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If nothing else, I think law profs at elite schools face a huge conflict of interest problem, bc they want their students to clerk for SCOTUS, and if SCOTUS is 6-3 GOP, then liberal law profs have to curry their favor. But I also think it's not seeing the stakes for what they REALLY are.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25m

THIS. IS. NOT. A. GAME. If you think Barrett will do real harm to the world--if you actually BELIEVE in the values you say she opposes--then you should oppose her. At the least, just ... stay quiet! Don't DEFEND her. PROMOTE her.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 29m

4 of these justices don’t believe birthright citizenship is constitutionally required! This is not an originalist court!

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 38m

The thesis of Feldman’s article is exactly backward. The primary problem with the Court majority is blind adherence to partisanship, picking and choosing whatever interpretive method gets the desired outcome. If they strictly followed any judicial philosophy our situation would be better.

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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 43m

The current court majority isn’t remotely originalist. The only one of their major conservative decisions on the last several years that is even arguably originalist is Dobbs. The immunity case, the Muslim ban case, all the cases striking down the Voting Rights Act? Not a bit.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 25m

Feldman remains a near-perfectly negative indicator for takes on SCOTUS. He's the guy who gave us these earlier bangers. Just further proof that there's zero accountability for those in the elite pundit class, who continue to get invited to throw out terrible takes in influential places.

Feldman saying Gorsuch is a GOPer Dems can work with.

Feldman saying Kav is the last hope for abortion rights.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 31m

A central pillar of the liberal worldview is that any deviation from the current order established by our oppressive status quo, regardless of ideological underpinnings is problematic. Passionately want All People to have rights? Basically the same as passionately wanting No People to have rights.

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 28m

Alito is openly corrupt because he knows there's nothing anybody can do about it. The guy thumbs his nose at people he doesn't like, knowing he's immune.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1h

I’m guessing the correlation between: • “I’m tough on crime! Lock up that young Black man (aged 14) selling drugs!” and • “Wasn‘t an essay enough punishment for those poor young boys (aged 18+) at Cornell?” is close to 1.00000. In case anyone still thinks “tough on crime” is abt … crime.

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 1h

EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU’RE REGISTERED, check to make sure. Trumpists are purging the rolls. www.vote.org/am-i-registe... Deadline is TOMORROW in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*.

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1h

For the past year, Defend Public Health member Dr. Benedicte Callan @benecal.bsky.social has led our Whopper of the Week effort that highlights a falsehood by RFK Jr. and why it matters. We will never run out of material. Here she writes about the lessons learned from her Herculean efforts.

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Opinion | Lessons From a Year of RFK Jr. Disinformation

His lies hide an ugly political agenda that is disastrous for public health

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

Wherever they’re at is their country somehow.

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Greedling @greedling1729.bsky.social · 1h

Uber is an unregulated taxi service, Airbnb is an unregulated hotel chain, crypto is unregulated currency, prediction markets unregulated gambling…

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 1h

My new shorthand for our new gilded age: "We shouldn't have let the phone company buy all the taxi companies." ... and warehousing and delivery companies. and courier services. and media companies. and so on

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

the fun part of this is that if he goes through with it, it doesn’t matter who his successor is, they’re going to be illegitimate from day one and will be a very strong argument for expanding the court and impeaching judges who sit on it

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

looking directly into the camera and supervillain monologuing about how i will do everything i can to ensure my party controls the court for the rest of all of your lives while the party is polling south of rabies is certainly a choice one can make

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1h

Labor's share of income just hit an all-time low. That means for every dollar a company brings in, workers are taking home smaller and smaller slices. Income keeps shifting to the owners. With @svaneksmith .bsky.social newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/…

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 2h

been reading regime change and I had either forgotten or not realized that the initial justification for the ongoing national guard occupation of DC was that big balls got beat up by teenagers.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

i *do* think that retiring to give trump a chance to appoint another justice after the public have overwhelmingly rejected trump and his party in historic margins is the kind of thing that will make court reform not just necessary, but popular

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2h

This makes no sense until you realise the overriding instinct is: how can we make horrible event (x) about the people who don’t have power, so this doesn’t boomerang back on us.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 2h

looking at trump’s polling, i am not sure that “donald trump should have a stranglehold on the judiciary for an entire generation” is really the strongest argument for the midterms

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 2h

One of the earliest civilizations, called the Indus or Harappan culture (in India & Pakistan), had a system of writing, but for many reasons it has not been possible to translate. Here an archaeologist lectures on continued work to do so. #archaeology #bronzeage www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i9q...

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Ongoing decipherments : Writing in the Indus Civilization - by Dennys Frenez

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

I mean, look at Jonathan, who is saying much the same shit today that he was saying in 2002, completely unaffected by any events occurring in reality. Whom is it there, who is mainlining ideological insanity straight into the bloodstream?

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3h

I reiterate that it is *incredible* to look at four years of totally open genocide and destruction, and come away with total certainty that it’s the people saying this is criminal, bad and extremely racist, who are wrong and hateful.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 3h

Nothing forces them to accept barbaric rules of engagement. Nothing forces them to treat Palestinian lives as though they have no value at all. It’s a choice, and they are responsible for it.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 3h

One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters: Kennedy did not let agencies examine the evidence. He went with his anti-vaccine bias. The AAP is doing a more serious review, explains @jakescottmd.bsky.social in @cidrap.bsky.social www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

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CIDRAP Op-Ed: One HPV vaccine dose may be enough, but how we get to that answer matters

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 3h

You could teach an entire J school class on how to identify weak, dishonest arguments using only WaPo editorials. Today: editorial about El Niño somehow gets pretzeled into criticism of climate “activists” (???) Cites zero examples of what it is arguing against. wapo.st/4hFMKO4

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 2h

The 5th Measles Death Was a 20-Year-Old Newly Wed With Leukemia who could not get the vaccine becuase of cancer treatment. open.substack.com/pub/stopanti... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social

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The 5th Measles Death Was a 20-Year-Old Newly Wed With Leukemia

The 5th measles death was an unvaccinated 20-year-old with leukemia who had just gotten married last year.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Trump tweeting out Tom Cotton’s personal cell phone number because he’s angry at him reminded me of this great moment from ELEVEN YEARS AGO. He’s always been this guy. abcnews.com/video/325986...

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Video Donald Trump Gives Out Lindsey Graham's Cellphone Number

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump retaliates against 2016 opponent Sen. Lindsey Graham by reading his cellphone number aloud during a speech in Graham's home state of South Carolina.

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: The Trump administration is trying to elect its ally in Brazil. Flávio Bolsonaro is the son of Trump ally Jair Bolsonaro, who was sentenced to 27 years in prison for his role in an attempted coup. Brazilians head to the polls tomorrow. www.importantcontext.news/the-u-s-camp...

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The U.S. “Campaign of Interference and Destabilization” in Brazil's Election

The Trump administration is working to elect its ally in Brazil.

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2h

i think we probably do need to do more talking about how to help women heal from sexual assault and less talking about whether and how sexual-assualting men can or should be rehabilitated, based on that realization that i've seen a great deal of discourse on the latter and ~none on the former

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2h

For everyone who spent #MeToo fretting “what if this goes too far?”—be of good cheer! It turns out we didn’t go too far at all! It turns out we didn’t nearly far enough! Good job guys!

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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely correct, as opposed to all those hectoring columns you've read about us being divided, or supposedly centrist politicians talking about "unity" and such: _Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing_ www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwW9...

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Forget about "polarization"; the real problem with American politics is the radicalized right-wing

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie

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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 3h

YEAH! Zach Bryan wears ‘Free Palestine’ shirt at Gillette Stadium concert, weeks after Ed Sheeran tour uproar. He will be smeared by the those who don't think Christian and Muslims Palestinians deserve equal rights. But who cares what the bigots think?! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Zach Bryan wears ‘Free Palestine’ shirt at Gillette Stadium concert, weeks after Ed Sheeran tour uproar

Last month, Macklemore said he was removed from Sheeran’s tour at the behest of Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft after the rapper spoke out in support of Palestinians earlier in the tour.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

this for RFK Jr. is mission accomplished

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3h

For the record, the American order should go away. It was lousy and brutal. But having it bought out by dictators and oligarchs in order to further their interests that made it lousy and brutal in the first place is fucking disgusting and I'm exhausted by people pretending it's not happening.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3h

And it's strange that with every move that further weakens the American order that that president and his fellow conspirators are signing deals with members of the alliance to overtake America that enrich them at the expense of allies and strategic concerns I don't know. Hard to understand, I guess

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3h

Have to imagine it's a coincidence that all these things are happening that further the destruction of American interests and they all involve a coalition dedicated to surpassing and replacing the American order and the president is overtly corrupt and obliviously a supplicant to their leaders.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

I hate to generalize but is there a single adult conservative who does not try to substitute vehemence & belligerence for evidence and logic? They all seem unshakably convinced that "arrogant dickhead" is the persona that's key to persuasion. Maybe it is for them I guess?

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h

You can't get anyone in political media to say it plainly, but GOP strategy for several decades now has been built around the fact that its core goals/policies are *wildly unpopular*. Everything depends on a) polluting the information environment, b) cementing unfair structural advantages, & c) $$$.

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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 5h

"Polarization Is Not the Problem" This paragraph says more about "both sides" journalism than just about anything I have read. Read the rest here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... By @lilymasonphd.bsky.social via @brizzyc.bsky.social

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Project MUSE -- Verification required!

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EFE Noticias @efe.com · 5h

VIDEO | Miles de personas han salido este sábado a las calles de las principales ciudades de España para reclamar soluciones a la crisis de la vivienda y con la mira puesta en convocar una huelga general.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

In Trump’s first term, he escalated in Afghanistan, bombed Syria, escalated with Iran, and loosened rules of engagement to allow more civilian casualties. Out of office, he said the problem in Gaza was Israel held back too much. But for some reason, “anti-war” types didn’t think that mattered.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

In 2016, media was so enthralled by a Republican criticizing George W. Bush for Iraq that they didn’t care that Trump’s criticism was not enough war crimes or resource theft. And when Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, the push to blame it on America, especially Biden, came from right and far left.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

“No NEW wars” was the trick, and I can’t believe people fell for it, but many did (including most media). If Americans have to hear about war in a new location, that is bad and the US president’s fault (Libya, Ukraine). Trump Term 1 worsened Syria, Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, but that doesn’t count.

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