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Depeche Median@nkpankie.bsky.social |
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political science professor, enthusiastic space geek, avid cat collector, friend to dogs everywhere, 3D printing addict, antifascist, lapsed Minnesotan and cold weather aficionado, ♡ Prince ♡
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer📸📷🚀
@princejvstin.com
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Very unfun fact: Project 2025 specifically names Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area and wants to remove its protected status and open it up to mining. This is the future Donald John Trump wants.
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Grudgie the Whale
@grudgie.bsky.social
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This is exactly correct. And it’s the fundamental flaw of all Trump coverage. Because Trump took over an existing Party, the press ascribes longstanding legitimacy and fitness to him instead of using his obvious unfitness and illegitimacy to newly reevaluate the Party.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Bizarro 2016 but with elected Democrats as the ones refusing to take career risks to protect American democracy nymag.com/intelligence...
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Without even clicking the link, I’ll guess the reason — all the talk of racism makes white kids feel guilty. Again, if your kids are reading histories of slavery or segregation and identifying with the racists in the story, that suggests you’ve got your own problems to work through. Leave us out.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The many manifestations of racism — slavery, segregation, etc — were an integral part of not just African American history, but American history. Denying that reality and pretending racism wasn’t a serious problem is, in itself, racist.
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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said that white nationalists are "very fine people" AND spent his entire first term either golfing or in executive time AND thought we could buy Greenland AND did the sharpie thing with the hurricane AND [fuck I'm running out of steam insert 43 more things here] is a viable candidate for president.
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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flagrantly used the office of the presidency to enrich himself and his family AND was found legally culpable of rape AND was convicted of 34 felonies AND whose organization was found guilty of tax fraud AND made innumerable public racist & misogynistic statements AND
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Jeff Lazarus
@jlazarus.bsky.social
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I live every day stunned that the guy who killed more Americans than anyone in history besides Jefferson Davis AND attempted a violent coup on national television AND suborned US foreign policy to his own electoral interests badly enough to get impeached for it AND
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Ed
@notdred.bsky.social
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What a twist of fortunes that Bernie gives one of the strongest affirmative defenses of Biden while the centrists try to shiv him
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andy™
@andylevy.net
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shoutout to penguin books for thinking i wasn't depressed enough
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okie
@okieokie.bsky.social
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Fuck out of here MSNBC
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David Kaye
@davidkaye.bsky.social
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this is so gd frustrating, demoralizing, enervating. dem leadership needs to get their sh*t together and, in unison, move on to whatever is next. but stop dragging out this drama.
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Andy Craig
@andycraig.bsky.social
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I've seen this confusion a few times. I guess it comes from the fact that the Speaker is next in line to the presidency if there's no VP, that much is true. But the Speaker is still just the Speaker in the meantime, they don't become acting VP / President of the Senate. That's what the PPT is for.
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snipy
@snipy.bsky.social
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oh hell yeah let's fucking go does this go anywhere? nope! is it still a good idea? yep! the GOP understands the concept of statement moves like this so much better than dems normally do and its not surprising that AOC is bringing this forward, as I think she's got very solid political instincts.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced impeachment articles against Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The Party of Limited Government
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Depeche Median
@nkpankie.bsky.social
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excellent
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L O L G O P
@lolgop.bsky.social
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Only their book agents know.
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Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.bsky.social
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The inviolability of faculty authority to assign grades is in the process of turning into the Jury Nullification of academia; ie definitely real and indeed conceptually necessary for the entire enterprise but which the admin branch would really, really prefer you didn’t proactively lean on.
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's no coincidence that the Jefferson Memorial, a creation of the New Deal, chose to highlight this particularly apt quote from Jefferson.
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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it’s gonna be a slow rollout as everyone works through this huge document to find all its buried horrors but oh boy oh boy oh boy when the labor union organizers get to this one things are gonna get lit on actual fire
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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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Matthew Downhour
@matthewdownhour.bsky.social
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My favorite is when they just kept shrinking the court as justices died so that Johnson couldn't appoint any
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Communications tip: don't say "Project 2025" say "Trump's Project 2025." He's trying to run away from it, tie it to his neck like an anchor by making the words "Project 2025" naturally follow the word "Trump" in people's heads.
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Depeche Median
@nkpankie.bsky.social
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Shrimply Pibbles is very upset because he does not fit and therefore cannot sit.
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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i checked out the full article and this is nonstop bangers
www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/pi...
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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"President Biden wants to show voters he’s fired up and committed to this fight for the nation’s soul, and he’s doing that by using the strongest asset at his disposal: forceful waving from a great distance."
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Stephen Schwartz
@atomicanalyst.bsky.social
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And here is footage from a 1953 documentary describing the special features of the display case and showing the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights being lowered into the massive vault:
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Steve Benen
@stevebenen.bsky.social
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It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice.
What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
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Jana H-S (they/she)
@jana-aych-ess.bsky.social
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I get it. you're looking for a reason to give up fuck that leave your teethmarks on their bones
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Rachel Shelden
@rachelshelden.bsky.social
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In the 19th century, justices "rode circuit"--they were not only members of the SCOTUS but also served as judges on intermediary courts (there were no separate circuit judges!). There they were *representatives* of the circuit in question. Justices were selected FROM & based on their circuit. 2/
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Holly Brewer
@earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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Am rereading the Alexander decision and almost choked on the Alito line, "[W]e must be wary of plaintiffs who seek to transform federal courts into 'weapons of political warfare' that will deliver victories that eluded them 'in the political arena.'"
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Depeche Median
@nkpankie.bsky.social
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Almost two weeks of the Dem candidate running against his own party and the NYT instead of his opponent and it's still not over. Brilliant.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
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I am not the first to make this point but if the whole premise is that the president is not competent, and the president outmaneuvers you....
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Jen Ebbeler
@jenebbeler.bsky.social
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Words fail.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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NYT Coup Attempt Fails; Relied On Annoying People Nobody Wanted To Talk To And Wordle Hints
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John Reppion
@johnreppion.bsky.social
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The debate should be just pointing and laughing at Trump. An absolute joke. Unfathomable that he was ever President and ever could be again. Just manic incredulity at the very existence of such a vile being with such a lack of self awareness that he would even dare show his face in public. Ever.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
@thielman.bsky.social
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I think one major factor in the exhaustion/disappointment around the Biden campaign is the same as what happened with the Clinton campaign in '16, namely that both candidates should be absolutely murdering Trump, stunting on him 24/7 for being a stupid asshole who hates everyone, and they're not
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luke
@coolhand.bsky.social
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The year is 2029. You put on a new jacket and find a mask in the pocket. “Wasn’t that a wild time,” you laugh. But your party has to move. It’s a long way north, and that abandoned clothing store sold red hats. MAGA took a blow when Florida sank, but you still can’t risk the raids. Back to camp
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Jeffrey Vagle
@jvagle.me
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For the NYT, it seems that there are only two possible modes of government: rule by an authoritarian right, and ungovernable.
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Joshua Erlich
@joshuaerlich.bsky.social
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NYT now reporting that a veterinary expert went to the White House eight times and that Biden has Feline HIV
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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On the one hand, we should be delighted that the GOP actually bothered to put together a party platform this year after just saying they believed in Trumpism last time around. On the other, yiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Regular old murderer expresses disgust for serial killer
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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No.
There are confirmed referenda on abortion in CO, FL, MD, NV & SD in Nov. 2024
Still possible for referenda on abortion to appear on Nov. 2024 ballot in AZ, AR, MO, MT, & NE.
apnews.com/article/abor...
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Mere Smith
@evilgalprods.bsky.social
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it’s that last sentence tucked at the end that the right is truly terrified of
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