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not your regular online person, neurodivergent (two guesses), xitter kicked me off so this is the new place from now on

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popular gun youtuber who dresses up in waffen ss uniforms totally nonpolitically

This popular gun YouTuber posted a very convincing and sympathetic video explaining why he's so upset that Trump's would-be assassin was wearing one of his t-shirts. But it seems he also quietly just removed this hat from his online merch store. (h/t Reddit)

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Psst: Project 2025 is terrifying for a lot of reasons but also because on page 5 it calls for teachers and librarians who grant access to books that are maligned as pornography (which just means anything LGBTQ) to be registered as sex offenders. Pass it on.

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One of the reasons most folks struggle here to conceptualize it is that immigration courts are part of the executive branch, not the judicial branch. Which means virtually everyone's basic conception of what this system actually *is* is just wrong.

These people really don’t get what happens if Trump takes power again.

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Officials in Houston are sending people to out-of-state prisons for pretrial detention. The chief public defender of Harris County sounded the alarm: “It’s hugely expensive, it draws things out, and it destroys relationships between clients & lawyers.” boltsmag.org/harris-count...

Out of Sightboltsmag.org County officials have responded to an overcrowding crisis in Texas’ largest jail by shipping more people from Houston to far-flung, for-profit lockups with even worse oversight.

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Alex Jones, who did unspeakable things to the parents whose kids were murdered at Sandy Hook.

According to JD Vance “the devil is real” and Alex Jones is a brave truth teller. www.propublica.org/article/jd-v...

In Private Speech, J.D. Vance Said the “Devil Is Real” and Praised Alex Jones as a Truth-Tellerwww.propublica.org Vance gave the speech to the secretive Teneo Network. The GOP vice presidential nominee has been a member of the Leonard Leo-backed group, which seeks to cultivate conservative influence in business a...

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This episode aired in 1994 and no other joke about American politics has held up that consistently for so long.

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Tom Cotton just said Biden created the CBP One app for migrants. Remind me who was president in 2020…

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"The right wants you to feel like trump is inevitable but trump is only inevitable if you give up. There are more people who want normal democracy to continue, if those people vote Trump loses."---Molly Jong-Fast

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If you're constantly immersing yourself in the worst parts of humanity without any kind of respite or pleasant experiences or any sort of break, and everything in your life revolves around terribleness, it fucks you up. It fucks you up hard, it fucks you up bad, and it fucks you up in lasting ways.

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The available evidence doesn't suggest conspiracy or saturation with anti-Trump rhetoric as causes of the assassination attempt. But those specifics aren't politically useful to Trump, so the prime mover instead becomes "they." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | ‘They’ didn’t shoot Donald Trumpwww.washingtonpost.com Despite the lack of any clear motive, the actions of Thomas Crooks have been attributed to the Democratic Party at large.

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Just a reminder: Trump inherited the lowest homicide rate of any president in 50 years. He was the first president in 30 years to leave office with a higher homicide rate than when he entered. And the rate has dropped every year since he left. www.foxnews.com/video/635815...

RNC day 2 to focus on crime and safety as victims' families speak out | Fox News Videowww.foxnews.com Erin Rachwal, who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning and Sheri and Aaron Sparks, who lost their son in the Waukesha parade attack, on the need to hold criminals accountable and stop the influx of illi...

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This is a BFD and reflects both a recognition of deep structural reforms and a tectonic shift in the politics of the Supreme Court. It isn't everything we need but it's a big, big deal. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Always. Read. Ganz. www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-meanin...

The Meaning of JD Vancewww.unpopularfront.news The Politics of National Despair Incarnate

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Forty-five years ago this morning at 5:30am, at Church Rock, New Mexico, a 50-foot earthen dam containing the radioactive and toxic byproducts of a United Nuclear Corporation uranium mine failed, resulting in the largest single unintentional release of radioactive materials in the United States.

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Israel is committing genocide and cruelty beyond imagination. Anyone supporting them militarily or financially is funding this

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The largest judicial district Colorado is being split into two. And that simple administrative change is poised to have major effects on the region's criminal justice policy. boltsmag.org/prosecutors-...

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We don’t get someone like Elon Musk without his family profiting from apartheid. Worth remembering.

“The world’s richest man Elon Musk will commit $45m per month to a new Super Pac intended to support Donald Trump’s campaign, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.”

Trump to appear at Republican convention; Elon Musk reportedly plans to commit $45m per month in pro-Trump donations – livewww.theguardian.com Ex-president expected at about 8pm CT; Tesla boss planning donations for America PAC, according to media report

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Wasting little time, Alexander Smirnov challenges David Weiss' appointment, citing Cannon. Remember: Hunter Biden already lost this bid before a different LA judge (and this one is not remotely favorable to Smirnov). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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NEW: U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is a Trump appointee who rules on the bench exactly how Donald Trump expects his appointees to rule: for him. Tonight, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/cannon-dis...

Judge Aileen Cannon does Trump's bidding in dismissing Mar-a-Lago casewww.lawdork.com A day bookended by reminders that Donald Trump expects and rewards obedience — from Cannon's Florida ruling to Trump's VP pick, J.D. Vance.

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Most folks won't notice this and the top-line is kinda similar, but perhaps worth calling out anyway: Vance's anti-abortionism is importantly /different/ to most evangelical anti-abortionism, tho the top-line is the same; it's secular white-nationalist rooted, not to a belief in pre-birth rights

From the JD Vance (Senate) campaign website. JD Vance would ban every single woman (or girl) from receiving an abortion, no matter the circumstances by which she was impregnated or the danger to her health. Maybe (just maybe) if she risks imminent death.

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I know everyone is focused on the shiny object, and with good reason, but can we also look at this other above-the-fold item, pretty please? Thanks. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/u...

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I used this as a pretext to tell my rep that court reform was a top issue for me and asked them support AOC’s push to impeach Thomas and Alito

Judge Cannon went and did it. She has dismissed the stolen documents case against Trump on Clarence Thomas’s (nonsense) appointments clause rationale.

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Here’s the thing about the Vance pick: it’s probably unhelpful in electoral terms. But, in terms of governance, it’s further evidence that they’re Going For It. Trump 1 was hobbled in his authoritarian attempt by the admin and GOP. Trump 2 will be aided by both. They’re gonna go for it.

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Hoping to reform LA courts, three public defenders are running for judge this fall. They want to build on the success of one candidate in 2022 and another in March. NEW in Bolts:

Public Defenders Look to Grow Their Presence on the Bench in Los Angelesboltsmag.org Hoping to reform county courts, three public defenders are running for judge this fall. They want to build on the success of one candidate in 2022 and another in March.

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In New York, Wage Theft Violators Get Millions in Government Contracts We identified 25 employers that, despite histories of wage theft, have received contracts worth more than a collective $500 million from city and state agencies since 2018. www.propublica.org/article/new-...

In New York, Wage Theft Violators Get Millions in Government Contractswww.propublica.org ProPublica and Documented identified 25 employers that, despite histories of wage theft, have received contracts worth more than a collective $500 million from city and state agencies since 2018.

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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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Do not obey in advance.

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But you knew that. www.axios.com/2024/07/15/t...

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The Constitutional Crisis is already here. You are living inside it. No way back, for better or worse. Either fight to win the future or concede to fascist tyranny taking over our country, the world's largest economy and mightiest military.

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A man with a gun is not — and cannot be — in charge of our democracy. We are. We must maintain the hope that a better future is possible — and do the work to get there. New at Law Dork, my thoughts on this weekend:

A man with a gun is not — and cannot be — in charge of our democracy. We are.www.lawdork.com We must maintain the hope that a better future is possible — and do the work to get there.