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Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

When they're openly talking about overthrowing the government I think it's okay to send them all to Gitmo now and figure out the consequences of that later.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

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Popehat

/3 The problem is that almost anything can be shoehorned into an official act depending on how you characterize it or the level of generality you use. The Court’s “well of course a President has to use due care that election laws are enforced” hints at this.

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/2 Motive being irrelevant means that the President can do a thing for expressly lawless reasons so long as the thing is within the extremely broad range of official acts. So question isn’t “can the President conspire to defraud,” it’s “can the President call a state official about an election.”

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

wtf at the framing in this wapo push notification

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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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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.

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Biden-Harris HQ on X: "President Biden: Trump is a liar. They are going to be out there fact checking all of the things that he said. I cannot think of one thing he said that was true. We're going to beat this guy https://t.co/K3vvlrctNR" / Xtwitter.com President Biden: Trump is a liar. They are going to be out there fact checking all of the things that he said. I cannot think of one thing he said that was true. We're going to beat this guy https://t.co/K3vvlrctNR

Wild that SCOTUS saying "bribes of government officials are just tips, really" is gonna end up as like the eighth-worst thing they did this month

Where was this guy during the actual debate? twitter.com/BidenHQ/stat...

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Swapping Biden out for a "generic Democrat" governor like Whitmer or Pritzker would obviously be smart but if you're an unpopular but powerful Dem like Kamala Harris or Hillary Clinton why would you go along with it instead of trying to contest at the convention for yourself?

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NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

BULLYING ELECTED OFFICIALS WORKS Keep calling Schumer (212-486-4430) and Hochul (518-474-8390) and Gillibrand (202-224-4451) and tell them we need congestion pricing now!

this feels like another dub for bullying elected officials gothamist.com/news/nyc-lib...

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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed

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If Trump literally shits himself on stage and Biden has a perfect debate (lets say something like his great performance against Paul Ryan in 2012), the headlines will be like "Joe Biden won the debate. Why don't voters love him? Did Joe Biden win by TOO much?" bsky.app/profile/ashe...

Can't wait for the morning after "Is Joe Biden Too Worked Up About His Re-Election Campaign?" headlines

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It can't be true that a major party presidential candidate is a drooling incompetent fascist. If that's true what on earth are we doing here reporting on it like its normal? So you resolve the cognitive dissonance by coming up with elaborate rationalizations for their behavior.

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Yup. The experience of 2008 where the media was willing to go to truly heroic lengths to prop Palin up even beyond what the McCain campaign itself was willing to do, was like a invitation for someone like Trump. bsky.app/profile/edbu...

Palin/Biden 2008 debate rules. She didn't drool on herself, she won!

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Again, nothing is framed in terms of the reality of the situation or the actual stakes of the election, you just do this view-from-nowhere horse race theater criticism that somehow always gets tilted to make sure the Republican candidate's fascist views are laundered and normalized.

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This sort of pre-debate framing lets them take almost any outcome that doesn't involve Trump shitting himself on stage or Biden batting 1.000 on never stuttering, and spin it as a win for Trump.

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What each side hopes to gain in the presidential debatewww.washingtonpost.com Advisers to Biden are pushing him to show himself as a vigorous president, while advisers to Trump hope he will rein in his excesses.

The media (which wants Trump to win) already setting the framing for the debate. Biden must be "vigorous" - i.e. avoid even a single misspeak or stumble - while the expectations for Trump are merely that he not spend the entire debate screaming incoherently.

Advisers to Biden are pushing him to show himself as a vigorous president at this week’s presidential debate, while advisers to Trump hope he will rein in his excesses.

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Israeli forces strap wounded Palestinian man to hood of military jeepapple.news Verified video shows Jenin resident Mujahed Azmi on vehicle that passes two ambulances during raid

if we had caught wind of Saddam’s Republican Guard doing shit like this even once it would have been paraded across the evening news repeatedly as proof of the regime’s brutality and a justification for war

“Israeli army forces strapped a wounded Palestinian man to the hood of a military Jeep during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday. A video showed a Palestinian resident of Jenin, Mujahed Azmi, on the Jeep that passes two ambulances.”

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Seth Masket

Imperfect analogy, but: If the Klan wrote to complain about a Black professor under my supervision, is there a chance the complaint is true? Sure. Am I going to act on it? Not on your life.

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Hardly the first evidence of this but Columbia has gone completely ‘round the bend. They put three deans on suspension because some creep from the Free Beacon looked over their shoulders and saw them writing snarky texts?!? You do not take orders from these people!

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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.

District Judge Cannon kept the Trump case against her chief’s advice, NYT reports. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/20/u... 🎁

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Turns out becoming a convicted felon 34 times actually turns out to be bad for your Presidential campaign?!

latest fox news national poll is the best Fox News for Biden since October www.foxnews.com/official-pol...

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Governor Hochul Said $15 Congestion Pricing Would Hurt New York City Businesses. This Expert Disagreeswww.inc.com Heavy traffic is already imposing a heftier cost on business owners, adding up to $150 per car during rush hour.

Inc.: "Governor Hochul Said $15 Congestion Pricing Would Hurt New York City Businesses. This Expert Disagrees" This expert? Well, this one: www.inc.com/ali-donaldso...

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Krugman: Trump’s Mental State Is Visibly Getting Much More Alarmingnewrepublic.com With Anthony Fauci revealing new details about Trump’s unfitness to serve, columnist Paul Krugman explains why our amnesia about the damage wrought by his unstable temperament is so worrisome.

Donald Trump has his good days and his bad days but increasingly only bad days. He's losing his mind, brains leaking out his ears. Compare his recent appearances to 2015, the contrast is shocking.

Seems like @gregsargent.bsky.social is the only person writing about this topic for any sort of mainstream outlet

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