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M Gibson@sphinxboom.bsky.social |
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.
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@russms.bsky.social
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Six people did the thing that is supposed to require 2/3 of both chambers of Congress and 3/4 of the states to do
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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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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Convolver
@convolver.bsky.social
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Roberts once again showing his perspicacity by claiming there’s nothing to fear from a President with virtually unbounded extralegal authority the same day Trump threatens military show trials for his political opponents.
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Charles Tomlinson Griffes
@ctgriffes.bsky.social
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Trump after Obama is basically a filled-in swimming pool thing. “Oh, a black president. How about the jerk from Celebrity Apprentice? Not such an august position now.”
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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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vortex egg, MLIS
@vortexegg.regretfully.online
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Americans across the political spectrum are all deeply mired in “apocalypse realism”, in which it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the world not ending. This widespread imaginary just happens to motivate the people who want the world to end while depressing everyone else.
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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M Gibson
@sphinxboom.bsky.social
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Rehydrate the Masses!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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it’ll be because a bunch of voters decided to pretend like the trump administration never actually happened
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Screamer Jim
@screamerjim.bsky.social
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This country does not want to hear it. And if you do talk about it, people will act like you’re holding them down and force-feeding them poison. This country cannot face itself, or its history. Doesn’t want to. You can’t make it. Toddler shit.
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M Gibson
@sphinxboom.bsky.social
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Watching Corey Lewandowski get demolished by Barry Berke is very satisfying! youtu.be/IrlDGvuUxMY?...
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M Gibson
@sphinxboom.bsky.social
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I laughed out loud - nice!😂
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Even by the degraded standards of today’s court, the possibility that one or more of the justices supported an effort to end the constitutional order they’ve sworn to uphold is a outrageous new low www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The House will refuse to certify the results for Biden, no matter how conclusive his victory, if the GOP controls it. Just where we're at now.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Like seriously Clive Owen trying to jumpstart his fucking car is more exciting and tense than anything that happens in any action sequence in one of the Star Wars prequels bsky.app/profile/mtsw...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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yep. the mere presence of obama was a psychic wound on par with trump doing actively horrible stuff to real people
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Adam Kotsko
@adamkotsko.bsky.social
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I remain haunted by the white people who responded to liberal dismay at Trump by saying, "Now you know how we felt under Obama."
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jesse
@jesseltaylor.bsky.social
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We have two sets of speech rules in this country: one for the far right, which must be protected in case they turn their wrath on others, and one for everyone else, who are subject to the immediate punitive power of the state for any reason or no reason at all
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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A lot of people look at the implacable and irrational unpersuadability of antivaxxers and kinda conclude "ah there's nothing we can do except let them win" instead of the correct conclusion that we need to force them to get their kids vaccinated against their parents' will
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Eric Rauchway
@rauchway.bsky.social
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This is practically cribbed from the appeaser playbook. Dictators are strong, democracy is weak, defeat is inevitable; it’s Lindbergh stuff.
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M Gibson
@sphinxboom.bsky.social
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Or “And to think…I hesitated.”
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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then he gets spat up in front of j. lo and he winks at her before dying
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Constantine
@ajaxsinger.bsky.social
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I may be more cynical than you but I have rarely run into a white person whose claims of ignorance regarding unequal opportunity and access were believable. Folks don't have much inclination to admit to immoralities from which they benefit directly.
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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LAKE OF SOULS, my collection of short fiction, is available TOMORROW! Wherever fine books are sold!
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southpaw
@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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This whole thing continues to be so weird. The deliberate malice of it. www.npr.org/2024/03/15/1...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i've said this before but it is maddening to see the extent to which people simultaneously believe and disbelieve everything trump says. they won't believe him when he says he'll ban abortion, but they believe him when he says he is "anti-war," even after he actively attempted to start one!
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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every time biden touts an accomplishment he directly says “republicans didn’t vote for it.” more of this!
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M Gibson
@sphinxboom.bsky.social
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An excellent pup! She was a silent partner in the background of your TikToks, on walks or her nails clicking on the floor of your home. My condolences.
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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It is both funny and instructive how eager so many powerful individuals and institutions with massively grandiose understandings of their own significance have been to discard every value they've ever professed or pretended to in order to protect the dumbest, shittiest rich guy of his generation.
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Jonathan M. Katz
@katzonearth.bsky.social
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We all know though that if the roles were somehow reversed, there's zero chance the Republican justices would have missed a chance to disqualify an insurrectionist ex-Democratic president from running again, right.
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Charm City Slicker (57-35)
@sprawlhater.bsky.social
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Well-to-do American society and its chasers are obsessed with college. Kids spend their whole childhoods in a panic trying to get into 1 of 30 schools in a country of 340 million, then spend all their social time doing alumni networking, then have kids and spend 18 years inflicting the panic again
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Lord Businessman II
@lordbusinessman.bsky.social
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Trump's COVID response is sufficient to never allow him to be President again, which gets clouded over by 1/6 and with some good reason I think, but remains a deception and fraud on the American people that willfully got many, many people killed to goose his re-elect odds
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William Li
@williamlidc.bsky.social
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First thing in the orientation packet must have been "here when we want to shame conservatives, we snap our fingers. Feel free to practice on the person with Chick-Fil-A" Or this is all made up
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Republicans going from “American exceptionalism” to “America is dogshit compared to this country where everyone wears tracksuits and the party that collaborated with the Nazis is the only legal party now” in like 10 years was a real lateral move
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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labor markets only exist for me, the owner; for my workers, it's not a market, it's a moral transaction, what you owe me, and if I can get politicians & agencies to make you less able to exercise your market options, I'll do it
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Fuzzy Mike
@fuzzymike.bsky.social
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later movies invent this culture of warrior honor which 1) the first movie ends with the predator flipping over the table cause he got beat 2) it’s hard to be an honorable warrior when your Whole Signature Deal is sniping people while wearing an invisibility cloak
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Kevin OMalley
@holyshitimfucked.com
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Carl Weathers scrounging craft tables to make stew was perhaps the funniest thing ever filmed for television. In a better, more decent, world there would have been 23 Action Jackson films.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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hmm, how should we describe lily white legislatures banning universities from reaching out to underserved and underrepresented racial groups? www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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I know our major media outlets are busy doing 10 stories per day about Ivy League campus intrigue but I feel like the fact that 215 bodies were discovered in a pit behind a jail in Jackson MS earlier this year probably merited a mention or two. Maybe even a few follow up questions.
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E. Allyn (aka Norton II, Emperor of the United States)
@ericallyn.bsky.social
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Knowledge is power. But in some contexts - generally for people who already have some power - *pretending* to be knowledgeable is sufficient.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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that’s the key thing, there’s less an interest in knowledge or expertise or learning and simply in maintaining a sense of superiority
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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the problem is that the typical outcome for state sovereignty is not “laboratories for democracy” but “assorted local hierarchies, oligarchies and tyrannies”
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M Gibson
@sphinxboom.bsky.social
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“Incontinentia…Incontinentia Buttocks.”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"Were Trump to be excluded from a ballot, Trump voters would of course claim that they have been cheated. But they will claim that anyway, in any possible scenario in which Trump does not win reelection. He will lie about the outcome, and they will believe him. We have already run this experiment."
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Sandra Newman
@sannewman.bsky.social
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When the enormity of the world's horrors makes you feel helpless, narrow your focus. Find one stranger and scold them for posting a recipe while kids are dying. Call out a new mom for not adding alt text to a baby photo. Critique a selfie. Correct a joke. Show people you care more than them.
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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“If Trump gets disqualified for leading an insurrection then we’ll be forced to treat every Republican claim regarding ballot access with complete legitimacy." Why?
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Jonathan Ladd
@jonmladd.bsky.social
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*When Trump faces consequences for violating the Constitution: This should be left to the voters *When Trump loses the popular vote: We must follow the Constitution *When Trump faces impeachment: This should be settled in court *When Trump faces criminal prosecution: This is a political question
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