Jeffrey Vagle

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US elections need more ventriloquist acts.

There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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Still weird this very plain spoken call to mass violence isn’t dominating coverage!

Who's actually pushing violence? It's Trump, writes @maggieastor.bsky.social in this great NYT takedown of Kevin Roberts' "second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.”" www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/u...

Heritage Foundation Head Refers to ‘Second American Revolution’www.nytimes.com Kevin Roberts, president of the group that has coordinated the Project 2025 policy plan, said it could be “bloodless if the left allows it to be.”

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No one—I repeat, NO ONE is contesting the outcome of the elections in the UK. Conservatives, who took a hell of beating, are talking about learning from their mistakes & promise to work harder to earn the trust of the voters. That’s something that has become rare in our country

UK general election results live: Labour set for general election landslide as early results come inwww.bbc.com Keir Starmer is on course to be new UK prime minister with predicted Labour majority of 170, according to the exit poll for the BBC, ITV, and Sky.

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the consolidated, center-right billionaire owned press continues to shift the editorial overton window rightward and if you can't see it you're either complicit or oblivious

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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’

Freedom, freedom, freedom, Oy!

This guy successfully managed two theaters of war on opposite sides of the planet, dealt with serious logistics and mobilization challenges, all while dealing with difficult people like Churchill, Stalin, and MacArthur.

It’s a very obscure question but I did some research and it turns out that the president who led us out of the Depression and kicked Hitler’s ass was actually in a wheelchair? Who knew?

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Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

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1. The guy who wrote the "don't vote" essay says we're obligated as Americans to root for the Michigan Wolverines www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/o... 2. he lives in 3 Rivers, MI & says your vote doesn't matter "even in municipal races." I found EIGHT elections in the past 10y decided by 1 vote there

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When I first saw this I thought "no, that can't possibly be true." But alas, the Times did indeed choose today of all days to publish a right winger's recycled piece about how they don't vote, failing to mention that the author basically thinks absolutist theocracies are cool.

On INDEPENDENCE DAY they published this. ON THE FOURTH OF JULY 2024 THE NEW YORK TIMES TOLD PEOPLE NOT TO VOTE. I'm furious.

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.

And a Happy Independence Day to the brigades from ME, NH, VT, MA, RI , CT, NY, NJ, DE, PA, WV, OH, MI, and MN who threw the secesh back from whence they came.

Happy Independence Day, especially to the men of the 20th Maine.

Has he no trilby stage?

This guy's headshot choices tell a story and it's a story Quantico's Behavioral Science unit should investigate

A July 4 thread on the UCMJ, a duty to obey/disobey unlawful orders, and the effects the Trump v. US decision might have on military decision making.

Thinking more about UCMJ, IHL, etc., re the Trump v. US holding, esp. in questions of law governing unlawful orders.

under the opinion in trump v. united states there was no need for john yoo to come up with an elaborate justification for torture. george w. bush could have ordered an interrogator to crush the testicles of a child, no questions asked.

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Matthew Walther is a tradcath weirdo who absolutely welcomes authoritarianism

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Fantastic post from @rtushnet.bsky.social in what I’m conceiving of as The Context-Specific First Amendment (an area where we’re still doing actual law, for now)

NetChoice and Calvinball: Initial thoughtstushnet.blogspot.com I understand if you don’t think that the First Amendment is an area where SCOTUS is really doing “law” as we were taught it, but as a distra...

Hoping to make it through tomorrow Copland-free.

Something for Biden camp might consider for tomorrow afternoon's festivities: www.theonion.com/shirtless-bi...

Shirtless Biden Washes Trans Am In White House Drivewaywww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Taking advantage of the warm spring weather Monday, Vice President Joe Biden parked his 1981 Trans Am in the White House driveway, removed his undershirt, and spent a leisurely afternoon wa...

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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Right about now, in 1863, came one of my favorite moments of the Battle of Gettysburg. Division commander Maj Gen Alex Hays, of Pittsburgh, seeing that his division had smashed the rebel attack, kissed his aide-de-camp, grabbed a reb flag, mounted his horse, and rode his line dragging it behind him

I'm betting that "interesting politics" is not what the majority of Americans want.

“Politics would be interesting again,” is a hell of a thing to say generally and also, for these commentators, obviously untrue. Nothing about any replacement process will be as arousing to them as the prospect of forcing the renominated president out of the race with enough poison pen columns.

There's a strong determination to pick at every seam.

There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons. ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

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If only our news media institutions found "ex-president promises to jail and try opponents for treason if he takes back power" as newsworthy as "unnamed aide said current president gets tired after having a full day of work."

Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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sam alito salivating at the chance to make this life for americans

Update: Cambodian court handed jail terms of up to 8-10 years to 10 activists of an environmental group on charges of plotting against the government and insulting the king www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/c...

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This Far Side cartoon, but with jurists and politicians discovering that constitutional principles and norms can be just as fragile.

I think we're seeing that the Fifth Circuit is less outlier than preview.

i think akhil amar reed captures something very important, which is that the roberts court rewrote article ii, which explicitly states that a president can be held criminally liable after impeachment (and which has long been understood to mean that he can be held liable after leaving office)

Something Has Gone Deeply Wrong at the Supreme Courtwww.theatlantic.com Jurists who preach fidelity to the Constitution are making decisions that flatly contradict our founding document’s text and ideals.

Agreed. Early and often.

one thing democrats need to understand is that in this moment transparency is their ally