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Hunter@hunterub.bsky.social |
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Humorist, satirist, and political commentator, www.unchartedblue.com
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Hunter
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Our free press: "Biden must withdraw from the race because democracy is more important than one man's ego." Okay, so what's the threat to democracy? "We can't tell you because if we did then the people threatening it would stop giving us quotes." Kind of a mixed message tbh!
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Hunter
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It feels like the news outlets demanding Biden's resignation "for the good of the nation" ought to have enough courage to fight for the good of the nation themselves, rather than drowning us in both-sideism and rote repetition of the lies that have brought us here. But cowardice rules the day.
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Hunter
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This is just tabloid stuff from the Times at this point. There's still no real evidence that Biden's debate performance was anything more than one bad night, but we're now in day whatever of this ridiculous Times wishcasting. Trump getting convicted of a raft of felonies bored them to tears, tho.
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Hunter
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I was going to reanimate George Washington's dusty corpse and trebuchet him into John Roberts' yard so George could have a few words with him but no, Erick Erickson says we can't have nice things.
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Hunter
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"I didn't want to do a fascism but you were gonna do woke stuff."
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Joel Mathis
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I've been thinking about this post from the Claremont Institute, a Trumpist think tank, ever since the SCOTUS immunity ruling. Wonder what "unpleasant things" the Trumpists have in mind. open.substack.com/pub/joelmmat...
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
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I just counted home page stories. The Daily Caller has five anti-Biden and six pro-Trump stories. The New York Times has seven anti-Biden stories and three that give this style of both-sides treatment to Trump. The Times really is sprinting off a cliff to satisfy their nepo-publisher’s vendetta.
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Hunter
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"It's not fascism because we won't be killing anybody unless, of course, you make us."
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hilzoy
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Ordering this withdrawal is an official act, since the President is Commander in Chief. His motives for doing so, and in particular any connection to the recent deposit from the government of Cuba, are inadmissible. So: yes.
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Hunter
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Okay, fine, it turns out there are some jobs that can easily be done by AI.
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Neil Stenhouse
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I have been saying since February that major media are 100% devoted to But Her Emails 2, but I didnt imagine it would get this bad. The day after SCOTUS stops the law applying to Trump, we have to scroll thru 4 fucking top stories on “Biden old” & an ad before getting to anything on SCOTUS decision
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Hunter
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Well the important part is that they made their already nearly unusable product even worse so bonuses all around I guess.
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southpaw
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After the Court’s decision yesterday, I think there’s an argument from necessity for Biden seizing Trump and trying him by military tribunal, given the sudden unavailability of Article III courts. Plus, itʼs just the sort of thing they’ve authorized an active and energetic chief executive to do.
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Hunter
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I am still not seeing evidence of Biden's supposed deterioration aside from one clearly under-the-weather performance. He's made several appearances since then and was fine? Sure he's damn old, but stuttering problems can be severe when sick. Wary of claiming it's a wider cognitive issue.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Hunter
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I mean you'd have to be a stone cold sucker to think that our legal system still allows consequences against rich or powerful people. "Not a chance" is the only through line of Roberts court decisions.
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Jonathan Ladd
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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.
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Hunter
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I really think Roberts is a Kavanaugh-level dullard. His opinions are utterly vapid, just whatever he has to do to get to the desired endpoint. If the facts of the case don't support that endpoint he gets all vague and pretends the facts are mysterious or unknowable. A total hack.
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Hunter
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Kav/Alito/Thomas may be the biggest examples of Failing Up our culture has ever produced. Their opinions are always high school book report drivel--ffs, don't they have whole legal teams behind them to ensure they DIDN'T embarrass themselves? How are their clerks not drinking themselves to death?
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Hunter
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It's wild how the SCOTUS 6 can so reliably produce half-assed, opinions that follow no consistent string of logic and are pocked with factual errors but still consider themselves brilliant legal minds. Roberts is clown shoes in his opinions but he's still super sure he comes off as dignified.
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Hunter
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This. Effing. Paper.
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Mitchell Epner
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When Chief Justice Roberts was nominated, many "wise people" in DC said that Democrats should be re-assured, because John Roberts was "an institutionalist before he was a partisan." If that ever was true (and I doubt it was), it is not true today. Today's Trump decision is pure partisanship.
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Seth D. Michaels
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maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not
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Tom Scocca
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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement
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Hunter
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Really think it's worth gaming out an immediate Biden move to expand the court. Like, announcing it this week. Somebody explain to me what the downside would be, because I'm not seeing it. You're not gonna make GOP anger any worse. Public hates SCOTUS with a passion right now. Go for it.
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Julia Azari
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basically making a coup legal as long as you discuss it with your vice president. moreover, this way of argumentation that ignores obvious context and treats all reasoning like we're in a law school seminar is just straight-up gaslighting.
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Julia Azari
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i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate
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Hunter
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While actual lawyers around here are freaking out about SCOTUS effectively immunizing criminal acts by a POTUS, the AP blasts out a thickheaded and grossly misleading piece that was clearly written in advance. good god.
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Don Moynihan
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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Hunter
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I mean, if an insurrection is within the bounds of presidential power what the hell wouldn't be.
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Hunter
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Help me out here, if a US president decided to send the national guard in to arrest members of the Supreme Court and burn that damn building to the ground is that cool now or still nah.
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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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earlyworm
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THEY’RE AT IT, AGAIN
Why can’t The New York Times stop trying to elect Donald Trump?
www.theframelab.org/is-the-press...
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Hunter
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Fact checking is literally the only purpose of journalism. A political system in which the powerful are allowed to lie at will and the supposed free press considers their only job to be presenting the lies with music and fancy graphics is already three quarters of the way to authoritarianism.
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Hunter
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The NYT, sure. The NYT has propped up Trump more than any "straight" news outlet in America, they def think a night of NyQuil Brain is more disqualifying than 34 felonies. That's what they think 'balance' means.
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Hunter
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I admit I'm just not getting the freakout. Biden was sick and looked/sounded like crap. This is... not an unusual human event, and a single evening of it does not count as permanent disability. If it keeps happening, sure, but one evening of NyQuil Brain hardly seems pull-the-fire-alarm material.
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gamera obscura
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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.
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Hunter
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NYT has always been pretty transparent in their attempts to legitimize Trump's corruption of democratic values but Trump's opponent has one bad debate night and they flood the zone with op-eds like they're storming the beaches of Normandy. Endless bad faith. Endless.
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Hunter
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There has never, not once, been similar panic from the NYT over the Republicans standing behind a seditionist who tried to overthrow the government, is a convicted felon, lies so egregiously that experts can't decide if he's in his right mind, and promises to jail his enemies if elected.
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Hunter
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The idea that people who went to law school know everything and people who went to any other kind of school know nothing is pretty much the only consistent opinion you're ever going to get from people who went to law school.
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Hunter
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I keep being told by supposed AI experts that this is impossible because the AI doesn't even store the works it slurps up, it just uses them to build networks of abstract tokens that don't reflect the original works at all. So much of this stuff is just a stone-cold scam.
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Hunter
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I imagine there's soon going to be a lot of federal judges driving around in luxury cars and buying new vacation homes.
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Hunter
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Roberts: And so this court decides that we, rather than scientific or policy experts, will hold all regulatory power. In unrelated news, it is legal to bribe us now. Kavanaugh: [Reaches under the bench, sets out little wicker tray] Kagan: Where ... where did you even get that. Kavanaugh: Church.
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Hunter
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CNN gave us all a crash course in how democracies fall, and if anything they seem proud of themselves for it.
www.unchartedblue.com/sleepwalking...
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Gabe OrtĂz
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In 2021 alone, undocumented-led households “contributed $30.8 billion in total taxes, including $18.6 billion in federal income taxes and $12.2 billion in state and local taxes, based on data from the American Community Survey,” Immigration Impact said: americasvoice.org/blog/on-tax-...
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Hunter
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This is the first presidential debate in many years that I don't have to watch for work reasons and I am going to not watch it so hard.
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southpaw
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The Washington Post makes it sound like the Supreme Court ruled on the substance of the case, but it hasn’t. And lower courts now must take it up again. All the Justices did was pluck themselves out of the situation and fly off like the Lorax.
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Kingfisher & Wombat
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Every climate scientist I know reacted to this bill like it was Christmas and Mardi Gras rolled into one, and hardly anybody has any idea it happened at all.
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Lowering the Bar
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These idiots will be saying “it can’t happen here” right up until it happens here. Hey execs, once you allow dictatorship, sooner or later you’ll get a left-wing dictatorship, and then you’ll understand why you shouldn’t have done that. I mean, Jesus, read a book.
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Hunter
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I mean Netanyahu aligned himself with far-right cranks calling for 'true solutions' that are plainly genocidal and which dismiss mass starvation because "there are no innocent civilians" but we're supposed to let that slide to instead focus on whichever college dumbass did a dumbass thing today.
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