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Some sort of weird Lumberjack Longhorn mashup. Foster parent, agitator of status quos, nerd. Usonian. They call me Queso Blanco. Yall Means All.

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Well put

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it's particularly disheartening watching the major news outlets respond to authoritarianism by shifting the editorial overton window rightward because they were scared by a few civil rights protests and a fairly miniscule shift of power toward labor during covid

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I really wish people listened to those of us who have spent years studying and writing about the far right and the coup they have been planning for decades. Because now they are just straight up telling you their plans because they are so emboldened by the fascist captured courts.

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The Supreme Court just fundamentally changed the nature of the Executive, yet the NYT:

It's obvious that some of y'all would have thrown in the towel after the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

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"her animals have been injured..." I get the sense a lot of violence has been committed by Trump supporters over the past year that just hasn't been reported on yet for fear of inspiring more.

Stormy Daniels Reveals Just How Scary Things Have Gotten For Her Since Trump Convictionwww.huffpost.com “People don’t care,” said Daniels, who explained how chilling threats from Trump supporters have become “so much more graphic and detailed and brazen.”

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7/1/2024 will go down as one of the worst days in American history, and this is how the NYT website was covering it yesterday, under seven (7)(VII) articles about Biden's age.

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I’m starting the “stop citing the Federalist Papers” challenge. Reactionary jurists are unable to follow the Constitution when something is clearly written. They sure as hell aren’t going to respond to arguments that didn’t make it into the document.

Man we might need to do this for Texas

This is quite good. It’s a gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How Britain Changed Over 14 Years of Conservative Rulewww.nytimes.com The metrics that British voters say matter the most offer a portrait of decline.

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Civil rights attorney Jill Collen Jefferson took on the police force in the small town of Lexington, Miss., collecting evidence of abuse, falsifying evidence and assault. Then they arrested her.

She took on a small Mississippi town’s police. Then they arrested her.wapo.st How civil rights lawyer Jill Collen Jefferson convinced the Justice Department to investigate allegedly racist and abusive policing in tiny Lexington, Miss.

You: are 3 elections in a row really the most important of our lifetimes? I'm tired of this. Leonard Leo: I spent every day for over 30 years building this monstrosity to take your rights. They never sleep. Neither should we. Vote, organize, vote again. And again.

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Propaganda works

Day 6 of “Biden had a bad first half of debate” leading the Boston Globe Trump SCOTUS declaring the president is an all-powerful king is briefly summarized on page 2

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John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life

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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task

John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life

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“The dissent is indulging in extreme hypotheticals” says the justice in a case of a president trying to use fraud and force to overturn an election

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My argument against replacing Biden is that there is nobody in the world I trust less with that decision than Dem insiders

Galaxy brain moves afoot “In recent days, some company leaders and Democratic political operatives have called the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, according to someone with knowledge of the calls, to gauge his interest in replacing Mr. Biden”

Big Donors Turn on Biden. Quietly.www.nytimes.com Some of the president’s past supporters want a new candidate, but they are leery of going public.

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“Federal Court Orders Mississippi’s State Legislative Maps to Be Redrawn” electionlawblog.org?p=144243

"Federal Court Orders Mississippi's State Legislative Maps to Be Redrawn" #ELBelectionlawblog.org Release: A federal court has ordered Mississippi to redraw its 2022 state legislative maps in several areas after concluding those maps unlawfully dilute the voting strength of Black Mississippians. C...

This is what Democracy is up against. A 30+ year effort to turn the American judicial system into a Republican Super Legislature. We can beat them, but voting in every single election is the bare minimum.

The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system.

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajoritywww.propublica.org The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

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A must read.

The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system.

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New from me: the SCOTUS immunity decision gave Trump’s cronies all the ammunition they need to completely destroy the firewall between the White House and DOJ in a second term. That is, in a word, bad.

Opinion | The Supreme Court has signed off on a Trump takeover of the DOJwww.msnbc.com Tucked inside the immunity ruling in Trump v. United States is a green light to end the Justice Department's post-Watergate independence.

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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency

I have been saying since February that major media are 100% devoted to But Her Emails 2, but I didnt imagine it would get this bad. The day after SCOTUS stops the law applying to Trump, we have to scroll thru 4 fucking top stories on “Biden old” & an ad before getting to anything on SCOTUS decision

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That is an open threat. Terrorism as politics.

sure it’s heritage being heritage, but their continued escalation of the violent rhetoric and threats is not to be taken lightly. especially not after j6

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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

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"Roberts had the audacity, for example, to quote from a passage talking about how unbridled partisanship could lead to foreign influence, corruption, insurrection, and authoritarianism and suggest he was preventing that, rather than immunizing it."

Spirit of Revenge: John Roberts Says Joe Biden Can Demand an Investigation of Ginni Thomas www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/03/s...

Spirit of Revenge: John Roberts Says Joe Biden Can Demand an Investigation of Ginni Thomas - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net By refusing all review of improper pressure on the Attorney General, John Roberts has not eliminated the risk of revenge and despotism. He has, rather, sanctioned it.

Don't mind me humming the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Happy "Robert E Lee Yeets 3 Treason Divisions Into a Deathblossom" Day to all who celebrate Lee's July 3d might be one of his worst days of fighting. Starts off the day with the XII Corps kicking his teeth in on the right flank, booting his bubbas out of US trenches they'd taken the night prior

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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.

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I didn't see this one coming. 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Biden to honor Civil War soldiers for wild Georgia train hijackingwww.washingtonpost.com President Biden will present posthumous Medals of Honor to Civil War troops Philip Shadrach and George Wilson for a mission known as the Great Locomotive Chase.

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Do the Democratic elite believe that 45 is an existential threat? If they actually do, what would you expect to see right now? Are you seeing that?

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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out

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I think Jonas is probably the best “week 3” guy ever and one of the best climbers of all time. Tadej has somehow turned “so anyway I started blasting” into the most dominant careers in cycling history. We are truly blessed