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Green Swamp dweller, Fear Nothing. "I ain't young like you, I'm old and give out." --Slingblade
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The Constitution’s Emoluments Clauses are a key safeguard against corruption, among the few provisions that apply to the president himself. Now more than ever, it is critical that Congress take action to give them real effect.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Someone mentioned this on a DIFFERENT social media platform but it's saved in my clipboard now so I must post it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPCJ...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

The Supreme got many things wrong in Citizens United. One was the assurance that all of the new campaign spending it had just unleashed would be transparent.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. statuskuo.substack.com/p/just-for-s...

submitted 21 days ago • 23 comments

Love the resisters who keep trying to convince me to go back to Twitter because “we don’t do that here.” I was here for Alf dick. You don’t know what we do here.

submitted 92 days ago • 35 comments

I've been thinking about a puzzle with the right. I don't believe conservatives are inherently stupid nor that they are uncreative. There are too many past counterexamples. Neither is modern conservatism a mental illness or a disability - comparisons that are offensive. BUT there is something wrong

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

I don't talk about it very often, because it's nobody's business, but my son is on the spectrum. His way of approaching the world is a gift: He thinks differently, asks great questions, and takes nothing for granted. This greasy, evil, ignorant motherfucker will never be able to understand him.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

"Voting rights advocates are concerned that Florida will now wield the slew of violations created by the law to target routine political activity and investigate grassroots organizations and volunteers over minor clerical errors." boltsmag.org/florida-new-...

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

NYC's new rule restricting campaigns from coordinating with super PACs by posting strategic info in a way to facilitate "independent" expenditures is being tested in this mayoral election. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment