Clint Popetz

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Rooting for Mlada Bosna, particularly now that they signed Gavrilo.

Just remember to offer space to all the Balkans in your life as they're forced to watch the Turks and Austrians fight for control of Europe again

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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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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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Please speak for your sad normie selves, NYT. The man was smokin’ to the end. Like a wild, beautiful, lanky wolf, with eyes that could pierce metal. I’m sorry if you don’t speak charisma

well that just seems kinda mean

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right now, the extent of what democrats can do is hounding and shame, which they should do! biden should condemn the insurrectionist members of the court, durbin and whitehouse should hold hearings and demand that alito and thomas both answer questions before congress. make it a spectacle, basically

alito is playing in our faces because he knows there’s nothing we can do about it and he has total contempt for the idea that he might be accountable for anything he does

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Son, we live in a world that has flags, and those flags have to be flown by wives who are fond of them. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lt Weinberg?

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how far away do you think we are from clarence thomas just openly arguing that the reconstruction amendments are unconstitutional?

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i would like a leftism that is not fundamentally rooted in misery

I remember reading Solnit’s piece when it was published and shouting “yes!” And now I’m rereading it and realizing how much, much worse things are now, and how sadly relevant her piece still is.

this tendency has only gotten worse and worse since Solnit wrote this - tomdispatch.com/rebecca-soln...

The Rain on Our Paradetomdispatch.com Dear Allies, Forgive me if I briefly take my eyes off the prize to brush away some flies, but the buzzing has gone on for some time. I have a grand goal, and

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I sent this message to the UMass administration yesterday: "I was looking forward to speaking next week at UMass Amherst. I visited two years ago and everyone was awesome. My nephew graduated from there and got a great education. But calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act...” 1/2

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"This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY COLLECTIVE NOUN] overtook the historic [CENTRAL CAMPUS LOCATION NAMED AFTER PROBLEMATIC DONOR]." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/uni...

University President’s Response to Student Dissent Mad Libswww.mcsweeneys.net To our treasured [COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY NAME] community, This week, the unthinkable occurred on our [REVERENT ADJECTIVE] campus. An [INFLAMMATORY CO...

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HALDEMAN: “have you reviewed the excerpts my office sent over?” NIXON: “you know someone suggested I’d do that with Checkers” HALDEMAN: “out of order, sir” NIXON: “who the Christ shoots a puppy, even the Irish on their whisky” [unintelligible] HALDEMAN: “I’ll take her off the VP list”

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The First Amendment analysis of whether newspapers should be able to print identifiable details of potential jurors and put them in danger may be complicated. The moral, ethical, and social analysis of whether newspapers SHOULD is not complicated.

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If SBF's sentence somehow seems "short," it's only because we use long sentences to an extent other countries simply don't. This CCJ graph on %-of-ppl sentenced* to 10+ yrs comparing US states to foreign countries is striking. No country comes close to us.

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this is absolutely correct. one of the arguments i kept making in the aftermath of january 6 was that the attempt to turn a pro forma ceremony into a moment of real political contestation had revolutionary implications for american political life.

If Biden wins the Presidency but Republicans win one or both houses of Congress, there will be a major effort to make it seem like the Congressional ratification of the electoral count is a moment of high drama that has the potential to reverse the outcome. If that's the case, a coup is likely.

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Fellas is it barren to like music?

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Talk me off the ledge, @kenwhite.bsky.social Tell me there was some reason that four Justices think that they have to rule on whether the president is a king

SCOTUS is gonna say in like July that "well of course former presidents don't have immunity that would be silly" while functionally letting him get immunity by delaying it until he's within shooting distance of being president and able to order DOJ to dismiss his own case

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Midway across the river the duckling stings the pizza, dooming them both. When asked why, the duckling points out that this is its nature.

Here’s CNN getting it right:

Not that it's the most important thing going on here, but the "experts say" tic is so maddening. JUST SAY IT. You don't have to write "experts say" when you're stating a simple fact. Sport reporters don't write "Experts say the Chiefs won last year's Super Bowl" because that would be idiotic.

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This should be the story tomorrow, and every day: The leader of one of America’s two major political parties has just signaled to the Kremlin that if elected, he would not only refuse to defend Europe in World War III, but he would gladly support Vladimir Putin. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trump Encourages Putin to Attack NATO Memberswww.theatlantic.com At a rally on Saturday, the former president announced he would tell the Russians “to do whatever the hell they want” to states delinquent in their bills.

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Supreme Court Justices came to work today to say “whoa whoa whoa you’re asking me to make a decision with significant nationwide legal implications based on the factual record developed in a single court in a single state… what if other courts disagreed?” like they all just fell off a turnip truck.

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i alluded to this last night but it is genuinely wild to see these antifederalist dudes basically ask supporters of the constitution, "what if there is a trump?" here's patrick henry at the virginia ratifying convention.

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the rule of only punch up is a rule for a reason and frankly odds are real good nobody knows who those clowns are anyway, so all you wind up doing is advertising that brain no work so good when see loser guy on pocket screen thingy

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a non-trivial number of people do not actually read black writers but, instead, react to how their presence makes them feel.

Love to check in on the bird site every once in a while and see in my notifications how popular am with the ladies(*). (*) Lasciviously Attired Digital Imposters Exploiting Suckers

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America did a lot of terrible stuff to Dr. King, like jailing and abusing him and trying to get him to kill himself and killing him, but probably nothing so obscene as reinventing him in popular memory as some milquetoast whose primary concern was not hurting white people’s feelings.

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I promise, the only way to fight journalism you dislike is to promote journalism you find worthwhile.

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More Americans want a president who sounds like a pleasant normie on holidays than like a raving lunatic. I will continue believing this unless proven otherwise. And I don’t expect to be.

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So tired, we, the Jews of the world, are