Seth Cotlar: Here's a link to the full conversation. It's depressing as hell, but still very much worth your time. What the right wing SCOTUS has been up to over the past few years is the latest iteration of a very long, anti-New-Deal-State project that's been at work since the 1930s. slate.com/podcasts/ami...

This is a marvelously succinct articulation of the stakes of the 2024 election. It's by @mjsdc.bsky.social and it was how he summed up the implications of the most recent SCOTUS decisions. The theater criticism about which candidate performed better on Thursday obscures these massive stakes.

Here's a link to the full conversation. It's depressing as hell, but still very much worth your time. What the right wing SCOTUS has been up to over the past few years is the latest iteration of a very long, anti-New-Deal-State project that's been at work since the 1930s. slate.com/podcasts/ami...

The Supreme Court Just Released A Revolutionary Opinion. Will Anybody Notice?slate.com The Supreme Court is here to remind you that elections matter.

There's a ton of good historical work on this anti-New Deal long game of the US right. This is a good introduction if you're interested. www.google.com/books/editio...

Invisible Handswww.google.com Starting in the mid-1930s, a handful of prominent American businessmen forged alliances with the aim of rescuing America--and their profit margins--from socialism and the nanny state. Long before the ...

The biggest obstacle that stands in the way of this project to dismantle the administrative state is that when you actually ask citizens what they think about individual features of it, they usually like them and think they makes sense. Hence the need for so much blanket, anti-gov't propaganda.

If anyone thinks SCOTUS will save us from the ramifications of Project 2025 (if any Republican is in the WH), they are sadly mistaken! Not this group of egotistical, self serving, hypocrites!

Nothing scares me more right now than the current Supreme Court. We need to expand the court. As radical as that seems, it is nowhere near as radical as what the conservatives on the court are doing.

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