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This sentence, typed in her dissent, should scare the living fuck out of everyone in this country. "This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

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This tells you all you need to know about the media’s upside-down priorities.

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ICE arrested a 6-year-old boy with leukemia and his mother at immigration court. One officer lifted his shirt to show the family his gun, which terrified the child to the point he urinated his pants. www.tpr.org/border-immig...

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Here's one of the people ICE is claiming "assaulted" them. He was a U.S. citizen that agents tried to detain for "refusing to answer questions about his identity and citizenship" and trying to go away from them after they illegally walked onto private property. THESE ARE CORE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.

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Eager to soothe Trump’s wounded ego, the Supreme Court ended nationwide injunctions today. Trump is crowing, but this just means we’ll take our smashing wins in 4 district courts and turn them into wins in 94 district courts. People born here are citizens, period.

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MAGA hypocrisy.

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Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

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While navigating various heat waves and unusual storms this summer, make sure to thank Big Oil!

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NEW: In the latest batch of Byrd Rule rulings, the Senate Parliamentarian has struck several significant immigration-related provisions. This includes a $1,000 mandatory fee to apply for asylum, which would have applied even to children and to people detained making $1/day.

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FUN FACT! Did you know that if we effectively taxed the rich, we could actually lower taxes for the working class? If you made less than the annual cost of living, you could actually pay NOTHING while still having a funded government. :-)

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Birthright citizenship is a Constitutional RIGHT. Any attack on it is an attack on us all. This is an attempt by far-right justices to attack immigrant communities and remove protections from any American who questions Trump. Your rights are nonnegotiable. We can’t compromise on that basic fact.

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This is not about "left" vs "right" anymore — and it hasn't been for a long time. The oligarchy feels safer if people split along the old “left” vs.“right” battle lines, so they won’t notice they’re being shafted and won't join together to fight back.

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Five hundred and five pages of opinions. Five hundred and five pages so bad. Five hundred and five pages of opinions. How do you measure, measure a regime?

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SEN: @ossoff.bsky.social: “WHO’S GETTING FIRED AT THE VA?” COLLINS: 🤷🏼‍♂️

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BREAKING: A federal judge just struck down Trump’s executive order targeting the law firm Susman Godfrey. The court called it “unconstitutional” and banned the government from enforcing it entirely. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social

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I eye rolled so hard I think I sprained something. I mean it's the law right? A winner of a mayoral primary instantly becomes the leader of a national party?!?!

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I hope Gov. Gavin Newsom wins his $787 million lawsuit against bullshit mountain Fox News, and turns their headquarters into a massive library full of banned books. Run by drag queens.

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This Supreme Court ruling requires public schools to allow parents to opt their children out of lessons that don't align with their families' religious beliefs. This will harm teachers' ability to foster inclusive, welcoming educational experiences reflective of the diverse communities they serve.

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Conservatives yell “socialism” at every initiative designed to help people. Maybe you've heard the word a few times this week. But this is nothing more than an old scare tactic. Watch. https://youtu.be/xq02yuY4wDQ?si=Jr_pgtBwYmHNvjuj

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Trump is running the government like one of his old casinos in Atlantic City.

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Also scientists: This radical Supreme Court is likely to both allow illegal grant terminations, and prevent you from winning new grants — when they allow wholesale NIH firings in the RIF case. Total Court reform is needed.

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They said the were “closing in” on the J6 pipe bomber, they were going to release Epstein files, catch the Dobbs brief leaker, arrest whoever had cocaine in WH, Fauci was going to prison. None of it happened. All BS.

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“Democracy will only continue to thrive as long as patriotic Americans — including state and local officials of all parties — defend it,” Debbie Cox Bultan and @davidpepperoh.bsky.social write. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/as-r...

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Miami just canceled its November election & pushed it to 2026. No public vote, just canceled. Mayor Suarez & Joe Carollo get to stick around an extra year. This feels like a power grab. If one city can delay elections for “participation,” what’s to stop others from doing it to silence opposition?

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Ryan’s statement makes clear that the fed government had threatened to withhold unrelated university funding & student visas in order to coerce his resignation All individual university leaders now have targets on their backs

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the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does

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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.” “In sadness, I dissent.” “With deep disillusionment, I dissent.” What’s next?

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"Six Supreme Court justices misread my children's book, the author says" Justice Sotomayor called out the conservative supermajority for botching the message of "Uncle Bobby's Wedding." So did its author, in an interview with All Rise News. www.allrisenews.com/p/sarah-bren...

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The United States tried presidents who were smart, decent, and capable of empathy, but decided it wasn’t for them. It just didn’t reflect them.

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Ha! Of course, the Republican bastards are carving out an exemption for themselves!!! And MAGA cultists — who will be among all the everyday Americans hurt by this — will still vote for them. “Thank you, Sir! May I have another?”

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Gavin Newsom is suing Fox over a deceptively edited clip by Jesse Watters. meidasnews.com/news/gavin-n...

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This is what I was afraid of. Think of the impact of removing the court’s ability to issue nationwide injunctions. The oligarchs on the Supreme Court just gutted the balance of powers.

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Elon Musk's DOGE gutted Social Security, pushing out thousands of experienced staff. Now Holocaust survivors are losing benefits they desperately need. And when they try to fix the issue, no one's answering the phone.

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Dear guy at the Washington Post who blocked me for calling Barrett a Gilead Nazi, I told you.

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court limited — but did not eliminate — the ability of courts to block illegal federal government policies, in a case involving President Trump’s executive order that aims to decimate birthright citizenship.

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In a 6-3 decision, Justice Barrett holds that nationwide injunctions are only appropriate when necessary to provide "complete" relief to parties. The Government's applications to partially stay the district court's nationwide injunctions in the birthright citizenship cases are granted.

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Justice Sotomayor: "No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates. Today, the threat is to birthright citizenship. Tomorrow, a different administration may try to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens or prevent people of certain faiths from gathering to worship."

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NEWS: The Supreme Court allows Trump’s plan to limit birthright citizenship to move forward—for now. The justices didn’t rule on the policy itself but lifted nationwide blocks, letting it take effect in states that didn’t sue to stop it.

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Under the ruling, the birthright citizenship order remains blocked nationwide for at least 30 days. We will use every tool at our disposal to prevent any child from being denied citizenship under this unconstitutional policy.

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"The rule of law is not a given in this Nation, nor any other. It is a precept of our democracy that will endure only if those brave enough in every branch fight for its survival. Today, the Court abdicates its vital role in that effort." —Justice Sotomayor

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The courts are not coming to save us. I can not stress how extremely serious this is. If the courts aren’t protecting us, then we need to protect ourselves, and fight back. #generalstrike #solidarity Link: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/liv...

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Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.

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Here's where same-sex marriage would be banned without Obergefell www.axios.com/2025/06/26/m...

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Responsible leaders of American institutions must deal with the tyrant in the Oval Office by saying unequivocally “no” and unambiguously refusing to do what he demands. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-not-to-submit-to-a-tyrant

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Jeff Bezos is worth $230 billion and is reportedly spending $20 million on a three-day wedding in Venice while sailing around on his $500 million yacht. If he can afford to do that, he can afford to pay his fair share into Social Security!

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The ACLU of Michigan is suing a local school district for trying to bully a student into standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. The right to speak freely — or not speak at all — is a form of protest fundamental to the First Amendment.

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