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there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

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The slain Minnesota state Rep’s golden retriever lies in state with her.

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The law has a lot of procedural and technical complications that can produce unfortunate and conflicting results but this is not one of those situations. This was a choice by SCOTUS to break the Constitution itself, to transform it from the law of the land into a piecemeal promise.

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Wait, the NYT used this phrase twice in April too - WTF? Standardized language? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/u... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u... Note also how "shift the ideological tilt" creates a false equivalence between academia's leftward tilt in a free society and an authoritarian intervention

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Trump on California: "They have plenty of water. They don't have droughts or anything."

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If I'm running a news room now, I assign everyone who has done piece on Biden's final-years fitness-to-govern, and have them apply same standards here. (Once heard Bill Clinton give 45-minute ad-hoc on what diff counties in Arkansas had done in Civil War. Trump doesn't know WHAT YEAR it was.)

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To jump on this point, here are places that have implemented some of these radical ideas: City-owned groceries: Erie, Kansas Free buses: Akron, Ohio Ban on noncompete agreements: North Dakota

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Trump on his budget today: It reduces the deficit! (It raises the deficit by $3.4T) No tax on social security! (That’s not in the bill) No cuts to Medicaid! (Largest Medicaid cuts in history).

submitted 2 days ago • 246 comments

Free busses...or masked police-state goons rounding up law-abiding workers and residents, separating them from their families, and sending them to gulags. Tell me which outrages you more.

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Deporting children of military veterans because they were born on an overseas military base. This man has no citizenship now.

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The word "Kafkaesque" fails to do justice to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, migrant Everyman who got in his car and ended up in a Salvadoran gulag, with a regime that will never let him free Why they defy judges and invent crimes to deny one man due process. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/kilm...

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The world is drowning in plastic. Experts say we need to stop making so much. But the plastics industry is peddling a "solution" that works like magic. Don't be fooled. (Published June 2024)

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Another nice little story about the best newspaper in America.

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Boyle: For every American household that makes under $55,000 a year, they will be poorer as a result of this bill. So it's quite clear under this Republican betrayal— the poor get poorer, the rich get richer, and the middle class falling further behind. This is wrong.

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Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place before all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

submitted 3 days ago • 311 comments

Melissa Hortman will be the first woman to lie in state in Minnesota, and her dog Gilbert is set to be the first dog to lie in state.

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A fun thing about American politics is that more people voted in New York City in a June primary than live in five states that get two senators.

submitted 4 days ago • 39 comments

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

A U.S. citizen on their way to work abducted by ICE then locked in a basement, with federal government employees refusing to consider indisputable proof of citizenship. Congress endorses it. SCOTUS keeps thwarting judges from even slowing it. What more is there to say? We live under fascism now.

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

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“In Pasadena last week, a man stepped out of his unmarked vehicle at an intersection, unholstered his pistol and aimed it at a group of pedestrians before returning to his car… That incident left the police chief of Pasadena resigned to figure out whether it was a crime or part of a federal raid.”

submitted 4 days ago • 211 comments

Kash Patel's FBI did a "raid" of a person's home just like the one that Kash said was unlawful when it targeted Trump. And for the same crime!! I can't wait for the target's selective prosecution claim. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/depar...

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Incredible how every single time this guy lies – literally every fucking day, all the time about things big and small – Peter Baker and his colleagues at the New York Times act like its the first time. Only a bunch of fools as big as they are would fail to note the pattern.

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in all the nonsense, did you miss that they’re paving over the rose garden www.usatoday.com/picture-gall...

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DHS keeps accusing critics of "assaulting officers" when videos show otherwise. In some cases, it's the protesters + prominent Dems who are roughed up or injured by officers. It's "classic policing," says @dreanyc123.bsky.social. “The harder you get beaten, the more likely you’ll get those charges"

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We're in uncharted territory with this SCOTUS. They're making decisions--without regard to precedent, without regard to norms, without regard to justice, without regard to the impact on the rule of law in the U.S., without regard to consequences, and very often with a complete lack of transparency.

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It's impressive how SCOTUS managed to eviscerate the rule of law on two independent levels: 1) it rewards lawless disregard of court orders; and 2) makes Due Process optional. And, they did so without even explaining their ruling.

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MAGA Friday: No new wars! MAGA Saturday: Ok bombings but no regime change! MAGA Sunday: There’s really no other solution than regime change.

submitted 6 days ago • 310 comments

Democrats are racking their brains trying to find the "Joe Rogan of the left" while doing everything they can to defeat people like Zohran Mamdani and AOC, who actually possess the skills they're so desperately looking for.

submitted 6 days ago • 113 comments

all i want is to one day own a modest sized home in a walkable neighborhood and raise money for shelter animals. wear an outfit i like, walk to the grocery store, buy some nectarines, feed cats, and live in peace. just don't understand why achieving this is so hard

submitted 6 days ago • 833 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 7 days ago • 658 comments

The war in Iran is illegal under the UN Charter, under War Powers Act, and didn't even comply with National Security Act.

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Whether it's Joe Biden's son's business partner writing "the big guy" in an email when Biden was ex-vice president or Donald Trump selling crypto, NFTs, bibles, gold sneakers, watches, and cell phone plans while he is the current president, both sides have monetized executive branch positions.

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Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

submitted 9 days ago • 1609 comments

“Americans are being forced to accept masked paramilitary forces stopping you anytime, anywhere—demanding to know where people are from,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social. “It is an assault on the idea of America itself.”

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ICE and the DHS have claimed multiple times an increase in assaults against their agents to justify officers wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves. The data states otherwise. https://trib.al/xRANYpj

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

This is how you write a headline involving Confederate Lost Cause bullshit.

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Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported. The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us. Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending? Not justice, it’s a betrayal.

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He was detained outside church. “He was in chains at his feet,” Alondra Sotelo-Garcia told a local news outlet about seeing her father arrested. “Shoelaces were taken off, his belt was off, he didn’t have his ring, he didn’t have his watch. Everything was taken from him.”

submitted 9 days ago • 254 comments

When Republicans are in power, the deficit doesn’t matter, only tax cuts for the wealthy do. Then when they are out of power, suddenly it is all important.

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Here is the LAPD telling ICE to GTFO of Dodger Stadium. The only reason they came was to start a riot. What they got was the boot. More of this, California.

submitted 9 days ago • 744 comments

Researchers put astronomical & astrological (yes, astrological) data into an AI and ... successfully predicted stock market movements 99% of the time. Noted without comment because I have no idea what to say.

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Oof. Here's a new bit of research in JAMA suggesting that Long Covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic condition affecting children.

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Three things @rasjbaraka.bsky.social and @bradlander.bsky.social have in common: 1) Both are suing Kristi Noem 2) Her goons conducted premeditated arrest of them 3) Before an election www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/18/r...

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments