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Alex Aronson

@alexaronson.bsky.social
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Co-founder & Executive Director, Court Accountability. Contributor, MeidasTouch Legal AF. Former U.S. Senate/Justice Department. Views my own. courtaccountability.substack.com bsky.app/profile/courtacctability.b…

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Lyta 🐅 Dangerous Fictions is OUT 🐅 Gold @lytagold.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
horror story in five words challenge: “Ross Douthat YA fantasy novel”
Screenshot of a fuckin tweet from actual publisher WordOnFire (heard of them before? I hadn’t) that reads “Brand-new novel from bestselling author
@Douthat60, The Falcon's Children, is available for preorder now: amazon.com/dp/1685783775
This novel will be released through Word on Fire Luminor in June 2027.” There’s an image of the terrible cover that looks like shit and Douthat’s awful face. I checked the amazon link and it’s real, God help us all
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
Very VERY glad to see Jon Ossoff leaning all the way the fuck away from the centrists trying to tell dems to "reconcile" or "tone it down" or "find the persuadable republicans." This is the shit, right here. Hammer down and make them have to say on live TV that they love Nazis. The end.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric, full stop. It's not only a call to instigate a race war in the United States, but it's reminiscent of historic European justifications used to incite pogroms against Jews. People who say things like this are incredibly dangerous, as there is nothing they won't eventually do.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that our reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account.
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Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the ...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/10/2026
It’s almost 7pm and still crickets
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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We've probably learned more about American politics from the ANES than any other single data source. The same is true for the GSS and sociology. Both of these are gone if Congress acquiesces to these NSF cuts.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 01/10/2026
The American Bar Association laid out the receipts. Big donors get appointments. Big money flows in, investigations disappear, pardons follow, regulations loosen and foreign governments get favorable treatment. The article calls it an “unprecedented pay-to-play culture.” #PayToPlayPresident
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 07/10/2026
You also can’t be pro-choice and vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, simple as ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
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Rise and Resist @riseandresist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Cornell rapists. Epstein. Trump. Kavanaugh. Brock Turner. R. Kelly. Cesar Chavez. Every one of them had cover. A campus that looked away. A court that went easy. We're done with the cover-up. We rise on 10/8 for the #StopSexualViolence Day of Action. Join us: womensmarch.com/stop #IamJaneDoe
FROM THE FRAT HOUSE TO THE WHITE HOUSE
STOP THE SEXUAL VIOLENCE 
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION
OCT 8TH 
NYC: FOLEY SQUARE 
5:30PM
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Evan Sutton @evansutton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This money is absolutely meaningless to Elon Musk, but it has the potential to completely rewrite your future. He's spent over $36 million in about 4 weeks, and he's adding millions a day. All to corrupt our government to push his agenda. Let your friends know what's up.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
…But I don’t think he thought things would get so bad that Rs might lose the Senate, which puts his whole project in jeopardy. I don’t see a good way out for him. Personally I’d welcome a lame duck retirement. Most folks still don’t get the game being run on them at the Court. This would wake em up.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think he boxed himself in, and that he wanted to retire this year, but calculated that his vote might be too important as the potential deciding vote in the post-election lawsuits that could decide the House. (Much less costly for him to cast that vote than a brand new Trump-appointee)…
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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do yourself a favor. Read these 7 pages by @lilymasonphd.bsky.social right now. It is the most concise explanation of the current situation in U.S. politics I've seen and it captures why calls to reduce "polarization" can ultimately worsen the problem 🧵 www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/pol...
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Polarization Is Not the Problem | Journal of Democracy
Americans have never been angrier with one another. But polarization is not the disease—it is the response to a revanchist movement seeking to roll back sixty years of social progress.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The facts are shocking enough, but the bigger reason that the Cornell gang-rape case has broken through is that everyday Americans are sick of the rich and powerful and their sons getting away with it And everyone knows this fish stinks from the head My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/corn...
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For a fed-up America, the elite impunity of the Cornell rape case is the last straw | Will Bunch
A nation’s frustration with rich and powerful men boils over after a stunning rape allegation at an Ivy League college.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/10/2026
lol ok
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every single reporter working in Maine should be asking Susan Collins whether she will commit to voting against any Trump picked nominee to #SCOTUS if Alito retires during lame duck.
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Justice Alito confirms he is considering retirement
The conservative Supreme Court justice said in a CBS News interview that he’ll revisit the issue next year.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 02/10/2026
"An unstated but underlying cause of [Walker's] death was the conservative legal movement’s creation of an environment in which doctors are reluctant to provide even life-saving abortion care, lest they be prosecuted for doing so."
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If Democrats get functional majorities in both chambers after the midterms, it would be generational political suicide for them not to abolish the filibuster. That's the best case scenario. Worst case scenario is that it would be the last straw that breaks our democracy's back.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rare you get live visuals of state capture.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
More than anything, John Roberts is a coward. Keep hiding, Chief. We can all see you quite clearly. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him.
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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Sukie 💙🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊 @froggybottompond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
''I'd like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.''
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Just this summer Kagan came to Congress asking for *increased* funding for this corrupt SCOTUS, which she assured us is not a rubber stamp for Trump. I don’t think she is crying all that much.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hey, if self-policing is good enough for Supreme Court justices… www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Trump, Johnson preview a new AI self-policing pact
The still-unreleased pact raises questions about enforcement.
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This poll from Cook is bonkers. A *huge* plurality of voters (43% overall, 61% of Ds) want Dems to focus on changing the political system overall vs. just opposing (21%, 36% of Ds) or working with Trump (35%, 3% of Ds).
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
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Why has abortion faded from America’s national conversation? | Moira Donegan
The US has already grown used to the horror caused by abortion bans. And Republicans have sought to quash the stories
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
To shape the race by making it a left-right culture war that keeps authoritarian oligarchs in power, rather than an up-down class war that threatens to topple everything he’s helped them build.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Seems like you cast your net just the right width
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 28/09/2026
You think we’re just going to move on from the secret police rounding up our neighbors?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 28/09/2026
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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 28/09/2026
@susanrinkunas.com and I have been working on this story for months. It was supposed to publish later this week, but that's news! Despite Bailey's resignation, it's still very relevant. Read to learn about how the Trump admin could use criminal investigations to attack abortion access:
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Bad news for Exxon, and a win for the power of public pressure calling out the blatant corruption of the Roberts Court: Justice Alito is stepping down from further participating in Suncor v. Boulder, a week before oral arguments. We've been calling for his recusal from this case for YEARS: 🧵
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remember, they prosecuted Aaron Swartz and drove him to suicide for hacking one system with the goal of making academic articles freely available to the public. Sam Altman hacked 1000s of sites with the goal of being a trillionaire.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
I haven't seen a single story explain that the lawsuit filed by Tierra Walker's family is part of a broader legal argument that women and pregnant people have a right to life. There are at least four state cases like this. Subscribe to @autonomynews.co for context you're not getting anywhere else
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yeah, it doesn’t seem like the NYT has given any coverage to the frat gang rape scandal at Cornell. Not as important as Oberlin’s banh mi or Harvard’s eating clubs I guess
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wow, even fewer than a Phish show
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Great piece from @pemalevy.bsky.social and @ariberman.bsky.social on the Redemption-Era evils the Roberts Court has resurrected www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In destroying the Voting Rights Act and gutting the 14th and 15th amendments, the Roberts court is recycling legal arguments once advanced by Confederates and white supremacists to destroy Reconstruction. From me and @ariberman.bsky.social
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Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts court.
The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our past.
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Victor Pickard @victorpickard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wanting to "resolve this in the boardroom not the courtroom" is how Newsom justified the settlement. The unquestioned mindset here is that these power struggles are best negotiated among oligopolies & oligarchs, not the democratic polity. Should be disqualifying as a serious presidential candidate.
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is so fucking dark. Kalshi filed with the CFTC today asking for permission to let traders bet on margin, which means placing prediction market bets with borrowed money.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NEW: The Eighth Circuit, Missouri’s maps, and the mess the Roberts Court has brought about. Even as the Supreme Court has tried to stop the Missouri maps chaos, it turns out that a lack of concern for precedent, rules, and stability have trickle-down effects. This evening, at Law Dork:
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The Eighth Circuit, Missouri’s maps, and the mess the Roberts Court has brought about
Even as the Supreme Court has tried to stop the Missouri maps chaos, it turns out that a lack of concern for precedent, rules, and stability have trickle-down effects.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.
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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins
The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
DC people: what is the vibe at Corner Bakery, the site of the alleged Susan Collins bribery meeting. Like are we talking crumby, dry, stale croissants, or is it the kind of place where the cardamom bun is so good that you don't even feel offended that it's like $13.
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
www.propublica.org/article/fbi-...
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Alex Aronson @alexaronson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Narrowed what counts as bribery" is more than a bit of an understatement. They've legalized bribery. Clarence Thomas, Don Jr., Susan Collins, Leonard Leo... Corruption IS the system the Roberts Court built.
Building a corruption case against elected officials requires extraordinary proof of a quid pro quo arrangement, in part because the Supreme Court has narrowed what counts as bribery.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So in addition to being a former clerk to SCOTUS Justice Neil Gorsuch, Mike Davis’ lobbying clients include Hewlett Packard and Walmart. Have the CEOs of those companies been asked to “disavow” and “sever their relationships” with Mike Davis?? He is a grotesque racist.
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