Julian Sanchez

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He sits motionless, like a spider in the center of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them.

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When Trump says he never heard of Project 2025, he's lying. He has a long history of denying ever knowing close associates after they become an embarrassment. Remember Trump claims he broke off relations with Epstein in 2002; now his messages to Epstein in 2005 have shown up in court documents.

As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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This is particularly important to understand because Trumpist authoritarianism is the descendent of Jim Crow far more than say Hitler or Pinochet or Orban, and it's going to look a lot more like 1930s Mississippi than 1930s Berlin.

For most of its history, America hasn’t been a democracy, by any meaningful definition of the term! This isn’t some It Can’t Happen Here shit, in a way, it’s already happened. It just may not have directly affected you.

I don’t know anything about project 2025 or who’s behind it (i.e. several of my top advisors), but also here’s my take on its contents…

Huh

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really great that prominent political journalists won’t just say that trump is lying and here’s why

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"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

This is your annual advance reminder that you will never look at a photograph or video of fireworks again, nor will it be of any real interest to your social media contacts. Just look with your own gelatinous human eyes.

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“We’re gonna install a dictator. If you don’t let us, we’ll kill you.”

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

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"fear mongering on the basis of extreme hypotheticals"

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 do not regret analogizing these people to the men who took photos of themselves at lynchings 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

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More of this, please. Stuff like this and Colin Cowherd going off about Trump are worth more than almost any number of 30 second ads the party can buy.

“Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awards. The host of this year's BET Awards warned viewers on multiple occasions about the far-right plan to dismantle and remake the government in Trump's image.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/sh...

Taraji P. Henson made Project 2025 the talk of the BET Awardswww.msnbc.com The draconian plan supported by conservative groups to dismantle the government if Donald Trump is elected was the talk of the Black Entertainment Television Awards.

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The conservative legal movement’s work is paying off for them, and their next steps include entrenchment by whatever means are available.

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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SCOTUS' ruling on social media was a bigger deal than it first seemed. Content moderation and ranking algorithms are now First Amendment-protected speech, and that has big implications for the internet. My newsletter today: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Supreme Court says content moderation is speechwww.washingtonpost.com The NetChoice opinion is a bigger deal than it might seem.

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I’m so old I remember when Elon Musk claimed that climate change was the single-greatest problem facing the world, and his motivating cause.

It's important to note that this single-post analysis above is entirely consistent with a much more comprehensive analysis by @ketanjoshi.co showing that changes in the X algorithm and moderation policies that began in Oct 2022 have massively favoured trolls and penalized climate scientists. See:

Musk is remaking Twitter into a climate denier sanctuaryketanjoshi.co I got some data that analyses how climate deniers have changed their audience size, relative to pro-climate accounts, on Musk's Twitter. It's....not good.

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Official act. Immune.

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Two things can be true: 1. The mental acuity of the person with the nuclear codes is a BIG deal. The media should report on it. Full stop. 2. The threat to democracy is also real and the overall balance of coverage must take that context into account.

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Right-wing legal talking heads are focusing on arguing that it is RIDICULOUS to say that a second-term Trump will be empowered by immunity to do horrific things, while carefully preparing to argue in seven months that it is RIGHT that Trump do horrific things which aren’t actually horrific anyway.

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The Second Trump Administration

Right, this is where the action is. Some level of immunity around “core presidential powers” is inherent in the powers themselves (otherwise Congress could revoke or take over presidential powers by ordinary statute)—that’s not the radical part—but none of this other crap flows from that.

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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i think we should see the Trump v. United States ruling as a group of Republican apparatchiks taking their opportunity to vindicate Nixon and write the unitary executive into the Constitution. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/o...

Opinion | Your Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card Is Ready, Sirwww.nytimes.com The Nixonian theory of presidential power is now enshrined as constitutional law.

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Not a total blow to the Texas and Florida social media laws, but still a pretty crushing Supreme Court rebuke of the idea that telling tech companies how to moderate content doesn't implicate the First Amendment reason.com/2024/07/01/s...

Social media moderation is speech, says Supreme Courtreason.com The U.S. Supreme Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.

Also pretty sure paying hush money the porn star you bullied into sex isn’t a “core presidential power”

This is patently absurd. He falsified records BEFORE becoming president.

Trump Moves to Overturn Manhattan Conviction, Citing Immunity Decisionwww.nytimes.com Former President Donald J. Trump took the action hours after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted him immunity for official acts committed in office.

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Oh boy, $150,000!

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Justice Sotomayor points out that--surprise!--the majority is deciding a made-up case.

In a better world, when it goes back to DC Cir they say "wow what an interesting collection of dicta. Anyway, Trump was charged with ..."

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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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This is patently absurd. He falsified records BEFORE becoming president.

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Yes, maybe there's some clever version of hardball Biden's team can come up with, something that doesn't involve ordering assassinations. But one thing he *should* be able to say is "I reject the idea that the president is above the law, and I vow never to use this illegitimate 'immunity' defense."

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Most Americans opposed presidential immunity. But then most voters opposed the presidents who nominated several justices to the court and most Americans were represented by senators who opposed their confirmations. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | The minoritarian power imbalance that gave Trump immunitywww.washingtonpost.com The way the system works is that five members of the nine-person Supreme Court can be nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote when they first ran and that four of them can be confirmed by se...