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Seth Cotlar
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has lost his seat in Parliament and will now return to his former post managing Spinal Tap.
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Real Benisons@realbenisons.bsky.social |
73 followers 361 following 900 posts
reading the morning newspaper is a realistic benediction of the day--Hegel
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Seth Cotlar
@sethcotlar.bsky.social
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has lost his seat in Parliament and will now return to his former post managing Spinal Tap.
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Kieran Healy
@kjhealy.bsky.social
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+210 seats gained on a +2% increase in vote share. FPTP Democracy truly a miracle of representation.
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Dan Murphy
@bungdan.bsky.social
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I mean, FFS: Biden has lost a few steps? No fucking kidding! But Trump has been ranting incoherently, about his dream of becoming Caligula, for 9 years now. Biden gets tired and loses his train of thought sometimes. Trump gets tired and promises to execute immigrants to feel better.
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Dan O’Sullivan
@osullyville.bsky.social
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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.
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Chris Levesque
@levesque-chris.bsky.social
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I don’t schedule events after 8 pm, and I’m almost thirty years younger than Biden.
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Seth Trueger
@mdaware.org
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incidentally I am an emergency physician and I use a walker
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome
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David Noll
@david.noll.org
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The Tories could still win if King Charles has courage.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.
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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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very much the words of a man who has never once worried, not for a moment, that he would be outside the law
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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social
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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Mitch McConnell offers an object lesson for all the Republicans who think they can tame this tiger -- even if you do everything in your power to advance Trump's agenda and sabotage two different impeachment trials that would remove him, the Felon Messiah King will still demand your head.
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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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It was close I remember we didn't hear that Nixon won until the middle of the next day in Jr high science class
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Pwnallthethings
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Gonna have to reform the curricula a bit. Conlaw is now part of American History. Soviet studies is run by the law school. Journalism is now a minor in sport studies. Computer science is run by the business school, contains no programming, and business majors are dualed with "creative fiction"
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Quinta Jurecic
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it says a great deal that roberts has time in his majority opinion to mock the dissents for their "tone of chilling doom" but can't actually manage to rebut this hypo. because he can't
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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Madison, but yeah
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮
@joshuafoust.com
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I just counted home page stories. The Daily Caller has five anti-Biden and six pro-Trump stories. The New York Times has seven anti-Biden stories and three that give this style of both-sides treatment to Trump. The Times really is sprinting off a cliff to satisfy their nepo-publisher’s vendetta.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Category error watch. People keep assuming legal proceduralism will apply in an authoritarian state.
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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how do you rebut presumption of immunity? nobody knows. but you can't consider the president's motive in rebutting it or the fact that murder is against the law. doesn't matter if president says to his advisors "I would like to kill rival because I hate them." inadmissible
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Seth Cotlar
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Just read Thomas's concurrence in the Trump case and OMG, the mendacity! Thomas says yes, the President is immune, but also the appointment of special council Smith was an abuse of Presidential power that threatens the foundations of American liberty. He cites Thomas Paine to back this up. Wut?....
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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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My personal ranking of who defended Royal inviolability with the most flair Charles I Louis XVI John Roberts
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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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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Julian Sanchez
@normative.bsky.social
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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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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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How about any standard of honest discourse?
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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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Bye Muted
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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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Joshua J. Friedman
@joshuajfriedman.com
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NEW: Judge Merchan postpones Trump's sentencing till September (via Frank G. Runyeon, Law360)
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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CNN's new poll doesn't establish some failsafe alternative to Biden for Democrats. But it does run against the twin ideas that the debate itself doomed Biden and that Harris isn't a viable alternative. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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Obama and Democrats did set annual out of pocket maximums for ACA plans
And Biden and Democrats set annual out of pocket caps on drugs
2K per year starting next January
www.healthcare.gov/glossary/out....
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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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ACA does have annual out of pocket maximums afaik Mine was about $2000/year That's on top of premium Which was 250 or 300/month No idea where 5K/month on ACA happens
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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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I was on a basic silver plan Deductible was $2K per year for everything So there's no way I would have had to pay $5K/month or even $5K/year Maximum out of pocket was 8K for the bronze plans iirc I don't know what exact plan you're talking about
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Pwnallthethings
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Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided
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Real Benisons
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I was only able to retire early because of the ACA I am looking forward to the $2K annual out of pocket limit on Medicare drugs starting next January Medicare btw was LBJ I remember him He did mess up on a Supreme Court appointment Fortas, who resigned That has had bad effects for 55 years
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Quinta Jurecic
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Trump will not stop pushing if you give him a slap on the wrist; he will push as far as he can possibly go. We've already seen this in action when the House failed to impeach him over the Mueller report and he immediately embarked on extorting Ukraine
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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"President Biden, who seemed fully conscious and did not drool on himself, warned that an asteroid would wipe out all life in three days. Though he's been long dogged by questions about his physical and mental stamina, the president remained upright as he briefed the nation on the coming apocalypse"
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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
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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"Amici for Plaintiffs respectfully submit that roberts should start a blog"
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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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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Real Benisons
@realbenisons.bsky.social
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Does this mean that the mandate has been returned to Judge Chutkan? Or does she need to wait for something more before she schedules anything?
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Big Cases Bot
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New filing: "U.S. v. Trump (appeal of no immunity to election obstruction charges)"
Doc #1208638582: OPINION [2062492] received from the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States notifying this court of the following…
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Aubrey Gilleran
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That “Black jobs” seems to be the main thing from the debate to go actually viral on social media should give certain columnists some pause about their pulse on the campaign.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the most diabolical suggestion i have heard given this reality is Harris/Manchin
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Philip Bump
@pbump.com
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The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.
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The Achiever formerly known as Karl
@urban-achiever.bsky.social
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It’s just one atom, Michael. What could it possibly cost?
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Chris Geidner
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects Steve Bannon’s request to stay out of prison pending any remaining appeals of his contempt of Congress conviction. He is due to report to prison for a four-month sentence by Monday.
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kilgore trout
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maybe I’ve just lost the plot but biden has like a 40 year history of needlessly kicking his own ass in various goofy new ways then popping out the other side giggling like the caddyshack gopher so I dunno what I’m supposed to do as far as freaking out that he’s up to it yet again
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