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Old-school 70s New Leftist. Yippie!

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NY Times, how about obsessing on the dictatorship on our horizon? – Dan Gillmor

dangillmor.com/2024/07/06/n...

#SaveDemocracyVoteBlue #StopFascism #ExpandSCOTUS #StopProject2025

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Following Britain's General Election, We Say Goodbye To One Very Special Candidate in Particular

www.themarysue.com/who-is-count...

#CountBinface

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David & Georgia Tennant Had the Perfect 'Doctor Who' Joke for the U.K. Election | The Mary Sue

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#LGBTQRightsAreHumanRights #ToryScum

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A touching video of an old man tearfully waving a Pride flag has gone viral. Here's why. - LGBTQ Nation

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#Pride

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Yale Report Slams Cass Review: 'Misrepresents Data' on Transgender Youth | Teen Vogue

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> The report found that the Cass Review contains “serious methodological flaws, including the omission of key findings.”

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What It’s Like to Lobby for Abortion Rights From a Red State | Teen Vogue

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> "Whether you like it or not, you represent us.

#ProChoice

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2024 Election: How to Get Involved As a High School Student | Teen Vogue

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> Even if you can’t vote this year, you can still play a critical role in the election.

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Naomi Alderman's avatar Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social
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not that I like smugly saying when I was right at all...

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Audrey's avatar Audrey @parickards.bsky.social
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This is not hyperbole; I wish it were.
I’m haunted right now by the media being so laser-focused on President Biden’s age that they’re not even discussing much more imminently threatening facts about his Republican opponent, ex-president and felon Donald J. Trump.
open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

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Quite the little payoff for selling out democracy. Getting his own little fiefdom out of it. Makes sense I guess. Still gross.

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SCOTUS Cancels 4th of July Celebrations, Says Holiday was Not in Constitution and May Upset Monarch

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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/2 ….will reject the argument based on finding that those conversations were not official acts and that including it was harmless error. Trump will appeal from NY’s highest court to SCOTUS.

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Prediction: Trump will argue that his NY conviction must be overturned because the court admitted evidence of conversations he had with his staff while President in order to prove knowledge and intent. He will argue those conversations were “official acts.” Judge Merchan and higher NY courts …./1

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North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper Wants To Blast Away $4 Billion In Medical Debt

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> Medical debt is a term that should not exist outside of dystopian novels.

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Fiverr Freelancers Offer to Dox Anyone With Powerful U.S. Data Tool

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> Dozens of Fiverr sellers are advertising access to TLOxp, a potent data surveillance tool sold by credit bureau TransUnion.

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar 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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Danny Rubin's avatar Danny Rubin @dannyrubin.bsky.social
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This. Roberts pretending that the dissent is “fear mongering… hypotheticals,” when it’s about an actual coup attempt.

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Vince Mpls's avatar 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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Popehat's avatar 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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/3 The problem is that almost anything can be shoehorned into an official act depending on how you characterize it or the level of generality you use. The Court’s “well of course a President has to use due care that election laws are enforced” hints at this.

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/2 Motive being irrelevant means that the President can do a thing for expressly lawless reasons so long as the thing is within the extremely broad range of official acts. So question isn’t “can the President conspire to defraud,” it’s “can the President call a state official about an election.”

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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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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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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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