Matthew

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Retired curmudgeon, still curmudgeoning

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DOJ authorized Jack Smith to appeal Cannon’s dismissal. How the 11th Circuit decides will affect “the entire framework of how special counsel investigations are conducted in the future.”

Jack Smith responds after Aileen Cannon rulingwww.newsweek.com The justice department has authorized the Special Counsel to appeal the court's order," said Smith's spokesperson.

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I don't know the first thing about the Appointments clause because it doesn't come up in the everyday practice of law. But Lawrence Tribe making confident assertions about law is never a good sign for your position.

From Lawrence Tribe:

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Yeah, so Vance is or was an investor in Rumble, which apparently monetizes pro-Nazi content. Is this correct?

Trump Campaign Ads Are Monetizing Pro-Nazi Content on Rumblewww.rollingstone.com Team Trump blames the streaming platform’s algorithm for placing its campaign ads against a video calling Nazi book burning “justified” and “awesome”

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Read this. Hell of a kicker

This whole excerpt tells you multitudes about our current political moment.

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Two months ago Greg Abbott pardoned a murderer who texted a friend "I might go to Dallas to shoot looters" then drove into a BLM protest in Austin and killed a protester. The universal response from conservatives to the pardon was "Yeah! Woo-hoo!" Now they say liberals should turn down the rhetoric

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This poem is in the Reform Judaism siddur for the Mourner's Kaddish.

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just watched a presser with Milwaukee cops explaining that Wisconsin is an open carry state so they can't do anything about it if somebody's walking around the soft perimeter with an AR

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: The Birthday Beast

The CEO of NBC donates to Trump and the Republicans. Nuff said.

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Storlom 🇵🇱🇺🇦🇵🇸

2 weeks without water = death. You can survive months without food if you have water. Given most americans are overweight, that could be a lot longer.

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hey remember when the FCC tried to implement some really basic consumer privacy protections for telecom but AT&T convinced GOP Senators to kill those efforts before they could even take effect? good times

Nearly all AT&T cell customers’ call and text records exposed in a massive breach | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The call and text message records of hundreds of millions of AT&T cellphone customers in mid-to-late 2022 were exposed in a massive data breach, the telecom company revealed Friday.

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The Republican line now is that the shooting was caused by Dems saying Trump is a threat to democracy, and they’re doing that because it’s a big and true thing they want Dems to stop saying.

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Pwnallthethings

This, and a portable water filter like the life straw could keep you alive for months while you search for signal. www.goodhousekeeping.com/home-product...

Pack One of These Top-Tested Solar Phone Chargers on Your Next Camping Tripwww.goodhousekeeping.com Charge up your devices with the power of the sun.

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Jerome

New look, to appeal to intellectuals.

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Michael Tae Sweeney

Trump has changed his tone! Now, he's presidential!

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Russ Bengtson

"According to the DSM IV-TR, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is diagnosed in between 2% and 16% of the population in clinical settings (between 0.5-1% of the general population). (50-75% of all patients) are men." So 1 out of 100 people have the same mental disorder as Trump. Yep, crazy.

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Party whose core supporters regularly attend protests outfitted like this demands that Democrats stop saying Trump is a threat to democracy lest violence ensue

Too soon? From CoSo

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jesus, at minute 22 he starts digging in on trump and just absolutely gores him deep over and over again, people talk about trump as if he's the only one ever able to score any points, but biden's calling trump a criminal, a rapist, an idiot and a traitor to absolutely *ROARING* applause

the contrast between *this* crowd overwhelming biden with WE GOT YOUR BACK at the 9 minute mark compared with the last 2 weeks of coverage is something to contemplate for a moment.

WATCH LIVE: Biden holds campaign event in Detroit as Democrats debate possible withdrawal from racewww.pbs.org Biden continues his effort to convince detractors that he can win his presidential race on Friday with a trip to Michigan, one in trio of "blue wall" states that his campaign now says is the clearest ...

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What’s interesting about this WSJ survey is the size of the margins. By 56-16 forecasters say inflation would be higher under Trump; for interest rates it’s 59-16 www.wsj.com/economy/econ...

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“We will hold investigations to identify the neo-cultural Marxists in seats of power all across Washington,” Posobiec said. “We don’t negotiate with un-humans. Because that’s the stakes of this battle: humanity versus un-humanity.” inthesetimes.com/article/nati...

Onward, Christian Soldiers—To War!inthesetimes.com At this year’s National Conservatism Conference, a right-wing army prepares to rise.

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A new analysis finds that Project 2025 would dramatically raise taxes for low- and middle-income families. The plan would also enable tax cheats — just as the IRS finally cracked down. www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Project 2025’s dystopian approach to taxeswww.mediamatters.org Project 2025 is an extreme right-wing initiative organized by The Heritage Foundation to provide policy and personnel to the next Republican presidential administration. An analysis of Project 2025’s ...

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It’s the fascist international 2.0 and it’s public and coming to try to end American democracy. Trump is signaling the axis of transnational fascism is awaiting him and the republicans with open arms. This is such a massive threat it’s really hard to describe.

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Alex Kaplan

Qanon was supposedly rooting out pedophiles in government. Too bad it was actually Trump abusing children with his buddy Epstein, not that hard reality would matter one bit to them.

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Matthew

I would like to wake up, even just occasionally, without a crushing sense of impending doom.

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The amount of fundamental, basic, long-settled Constitutional law that is being upset by these courts is nearly impossible to convey.

New: Trump-appointed Judge Mark Pittman in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon at home. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

US ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge ruleswww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a 156-year-old ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, siding with a group that advocates for legalizing the ability of people to produce spirits like whiskey and bourbon for their personal consumption.