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Paula Shaw St. James ๐ŸŸฆ's avatar Paula Shaw St. James ๐ŸŸฆ @paula72.bsky.social
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Nancy Ann's avatar Nancy Ann @nancyannn.bsky.social
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Hereโ€™s a guide to understand project 2025 fully. THIS IS TRUMPโ€™s PLATFORM. We must call it that. Too many voters donโ€™t know the plans being made if trump is elected. Theses are the plans of the oligarchs. They can never have enough & theyโ€™ll take all they can.
democracyforward.org/the-peoples-...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi's avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Well that seemsโ€ฆ like an outright declaration of violent intent if they aren't given their way. Which isn't different from what it already was, other than it being out loud, now.

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Bastian Tiger ๐Ÿ…'s avatar Bastian Tiger ๐Ÿ… @bastian.tigersarereal.de
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Wow Adam Schiff just made a good point on MSNBC. If elected, Trump could start selling pardons. It would be totally legit since he now has immunity from official acts.

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.

Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.

The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.

Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.

www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...

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LADEWI's avatar LADEWI @ladewi.bsky.social
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I received the email while at work. I came home, the Ballot was here.

This is history. Iโ€™m afraid this may be the last of two ballots I will ever cast .

I hope ๐Ÿคž๐Ÿฝ Iโ€™m wrong.
#SaveOurDemocracy&VoteBlue

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Anna O Law's avatar Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social
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The opportunity cost of what else $6 million could have been used for in the school district makes me sick.

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Alex ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ's avatar Alex ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @alexanotherone.bsky.social
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Guns don't kill people, Senate majority leaders kill people

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CNN's avatar CNN @cnn.com
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Health professionals are warning consumers not to take medical advice from the same companies trying to sell them food, supplements and other consumables

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Michael Tae Sweeney's avatar 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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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE's avatar GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com
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more accurate than the times

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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Here is a link to the Daily Beast article, which gives a synopsis of the longer piece in Vanity Fair on RFK Jr.'s purported awful, misogynistic & assaultive behavior. The woman reporting Jr.'s assault on her was working as the family's babysitter at the time and is identified by name.

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.

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Paula Shaw St. James ๐ŸŸฆ's avatar Paula Shaw St. James ๐ŸŸฆ @paula72.bsky.social
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Lovely- consider posting on the gardening feed.

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Paula Shaw St. James ๐ŸŸฆ's avatar Paula Shaw St. James ๐ŸŸฆ @paula72.bsky.social
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Well stated!

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Robert Reich's avatar Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social
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TRUMP: I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebodyโ€ฆ SUPREME COURT: Sure. Seems reasonable.

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough's avatar Kaitlin Has Had Enough @gothamgirlblue.com
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Itโ€™s easy to see how fascism is interpersonal abuse scaled up for a population, but much harder to see how it replicates the same dynamics for the victims. How many of us told ourselves that we deserved it for not being better? How many people reinforced that notion โ€œfor our own goodโ€?

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Blake Emerson's avatar Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social
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Trump v. US is one of the most authoritarian decisions Iโ€™ve ever read. This is Roberts explaining why the president canโ€™t be prosecuted for various crimes in office. Criminal accountability would take away his power and we canโ€™t have that.

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The Daily Beast's avatar The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social
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The actress turned the BET Awards into a searing political moment.

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bobby (frociaggine) 's avatar bobby (frociaggine) @bobbylewis.bsky.social
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the unexpected thing about Talking To Your Representatives is that it can actually work, if enough people are similarly mad about the same thing. you wonโ€™t get the elected on the phone. but they will hear about it from their annoyed staff, who might not have time to do anything else

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Alex ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ's avatar Alex ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ @alexanotherone.bsky.social
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So voting in 2024 is the first step in rolling all this back, you're going to have to vote in the election after that one too, and the one after that, you're going to have to call your reps But voting in 2024 is a good first step

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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer๐Ÿ“ธ๐Ÿ“ท๐Ÿš€ 's avatar Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer๐Ÿ“ธ๐Ÿ“ท๐Ÿš€ @princejvstin.com
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I see the line from NPR and other places is to minimize the implications of the SC Ruling yesterday on immunity.

www.npr.org/2024/07/01/n...

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Rudy.'s avatar Rudy. @rudyfraser.com
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This blog post now includes replies directly from Bluesky.
This is thanks to the incredible work of @aendra.com who put this together overnight after I was having issues following the bluesky core team's examples.

I am now inventing a bsky mvp and awarding it to hir

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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4/4 . . . same way that the Soviets used political troops to execute tens of thousands of soldiers who refused orders during World War II. According to Chief Justice Roberts and his cabal, there is not a thing that anyone could ever do to bring that President to justice. For shame.

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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3/ . . . order to murder their fellow Americans, they will be pardoned and (b) if the refuse to carry out the illegal order, they will be subjected to the same violence that they refuse to carry out on others. A President could set up "political troops" to force soldiers into battle, in the . .

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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2/ . . . carried out such illegal orders would be subject to criminal prosecution, even if the President was not. BUT (HUGE BUT) the President has an absolute and unreviewable power to pardon anyone for federal crimes. So, he could promise all soldiers that (a) if they carry out the illegal . . .

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Mitchell Epner's avatar Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social
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1/ Let me explain one way that today's Trump immunity decision threatens the survival of the Republic. Under today's ruling, a President would be immune for any way in which he used the military (a "core function"), even to kill American citizens in America. Theoretically, the soldiers who . . .

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Lydia Polgreen's avatar Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Marilyn Munster 's avatar Marilyn Munster @heyfren.bsky.social
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She's rolling over in her grave.

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jamie quinn ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ's avatar jamie quinn ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ @threnody.bsky.social
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with all due respect, which is none, & with a full understanding that โ€œcongress will not save us from thisโ€ may very well be right, rolling over right now is pathetic. you could try doing literally anything else unless youโ€™re busy building your militia but leftist. get offline. do something. try.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist. This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume theyโ€™ll be just fine.

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Adam Rothman's avatar Adam Rothman @adamrothman.bsky.social
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"Todayโ€™s Supreme Court has just recreated one of the most despicable cases in English history, a case that signified the apex of absolutism in British history and was repudiated by a revolution for the damage it caused."

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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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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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