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Stephen Baines@stephenbaines.bsky.social |
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Oceanographer, Ecologist, biogeochemist, drummer and gardener.
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Taniel
@taniel.bsky.social
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JUST IN: Labour heading toward a landslide victory in the UK. This is their return to power, for the first time since 2010. National exit poll, released moments ago, shows them above 400 seats. The ruling conservatives projected at 131, which would be their lowest since WWII.
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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The NYTs has become “Cops,” only for liberal political anxieties. Its audience knows who Trump is, so they can’t drum up any more anxiety about him than already exists. So they lean into worries about the dems ability to prevent Trump’s takeover - paradoxically making it much more likely.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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conor
@coneg.bsky.social
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i cannot stress how relieving it is to see the president of a major creative tech company like nintendo voice concerns about generative ai and say they’re not interested
www.tweaktown.com/news/99109/n...
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Frances Elizabeth
@franceselizabeth.bsky.social
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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I know people are deeply worried about DT becoming president. But you don’t solve that worry by replacing one imperfect solution and with an even riskier solution. Biden’s admin has been one of the most effective in my lifetime re unions, climate, infrastructure, jobs, economy. What gives?
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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It really is making *me* feel crazy to see a bunch of other Democrat voters running around screaming about how Biden is now unelectable, on the basis of one bad debate and an incredibly obvious ratfucking campaign by America’s most craven newspaper.
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Popehat
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Watch for the American Right to begin to make claims that by overreacting to and mischaracterizing the Trump immunity decision, critics are causing “unrest”, and then watch for them to use that to justify the things Trump does.
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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It’s much more civilized on here. I am no longer active on the bird app because it feels so toxic there. I only jump on it to check breaking news trends. I fear news organizations stay on Twitter because of the algorithm, and the nature of news in turn gets warped by it.
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Paul Krugman
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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I haven’t been paying as much attention as usual to inflation indicators. But we’ve been getting a string of good news. One source of inflation pessimism was the high ratio of job openings to unemployed workers. That issue has now gone away, with unemployment still very low 1/
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Steve Silberman
@stevesilberman.bsky.social
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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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the conservative theory of law in one headline
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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Asclepius tuberosa. A native North American milkweed, and beauty.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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COLEMAN, Fla. (AP) — Commission denies parole for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, convicted of killing FBI agents in 1975.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Official act. Immune.
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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He’s fucking evil. He even looks like a Dr Evil cosplay. He’s not hiding it. Would be holding Hitlers coattails.
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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This man is saying this as if every policy position being supported by the heritage foundation and the right isn’t incredibly unpopular.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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Air filtration in closed public spaces.
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Ian Livingston
@ianlivingston.bsky.social
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Sun rising on Category 5 Hurricane #Beryl. 165 mph sustained wind, strongest storm so early in the season on record in the Atlantic. #tropicalwx
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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richard nixon, in hell, giving one last fuck you to the american republic
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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I cannot believe that he does not understand what Trump is and what he’ll do. I have to believe it’s an act to allow his own fantasy of a theocracy to play out.
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Peter Sagal
@petersagal.bsky.social
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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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Relatedly, one thing we really need to do sooner or later is constitutionally limit the president's authority over DoJ.
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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Please!
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Jamison Foser
@jamisonfoser.bsky.social
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Also if you are 48 years old you have lived *your entire life to date* under the authority of a Supreme Court majority appointed by Republican presidents. It's a clear violation of the principle that governments derive legitimacy from the consent of the governed. Happy July 4th Week!
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Lydia Polgreen
@polgreen.bsky.social
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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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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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Seth Masket
@smotus.bsky.social
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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY
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Dr. Wombat
@aspyre.bsky.social
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Remember their intention is to discourage you, to break your spirit, your joy, and ability to push back against them.
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Coach Finstock
@coachfinstock.bsky.social
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Friendly reminder that Ronald Reagan was called senile so often it became a running gag on SNL and the late night shows. He then won 49 of 50 states in the 1984 election.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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every time I see someone complain about unions I think about how unions were the consensus alternative to the previous system of burning the factory owner alive inside his house
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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Both are true, and sometimes I want the latter, but we are stuck with the former, goddammit.
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Truth Axe
@truthaxe.bsky.social
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Idk if I'm stating the obvious, but justices never write/speak like this. She's telling the world this is a five-alarm fire and the coup is on.
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the Mountain Goats
@themountaingoats.bsky.social
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if your candidate can't put together a minimal techno set that makes me feel like a single blissed out atom vibrating in a cosmic sea of like-minded atoms then your candidate cannot be said to be serious about the economy
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
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God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."
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Rusty Foster (derogatory)
@rusty.todayintabs.com
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If you remove regulation, a lot of decisions still have to be made, so something has to replace it. What replaces it is corruption.
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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It’s just weird that none of the discourse about how difficult this election is to pull off addresses the facts that a hard cap of more than 50 percent of voters hate Trump and he’s getting sentenced for his criminal convictions in less than two weeks
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Combine these decisions alongside Citizens United and Snyder (facilitating bribery of public officials), brought to you by the Federalist Society, and it’s been an incredible era for translating money, rather than votes, into political power
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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“I’m just a simple umpire, calling balls and strikes as I see them, and every now and then rewriting basic rules of the game with no reason”
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Parker Molloy
@parkermolloy.com
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BREAKING: SCOTUS Rules 6-3 That We Can All Go Fuck Ourselves
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David_j_roth
@davidjroth.bsky.social
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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I don’t know him for any of those things. I know him for Fernwood Tonight.
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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In a stunning power grab that shatters decades of precedent, the Supreme Court’s right-wing majority took a blowtorch to the power of federal agencies
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Gautham FC
@gauthamrao.bsky.social
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"agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do." ❌ "The Framers anticipated that courts would often confront statutory ambiguities and expected that courts would resolve them by exercising independent legal judgment." ❌ This is a fictional rendering of history.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority keeps justifying its awful decisions with ludicrous claims to “history” that no historian would support.
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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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Reminder that there are five ways to address the current SCOTUS problem. 1. Impeach some justices 2. Impose term limits 3. Expand the courts 4. Pass legislation limiting court prerogatives 5. Keep winning the presidency for the next 16 years or so while periodically also holding the senate.
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Stephen Baines
@stephenbaines.bsky.social
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Run. On. Court. Reform. There is no way to legislate effectively with this Supreme Court. So there is no agenda the dems can propose that has any traction. The GOP can’t win on policy, so they expand the power of the courts to rule by fiat. Someone in the dem camp has to see this, right?
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Moby Dick
@mobydickatsea.bsky.social
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one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye.
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