Chief Justice John Roberts: "In recent years, we've been able to move expeditiously [to resolve pressing matters]."
Me: STARES IN TRUMP V. UNITED STATES
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I'll never get over the coverage Clinton, Biden, and Harris were subjected to when this man does crimes, falls asleep on tv, and speaks in word salads.
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
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The political media is obsessively relitigating the issue of Biden being too old and out of touch while the current president babbles incoherently at press conferences and regularly admits he's not the one making decisions on key policy matters.
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Rand Paul on the reconciliation bill: "The problem is it's asking conservatives like myself to raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion. That's historic. Nobody has ever raised the debt ceiling that much ... where are the cuts? If the cuts are real why are we gonna borrow $5 trillion?"
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U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat
U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat
WASHINGTON—In a move that significantly restricts the eligibility of thousands of American troops to fight for their country on the front lines, senior U.S. military officials announced Wednesday that...
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What could go wrong
Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story
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"This entire debate has been one attempt after another by Republicans to present Medicaid cuts as something other than Medicaid cuts."
On the pod,
@citizencohn.bsky.social is so illuminating on how bad the GOP bill's Medicaid cuts truly are:
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MAGA Senator’s Stunning Admission: GOP Is Badly Screwing Trump Voters
As a staunch Trump ally openly acknowledges the truth about the House GOP’s “big, beautiful bill,” a leading health care reporter explains all the ways it will seriously hurt the Trump-MAGA working-cl...
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Too many people think Medicaid is the “insurance for poor people” program and not the “backbone of thousands of health providers/hospitals” program which props up private insurance through its existence. If we’re going to generate sufficient public backlash, we need to erase the distinction
We’re expecting another vote later today on the crypto-friendly bill that would enable Trump’s corruption. Your Democratic senator needs to hear from you ASAP if they’re on this list:
indivisible.org/resource/cal...Obviously, since this is in the Economist (which: awesome), I can't say "why won't the media cover this?!"
But still not seeing it covered w same urgency as a crime spike.
And showing crime is falling IS an urgent issue, given that Trump wants to use fear of crime to justify "unleashing" police.
the other thing here is that yes, Biden was old as shit in office, that rightly was a major story. but SO WAS TRUMP and it got 0.001% as much attention
political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
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yeah, constant incoherent babbling that would make you worried if your grandma were doing it. and yet not only is it STILL not being covered, political journos are continuing to cover Biden's age as a major story
bsky.app/profile/grud...Nation's UPS Men Break Out The Shorts
theonion.com/nations...Ossoff, who's got better instincts than most Democrats, started hammering the "corruption" line very early. I think other Democrats will copy his homework.
The R position is that it's fine for the Trumps to do 100x the buck-raking of the "Biden crime family." Doesn't feel tenable!
This white genocide debacle highlights another reason to be extremely cautious of AI that I don't see people talking about much--if you're getting your information from AI, your knowledge will be selectively curated by the people who control the AI
Constitution: “All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the US.”
Not maybe, not only if white, not if the president likes them. “Are.”
As in the immunity case, SCOTUS should’ve gone “lol, no” to blatantly unconstitutional claims.
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The Constitution says insurrectionists can’t hold office except that “Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
The Supreme Court inverted that, to an insurrectionist can hold office unless Congress votes to bar them personally.
So who knows what they’ll make up.
If I had to bet, I’d guess Alito and likely Thomas are votes for “the president can ignore the Constitution if I like the outcome,” but the majority will uphold the plain text of the law except a few lawyerly caveats.
But with a Supreme Court majority that doesn’t believe in rule of law, who knows.
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The text of the Constitution is so clear on birthright citizenship that SCOTUS should rule for it. But even indulging the bad faith and pretending there’s something to adjudicate is not great.
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Democrats are shying away from impeachment. Why?
To provide incumbents with political cover if they’re challenged:
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We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
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that’s deliberately degraded food and drug safety regulations, air traffic control systems, and the security of personal data held by the govt, that’s crusading against America’s world-beating university system, that’s trying to obtain territorial concessions from our longtime military allies, …
you get the idea. It’s kaleidoscopically bad, almost impossible to list all the wrong they’re doing with any reasonable degree of completeness, and virtually nothing (to date) is getting better fast enough.
…, that’s encouraging a completely avoidable measles epidemic, that’s tearing the guts out of scientific research nationwide, that’s inaugurating a golden age for predatory lenders and financial scammers, that’s deliberately destroying NATO, that’s wholesale abandoning climate change policy,…
Query: if you know of a major news outlet that has put the situation anywhere close to this plainly (not punditry: reporting) please point me to it. I haven't seen it. The U.S. has been taken over by a corrupt, authoritarian regime run by malevolent lunatics, and they're not even reporting it
We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
Andry Romero, a young gay man, was given an asylum appointment by the U.S. Government. When he showed up to the appointment we kidnapped him and sent him to a foreign prison.
I asked Secretary Noem to check if he’s alive. Her response was shameful.
if you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit.
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“Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me … ”
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bsky.app/profile/ifin...Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.
“Trump is gutting [crypto] regulations that would normally constrain brazen self-dealing that dwarfs even the unchecked emoluments violations of his first term. This is only one of many abuses characterizing the most flagrant exploitation of presidential authority in American history.”
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Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators
Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it
@timmiller.bsky.social says
@molly.wiki's reporting on Trump's crypto schemes is the most important thing he's read in the past month.
Watch his interview to find out why.
RFK jr swimming in the shit filled DC creek
spasmodically dilating and contracting his spout-hole, with sharp, cracking, agonized respirations
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NYT presents an oversight hearing about whether RFK Jr can dismantle entities Congress created to keep Americans safe as instead a fight between Dems and RFK. It describes the gutting of a health agency as an "overhaul."
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