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Jon Pennington@jonpennington.bsky.social |
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Joking aside, one of the things Harris-as-candidate can do that Biden-as-candidate cannot is she can take credit for good things the admin does, distance herself from bad or even just unpopular things, and articulate a specific vision of improvement if elected
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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[type of guy who can’t manage a 20 person discord without it imploding into petty feuds voice]: i am going to lead a revolution of the workers
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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…but I’m sorry. President Trump already tried to order his pentagon to do it! It’s not hysterics or resistance fan fic, the concerns are rooted in Things That Factually Occurred. Would Trump order the assassination of chuck Schumer? I wouldn’t bet on it. But I don’t feel like rolling the dice
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary…
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I would also absolutely bet *money* on a second Trump regime adopting the usual best practice of fascist regimes - beginning to murder journalists.
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
@sjshancoxli.bsky.social
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so much of the power and the terror of the Republican party comes from the sclerotic, antidemocratic features of the American system trump has always lost the popular vote! if that meant he *actually* lost we'd be living in a different world!
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li
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really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering
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Obi Wan Kenoblerone
@somewelshmook.bsky.social
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This is the first headline I found after looking it up. I mean, what the fuck. edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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Somebody found it. "Gödel's Loophole is a supposed "inner contradiction" in the U.S. Constitution which Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and analytic philosopher Kurt Gödel postulated in 1947. The loophole would permit American democracy to be legally turned into a dictatorship."
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David
@scotinus.bsky.social
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Ironic much? (Gifted article)
I'm rather sick of this founding father "genius" thing. The system they created just made the King they never wanted.
And don't get me started on the wording of the 2nd amendment or the structure of the Senate.
wapo.st/3zzMk9f
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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NEW: "Even where the court appears to give power to someone else, be sure to look behind the curtain and see if Chief Justice John Roberts still has his hands on the strings." This afternoon, at Law Dork —>
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Stephen Miller already on the horn finding her a place in the Trump Administration
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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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S Peter Davis
@speterdavis.com
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Biden vs Trump when the Supreme Court grants the president limitless power:
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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Better start acting like we're in a constitutional crisis, because we're deep in it.
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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Double Royale with Cheese
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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This is concerning. "From 10am to 4pm, Biden is dependably engaged — and many of his public events in front of cameras are held within those hours. Outside of that time range or while traveling abroad, Biden is more likely to have verbal miscues and become fatigued, aides told Axios."
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Corey Rayburn Yung
@coreyryung.bsky.social
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I'm still in the Democrats need to chill the fuck out and let Biden recover camp. But, the increasing number of media stories about Biden's brain being silly putty may make that impossible. At which point, the idea that Biden is too old to win becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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Was that Tancredo or some other weirdo?
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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I worked as a DoD contractor where I had to administer surveys at the Air Force Academy. In just about every supply closet I went into, there was some box there with a stack of mini-bibles.
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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The military takes all comers who meet certain basic requirements. Police don't. Military members are forced to stick together if they don't like each other culturally or ideologically. Police can purge dissenters & square pegs.
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Lot of people on here seem to assume that the US military is basically as bad as US police when it comes to “being totally dominated by frothing MAGA freaks.” This is absolutely NOT the case.
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Megan Carpentier
@megancarpentier.bsky.social
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“I had a very, very rambunctious youth.” He was 44 at the time his then-nanny says he pinned her in a pantry and groped her.
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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Do the French even have a term for "double down"?
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Chad Loder
@chadloder.bsky.social
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Unthinkable in American politics. (Not the Nazi part, the withdrawing part)
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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The idea that these are the top stories when the Supreme Court blew up the constitution yesterday makes me want to scream and cry forever.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Popehat
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There is no depth to which Jonathan Turley will not sink. He’ll say that Trump will never do the outrageous things Trump threatens to do, and that there are laws in place to prevent it, then when Trump does them he will say the laws don’t apply and that Trump was forced to do the things by woke.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Yes, it seems to be a non-issue that 78-year-old Donald Trump was incapable of staying awake during his own criminal trial. He's a spring chicken, you see, the very picture of youthful vigor.
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.
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pee wee herman-palladino
@markpopham.bsky.social
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A huge winning message for the Democrats is "you will not have to think about this guy ever again"
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Bridget Copley PhD
@moppety.bsky.social
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Speaking as a semanticist, it's wild to me that they are phrasing it in terms of whether an *act* is characterized as "official", when what they seem to actually be talking about is whether there exists a *description* of the act that can be characterized as "official".
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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I think there’s a line Ed Wood where Bela Lugosi referred to Karloff as a “limey bastard,” which alludes to how Lugosi was a legit Eastern European & Karloff was merely pretending to be.
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caramida (he/they)
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Yeah. It’s one of those, “who writes this stuff?,” moments in US history. Like the Seven-of-Nine-led-to-the-Obama-presidency story.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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TIL that the New Wave band DEVO was formed in response to the Kent State shootings. In 1970, co-founders Gerald Casale and Bob Lewis got serious about their idea of the "de-evolution" of the human race after Casale's friends Jeffrey Miller & Allison Krause were killed by OH national guards.
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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it’s funny because local politics are mostly unaffected since there’s no such thing as a local meme going viral. but national politics are propelled by whatever ideas are getting dumped into people’s heads during their four-hour daily TikTok or Facebook sessions
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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our whole society is basically organized around the principle of meme virality now. reality just conforms to whatever makes reporters go “🚨🚨🚨” on Twitter. we’d have elected The Dress president if we could have
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Will Stancil
@whstancil.bsky.social
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what’s really going to be wild is if we ditch a sitting president for the second time in history based on a fullbore media and social media freakout and then everyone goes back to claiming media narratives don’t matter in politics
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency
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ONeillJones
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule
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Charles Johnson
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Yes, it’s not an academic question; Trump wanted the military to commit mass murder at his command. Now he could actually give that order and face no consequences.
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Jon Pennington
@jonpennington.bsky.social
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One party winning forever isn’t particularly small-d democratic either. What makes a polity a democracy is that everybody loses an election sometimes & no one is in power forever.
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Micah
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“democrats have to win every election forever” is not a sustainable solution and it is quite literally the one we are facing unless we break the power of this court
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Popehat
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/3 5 or 6 SCOTUS judges, who normally love harmless error like a 15-year-old-boy loves a tube sock, will find that it doesn’t apply to introduction of evidence of Presidentially-immune acts, and that the NY court didn’t analyze official acts doctrine right and remand for more proceedings.
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Popehat
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Prediction: Trump will argue that his NY conviction must be overturned because the court admitted evidence of conversations he had with his staff while President in order to prove knowledge and intent. He will argue those conversations were “official acts.” Judge Merchan and higher NY courts …./1
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Two things can be true: 1. The mental acuity of the person with the nuclear codes is a BIG deal. The media should report on it. Full stop. 2. The threat to democracy is also real and the overall balance of coverage must take that context into account.
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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the New York Times has descended into total nihilism; it doesn't give a damn about the truth, only about damaging Democrats and helping Trump. So it presents a video it acknowledges to be misleadingly edited as evidence for its thesis.
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Jeffrey Vagle
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Great piece from @gshans.bsky.social on NetChoice cases.
Worth repeating: "one can’t be too cynical about the Fifth Circuit’s interest in ignoring First Amendment precedent (and any other precedent) when it wants to pursue its own [right wing] political goals"
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/supre...
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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"It is one thing for an aspiring president to promise lawlessness. The only way to deliver on that promise is with a willing and cooperative court. It appears that Mr. Trump has one."
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