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Thank you to the people of France... www.nytimes.com/live/2024/07...

Live Updates: France’s Far Right Is Denied a Majority by a Left Surge in Elections, Projections Showwww.nytimes.com The far-right National Rally appeared to have fallen short of predictions, but no coalition captured an absolute majority in Parliament, according to projections. Months of gridlock could lie ahead.

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Whatever else they are doing, credit WaPo for this: wapo.st/3VWvtoD (Gift link)

Opinion | Trump doesn’t want Americans to know what Republicans stand forwapo.st The former president wants the 2024 GOP platform to be anodyne, but don’t be fooled. He has an extreme agenda.

Loved this discovery and this story

Did this citizen scientist develop the perfect, chemical-free lawn? wapo.st/3zp1D4D🧪🌎

Did this citizen scientist develop the perfect, chemical-free lawn?wapo.st Jackson Madnick has developed a grass seed mix that can thrive without chemicals and with minimal watering.

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‘The Declaration of Independence includes a long list of indictments against King George… “He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries”, and “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us.”’

Amid the Trump-Biden chaos, Americans should not forget their historyon.ft.com The indictments against King George in the Declaration of Independence could just as easily be applied to Trump

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New from me: Where is your "institutionalism" now? radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court foldsradleybalko.substack.com Faced with the most potent threat to democracy in more than a century, our most revered institution didn't just fail to hold, it aligned itself with the threat

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If they’re going to let trump get away with claiming that he finds parts of Project 2025 awful and disgusting, some member of the media should at least ask him “what part?”

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Biden has a bad debate night: calls to step down Documents released that show two underage women accused Trump of raping them on Epstein’s island, under oath: total media silence except in a few blogs and foreign news The media double standard is incredible to see

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Ken Paxton says he's a Christian. But would Jesus sue Annunciation House? www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/lett...

Ken Paxton says he's a Christian. But would Jesus sue Annunciation House?www.houstonchronicle.com The Texas attorney general's suit against Annunciation House, a Catholic charity serving the poor, shows a loose grasp of Jesus' teachings.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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This guy with full immunity for “official acts,” plus the unlimited ability to pardon any official who would implement such orders = “limited government” Republican style.

Mark Esper says Trump suggested they "just shoot" protesters in 2020www.youtube.com “He says, ‘Can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.’” That’s what former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper recalls Pres. Trump saying in...

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Extremely frustrating to hear legal experts analyzing the SCOTUS ruling on immunity like just another case - it's an inherently normalizing act. People need to stop playing constitutional Calvinball and treat them like political actors.

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Hey look. I guess the president in Brazil doesn't get immunity. How can the country possibly function?

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's federal police indict ex-President Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association, source confirms.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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From the hell site:

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It’s just a coincidence that John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett were on the Bush legal team for the 2000 Election dispute, right?

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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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The Supreme Court ruling on absolute immunity gives the president "something like the immunity that a king in England would have enjoyed," says @rickhasen.bsky.social on this pod. "And that immunity is great power."

Frightening @rickhasen.bsky.social take on SCOTUS ruling and second Trump term: "The opportunity for him to commit crime has been vastly expanded...this opinion does a lot of damage to the rule of law." On the pod, we go deep into how SCOTUS has unshackled Trump: newrepublic.com/article/1833...

Supreme Court Shocker Could Give Trump Terrifying Second-Term Powersnewrepublic.com In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling on Trump's demand for immunity, a leading legal expert explains why there's deep cause for alarm about what he'll be free to attempt if he wins again.

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FTFYNYT

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This isn't a debate. It's a firehose of lies from DJT, with the moderators saying nothing about any of them. The American public deserves better.

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Trump plots in public what Nixon dreamed about in private

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If you’re not watching the debate, feel lucky CNN is allowing Trump to not just flood the zone with bullshit but spin a false narrative that is so incredibly dangerous it’s really unbelievable to hear again outright. Biden is not just looking weak he’s looking frail. Our democracy is in such danger.

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This lawyer keeps insisting the Ten Commandments were a very, very important part of the founding but offers zero proof (because there is none) He finally says, well, Moses is on the SCOTUS building -- built in the 1930s! -- and yes, he's there, but so are Muhammed, Confucious, Hammurabi ....

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social, I'd strongly recommend you put your head in a vise before listening to this (especially the part about the "history and tradition test"), otherwise it might spin right off.

Conservative Christian organization supports Louisiana's Ten Commandments lawwww.npr.org Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed legislation requiring The Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public classrooms. The ACLU said they will fight the law in court.

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Donald and his SCOTUS

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Breaking: The Supreme Court, 8-1, upholds the federal ban on possession of a firearm by those with a domestic violence order out against them. Thomas is the lone dissenter.

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scotus doing as much as it can to put its finger on the scale for trump

It remains astonishing that SCOTUS waited weeks to even announce they were taking on the presidential immunity case and now we stand on the eve of the last scheduled day of decisions and they still haven't released it -- all but guaranteeing Trump will not face a federal jury before the election.

Greenblatt is ridiculous I remember him spamming me with messages that my centrist senator was the most serious threat to Israel's security Completely over the top www.jta.org/2024/06/18/u...

ADL faces Wikipedia ban over reliability concerns on Israel, antisemitism - Jewish Telegraphic Agencywww.jta.org Wikipedia editors argued that ADL tends to label legitimate criticism of Israel as antisemitism.

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clarence thomas raised his nephew “like a son” until it became too difficult at which point he dumped him and washed his hands of the boy’s life. www.businessinsider.com/clarence-tho...

Clarence Thomas raised him 'as a son.' Now he's facing 25-plus years on weapons and drug charges.www.businessinsider.com Years ago, Thomas took in a 6-year-old relative who reminded him of himself. His sister's grandson, Mark Martin was a "challenge."

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This is hilarious. The ubergenius got confused over currency conversions between the US and Australian dollar and now is demanding that laid off employees pay back thousands of dollars. I wonder if he sacked the payroll people who would have caught this error too. www.smh.com.au/business/com...