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Nick Harper, he/him@nharper.bsky.social |
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Nonprofit political law & policy attorney. Proceduralist & anxious, jealous guardian of democracy. Tweets are mine, not my employer's. Minneapolis. Idealist w/ weltschmerz. www.linkedin.com/in/nharpermn/
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Joshua J. Friedman
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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman
Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
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Sarah Binder
@sarahbinder.bsky.social
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Will abolishing Chevron move Congress to legislate w/ greater specificity? Count me skeptical. Boosting institutional capacity leaves in place electoral and political roots of lawmakers’ preference for vague laws. New @goodauth.bsky.social post w/ Forrest Maltzman🤓
goodauthority.org/news/abolish...
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Onion continues to be only reliable news source
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Luke’s American Revolution
@lfschleusener.bsky.social
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Out of your closets and into the streets, Anita Bryant is coming for you.
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Nick Harper, he/him
@nharper.bsky.social
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I— ok— it’s— yes? Good? … www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/10/g...
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Nick Harper, he/him
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I am so confused as to what music I listen to qualifies as “medieval” and “pirate metal,” and I am equally confused as to how those two things make “femme fatale”??
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Nick Harper, he/him
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US District Court denied qualified immunity to the cop who killed Amir Locke 😮 www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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emptywheel
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Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse ask Garland to appoint Special Counsel to investigate Clarence THomas' graft.
www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Several cop cars just flew down Bryant to approx 2841 Bryant. Lots of officers parked there now. Helicopter overhead. Thought the copter was chasing a speeding car, but that car went west on Lake.
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ProPublica
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The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. By not investigating the underlying weakness in Microsoft software that was key to the SolarWinds hack, the Cyber Safety Review Board missed an opportunity to prevent future attacks, experts say.
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Catbus
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beginning to think the post-Reagan bipartisan commitment to corporate self-regulation wasn't a great idea
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Timothy Burke
@bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us
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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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Nick Harper, he/him
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👀
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Nick Harper, he/him
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I turn 36 this week; maybe it's a sign that I'm yacht rock-age now. ... but without the yacht.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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I had never heard of “yacht rock” until about 2 or 3 months ago, and now I hear references to it fairly frequently. What is going on??
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Right, but I think the point of some Yankee/non-rural folks is that they don't ever see there being a viable majority of folks who aren't white Christian nationalists, so they cope poorly with bad jokes and give on those areas.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Totally agree, not excusing the behavior, just trying to explain it.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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There’s a clear growth of the far right. Will the Macronists (centrists) have the good fucking sense to coalition with the Left, or will they fuck around and flirt with conservatives despite *waves arms at everything*?
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Nick Harper, he/him
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I think it comes from a place of feeling powerless and not knowing how one could ever “convert” or “deprogram” white Christian nationalists, so all that’s left is hoping they suffer the consequences of their own actions.
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Taniel
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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Read this, share this widely
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over
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Don Zeko
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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps
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Pavel
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Well this is grim
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@SIfill
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A second insurrection. Stop comparing these people to the founders. They are the Confederacy.
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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if stealing classified docs and lying about it while no longer in office is an "official act", we are well and truly cooked
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The Washington Post
@washingtonpost.com
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Much of the public sees the Supreme Court as political, not impartial, even as the court’s defenders say its critics simply oppose the conservative majority.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Yes but also… as opposed to what?
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Yeah idk, I’m not sure the Biden *shouldn’t* step down but the fact that Manchin and Sinema are both supporting him is a HUGE red flag that says Warner is wrong.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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we’re in danger
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Nick Harper, he/him
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nooooooo some of them are really not that bad! like Shadow & Bone was pretty good! The Witcher has been ok!
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Nick Harper, he/him
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I think too many people vastly underestimate how stupid too many people are.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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so this "biden vs. other potential democratic nominee vs. trump" thing feels like a bad version of the monty hall problem and i'm so tired of everything
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Kevin Collins
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This — Project 2025, the Supreme Court’s legalistic usurpation of power, and Trump’s current rhetoric on the campaign trail — can only be understood as an attack on our Constitutional government itself, less violent means than those used in Jan 6 but no less threatening to our democratic republic
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Why is it that color? 😰
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Why are moderates like this?!?!??
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Avishay Ben-Sasson-Gordis
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The fact that only the president enjoys complete immunity, and that he also has the power of pardon is part of what is so terrifying about the ruling. It means that those beneath him are entirely at his good graces and arbitrary will. It's a power machine, not a check on his power.
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Adam Bonin
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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons.
ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...
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Josh Martin
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I did my best to analyze and summarize the public comments submitted so far regarding the Minneapolis Police Federation contract.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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Every day proves Thaddeus Stevens right: there should've been big Nuremberg-style public trials of leading Confederates, accompanied by seizures of the assets of all pro-Confederate large landowners and businessmen, which should then have been distributed to freed slaves as compensation.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Also, charge your phone, that makes me anxious.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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That’s not what that says, boss.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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Roberts’ opinion was based on that reasoning?
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Adam Serwer
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I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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Republicans: here is our plan which we will carefully execute over the next forty years until we have gained control of SCOTUS Dems: If we can't pass it next week under the current Congress it's not worth mentioning
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Brendan Nyhan
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"the justices have essentially legalized a losing president refusing to step down" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Elliot Blake
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He wasn’t going to be constrained by anything anyway, but this ruling gives him a veneer of lawfulness for his inevitable lawlessness should he return to office.
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Nick Harper, he/him
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It’s insane that it took more than four years to do this. We are not a serious profession.
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