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Just S@justs.bsky.social |
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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social
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Kevin Roberts believes he’s a noble defender of “real America” against a totalitarian “woke,” “globalist” assault from without and within.
“Project 2025” is his declaration of war on multiracial pluralism.
I wrote about his extremist worldview here:
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thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/project-20...
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M.P. Broache
@mpbroache.bsky.social
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“Politics would be interesting again,” no politics should not be interesting, normal people should not have to invest time and energy into saving democracy because our institutions are collapsing, give me boring, mundane politics any day
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Just S
@justs.bsky.social
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What are you talking about? Since the debate, Biden, that same night, had meet-and-greets with supporters that lasted until 2 AM, hosted at least 1 campaign rally in NC, made a major speech about SCOTUS, scheduled another televised interview, and has appeared in front of the press EVERY SINGLE DAY.
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Not the most terrifying thing but perhaps the most infuriating: every single thing we said about these fascist Republican fucks has been proved out and all the people who assured us that what is happening would never happen smoothly pivoted to yes it's happening but it will be fine.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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"Politics would be interesting again" Oh, jeez, I'm sorry that SCOTUS Team 6 waterboarding democracy to pave the way for a felon-messiah-king who's vowing to use the presidency to deport millions and imprison his foes for treason hasn't been INTERESTING enough for you. Let me jangle some car keys.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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It rules that after inventing a completely arbitrary and selective "deeply rooted in our traditions" test, the Court completely abandoned it for the Trump immunity case so they wouldn't have to deal with how a bunch of 18th century dudes who worshipped Cicero would think about literal Caesarism.
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Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
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A true skeptic, a true rationalist, recognizes the evidence for flat earth and round earth is equivocal. Nullius in verba
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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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Yes, the convicted felon and insurrection organizer was also a close confidant of the Mr. Roarke of Pedophilia Island, which means we should focus even harder on Biden’s age
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I really thought I was cynical enough about the utter corruption of the right-wing bloc on SCOTUS, but it turns out I was still giving them too much respect.
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Just S
@justs.bsky.social
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The "we voted 4 years why haven't you fixed everything yet?" attitude is EXHAUSTING If Biden wins, democracy isn't saved forever in America, but we don't lose it either, and that seems important. Incremental progress may be slow & boring, but it's ONLY way forward in 50/50 representative government
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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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16 million more people with health care coverage Significantly lower health care expenses for seniors 700 million-some free Covid tests sent through the mail The most pro-union NLRB general counsel in history People convicted of domestic violence now banned from owning guns and so on
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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if your instinct is "calm down, surely this is an exaggeration," allow me to assure you that it's really not
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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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ryan cooper
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this is 100 percent right. the SCOTUS decision here is part of Project 2025, it is preemptively helping Trump consolidate his dictatorship crookedtimber.org/2024/07/02/s...
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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The CNN guy mocking Biden for signing a bill creating a national Parkinson's Disease initiative is really emblematic of how much these guys don't care what the stakes are for ordinary people.
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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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Mr. Grift
@djdunclive.bsky.social
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The trick here that so many are falling for is that there's a different candidate, some magical individual, that DOESN'T get a version of this treatment from a press that's only thought on the election is "Which president generates more ad revenue for us?"
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Hmmm. Let’s check in on the guys who kept calling everyone “groomers.”
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Just S
@justs.bsky.social
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In 75 years, we went from a nation that championed the prosecution of Nazis at Nuremberg, where "just following orders" was rejected as a defense for war crimes, to a country where crimes by the President are "official acts," and therefore fine and dandy. SCOUTS to US: Fascism is fine when we do it
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Micah
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the President's powers to help people's pocketbooks through, say, student loan forgiveness? overreach, tyrannical the President's powers to help his own pocketbook by selling pardons or using the awesome powers of his office to commit bald-faced fraud? approved, good, immune from prosecution
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Steve Benen
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In light of the Trump v. U.S. ruling, perhaps we should be chatting a bit more about the Republican's eagerness to amplify messages about "treason" and "military tribunals" for his perceived political foes? www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Just S
@justs.bsky.social
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If a "friend" started talking like this, I'd back away slowly, then lose their number. There's nothing about this that isn't weird, but baffled by obsession of these mostly straight transphobes convinced lesbians are either an endangered species or are somehow being "forced" to date trans women.
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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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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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This is the through-line for me, in all those Alliance Defending Freedom cases where a notional future inconvenience to some bigot overturns settled law and in this Trump ruling. The mere possibility of repercussions against any favored group outweighs all the rights everyone else currently has.
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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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Dave Levitan
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NYT, eight bluesky posts so far today. Trump is a king posts: 1 Biden is old posts: 3
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won
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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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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Putting the president above the law to any degree—and not just while in office, when there a practical argument, but out of office too—is so wrong, so undemocratic, so egregiously un-American. The Supreme Court declared a core American principle going back to George Washington no longer applies.
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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The DC indictment is structured in such a way as to demonstrate that Trump was way outside his duties in committing election fraud, so I think the majority of the case is safe in-theory. But we are continuing to backslide and this is up there for worst SCOTUS decisions in our lifetimes.
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Joseph Fink
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this is continuing the Republican project of treating certification of the vote as not a ceremonial and administrative process, but as an official opportunity to overrule the voters. this argument explicitly is saying that Pence interfering in the certification would be an official act
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Pretty sure "absolute immunity" comes from the same place as qualified immunity. The Republicans on the Supreme Court assume the person committing the crime that needs immunity is a Republican. And the victim... isn't.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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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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John Pfaff
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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In normal times, the Supreme Court would've smacked down claims of presidential immunity almost immediately, but we're not in normal times, and there's a reason why the conservative majority of Federalist Society bagmen waited until the last possible moment to provide this insane ruling.
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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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"The President is now a king above the law." - Sotomayor
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Micah
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I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop
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Ed Burmila
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The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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You heard it from NPR - this election is now a referendum on if Donald Trump can do crimes or not. Time to hammer that home to the American people!
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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American Democracy [1776-2024]. The killers are still at large. Eulogy by Justice Sotomayor.
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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The institutions of US democracy are hanging by a thread, and the Supreme Court just frayed it. I cannot emphasize this enough: the 2024 election is effectively an up-or-down vote on Constitutional democracy. All else is secondary, because democracy and rule of law are how we address other issues.
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Trump: I would like to see televised military tribunals in which my enemies like Liz Cheney are tried for treason and then put to death. New York Times Politics page 18 hours later: Democrats are in disarray!!!
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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Biggest campaign story ever: using a private email server that could hold top secrets but doesn’t and could be breached but wasn’t. Tiny story: stealing top secrets. Hiding them in a bathroom. Taking them to NJ. Showing them to foreigners. Meeting with foreign governments.
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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Democrats, worried about optics, are beginning day 4 of a panicky meltdown where they scream about how weak they are
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Aaron Rupar
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I feel like this should go without saying but the only sane & responsible vote is November is the one that prevents Trump from taking office & finishing off American democracy. Unless something extremely surprising happens, that choice will be Joe Biden. And in any event it will be the D nominee.
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC
@mattnegrin.bsky.social
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Pretty interesting though how almost every journalist immediately had/still has no problem calling Biden's debate performance "terrible," an open opinion (obviously a correct opinion), but they still can't call Trump's lies "lies" — today alone there was no "lie" on the networks, only "falsehoods"
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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social
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It is wildly, unquestionably maddening how the Republican nominee is a widely and intensely loathed figure who is also a convicted criminal who is awaiting trial for stealing state secrets & staging a bloody coup attempt, and oh by the way he got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed & oversaw…
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