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Adam Babinat

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
man, this is exactly the wrong lesson to learn from this
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Roberts Court's legacy should be the decimation of our country's statutes intended to curb corruption. And there should now be a debate (to the extent there was not one already) as to whether he is the worst Chief Justice of all time.
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Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Justice Kavanaugh concluded, as his opinion does, with a discussion of the importance of sports to women and girls but also a caution that "[n]o student-athlete on either side of the issue ... deserves to be ostracized or vilified." MR KOREMATSU DESERVES DIGNITY, JUST NOT FREEDOM
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is always how this case was going to go. After Skrmetti last year, the Court has already decided that trans people get no rights and the state can discriminate against them as they please.
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Everyone talks about how it's a problem the president is an 80-year-old senile racist who makes shit up, but let's not forget that Sam Alito is a 76-year-old senile racist who also makes shit up.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I just went 80-2, think you can go 82-0? www.82-0.com/share?id=RuJ...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/06/2026
this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so
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Andrew Kinsey @andrewkinsey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The "heads GOP wins, tails dems lose" doctrine is in full swing I guess.
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The conservative majority signs off on a racially discriminatory map.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/05/2026
gestured towards this in my column today but republicans seem to have adopted this idea that the partisan lean of a state represents some mystical General Will such that the south isn't just a place with republican voters It Is Republican and no democrat has a right to serve within its borders
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing." www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
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Sarah Fitzpatrick @sfitz787.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
EXCLUSIVE: My latest story for @theatlantic.com : www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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The FBI Director’s Unusual Calling Card
“Ka$h Patel” bourbon is his newest innovation.
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Michael C. Dorf @dorfonlaw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The fundamental untruth in Alito's majority opinion in Callais is the assumption that the state's political goals--protecting Republican incumbents & other R seats--have nothing to do with race, as though racially polarized voting does not reflect that the GOP appeals to & promotes white supremacy.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
LULAC makes Callais worse: Justice Alito's Callais opinion purports to preserve claims in which there's evidence of racially discriminatory intent. But this is the same Court that simply waved its hands at a district court's *detailed* factual findings of exactly such evidence in the Texas case.
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Just a reminder that in Shelby County, Roberts told us not to worry about the loss of VRA preclearance, because we’d still have VRA sec. 2 suits. That was, of course, disingenuous nonsense even at the time. Now, with Brnovich and Calllais, it’s all the more so.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
When Steve pressed Baude on this question, Baude changed the subject rather than responding. But Steve is not "criticizing the general structure of the doctrine the Court has applied for the last decade"! He is asking a concrete question that Baude won't (or can't) answer. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I am begging someone, anyone, to answer Steve's question: Where did Baude get the idea that the government only faces "irreparable injury" when a lower court blocks its action, and not when the Supreme Court blocks it? Was this idea pulled out of thin air to defend Roberts' memos? It's mystifying.
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 31/03/2026
literally all the arguments Trump is making in the birthright citizenship case are arguments that Congress and the Supreme Court already rejected over a century ago we've been here before as a nation and decided we didn't wanna be here, so get out my face ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...
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The Supreme Court Has Never Heard a Case As Easy As This One
Oral argument in the birthright citizenship case will reveal just how gone this six-justice conservative supermajority really is.
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Bucks basketball at noon, and Monday Night Raw at 2 p.m.? It’s going to be a “productive” Monday at the office.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
My wife sent me this from her Apple Replay. What odd taste in music. #toddlerparent
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Drake and Fetty Wap would've been the hottest collab of 2015
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Somebody enjoyed helping Dad shovel the snow this afternoon.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/11/2025
the other thing about this is that there is no reason to pit these candidates against each other? each are good fits for their respective electorates and each shows the value of vigorous campaigns focused on the stated material problems of voters.
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Justin @justinlawguy.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Bove is a f****** moron. The issue in the case is not whether writing the date is something that is difficult to do, but whether throwing out a vote when somebody *accidentally* forgets to write the date is an appropriate remedy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2025
Fox News reporter to Mike Johnson: "How can you say 'they take no pleasure in this,' and then the next minute say, 'Oh, they're just having fun and trolling?'"
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
These deaths are a real feather in the cap of Brian Kilmeade and Fox News.
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Confused Penguin @confusedpenguin.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Ah. I see.
Simpsons spoof:
A sign saying "Tien An Men Square: On this site, in 1989, nothing happened"
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
a national park at Harper’s Ferry that doesn’t have information about John Brown is like … well, a national park at Harper’s Ferry that doesn’t have information about John Brown. Like why is there a park here at this point.
The latest orders include removing information at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in West Virginia, two people familiar with the matter said, where the abolitionist John Brown led a raid seeking to
arm slaves for a revolt.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2025
donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars
The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Two key things to point out re: Trump sending National Guard troops to Memphis: 1) Unlike in blue states, there’s just no need for this; even if circumstances warranted, Governor Lee, who still commands the TN National Guard, could’ve just sent them in himself; and 2) Chicago (and Illinois) won.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
/3 Trumpists and most of the new Right are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Responding to their violence with violence may not solve a damn thing. There are good arguments against it. But don’t let them pose for a millisecond as anything but the gleeful thug trash they are.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
/2 More to the point there is also a very long list of groups and individuals that Trump, Trumpists, and most of the Right think ought to be killed extra-judicially, and whose death they will openly celebrate. They think it’s disqualifying to be an American to care about those deaths.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Bullshit. Trump and Trumpists and a disturbingly large slice of the modern Right are absolutely fine dehumanizing in far worse rhetoric an alarmingly long list of groups and individuals ideals. It’s their favorite thing to do. It gets them off. /1
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
An excellent thread.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
We all understand the reason for this informant stuff is that it’s long been a Qanon theory, right?
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The last 100 years of US politics
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
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RFK Jr.’s damage to the CDC is ‘past the point of no return,’ Dr. Demetre Daskalakis warns
“The CDC you knew is over,” the infectious diseases doctor told The Advocate. “Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
i really think jd vance is the fakest politician i've seen in my lifetime. there is nothing sincere about him.
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Joshua Smith @smithmachine.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
This is illegal. www.gao.gov/blog/what-po...
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Roman Piso @romanpiso.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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“Stop Lying”: Voters Erupt at GOP Lawmaker’s Shocking Claim on Economy
Iowa State Representative Ashley Hinson’s comments were met with boos and jeers.
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Adam Babinat @adambabinat.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
A reminder for the folks at home: this is a close confidant of Trump.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/08/2025
she said that “black” with a hard r
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
2025, reaction of everyone (including nazis) to calling White Stephen Miller "Himmler" 👉 💯% stuff like 'I see it,' 'yeah, that's what I call him, too,' 'reminds me more of Goebbels,' 'he's worse than Himmler and that's actually the thesis of my Ph.D. dissertation,' 'who's Himmler?'
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Here's how prosecutors described Ghislaine Maxwell in a pretrial motion during her criminal trial:   "The defendant's willingness to brazenly lie under oath about her conduct … strongly suggests her true motive has been and remains to avoid being held accountable for her crimes."
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