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Pete Rhomberg@prhomberg.bsky.social |
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Profile picture: "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump." Joseph Wright (1768).
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among these, I always get stuck on the Senate filibuster. It did not exist in any form while the Framers were alive. The current form, in which a Senator can stop a bill permanently without doing anything, did not exist until the 1970s. But it's treated as sacrosanct.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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No, look, it’s giving workers the flexibility to determine the terms of their indenture! Workers rights and such! /s
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Pete Rhomberg
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My problem with #TheAcolyte isn’t that it’s about boring Jedi Space Cops (tho it is).
It’s that it’s about *incompetent* Jedi Space Cops.
Not one of these idiots is using the Force to sense intention or figure out which twin is which in a known “we have twins” scenario—both basic Jedi skills.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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Gotta get the Barstool Sports Bros voting against the GOP with this kind of shit.
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Vituperative Erb
@vituperativeerb.bsky.social
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Imagining Dana Scully running into Dale Cooper at an agency training and just thinking “Jesus Christ not another one”
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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there are a lot of people who are not exactly thrilled with a biden/trump redux and trying to get them excited about something else, like, idk, free childcare or some shit, might be the way to go. idk.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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Water with electrolytes: truly, what plants crave.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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War criminal expresses disgust at wannabe dictator.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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Well, we had a good run, but it's time to pack it in. No nation should survive such an abomination in the sight of the gods and man. (this joking tone would be more fun in a different year, when the prospect of America "packing it in" is not that far-fetched)
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Mark Joseph Stern
@mjsdc.bsky.social
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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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right. NYT leadership knows they operate in a moderate/liberal bubble, and after 2016 they decided that the only way to adjust for this is to always assume that reactionary thought is more popular than it seems to be
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.
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Michael Hobbes
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social
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the thing you really can't over-emphasize about reactionary centrists is how *dumb* they are
www.persuasion.community/p/a-guide-fo...
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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10 hour drive on Wednesday out to Detroit Lakes, MN. Nearly 11 hour drive back to Milwaukee today—with fewer stops. That “return from vacation” traffic is ROUGH, folks.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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Cannon is a whack job, but considering the SCOTUS ruling it’s pretty reasonable to request briefing on this. The real issue here is that the SCOTUS ruling is insane.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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They’re *all* “it’ll be fine, we’ll work on some bipartisan bills together” Institutionalists entirely insufficient for the last… 12 years? Certainly for the last 8 years. As someone born and raised in Illinois, Durbin is a real “live long enough to see yourself become a villain” guy for me.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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This drives me up the wall, but it’s exactly the answer Biden would have given in 2020, 2012, 2000, 1988… it’s the answer of an Institutionalist with an unshakable faith in The System. His answer shows he’s was the wrong candidate 6+ months ago for political reasons, not now for age/health reasons.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Alex Blechman
@alexblechman.bsky.social
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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Martha
@magicalmartha.bsky.social
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I just watched the movie where Yoda burns everything down and says it's time for something new so let's go with this
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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Glad the Paper of Record found a “both sides” angle in its analysis.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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Heritage using a friggin domestic abuser language there. “Why you gotta make me so mad that I hit you” type shit.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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I rewatched it within the last year and it’s BAD.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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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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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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Last year I flew British Airways to the UK and American back. The difference in the two was striking (and all to American's detriment), not least the fact that American played a commercial for their credit card BEFORE the safety video.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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i don't know whether AOCs call for impeaching the justices will be the right one (it doesn't have a chance in hell of getting through), but the conversation has to start with congress, who are prime offenders in letting the court get to this point, and i'm encouraged someone there recognizes that
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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ty
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Jay Willis
@jaywillis.bsky.social
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Inviting you to ponder the craziest takeaway from Roberts’s opinion in the Trump immunity case, which is that if Trump had ordered the military, instead of the mob of his supporters, to march to the Capitol and murder Mike Pence, he’d be legally bulletproof ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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We are so fucked
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@flatline42.bsky.social
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I'll point out that Napoleon staged the military outside of the General Assembly at one point and prevented political opponents from entering in order to pass legislation. Under the SCOTUS ruling, it seems like a president could do the same and be immune due to being the C-in-C.
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Sam
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So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!
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Emma Evans
@trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.
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Pete Rhomberg
@prhomberg.bsky.social
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It's such a great feeling to write a middling post, take a look at it, then delete it. "I am truly a master of restraint," I think to myself. (lampshading any "you should have used some of that restraint on *this* post" snark)
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history
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Chuck Wendig
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
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You know how sometimes in war there’s the one side who has rules and thinks they know how war is fought but then they’re shocked, SHOCKED, when the other side runs out of the bushes and like, stabs their horses and shit? And that side wins? Yeah I think about that phenomenon a lot these days.
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement
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Mary Gillis
@marygillis.bsky.social
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I think about this line a lot these days.
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Micah
@rincewind.run
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I keep coming back to the fact that these people make such a big deal about calling themselves originalists and the framers could not possibly have been more clear on this specific issue I know the hypocrisy is the point, but still
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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If Jefferson had just ordered Madison to kill Marbury and then pardoned him for it, then his problem would’ve been solved and the courts wouldn’t have gotten involved.
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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social
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This is of course glib. In the current moment, and in the case at hand, the liberal coalition is not fighting for any policy end but for the rule of law itself. See: elections. If Trump loses this fall, he will try to overturn it (again.) Biden won’t, because he believes in democracy.
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nattie winters
@utilitylimb.bsky.social
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i can offer no guidance for what we have to do to fix all of this, but i do enjoy reading the wikipedia article about how mussolini got strung up like a hog
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...
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Col. Boozy Badger
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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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“if democracy gives us a black president i guess we can’t have democracy”
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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The president is himself forever immune from prosecution for crimes committed using his official power, and he can pardon anyone for helping him to commit federal crimes, explicitly including an actions in furtherance of a coup to illegally hold onto the office of the presidency. That’s the upshot.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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