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Big fan of democracy, scientific skepticism, intersectional social justice and human rights. You know, freedom.

Nerdy about several less crucial things that I would love to get back to.

Please.

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this case against biden's resignation makes sense. i do think that if biden decides to step away from reelection, he should explicitly say that he is doing this because House Republicans are too corrupt to confirm a replacement for Harris.

1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...

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Sarah J. Jackson

(1/?) “It would be naïve to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel, and violate the law in order to uphold justice.”

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Another thing you can do is call Dick Durbin's office and demand he stand up for democracy and haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee. And publicly demand their resignations. If you can't literally impeach them, AT LEAST use the bully pulpit. 202-224-2152.

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NEW: Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in New York www.nycourts.gov/courts/ad1/c...

My political awaking was the moment I realized that Presidents enjoyed a presumption of immunity, ever since George W. Bush illegally invaded the wrong country, authorized torture and suspended habeas corpus. But honestly we all should have been marching long before that.

The Supreme Court just confirmed what many have suspected was always the law: they will not hold elites to account, because that undermines the illusion that we live in a meritocracy and are right to defer to the wisdom of our rulers.

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Julia Azari

i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate

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Trump tells his rally crowd Chuck Schumer has “become a Palestinian.” Second time this week he’s used “Palestinian” to describe non-Palestinians he dislikes as if the word is a slur. I remain skeptical of the claim that Trump becoming president next year would improve the lives of Palestinians.

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Race is still factored in. White applicants get to keep the advantages they've accrued through systemic racism without any countervailing forces.

but we live in a meritocracy

I've been in meetings where some, uh, depressingly senior people have explained to me the regions where they have absurd levels of influence with cultural knowledge that is essentially indistinguishable from "watches CNN occasionally and reads all the NYT op-ed pages"

FYI

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I was going to go to Vegas to report Trump's first rally as a felon--not for "news" but to listen for tone, for the mood of fascism as it mutates. But I decided it was too hot, so I stayed in VT & watched 5 hrs of it from an obscure rightwing network. And I made pictures... 1/

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"'It’ll break out in violence,' he says matter-of-factly, as if bloodshed were just tomorrow’s weather."

Hello, Trump Warriors!jeffsharlet.substack.com Dreaming of war and bullshit at the felon's first rally

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what the fuck is wrong with LinkedIn influencers

Reminder that Trump's main excuse for all those federal charges against his is that Biden had weaponized the DOJ. www.npr.org/2024/06/03/g...

Hunter Biden to go on trial on gun chargeswww.npr.org The trial, which opens Monday in federal court in Delaware with jury selection, is the first of two cases brought by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss against the president’s son.

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I love my fellow New Yorkers. 😂

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it rules that a jury of rando New Yorkers is braver than several federal judges and basically every single senator

Just saw someone waving a bedsheet w/ "PIG GUILTY" painted on it

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alito is playing in our faces because he knows there’s nothing we can do about it and he has total contempt for the idea that he might be accountable for anything he does

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one of the funniest things about this statement is that Alito implies that just going outside and taking the flag down himself would be illegal

Some real bangers in here

Treasonous lies www.npr.org/2024/05/29/g...

Justice Alito declines to recuse himself in Jan. 6-related caseswww.npr.org In two letters, Alito said it was his wife’s decision to fly two politically contentious flags, adding that neither he nor his wife was aware of the modern political connotations associated with the f...

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sam alito and clarence thomas supported this. call senators/reps & tell them: hearings. subpoenas. now. whoaremyrepresentatives.org

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Media Matters has a very high ROI - so high that two Republican AGs are suing it, ostensibly for "fraud" in how it covers Elon Musk, ideally to expose its internal operations and shut it down. A good case study in the perennial "liberal donors get bored and don't build" story.

Bad News: I’ve been laid off from mmfa, along with a dozen colleagues. There’s a reason far-right billionaires attack Media Matters with armies of lawyers: They know how effective our work is, and it terrifies them (him).

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This is a must-read piece making a vital point

Democrats need to make the Supreme Court - not just Dobbs, but the threat posed by the court itself - a bigger issue in the campaign. I make the case at MSNBC:

Opinion | It’s time for Justice Alito to face some consequenceswww.msnbc.com Democrats should make the Supreme Court more of a campaign issue

Zombie mortgage debt collectors are turning people out of their homes bc yes, they are actually the worst humans, but they also know justice for their victims will move too slowy to stop them, and that any eventual punishment for their fraud will never outweigh their profits.

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court reform is not some niche issue for activists, it’s the policy precondition that unlocks every other policy goal the Democratic Party has. it’s that or decades of right wing theocracy; no in-betweens

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b-boy bouiebaisse

like, thomas’ reasoning that article iii courts can only act as a high court of the crown could in 1788 is moronic.

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conservatives go on and on about the genius of clarence thomas but the thing about the dude’s arguments is that they are incredibly stupid slate.com/news-and-pol...

Clarence Thomas Makes a Full-Throated Case for Racial Gerrymanderingslate.com In a startling concurrence, the justice faulted Brown v. Board of Education for empowering the court to limit racist redistricting.