Kris Nuttycombe

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#haskell, #climbing, #blacksmithing, #go (*not* golang) I work on the core #zcash team at https://electriccoin.co and build software for worker-owned cooperatives at https://aftok.com by night. I do not identify.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

Given that the NYT chose to publish this on July 4, I am announcing that it is now morally defensible to punch both nazis *and* (at risk of repeating myself) members of the New York Times Editorial Board.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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As @emptywheel.bsky.social said, they published this “voting doesn’t matter” editorial on July Fourth. Shame on them. American independence was declared—and won—by people who gave a damn. And worked for what they won.

Here it is, the dumbest thing you will read today www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

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An aspiring dictator & convicted felon w history of treason may win the presidency. Profoundly corrupt SCOTUS justices undermined the constitution and gave him immunity from prosecution for past & future crimes. This is all political journalists should be writing about 24/7. We’re at the precipice.

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I was one of many folks pushing the Biden transition project on SCOTUS reform That push resulted in Biden's "Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States" The 34 commission members submitted their 288 pg report to POTUS on 12/7/21 Then the White House did nothing with it...

SCOTUS Killed Chevron and America's Public Health | Matthew Cortlandwww.patreon.com Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon

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Jonathan M. Katz

And then they brought on some other jar of mayonnaise to say the SCOTUS ruling legalizing Watergate wasn’t the end of the world because future presidents will realize on their own that they shouldn’t throw their enemies into gulags.

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There have been so many of these but they still find ways to shock me

Change in Headline

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Bluesky's apocablock makes being quote posted much less risky -- if you get QPed by an asshole and block them, their followers can't see your post, or even who posted it. So it's a lot more common here to QP positively -- because the QP dunk just gets you blocked -- and folks are more cool with it.

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And expand the House! We can do this if we keep the Senate and the House. We will just have to expel the House insurrectionists.

really cannot emphasize enough how plainly all this proves that the first priority of the next Democratic administration needs to be democracy reform --filibuster --electoral college --court reform --dc and pr statehood --new voting rights act --gerrymandering

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Now is a great time to download and learn how to use Signal.

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EFF has said time and again that age verification mandates are surveillance systems which undermine anonymity and privacy of all, don’t work as intended, and chill access to speech online. (1/4)

California Lawmakers Should Reject Mandatory Internet ID Checkswww.eff.org California lawmakers are debating an ill-advised bill that would require internet users to show their ID in order to look at sexually explicit content. EFF has sent a letter to California legislators

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Yes! This is an excellent demonstration of the politicization of the administrative state and overbroad authority that Roberts' ruling has made possible that *also* is basically just. Decent policy. Biden should do this. No doubt.

if Biden announced that he was ordering the IRS to end all audits of people making less than $100,000 and ordering audits of all billionaires that would be something he could do

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A very common historical scenario is that the former center-right supports authoritarians to take over government when they decide they prefer that to rule by the major parties of the left, and see the authoritarians as the only way to block that. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conserv...

Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

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If someone handed me full immunity, I would only use that power for good things.

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Faine Greenwood

I worked with a woman who migrated to the US from Yugoslavia during the 90s. She said some days there would be factional fighting in the area she walked to work, sometimes it would be normal. Everyone just walked thru the fighting... They still had to get to work.

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Working on projects that help to protect human rights even when the law does not is my personal equivalent of touching grass right now.

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Under today’s immunity decision, Biden could order AG Garland to immediately prosecute Thomas and Alito for corruption and insurrection. (Official act). If Garland refuses, Biden can fire him and replace him with someone who will. (Official act) I would suggest Elie Mystal.

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good opsec is not in fact futile, and anyone who tries to tell you that there's no point is suspicious

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I'm reading the opinion and it says he enjoys absolute immunity regarding threats to fire the attorney general if they don't do what he wants. So, he could easily just say "investigate or prosecute my friends and you're fired" and he's 100% immune, right?

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i keep re-reading this to make sure i didn't hallucinate

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Hot take. We're not fucked. The Court is fucked. They've overstepped and will be put in their place. Call your Senators and tell them to support ending the filibuster and expanding the Supreme Court by six justices.

Oh we’re very fucked

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Hey let's look away from the centrists panicking and declaring it's time to suddenly shake things up and see what's going on in the rest of the world

Breaking: Le Pen’s far-right party is projected to come first in French vote Read more: www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

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And yes, Biden's nominees and staff have done some genuinely good things. But also ... we should not be here. We should not be here as a country. It is outrageous. People should be outraged. Everyone involved in us being here should be banished to the top of a tall mountain to repent for it

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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it's fucked up that in the united states there are so many jobs that require tips to make a living wage. like baristas and supreme court justices

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Sometimes it feels like nothing is changing: as if we’re climbing the tallest mountain in the world, and the summit is no closer than when we started. But if we stop for a minute and turn around and look back, we can see how far we’ve actually come. Progress is happening, step by step.