Adam Serwer

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intimidating and punishing journalists who expose flagrant state corruption, another classic Jim Crow mechanism

She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW NO, ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW!

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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Well the term jedi “master” took on some uncomfortable implications in this week’s acolyte

I do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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“I had a very, very rambunctious youth.” He was 44 at the time his then-nanny says he pinned her in a pantry and groped her.

The Popeye Defense. "Hey, look, I'm a Kennedy; of course, I sexually assaulted the nanny! Christ..."

Robert F Kennedy Jr brushes off sexual assault allegation: ‘I am who I am’www.theguardian.com Independent candidate says ‘I am not a church boy’ after ex-nanny tells Vanity Fair he assaulted her at his home in 1998

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The more you read yesterday’s immunity decision, the more appalling it gets. My take: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | The Supreme Court Creates a Lawless Presidencywww.nytimes.com It is increasingly clear that this court sees itself as something other than a participant in our democratic system.

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Not only can’t official acts be the basis for a charge, they can’t be offered as EVIDENCE about another act. Say Trump asks DoJ to shoot an actor he hates. They say no. He leaves office and hires a private hit man to kill the actor. The official act of asking DoJ can’t be introduced as evidence.

Soccer interval: USMNT needs to face higher level competition more frequently, replace behalter if you want but the team will remain a potted plant in concacaf without more regular matches against better teams, mexico’s decline is actually bad for them in this respect

Nytimes politics desk is just overtly pro Trump at this point. bsky.app/profile/jaco...

A tale of two newspapers, and two very different decisions.

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Going public with an experience like this is life-altering for a woman, so when you read these stories remember both the extraordinary amount of courage involved and also the likelihood that there are many others you’ll never hear.

By the time the doctors in Boise put her on a plane for Salt Lake City, she’d already lost a liter of blood New standard of care just dropped:

She Needed an Emergency Abortion. Doctors in Idaho Put Her on a Plane.www.nytimes.com In states that have banned abortion, hospitals have struggled to treat pregnant women facing health risks. A Supreme Court decision this week did not help.

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The Supreme Court’s ruling putting presidents above the law must be understood not simply as a grant of immunity for past crimes, but an enthusiastic endorsement of those he will commit if given the chance. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump’s Criminalitywww.theatlantic.com And gives him permission for a despotic second term.

The “joe biden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever” jokes are now literally correct

Jude Bellingham. What a player

I gotta admit I thought england was going to try harder to win the game

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One pretty clear dynamic on display this week is whose legal interests the Supreme Court cares about (corrupt politicians, hedge fund fraudsters, literal January 6 rioters) and whose it doesn’t (poor people) ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/grant...

Neil Gorsuch’s Judicial Humility Is Sanctimonious Horseshitballsandstrikes.org The Supreme Court's opinion in Grants Pass v Johnson reveals a lot about whose interests the conservatives care about—and whose they don't.

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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

Simple Euro math: the team with the most Bologna players wins. Today that is switzerland

The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.

The “anti woke” star wars fans have pivoted from “the acolyte ruined star wars” to “the girls were too good at fighting in the cool lightsaber battle” which is kind of an admission of defeat

If you see some roman bust avatar taking an extreme position on an issue that is likely to come before the court, there is a high likelihood Alito will simply regurgitate it in legal jargon bsky.app/profile/adam...

There is no position taken by conservative nutjobs on social media, no matter how much it contradicts even right wing precedent, that Alito will not try to make respectable www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/u...

Croix Bethune being left off the olympics roster is crazy

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RE: "Bribes" vs. "Gratuities":

The underlying ideological belief here is that America was better in the 19th century when political bribery was rampant and capital’s power was uncontested and this awful welfare state coddling the weak and unfit with its higher taxes and redistribution didn’t exist bsky.app/profile/adam...

It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

Starbucks union is close to a contract. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/b...

A Development in the U.S. Labor Movementwww.nytimes.com Starbucks and its union are on track to reach a contract.

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Fox News returns to “migrant crime” fixation as migrant crossings, crime plummet www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox...