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all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

submitted 5 hours ago • 50 comments

IMO one of the most valuable benefit of a federal court system is uniform enforcement of federal law, and this court has decided that's actually bad

submitted 4 hours ago • 4 comments

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

submitted 4 hours ago • 184 comments

I have never seen an emptier statement than the highlighted sentence from Justice Barrett's majority opinion today. Whatever abstract "duty" the President has to follow the law, it's absolutely meaningless if he does not share that sense of duty and the courts cannot compel him to comply with it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until now to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

submitted 4 hours ago • 344 comments

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists say they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

Jeff Bezos: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets." Today's Washington Post opinion page:

submitted 4 days ago • 223 comments

I am honestly in awe of how well the HSGAC and Senate Budget Democratic staff did. They won on almost everything. Legendary stuff here. Tho it does help that the GOP staffers in the room were…. not good at their jobs.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

people are surprised that 28 years later is feminist when the thesis of the original movie is "what men will do to women if unrestrained is literally worse than most of the people in england instantaneously turning into cannibals"

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

the peace of westphalia

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there is an enormous gulf between 'air strikes on Iran' and 'attempting to invade and occupy Iran' and one shouldn't be conflated with the other, especially since the consequences of the first will likely be bad enough by themselves.

submitted 5 days ago • 27 comments

One of the NYT's anti-trans articles fearmongers about children as young as 8 being given puberty blockers — but that is the primary purpose of puberty blockers! They're given to cis kids when they enter puberty too young. www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/h...

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

this is an elite thing, but i also just see it among my lib friends--the feeling that even knowing stuff about how modern militaries operate is a bit distasteful, impure, sus--"why are you so interested in all that military stuff? isn't that a conservative thing?"

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

Idk our boy probably shouldnt be taking pictures with a guy famous for saying that 9/11 was deserved and is wearing a visible 9/11 conspiracy shirt while running for mayor of NYC.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

yeah -- ground beef hit an all-time high last week, and nobody appears to be reporting on that www.bls.gov/charts/consu...

submitted 5 days ago • 80 comments

I don't think I'm ready for zoomer lingo versions of 2003 WMD discourse

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A regional war is still immensely bad but it's not really likely to spiral into WWIII and we do ourselves a disservice but talking about it in that manner.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

It’s cool how we get both the absolute worst parts of both the Republican establishment and the groypher populist Nazis and none of the remotely positive characteristics of either.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

Wait for the BDA.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

i wonder if they even alerted the gang of eight beforehand

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

this is not the most important objection to Cuomo but its an accurate one. The reason he wants to be NYC Mayor is fundamentally "it was an important office that opened up at an opportune time for him to attempt a comeback" and hes a very special boy so his allies rolled out the red carpet for him

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

The takeaway from the Tucker Carlson Ted Cruz interview is that the American public has been so badly cheated for so long by the people pretending to be the political media that when anyone asks a basic follow up that an 8th grade schoolpaper reporter would it feels like cutting edge journalism

submitted 9 days ago • 183 comments

'Cuomo has more experience' is such a bizarre argument given that he resigned in disgrace..

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

US JUDGE ISSUES NATIONWIDE INJUNCTION BLOCKING TRUMP PASSPORT POLICY TARGETING TRANSGENDER PEOPLE

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Hortman was a catholic who ensured children got fed and her killer was in a psycho church that demanded violent prayer and guess which one is getting the"Christian" coverage

submitted 10 days ago • 76 comments

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

submitted 9 days ago • 505 comments

There is gonna be like 50 freshman members of Congress in 2027 that got roughed up by ICE goons.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

I feel like there's a widespread assumption in the media that the Israelis and US could just pound Iran into submission without repercussions, and I find that really hard to square with the US Navy having so much difficulty dealing with the Houthis in the Red Sea

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

its so funny how russia is probably the worst ally anyone can ask for

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Not that I'm a fan of CNN or anything but the continued trend of MSM outlets pay walling news while right wing slop is free is really problematic

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments