Scott Brown

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Former Senator from the Commonwealth.

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don’t these idiots know fbi agents fucking love Trump lol

DEFUND THE POL . . . Wait, what? www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/u...

House G.O.P. Pushes Deep Cuts to Federal Law Enforcementwww.nytimes.com Republicans put forward a spending bill that would slash funding for federal law enforcement, though they failed to find a way to defund the special counsel prosecuting former President Donald J. Trum...

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Third, the idea that we could easily hold a new set of primaries is absurd. Printing ballots & organizing a primary cost money. Collecting signatures to get names on those ballots is necessary. Election dates are selected & announced far in advance because our public notice laws require it.

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The largely silent ad, which will reportedly air in battleground states across the country, features a sequence of headshots depicting politicians, former Trump White House officials, journalists, and seemingly random average Americans with big red X’s over their faces.

New Trump Ad Shows Montage Of People He’ll Kill If Electedwww.theonion.com PHOENIX—Following this week’s landmark Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity against criminal prosecution for official acts, Donald Trump’s campaign released an ad Wednesday that con...

This @adamserwer.bsky.social article cursorily notes that a new veep "would have to be confirmed by the House and Senate, rendering her choice vulnerable to Republican obstruction... The House is a bigger risk, given the GOP majority's fealty to Trump" - which, uh... tinyurl.com/ch5tymdu

Biden Must Resigntinyurl.com If the president wants to protect American democracy, he should hand over his office to Kamala Harris.

Having made these same mistakes, yep.

1/ I often write: The only thing I know *for certain* about the future is that it has not happened yet. Yesterday’s SCOTUS ruling is a perfect example of how much I need to heed my own mantra. For years, I heard Donald Trump was saying that he was certain that “his Supreme Court justices” . . .

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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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Trump will not stop pushing if you give him a slap on the wrist; he will push as far as he can possibly go. We've already seen this in action when the House failed to impeach him over the Mueller report and he immediately embarked on extorting Ukraine

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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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."

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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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/6 Later Trump orders a staff member at Mar-A-Lago to kill a Muslim employee, possibly by serving him the food. Under the Court’s rule, even assuming that ordering Mar-A-Lago to kill people is unofficial conduct (not 100% clear), Trump’s anti-Muslim tirade to the AG would be inadmissible at trial.

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The Ecstasy of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Italian School, 18th c, 📸 via @NBCOlympics

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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.

Fuck. This one's going to sting, but add another company to our boycott list. x.com/TractorSuppl...

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Leader of the PS (left bloc member) just spoke. He said: Whenever PS candidate is in runoff & in 3rd place, & far-right can win, their candidate will drop out to block far-right. Will Macronists? Bayrou, a Macronist leader, just tied himself in knots to say nothing precise.

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If Biden literally shat himself during one of the debates, his opponent would still be the guy openly vowing to send federal troops to take over cities, set up mass detention camps, and imprison his critics. The only sane position would still be Team Pants Shitter.

Also, with both candidates being elderly, one becomes more concerned about the people they hire to run the country. Biden’s people will be at worst, to riff on P.J. O’Rourke, wrong within normal parameters, while Trump’s people will be historically sociopathic. Not a close call.

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When future historians periodize US history, 2013 will mark the end of the US's first era of officially consensual multiracial democracy. After Shelby County v Holder began a period of acute struggle over democracy in the states and eventually at the federal level. The denouement remains to be seen

Eleven years ago, SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in #ShelbyCounty, arguing that "things have changed" since the 1960s. Today, we know that things have changed since this ruling: namely, that the turnout gap exploded in formerly-covered places 1/n www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

This is endemic and deeply depressing. Imma go make a donation to the Internet Archive now. It can't save everything but it can at least store some of it.

One of the interesting things about the Internet is that we’re actually living through a dark age. Future historians are unlikely to have records of this period. Paper and ink last. Digital storage, less so. variety.com/2024/tv/news...

Comedy Central’s Website Purges 25 Years of Video Clips and Other Contentvariety.com The vast repository of content on Comedy Central's website has been removed by Paramount Global, in a move to push fans to Paramount+.

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relatedly, i am going to lose my mind at how 90 percent of trump coverage treats him as if he wasn't president for four years

nothing annoys me more than the notion of an "expectations game." there is no rule that says journalists must evaluate political events on the basis of expectations set by party apparatchiks. edition.cnn.com/2024/06/26/p...

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I am obliged to share this official decree from our President.

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we are all calvin's dad

I am an engineer and have this same thought about the speed of work when drawings were done by hand and not on the computer and that was way less than 200 years ago.

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the stuff this guy did is so, so, so much worse than what i'm even *accused* of having done, and yet

Well.

Washington Post Publisher and Incoming Editor Are Said to Have Used Stolen Records in Britainwww.nytimes.com Years before becoming the Post’s publisher, Will Lewis assigned an article based on stolen phone records, a former reporter said.

Pollinate me, Daddy. uWu

This flower is kind of slutty

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Humbly pointing up to the sky after serving up an absolute moonshot of a walk-off home run. My role as closer is very obviously in jeopardy but I refuse to gainsay the judgment of my lord, who sustains me even when I am lobbing helicopter sliders into the kill zone in high leverage situations.

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you get busted liking ONE pedo post

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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...

1. Braves: racists doing the tomahawk chop in their white flight stadium. 2. Phillies: crap city, crap fans, deserve nothing but pain, and Chase Utley is a punk. 3. Marlins: LOL. 4. Nats: LMAO.

Baseball fans, rank how much you hate your division rivals 1. Cardinals, get your smug best fans in baseball shit out of here 2. Cubs, I alsohad WGN growing up 3. Pirates, jealous of your ballpark but the fights are pretty good 4. Brewers, y’all are in 2080 everyone should tailgate baseball

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it is a wild week for sports being played in unfamiliar countries, with cricket in the United States, baseball in the United Kingdom, and Stanley Cup Final hockey in Canada

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Four years ago today: Buffalo Police knocked over a 75-year old man at a George Floyd demonstration, giving him a head injury that would put him in the hospital for a month. Trump went on Twitter to promote a conspiracy theory about it and say the man had it coming.

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this is exciting. lyme is utterly debilitating for so many people.

Lyme vaccine phase 2 clinical trials results — safe and effective; now, on to phase 3 (which is still recruiting). skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social

Pfizer: One of the world's premier biopharmaceutical companiespfizer.com Discover the commonalities and differences between biologics vs. biosimilars — especially when it comes to cost.