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Disgusting

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

I mean…this is not wrong.

Joe Biden refusing to take advice from people who have been wrong about everything for decades could be seen as an indication his brain is still working

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At the risk of being tiresome in reposting my own writings on the separation of powers and executive accountability, since prominent scholars are now in the news saying "habeas corpus will still be OK"— Montesquieu's insight was precisely that it won't be. dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....

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Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

Could they just do fucking something

a funny thing Biden could do, unitary-executive-authority-wise is just order GSA to stop cutting paychecks to a bunch of Republican judges and law clerks for a while.

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Which is why the U.S. does in fact have a tremendous amount of leverage over its biggest recipient of military assistance, and people who said otherwise were whether they intended it or not arguing against the use of that leverage.

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Biden should not have promised not to use his new powers. He should instead have closed his remarks by saying, "The Supreme Court made one mistake. They let me live."

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"As I sit here before you, I have ordered the arrest of Donald Trump, John Roberts, Sam Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neal Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and the drunk one. Stephen Miller is dead and I'm mounting his head in my man cave in Delaware"

*BIDEN TO DELIVER REMARKS ON IMMUNITY RULING AT 7:45 PM ET

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The landmark reversal nullifies all previously lawful forms of right and makes it very difficult for Americans to make ethical decisions or be generally decent human beings without facing criminal charges.

Supreme Court Overturns 'Right v. Wrong'www.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Striking down the judicial precedent that established the legal supremacy of right over wrong more than two centuries ago, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned Right v. Wrong.

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a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

Let’s fucking go people

The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

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This is so obvious and should not have to be said and yet…

Biden is too old. But he has surrounded himself with competent people and has had a conventional first term. Trump is authoritarian but inept. He has surrounded himself with people he hopes will make him more effective at authoritarianism. Neither is ideal. But these are not similar problems.

LETS FUCKING GO

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i have largely stopped arguing about this on social media because it isn’t fruitful, but this finding gets to why you should be skeptical of theories that try to sideline or excise race from an explanation of the white rural turn toward reactionary politics news.cornell.edu/stories/2024...

Growing rural-urban divide exists only among white Americans | Cornell Chroniclenews.cornell.edu Researchers have found that when it comes to politics, Black and Latino residents of rural America differ far less, if at all, from their urban counterparts than do non-Hispanic white residents.

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what the fuck

LA's District Attorney George Gascon has declined to charge Edan On, the man who injured several people in an hours-long brutal attack on UCLA students' pro-Palestine encampment last month. On was featured by name in a CNN report after his mother celebrated his crimes. www.cnn.com/2024/06/21/u...

LA County declines to charge man recorded attacking pro-Palestine protesters at UCLA, refers case to city attorney’s office | CNNwww.cnn.com The case against Edan On, the 18-year-old accused of attacking pro-Palestinian protesters at UCLA in April, has been referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing considera...

Ordinary People is so underrated.

🫡 www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Donald Sutherland: 10 Greatest Performanceswww.rollingstone.com From hippie soldiers to dystopia despots — our favorite turns from the late, great star.

Dinner

WTF

UMMMMMMMMM, GUYS?? *nervously look around*

‘I know it happens’: Boeing chief admits the company has retaliated against whistleblowers | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com The outgoing chief of the embattled airplane maker is testifying in the wake of a whistleblower’s allegations of safety issues.

I mean…to his credit Friedman has been in this position for awhile. But still, Tom Friedman!

In which Tom Friedman says that Biden and Congress should stop "debasing" themselves on Israel and that Israel should "accept Hamas’s key demand" which is to "totally end the war now and withdraw from Gaza in exchange for the return of all Israeli hostages.".

Opinion | American Leaders Should Stop Debasing Themselves on Israelwww.nytimes.com You have to wonder if American “friends” of Israel have any clue about the nature of Israel’s government.

So what’s up with the other 25%

Three-quarters of Americans think that at least half of crypto companies are scams. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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In the cheap fun department, the CPI, excluding owners' equivalent rent, which no one pays, has been pretty much at the Fed's 2.0 percent target for almost a year cepr.net/cpi-without-...

CPI Without Owner’s Equivalent Rent Has Been at Fed Target for a Yearcepr.net That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but the CPI, excluding owners’ equivalent rent (OER) fell to 1.4 percent in June of 2023 and has remained pretty close, but mostly above 2.0 percent ever since. We all...

Robert Plant looking pretty good

defector.com/bro-summer-w... "You need to eat more," the bros told me. "You're not eating enough! You feel bad because you're hungry." 🥹🥹🥹 Utterly charming @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social this almost makes me want to deadlift.

Bro Summer Waits For Us All | Defectordefector.com A couple of years ago, I learned a little bit of science that immediately evolved into a cautionary tale. Years after its peak popularity, many men on the very staff of this website had begun dabbing ...

www.curbed.com/article/cong... “Wednesday, this person said, became a day of trying to comfort younger staff who hadn’t before experienced a governor yanking the rug out from under the MTA over politics or personalities.”

“We Got So Close. There Are Signs Up.”www.curbed.com Confusion and fury (and Andy Byford) at MTA headquarters as the congestion-pricing news came down.

Finally!

Alex Jones agrees to liquidate his assets to pay Sandy Hook families, in move that would end his ownership of Infowars | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on Thursday moved to liquidate his personal assets, agreeing to demands from the families of Sandy Hook victims whom he owes more than $1.5 billion in damages...

This right here.

Pro-tip for New York -- maybe get a real governor?

I had heard of 10 cent beer night, but I did not know about what happened on the field 💀

It’s June 4, 2024, and today is the 50th anniversary of one of the most important days in Cleveland history. TEN CENT BEER NIGHT. If you don’t know about Ten Cent Beer Night, please please please read this. This is my first thread. It will be long, but it will absolutely 100% be worth it.

Seriously though, how to make this happen?

1. Move SCOTUS to rural Nebraska—away from DC social scene, easy to see who comes to see justices, where they fly off to. 2. All judicial education programs are hosted and run—in, like, Hilton Expresses—by the Fed Judicial Center. Private groups can propose/help finance classes, but FJC runs them.