as nuts as Kent for an alternative. She also came out swinging against Student loan debt discharge and in the process alienated a lot of unions. Also voted Nay to raise the debt limit.

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Dave Weigel's avatar Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social
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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 Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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It's not hypocrisy. It's perjury.

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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Susan (George) Schorn's avatar Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social
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Apart from the humor here: Biden and Congress absolutely can and should be scrutinizing SCOTUS's budget with a microscope, and attaching alllll the strings.

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2017-2021 was such a profoundly chaotic and stupid era in American public life I don’t know why anyone would want the sequel, especially since the run time goes ad infinitum.

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The poor folks in the Yucatán Peninsula are about to get hit pretty hard.

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Steve Bowen's avatar Steve Bowen @stevebowen.bsky.social
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#Beryl: Earliest Category 5 hurricane on record in the Atlantic Ocean.

Previous record: Emily (July 17, 2005)

The 160 mph winds also ties Emily as the strongest Atlantic storm prior to August.

No need for hyperbole. Beryl has reset the early season Atlantic record book.

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Cheering ourselves up by watchint ID-4, Brent Spiner is the only other person in the same movie as Bill Pullman

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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No shame in feeling scared, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do. To me feeling one's feelings doesn't preclude taking action. These are confusing times. Give yourself some grace.

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Roxane Gay's avatar Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.

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T. Greg Doucette's avatar T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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Section 3. Any contrary provisions in this Constitution are deemed amended to give effect to this Amendment. 3/3

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T. Greg Doucette's avatar T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social
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Amendment XXVIII Section 1. The President may be prosecuted for any act not expressly authorized by law. Section 2. The authority of the President to grant reprieves and pardons shall not extend to himself or any accomplice. 2/

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FTC eventually gave up because the four managed to stonewall on discovery by hiding the fix in a proliferation of sacrificial brands to raise the barrier of entry for cereal startups. They didn’t breath easy until Alito, Roberts, and Thomas joined a 5-4 making price fixing impossible to prosecute.

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Breakfast cereal is a funny MacGuffin in this thread because the F.T.C. has historically scrutinized the industry going back to the Nixon administration. If you feel “price fixing” specifically isn’t an issue then regulation works! I didn’t name that problem, you did. www.nytimes.com/1971/06/21/a...

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Elizabeth Joh's avatar Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social
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Turns out you CAN order Seal Team Six like a Bond villain without consequences

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.

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Kevin, you keep finding new ways to throw the same libertarian talking points at me, and it's not becoming more convincing with each iteration. If we left it to the free market then a bunch of Kevins and John Galts would collude to price fix everything, rolling back the economy to the McKinley era.

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They have another debate in September, though. Isn’t that a second shot?

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