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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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The fun thing about racists who think Black people get handed jobs they don’t deserve is that they have almost always been handed jobs they don’t deserve
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Puff the Magic Hater
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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I don't get it when people point out that Project 2025 is "nothing new." Yes, obviously, right-wingers have been fanatics for decades. They were blowing up abortion clinics and shooting doctors when I was a kid. But, as you may have noticed, their political vision has kind of been coming together.
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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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PCFclub
@pcfclub.bsky.social
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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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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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“Now that we know felons can be white, we’re massive fans of crime.”
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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2 of the top 3 candidates for the US presidency have shown a repeated willingness to believe any conspiracy dangled in front of them like a set of keys, including wildly anti-american ones, which are straightforward cognitive deficiencies for what we should demand in a president. neither are biden.
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kellyverdeck
@kellyverdeck.bsky.social
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This is an amazing essay, sir. I don't know how I missed it the first time around.
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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A common lament is there is no civility left these days, because those on the “left” refuse to be friends with the “right" over "political views."
This implies something startling: conservatives want to be friends with the rest of us. Had you realized?
www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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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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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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If Trump were to personally shoot someone on Fifth Avenue: Not immune. (Probably. Maybe.) If he were to order the army to massacre thousands on Fifth Avenue: Immune. (Very clearly, under the decision.) But from a constitutional perspective, the latter is the grave danger to guard against.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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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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Jacob T. Levy
@jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Can't be impeached because presidential impeachment has been a dead letter since parties came into existence. Can't be disqualified from office. And can't be prosecuted for crimes committed under color of office.
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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
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Robert Black
@hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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The Framers: *literally wrote many, many passages that you would swear on your life were prophetic visions of Donald J. Trump, and how such a figure must be guarded against at all costs* John Roberts: surely what they wanted is for this uniquely lawless figure to be placed above the law
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Sam
@very-simple.com
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So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!
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kellyverdeck
@kellyverdeck.bsky.social
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It is.. not great.
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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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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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kellyverdeck
@kellyverdeck.bsky.social
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See, they only want to limit government insofar as it impedes their own worst impulses. Otherwise it’s jackboots, jackboots everywhere.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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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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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.
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amdiamanti
@amdiamanti.bsky.social
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I would joke that they've declared the Declaration of Independence unconstitutional, but it doesn't feel like a joke. These were all "official acts" as well.
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Lee
@leer.bsky.social
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Re-designed the Virginia state flag to comply with the Supreme Court's decision.
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Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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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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K.B. Spangler
@kbspangler.com
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I am almost always of the opinion that we must carefully and methodologically dismantle systems of oppression as smashing them outright will damage those who are trapped within them, but on days like today, it's smashy-smashy time, bitches, lfg.
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Blake Emerson
@blakeprof.bsky.social
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SCOTUS last week: Chevron is overruled because it’s our job to interpret law! Not the executive branch! SCOTUS today: who’s to say if the president behaved lawfully! 🤷♀️
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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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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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I know these are polarizing times, but if you take the time to talk to American conservatives and center-right types and really listen to what they believe is right and just and good, they sure do sound like the worst people on the planet .
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Omri Marian
@omrimarian.bsky.social
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When people tell you "our institutions will hold" remind them that SCOTUS already fell, and that the presidency barely survived Jan. 6.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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my actual prediction is that the debate will be mostly boring, trump will throw a *lot* of horseshit cheap shots and get away with it, biden will stumble over his words a few times but otherwise clearly win it, and it’ll get called a tired draw
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The requirement forces Oklahoma teachers to "reference" the role of the Ten Commandments in America's founding, so as a historian & teacher, let me offer this suggestion: "Although some idiots today insist that the Founding Fathers were inspired by the Ten Commandments, they absolutely were not."
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kellyverdeck
@kellyverdeck.bsky.social
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Justin Garrison
@justingarrison.com
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This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social
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1/9 Fascists are not civil, but they demand that you be civil. Fascists crush up feelings of personal resentment and snort it in lines, like cocaine. Aggrievement is their drug.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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"Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period."
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Will Burrows 🖖🍞🥀
@dwighttokem.bsky.social
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Just learned the Spanish version of "righty tighty, lefty loosey" translates as "the right oppresses, the left liberates" and holy shit that goes hard.
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Lupita Nihongo
@otsumamiboy.bsky.social
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Giving a cop the mugshot treatment because he arrested a rich person who was guilty and acting like that’s totally normal should be a moment that open’s people’s eyes to the jig.
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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Rs: We gotta put biblical rules in schools Me: Holy shit! Like a debt jubilee every 7 years? Rs: Haha, no, not that one Me: like "you shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt"? Rs: Hahaha not that one either Me: so, uh, which rules exactly? Rs: Oh, you know the ones
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i'm just patrick, deep down
@ouisequitur.bsky.social
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hell yeah north side
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