Matt Ortega 🇺🇸

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Abortion, too. It’s a winning issue. We’re seeing that again and again, but Democrats are afraid to even say the word. They don’t seem to realize that for every voter they offend into leaving the fold, they’ll add 10 who respect their strength and clarity on an issue with a strong national consensus

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The Trump shooting is yet another demonstration of the need for gun control laws. That’s a winning position, 90% of the population wants it, but because the Dems are so worried about offending, they’re acting apologetic because Trump got shot at in a situation he created for himself. Stop that.

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Don't print lies in the newspaper

Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

In which the New York Times' top Supreme Court reporter says the court "enhanced the availability of abortion" this term www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/p...

Pride month is over. Martha-Ann Alito now conjuring up protest flags for all the right-side-up American flags flying for the Fourth of July.

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Can't be impeached because presidential impeachment has been a dead letter since parties came into existence. Can't be disqualified from office. And can't be prosecuted for crimes committed under color of office.

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This is the climate policy we get with a court system invested in a dictatorship of Republicans: the President has total immunity and absolute power...unless he's a Democrat & does something good for the country. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/c...

Judge Orders Biden Administration to Resume Permits for Gas Exportswww.nytimes.com President Biden had paused new natural gas export terminals to assess their effects on the climate, economy and national security. A federal judge disagreed.

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The Supreme Court today has supercharged its decision last week gutting Chevron by effectively reopening the statute of limitations to challenge *any* regulation, as Justice Jackson, dissenting, explains.

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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The NYT editorial board presents itself as like a wise adjunct group of strategists advising Democrats how to run their shop, but (a) it’s run and largely staffed by de facto Republican operatives and (b) it has no similar paternalistic scrutiny for Republicans.

In Opinion The greatest public service President Biden can now perform is to announce that he will not run for re-election, the editorial board writes after Thursday's presidential debate.

Opinion | To Serve His Country, President Biden Should Leave the Racewww.nytimes.com The president’s inadequate performance in the debate made it clear he is not the man he was four years ago.

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Democracy Dies in Both Sidesism

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“The conflict in the Virginia neighborhood does not explain why a second flag associated with the Jan. 6 riot, as well as with a Christian nationalist movement, later flew at the Alitos’ New Jersey beach house.”

The wife guy turn in Supreme Court reporting is really something I did not expect www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...

The Alitos, the Neighborhood Clash and the Upside-Down Flagwww.nytimes.com Inside the escalating conflict on a bucolic suburban street that Justice Alito said prompted a “Stop the Steal” symbol at his home.

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Looks like Sam Alito lied about why there was an upside-down flag flying over his home days before Joe Biden's inauguration, mimicking the Jan 6 insurrectionists. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/u...

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This stuff is so far beyond anything we've ever seen in my lifetime and yet they may pull it off and not pay any particular political price.

Ohio Elections Official Says He Will Soon Exclude Biden From the Ballotwww.nytimes.com The Biden campaign is considering suing to ensure the president is on the ballot, after the Republican secretary of state said he would bar him over what is normally a minor procedural issue.

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Elon is openly pining for Trump and Republicans to win in 2024, and is sad that “random women’s issues” could derail their victory.

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I’m not a lawyer but I believe the technical term for this is “batshit partisan hackery that reverses decades of solid precedents”

BREAKING: SCOTUS allows Texas’s SB 4 to go into effect, allowing state criminal enforcement of a state immigration law. More to come at Law Dork. www.lawdork.com

jfc

Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loses [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2024/03/16/u...

Trump Says Some Migrants Are ‘Not People’ and Predicts a ‘Blood Bath’ if He Loseswww.nytimes.com In a caustic and discursive speech in Ohio, former President Donald J. Trump once again doubled down on a doomsday vision of the United States.

Every TikTok video requires watching a pre-roll clips of Steve Mnuchin-produced films.

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Just the funnest of times watching conservatives claim the mantle of MLK and the Civil Rights Movement while working to dismantle any policies to address racism. Launching “conservative centers” and policy to enact affirmative action for racists. Good fucking times.

Holy shit: Indiana governor signs bill tying both tenure and post-tenure review to "intellectual diversity." fox59.com/indianapolit...

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We’ve been in a constitutional crisis since, at the latest, Senate Republicans voted not to convict in February 2021.

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is this a model apartment? where’s all the shit in their kitchen?

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Sinema’s #SOTU guest is Brandon Judd, border union president and a promoter of deadly white nationalist “invasion” and “replacement” conspiracy theories. In 2022, he also appeared in a political ad where the candidate pretended to shoot an actor portraying Biden: americasvoice.org/press_releas...

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Hilariously, the Republican heckling is making Biden look cognitively nimble.

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Stop calling people “illegal”

You could pay for free college with no restrictions for $58.82 billion a year. cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/...

Um… about that billionaire tax… $500 billion over ten years is just $50 billion a year. Which ain’t much.

If we fight Republicans on the issue of freedom, we will win. We just have to define our issues as matters of freedom. The right's concept of freedom is the freedom of corporations to pollute, the wealthy to cheat on their taxes, and government deprive you of your rights.

More of this please! Just because right-wingers wave American flags does not mean they are patriots. These people are threats to democracy and everything that flag stands for.

“You can’t love your country only when you win” is a great fucking line.

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Elon said, “An entire civilization is willingly giving away its land and women because the alternative is to be mean.” It’s really hard to overstate how fascist - and dangerous - this kind of rhetoric is. He’s approaching Trump pre-Jan 6th levels of threat. Pay attention.

Can you wear campaign gear on the House floor?

thanks for dressing up, Marge