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Coverage of January 6 and other legal investigations. An American-Irish in Ireland.

Legendary potty mouth!

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…the dramatic sweep or bang of a March on Rome, it’s gonna feel a lot more “normal” than that and therefore easier to dismiss by many elite pundits 2) ask an older Black voter if it’s hard to believe that America may no longer be a democracy at some point in its modern history.

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The Texas parole board has unanimously recommended a pardon for ex-Army sergeant Daniel Perry, who was convicted of murder for the 2020 killing of Black Lives Matter protester Garrett Foster

Texas parole board recommends pardon for Daniel Perry, convicted of killing BLM protesterwww.statesman.com A Texas parole board unanimously recommended a pardon for Daniel Perry, convicted of murder for the death of Garrett Foster during 2020 protests.

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I feel bad for the journalists inside the NYT, the WSJ and Washington Post trying to do excellent work in spite of leadership decisions and terrible op-eds that undermine those ongoing efforts

[email protected]: Project 2025 may be backfiring. Trump: I know nothing! I know nothing! www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

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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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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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You can use the Paprika app to grab NYT recipes from behind the firewall if you’re not logged in. Just saying.

This does it. When I get on my computer, I will cancel my subscription despite the good recipes.

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Timothy Snyder: open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

How to Stop Fascismopen.substack.com Five Lessons of the Nazi Takeover

One other thing Mike Morell told HJC (aside from explaining how Trump's narcissism makes something like Jan6 more likely) is that the 2016 RU attack started in 2014, which I had come to believe, but didn't realize the spooks did too. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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NEW BALL OF THREAD: 3| TAPPED (into narcissism) The FBI found several staffers trying to rip Donald Trump off. @emptywheel.bsky.social shows how Trump’s narcissism turned that into an attack on him personally. And the "deep state" conspiracy theory was born. www.patreon.com/posts/3-tapp...

3| TAPPED (into narcissism) | Ball of Threadwww.patreon.com Get more from Ball of Thread on Patreon

Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/j...

Jim Jordan Publishes Intelligence Analysis of Trump's Authoritarian Tendencies - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net Jim Jordan helpfully published intelligence analysis of how Trump's narcissism poses a risk to the United States.

I want to thank Jim Jordan for asking an intelligence expert (Mike Morell) to lay out how Trump has the personality of a dictator. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

New Yorker wants Joe Biden, whose admin has had historical success, to resign bc he's not doing well at running for re-election. This is not, in fact, what the 25th Amendment was made for.

This Is What the Twenty-fifth Amendment Was Designed Forwww.newyorker.com If Joe Biden doesn’t willingly resign, there’s another solution, which would allow Democrats to unite around a new incumbent.

Amanda talks about how if you factually describe that the SCOTUS immunity ruling permits the President to kill his rivals if done as CinC, they accuse you of TDS. I even had Catturd do that to me!

Why read past headlines: If you wonder why Trump and his cronies say terrible things out loud that should turn off swing voters, this article explains it. But it's a high-risk/high-reward fascist strategy. With Project 2025, it may be backfiring. www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but now it may be backfiringwww.salon.com Trump's authoritarian game plan is breaking through to people who haven't heard of it — and it's scaring them

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"This seems to be structured like the Moscow Trump Tower deal would have been: basically, free money to the Trump Organization for the use of a coup-plotter’s brand."

Brazil Charges Coup-Plotter Bolsonaro for Saudi Gifts as Trump Org Unveils New Saudi High Rise www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/b...

Brazil Charges Coup-Plotter Bolsonaro for Saudi Gifts as Trump Org Unveils New Saudi High Rise - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net The value of the diamonds for which Brazil will charge Jair Bolsonaro laundering pale in comparison to the money Saudi Arabia has given to that other coup-plotter, Donald Trump.

Brazil Charges Coup-Plotter Bolsonaro for Saudi Gifts as Trump Org Unveils New Saudi High Rise www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/05/b...

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Big victory for Labour — so big that the NYT just gave Sir Keir his own version of ‘Joe Biden Is Old’

Another person blames garland for shit right wing conservatives did. Rinse, repeat.

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I hate that newspapers make it so easy to subscribe online but don't let you cancel online. So, I guess I am calling the NYT to cancel tomorrow. Despite my love for the recipes and reading the paper since I was a kid, I have to stop subsidizing their crap. transphobia, antivax, now antivoting!

Huh. Apparently Brazil has discovered their coup plotter was taking $$ from Saudi Arabia. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Labour will make all the same errors Tony Blair did. Hopefully marginally less incompetently than the Tories made their errors.

The thing is Nixon would have been a FAR better unaccountable President than Trump, if you ignore the spying on shrinks.

This 4th of July, thinking of him, and how he didn’t live to see his constitutional revolution finally come to pass

Fucking hilarious NYT put their "But her emails" correspondent on a Biden story, when they pay her a lot of money to maintain non-stop access to Trump's camp.

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i really am going to be logged off for the holiday but i would like to drop off a parting thought: publishing a monarchist anti-voting take on the fourth of july is the strongest possible indication of someone's core, true values

Since we're talking about how shitty NYT is, Eric Lipton is still doing the day job, reporting on Trump getting free money from Gulf $$-bags again. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/u...

Trump Organization Signs Up to Put Its Brand on a New Saudi Towerwww.nytimes.com The residential high-rise tower in Jeddah is the latest of several developments that the former president’s company has planned for the Middle East.

Look! NYT found something important to interrupt it's old man Biden coverage and it's not Heritage Foundation's plan for revolution or the way lower courts are rolling back rights. Good to see their crack editorial judgment remains undiminished.

Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island is back. On Thursday, Miki Sudo easily won the women’s title for the 10th time. She ate 51 hot dogs in 10 minutes, setting a new women’s record and exceeding her 2023 total of 39.5 hot dogs. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/n...

This summary of Rahimi, from noted constitutional scholar @petersagal.bsky.social, strikes me as the only short term way out of the Immunity ruling. Once it became clear how nutball Bruen was, everyone but Thomas came around, somewhat. bsky.app/profile/pete...

I recommend reading through the Rahimi decision, concurrences and dissent. Decision: Bruen was fine, but let’s not get crazy. Gorsuch, Kavanagh: Bruen may be nuts, but originalism is good! Kagan, Sotomayor: We done told you Jackson: Look at the mess you made Thomas: DIE UNHAPPY LOSERS

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out