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Ken White, criminal defense attorney and First Amendment litigator. Co-host of Serious Trouble podcast and writer at The Popehat Report.

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Reporting from Milwaukee: tonight at day 2 of Trump’s coronation, the evening’s theme — with the crowd hooting and smiling along — was just a deluge of gore, blood in the streets, xenophobic scapegoating, terror, unstoppable bloodshed (unless we elect Trump!)… www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Trump’s RNC Revels in Graphic Demonization of Migrantswww.rollingstone.com The Republican National Convention's "Make America Safe Again" night was rife with fear-mongering over undocumented immigrants.

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Kautistic

You’d need an attorney who handles zoning and nuisance. But have you considered asking the church if they would cut the lighting a bit at night?

God the Republicans are always breaking promises and dashing hopes. First the taco trucks on every corner and now this.

9 days before the assassination attempt, Lee Greenwood (who partners with Trump on a $60 Bible) told a 4th of July crowd undocumented immigrants are coming to kill them.

Groups call out Lee Greenwood's 'hateful speech' at Albany 4th of July concertdemocratherald.com He said: "The only thing we hope for is that we can stop illegal immigration. Because the people who are coming through are coming through to kill you."

I hope it’s just typical drunkenness and not a medical emergency. He had such a good week, what with being upgraded to only morally bankrupt

Yo Rudy Giuliani just drunkenly fell into some chairs at the RNC lmao

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Sean Thomason

Peter O’Toole’s delivery of “I know, I’ve seen him there” kills me every single time.

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My latest for @thenation.com looks at the death of an incarcerated woman at the Central CA Women's Facility during a week of ~110 degree temperatures & the lack of heat mitigation efforts throughout the nation's 2nd largest prison: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Scorching Temperatures Are Turning Prison Cells Into Furnaceswww.thenation.com As the death toll due to extreme heat rises, incarcerated people are concerned that their cells could become their coffins.

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Sean Thomason

So many great lines.

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They are really like this. Once I said that I think kids should learn the proper terms for their anatomy and some Glem Greenwald/Libs of Tik Tok followers emailed me employer to try to get me fired

According to Project 2025, which is the heart of Trump's campaign and platform, if you teach or talk about the existence of LGBTQ people then you are a sex offender and should be imprisoned.

GOP is really upping its game with these base-energizing convention stunts

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel confirms that a Columbus, Ohio, police officer detailed to the RNC shot and killed a homeless Black man (earlier reported to be in his early 20s) more than half a mile from the RNC arena. The man was known by the nickname Jehovah and took care of a pit bull named Isis.

Ohio police officer shoots, kills person in Milwaukee outside of RNC perimeter, sources saywww.jsonline.com The man killed by Ohio officers near the RNC on Tuesday was well-known in the neighborhood, several witnesses told the Journal Sentinel.

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checking in on night 2 of the RNC

Tricky. I think so.

That’s long been the conservative theory. Though I suspect they’re not going to like someone else doing it.

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crb1079

She retired voluntarily.

Honestly I don’t think term limits is plausible without amendment.

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Is that a communication with a lawyer working for you? You shouldn’t publicize that.

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Among other too-fast responses after the shooting, we noticed that Real Clear Politics did some quick stealth-editing: (RCP did not respond to a request for an explanation.) www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Real Clear Politics: when you lack the charisma to get a job at Gateway Pundit

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Kevin M. Kruse

That’s not true Kevin. Sure you have started to miss a step or two but there is still hope that wait did you mean geographically

At the risk of being precisely who everyone expects me to be, I don’t think you can put term limits on justices without a constitutional amendment, and I’m 100% confident at least five current justices think you can’t.

corporate dems shitting their pants might just push biden far enough left to stir up some base enthusiasm at this rate

Biden to reportedly push for supreme court term limits and new ethics codewww.theguardian.com President also considering support for constitutional amendment to eliminate immunity for top officeholders

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Kevin M. Kruse

Kevin, whoever told you that you have to watch this, that you DESERVE to watch this, is lying. You’re not so horrible a person. You’re okayish.

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@kenwhite.bsky.social you have a lot on your plate but former White House National Security Councilmember, former CIA analyst, and accused unregistered agent of the South Korean government Sue Mi Terry could be an interesting additional side character now that the Menendez trial is over.

Former White House official is indicted for acting as South Korea agentwww.reuters.com A foreign policy specialist who once worked for the CIA and on the White House National Security Council (NSC) has been indicted on U.S. charges she worked as an unregistered agent of South Korea's government in exchange for luxuries and other gifts.

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Spiers filed this essay a week before that but does not regret one word of it.

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also and I feel like I buried the lede here: it calls for the people who CREATE queer media to be imprisoned. That'd be people like me. Or any other queer creator you love. Any queen who's been on drag race. Chappel Roan. Janelle Monae. Anyone who's made a piece of queer media. Imprisoned.

Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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Kendyl Hanks

What if his whole hostility to women and immigrants is just off of resentment his wife asks him to put the fucking towel in the hamper or something.

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Lol no thanks

Is that slang for the afterlife

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Menendez’s biggest mistake was not appointing three Supreme Court justices.

Remember, if the government can obtain a conviction against Bob Menendez for taking bribes and stuffing gold bars into his closet that he was given for working on behalf of a foreign government, there's nothing stopping them from indicting you for the same thing.

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Sobbing Marco Rubio Refuses To Come Out Of Bathroom Stallwww.theonion.com MILWAUKEE—Giving the senator a moment to collect himself, aides reported this week that a sobbing Marco Rubio was refusing to come out of the bathroom stall to give his speech at the Republican Nation...

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Joshua J. Friedman

There are TONS of cases where a person in some sort of inpatient mental health treatment (or jail) says some shit about the President and the USSS visits and they endorse it in person and then they get charged. It feels not quite right.