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Charles DeWitt@sparkydewitt.bsky.social |
30 followers 93 following 42 posts
Tech enthusiast, history fan/teacher, corgi caretaker, coffee lover, and enemy of bad faith rhetorical jackasses.
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Aaron Sojourner
@aaronsojourner.org
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"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Wow amazing how the Saudis keep showing up in these stories where they offer illegal support to far right politicians.
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@bjkeefe.bsky.social
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On Trump's proposal to cut taxes (for the rich) and raise tariffs, here is a chart from @pkrugman.bsky.social on what to expect.
In words: "The net effect would be negative for 80 percent of the population, especially for the bottom 60 percent, while extremely positive for the top 1 percent."
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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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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United Farm Workers
@ufw.bsky.social
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Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero
www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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J.M. Berger
@intelwire.bsky.social
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Everyone else is focused, rightly, on the threat, so let me just remind you that it will not remain bloodless, whatever the left decides to do or not to do.
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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Watching the GOP reaction to the Supreme Court's "immunity" decision has been instructive.
These folks don't "fear" Trump, as we've been told.
They want a dictator. They may personally despise him and his smell. But he's their best shot at fascism.
www.salon.com/2024/07/03/g...
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Brooke Binkowski
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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This IS Heritage's Project 2025. Remember it's not IN 2025. It's BY 2025.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back
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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social
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That is an open threat. Terrorism as politics.
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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New in PN: The pundit class needs to get a grip Politics isn't fantasy football and there's no One Weird Trick to beat Trump.
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luke
@coolhand.bsky.social
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They just come straight out and say it and nobody listens
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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A tragically common cause of death before pasteurization was food poisoning in children who were being weaned and starting to drink cow's milk. Pasteurization is one of the greatest public health successes in the history of the world, and now it's protecting us from H5N1 bird flu 🧪
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Laura Helmuth
@laurahelmuth.bsky.social
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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Helen Branswell
@helenbranswell.bsky.social
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Rural veterinarians play a critical role in safeguarding the health of food animals. And they often alert public health to animal-human problems that are brewing. The role they're being asked to play detecting & containing #H5N1 #birdflu is putting them in a bind. www.statnews.com/2024/07/03/b...
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States Newsroom
@statesnewsroom.com
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Tiny bark beetles, namely the Ips engraver and southern pine varieties, have been killing millions of trees across Louisiana and Mississippi after a severe drought last year left forests and woods weakened and susceptible to the insect. Via Louisiana Illuminator
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TKarney
@pecunium.bsky.social
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The law has to bind everyone, or it protects no one.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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apropos of uhhhhhhh everything, reposting this again
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Beirne Roose-Snyder
@beirners.bsky.social
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Back in February
@jennieindc.bsky.social
& I talked about Project 2025 & how it destroys checks & balances & scapegoats LGBTQI+ people while decimating repro & other basic rights. The news in the last four days makes this convo even more urgent.
Nothing is inevitable. There's so much to do.
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Charles DeWitt
@sparkydewitt.bsky.social
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So Biden could have, as apart of official acts, taken 'gratuity' from foreign governments and that's fine.
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DCapTO
@dcapto.bsky.social
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Y’all DO know we eliminated an entire flu strain during the few months we were all masking in 2020. Your maskless faces are not even giving us a chance. How is getting sick over and over better than NOT getting sick? Fitted K/N95 masks work. Masks are inconvenient? So is chronic illness & disability
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Easy to lose sight of the significance here, but the sitting president just gave a speech condemning the Supreme Court for a ruling that expands presidential power. It’s also a president who stands to benefit from this ruling, given that his opponent is vowing to imprison him and his family.
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Charles DeWitt
@sparkydewitt.bsky.social
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In law sometimes ends phone conversations sincerely, desperately, warning us to be careful of murder migrants.
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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Trump is a convicted felon who stole classified documents and tried to do a coup and the NYT never called on him to drop out. Ridiculous
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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Also too: imagine if every NYT pundit used their valuable space this morning to call on Rs to ditch Trump for being held liable for sexual abuse, for committing 34 felonies, and for lying about literally everything. They could do that! They don't! I wonder why!
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Biden is too old. But he has surrounded himself with competent people and has had a conventional first term. Trump is authoritarian but inept. He has surrounded himself with people he hopes will make him more effective at authoritarianism. Neither is ideal. But these are not similar problems.
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Mike Masnick
@mmasnick.bsky.social
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If they didn't think any of the whoppers last night were egregious enough to require a correction, wtf business do they have being on air?
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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In a concurring opinion upholding criminalization of homelessness, Clarence Thomas argues the court should also repeal its decision striking down laws that criminalize drug addiction (not possession or distribution -- addiction). To support his argument, he cites a dissent by ... Clarence Thomas.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Looking forward to the next Supreme Court decision, a 6-3 ruling that weirdos who taunt their neighbors with political flags are actually “very cool, according to the Constitution”
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Sam Logan
@samandfuzzy.bsky.social
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Dream big
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ApocalypticaNow
@apocalypticanow.bsky.social
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Marcellus Williams was cleared by DNA evidence and the prosecutor is trying to vacate the conviction, but the state of Missouri still scheduled an execution date for him. Please sign and share this petition
innocenceproject.org/petitions/st...
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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it’s not just that, e.g., Clarence Thomas loves to be bribed. the conservatives really believe that spoils rightfully accrue to the powerful, and that exchanges of money and power are a natural and just part of politics
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Uncertainty Vice Principal
@jeof.bsky.social
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What often becomes clear is that Alito et al make rulings based on some BS FOX propaganda about the case, not what actually happened. Make a ruling that justices can’t watch FOX News all day. I’m kidding but yeesh. Right-wing media has rotted the brain of the US, and right to the top.
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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Gratuities! You know, gift cards, lunches, plaques, books, framed photos, or *disguising the phrase with a yawn* thick envelopes full of cash. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Because she does.
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Joel Morris
@gralefrit.bsky.social
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Can someone explain to the most powerful people on earth that science fiction is meant to be an allegorical discussion about the present, not an instruction manual / catalogue for the products we will / must have in the future? I blame all those deck plans books and endpaper maps.
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Marisa Kabas
@marisakabas.bsky.social
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a shockingly accurate—and deeply depressing—headline.
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Osita Nwanevu
@ositanwanevu.bsky.social
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This is an exchange I had with a Trump voter at a rally several years ago. www.newyorker.com/news/our-col...
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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You will never guess which Judges voted to make it easier for public officials to receive gifts.
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CHOAM Nomsky đź’
@thielman.bsky.social
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The New York Democratic Party can’t shift a Republican out of his seat for love or money but they’ll move heaven and earth to boot a progressive black guy in favor of a Reagan Democrat racist
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on corruption is basically at a point where the only thing that counts as a bribe is someone handing a public official a giant bag of money with a dollar sign on it while saying “this is a bribe” out loud
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Tim Carvell
@timcarvell.bsky.social
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2002: "Careful, kids, the Internet is forever!"
2024: "Oh, hey, all the work you did for a decade of your life was just deleted from the Internet for Business Reasons."
latenighter.com/news/paramou...
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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"Republicans can smear Hunter Biden as a screwup who traded on his father’s name and condemn the president as too loving and indulgent, but these talking points should be seen for what they are: a distraction from Trump’s egregious, unprecedented corruption."
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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Remember Trump's "divestment plan" that was literally nothing more than binders full of blank papers? You should.
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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"Last Friday, a judge booted Infowars out of bankruptcy. It was mostly a win for hate purveyor Alex Jones, who persisted with his grotesque lies about Sandy Hook even as grieving parents faced an avalanche of harassment from his deranged fans."
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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"The leak of the Dobbs opinion was a turning point. That made it clear the Court’s conservatives were going to take away women’s rights, and they were going to justify it by saying constitutional rights must be constrained by the prevailing viewpoints at a time when women didn’t have rights."
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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TRANSLATION: Trump is bullshitting with his sycophants and not actually preparing
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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.bsky.social
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With even Fox News now acknowledging that Biden is pulling ahead, who's writing the big think piece about how Trump should gracefully bow out at the RNC for a younger, fresher candidate? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you, Nate Silver!
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