Doc McDoom

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Happy fourth

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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise

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yep, it’s the obvious next move

There is also every reason to think that this court will expand Trump v. U.S in his second term to extend immunity to those doing his bidding. I.e., “Our holding in Trump v. U.S. demands that government officials be able to enact the will of the executive without fear of criminal proceedings.”

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"Don't worry, if the president imprisons his political enemies, you can still get a writ of habeas corpus." "But to prove that's why you've been imprisoned requires proof of..." "Presidential motive!" "And under Trump v US, presidential motive is..." "Inadmissible!"

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The electoral problem has become, as the IRA gloated to Thatcher, that the GOP only needs to get lucky once and the Democrats need to be lucky forever. Either they’re going to do something about the court - now, not eventually - or we will simply play iterations of this game until the GOP wins.

I want everyone to think about what Trump will do with explicit absolute immunity from prosecution and the full power of the presidency of the United States of America those are the stakes in November, full stop

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Everyone is always afraid to say why people like Trump or Marie Le Pen have some level of popularity and it’s just that there’s a lot of people in the world who believe in racism. You end up with these goofy ass explanations for Trump where it’s NAFTA or shit and it’s like no you know what it is

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I am thinking of my favorite quotation I ever read about law, judges, and the like, and it is: "The law is whatever I write on a piece of paper." Nicely simplifies all the sophistry that goes into "settled law" and its pretensions and the like. Anyway this is the guy who said it.

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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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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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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.

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Biden is too old. But he has surrounded himself with competent people and has had a conventional first term. Trump is authoritarian but inept. He has surrounded himself with people he hopes will make him more effective at authoritarianism. Neither is ideal. But these are not similar problems.

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This debate is a prime example of how profoundly we are ill equipped to deal w/the rise of authoritarianism. Letting blatant lies fly. Doing nothing to follow up on lies & ignoring questions. Normal rules don't apply. We need to think--CLEARLY--about the best ways to clear the air & support truth.

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Should be national news: - Cop accused of grooming & raping 15 year old - Two other cops had sex with her in cop cars - She gets pregnant, found dead - Cop was last one to see her alive, in apt where she was found - Ruled suicide with no tests on DNA evidence - No criminal charges against anyone

sure seems like this cop who groomed and raped this child then impregnated and murdered her www.bostonglobe.com/2024/06/24/m...

Death of Sandra Birchmore was a homicide, prominent pathologist says - The Boston Globewww.bostonglobe.com The finding contradicts the 2021 conclusion of the state medical examiner, who ruled that Birchmore, a young woman who was allegedly groomed by three former Stoughton police officers, died of suicide.

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the striking thing about all of these breathless declarations of a post-constitutional order is that none of them ever actually describe with any substance the injustice or injury being done to them. it's taken as self-evident that they are being trampled by dictatorship.

The nuclear answer to this at the debate is to point out the huge contributions of hard-working undocumented immigrants who by and large live peaceful lives "and sadly some have done horrific acts such as rape, the same despicable act that a jury found my opponent to have committed"

Awful: Trump just revealed that he will attack Biden over "migrant killings" at the debate later this month. It really is time to treat the Trump-MAGA use of these horrific murders to smear millions of undocumented immigrants as a big story. 1/ New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1829...

Trump Just Revealed How He’ll Attack Biden at Debate—and It’s Vilenewrepublic.com He’s going to pin “migrant killings” on Biden. It’s false, and here’s how Biden should respond.

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The Cybertruck is indistinguishable from a product specifically designed to make fun of people who would like a Cybertruck

@rickperlstein.bsky.social Re-reading this after NIXONLAND, am I wrong to think Mr. C fits Nixon almost too neatly? Is there something about Nixon's person that would have pushed back? Thanks

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompsonharpers.org

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Elon Musk is super fucking racist, part 83,482...

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The one I give students when I teach them is: Never underestimate intelligence. ALWAYS underestimate vocabulary. People can and do want to learn about super complex topics, we just need to not lose them on the way!

This week, graduate students in my course are learning how to write about science for the non-expert public. For those of you who do this professionally, what tips would you offer?

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My grandfather worked in the Bitcoin mines of central Pennsylvania his entire life and never asked for a handout from anyone. It’s about time the people who took that world away from us are kicked out of power so that Trump can bring our Bitcoin jobs back!

Donald Trump: “We want all remaining Bitcoin to be made in the USA” I think it may be time to move this man into hospice care

This is exactly right. Evangelicals often referred to abortion as a Holocaust and if they sincerely believed that while Roe was in effect, the response to mitigate it wouldn't have been to cut the social safety net wherever they could. Instead it was the costless goal of a state-enforced ban.

It’s not Christianity in any real theological sense, and the kind of compassionate Christianity Liz talks about has zero appeal for them. It would strip them of their self righteous determination to punish others for perceived sins and would require sacrifices they don’t want to make

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Home Depot wants this guy so damn bad they’re gonna launch a bidding war

Why am I perfect for this job at Lowe’s? Well I don’t know shit about fuck and I hate everyone so you do the math

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and much earlier, Phil Hartman playing Reagan as a mastermind feigning amiable idiocy in public succeeded because most contemporary viewers considered him a dunce this was in 1986, before he was elevated to sainthood by the right and mainstream political journalists

President Reagan, Mastermind - SNLwww.youtube.com President Reagan (Phil Hartman) acts hopeless and clueless in public, but in private he's an evil mastermind who knows every detail about everything happening in his administration. [Season 12, 1986] #SNL Subscribe to SNL: https://goo.gl/tUsXwM Get more SNL: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live Full Episodes: http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-liv... Like SNL: https://www.facebook.com/snl Follow SNL: https://twitter.com/nbcsnl SNL Tumblr: http://nbcsnl.tumblr.com/ SNL Instagram: http://instagram.com/nbcsnl SNL Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/nbcsnl/

Amazon has more money than God and yet somehow their UI is worse than the worst auto parts chain. I want to check prices on a headlamp relay and this is the menu I have to deal with after I've already entered my vehicle make. Can't unsee this stuff now. Thanks @zitron.bsky.social.

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New at The Watch: Trump wants to deport more people than the populations of NYC, Chicago, and L.A. combined. It would cost $1 trillion+, and require a force larger than the U.S. Army. It also can't be done. But that isn't the point. It's about giving his supporters the human suffering they crave.

Trump's deportation armyopen.substack.com The former president's vow to deport 15 million people is the cruelest, most illiberal, most openly authoritarian campaign promise in modern U.S. history. Oh, and it would also destroy the economy.

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Whenever someone random tries to downplay confederate monuments to me and I don’t have the energy to put my work hat on, I just calmly say, “I don’t know it’s kinda like if we had statues of the 9/11 hijackers, only confederates killed more Americans.” Shuts them up every time.

It's a very big problem that there is no greater source of bad faith arguments and disinformation and conspiracy theories than evangelicals.

Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number." Sounds legit. www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar...

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net Speaker Mike Johnson: "We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections. But it's not been something that's easily provable. We don't have that number." Sounds legit.

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To review, the former president spent the first day of evidence on his criminal trial encouraging his supporters to protest outside the courthouse, encouraging the NYPD to abandon said courthouse, and claiming that neither he nor any police officers should ever be subject to criminal prosecution