Jeri Ryan (official account)

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Actress, mom, wife, foodie, gardener. Not necessarily in that order. Trying to make a better world for our kids. Star Trek: Picard. That’s CAPTAIN Seven to you. 🖖🏼😋❤️

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.

right. the president could order troops to suppress protesters using live fire and the supreme court would extend that absolute immunity

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.

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“Plans are already in motion to use this new, historic court decision as a legal shield to help a potential second Trump administration implement his extreme policy agenda with less concern for rules and laws, sources with knowledge of the matter say.”

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‘It’s Like Christmas’: Team Trump Stunned by Massive Supreme Court Immunity Winwww.rollingstone.com Conservatives are planning to use the Supreme Court’s immunity decision to help them implement Trump’s extreme policy agenda, sources say.

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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.

My friend and colleague Ken White has written a great thread describing some (but far from all) of the enormous problems with today's decision by Chief Justice Roberts granting Donald Trump criminal immunity on grounds never before accepted by any court. Today's decision threatens the Republic.

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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock

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One thing I think people forget is how relentlessly *stupid* every day of the Trump administration was. He doesn’t need to do a big elaborate complicated conspiracy, he can just (e.g.) email a list of every U.S. agent in the field to Putin and say it’s to own the libs, and *that* will have immunity.

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I keep coming back to "all this for literally Donald Trump," but it fits. There's not some more competent aspiring autocrat who'd somehow "earn" or "win" this. This is how it has always gone: feckless/evil elites attaching themselves to the sociopath they believe will get them where they want to go.

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More. New tonight: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

We got some stuff going on today at Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Justice Alito Caught on Tape Discussing How Battle for America ‘Can’t Be Compromised’www.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a new recording says the battle for America "can't be compromised," and that one political party will "win."

Martha-Ann Alito Condemns Pride Flags, the Left, and the Mediawww.rollingstone.com Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a new recording bemoans having to “look across the lagoon at the Pride flag.”

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Pride Flag Not Exactly Thrilled To Have To Look At Martha-Ann Alito Either

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If Sam Alito truly loved his wife, he’d retire immediately so she can live out her lifelong dream of literally letting her freak flags fly

This is beautiful www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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One has to wonder how long Democratic elites will keep pulling their punches on the Supreme Court

The kicker. Oh wow.

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so, to recap one Supreme Court Justice accepted millions in gifts another explicitly wants a Christian theocracy their wives are insurrectionists and they are both casting votes on a case that could declare Trump immune from prosecution seems like a pretty strong case for court reform to me

More. New tonight: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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BREAKING: in a devastating blow to both-sides-ism, the judge and jury in the Hunter Biden trial remain unthreatened

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Joe Biden’s empathy for his fuckup son is one of the single most humanizing things about him and this is incredibly confusing to people who became fascists because their blue-haired enby grandchild told them no one says “Oriental” anymore

This is a terrific article. 🎯

I wrote about one of my favorite Star Trek characters (@jerilryan.bsky.social's Seven of Nine) and the trauma (and gifts) of immigration. Thanks to @uncannymagazine.bsky.social for offering me space to write this! www.uncannymagazine.com/article/seve...

Seven of Nine Is a Third-Culture Kid - Uncanny Magazinewww.uncannymagazine.com Content Note: Racism Seven of Nine is a third-culture kid. Those of us who leave one country for another at an early age recognize the beats: You’re one person, a whole, unconflicted person with a w...

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Here's what NYC is losing because Hochul killed congestion pricing. Look at all those ADA accessibility upgrades!

There’s a good lesson to learn here about also calling your reps for the programs you like instead of just the ones you don’t like, but now’s not the time for that. Hochul’s phone lines opened five minutes ago and it’s time to call again. (518) 474-8390 is the number to let her know this sucks.

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the very worst shit online is always generated by a small, obsessed cult and SUPRISE, when you ban that small group you have mostly solved the problem

Deplatforming is out of favor in Silicon Valley. But it works. A new study in Nature finds that Twitter's mass suspension of 70,000 QAnon-linked accounts after Jan. 6 meaningfully reduced the overall circulation of fake and hyperpartisan news on the platform. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.www.washingtonpost.com A new study finds deplatforming “super-spreaders” of misinformation can limit the overall spread of online whoppers.

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putting the Fix the Court data into a pie chart (usually the worst form of chart) really helps communicate the scale of what is happening here docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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[after the person donates to Nazi groups, likes and retweets crazy right wing conspiracy theories, and espouses white nationalist tropes] THE MEDIA: "..., whose politics are difficult to determine,..."

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To add: falsely derided. She was working her ass off in difficult circumstances and he turned her into a racist caricature to get applause from white people. www.latimes.com/archives/la-... bsky.app/profile/gree...

The man who derided his own kin as a welfare queen singlehandedly collected 83% of gifts recorded by _all_ Supreme Court justices since 2004. Incredible.

Sister of High Court Nominee Traveled Different Road : Family: Although Clarence Thomas held her up as a horrible example, Emma Mae Martin defends her life and the choices she made.www.latimes.com At the end of the narrow sandy road that winds to the marshy shore of Moon River lies the life into which Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas was born--and the life that his sister never left.

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I'll stack reporters at the NYT & NPR against a certain suck up newsletter writers any day, and now we have two very solid reports about Will Lewis trying to kill stories about him. www.npr.org/2024/06/06/n...

'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him. It wasn’t the first time.www.npr.org The Post's new CEO Will Lewis tried to stop the paper from publishing a story about allegations he faces in Britain. It wasn't the first time he's attempted to head off unwanted coverage. I know, beca...

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Holy shit: When Will Lewis was newly-hired Publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, he offered NPR media reporter David Folkenflik an exclusive story about the paper's future in exchange for him killing a story about Lewis' involvement in covering up criminal activity at Rupert Murdoch's tabloids.

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“Everyone say cheese!” “Cheese!” “Cheese!” “Cheese!” “Cheese!” “Fuck you, Theresa.”

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OMG consequences

NEW: Steve Bannon has been ordered to surrender to prison on July 1. Judge Nichols has revoked his bail. (via Kyle Cheney, Politico)