Don Dechert

Don Dechert

@dondechert.bsky.social

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Lawyer, veteran. Ex-baby historian, current litigator, lapsed social scientist, still playing TTRPGs. Unabashedly pro-cat because cats are awesome. Various thoughts, some well articulated in 🇺🇲/🇩🇪.

📍Chicago, IL, Vereinigte Staaten, Terra

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Jack Posobiec is a very influential MAGA media figure. He posted this today. In the 1930s Fr. Denis Fahey was probably most well know for being one of the most outspoken anti-semites in the world...quite an accomplishment for that era.

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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

If they do put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket, I am prepared for a level of misogynoir unwitnessed since Rosa Parks sat down on that bus.

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LawSky con law folks: where does Trump v. U.S. rank in your list of all-time worst Supreme Court decisions?

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congrats to everyone who believed his dramatic exit story from the intercept and paid for his dumbass substack

Ken Klip going full Glenn “the far right are my friends” Greenwald

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Baller

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Oh man I have thoughts about that story about kids bullying their teachers. But the short version is - straight line to the model they’ve been getting from adults in charge all around them + larger distain for education/educators

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There’s a whole lot of people on here whose understanding of politics seems to come only from a childhood set of Tsar Wars action figures

It’s amazing how fast y’all just prove you want nothing. Only chaos and a chance to feel special. You’re not special no more so than any of the rest of us. You won’t get your revolution you won’t get shit but trip to one of the fascist farms. You’re not a revolutionary you’re a coward.

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Every day Donald Trump says that the people who don't for him are his enemies. He says he wants to get retribution against other Americans. No President has ever expressed such hatred toward his fellow Americans. I want to be the President for all Americans, whether you vote for me or not.

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This is a bugaboo for me because prosecutors also love to claim that they don't have a choice when they absolutely do.

one of the most dishonest things people in my profession do is pretend as if “the story” and “the narrative” isn’t something they have direct control over

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

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A #caturday story in 4 pics: 1. Max says, “Ah, I have the porch all to myself!” 2. You? Dang. Fine, but stay over there. 3. The dog, too? Can’t a cat get a little privacy? Harumph. 4. Juno says, “I wuv you, grumpy cat!”

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If you think that we actually just need a civil war to settle this once and for all: 1. No, you don’t. 2. No, you don’t. 3. You are an idiot.

Trump’s re-election will mean four hideous years of the GOP playing constant Civil War Chicken at best - as this Heritage Foundation ghoul made clear - and actual civil war at worst. Avoiding that bloody nightmare is a pretty damn good reason to suck it up and vote for Biden.

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Und hier das amtliche Endergebnis im heutigen #SongDuell Heute gab es deutlich weniger Songs. "Verlieren" gewinnt gegen "Gewinnen" mit 164:61 und damit ist @goldene73.bsky.social die heutige Siegerin und ich erwarte die Challenge.

Jetzt wieder bis 21 Uhr das #SongDuell zwischen Geburtstagskind @goldene73.bsky.social#SongDuell zwischen Geburtstagskind @goldene73.bsky.social ❤️🥳🎂 und mir Zwei Gegensätze von uns und von euch Songs dazu in den Drukos. Wer zu seinem Thema die meisten Songs bekommt, gewinnt Heute: "Gewinnen" gegen "Verlieren" Los geht's Her mit euren Songs Gerne Repost

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We have to be the people we have been waiting for. No one else is coming to save us.

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it’s the conservative reconciliation with Trump in the name of their ideological goals in microcosm

Imagine writing a NYT piece talking about how the court, actually, is good right now. But Will Baude did it! Essentially, saying that all they get wrong was the Trump cases — and then insists, sort of, IDK, that even that was for what they thought were good reasons. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

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Alabama and Oklahoma

“The automated ammunition dispenser uses artificial intelligence technology to verify a buyer’s identification and age through card scanning and facial recognition software.” 💀

Vending machines selling bullets at grocery storeswww.cleveland.com American Rounds offers vending machines, powered by artificial intelligence, that are selling ammo for guns at grocery stores in Alabama and Oklahoma.

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What is Heritage rebelling against? - Civil rights - Regulation of financial markets, environment, consumer goods, antitrust - Marriage equality - Fair immigration - Anything that they see as discriminatory against white people and their brand of Christianity www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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Jetzt wieder bis 21 Uhr das #SongDuell zwischen Geburtstagskind @goldene73.bsky.social#SongDuell zwischen Geburtstagskind @goldene73.bsky.social ❤️🥳🎂 und mir Zwei Gegensätze von uns und von euch Songs dazu in den Drukos. Wer zu seinem Thema die meisten Songs bekommt, gewinnt Heute: "Gewinnen" gegen "Verlieren" Los geht's Her mit euren Songs Gerne Repost

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Due respect to the professor, this is laughable special pleading on behalf of John Roberts—his old boss—whom he repeatedly conflates with the whole court in this piece. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/o...

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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.

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Highly recommend Season 2 of this excellent podcast documentary about the far right in Idaho. Episode 2 in particular clarified for me the challenges of talking about people who are "the baddies" of American democracy but who absolutely do not see themselves that way. www.npr.org/podcasts/510...

Extremely Americanwww.npr.org In Season 2 of Extremely American: Onward Christian Soldiers host Heath Druzin and James Dawson take an inside look at Christian nationalism. The movement aims to end American democracy as we know it ...

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The Fig Economy

Biden moved uncharacteristically fast (EO April 9, 2021) to appoint a Presidential Commission on SCOTUS, but it was implicitly engineered to fail to come to any conclusions and was not empowered to make recommendations. So reform wasn't going to come from the top. www.whitehouse.gov/pcscotus/

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A second insurrection. Stop comparing these people to the founders. They are the Confederacy.

A second American Revolution, this one aimed at unwinding democracy in favor of a monarchy. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The target of the right’s ‘revolution’ is pluralistic democracy itselfwww.washingtonpost.com The president of the Heritage Foundation said, “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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The built environment is an underused historical source. Yesterday I sat in a lecture hall seat. Someone had carved "Fuck Chirac" into the little wooden desk in the 90s. I wonder how many students sat in the same seat since and had no idea what that meant.

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The SCOTUS immunity decision has fundamentally changed our government. Join us tomorrow to discuss why this is and what this means. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

Tomorrow on my live webcast “History Matters” (surprise!): Presidential Immunity: The Here and Now Friday 10 AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

Homencheteach.org

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If you are a service member or a veteran and vote for trump. You are once again acting against your interests. I hope you find "owning the libs" worth it.

Project 2025 will rob veterans and active duty troops of billions in benefitswww.rawstory.com The Project 2025 blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump administration would plunder veterans' benefits and shower cash on private contractors.Right-wing policy makers led by the Heritage Found...