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mattdonahue.bsky.social@mattdonahue.bsky.social |
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The "official" GOP platform runs 16 pages, but if we take out the title page, the dedication page, a three-page rambling "preamble" and the page with a table of contents printed in 72-point font, it's only *ten* pages long. Project 2025, the actual platform, is 900+ pages long. Focus on that.
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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As I have learned from the past few weeks, Trump forgetting his previous speech about the Heritage Project and the many ties in his cabinet to it should spark just as many breathless op-eds about Trump’s memory loss right
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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Trump thinks Project 2025 should stand back and stand by
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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Screaming into the Void
@dlliebow.bsky.social
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Let your less-informed friends and family know about this and ask them how interested they are in finding out just who he's talking about.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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An exquisite irony of the current moment is Trump’s tariff plan combined with SCOTUS lawlessness would yield a moment where we have a functionally unremovable king and a huge tax on tea.
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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He’s dead though.
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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Good
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in power. (1/2)
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Publius Maximus (He/Him)
@publiusmaximus.bsky.social
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We should probably spend a week talking about nothing but this.
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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4/ Add in the fact that Harris would be the first woman president and only second president of color and it gets scarier. Add in that her replacement would be from the other party and it starts to look like an invitation to assassination attempts.
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Daniel Gilmore
@gilmored85.bsky.social
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If only our news media institutions found "ex-president promises to jail and try opponents for treason if he takes back power" as newsworthy as "unnamed aide said current president gets tired after having a full day of work."
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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KRISTI NOEM: I did the most f'd up thing to a dog ever RFK JR: Hold my brainworm ...
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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody… SUPREME COURT: Sure. Seems reasonable.
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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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@vagaries.bsky.social
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And I haven’t seen a quote yet that 1) wasn’t anonymous bedwetting or 2) taken horribly out of context.
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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They will apply the standard inconsistently. this conservative Supreme Court will do its best to stop any Democrat president from benefiting from this president.
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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There is no constitutional text that says presidents are immune from all criminal law. Nor was it the intent of the authors of the Constitution or any amendments. It is inconsistent with American precedent and tradition. They just made it up.
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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He’s done a lot of things he previously said he wouldn’t do just look at some of his recent decisions in Ukraine with respect to firing into Russia and the Potential decision to US military contractors on the grounds in Ukraine service US supplied weapons.
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Eric
@chairscoot.bsky.social
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If the Supreme Court is going to take on all this responsibility, maybe there should be more judges. One per circuit seems good.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Convicted felon appoints judges who rule it's ok for him to do crimes.
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Andy Craig
@andycraig.bsky.social
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Such pronouncements are often premature and exaggerated, but not today. This is one of the worst things the Supreme Court has ever done. You could reasonably argue the worst in living memory, which is a very high bar. It’s that much of an abomination.
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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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Helen Kennedy
@helenkennedy.bsky.social
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On the eve of Independence Day, the Supreme Court rules the Revolution was wrong.
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Stephen Judkins
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social
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This take is baffling. People were loudly saying this in 2016, large chunks of lefty dissenters maintained it was just a scare tactic, and then the lesser evil lost and the greater evil won and this is the direct result of that. The squishy liberal mind was proven emphatically correct
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Faine Greenwood
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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight
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Roxane Gay
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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Could the Senate hold John Roberts in inherent contempt?
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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Administrative agencies: very dangerous, must be line edited by Matthew Kaczmaryk President: operates behind a curtain, no peeking
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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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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
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Yes!!!!! Exactly this!!!
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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When they told us John Roberts was an institutionalist, they forgot to mention that the institution he’s committed to uphold is an American monarchy.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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She does have influence, but she did give up some real power. she would still have influence, even if she wasn’t in Congress. I just don’t agree that younger people are totally shut out of leadership in the Democratic Party
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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Nancy Pelosi retired from house leadership.
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Gautham FC
@gauthamrao.bsky.social
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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the end of Chevron deference is another manifestation of the fact that the Roberts Court doesn’t view itself as part of the constitutional order as much as lording over it
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geoffrey
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news isn't talking about chevron much and the generous explanation is that they think it's dense and arcane and hard to understand but if so it's only because you're trying to sound smart about it. "the supreme court just gave itself the power to veto any regulation it wants, whenever it wants"
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.
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Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller
@byzantienne.bsky.social
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PERFORMATIVE DESPAIR IS NOT A POLITICAL STRATEGY. Do not conjure your own imagined demise. In particular, don't do it collectively, on a communication system meant to amplify emotional contagion. (simpler/more esoteric: don't do death magic at collective scale on your own minds, for fuck's sake)
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Squire Boone
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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Paul Waldman
@paulwaldman.bsky.social
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This can't be true, John Roberts assured me the Voting Rights Act was no longer necessary because racism is but a fading memory
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Dan Froomkin (Presswatchers.org)
@froomkin.bsky.social
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This is a life-or-death moment for the Washington Post as we know it. presswatchers.org/2024/06/will...
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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Cool thanks.
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@mattdonahue.bsky.social
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How does a community establish their own their own network and how do they decide if it’s a good investment?
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Katharine Hayhoe
@katharinehayhoe.com
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“Many governments restrict or prohibit advertising for products that harm human health, like tobacco. I urge every country to ban advertising from fossil-fuel companies. And I urge news media and tech companies to stop taking fossil-fuel advertising.” - Antonio Guterres YES!
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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(He’s not imprisoned)
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