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PCFclub
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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.
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Triplett-Behrakis Professor of Pharmacology, University of Mississippi School of Pharmacy. Director, Glycoscience Center of Research Excellence. CTO, GenNext Technologies. Analytical and physical biochemist.
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PCFclub
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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.
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Kevin Collins
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This — Project 2025, the Supreme Court’s legalistic usurpation of power, and Trump’s current rhetoric on the campaign trail — can only be understood as an attack on our Constitutional government itself, less violent means than those used in Jan 6 but no less threatening to our democratic republic
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Joshua Sharp
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This skeet brought to you by: Nebula.
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Popehat
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Trump can make the thugs willing to do his bidding immune to federal prosecution. Not to bullets, though.
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Joshua Sharp
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Conversation over. Time to get to work.
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Nicholas Wallace
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Anonymous sourcing for the guy who says “I’m mad because the president didn’t call me on my birthday.” You’re just a gossip column now
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Amanda Marcotte
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Project 2025 was from the Chris Rufo school of fascist communications, where you discuss your evil schemes out loud, confident the "normies" are not paying enough attention to notice.
But now it seems less politically engaged people are taking notice.
www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
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Pavel
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Neil Stenhouse
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One thing about the “Why I don’t vote” guy that may be especially interesting to journalists from the Washington Post and other outlets is that according to the public Michigan voter file, apparently he does vote
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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guess they have to update the citizen test now
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conor
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i cannot stress how relieving it is to see the president of a major creative tech company like nintendo voice concerns about generative ai and say they’re not interested
www.tweaktown.com/news/99109/n...
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Jonathan Ladd
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Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 69
avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
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skelly
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I know this is a boring point to make but it fucking kills me that one side is saying "we'll bring back 12 hour days, child labor, and Jim Crow" and the other side is saying "you can continue to grill on Sundays with your neighbors, who might look different to you" and it's a 50/50 split
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Joshua Sharp
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Then why do it? That's what I don't get. He's set for life. No one could knock him off his pedestal if they tried. Why not do exactly what you want? Is he going for gratuities, now that they're legal?
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Joshua Sharp
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Why? Deport the judges. Their branch caused this mess.
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Joshua Sharp
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Holy shit, this is evil. And this is an Obama special. Finished during Trump, but started under Obama's admin. What is wrong with us?
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Joshua Sharp
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If you don't want to be part of the "cult of science" then stop using all our stuff.
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ProPublica
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The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system.
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ProPublica
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The NYPD restored more than 2,000 missing discipline records to its public database of uniformed officers, weeks after ProPublica revealed data reliability issues. But it also removed case numbers, making future oversight more difficult.
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Eileen Clancy
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Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today.
Short thread with video on Twitter:
x.com/LiteraryMous...
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Popehat
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Classic American political dialogue is premised on the idea that we share fundamental values but disagree on how best to promote them. I haven’t believed this for a while. Other than “I prefer to be alive and not dead” and “I like pudding,” I do not share values with these people.
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Daniel Feldman
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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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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David_j_roth
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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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🌸Abbey🌸
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"The Court’s curious and convoluted majority opinion turns the Constitution’s text and structure inside out and upside down, saying things that are flatly contradicted by the document’s unambiguous letter and obvious spirit."
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Joshua J. Friedman
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I think people are overreading that Jim Clyburn quote x.com/MSNBC/status...
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Paul Rosenberg
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So, today's decision has even LESS support than Dobbs:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...
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Joshua Sharp
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Thank God we were able to convince Gregg Berhalter to stay...
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Joshua Sharp
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That's why he has to wear all the shirts!
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Joshua Sharp
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The best response: "I could now have you killed for asking that question, and that's the question you want to ask me?"
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Rachel Shelden
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Whether you agree as to whether this is the most dangerous Court since Taney's (the case @kevinmkruse.bsky.social makes here) there's another key point about the comparison:
Taney's Court had only a fraction of the power and authority over American politics & society that Roberts' Court does 1/
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Popehat
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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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Popehat
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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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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Bradford Vivian
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Didn’t take long.
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Taniel
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."
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Radley Balko
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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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Radley Balko
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Good point from Sotomayor here. By barring prosecutors from probing a president's intent, Roberts renders the entire "official vs. unofficial" distinction meaningless.
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Faine Greenwood
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I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
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Joshua Sharp
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Yup. And even if we separated peacefully, you'd be left with two (or more) nuclear powers nursing a rough break-up.
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Joshua Sharp
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If we had another founding, I don't think we would come out of it with one country.
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Micah
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the decision lays out - explicitly in the case of the DOJ and implicitly in case of the military - that a president can order the prosecution of or a military strike on anyone he doesn’t like and fire anyone who doesn’t comply until he finds someone who will he may not be prosecuted for this
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Joshua Sharp
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It's important to point out: the Founders knew how to give people immunity for official acts. It's there in the Speech and Debate Clause. You don't need to look for it in the penumbras and emanations of the Constitution. The fact that they made Congress immune and not the President means something
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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all of this for donald fucking trump of all people
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Lydia Polgreen
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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Joshua Sharp
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I am a pretty mild-mannered Democrat. I think Biden should capture the SCOTUS majority as well as Trump and hold them as enemy combatants. I agree with you, but I think the limit here isn't the Dem electorate, it's the Dem establishment.
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Don Zeko
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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Joshua Sharp
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Fuck opening an investigation. Raid them, capture them and hold them in Guantanamo as enemy combatants. Everybody wants to play with other people's money. Time for these fuckers to have some skin in the game themselves.
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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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