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Larry Glickman
@larryglickman.bsky.social
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If any other high-profile presidential candidate gave one speech this rambling and unhinged, it would be a major story. Trump, of course, has given dozens of such speeches in this campaign cycle.
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The Onion
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The press using the white house visitor logs to write up (apparently false) attacks on Biden after Biden published visitor logs and Trump didn't: good illustration of the reward for upstanding and ethical behavior in the current media environment.
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Megan L. Cook
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There really does come a point in your 40s where suddenly the health of your parents and the parents of everyone you know becomes a major preoccupation (this observation not borne about by any immediate concerns with my parents but it feels like every other conversation I have these days)
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Gerry Doyle
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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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Anna Meier
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My favorite tried-and-true resistance tactic: Being Extremely Fucking Annoying.
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Miranda Yaver
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Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.
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Helen Kennedy
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Ouch
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Wow, it's weird how the media narrative of a far right populist wave keeps crashing against reality in every country that actually requires them to win a majority of votes to take power
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Dave Levitan
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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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Dave Levitan
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Writing for the NYT requires either having or pretending to have a degree of gullibility that could not occur in the wild
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Faine Greenwood
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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.
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Karl Bode
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the consolidated, center-right billionaire owned press continues to shift the editorial overton window rightward and if you can't see it you're either complicit or oblivious
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Pwnallthethings
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Will Wilkinson 🏳️🌈
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If I were to put the problem in the pithiest possible way, it would be “if your business already has the data hygiene needed to make good use of Gen AI, you probably have very little to gain from it.”
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis
@kendrawrites.bsky.social
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IDK kind of feels like we should be paying more attention to a prominent conservative think tank saying we're in the midst of a second american revolution that will remain bloodless as long as long as the left lets it be, then whether or not Biden should step down.
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Don Moynihan
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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"
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Bethany Brookshire
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I am reading Hannah Arendt right now and she makes this point. Over and over. With a freakin hammer. There are a LOT OF PEOPLE in the world very eager to pick a group and blame it for their problems, esp when they don't have a strong grasp of where those problems really come from.
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scott⚡️mccloud
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Amanda Marcotte
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In the wake of the "immunity" decision, the shocked press focused on how this hurts Jack Smith's case.
But it's much worse. The Supreme Court just blessed Trump's desire to be a dictator.
And they found a way to give that power only to Republicans.
www.salon.com/2024/07/02/t...
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@privacylawchi.bsky.social
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Every time Manny Jacinto enters my brain space, he won't leave for 3-5 business days.
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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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@privacylawchi.bsky.social
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And they would act so wounded if they were subjected to any sort of derision or even pushback. They truly think they've earned our deference. It's infuriating.
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Jonathan Ladd
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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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Kevin M. Kruse
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Yeah, it’s not just that he consistently dismisses very valid criticism of his insane opinions; it’s that he does it with a wholly unwarranted sneer of condescension.
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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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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Jacob T. Levy
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It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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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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Spencer Ackerman
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Nothing is illegal and there is only what 68 Senators will not permit
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borderless
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"Don't comply in advanced." Losing hope is compliance with fascism. Nurture it, and it will guide you through.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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A good way to challenge the authority of an illegitimate institution is to find an issue where their authority is unpopular and difficult to enforce and openly defy them on it.
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Radley Balko
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Good point from Sotomayor here. By barring prosecutors from probing a president's intent, Roberts renders the entire "official vs. unofficial" distinction meaningless.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Channel that anxiety into something useful
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Seth Masket
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@kevinmkruse.bsky.social makes a strong case for this being the most radical Supreme Court in history. Yes more radical than Taney's Court. open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Adam Serwer
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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one
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Faine Greenwood
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there's nothing wrong with having feelings of despair and futility, but i think it's most responsible to avoid airing all that out in public to the greatest extent possible right now. we need to cultivate a vengeance-driven, enraged espirit de corps right now, because we need people to fight
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@privacylawchi.bsky.social
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All the tangents made me smile, not gonna lie
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Well Dr. Franklin, about that...
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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I really have lost my former tolerance for "we're doomed/fucked/it's all over/they've won" takes at this point, in that they're the most dangerous attitudes one could possibly have when confronted with a truly existential political threat (which we still DO have levers to address).
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Julia Azari
@juliaazari.bsky.social
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i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate
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James Downie
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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.
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Don Moynihan
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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Art Of Coop
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I agree, but it's clear that even if Biden wins the GOP is going to try to fuck this up in the House and give it to Trump anyway
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Don Zeko
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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Gautham FC
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However, the Court’s GOP majority did not issue a test for “official” v. “Unofficial” acts so that it can remain the ultimate arbiter of what can or cannot be prosecuted
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Faine Greenwood
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At this point, it is 100% undeniable that the Supreme Court majority is attempting to destroy democracy and seize total power over the US. They're not even trying to hide it. Since the media refuses to clearly convey this fact to the public, tell everyone you know.
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