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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

United States Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has increasing influence over President Trump, sources say

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump: "CNN is dying like a dog."

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 3h

What? Noooo 😭

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 7h

idk about that ... There are more elected Republicans, but some are caucusing with Dems. It's an interesting setup.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22h

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 23h

We have reached a level of authoritarianism, let’s use the word FASCISM, where the President, based entirely on lies about violence and disorder, and against the will of the governors of the states, can send hostile state’s National Guard to invade and sit on citizens

Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t think these Texas National Guard guys are going to be chasing any immigrants around Chicago on foot

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23h

I know invoking Latin terms can be a bit esoteric, and "dementia" is fine and accurate, but I think there's real merit in zeroing in on the relevant legal concept: he is non compos mentis. Not just that he's a batty old man, he is debilitated in a concrete legal sense, fit for conservatorship.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Ruben Gallego on whether Trump is talking to Democrats:

“Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia, so I think there's a he's probably talking to himself, or think he's talking to a Democrat, but I sincerely doubt that that's actually he's actually physically talking to a Democrat.“

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 1d

yeah... i'm voting for the first Dem candidate that promises to ship them off to Gitmo on day one and then return the land to Cuba.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 1d

My brave little man had an ultrasound today, confirming the worst fears, that he has cancer

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 2d

just noticed this little detail in Illinois's complaint

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ILLINOIS
EASTERN DIVISION
STATE OF ILLINOIS, a sovereign state;
CITY OF CHICAGO, an Illinois municipal corporation,

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Taxes are assessed on the person. The donor/taker state is a good data and talking point but states don't really transfer funds to the federal government.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder when adding who appointed the judge became part of the story ... I feel like it wasn't ever like that until Trump. Though I could be wrong.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Yay! Bf won his prelim pageant, and swept every category (talent, creative costume, after six formal, and Q&A) tonight.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, it's over

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure what the Ninth Circuit is going to do. Pretty sure what SCOTUS is going to do.

Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 2d

Yes

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 2d

Illinois law authorizes @govpritzker.illinois.gov to reactivate the Illinois State Guard. Normally they’re just a kind of extra reserve, but state defense forces are outside the National Guard system, they can’t be federalized.

He should do so. As he accurately put it, his state is being invaded.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 2d

I have a bad feeling about this week

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 3d

Changed my car battery

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

He thinks they’re failing not just because it’s a shambles but because he knows little about the history of reactionary authoritarian regimes. He idolizes a myth, an imagined perfection that’s not only infeasible here and now but has never existed anywhere. So of course he’s disappointed by reality.

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social · 3d

The academy's inability to recognize and accept that people like Wurman are not advocating in good faith is one of the many ways the academy has shown itself to be unfit and unable to appropriately react to this authoritarian moment.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 3d

Honestly, I would love for the threshold for disbarring lawyers to be lowered. Hacks shouldn't be able to pass their hackery off as legitimate.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 3d

Wurman has a very principled position: courts have no power to stop the President doing things he likes, but plenary power to stop the President doing things he doesn't like.

Hence courts having the power to enjoin all student debt relief, even in cases where no one with standing brought suit.

Ilan Wurman
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This isn’t how judicial power works. Courts can’t “enjoin” or “restrain” the President from deploying the national guard. If a private party is injured by a guardsman, that party can bring a lawsuit. The legality and constitutionality of the action will be adjudicated. And compensation will be ordered if appropriate. A single district judge, however, doesn’t get to play commander in chief.

Ilan Wurman
@ilan_wurman
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Folks on this site are failing to appreciate the difference between a court setting aside unlawful executive actions, and civilly or criminally prosecuting a President in his personal capacity for attempting such actions. Which seems to be the point of immunity. 1/2
Ilan Wurman
@ilan_wurman
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Jul 2, 2024
The question is which unlawful acts (seizing the steel mills, forgiving student loans) are nevertheless official acts subject to presumptive immunity. That’s the relevant inquiry when we’re outside the core/preclusive powers that get absolute immunity. 2/2

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 3d

Need more Dems to start pivoting from healthcare funds to "we won't fund a lawless executive". And stay there until 2028.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 4d

Evangelical Persecution Complex... They are victims of not being able to have the world work how they please. Others having agency is literally oppression in their view.

Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 4d

Even Thanos showed remorse and regret over getting what he wanted, unlike the Beltway media.

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Arrowed! Ow my skin! 👊🏳️‍🌈🔥 @jambojeremy.bsky.social · 4d

The first rule of political journalism in America is that Republicans are dumb babies with no agency or morals, and it's up to Dems to enforce them, even when the power to do so isn't available.

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