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David Scott

@cbusdms.bsky.social
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Officer of the court. Pro-truth & reality

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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 4h
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 5h
The president would not only be likely committing a crime but inducing voters to commit a crime. "If payments were in fact made, voters who had made their decision 'in consideration' of receiving such funds might also face [criminal] exposure under Section 597."
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Auctioning Democracy: Trump’s Promise of a $5,000 “Dividend”
Trump's pledge to pay $5,000 to every adult U.S. citizen if Republicans retain control of Congress could violate federal criminal law.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h
Republicans now having to spend many millions in multiple states where they should not have to spend anything because Trump endorsed the worst possible general election candidate in those primaries so now they are being bailed out by billionaires buying elections with dark money.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
😕 🌎 🔥
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This always happens when we find out the details a few days later on Trump and Nutlick’s Big Announcements. Art of the Deal.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 16h
25th Amendment.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19h
"How could a country extend such a shining future to a young man like him—only to shatter that future, and him, by suddenly ripping it away? And how could the president who made it happen show his face that same day, just miles down the road, to bask in it?" www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 7h
Springfield, Ohio "They buried Pierre Damas Bel on Saturday. That night, Donald Trump came to town to take a victory lap on the policies that killed him." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-death-a-...
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A Death. A Funeral. And the Trump Rally Down the Block.
On the day Springfield held a funeral for Pierre Damas Bel, the president held a rally 25 miles away. We went to both.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h
Holy shit.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 7h
Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 7h
"in too many high-profile cases, justices hand down significant rulings on scant briefing w/little internal deliberation or public explanation, in ways that appear to be inconsistent [and] the inconsistencies have a remarkable tendency of benefiting Republicans" www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...
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256. So Unexplained: Justice Alito’s Non-Responsive Emergency Docket Defense
Justice Alito‘s book purports to answer the Court’s critics—by rebutting a caricature and ignoring the ways in which his own behavior contradicts his claims.
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SaveDemocracy123 @savedemocracy123.bsky.social · 19h
True, after losing all daddy’s $413M and going $3B in debt before going chapter 11 bankrupt; when no banks would loan to the shyster anymore. Trump would be a homeless popper if not for billion$ from Russian “banks”, managed by the State. He’s been. Kompromat paid employee of the Kremlin ever since.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22h
WATCH: “Did you go to public schools? Did you drive here on roads?” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social expertly handles Fox propagandist martha maccallum’s fearmongering about socialism (From @acyn.bsky.social )
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 21h
Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House, is dead at 84. Even now it's hard to believe a pedophile could rise so high in our government. (Oops, wrong photo.)
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Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 19h
You’re paying higher utility bills because Jon Husted gave away $2.5 billion in out-of-control tax breaks to bring 220+ data centers to our state.
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 8h
Exhibit eleventy trillion of "Things We Shouldn't Have to Say Out Loud, But Here We Are" with this incompetent buffoon POTUS
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
El-Sayed on Fox: "There is this argument you try to make often is that the best way to take this problem on is more war. How has that worked out for us? The war in Iraq which this channel spent years and years pressing -- has that made us safer? Are we more safe because of the war in Iran?"
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 19h
Everything about her and everything about the way he interacts with her and everything about their relationship and everything about the US president going around the world with arm candy decades and decades younger than him is just thoroughly grotesque before you even consider that she's a cultist
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. the continuing divergence between corporate profits as a percentage of GDP versus compensation.” - Sarmaya Partners substack.com/@sarmayakar?...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
25th Amendment.
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was thinking of Alex Pretti but hold all medical professionals in similarly high esteem
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This.👇
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“.. 2,000 trucks x $20,000 in fuel savings per year x 20 years. That works out to $800 million in total savings, for a whopping ~166% ROI.” @electrek.com electrek.co/2026/10/03/f...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
what an asshole
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t know about you, but seeing Jack Smith in the crowd at yesterday’s Power to the People festival did something profound for my deeply battered faith in this country. There he was at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, wearing a black Bruce Springsteen shirt with two simple,
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Same. Trump & his sycophants are a hideous reflection of who & what we are as a country ... but so is Jack Smith and everyone else (rock stars, ICU nurses, homemakers, construction workers, doctors, lawyers, etc.) who is pushing back & saying "no, this is not ok"
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A wise man once said "the Dow is not the economy & the economy is not the Dow." FFS, be better FT.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, eventually ya gotta ask yourself - like, why even interview a guy like this?
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Ryan O’Connell @ryanoconnell79.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
File this one under: Pretty Bad Ass. Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Nathaniel Rateliff, Tom Morello & company at Power on the People last night, ripping “Fortunate Son.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Rodriguez: It was at least 20 times more expensive than the average detention center. $1.4 billion paid for by Floridians to help the contributors of my opponent. He did the whole thing to get a pat on the head from the president. He got it and left us with the mess.
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SusanaDarkAngel @susanaangel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The plague released by Putin on the world.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“.. Whatever the reasons were for going in, from an economic point of view the war in the Middle East has been a disaster. .. It’s been disastrous from a cost-of-living point of view, for Australians and indeed for people right around the world.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Justice Alito is confusing court reform with attacking the court. Many of us simply want the Court to be better. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Supreme Court expansion is ‘a concerted effort to intimidate the court,' Justice Alito says
Despite Americans' eroding trust in the Supreme Court, Alito says he's not discussed growing calls for expanding the court and setting term limits.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Colin Jost was back on SNL last night doing his Pete Kegsbreath impression.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The further Putinisation of America. Strategic assets used to project power must be withdrawn due to strategic incompetence in an unnecessary war of choice. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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US withdraws all bomber aircraft from UK airbase
The United States confirmed on Sunday that it has withdrawn all B-1 bombers from the British airbase of RAF Fairford, with officials telling US media that the move was linked to "new threats."A statem...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Guess who I bumped into?" Jack Smith was spotted (with a Springsteen Tee) at the "Power to the People" concert by Joanne Leahy. Who thinks he would be a great AG?
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 04/10/2026
"This is simply life under a president with a half-melted mind: Sometimes the neurons flicker in such a way that the president openly says an entire people will need to be genocided without even seeming to realize what he’s said."
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Not To Alarm You, But Trump’s Brain Is Melted
And Hegseth’s neo-fascism is out in the open.
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"today’s Republican party ... has no place for ethical public servants. Anyone who criticizes or stands up to Trump is, by the party’s own definition, against the GOP. That’s worth remembering when you go to the polls" www.thebulwark.com/p/jack-smith...
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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad
If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We’re screwed www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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A Wealthy Russian Businessman Is Helping Fund Trump’s Stupid Ballroom. Nothing Sketchy About That, Right?
Surely, our president will face consequences for this insanity.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 02/10/2026
Breaking News: The average 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage made its biggest weekly jump in four years, rising to 7.28%.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A CNN investigation revealing Jared Kushner, tasked by Trump to negotiate peace in Gaza, owns a company with a major stake in a firm linked to Israel's military.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Got my approval 💥👏
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
To be fair, Hegseth is losing a war that he helped initiate with no clear goal, no coherent explanation of what sucess might be, and no competent strategy to resolve...
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/10/2026
Pete Hegseth needs impeached. Obsessing about beards while losing a war
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oops you did it again
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.
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David Scott @cbusdms.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jesse more aghast at tax dollars for folks to see a sporting event than POTUS diverting tax dollars to pay for propaganda ads in advance of an election🤡
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