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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t know where to start.

It’s not 2021. Voters preferences aren’t static. Put “political science” in quotation marks, where it belongs. Don’t presume to know what people think; I don’t. Don’t even presume what I think (that snobbish “like us”).

I do know where to stop, though. 🌙

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Jennifer Harris @jwharris.bsky.social · 6h

Damn! That’s crazy. Where are the Epstein files?

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Alissa Azar @handle.invalid · 7h

Reporting to you live from War Ravaged Portland

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

Where’s the “political science” in this:

“Folks like you and me, who care about our liberal values and democracy and whatever.”

People care about all sorts of intangible shit. Has the past decade taught you nothing? It’s for political leaders to make us care about what matters.

Try some Lincoln.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 6h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

They’ve got their own flag, too, that desecration of our United States one.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

5-I.Q. shadow.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

That’s one of the most arrogant, condescending—and, more importantly, wrong—things I’ve ever heard from a Democrat. Please don’t get involved in our politics.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

Well, Trump is almost dead….

brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 6h

Given that you don’t know what swing voters want any more than I do, I’ll trust my own convictions and intuition. I’d be insane to trust the Democratic establishment.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

Wow, thanks, lol. That was quite a cast. Didn’t know Terry Southern wrote it.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 7h

This is a great example, but there's a funny running theme that Vance, who after all has only been a senator and then VP for less than three years, excepts to be treated with POTUS-level traditions and respect, as if anyone in American history has ever cared about "respecting the office" of VP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

I wish Jackson or Sotomayor would condemn Roberts and his hangmen in some prestigious public forum outside the Court.

Roberts’s writ must be made void. That’s a political task we need to get started on: getting the public to recognize Roberts as their enemy and the architect of this dictatorship.

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David Noll @david.noll.org · 7h

interesting that justice barrett thinks it's appropriate for a judge to appear on a transparently partisan propaganda network like FNC

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

Mr. Fallows—
I regret to tell you this piece is terrible. After initially sounding the alarm about what Roberts has done, the author then devotes the whole last half to Nina Totenbergesque pitter patter about young John Roberts’s judicial evolution…\1

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

…Rather than read this clubby, incestuous, lawyer-brained piece I’d urge everyone to just read Sotomayor’s dissent to Roberts’s Enabling Act.

But you don’t even need to do that much. Trust your knowledge and political intuition as an engaged citizen. \6

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

…”It also cemented a view of the Court as a tool for carrying out Trump’s anti-democracy agenda—the opposite of what Roberts sought in his opinion.”

Roberts sought something other than to install Trump as a dictator? I suspect this is something worse than naïveté by the author—it’s ingratiation….\5

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

“…That was how the chief justice saw his own work. That was how he wanted it to be seen.”

Why does this author presume to know Roberts’s mind? We, the untutored public, know it better from his deeds.

And there’s more of that, worse:…\4

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

…That’s cloying and credulous. Let’s not make a roman à clef out of Roberts, a partisan hack and operative.

So’s deferential dreck like this:

“The third is a pragmatic concern about human, social, and legal consequences….” \3

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

…”Accepting the award, Roberts explained how important the judge remained as a model for him in many ways—even disclosing that the robe Friendly wore on the Second Circuit hangs in his closet in the Supreme Court robing room. As Friendly did, Roberts writes his judicial opinions by hand….”…\2

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

Mr. Fallows—
I regret to tell you this piece is terrible. After initially sounding the alarm about what Roberts has done, the author then devotes the whole last half to Nina Totenbergesque pitter patter about young John Roberts’s judicial evolution…\1

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

…Millions of people immediately and totally understood what Roberts did. It’s a shock from which I’ll never recover, but nothing has shocked or even much surprised me since.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 3d

People mistake purpose for cowardice in Roberts. He is the architect of this dictatorship, Trump its animating spirit.
Not only did Trump’s crimes not make Robert think twice, they were an accelerant to his Court’s ideological project: the “unitary executive”, i.e., dictatorship…\1

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 7h

It doesn’t take a lawyer to explain what Roberts did last summer.
1. He corruptly let Trump off the hook for his crimes;
2. Invested him with dictatorial power.
It was such a visceral shock because it was commonly understood by Americans that the President is not above the law….\1

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

3D printers: WE NEED YOU! If you have a printer, start making whistles for your community. Volunteers of ours have been printing and passing them out across communities, over 200 have been handed out so far!

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 8h

I think the too-operatic name of his “physician”, Barbabella, is an alias…for Satan.

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brendanamartin.bsky.social @brendanamartin.bsky.social · 1d

Cankles the Clown is on schedule for final departure to Epstein Island. Enjoy!

All you need to know about his *physician*, the sexily named Sean Barbabella:

“(he) invoked ‘frequent victories in golf events’ as proof of the president’s active lifestyle.” …\1

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Trump is in ‘excellent’ health, White House says, amid questions about second exam

Outside physicians asked why the president was making a return trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, six months after undergoing medical tests.

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