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Amazing to see panicked Democrats and drama-horny journalists and crazed Trumpers whipping themselves and each other up about how a guy who has never touched 50 percent approval in his life, is unbearable on the stump, and awaits criminal sentencing is rolling toward a historic landslide victory

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Good work -- actual journalism -- from ABC News. h/t Joy Reid 'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults. abcnews.go.com/Politics/bla...

'No Blame?' ABC News finds 54 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats, alleged assaults.abcnews.go.com President Donald Trump insists he deserves no blame for divisions in America.

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"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.

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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

The Case for Expanding the Supreme Court Has Never Been Strongernewrepublic.com Biden has repeatedly refused to endorse “court-packing.” The right-wing justices’ ruling on presidential immunity ought to change his mind.

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/isra...

Israel's War Crimes - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Let us not use the issue of our own current difficult domestic situation to forget that Israel is committing vast war crimes in Gaza. Kenneth Roth has a devastating essay on this: The April 1 attack t...

spot on 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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“'How do you write an environmental science book to appease people who are opposed to climate change?' asked a school district science supervisor, who is involved in science textbook adoption for her district." Great question.

Textbook authors told climate change references must be cut to get Florida’s OK The directive appears similar to requirements the state imposed on math and social studies textbooks said to include “critical race theory” and “social justice” material www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/07/05/t...

Textbook authors told climate change references must be cut to get Florida’s OKwww.orlandosentinel.com The action appears similar to requirements the state imposed on math and social studies textbooks said to include “critical race theory” and “social justice” material. The s…

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Always worth remembering who isn’t getting 17 front page stories per day highlighting every gaffe and demanding he step down. Just so we’re clear on who is being told they are unfit and who is not.

This was a speech during which he did not have to answer any questions, he supposedly knew where he was going to be several days ahead of time, and this is what he came up with

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This is really good. Rebecca Solnit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desperate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.

(1852) Frederick Douglass, "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July" •www.blackpast.org On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the D...

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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

It's not the worst of it, but what I may be actually angriest about (right now) is Roberts' smarmy smugness and dismissiveness in the final two paragraphs of section IV and the whole of section V. "Fear mongering," "extreme hypotheticals," "our perspective must be more farsighted," and this.

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"This is worse than Dred Scott. This is the darkest day in the long and infamous history of this institution. Richard Nixon’s claim that if the president does it it’s not illegal is now official Supreme Court doctrine" www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/07/trum...

Trump immunity decision - Lawyers, Guns & Moneywww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com 6-3, Trump has absolute immunity for all his actions under his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority, and presumptive immunity for all his official acts. TL;DR: No 1/6 trial before Novemb...

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the wsj editorial board

So who’s “us”?

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“‘The crows come to the house and scream to warn us that there is no more water ... it’s our alarm,’ says Ortiz Ramos.” The US border wall cut off wildlife access to a natural spring, leaving numerous species without a water source in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. It’s one of many consequences.

Nature interrupted: Impact of the US-Mexico border wall on wildlifearstechnica.com Scientists are working to understand how the barrier is affecting the area’s biodiversity.

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anyway I can’t think of any way that unceremoniously ejecting the incumbent Dem president from the ticket, four months before the election, with no agreement on a successor, no process to pick one, and most people pushing the idea assuming it WON’T be the vice presidents, could possibly backfire

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"the Court has begun to implement the policy preferences of its conservative majority in a new and troubling way: by simultaneously stripping power from every political entity except the Supreme Court itself"

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Just a reminder that the Right Wing projects their own self-loathing onto the rest of the world, creating a nightmare where their enemies are guilty of the things they hate most about themselves, creating a need for oppression and violence.

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Two outstanding historians, Holly Brewer and Laura Edwards, argue that "the regulation of violence—including gun violence and domestic violence—is part of the history and traditions of this nation" AND that the "history and traditions" test is flawed. washingtonmonthly.com/2024/06/23/t...

The Supreme Court Keeps Misfiring on Guns | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com The Supreme Court Keeps Misfiring on Guns. In its Rahimi opinion, the Court listened to our brief as historians and upheld restrictions on domestic abusers. But it was only a tiny victory because, whe...

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The future is terror Random public officials are being targeted by threats, intimidation and professional punishment for doing their job. The scale of this sort of terror is new, and will get worse if Trump returns.

Amy Donofrio put up a Black Lives Matter flag in her classroom so her students "know that they're cared about." Which made her a target for the DeSantis "war on woke." After years of legal abuse by Florida Republicans, she prevailed. Her story. www.salon.com/2024/06/19/f...

Florida Republicans terrorized a teacher for her Black Lives Matter flag — but now she's prevailedwww.salon.com "I feel vindicated but I also feel sad," said Amy Donofrio, after a judge ruled her banner broke no school rules

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Even accomplished Israeli Holocaust scholars can get the business. Very grim, very bleak.

The University of Minnesota has paused the hiring of Israeli scholar Raz Segal to head the institution’s Holocaust and Genocide school over his principled position that Israel is perpetrating a genocide. Truly reprehensible. jewishinsider.com/2024/06/univ...

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Campaign ad that includes the correct precise numbers. Scrolling text: 60 courts rejected Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen. 900 people convicted or pled guilty to January 6 crimes. 10 Trump lawyers disbarred or facing disciplinary or criminal charges. 1/

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“It is the same selective outrage that allows Elise Stefanik to be the star of a committee rooting out antisemitism while sounding indistinguishable from a Great Replacement mass shooter’s manifesto.”

The courts have given media a freebie to start using basic words for Donald Trump and assume basic facts are in evidence. When you don't see that, you're seeing a choice.

How Not to Report on Donald Trump - Truthdigwww.truthdig.com A.G. “Dash” Sulzberger’s Silicon Valley-inflected skepticism and open-debate pieties are a recipe for dangerously irresponsible journalism by omission.

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Since wealth inequality is top of mind again, scroll: mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-weal...

Wealth, shown to scalemkorostoff.github.io Wealth inequality in the United States is out of control. Here we visualize the issue in a unique way.

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I’m going to guess that this detail isn’t irrelevant: “The King County Medical Examiner's Office identified the teen as Hazrat Ali Rohani.” Regardless, we have created a violent class of would-be Punishers itching for an excuse to use their guns. These horrors are inevitable.

Some dude in a Seattle suburb saw three teens about to commit an armed robbery so he stepped in to stop them. Only problem was, they weren't armed and weren't planning a robbery. They were returning a BB gun to Big 5. www.fox13seattle.com/news/teen-sh...

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The names of 15,000 children killed in Gaza will be read aloud in Berlin tomorrow. “The uninterrupted public reading on International Day for Protection of Children is expected to last 14 hours accompanied by a display of more than 10,000 children’s shoes” lithub.com/the-names-of...

The names of 15,000 children killed in Gaza will be read aloud in Berlin tomorrow.lithub.com Faced with the German media’s failure to inform, and the subsequent silence surrounding the horrific death tolls of so many innocent victims, we want to speak aloud: our frustration, our outrage, o…

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Opinion | Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Caseswww.nytimes.com Can they really decide for themselves whether they can be impartial?

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i think it's fine that we have an insurrectionist Justice who lies relentlessly, without remorse or consequence, and is still constantly mad that he can't be openly meaner to people in Jesus's name without getting criticized by people who have no power over him at all

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Were shame enough to shame thee, wert thou not shameless.