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sorry but this is just wrong. yes, there’s a bad faith media feeding frenzy. but *fifty million* people watched Biden sputter his way through that debate. it is not a creation of the media, it is a real problem.

I don’t like to embrace doomerism but I’m pretty sure the moment we took on this narrative as a true “concern” Biden needed to disprove, especially party leadership, we were fucked.

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Bars in Texas and Florida - states that had declared victory over the virus and reopened their businesses - are abruptly ordered closed down amid huge spikes in infections. The virus, which initially hit worst in the Northeast, is now surging across the South and West. There is still no vaccine.

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Ageism is hiring a 25 year old instead of a better qualified 55 year old. It's not "ageism" to say that an 81 year old or a 78 year old might not be able to handle the world's most demanding job.

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Arizona Indivisibles collected 31,939 signatures (145% of their goal of 22,000) to stop a GOP abortion ban and restore reproductive freedom in their state. Please show some love to our Arizona volunteers for a very successful year of determined work in every county from Apache to Yuma! 👏

Haha wait is Andrew Cuomo on Fox now?

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this may be hard to fathom but john roberts does not believe a single word of that opinion.

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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These guys are traitors to the republic just like their heroes Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

My take is that we already had the second American revolution and while we should have finished the job it went poorly for the Heritage Foundation’s ideological presecessors

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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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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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Shohei Ohtani is so big that he even looks big when he’s not standing next to anyone. AS I WAS TYPING THIS HE HIT A HOME RUN SO HARD THAT THE CRACK OF THE BAT SET OFF MY CAR ALARM

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the conservative theory of law in one headline

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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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unironically a matter of urgent national security

After the Court’s decision yesterday, I think there’s an argument from necessity for Biden seizing Trump and trying him by military tribunal, given the sudden unavailability of Article III courts. Plus, itʼs just the sort of thing they’ve authorized an active and energetic chief executive to do.

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Pretty clear that the Federalist Society project to take over the courts for the far right is the most successful and consequential political effort in history. Only took them a few decades. Meanwhile, Dems are like "Let's not be hasty, blue slips serve an important function in preserving comity."

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Think about the baselines here. Taney inherited a vile political system and dedicated his career to perpetuating it. Roberts inherited a system that, although flawed on any number of dimensions, sought to uphold a modest version of democratic equality. He's dedicated his career to dismantling it.

john roberts currently neck and neck with roger taney for worst chief justice in american history

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Voting is not a remedy to the party that you vote for being rendered illegitimate by their opposition

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So many of these people spent YEARS telling people that things that political organizers said would happen would not happen due to 'precedent', norms, collegiality, etc and they were fucking wrong 100%.

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Between today, Chevron, the reversal of Roe, and Citizens United, I feel like it would be pretty tough to name a more destructive Supreme Court than John Roberts'

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Beyond his obvious problems, Biden is the worst possible person to be President in this historical moment. He doesn't speak about Supreme Court corruption because he's a supposed "institutionalist," he convened a "commission" which came to nothing, he has absolutely no fire to rally the country, etc

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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trump just called for liz cheney to be prosecuted for treason which, according to john roberts, is an official act and would not be subject to criminal sanction

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Feel like "we are setting ourselves up as monarchs unaccountable to the American people" is pretty ballsy leading into the July 4th weekend.

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I know we have a counter majoritarian system. I am familiar with the constitution and our history. I know why this is technically possible. I am asking whether it is tenable to keep thinking of our country as a democracy when it works out like this.

It’s really depressing to wake up to the news two days in a row, adding up to the fact that we no longer live in a democracy, and see the NYT publishing an op-ed from a washed up racist comedian about why he wants an open convention

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Good point from Sotomayor here. By barring prosecutors from probing a president's intent, Roberts renders the entire "official vs. unofficial" distinction meaningless.

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Surely people understand the reason the NYT isn't bothering to call for 45 to end his campaign????? Elite Democrats read the times and most important CARE about what it says. Elite GOPers read it and don't give a fuck. In fact, such a column would def be used to raise a TRILLION DOLLARS for 45.

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Just remembering how Diane Feinstein had clearly, visibly deteriorated to the point that she could no longer do her job and was actively inhibiting progress and the Democratic party handled it by going "It's fine! She's fine!" and only got out of it because she just died one day.

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There’s this incredible quote in Rich Cohen’s “Tough Jews” about how people don’t feel much like ubermenschen with split lips

A fun historical fact is that the German-supported Nazi Party in New York was basically destroyed by Jewish-led organized crime groups. www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

Gangsters vs. Nazis: How the Jewish Mob fought American admirers of the Third Reichwww.tabletmag.com Emboldened by Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, and fueled by the Great Depression, anti-Semitism increased throughout the United States, and over 100 anti-Semitic organizations sprung up acr...