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1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
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This is a good thread
1/ A few thoughts about @williambaude.bsky.social’s comment in yesterday’s NYT chat that, “It’s amazing how many of our problems today could be solved by a Congress that was willing and able to legislate in response to national problems.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | At the Supreme Court, Scenes From a Judicial Backlash
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is a good thread
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December 9, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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The ICC's response to trump's demands should be a resounding:
December 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The ICC's response to trump's demands should be a resounding:
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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Who would ever voluntarily choose to live under the demented monarchical plutocracy our Supreme Court is creating for Trump? How is this a remotely rational way to structure a government?
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
December 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Who would ever voluntarily choose to live under the demented monarchical plutocracy our Supreme Court is creating for Trump? How is this a remotely rational way to structure a government?
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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Democrats—if they take back the House—already needed to launch an investigation into Bove’s egregious criminal conduct on Trump’s behalf before his confirmation to the 3rd Circuit. But they should also look into his brazen partisanship, which obviously violates the judicial Code of Conduct.
Via MS NOW: Emil Bove is in attendance at Trump’s speech in Pennsylvania tonight.
December 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Democrats—if they take back the House—already needed to launch an investigation into Bove’s egregious criminal conduct on Trump’s behalf before his confirmation to the 3rd Circuit. But they should also look into his brazen partisanship, which obviously violates the judicial Code of Conduct.
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I STILL think this need to not only go viral, but introduced to ever person you know in politics.
Email it to your congressperson.
Let's help some light bulbs to become energized in D. C..
jus' sayn'...
Email it to your congressperson.
Let's help some light bulbs to become energized in D. C..
jus' sayn'...
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I STILL think this need to not only go viral, but introduced to ever person you know in politics.
Email it to your congressperson.
Let's help some light bulbs to become energized in D. C..
jus' sayn'...
Email it to your congressperson.
Let's help some light bulbs to become energized in D. C..
jus' sayn'...
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Tariffs killed the farm economy (and the economy in general).
This will kill the tourism economy.
ICE and National Guard are killing the local economies of LA, DC, Portland, Memphis, Chicago and Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Trump is doing all he can to supercharge China's economy.
America first!
This will kill the tourism economy.
ICE and National Guard are killing the local economies of LA, DC, Portland, Memphis, Chicago and Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Trump is doing all he can to supercharge China's economy.
America first!
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Tariffs killed the farm economy (and the economy in general).
This will kill the tourism economy.
ICE and National Guard are killing the local economies of LA, DC, Portland, Memphis, Chicago and Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Trump is doing all he can to supercharge China's economy.
America first!
This will kill the tourism economy.
ICE and National Guard are killing the local economies of LA, DC, Portland, Memphis, Chicago and Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, Trump is doing all he can to supercharge China's economy.
America first!
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🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
🚨BREAKING: More than 300,000 Missourians have signed a petition demanding that the gerrymander be put to a statewide referendum, advocacy organization People Not Politicians announced as it delivered those signatures to the state government Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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This is great from Hysteria, on Kash Patel. As always, it is lengthy but very well researched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2et...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2et...
Kash Patel: Everything You Didn't Know About His Sh*tty Past
YouTube video by Hysteria
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:29 AM
This is great from Hysteria, on Kash Patel. As always, it is lengthy but very well researched.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2et...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2et...
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As an outsider, may I make a few suggestions to mull over:
- Forbid the election of a POTUS with a criminal record.
- Make SCOTUS appointees apolitical, chosen by their peers, or an independent body. Set a maximum term of 10 years.
- Give the new SCOTUS the power of Presidential impeachment.
- Forbid the election of a POTUS with a criminal record.
- Make SCOTUS appointees apolitical, chosen by their peers, or an independent body. Set a maximum term of 10 years.
- Give the new SCOTUS the power of Presidential impeachment.
December 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
As an outsider, may I make a few suggestions to mull over:
- Forbid the election of a POTUS with a criminal record.
- Make SCOTUS appointees apolitical, chosen by their peers, or an independent body. Set a maximum term of 10 years.
- Give the new SCOTUS the power of Presidential impeachment.
- Forbid the election of a POTUS with a criminal record.
- Make SCOTUS appointees apolitical, chosen by their peers, or an independent body. Set a maximum term of 10 years.
- Give the new SCOTUS the power of Presidential impeachment.
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You mean our panel of unelected lifetime serving religious fundamentalist clerics (oh wait we call them judges) who get to decide what problems we are allowed to solve, is anti democratic? Color me shocked.
December 8, 2025 at 5:54 PM
You mean our panel of unelected lifetime serving religious fundamentalist clerics (oh wait we call them judges) who get to decide what problems we are allowed to solve, is anti democratic? Color me shocked.
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The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
The Supreme Court Is About to Give Trump His Crony State
During oral arguments, the conservative justices made clear that they intend to allow Trump to fire FTC commissioner Rebecca Slaughter—and reorder the separation of powers.
www.thenation.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The authoritarian takover of the state bureaucracy might not *sound* like a big deal. But SCOTUS giving Trump the ability to fire the federal government is a God-King power, and represents a failure of the American Revolution.
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
My latest in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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🇫🇷 Sébastien Lecornu tente le pari de faire adopter sans majorité le projet de budget de la Sécurité sociale à l'Assemblée, où il s'est assuré du soutien des socialistes mais risque d'être lâché par les siens ⬇️
December 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
🇫🇷 Sébastien Lecornu tente le pari de faire adopter sans majorité le projet de budget de la Sécurité sociale à l'Assemblée, où il s'est assuré du soutien des socialistes mais risque d'être lâché par les siens ⬇️
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Tell Congress it's time to evict Kristi Noem.
Tell Congress: Demand DHS Secretary Kristi Noem resign
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Tell Congress it's time to evict Kristi Noem.
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All of this is supported and encouraged by a corrupt SCOTUS.
They take bribes, they are partisan to the max. They have flipped Stare Decisis upside down and inside out to support #Felon47's unlawful agenda. This is a coup.
www.afge.org/article/proj...
They take bribes, they are partisan to the max. They have flipped Stare Decisis upside down and inside out to support #Felon47's unlawful agenda. This is a coup.
www.afge.org/article/proj...
Project 2025 Seeks to Dismantle Agencies, Terminate Up To 1 Million Federal Workers
Here are the highlights – or rather lowlights – of Project 2025 to help you understand how these plans would undermine national security, destroy democracy, and take away our rights.
www.afge.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
All of this is supported and encouraged by a corrupt SCOTUS.
They take bribes, they are partisan to the max. They have flipped Stare Decisis upside down and inside out to support #Felon47's unlawful agenda. This is a coup.
www.afge.org/article/proj...
They take bribes, they are partisan to the max. They have flipped Stare Decisis upside down and inside out to support #Felon47's unlawful agenda. This is a coup.
www.afge.org/article/proj...
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The dismantling of the government and replacing it with MAGA, #ChristianNationalism, corporate power and #whitesupremacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeq...
Project 2025 wants to transform the Federal Trade Commission into the anti-’woke’ police
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The dismantling of the government and replacing it with MAGA, #ChristianNationalism, corporate power and #whitesupremacy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeq...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeq...
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Former FTC Commissioner warns of world 'rife for deal making and corruption' if SCOTUS sides with president in Trump v Slaughter
www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
Fmr FTC Commissioner warns of world ‘rife for deal making and corruption’ if SCOTUS sides with president in Trump v Slaughter | CNN Politics
The U.S. Supreme Court is weighing an appeal over President Trump’s firing of Rebecca Kelly Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission. CNN’s Boris Sanchez speaks with former FTC Commissioner Alvaro...
www.cnn.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Former FTC Commissioner warns of world 'rife for deal making and corruption' if SCOTUS sides with president in Trump v Slaughter
www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/12/08/p...
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Same vein:
SCOTUS should have 13 members, one each from each district.
Districts should elect their SCOTUS representative by 2/3 vote to serve a 5 year term after which point they return to their District Court seat.
SCOTUS Justices are DC Judges and are covered by same ethics rules.
SCOTUS should have 13 members, one each from each district.
Districts should elect their SCOTUS representative by 2/3 vote to serve a 5 year term after which point they return to their District Court seat.
SCOTUS Justices are DC Judges and are covered by same ethics rules.
I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.
A court with a normal-ish conservative majority would have been tolerable. I'm not eager for court packing, impeaching justices, and other such options. But this court sticking around post-Trump is untenable. They've already torched their own legitimacy, the only question is what do we do about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Same vein:
SCOTUS should have 13 members, one each from each district.
Districts should elect their SCOTUS representative by 2/3 vote to serve a 5 year term after which point they return to their District Court seat.
SCOTUS Justices are DC Judges and are covered by same ethics rules.
SCOTUS should have 13 members, one each from each district.
Districts should elect their SCOTUS representative by 2/3 vote to serve a 5 year term after which point they return to their District Court seat.
SCOTUS Justices are DC Judges and are covered by same ethics rules.
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SCOTUS is preparing to give President Trump the power to fire FTC commissioners at will. This is an unprecedented expansion of executive authority.
Trump is once again using his wealth and influence to expand power for himself and the corporate class. We have to fight back.
Trump is once again using his wealth and influence to expand power for himself and the corporate class. We have to fight back.
Supreme Court poised to expand Trump’s power over independent agencies
A ruling in favor of Trump’s position has been expected by legal experts because the justices have been chipping away at a precedent known as Humphrey’s Executor.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
SCOTUS is preparing to give President Trump the power to fire FTC commissioners at will. This is an unprecedented expansion of executive authority.
Trump is once again using his wealth and influence to expand power for himself and the corporate class. We have to fight back.
Trump is once again using his wealth and influence to expand power for himself and the corporate class. We have to fight back.
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There are many ways of fighting propaganda but a big one is enforcing antitrust law. Media corporations are too big and too consolidated and too incentivized to traffic in lies. They must be broken up into little pieces, like Ma Bell back in the day.
December 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There are many ways of fighting propaganda but a big one is enforcing antitrust law. Media corporations are too big and too consolidated and too incentivized to traffic in lies. They must be broken up into little pieces, like Ma Bell back in the day.
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If SCOTUS tears down the 14th Amendment, there can be no moderate position for ANY Democrat. If they tear it down the Constitution of the United States, SCOTUS should be deemed lawless and the Democrats must go to war with lawlessness.
The fact that SCOTUS is going to tell us who's an American and who's not is THE REASON why the Democrats must stop playing around. It's time to defend immigration as a universal good and in terms of liberty and justice for all.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
If SCOTUS tears down the 14th Amendment, there can be no moderate position for ANY Democrat. If they tear it down the Constitution of the United States, SCOTUS should be deemed lawless and the Democrats must go to war with lawlessness.