Annelise

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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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The opting out is especially wild Like, Republican governors are being actively presented with money to feed kids and affirmatively saying 'I would like children to starve actually' (Also, if I'm a Dem campaigner, I'm making some ads and placing some op eds about this immediately)

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

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A 2017 internal Veterans Affairs report shows Black veterans were more often denied benefits for PTSD than their white counterparts. The analysis crunched claims data from fiscal year 2011 through 2016. And disparate treatment started after WWI when it was still called shell shock. It continues.

Black veterans were denied VA benefits for PTSD more often than whiteswww.nbcnews.com “Ever since I came back from Vietnam, I knew that I had a problem, but I didn’t know what it was," said one Black veteran.

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"Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis.” The war in Gaza makes life nearly impossible for disabled people. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

How the war in Gaza makes life nearly impossible for disabled peoplewww.motherjones.com “Some children think that their legs might grow again. This is one of the saddest things that we hear on a regular basis.”

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Trump said “I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it.” But Project 2025 is run by Trump's closest aides, raising concerns about cognitive fitness for a candidate who seems unable to recall those around him. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/troubling-...

Troubling Signs of Cognitive Decline as Trump Struggles to Recognize Closest Aidesdonmoynihan.substack.com "I know nothing about Project 2025" statement triggers new concerns about his fitness to serve

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“In the years before his death at the hands of police, Mr. Castile had been stopped for minor traffic violations at least 52 times—approximately every four months. These stops resulted in 86 issued violations, most of which were dismissed, and cost Mr. Castile over $6,500 in fees and fines.”

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Johnny McEntee, one of Trump's most loyal deputies who is in regular contact with him, is literally one of the people collecting resumes for staffers who would implement Project 2025. Shame on any journalistic outfit who takes this "truth" at face value.

Today in "Trump didn't write this, someone on his campaign staff did." I don't know if Kellyanne Conway is working for Trump these days but this feels more like her style, voice, and syntax than Trump or those posting on his behalf recently.

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lemme be clear here if the dem nominee is a ham sandwich, i'm getting ham sandwich stickers and writing gotv postcards and helping cure ballots for ham sandwich 2024. but anyone who thinks biden dropping off the ticket will not be met with weird gop ratfucking chaos just fell off a turnip truck.

This is starting to feel like but her emails pt 2. There’s a truth to it but also it’s irrelevant to the current crisis we face - it’s being kept alive for not good reasons.

“The legacy media, spearheaded by The NY Times, have been vicious toward Biden and wildly irresponsible since last Thursday. I feel like the Times’s leadership is trying to force Biden out of the race in the same way they forced Claudine Gay to resign the presidency of Harvard…”

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"When politicians say [migrants are overwhelming local infrastructure], it is typically because they have refused to invest in that infrastructure for their own citizens long before the arrival of any migrants. [Isn't it easier to blame those] whom much of electorate are already primed to despise?"

I finally wrote an essay about the rise of the far-right in Germany, for DIE ZEIT. It’s called “The Hatred Is Accelerating” and you can read it in English here: www.zeit.de/kultur/2023-... and in German here: www.zeit.de/kultur/2023-... - if of interest, please share.

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For those of us with chronic illness, disabilities, and/or anything that prevents us from protesting, this is such an incredible resource.

here it is. it was written before 2020 and updated then: disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/06/06/2...

26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets (June 2020 update)disabilityvisibilityproject.com 26 ways to be in the struggle, beyond the streets. (a list) June 2020 updates Contributors Ejeris Dixon, Piper Anderson, Kay Ulanday Barrett, Ro Garrido, Emi Kane, Bhavana Nancherla, Deesha …

Illmatic from Nas, which is a stellar album with no skips, is $95 on eBay in TAPE CASSETTE format. I can’t decide if this is ridiculous or impressive?

Did prior generations in Germany and elsewhere read garbage statements like this and cringe but not panic because they thought hey they won’t actually do that right? Are we about to be them?

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...

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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Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

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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.

Absolutely horrifying that the international community has deemed this acceptable. On top of kids in cages & unchecked global warming & everything else.

‘More horrific than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer recounts visit to Israeli detention centerwww.972mag.com At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.

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I wrote that every amendment codifying the right to abortion could be undone either via state or U.S. Supreme Courts establishing fetal personhood, or by Trump enforcing the Comstock Act. I didn't include activists filing their *own* Comstock lawsuits www.jezebel.com/abortion-bal...

Abortion Ballot Measures Aren't Safe From the Courtswww.jezebel.com Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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If only we could read some history and learn from it or something

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Sotomayor, J., dissenting

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Worth reading the first line of the screenshot and realizing that the very existence of trans people is considered "pornography" by the Project 2025 gremlins.

I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

My high school self will never not be shocked that after ALL the holocaust / genocide education we had with discussions about preventing future ones, we are clearly witnessing another genocide and our govt not only refuses to intervene it is actively abetting it.

"Gaza’s remaining hospitals, health centers and oxygen stations will stop working within 48 hours...Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, limiting access to food, fuel and medical supplies, aid groups say." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/0...

Gaza’s remaining hospitals will stop working in two days, health officials warnwww.washingtonpost.com Israel’s closure of the vital Rafah border crossing last month severed key supply lines, aid groups warned. Fighting goes in Shejaiya, Gaza City, the IDF said.

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The Chevron decision is very much in keeping with the right’s rejection of expertise. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The Supreme Court gives the right a huge victory over expertisewww.washingtonpost.com In rejecting the decades-long practice of deferring to government agencies, the conservative court gave the right a huge win in its push to sideline experts.

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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.

As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent last Friday, “The majority disdains restraint, and grasps for power” — and the justices are “making a laughing-stock” of long-standing judicial principles. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Supreme Court Is a Joke. It’s Not Funnywww.rollingstone.com The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators.

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“The justices accidentally, repeatedly referenced laughing gas in a disastrous ruling before declaring that judges know better than agency regulators” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is horrifying in terms of the awfulness that will ensue from conservative judges. Trump doesn’t even need to win. We are already fucked.

Elena Kagan Is Horrified by What the Supreme Court Just Did. You Should Be Too.slate.com John Roberts launches a missile at the heart of modern governance.

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You know what's crazy is you could easily write a historically compelling op-ed about how Trump should end his campaign because he's a convicted criminal who tried to overthrow the government and is only on the ballot/out of prison because of extremely corrupt judges he personally appointed

Just absolutely fucked.

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that forbidding people without housing from sleeping with a blanket outside — even when they have nowhere else to go — does not run afoul of the 8th Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

Sotomayor Sums Up Supreme Court’s New Ruling For The Homeless: ‘Stay Awake Or Be Arrested’talkingpointsmemo.com In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled that forbidding...

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It looks like we know the outcomes of both abortion cases this term, so I'm here to say: These are punts, not vindications. Justice Jackson rightfully warns us that "storm clouds loom ahead" www.jezebel.com/these-are-no...

These Are Not Abortion Victorieswww.jezebel.com Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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The Supreme Court said today you can bribe a public official as long as you give them the money AFTER they do your bidding and not before. "Thanks for the tip," corrupting influences replied! Here's Hassan Kanu with the dirty details:

The Supreme Court Blesses a Form of Briberyprospect.org The ruling can be understood only as a policy preference.

The worst of the worst people.

A year after the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions, a campaign by conservative legal groups is forcing public and private institutions to abandon diversity programs.

DEI programs toppled amid a surge of conservative lawsuitswww.washingtonpost.com A year after the Supreme Court struck down race-based college admissions, a campaign by conservative legal groups is forcing public and private institutions to abandon diversity programs.