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Old Dusty Death@olddustydeath.bsky.social |
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Was a thing, now a machine. Power concedes nothing without struggle
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the other thing is that people have no sense of how much space cars and so they imagine that a road full of cars must be a lot of people when it very often is not. a well-used bike lane transports like twice as many people during a given time as does a road
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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the “some folks just need killing” thing out of north carolina reminds me of a third thing these annoying people are right about: as long as the republican bloodlust grows and their power is unbroken, every election probably will be the most important one of your life
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts’ reasoning is fundamentally (lower-case “r”) anti-republican. i know we dunk on the framers here but roberts has issued a rebuke of the revolutionary assumption that concentrated, unaccountable power is a fundamental threat to liberty.
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Greg Sargent
@gregsargent.bsky.social
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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.
"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"
Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...
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Mike the Mad Biologist
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To add to this excellent post by @eschatonblog.com, the shitpost left also wasn't in a position to assess Biden's possible health issues either: it's not like we get many opportunities to meet with Biden (or advise him, for that matter). It was the supposed grownup centrists who let this fester.
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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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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A.R. Moxon
@juliusgoat.bsky.social
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Probably worth contemplating that well-scrubbed white American conservative Christians may be the most evil group of people in the history of mankind, when it comes down to the final tally of human suffering.
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Matt Novak
@paleofuture.bsky.social
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Happy fourth
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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justice amy coney barrett is the girlboss legal maverick voting to destroy abortion rights and crown trump a king
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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as Texas "women whose access to abortion was drastically curtailed by SB8 began to give birth in 2022, those infants were dying at much higher rates compared both to the period before the law took effect and to other states that didn’t have near-bans." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️🌈
@chimeracoder.bsky.social
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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined
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bakoon
@bakoon.bsky.social
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federal judges simply love "doin stuff"
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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christian rock is so funny bc they’re all singing about being in love with the same guy
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bakoon
@bakoon.bsky.social
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if they have the joker in another batman flick they should do his face up like this. give him a foot long chin. make him the ambassador to iran again too
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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"Our research suggests it’s really not acceptable that some people are able to have a pleasant or satisfying time being alive."
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Old Dusty Death
@olddustydeath.bsky.social
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Seems like a Sears catalog was also in the running
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Old Dusty Death
@olddustydeath.bsky.social
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This is the only correct answer
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Tim Onion
@bencollins.bsky.social
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Obstacle course!
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Josh Gondelman
@joshgondelman.bsky.social
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I need to make some new friends because my existing ones have heard all my complaints already.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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this case against biden's resignation makes sense. i do think that if biden decides to step away from reelection, he should explicitly say that he is doing this because House Republicans are too corrupt to confirm a replacement for Harris.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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When all of the Proper (legal, political, and institutional) Remedies are off the table it does not take societies long to figure out what the only Remedy they have left is, and I wonder if the Court put any thought into that!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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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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Brian Beutler
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I’m glad Biden addressed the nation last night (proof of life and all) but his message amounted to: I will not use the vast power the court just gave me, but Trump will. Good for contrast, horrible in conceding the premise that there are two sets of rules.
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Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
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Durbin pulling his punches so as not to “ruffle the feathers” of Republicans is yet another example of preemptively attempting to prevent an expected backlash. Trying to placate the right in this way has failed over and over again, and it is important to note that the GOP rarely if ever does this.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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This isn’t “hypocrisy,” he was lying about what he believes so they would confirm him
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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"The true believers in institutionalism had a theory of power that turned out to not be true." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-end-of...
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Timothy Burke
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if Biden announced that he was ordering the IRS to end all audits of people making less than $100,000 and ordering audits of all billionaires that would be something he could do
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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a funny thing Biden could do, unitary-executive-authority-wise is just order GSA to stop cutting paychecks to a bunch of Republican judges and law clerks for a while.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.
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ceej
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a president deciding to pack the court to save the republic from their own decision to make him a king seems pretty noble
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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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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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How much of “doomerism” is just being overwhelmed by a frank assessment of the situation and not being made of stone and not actually preventing getting involved in anything. Probably a lot. Maybe deal with people rather than vague tendencies personified idk
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.
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DaveAnthony
@daveanthony.bsky.social
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bobby (frociaggine)
@bobbylewis.bsky.social
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abolish the senate, add several hundred more house members, and pack the supreme court with dozens of justices so it doesn’t matter when one of them dies or retires
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Donald Trump abused his powers in a lot of "there's no recourse except impeaching him" ways and Biden mostly refused to do any of that and the reward he's received is that the Centrist Norms-Guarders who actually pretend to care about that stuff have now all called on him to step down.
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Micah
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I think this is the fundamental asymmetry underlying every aspect of the conflict between the parties; you see it in the Senate, in gerrymandering, in the use of executive power I don't want King Biden either, but it's long past time to make the GOP afraid of the consequences of endless escalation
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Sunny Moraine
@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
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So often see arguments against SCOTUS expansion like “but then Republicans will just add even more!” And I’m like, cool, then we come right out the gate with like 30 new Justices Make it absurdly big. I’m with Elie Mystal on this one: MORE FROGS AND DOGS AND BEARS AND CHICKENS AND WHATEVER
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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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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.
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Popehat
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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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Men's rea activist
@internethippo.bsky.social
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Regular person: I'm constipated Gen Z person: The ass isn't assing And this only scratches the surface of how they talk...
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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So many of these people spent YEARS telling people that things that political organizers said would happen would not happen due to 'precedent', norms, collegiality, etc and they were fucking wrong 100%.
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Karl Appuhn
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I think it is hilarious that any reporter ever took the idea that Roberts is deeply concerned about the court's reputation. Or his own, for that matter. He never gave a fuck.
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