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Julian Sanchez@normative.bsky.social |
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He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.
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Joe Katz
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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.
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Julian Sanchez
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I don’t know anything about project 2025 or who’s behind it (i.e. several of my top advisors), but also here’s my take on its contents…
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why
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Tom Scocca
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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!
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Gregory Hays
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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Julian Sanchez
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This is your annual advance reminder that you will never look at a photograph or video of fireworks again, nor will it be of any real interest to your social media contacts. Just look with your own gelatinous human eyes.
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John Morrison
@localcelebrity.bsky.social
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“We’re gonna install a dictator. If you don’t let us, we’ll kill you.”
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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"fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals"
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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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The Fig Economy
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More of this, please. Stuff like this and Colin Cowherd going off about Trump are worth more than almost any number of 30 second ads the party can buy.
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Jeffrey Vagle
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The conservative legal movement’s work is paying off for them, and their next steps include entrenchment by whatever means are available.
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Will Oremus
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SCOTUS' ruling on social media was a bigger deal than it first seemed. Content moderation and ranking algorithms are now First Amendment-protected speech, and that has big implications for the internet. My newsletter today: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Julian Sanchez
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That’s back when he cared about his electric car company
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Jonathan Gitlin
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I’m so old I remember when Elon Musk claimed that climate change was the single-greatest problem facing the world, and his motivating cause.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Official act. Immune.
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Brendan Nyhan
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Two things can be true: 1. The mental acuity of the person with the nuclear codes is a BIG deal. The media should report on it. Full stop. 2. The threat to democracy is also real and the overall balance of coverage must take that context into account.
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Popehat
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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.
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Missing The Point
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The Second Trump Administration
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Julian Sanchez
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It is right in the very narrow sense that Congress could not, e.g., criminalize granting a pardon without the approval of the House Speaker. The point is SCOTUS decided to drive a truck through that crack.
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Julian Sanchez
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Right, this is where the action is. Some level of immunity around “core presidential powers” is inherent in the powers themselves (otherwise Congress could revoke or take over presidential powers by ordinary statute)—that’s not the radical part—but none of this other crap flows from that.
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Julian Sanchez
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I’ll confess I was initially sort of hoping for stunt-casting Ian McShane as Odin, but Clive Russel is perfect and the rest look on point as well. Quite a coterie of Game of Thrones alums you’re assembling.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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Elizabeth Nolan Brown
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Not a total blow to the Texas and Florida social media laws, but still a pretty crushing Supreme Court rebuke of the idea that telling tech companies how to moderate content doesn't implicate the First Amendment reason.com/2024/07/01/s...
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Julian Sanchez
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Also pretty sure paying hush money the porn star you bullied into sex isn’t a “core presidential power”
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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Oh boy, $150,000!
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David Noll
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Justice Sotomayor points out that--surprise!--the majority is deciding a made-up case.
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Pwnallthethings
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In a better world, when it goes back to DC Cir they say "wow what an interesting collection of dicta. Anyway, Trump was charged with ..."
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Quinta Jurecic
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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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This is patently absurd. He falsified records BEFORE becoming president.
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Mark Chadbourn
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Jacob T. Levy
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Yes, maybe there's some clever version of hardball Biden's team can come up with, something that doesn't involve ordering assassinations. But one thing he *should* be able to say is "I reject the idea that the president is above the law, and I vow never to use this illegitimate 'immunity' defense."
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Philip Bump
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Most Americans opposed presidential immunity. But then most voters opposed the presidents who nominated several justices to the court and most Americans were represented by senators who opposed their confirmations. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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“Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say.”
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Quinta Jurecic
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I will take the L here. I absolutely did not think the Court was going to do this. You may mock me now
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Julian Sanchez
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The effective approach is don’t engage in performative theater with bad faith actors. A timed speaking contest against trained con artists is not a good way to inform the public about science.
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David_j_roth
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Just at the most basic level it is really unhealthy to have to thought about Donald Trump as much as everyone in America has over the last nine or so years. Spending a decade of my life thinking about a super boring, super shitty crook and all the bad stuff he's doing or might do. It's embarrassing.
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Julian Sanchez
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I mean, same! My jaw dropped when I saw they were doing a tour. I guess a mortgage will do wonders to heal old wounds.
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Julian Sanchez
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Apparently DC’s aging hipsters are on the ball, because Soul Coughing sold out in under a minute.
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Julian Sanchez
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I don’t know, this seems like a genuinely special case. Normally debates don’t matter because who got off a better zinger or had a good policy argument comes out in the wash by November, but that’s not really the issue here. It’s reinforcing Biden’s most serious preexisting vulnerability.
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Spring-Heeled Jack Skelington
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For everyone’s annoying uncle won’t read but might watch YouTube.
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Julian Sanchez
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There have no doubt been cycles when even highly politically engaged folks were somewhat on the fence and a debate might nudge them one way or another. This is not one of those cycles.
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Julian Sanchez
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Again, the problem is: What’s the audience for a televised debate? Politically engaged people who are interested in policy details & fact checks made up their minds long, long ago. Debates are for folks who don’t follow politics and tune in at the end for a vibe check.
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Radley Balko
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He Gish Gallops like a 40 year old.
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Andy Craig
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Great piece ends strong: "Most people struggle daily with the consequences of a felony conviction. Trump gets to wear his record like a garish cockade."
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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this idea that the bible was a significant influence on the constitution is obviously widespread but i've always been struck by insane it is. not that evidence matters to these people but if there's anything we know for certain about the 1787 convention it's that the bible had nothing to do with it.
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Jamison Foser
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absolutely not
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Julian Sanchez
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Text and Subtext at Newsmax: How to lie by telling the truth open.substack.com/pub/juliansa...
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Sarah McLaughlin
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It's hard not to feel irate while reading this. Companies catering to authoritarians like to defend themselves by shrugging and say "it's local law." But this isn't just about the law. Microsoft is going above and beyond even its competitors *within China* in censoring material online. Shameful.
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Bryce Covert
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Compare the splashy $100 million spend to the $20 million abortion funds spent from July 2021 to June 2022 to make sure real people get the abortions they seek, and they usually don't cover the full cost that a caller faces nor help every caller in need.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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relatedly, i am going to lose my mind at how 90 percent of trump coverage treats him as if he wasn't president for four years
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