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Let’s be perfectly clear… When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is ‘the role of Congress’ to remove him from office… Full stop. Any Questions?!

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The way to save democracy is to practice it. All those things you may say “I agree with that, but now is not the time,” demand them. Now IS the time. Elected officials SHOULD work for you. The more they do so, the better.

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Autocrats always try to dismantle universities and other sites of free thought. But the current effort to destroy American institutions is also a reactionary backlash against real progress on racial justice in this country. Backlash only happens when movements are winning the argument.

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[guy with $100 billion dollars desperately trying to make the number go up to $103 billion for who knows what reason] "Maybe if we starve the poor? At the very least they should live miserable lives, then maybe I can squeeze out another percentage..."

submitted 15 hours ago • 46 comments

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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You may not have realized this yet, but we are ALL Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 20 hours ago • 78 comments

Funny how introverts are always told to ‘speak up’ and ‘get out of their shell’… but no one ever tells extroverts to lower their volume and maybe read the room

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It is this bad.

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Here's an alternate fantasy author who isn't an absolute cunt: Ursula K Le Guin

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It keeps getting worse as you read. The cop was such a liar, he was on a list prosecutors kept of ones not to call to testify. He had been fired for suspicious dui and hired by a private prison. He wasn't even homeland security. The gang stuff-hats, tattoos, clothing? It's based off vibes from him

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Being in denial about a new reality drains the life force from resilience. A degree of relief comes from the counter-intuitive decision to embrace the possibility of the new reality, even as you work tirelessly to right the ship. Whatever we’re in denial about…eats us alive.

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If going to space for 3 minutes makes you an astronaut then I’m a gynecologist

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And if they had the power to spring Tate out of Romania, they have the power to spring Abrego García out of El Salvador.

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Imagine if Democratic lawmakers went and took photos of themselves in front of the insurrectionists in their prison cells. Except there had been no trials, and those people were being tortured and huddled together like animals at a slaughterhouse.

submitted 19 hours ago • 46 comments

Reupping this piece I wrote a couple of weeks ago about what happens when a judge makes a contempt finding & refers it to fed’l prosecutors, but they decline to prosecute the case. joycevance.substack.com/p/contempt-b11

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It’s important to understand he’s not trying to persuade anyone. It’s an inoculation. The point is to arm right-wingers with these questions and “logic” in argument as an excuse to shut you down and end conversation before you have the chance to share the facts and make sense.

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Fascism is here. Due process is dead. The Supreme Court is a hollow husk.

submitted 1 day ago • 118 comments

Say it with us: Constitutional crisis

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There’s a certain number of people who say things like “you all really need to stop saying things like ‘that’s illegal’ or ‘that’s unconstitutional’” and no, I won’t stop saying that. Because I’m not going to cede the point that we have the moral, legal, and pragmatic high ground.

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It's just very very hard to litigate against a party that is not acting in good faith and doesn't care about the penalties the courts have to offer.

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If you don't think we're headed here, you aren't paying attention.

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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Hey, do you know what you call a guy who never admits a mistake, who becomes President of the United States by never admitting a mistake, who then convinces his entire presidential administration to never admit—let alone correct—any mistake, leading to innocents getting life sentences? A sociopath.

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Feels like America’s favorite scapegoat has always been abroad, but the truth is a lot closer to home and a lot uglier than people are willing to look at.

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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

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Scalia wrote this folks. SCALIA!

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

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I encourage a review of macro vs micro thinking and how you can be valid in one while being utterly inappropriate. Example: The Catholic Church has done heinous things and the institute deserves to pay for that (macro). The last two nuns defending a convent they spent their lives in don't (micro).

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia lived in Maryland with his wife and their three children, and has never been charged with any crime. The Department of Homeland Security issued him a work permit, and he joined a union, working full time as a sheet metal apprentice.

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I hope it's becoming obvious why I sometimes use profanity and other taboo words in my posts. I've known for years things would only escalate with Trump and MAGA. You likely did, too. However, many didn't truly think it would land where we are now. I don't have to use profanity. I choose to: 1/8

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'If Your Church Won't Speak Out About a Deported Father (and Thousands More Like Him)—It May as Well Cancel Easter' johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/if-your-ch...

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We've seen videos like this before, but usually when you see a tearful wife pleading with the kidnappers who have taken her husband, she's not talking to the U.S. president

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. Our military and law enforcement swore an oath to the Constitution not to a man not to a party. If they’ve forgotten that, it’s on us to remind them. Defending this country means standing against tyranny even when it comes in a suit and flag pin. .

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I’ll just leave this here … know your enemy #lgbtq #bigots #politicians

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Homan on Abrego Garcia: "If somehow he comes back and that happens, he's gonna be detained and removed again ... what's the sense of bringing someone back who's simply going to face deportation again?"

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Time to start impeachment proceedings. If the Supreme Court doesn’t matter, we do not have a working democracy. If we cozy up to an El Salvadoran thug, what are we?

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Some guys seventeen hundred years ago decided what went in the Bible and what didn’t go in the Bible. And you’re sitting here like “the book is final,” it’s clearly the arbitrary decision of those dudes.

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Sooner or later, we're ALL going to be Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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Do we have anyone like this left? If so…they need do something courageous, and stop acting this is some Goddamn Netflix series that comes to an end by itself.

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An illustration for my personal project Oberant #art #illustration #conceptart #characterdesign #creaturedesign #magic #fantasy

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Space adventure and exploration should be for the benefit of all humankind, not the whimsy of a few.

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