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Tree Mendous@treemendous.bsky.social |
18 followers 43 following 234 posts
Deciduous. Or evergreen. Depends on the day.
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Charles Я. Davis
@charliearchy.bsky.social
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U.S. counties "left behind" by outsourcing and the early 21st century economy "added jobs five times faster in the first three years of the Biden administration than they did in the first three years of the Trump administration," according to a new study. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/b...
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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The gubernatorial candidate who said his opponents should be murdered currently has a slight lead in the polls. At best it’s 50/50.
projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/govern...
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Dave Weigel
@daveweigel.bsky.social
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The Todd Akin “legitimate rape” gaffe happened during the 2012 presidential election cycle. Broke through, Romney had to comment on it. Very different media cycles this year, and Biden’s age overwhelms many of them.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Sadly predictable but no less offensive
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
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Quinta Jurecic
@qjurecic.bsky.social
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Baude who, by the way, clerked for Roberts, and whose read on what the hell is going on with the conservatives is worth a great deal
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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America - where 1 night per year you HAVE to live in a sanitized version of the military industrial complex that WE impart on the rest of the world and get angry because it upsets your dog.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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Anyone who ever read Final Days from Woodward and Bernstein saw this coming. Nixon is the overarching motivation for the last 40 years of republican strategy - culminating in this decision.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Every SCOTUS judge in the majority bar Coney Barret worked for a Republican President implicated in one of those scandals.
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Angry Staff Officer
@pptsapper.bsky.social
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"I believe that not one above whom it then waved but blessed his God that he was loyal to it, & whose heart did not swell with pride towards it as the emblem of the Republic before that treason's flaunting rag in front." - Maj Frank Haskell - watching Lee's Whoopsie begin
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National Security Counselors 🕵
@natlseccnslrs.bsky.social
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Looking at that flag, it sure would be embarrassing if someone dug up examples of Heritage railing in favor of legislation prohibiting defacing flags.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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“SEE DAD? I’ve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHO’S NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?”
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/6 My grandparents didn’t whine about it. Nor, for that matter, did my college classmate who survived as a child in 1970s Cambodia by hiding in a pile of his neighbor’s bodies. So, keep calm and fight.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/5 So, in terrible circumstances, think what people before you have endured. Think about how you can support and defend folks less able than you to endure. And fight the bastards.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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Whoa whoa whoa. Some of us were Pats fans when they were the Jets and before they became the Yankees.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes
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AkivaMCohen
@akivamcohen.bsky.social
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Forget that: Qualified immunity, baby "A member of the executive branch has a right to presume that the President's orders - given after the President has presumably gotten the benefit of able counsel - are lawful."
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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I would be very happy if part of Donald Trump's sentence in New York was requiring him to make a public reading, without edits, of today's 31 page decision for the disbarment of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, which debunks most of FPOTUS's claims of election fraud in 2020.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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People significantly underestimate the degree to which the American constitution is now being defined by Nixon/Reagan/Bush government lawyers who disliked having to be responsive to a Democratic-controlled Congress.
Unitary executive theory is an example:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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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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Media Matters for America
@mmfa.bsky.social
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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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Point: Sign seems ok!! Counter point: GO FUCK YOURSELF!
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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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emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
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Somehow, none of the THREE interviews journos rushed to do of Steve Bannon before he went to prison bothered to ask about the allegation that he's a fraud bilking Trump supporters to support his own lavish lifestyle.
www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/02/p...
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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There is no depth to which Jonathan Turley will not sink. He’ll say that Trump will never do the outrageous things Trump threatens to do, and that there are laws in place to prevent it, then when Trump does them he will say the laws don’t apply and that Trump was forced to do the things by woke.
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Two things can be true: 1. The mental acuity of the person with the nuclear codes is a BIG deal. The media should report on it. Full stop. 2. The threat to democracy is also real and the overall balance of coverage must take that context into account.
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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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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Official act. Immune.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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Hard to see assassination on US soil being part of core powers. CIA abductions abroad? 100% A OK!
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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If I was a Supreme Court justice, I’d think twice about leaving the country. Core presidential powers and all.
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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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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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*Insert face eating tiger meme here*
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AkivaMCohen
@akivamcohen.bsky.social
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If the Washington Post headline tomorrow isn't "SCOTUS Rules POTUS Can Assassinate SCOTUS Without Criminal Liability" I don't know what we're even doing
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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They continue to try to “fix” what happened with Nixon. They all think he was weak and quit when he should have fought. This is the manifestation of that fight 50 years later.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.
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Mitchell Epner
@mitchellepner.bsky.social
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The thing about establishing standards ex ante is that they do not change in response to political whims. There is an irony to the fact that the Former President Donald Trump falls below the ethical standards to sell booze in New Jersey. I hope enough Americans vote against this moral menace.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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folks gonna miss this from just the headline, but someone should point it out: the lack of live fact-checking by the moderators *was part of the agreement* by the campaigns. It's not just that CNN /didn't/ live fact check it. It's that they /weren't allowed to/.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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That’s what happens when you do too much LSD.
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Pam Herd
@pamherd.bsky.social
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Don't be fooled by the Utah ruling. The 'health of the mother' exception is a classic gendered administrative burden. In practice, ambiguity and threats of criminal action, mean physicians won't 'protect' the pregnant person's health. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/gendered-b...
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National Security Counselors 🕵
@natlseccnslrs.bsky.social
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If there was a secret meeting you can bet your ass it was classified because that's how secrecy works dumbass. He just doesn't understand that he can't just talk about whatever tf he wants to, even now.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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They’re all just reaching for Barbara’s dick.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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What does a “win” even look like in this debate? It’s an honest question. I’m not sure what it would be for either side.
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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The water ice truck is why I’m going! (Note: I’m not going)
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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Second
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Tree Mendous
@treemendous.bsky.social
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“Popehat DH - 15-day-IL. (June 24) Comment: Hip injured by feline urine”
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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This is a cool example of what the Biden administration is good at: small, wonky changes that meaningfully make public services easier to access.
Am excited about Martin O' Malley as SSA head: a rare politician who cares about implementation.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Kelsey Atherton
@atherton.bsky.social
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A is for AR-15, which any adult can buy B is for bullets, which make holes in guys C is for cops, who will wait outside for hours D is for dialing 911, which is what children do E is for EMTs, who can treat you when you escape F is for flee, with better odds at survival G is for guns, guns guns guns
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“They are feds” -Angela McArdle
@fakertarians.bsky.social
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The totally not racist Libertarian Party of New Hampshire calling to deport people for celebrating a holiday about slaves being freed
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