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Jim Lippard@lippard.bsky.social |
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I like infosec (esp. threat intelligence), history and philosophy of science and technology, skepticism. Mastodon: infosec.exchange/@lippard
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Chris Geidner
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Impeachment, criminal investigation, and court expansion — oh my! Congressional Democrats are pushing back, hard, against the Supreme Court's ethical lapses and extremism.
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Jim Lippard
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Even though the WH has explained his visits in an official statement and it had absolutely nothing to do with the Parkinson's bill?
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Jim Lippard
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"Many military personnel experience neurological issues related to their service, and Dr. Cannard regularly visits the WHMU as part of this General Neurology Practice."
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Jim Lippard
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They say that he also made visits to treat other WH staff.
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Jim Lippard
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White House has made liars out of everyone claiming Dr. Cannard was there to work on a bill, since they issued a statement saying that three of his visits were for a neurological component of Biden's annual physical exam.
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Jim Lippard
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"It’s more likely that the president secretly has Parkinson’s?" is strongly suggesting you think that's what we're saying--on the basis of no supporting evidence and plenty to the contrary.
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Jim Lippard
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Not likely at all and no one has said anything of the sort in this exchange. Don't make stuff up, that's my point and here you're doing it.
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Jim Lippard
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Was the WH physician (O'Connor) working on the bill with him? Any evidence to support this claim whatsoever? There are a LOT of people who work in the WH (+EEOB, where the WHMU is located) who are potentially served by the unit. Cannard is the "neurology specialist supporting the WHMU."
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Jim Lippard
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That makes more sense, he was a regular supporting physician. So people are making up a bullshit excuse, that is not at all helpful.
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Jim Lippard
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Why didn't the WH press secretary say anything about the bill when asked about the visits? Just lack of preparation?
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Jim Lippard
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I see a lot of people implying that Cannard was working on the Parkinson's bill, but no substantiating evidence to that effect. When he was meeting with WH physician O'Connor, were they working on the bill together?
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Kevin M. Kruse
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2000 GOP Platform: 31,417 words
2004 GOP Platform: 41,936 words
2008 GOP Platform: 23,773 words
2012 GOP Platform: 31,417 words
2016 GOP Platform: 36,336 words
2020 GOP Platform: 1,811 words
2024 GOP Platform: 5,414 words
www.npr.org/2024/07/08/n...
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Jim Lippard
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is Biden in it?
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Marisa Kabas
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NEW: I explain how a throwaway line about windmills in Project 2025 shows there's absolutely no way Trump wasn't directly involved in crafting the fascist plan.
www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-wind...
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Jim Lippard
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This album sucks.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among the many evils of "crisis pregnancy centers": they are not medical providers and so do not follow HIPAA or medical privacy ethics. Instead, they gleefully give away (to right-wing orgs) and sell (to data brokers) all information you give them. They should be illegal.
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Timothy Burke
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just so everybody knows what's happening here, this is Jack Posobiec—who spent the past week as a featured guest on InfoWars—speaking to the MAGA group of the wife of a Supreme Court justice
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Jim Lippard
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I'd expect perhaps that great grandfather's mother would be a Todd, but she's a Martin.
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Jim Lippard
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... and Mary Todd's brothers fought for the Confederacy." I can't find any ancestral link to Mary Todd Lincoln's family for Sam Francis. His father's first name was Todd, and he had a great grandfather with a middle name Todd, but no Todd ancestors I have found anywhere.
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Jim Lippard
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would rather use a trash can for this purpose, thank you very much
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Jim Lippard
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Reading John Ganz's book, When the Clock Broke, and came across this sentence: "His [Samuel Todd Francis] middle name marked his descent from the family of Mary Todd Lincoln, something to be proud of, even for his unreconstructed Southern clan, since the Todds had been slaveholders ...
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Jim Lippard
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Wouldn't expect to see many in Flagstaff, but would expect them earlier in Winslow and later in Williams and heavily in Kingman. Coconino County is only about 26% Republican.
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Radley Balko
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These mistakes originalist justices are making aren’t about disputed interpretations of history, with evidence on both sides. They’re pulling quotes out of context to attribute ideas to founding figures that those figures adamantly opposed. (via @andycraig.bsky.social)
reason.com/volokh/2024/...
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Don Moynihan
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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background
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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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Don Moynihan
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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.”
But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...
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Paul Crider
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This is super important work. And it looks like it's actually having an effect. Normal people learn about Project 2025 and are scared as shitless as they should be. The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Boston Review and others are doing the work that NYT and WaPo are neglecting.
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Daniel Drezner
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I wrote patriotically today. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/a-republic...
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Seth D. Michaels
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if only Federalist 69 were just, in its entirely, Hamilton saying super clearly “sure, this constitution has one executive leader, but I can’t stress enough that it’s different from a king because a President is accountable, including to criminal law” avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century...
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Jim Lippard
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The Healy event was May 1, 2008.
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Jim Lippard
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I'm old enough to remember when the Goldwater Institute hosted an event about Gene Healy's _The Cult of the Presidency_; now they're doing a review of the year's important Supreme Court decisions and not even talking about the presidential immunity decision. They're in the GOP cult.
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Popehat
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Watch for the American Right to begin to make claims that by overreacting to and mischaracterizing the Trump immunity decision, critics are causing “unrest”, and then watch for them to use that to justify the things Trump does.
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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EVEN Trump lawyers and advisers were genuinely surprised at how close the Supreme Court majority got to his absurd “total” immunity argument. They expected a partial victory. They did not expect this kind of technically partial but also massive win: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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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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It is *precisely* crimes that involve the abuse of official powers and are committed under color of office that a constitutional system needs to restrain. The fact that Trump is now trying to get out of his NY conviction by arguing that he committed those crimes *as president* shows the absurdity.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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super interesting to me that Harris doesn’t just do better than Biden here but does better than most of the floated alternatives www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...
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Mitchell Epner
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My friend and colleague Ken White has written a great thread describing some (but far from all) of the enormous problems with today's decision by Chief Justice Roberts granting Donald Trump criminal immunity on grounds never before accepted by any court. Today's decision threatens the Republic.
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Radley Balko
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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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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b-boy bouiebaisse
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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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Radley Balko
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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
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Grudgie the Whale
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Last time he did this it was Shelby and red states proved the “fear mongering” exactly correct in mere days
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David A. Graham
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The Trump campaign understands this as total immunity
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Kelsey Atherton
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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.
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Eric Rauchway
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Kathy and I wrote the chapters on Nixon, GHW Bush, and GW Bush for this volume, a revision of the original version commissioned by the House Judiciary Committee at the time of Watergate. I guess it needs a new version, in which each chapter concludes, “But the Supreme Court now says all that was 👌.”
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Pwnallthethings
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Also this, which is just straight-up question begging
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southpaw
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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Nicholas Wallace
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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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Max Kennerly
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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