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Susan (George) Schorn@susanschorn.bsky.social |
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Violence prevention advocate, specializing in groin strikes.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working
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Oliver Willis
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"The members of the mainstream media are human beings (despite frequent appearances to the contrary) and human beings respond to incentives. There is an enormous personal financial incentive to another four years of Trump in the White House" www.oliverexplains.com/p/the-media-...
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Derek Willis
@dwillis.bsky.social
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Very normal July 4th message from Texas AG Ken Paxton:
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Jamie McKelvie
@mckelvie.bsky.social
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Sometimes you can be proud to be British
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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There'll always be an England!
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Ryan Marino
@ryanmarino.bsky.social
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Days after the Chevron ruling a corporate healthcare system - which doesn’t pay any taxes despite being a profit-driven business - is now suing Medicare so that they can collect more *tax dollars* w/o having to meet the standards of care set by CMS. Some CMS regulations may be silly but this is bad.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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I searched the New York Times for "Trump"
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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"ICE started its undercover operation in 2015." Clearly, if there is/was any administration oversight, it's insufficient.
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Al Petterson
@eyelessgame.bsky.social
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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2nd best thing is probably hammer how bad scotus is. Any policy question, turn it into "well we've gotta get better judges in there who know what the hell they're doing. They're saying trump has the power to storm the capitol but I don't have the power to forgive student loans for god's sake"
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❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆
@sababausa.bsky.social
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Brett Kavanaugh, Clinton-Lewinsky inquisitor, 1998: Bill Clinton is guilty of disgrace for making "frivolous privilege claims" at the Supreme Court
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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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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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"The truckers are demanding to be paid for the long hours they spend waiting to load and unload frac sand, more restroom facilities near loading areas and the ability to negotiate pay rates based on driving times and cargo weight" www.expressnews.com/business/art...
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Greg Pak
@gregpak.bsky.social
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7/1/2024 will go down as one of the worst days in American history, and this is how the NYT website was covering it yesterday, under seven (7)(VII) articles about Biden's age.
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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basically I’m fine voting for three pinwheeling clown shoes mounted to motorized broomsticks that come to my house every morning and kick me in the nuts when I open the front door, but I’m not oblivious to the fact that biden isn’t demonstrating any control of the narrative right now
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency
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Owl
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Austin, a head’s up: Austin Animal Center has this week closed intake for surrendered animals, and APA is brimming with pets. If you’re able to foster or adopt from either facility, please consider it. APA is only taking pets from AAC at the moment, and adoption fees are 50% off at APA thru 7/3.
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Susan (George) Schorn
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"perhaps the Vice President" 😱
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Susan (George) Schorn
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Doggett did--and in an email to his constituents, he says, "I am not advocating for any particular individual as our best alternative, but in an open, democratic process we will have a number of Governors and perhaps the Vice President and some members of the Senate from which to choose."
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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4. budget reform/Congressional oversight of SCOTUS budget; 5. Codify standards for emergency relief. All suggestions from @stevevladeck.bsky.social.
Schumer: 202-224-6542
Durbin: 202-224-2152
White House: 202-456-1111
If you don't have shithead GOP Senators like I do (Texas), call yours too!
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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I just spent five minutes of my lunch break calling the White House, Schumer, and Durbin and asking for these 5 things: 1. Haul Alito and Thomas in to Judiciary for hearings; 2. establish an inspector general for SCOTUS under Article III; 3. docket reform, esp. the mandatory docket; . . . .
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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Apart from the humor here: Biden and Congress absolutely can and should be scrutinizing SCOTUS's budget with a microscope, and attaching alllll the strings.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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a funny thing Biden could do, unitary-executive-authority-wise is just order GSA to stop cutting paychecks to a bunch of Republican judges and law clerks for a while.
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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"with the Constitution if they could, but at any rate to save the country." Word.
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Hemry, Local Bartender
@bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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I think what's most surprising to me about the immunity decision is that I assumed the conservative justices saw trump as a liability, in the sense that they clearly have a free hand to implement an evil agenda without him. But apparently they actually really like him & welcome chaos
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Steve Silberman
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It's too bad the 2nd Amendment dudes who swore they'd be the undauntable defenders of our democracy against attack by a brutal monarch turned out to be too busy denouncing rainbow plushies at Target.
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Paul Rosenberg
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So, today's decision has even LESS support than Dobbs:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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This is the only part of the NYT worth reading, TBH.
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Kandy
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bringing this here because i've had it
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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If you're only willing to do what a corrupt institution allows to be "legal," you have already lost.
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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"We need a strong institution that sits outside of electoral politics, that is not at the mercy of right wing courts, that has its own inherent form of power that can be exercised on behalf of the public good, that will naturally work toward progressive goals. My friends, that is the labor movement"
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Iron Spike
@ironspike.bsky.social
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Doomer shit is un-American as fuck. Sorry. Factual. This country didn't even consider me a fucking person for half its existence, and the Supreme Court declared Black ppl didn't qualify as US citizens TWICE.
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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I'll be the first to admit that anger has a lot of drawbacks, but let me tell you something folks: It beats the holy fuck out of fear.
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Gerry Doyle
@mgerrydoyle.bsky.social
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the dog caught the car
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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He said "I will obey the law but any other president might not," which, dude, you're 80 years old. If you're the last good one, we're fucked.
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Peter
@notalawyer.bsky.social
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to put a sharper point on this, the President’s power to pass an executive order regulating emissions is severely hampered. his power to use the DOJ or the military to regulate emissions is nearly unlimited
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Susan (George) Schorn
@susanschorn.bsky.social
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The speech I just watched seemed to boil down to "the voters have to vote against Trump." Nothing about reining in the court, nothing about any damn thing he's going to do. Way to telegraph helplessness.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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a good way to alleviate concerns about Bidens debate performance / age *and* concerns about court overreach would be for Team Biden to schedule a short TV speech on it and give a firebrand performance about what he intends to do about it just sayin
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kilgore trout
@kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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my fellow americans, for my first official act with no criminal oversight I’m going to make mitch mcconnell box a kangaroo in the octagon
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Susan (George) Schorn
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The monarch, but not the PM?
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Susan (George) Schorn
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Is there any other functioning democracy today tat has a standard of "absolute immunity" for its head of state? I'm curious how our friends and allies around the world are going to perceive this.
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Matthew Dessem
@matthewdessem.bsky.social
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If there were ever a time for malicious compliance, this is it.
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Seth D. Michaels
@sethdmichaels.bsky.social
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maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement
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Lydia Polgreen
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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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Kashana
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The Supreme Court just overthrew the country and I’m still seeing headlines that are like “did you know Joe Biden is like, months older than his opponent?”
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Josh Gondelman
@joshgondelman.bsky.social
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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Don Moynihan
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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