Lydia Polgreen

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this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

This is a deeply disappointing and completely unnecessary intervention from the White House on trans health care. Answering a question no one is asking. Why? 19thnews.org/2024/07/whit...

White House issues statement opposing gender-affirming surgery for minors19thnews.org The administration’s message expands on a response to The New York Times and Fox News. It also stands at odds with Biden’s prior broad support for gender-affirming care.

I’m sorry but the presidency is not a Chumbawumba song.

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A banger from @tcraggs22.bsky.social today, "Who Made Caitlin Clark a Good White Girl?" plus a sweet treat from @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social flaminghydra.com/issue-110/

Classy basketball / Dollars to donutsflaminghydra.com Today: Tommy Craggs, late of "Game Theory" on HBO and writer and editor at Mother Jones, HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin; and Hamilton Nolan, author of the newsletter How Things Work and t...

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one very practical reason to avoid transphobia is it seems to turn its adherents into deranged, obsessive fuckin freaks

Sorry wouldn’t normally put her on the timeline but this might be the most insane thing j k rowlings ever written

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This poll is extremely convincing: • 13 point swing to Harris among independents • 8 point swing to Harris among POC • 6 point to Harris among women I strongly agreed with your column anyway but this poll is rock solid evidence that it's time to make the switch. Let Harris win.

CNN poll post debate finds that Harris outperforms every other Democratic contender *including* Biden. www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/p...

CNN Poll: Most voters think Democrats have a better chance of keeping White House if Biden isn’t the nominee | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com Three-quarters of US voters say the Democratic Party would have a better shot at holding the presidency in 2024 with someone other than President Joe Biden at the top of the ticket, according to a new...

I can't bring myself to read the RFK Jr. piece but it once again demonstrates that Lis Smith is very good at this.

I see that we are having a second cycle of political stories about dog murder.

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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.

Biden speaks from a teleprompter and takes no questions. Ok!

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This decision is genuinely insane and unsurvivable

"In dividing official from unofficial conduct, courts may not inquire into the President’s motives."

An excellent evidence-based critique of the Cass Report from a group of scientists and researchers out today: law.yale.edu/yls-today/ne...

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Carelaw.yale.edu A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

It is striking to see which norms the Biden campaign is willing to trash (the Presidential Commission on Debates, the one below) and which are sacrosanct (expanding the Supreme Court or literally doing any small thing other than urge people to vote when the court does something horrifying).

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The 14th Amendment says if you were involved in an insurrection you can't be president. SCOTUS said they won't allow anyone to enforce that because of reasons they made up. The Constitution doesn't say the president is immune from criminal law. SCOTUS decided he is because of reasons they made up.

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Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.

Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable

I get the gallows humor of urging Biden to do crimes to stop Trump/SCOTUS etc. But the truth is that if Biden actually committed a serious, obvious crime in office (assassination, for example), I'd bet my bottom dollar he would be impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate with Dem votes.

The number of replies to this post that game out the actuarial table possibilities for the current justices of the court simply underscores my point. Waiting for people to die is not a solution to a problem this profound.

The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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Chief Justice Roberts decrees the end of DOJ independence in an offhanded sentence on page 20.

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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

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From May. www.cnn.com/2024/05/24/p...

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Trump after Obama is basically a filled-in swimming pool thing. “Oh, a black president. How about the jerk from Celebrity Apprentice? Not such an august position now.”

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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

Identity politics has nothing to do with the case for Kamala Harris to replace Biden. Would it be an ugly thing to shove aside a Black female VP to make room for an untested white or male candidate? Yes. Would it turn off some Black voters? Perhaps. But historically, Black voters are practical.

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I'm a hard-eyed realist about electoral politics, that's why I'm advising the Democrats to shove aside the elected vice president and replace her with someone who'd vacate a purple- or red-state Senate seat

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me on friday: “none of the strongest candidates are going to participate in a brokered convention” the pundit class: “of course they will” the candidates: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Whitmer Disavows ‘Draft Gretch’ Movementwww.politico.com Democrats’ 2028 bench is eager to avoid appearing eager to push Biden aside.

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the most diabolical suggestion i have heard given this reality is Harris/Manchin

Yeah. And it won’t happen in part because folks like Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker, etc want an open field in 2028.

"As of today, March 7, 2024, and for as long as the president and his team are unwilling to break free from complacency, Kamala Harris is a better option than Joe Biden in the general election against Trump." www.ettingermentum.news/p/kamala-now

Kamala Nowwww.ettingermentum.news Making the case for the ultimate pivot.

I, too, would like to see that Joe Biden. Can someone build a time machine?

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