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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

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Don Zeko's avatar Don Zeko @donzeko.bsky.social
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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.

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Stephen West's avatar Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social
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"It seems history matters to this Court only when it is convenient." From Sotomayor's dissent

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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In normal times, the Supreme Court would've smacked down claims of presidential immunity almost immediately, but we're not in normal times, and there's a reason why the conservative majority of Federalist Society bagmen waited until the last possible moment to provide this insane ruling.

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Cautionary Tale's avatar Cautionary Tale @teler.bsky.social
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I’ve been joking about this for a while now. It’s not funny when it’s true.

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Margarita Noriega 's avatar Margarita Noriega @margarita.bsky.social
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Hmm, is secretly trying to persuade governors to overturn election results an official act? Sounds unofficial to me

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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter 's avatar The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter @swolecialism.bsky.social
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In a lot of ways the entire Republican establishment since the 70s has been dedicated to making sure that what happened to Nixon would never be allowed to happen to one of theirs again

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Nicholas Wallace's avatar Nicholas Wallace @wallace.bsky.social
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol

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Cautionary Tale's avatar Cautionary Tale @teler.bsky.social
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I just…I’m just so sad for the American experiment right now. It had a good run but it was doomed from the start, really.

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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness 's avatar Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness @indyfromspace.bsky.social
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Y'all need to dig deep. Biden is the Dem nominee- not changing. Cry about it all you want. Decide if holding your nose for a slower moving fascism you can still fight against with a chance that SCOTUS goes 5-4 liberal w retirements etc and a decent VP who can take over w death is better than evil.

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Saeed Jones's avatar Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social
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I salute E. Jean Carroll and Stormy Daniels for being braver than all three branches of our government.

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Joad The Wet Sprocket's avatar Joad The Wet Sprocket @joadsprocket.bsky.social
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Pretty horrifying to know there's a Supreme Court Justice who is more online than we are.

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Cautionary Tale's avatar Cautionary Tale @teler.bsky.social
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That’s how the mafia started.

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Cautionary Tale's avatar Cautionary Tale @teler.bsky.social
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I’ve got a Blu-ray player that also plays dvds and cds! I’m all set until the thing breaks. I assume nobody repairs them any more.

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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The next Supreme Court appointee will share a jurisprudence with one of these two people and the 2024 election is largely about which one it’ll be

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Ed Burmila's avatar Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social
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Every low level lanyard job person in DC: please don’t wear a campaign button in my house, someone could see it and I might get in trouble SCOTUS: first you take a loan from someone with business before the court and then you just don’t pay it back. Did you see my insurrection flag.

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Peter's avatar Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social
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people on here are relatively in tune with the ongoing AI push, but imagine how many relatively offline people are seeing Google suggest they bake glue into their pizza and wondering what the fuck is going on

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Cautionary Tale's avatar Cautionary Tale @teler.bsky.social
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Well, the world is very much shit today. I miss the days when the internet could gently entertain me. Now it fills me with existential dread.

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David Swanson's avatar David Swanson @davidswanson.bsky.social
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"The decades change, the logos shift, but the promise is the same; the difference is the drift towards the mainstream, that what David Duke proclaimed half a century ago is essentially indistinguishable from the statements of the governor of Texas."
@swordsjew.bsky.social on history repeating

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Mere Smith's avatar Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social
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never heard it put like this: “‘Nobody understands more that an embryo is not a child,’ she said, before taking a pause, ‘than the person yearning for that embryo to be a child.’”

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Mere Smith's avatar Mere Smith @evilgalprods.bsky.social
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TIL that the song “Eye of the Tiger” only exists bc Queen refused to let Stallone use “Another One Bites the Dust” in Rocky III

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Coates's avatar Coates @oddthisday.bsky.social
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Daughter tells me she heard today that if you wear a band T-shirt (especially as a young woman) and a man says to you “name five of their songs”, the correct response is “name five women who trust you”, so I pass this on in case any of you need it

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William Butler Yeets's avatar William Butler Yeets @yeets.biz
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hell yeah

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Talia Lavin's avatar Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social
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this is hugh jackman's true self

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Cautionary Tale's avatar Cautionary Tale @teler.bsky.social
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The stark humanity of compassion and the humanity turning away from suffering. A beautiful examination of how these competing impulses define us.

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Zylla Black's avatar Zylla Black @zyllable.bsky.social
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This is really, really important.

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Cautionary Tale's avatar Cautionary Tale @teler.bsky.social
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Can you explain collapse, for a dummy who isn’t an archaeologist? Or any kind of ologist?

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