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Every “Biden should ____” skeet on here would do 50x more for beating Trump if it were instead just a clip that Biden or Harris posted earlier that day.

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Taniel 's avatar Taniel @taniel.bsky.social
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If you see the big news that GOP is trying to block the abortion rights measure in Arkansas: This is in the context of a restrictive new law that makes ballot measures much harder.

Voters rejected the change in 2022, but GOP passed it as a law anyway: boltsmag.org/arkansas-rep...

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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The Trumpists movement is centered around fake victimhood to a shocking degree. The bogus 2020 election fraud claims, "the FBI came to Mar-a-Lago to kill me", etc. etc. etc.

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Jacob T. Levy's avatar Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social
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One point I was only able to mention briefly but that bears spelling out: Roberts' opinion makes things worse *even in the very specific ground of presidents' ability to engage in politically-motivated prosecutions of their rivals.*

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www.theunpopulist.net/p/justice-ro...

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Holly Brewer's avatar Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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(Monday) hi Steve, you're working 160 hours this week (Saturday) bye Steve, you're fired

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Jorge Caballero's avatar Jorge Caballero @datadrivenmd.social
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Trump's Project 2025, page 594: make it harder for employees to unionize and allow employers to commit workplace safety violations without fear of repercussions simply by claiming that they didn't intend to put workers in harm's way

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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks

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Gabe Ortíz's avatar Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social
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Experts said the policy constituted torture & enforced disappearance, “which occurs when state agents conceal the fate or whereabouts of a person who is deprived of liberty.” “Enforced disappearance” has usually been associated w/human rights abuses in dictatorial regimes in Chile & Argentina.

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Your reminder that convicted felon Donald Trump has refused to rule out reinstating his family separation policy, which resulted in one of the darkest chapters in modern US history. More than 1,000 kids are still separated from their parents: americasvoice.org/blog/the-cru... #FamiliesBelongTogether

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David M. Perry's avatar David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social
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When you leave the NYT, please consider using your media money to subscribe to better outlets.

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The 19th's coverage of the GOP's abortion platform is literally the only accurate news coverage I have seen in a mainstream publication in the last 24 hours

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It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice.

What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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Robert Black's avatar Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social
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New from me, at The Evening Constitutional!

Thoughts on the travesty that is Trump v. United States

John Roberts's opinion is such a mess that it's barely worth engaging with his reasoning on its terms, but

The bottom line: yes, it really is that bad

eveningconstitutional.net/here-is-the-...

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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Taking it one step further, us on social media should be spending a greater proportion of our time talking about these important topics instead of interminable, low value discussions about the Biden age dilemma. We should be the change we want to see.

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Liz Sepper's avatar Liz Sepper @lsepper.bsky.social
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THIS 👇 is how to explain the Republican's abortion platform. It does not "soften" nor is it "soft." It codes a firm commitment to the anti-abortion movement and aims to con the rest of us. Always read @susanrinkunas.com !

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Jodie Griffin's avatar Jodie Griffin @jodiegriffin.bsky.social
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My sister JUST asked me (like, literally 10 minutes ago) if I knew what Project 2025 was. I sent her this. Her: "Oh, HELL no."

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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I think the fight for democracy needs to be put in more concrete terms. "If you're an independent voter, you can't afford a Trump victory. His attempt to steal the 2020 election was an attempt to take your independence away and only count your vote if you voted for him."

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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter's avatar Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter @susanrinkunas.com
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Actually, the Republican platform leaves the door wide open for a national abortion ban and people are silly to suggest otherwise. Me in Slate:

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The Onion's avatar The Onion @theonion.com
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eva's avatar eva @eva.computer
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the NYT could be defeated overnight if you all stopped subscribing to it you can play any number of knock off wordles on your phone

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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I'm concerned that SCOTUS will help Trump wreck the elector count and throw it to the House, something like that. We know that there will be another raft of bogus lawsuits challenging any Biden win, just like last time.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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In general I think having strong opinions on public dilemmas is overrated. Dilemmas are situations where us armchair quarterbacks offer the least value.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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And yes, this post is self-serving. Take it with a grain of salt if you like. But I do think it's true, and not just because my tiny account gets only a handful of likes.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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Posts here often have a surprisingly high retweet-to-like ratio. That makes me think some people should be liking more posts. If you're reading this, consider liking more posts. It gives valuable feedback to the poster.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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Maybe a different standard could be applied to niche and/or internal publications. For a generalist publication like the Times we can just take the angle (negative towards progressives) and volume (enormous) of coverage at face value. Anything else is, to me, mental gymnastics.

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Meredith Shiner's avatar Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.bsky.social
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Anyway maybe the New York Times doesn’t have “for the good of the country” in mind

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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Do you also think of e.g., Fox News as a Democratic media institution, since they're always wall-to-wall criticizing Democrats while going easy on Republicans?

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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I'm not surprised or confused anymore because I just think of them as a Republican newspaper.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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Eerily similar to the allegations against Clarence Thomas from over thirty years ago.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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4 dicks per minute or 4 dick *pics* per minute? Like was each pic of a different dick or have there been repeats? Just trying to clarify /s

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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It strikes me that Michelle Obama doing so well in polls is pretty scary because it's evidence against the idea that the polls are broken because pollsters aren't reaching liberal voters. Somehow they're reaching lots of Michelle Obama fans

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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I'm concerned that they're going to throw the election to him when Trump files the next round of bogus lawsuits after November.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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The Roberts court conservatives made the same decision a lot of other Republicans did. Gave up their dignity for Trump, no matter how badly they had to debase themselves.

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Russ Silva's avatar Russ Silva @russellsilva.bsky.social
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Against Trump it would not be a "deserved" loss. Even aside from all his other disastrous issues, Trump is not eligible for the presidency under the Insurrection Clause.

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Amanda Smith's avatar Amanda Smith @amandasmith.bsky.social
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As I have learned from the past few weeks, Trump forgetting his previous speech about the Heritage Project and the many ties in his cabinet to it should spark just as many breathless op-eds about Trump’s memory loss right

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Trump gushed over Heritage and Roberts in a 2022 speech. Trump now claims not to know who is behind Project 2025, which is led by Roberts and Heritage. www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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