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Notorious Football Manager save scummer. Enjoyer of university press sales. Charles Sumner and Thad Stevens were right.

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Were any other reality shows specifically designed as a vehicle to build up the mythology of its host? I can’t think of any

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Gregory Hays's avatar Gregory Hays @aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

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Andrew Parker's avatar Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social
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Good to see @nytimes.com keeping up its stellar record of letting the far-right use them to launder lies into circulation without even the barest oversight to ensure the dude writing “I don’t vote” does not, in fact, consistently vote

All the news that’s fit to print, and some propaganda for flavor

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Jason Kirk (buy my novel)'s avatar Jason Kirk (buy my novel) @jasonkirk.fyi
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Joe Biden will compete in this weekend's WWE Money in the Bank

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“Like obviously this kind of obsession with one’s career is corrosive to feminist principles BUT it’s good that she doesn’t feel compelled to pretend she doesn’t have a career …”

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*tying myself in knots trying to figure out if this is a sign of feminist progress*

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🏳️‍🌈Gosh Darnit of the New Jersey Darnits😷's avatar 🏳️‍🌈Gosh Darnit of the New Jersey Darnits😷 @goshdarn.bsky.social
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The number of Google searches for Project 2025 skyrocketed after Taraji P. Henson mentioned it during her BET Awards appearance and encouraged the audience watching to Google it. That single black woman did more for liberal causes than all the current DNC leaders and the candidates themselves.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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This is pretty much where I am at, although I still have concerns about who certifies the electoral votes (I think Harris can still do this if Biden doesn’t resign?) and how hard the legacy media will immediately turn their guns on her

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Lmao at the idea of any piece discussing a contested convention without mentioning the ‘68 disaster as “clearly thought through.” As someone else pointed out, today’s DNC delegates were not selected for their negotiating acumen and are even less prepared to conduct the process than the ‘68 delegates

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The entire philosophy of the right wing legal community can be summarized as follows: “A Republican president is elected as king; a Democratic president is elected as secretary”

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I agree that she was not weak, but I’ll respectfully suggest that her history as Bill’s aide-de-camp and involvement with Wal-Mart showed her to be less progressive on labor issues than Biden.

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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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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Tom Pepinsky's avatar Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.bsky.social
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Americanists and lawyers ask, what does the Constitution say? Comparativists ask, who controls the High Court, the militia, and the clerics?

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Dave Weigel's avatar Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social
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The robust conservative media infrastructure has retconned 2016: The scandal accusations against Trump were, in retrospect, attempts to steal the election of the legitimate president. The candidate who kept getting whacked by the FBI and hackers? Yeah she tried to rig it

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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Canada Day is a good day to appreciate the virtues of constitutional monarchy as a system that sharply divides the roles "sovereign who is above the law" and "partisan governing executive facing reelection who is in in charge of the armed forces, the intelligence & prosecutorial agencies, etc."

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.

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The sad part is that I generally liked him in the years leading up to 2016. He’d grown up in the Memphis area, served as a Dem volunteer in 2008 and even served as a Public Defender for a bit after law school. He just went full “Jacobin Mag” after moving to the West Coast.

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I had a lawyer (white, male, trying to break into the cannabis industry in CA) tell me that on FB in 2016.

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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Saying someone is presumptively immune from prosecution then barring the introduction of evidence of their mental state is a neat trick.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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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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Lily Mason's avatar Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social
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A convicted felon is applying for the only job in the world that lets him do as many crimes as he wants.

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They’ll be back as soon as the Fifth Circuit gets reversed on some insane holding next term. Gotta move that Overton window

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You need both chambers to pass legislation expanding the Court.

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Later Roberts makes it clear that you get immunity when conspiring with your Acting Attorney General

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar Michael Tae Sweeney @mtsw.bsky.social
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The coup continues, the Gang of Six in the vanguard.

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Seth Cotlar's avatar Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Trump "re-truthed" this meme yesterday. But look, whatever you do, don't call it fascism.

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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at this point the main reason i think there’s little upside in biden dropping out is that the only real option is Harris and the media hates her even more than it hates him

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“I may have doubts about Joe Biden, but lemme tell you, I believe in Joe Hendry!”

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Benjamin Dreyer's avatar Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.bsky.social
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I was perhaps lukewarm about Pres. Humphrey's second term, but the first was absolutely solid.

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At one point I also pulled up the Gavin Newsome rug photo and did a variation on the Killmonger “is this your king?” challenge

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lol, my SO privately warned her mother not to start in on her “Biden should drop out” bit when talking to me. She did it anyway and got a 20-min rant on political fanfiction, the 1968 convention, Americans for Progress hypothetical matchups, Univision focus groups, and black TikTok.

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Seth Masket's avatar Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social
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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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Ryan Brazell's avatar Ryan Brazell @ryanbrazell.bsky.social
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146 of 151 breast reductions performed on minors in 2019 were on cisgender boys.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social
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I'm calling on Arthur Gregg Sulzberger to step down as publisher of The New York Times. his recent performance proves he isn't up to the task

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Mark Lemley's avatar Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social
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This is the actual, original article The Imperial Supreme Court. Accept no imitations from the New York Times, which decided to take the title and idea without attribution (after turning down my op ed with the same title, no less)

harvardlawreview.org/forum/vol-13...

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Bumping this earlier thread about Biden’s comparative strengths as a candidate in light of the NYT nonsense

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these numbers are basically vindication of one of my points in the NYT conversation, which is that whoever is the nominee inherits Biden’s position for the simple reason that they will be standard-bearers for the Biden administration.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I think there's a bit of irony to the fact that them all calling on Biden to step aside /actually/ shows they understand the risk of Trump, but are aggressively suppressing it. But the reason they're worried about Biden's performance /is/ because they are, if they would admit it, worried about Trump

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Tristan Snell's avatar Tristan Snell @tristansnell.bsky.social
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Clarence Thomas the last 20 years: 2005 - Chevron is correct 2005-2024 - receives $4 million in secret gifts from real estate developers and polluters and other right-wingers who’ve made reversing Chevron one of their highest priorities 2024 - Chevron is wrong

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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It’s nice when somebody actually does the assigned reading

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Patrick Fessenbecker's avatar Patrick Fessenbecker @pfessenbecker.bsky.social
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Don't be fooled by the bland headline, Jamelle absolutely bodies Bret Stephens in this conversation. A representative bit:

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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Even as someone immersed in it for research, I don't any of us has fully grokked how quickly Christian nationalism has been, and is being, mainstreamed.

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