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Jon Farrington@jonfarrington.bsky.social |
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Engineer, oyster farmer, Chesapeake Bay
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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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The GOP push to destabilize the 2024 election has already begun, with lawsuits filed in a host of states around familiar Trump talking points: mail-in ballots, supposed voter-registration fraud, etc. “This is how you build a story that enables political interference in the post-election process." 🎁
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Justin Glawe
@justinglawe.bsky.social
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Washoe County is the most pivotal county in the swing state of Nevada. Yesterday, election deniers there refused to certify election results, paving the way for conspiracist officials across the country to do the same in November. www.american-doom.com/p/breaking-r...
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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I'm a single-issue voter. My single issue is that I'd like to continue voting.
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Rima I Anabtawi
@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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Just dropped: Forthcoming remarks from VP Kamala Harris on Project 2025 and Trump in Vegas
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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Can't get much more definitionally dehumanizing than "Unhumans"
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Boston Tom Levenson
@tomlevenson.bsky.social
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How many Trump Cabinet members/senior staff have called on the US to reject him? Hint: it's a much larger number than D officials vs. Biden and you'd think that putting that counter alongside this one would be the minimum of balance required of an ethical news venue.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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It's worth considering why the media - with many outlets funded by or directly owned by oil interests - does so many stories about difficulties of long road trips in EVs and so few about how you can fill your car up at home and never visit a gas station or charger ever. bsky.app/profile/tom4...
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Bellingcat
@bellingcat.com
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Latest: An analysis of open source evidence, as well as multiple missile experts, have pointed to a Russian launched Kh-101 cruise missile being the weapon that struck a children’s hospital in Kyiv www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/07...
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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One thing that's clear from the Biden/age story is this: NYT knows how to crusade when it wants to. And NYT is crusading against Biden's mental unfitness for office in a way it's just not doing with Trump.
On the pod, @whstancil.bsky.social and I break this all down:
newrepublic.com/article/1835...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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The Constitutional crisis. www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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wade of mutilation
@waderockett.bsky.social
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Donald Trump has good days and bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's lost it - he can't focus and his brains are leaking out his ears, but the press is very impressed with him because HE CAN STILL SHOUT
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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"RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS" is, to me, a deranged and instantly disqualifying thing for a presidential candidate to say, but on the other hand joe biden looks and sounds very old
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Jon Farrington
@jonfarrington.bsky.social
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If it'll make Trump a king, then he's all for it.
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Abusing the legal system is now a key tenet of conservative thought and action. They have unlimited money and wasting legal fees is the only downside of filing frivolous lawsuits (many of which will succeed anyway if they get in front of the right FedSoc judge)
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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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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Lurk du Soleil
@lurkdusoleil.bsky.social
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There is also every reason to think that this court will expand Trump v. U.S in his second term to extend immunity to those doing his bidding. I.e., “Our holding in Trump v. U.S. demands that government officials be able to enact the will of the executive without fear of criminal proceedings.”
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Media Matters for America
@mmfa.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Not only will Trump admin 2.0 be staffed with 100% MAGA loyalists eager to implement whatever Trump wants, but they also will have little reason to worry about laws that might constrain their most "enthusiastic" impulses. The norms long ago ceased constraining GOP behavior. Now the law won't either.
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Elliot Blake
@elliotblake.bsky.social
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He wasn’t going to be constrained by anything anyway, but this ruling gives him a veneer of lawfulness for his inevitable lawlessness should he return to office.
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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Chilling point from @rickhasen.bsky.social on SCOTUS ruling and second Trump term, on today's pod:
"You want to know how far this opinion goes? Just wait six months. He's going to get advice as to what his maximal power is. We may find out sooner rather than later how far these powers go."
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Dani Robbins
@danir.bsky.social
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“The Court’s conservative majority has revealed itself to be the most direct threat to American democracy and any Democrat who is not ready to shelve old fears about “court packing” and get serious about expanding and reforming the Court isn’t made for this moment” @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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hilzoy
@hilzoy.bsky.social
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Jamelle Bouie: gift link.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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We just may have to come to grips with the idea we have a king, like Charles I or James II or Richard II.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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reflecting on the immunity decision a bit, what the Court seems to be saying is that every element of the executive branch is at the President’s disposal, no matter what he wants to use it for. his motives don’t matter. the office is a weapon to be wielded however he sees fit.
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Nicholas Wallace
@wallace.bsky.social
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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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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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now he is seeking a second term knowing that whatever he does, any criminal prosecution will be hung up for literal years in court if it ever gets off the ground in the first place. what do you think he is going to try to do?
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Jon Farrington
@jonfarrington.bsky.social
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Those originalist jurists inventing and bestowing king-light powers to the presidency for candidate who vows to be a "dictator on day one" Only SC reform will end this madness; until then every general election will be a referendum on whether democracy remains on life support, or we pull the plug.
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Mark Chadbourn
@chadbourn.bsky.social
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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"This Court has an expansive view of Executive Authority that is at odds with the system of government this country has always had. We are a nation with no need of Kings, and this opinion is there to bring them back for one man who has already vowed to be a dictator. I reject it wholesale"
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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
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Watching “The Pelican Brief” with John Roberts and making him tell me of every plot point is legal or not
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Vince Mpls
@vincempls.bsky.social
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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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Micah
@rincewind.run
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I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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If we have more NYT/WaPo op-eds calling on Biden to exit than on SCOTUS mainlining an authoritarian presidency, that will give you a good read on where we are.
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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My friend and colleague Ken White has written a great thread describing some (but far from all) of the enormous problems with today's decision by Chief Justice Roberts granting Donald Trump criminal immunity on grounds never before accepted by any court. Today's decision threatens the Republic.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social
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Unitary-executive-brain likely means a lot of people won't recognize that this is a big deal. But, it is a BIG deal. Without DOJ independence, it can be used entirely as a very powerful political weapon by a President.
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Charles Gaba
@charlesgaba.bsky.social
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P.P.S. And of course you can keep it going by donating here:
blue24.org
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.
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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW
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