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Here's the thing. If president Biden steps aside and his "replacement" loses the election, the 4th estate will still blame the loss on President Biden. The press is helping to destroy our country.

But the debate!

Trump’s alleged ‘sexual proclivities’ graphically detailed in new Epstein documentswww.independent.co.uk The new papers contain ‘incendiary claims’ about the former president

We know good and damn well that Trump and his minions will indeed go after the likes of Liz Cheney so we need to strike first. Thanks for lighting the fuse on the final race to the bottom, John Roberts.

Spirit of Revenge: John Roberts Says Joe Biden Can Demand an Investigation of Ginni Thomas www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/03/s...

Spirit of Revenge: John Roberts Says Joe Biden Can Demand an Investigation of Ginni Thomas - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net By refusing all review of improper pressure on the Attorney General, John Roberts has not eliminated the risk of revenge and despotism. He has, rather, sanctioned it.

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John Roberts: No one is above the law. Also John Roberts: The President is above the law. Lying two-faced piece of shit.

At this point in the dismantling of our democracy by SCOTUS perhaps President Joe Biden should use his newly ascribed powers to arrest Donald J Trump and his three SCOTUS appointees as a threat to the security of our country and spirit them off to Guantanamo. Seems like an official act to me.

Do it.

Good for her. Do it.

It's time for President Joe Biden to use this asinine SCOTUS decision. Arrest tfg as a threat to national security. Send him to Guantanamo. While he is at it perhaps arrest Roberts and the rest of the gang of 6. This country is officially in the shitter.

And, he will continue the destruction of our democracy.

Sixteen Nobel Prize-winning economists warn a second Trump term would 'reignite' inflationwww.cnbc.com Trump says he would make his first-term tax cuts permanent, impose universal tariffs on all imports and pressure the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates.

WaPo put up an article on a SCOTUS decision overturning a bribery conviction of a former mayor in IN. at ~12:00 today. Neither Thomas nor Alito recused themselves. It has only attracted a single comment so far. Seems sad to me that this obvious conflict of interest gets so little attention.

Supreme Court overturns ex-mayor’s bribery conviction, narrowing the scope of public corruption lawwapo.st The Supreme Court has overturned the bribery conviction of a former Indiana mayor, the latest in a series of decisions narrowing the scope of federal public corruption law

Nothing proclaims the innocence of the law enforcement officer more clearly than paying the victims family $4.8 million.

Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's deathapnews.com Never-before-released dash camera video and details obtained by The Associated Press are raising questions about the fatal shooting of a Black motorist by a Georgia state trooper nearly four years ago...

So let's not kid ourselves any longer. The flag flown by the racists in the Republican Party, but I repeat myself, is indeed a clear symbol of the belief by many that whites are superior to blacks.

William Thompson Designed the Confederate Flag Explicitly as a Racist Symboldanielmiessler.com We’re all aware of the debate around the Confederate flag. Progressives argue that it’s a symbol of racism, and its defenders say it’s a harml

"Such a flag would be a suitable emblem of our young confederacy, and sustained by the brave hearts and strong arms of the south, it would soon take rank among the proudest ensigns of the nations, and be hailed by the civilized wold as the white mans flag." /3

This is what William Thompson said about his flag: "As a people we are fighting to maintain the heavenly ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause." /2

Fun facts. The flag most of us refer to as the "confederate flag" was not the official flag of the traitors in the confederacy. It was a flag designed by William Thompson in 1863. 1/

They say it doesn't happen in small towns.

Tiny town of Loranger reeling after shocking crimes, community mourns mother and childwww.fox8live.com The small town of Loranger is in shock after the tragic murder of a mother and her young daughter.

The cult decries all the violence in the big cities. They say these things don't happen in small towns.

Suddenly, 3 Tiny Missouri Towns Have Highest Crime Rate in Statekhmoradio.com I'll get this out of the way at the start. None of these 3 small Missouri places is a suburb of a larger city like Saint Louis, Kansas City or Springfield. Yet, suddenly they have zoomed to the top of...

Because there literally is no bottom.

Trump spreads violent rhetoric by suggesting migrants should fight for sportwapo.st At two different events Saturday, the former president said he proposed a migrant league of fighters to the head of the UFC.

If you want to try to understand how "Christians" can support a rapist, convicted criminal, fraudster I recommend the following. There is also a documentary miniseries on Netflix called: The Family. Very scary stuff.

Bad Faith Documentarywww.badfaithdocumentary.com Bad Faith exposes Christian Nationalism, the most powerful anti-democratic force in America. Streaming on AppleTv+ and Google Play beginning April 26. Available for preorder now.

It would certainly seem that SCOTUS is on the side of the guy who tried to overturn a free and fair election.

Why Are They Taking So Long?open.substack.com 100+ days later, we are still waiting

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NEW: When Judge Aileen Cannon drew the Trump classified documents case, two more experienced judges in Florida's southern district—including its chief—urged her to step aside and let someone else take it. She refused. (gift link)

Judge in Trump Documents Case Rejected Suggestions to Step Asidewww.nytimes.com Two federal judges in South Florida privately urged Aileen M. Cannon to decline the case when it was assigned to her last year, according to two people briefed on the matter. She chose to keep it.

The political ads just write themselves.

Yeah, this seems worth avoiding.

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stories like this give the lie to the idea that the right is interested in protecting these children. per their own narrative, this girl is a victim of “gender ideology” or whatever. but the reaction from the right is always hostility, ostracization and violence.

Mom of transgender girl athlete says Florida's investigation has destroyed her daughter's lifewww.yahoo.com A Florida public school employee who faces firing because she allowed her transgender daughter to play girls high school volleyball assailed those who outed her child, saying Tuesday that the ensuing ...

Another fantastic datapoint on the road to a complete economic recovery. Thank you, President Joe Biden and all the Democrats who made this possible. www.forexlive.com/news/us-may-...

US May industrial production +0.9% vs +0.3% expected | Forexlivewww.forexlive.com US May industrial production data

The pandemic was good for corporations.

Make no mistake, this is a success story.

Too much of a good thing? Spain's green energy can exceed demandbbc.com Spain is looking at storing electricity or increasing demand to solve electricity oversupply.

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i think the guy who takes bribes all the time shouldn't get to decide whether or not people can more easily do mass shootings

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National reporting is incomplete, but with almost half a year in for NYC, the Trump crime wave is clearly over

How many Filipinos were murdered and how much did this help stoke the flames of the anti-vax movement in our own country? Disgusting. #politics #health www.reuters.com/investigates...

Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to incite fear of China vaccineswww.reuters.com The covert effort began under Trump and continued into Biden’s presidency, Reuters found. Health experts say it endangered lives for possible geopolitical gain.

The people who want to turn our country into a theocracy, yes just like those Islamic countries they spew hatred towards, are coming after no-fault divorce now. www.vox.com/today-explai...

The Christian right is coming for divorce nextwww.vox.com Some conservatives want to make it a lot harder to dissolve a marriage.