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Former Raw Story columnist. Raver. Seer of Visions.

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"if there’s one problem we have never, ever faced in this country, it’s presidents who are afraid to exercise their authority. Or expand it. Or exceed it." radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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In the week following the debate the New York Times ran 192 stories about Biden's performance and six about Project 2025. x.com/Will_Bunch/s...

Adam Serwer made a great point on Chris Hayes: the mainstream media cannot affect Trump’s prospects the way they can Biden’s, b/c MAGAts live in a hermetically sealed world. Another reason NYT is obsessed with hurting Biden: how else to prove to themselves their continued relevance?

Supermarket vending machines selling *bullets.* Bullets. In a vending machine. In a supermarket. Every time I think we have reached bottom, the elevator drops another 50 feet.

jfc

Oklahoma, Alabama Now Have AI-Powered Vending Machines That Sell Bulletsgizmodo.com In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser.

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Happy National Get Drunk And Play With Explosives Day to all who celebrate.

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this is 100 percent right. the SCOTUS decision here is part of Project 2025, it is preemptively helping Trump consolidate his dictatorship crookedtimber.org/2024/07/02/s...

Supreme Court Rules Hitler Immune from Prosecution for Burning Down Reichstag, Seizing Absolute Powercrookedtimber.org If the current Supreme Court had held comparable office in Weimar Germany, that is, its opinion in Trump v. United States would have rendered the judgment in this post’s headline. Never mind …

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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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Between today, Chevron, the reversal of Roe, and Citizens United, I feel like it would be pretty tough to name a more destructive Supreme Court than John Roberts'

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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.

In case you thought the stock Cybertruck is already at maximum awfulness: apple.news/Afp0C8DJcRoS...

People are buffing Cybertrucks into dangerous mirrors on wheelsapple.news A customized Cybertruck on sale for $149,999 recently earned headlines after being polished to resemble a funhouse mirror on wheels.

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Never forget.

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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them

Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government." Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say: "Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"

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Just checked WaPo's online front page. Not ONE mention of Trump's lying, but articles about dumping Biden from every slant.

Standing with a genocide *by* Jews by erasing an earlier genocide *of* Jews

Christians terrify me. www.jta.org/2024/06/26/u...

Texas school district agrees to remove ‘Anne Frank’s Diary,’ ‘Maus,’ ‘The Fixer’ and 670 other books after right-wing group’s complaint - Jewish Telegraphic Agencywww.jta.org The district in the Rio Grande Valley immediately agreed with activists who said the books were "filthy and evil."

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Here’s a look at how the NYPD Commissioner stops investigations and disciplinary actions against of out of control cops- even overturning their admissions of wrongdoings.

New Yorkers Were Choked, Beaten and Tased by NYPD Officers. The Commissioner Buried Their Cases.www.propublica.org New York City’s Police Commissioner Edward Caban has repeatedly used a little-known authority called “retention” to prevent officers accused of misconduct from facing public disciplinary trials. Victi...

Because progress! apple.news/AMftMh72vTge...

NASA's ISS Spacesuit Situation Turns Grimapple.news Two NASA astronauts were preparing to exit the International Space Station (ISS) for a second attempt at a spacewalk, but it was once again called off due to a concerning malfunction with the spacesui...

“Pro life”

"Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. In the rest of the country, infant mortality increased less than 2% over the same period."

Infant deaths increased after Texas banned abortion in early pregnancywww.statnews.com Since Texas’ ban on abortion went into effect, infant deaths in the state increased by nearly 13%, according to a new analysis published on Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.

The 3 key components of the Republican coalition—Evangelicals, racists and oligarchs*— have always had incompatible policy preferences. The GOP wins when it obfuscates those tensions. Trump may have trouble maintaining the ruse. *They overlap, of course. www.salon.com/2024/06/21/r...

Right-wingers rage over Trump's new "de facto amnesty" promisewww.salon.com Trump's moderate-courting plan to adopt a Hillary Clinton immigration policy is infuriating his far-right base.

What the fuck?? Why are the Teamsters sleeping with the enemy?

Add the Teamsters to the list of unions who will never hire me. www.huffpost.com/entry/teamst...

Trump Just Announced A Surprising Democratic Ally Will Speak At The GOP Conventionwww.huffpost.com Most major unions have either publicly opposed or kept their distance from Trump, whose agenda as president was extremely hostile to organized labor.

I am dumbfounded. Larry Summers just came out strongly against Trump’s ridiculous tariff plan. IOW, Larry Summers was right about something.

One the true greats, from a time when baseball was the dominant professional sport in America. www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/...

Willie Mays, supreme baseball talent considered best to ever play, dies at 93www.nbcnews.com The San Francisco Giants said the Hall of Famer died peacefully Tuesday afternoon.

Another (obscure) Republican acting like a complete asshole. Just because. apple.news/AcL4cr5KyTKi...

Vermont Republican secretly poured water into colleague’s bag over monthsapple.news Mary Morrissey apologizes after being filmed dumping liquid into backpack of Democratic legislator Jim Carroll

Because judicial restraint.

To justify legalizing bump stocks, Clarence Thomas literally copied and pasted materials from an extremist pro-gun group whose violent rhetoric makes the NRA look moderate. This is who has the Supreme Court's ear these days. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Group Helping the Supreme Court Rewrite America’s Gun Laws Is Worse Than the NRAslate.com I don’t think that’s anything you could imagine happening even 10 years ago.

Just realized that the kids today might have no idea why YouTube is called YouTube, since every screen they have ever used to view video is flat and not a tube.

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My husband, everyone: “It occurred to me that Teflon Don is still a good nickname. As we all know, when Teflon gets old and worn, it loses its nonstick properties and leaches poison into whatever it touches.”

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"In this paper, we formalize the problem and show that it is impossible to eliminate hallucination in LLMs." Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models arxiv.org/pdf/2401.11817

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With the NYT mired in #bothsides hell, WaPo was our last, best hope. No more. Important piece.

WaPo is about to get Spanfellered, which is never a good thing. www.sfgate.com/news/article...

The Washington Post is about to embrace the darknesswww.sfgate.com SFGATE columnist Drew Magary on a major shakeup at the Washington Post after executive editor Sally Buzbee was unceremoniously forced out.