C Latner

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GenX/Boomer hybrid in the progressive South

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I wrote about how the several key Supreme Court decisions are bolstering Project 2025 -- the authoritarian playbook for a Trump second term. I hope you read, consider and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...

How the Supreme Court Bolstered Project 2025www.democracydocket.com From Marc | The Supreme Court has recently become a witting or unwitting facilitator of Project 2025’s dystopian agenda for the future.

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The Sandy Hook parents should get whatever punishment they want from Alex Jones, period. If one of my kids had been massacred in kindergarten and some braying jackass in the media not only called it all fake but made millions off doing so, I wouldn’t stop punching his face until they tased me

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This was the single most important democracy story of the week. Please read and share. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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🎵How do you solve a problem like Alito? How do catch an opportunist and pin him down? How do you find a word that means Alito? A flibbertigibbet! A will-o-the-wisp! A clown! www.nycsouthpaw.com/p/how-do-you...

How do you solve a problem like Alito?www.nycsouthpaw.com May 11, 2022

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*taps "Sam Alito is a problem" sign* www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-...

Sam Alito is a problemwww.lawdork.com Chief Justice John Roberts must take responsibility for his court. If he does not, what follows will be his legacy — and we’ll have to deal with the fallout.

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Rather than misfit lawyers and a handful of sycophants, this time he will have nearly every Republican senator, congressman, governor and state AG at his disposal. His grassroots army of followers is more primed to take extreme action, including violence. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

Donald Trump Is Plotting His Next Crimewww.democracydocket.com From Marc | If Donald Trump succeeds, there will be no justice for him. He will become the autocrat he promises to his supporters.

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Having been convicted of crimes related to the 2016 election and indicted for trying to overturn the 2020 election, Donald Trump is now plotting his next crime in 2024. I hope you take a few minutes to read what I wrote and to share it with others. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

Donald Trump Is Plotting His Next Crimewww.democracydocket.com From Marc | If Donald Trump succeeds, there will be no justice for him. He will become the autocrat he promises to his supporters.

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NEW: "A former attorney for former President Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign was charged in Wisconsin today with forgery in connection with a scheme to send fake electors to Congress in order to subvert the results of the election." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Dan Bishop thinks Trump’s conviction is akin to how Alabama approached justice for Black people in 1950. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | No, Trump’s New York trial was not comparable to the Jim Crow Southwww.washingtonpost.com Republican congressman Dan Bishop, who is seeking election as attorney general in North Carolina, drew a very, very fraught analogy in a recent radio interview.

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Calling college students “children” is just another way of diminishing their viewpoints. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Eric Adams’s condescending dismissal of the ‘children’ at Columbiawww.washingtonpost.com The New York mayor offered a familiar argument for diminishing rhetorical opponents: They are gullible patsies for nefarious actors.

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“What we don’t need is someone with no wife and kids, right? No skin in the game.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Blake Masters disparages his House opponent for not having kidswww.washingtonpost.com The failed Senate candidate outlined a replacement-is-great pitch for his House candidacy.

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gonna need a psychologist to parse trump calling hunter biden "tucker"

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In less than 15 minutes I explain how conservatives have hatched a new scheme - Project 2025 - to threaten democracy and undermine how our government functions. Watch now: youtu.be/rDikvtSEtMY

The Dangers of Project 2025, Explainedyoutu.be Over 100 conservative groups, led by the Heritage Foundation, are working together on Project 2025, a plan that would overhaul the executive branch of the fe...

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"Putting in the possibility of not only impeachment and removal, but also prosecution, was crucial to making sure that the president that didn't sort of easily become a tyrant." — historian Holly Brewer, in the Law Dork Video on Trump v. US, coming Sunday

Law Dork: Holly Brewer — Trump Immunitywww.youtube.com University of Maryland Associate Professor Holly Brewer, the Burke Professor of American History, interviewed by Chris Geidner as part of a Law Dork video fe...

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What we're seeing today is the judge limiting reporting in certain ways *because* reporters were apparently not capable of exercising reasonable judgement yesterday, and their actions reasonably put at least one juror and potential jurors in fear for their safety.

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NEW: Trump’s latest LIE about election fraud to deceive voters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvEb...

Trump’s latest LIE about election fraud to deceive voterswww.youtube.com Sophie discusses a federal bill announced by Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson aimed at preventing noncitizens from voting in federal elections — somethi...

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Here it is! bsky.app/profile/erra...

The pile of things I have to read is now starting to bend space-time around it, but there's this new book that just came out... #reading #books

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This week's Ctrl Alt-Right Delete was heavily influenced by @lolgop.bsky.social's podcast interviewing the incredible @robinmarty.bsky.social. We're talking about the links between abortion and authoritarianism and how many Americans are already living it.

Fascist Hellscapewww.altrightdelete.news There’s no better issue than abortion to remind us what America under a second MAGA Administration would become.

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With 204 days until Election Day, my law firm is currently litigating 55 voting rights and election cases in 20 states. States with the most cases: AZ, GA, WI, FL, NC and NY.

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Where voters have moved since 2020 and what it tells us about 2024 (not a lot but there are nice charts).

Analysis | Where 2024 voters moved since 2020 — and how they registeredwww.washingtonpost.com Millions of Americans moved between states since the last presidential election. We took a look at what voter data tells us about those moves.

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Abortion is at risk of falling into the space occupied by gun control: broadly popular but blocked by an overpowered minority.

Analysis | Abortion, like gun control, is now subject to minority whimwww.washingtonpost.com On both issues, most Americans support positions that politics won’t affect.

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Wow. A Trump lying about election fraud to trick credulous people into handing over money? Who would have thought it possible.

Analysis | A Trump raising money off election lies? Now we’ve seen everything.www.washingtonpost.com A phone call on behalf of the overhauled Republican National Committee again turns false claims about 2020 into a sales pitch.

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NEW: Nearly 200 mobile devices of people who visited Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedophile island” left an invisible trail of data pointing back to their homes & offices, according to data WIRED discovered leaked online. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/jeffre...

Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Brokerwww.wired.com A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.

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A second Trump term would be focused on addressing the racial insecurity of Whites who see themselves as the real targets of discrimination. No paywall.

Analysis | Trump aims to be a fearless warrior for White advantagewapo.st The former president’s team and allies assure his base that the federal government won’t use balanced scales.

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He's doing it almost daily so it's easy to get inured, but (taps sign) dehumanization is a classic hallmark of pre-genocidal rhetoric. Every alarm bell should go off every time Trump or anyone else says this.

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The two most prominent faces of modern conservatism are both billionaires with crippling debts & unhealthy lifestyles, who live in perpetual fear of total personal collapse, & imagine their crisis is the nation's.

It’s a good thing Elon took over Twitter so that the public can be confident that it will remain strictly neutral politically.

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It was actually a perfect representation of the Republican party--talking about family to yourself while you sit alone at your kitchen table alone late at night, seething and shaking about people you've never seen except on TV who you're sure are coming for you.

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Here's how Hunter Biden rebutted the allegations that his father was involved in his business, in his own words. No paywall, so even members of Congress have no excuse not to read it. wapo.st/3T0QsVT

Analysis | Hunter Biden’s point-by-point rebuttal of allegations against his fatherwapo.st During his testimony this week, Republican legislators and their investigators pressed Hunter Biden to explain allegations they’d made against his father. He did.