Rob Noblin
@jamesrobertnoblin.bsky.social
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The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
Trump: "I'm delighted to announce this afternoon that the US will be taking a small portion of the hundreds of billions of dollars we receive in tariffs ... and we're going to be giving and providing it to the farmers in economic assistance. We love our farmers. The farmers like me ... $12 billion"
December 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The President of the United States unilaterally levied a tax on all of us and is redistributing our taxes to a core segment of his supporters.
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“When the Court has exercised sole power to interpret the Constitution, with rare exceptions it has used that power to obliterate Americans’ constitutional rights, uphold white supremacy, and protect abusive corporations from unions and the regulatory state.” prospect.org/2022/07/11/t...
The Case Against Judicial Review - The American Prospect
If Democrats don’t bring the Supreme Court to heel, Americans will live under judicial despotism for the foreseeable future.
prospect.org
December 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“When the Court has exercised sole power to interpret the Constitution, with rare exceptions it has used that power to obliterate Americans’ constitutional rights, uphold white supremacy, and protect abusive corporations from unions and the regulatory state.” prospect.org/2022/07/11/t...
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prospects do not appear favorable, it’s true. but I like to think about how much of actually existing America was built in a frenzy of work between 1933-45
"Rebuild." Pssh. Look around you at the absolute wretched state of the US elite. Look at the sad, corporate-captured, power-worshiping media. Look at the distracted, deluded, increasingly spectacle-addicted US public. Look at the denuded, decrepit set of ideas allowed in our discourse. Look.
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
prospects do not appear favorable, it’s true. but I like to think about how much of actually existing America was built in a frenzy of work between 1933-45
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The conservatives’ bleating about the big bad bureaucracy gets harder to stomach when juxtaposed w the monarchical presidency they’ve created, making him immune from prosecution for his crimes and now likely putting the entire executive branch under his thrall. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/roberts...
Roberts on Cleanup Duty as Court Prepares to Kill Independent Government Agencies
Chief Justice John Roberts scrambled around with a verbal broom and dustpan...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The conservatives’ bleating about the big bad bureaucracy gets harder to stomach when juxtaposed w the monarchical presidency they’ve created, making him immune from prosecution for his crimes and now likely putting the entire executive branch under his thrall. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/roberts...
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the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now
December 8, 2025 at 7:40 PM
the balance hasn't remained constant, but people have long wrongly seen the NYT as a liberal publication that feels the need to bend over backwards for conservatives to fight bias charges, when in fact it's a conservative publication aimed at convincing liberals. they're more open about that now
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It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
Justice Gorsuch: Is it possible--"just maybe"--that we're setting our sights far too low and we should be blowing up many more structures of modern government?
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
It is really, really hard to get your head around the raw hubris of the majority. They really will be destabilizing the operating structure of the entire U.S. government. Why? Because they believe they have a better idea about how the past century should've been done.
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bring back the tenure of office act imo
December 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
bring back the tenure of office act imo
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Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
I’ve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
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I've decided to take up a new hobby.
I'm learning the Theremin.
First song I'm learning: "Can't touch this."
I'm learning the Theremin.
First song I'm learning: "Can't touch this."
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I've decided to take up a new hobby.
I'm learning the Theremin.
First song I'm learning: "Can't touch this."
I'm learning the Theremin.
First song I'm learning: "Can't touch this."
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.
December 7, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars or Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated, or Pixar.
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also birth certificates are issued by counties and there are what like 3000 counties in the US? we have no national standard for what they say. how are you gonna find out parents' status? setting aside the more important issues, this is a logistical nightmare. admin burden forever
It really cannot be stressed enough that if we don’t have birthright citizenship we don’t have citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
The only Americans who have any proof of citizenship are either naturalized adults or the tiny fraction of natural born citizens who are born abroad. Everyone else has birthright citizenship.
Stephen Miller thinks it’s terrible that I can vote
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
also birth certificates are issued by counties and there are what like 3000 counties in the US? we have no national standard for what they say. how are you gonna find out parents' status? setting aside the more important issues, this is a logistical nightmare. admin burden forever
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that's right
Virginia's Democratic Senate leader Louise Lucas answers SCOTUS' biased Texas gerrymander with her own promise: '10-1.' Virginia is currently 6-6.
www.rawstory.com/texas-suprem...
www.rawstory.com/texas-suprem...
Top Virginia lawmaker delivers cryptic retaliation threat as TX GOP maps get green light
A top Virginia lawmaker uncorked an eyebrow-raising response after the conservative-leaning Supreme Court issued an unsigned order Thursday night allowing Texas to use a Trump-backed redrawn congressi...
www.rawstory.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
that's right
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There's an air over the House Republican caucus that is both petty and baroque, some amalgam of late Soviet nomenklatura and Real Housewives franchise, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...
Reality Sets in for the House GOP … And Every Urge Is Unleashed
Rep. Elise Stefanik, last seen lighting her political career on fire in...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
There's an air over the House Republican caucus that is both petty and baroque, some amalgam of late Soviet nomenklatura and Real Housewives franchise, @joshtpm.bsky.social writes.
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/reali...
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the ultimate example of the problem here was when lefties yelled at Biden that SCOTUS was going to ruin his administration, and he appointed a blue ribbon panel who said "do nothing," and Biden went "well hands tied," and then SCOTUS repealed half his achievements and crowned Trump a king
December 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
the ultimate example of the problem here was when lefties yelled at Biden that SCOTUS was going to ruin his administration, and he appointed a blue ribbon panel who said "do nothing," and Biden went "well hands tied," and then SCOTUS repealed half his achievements and crowned Trump a king
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We will have to come up with a new constitutional framework to deal with the reality of the fact that the United States government was taken over by a criminal enterprise.
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
We will have to come up with a new constitutional framework to deal with the reality of the fact that the United States government was taken over by a criminal enterprise.
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All the social media gurus tell me that if you want things to go viral, you need to go negative.
But here's some optimism -- I think we're far closer to a moment of major democracy reform than many think.
Here's why: leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-next-e...
let's prove the negativity mongers wrong!
But here's some optimism -- I think we're far closer to a moment of major democracy reform than many think.
Here's why: leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-next-e...
let's prove the negativity mongers wrong!
The next era could come sooner than you think
This Thanksgiving, let's be thankful for the possibility of renewal
leedrutman.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
All the social media gurus tell me that if you want things to go viral, you need to go negative.
But here's some optimism -- I think we're far closer to a moment of major democracy reform than many think.
Here's why: leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-next-e...
let's prove the negativity mongers wrong!
But here's some optimism -- I think we're far closer to a moment of major democracy reform than many think.
Here's why: leedrutman.substack.com/p/the-next-e...
let's prove the negativity mongers wrong!
I named my fists Laurel and Hardy because, once they get started, things never end well.
I named my fists Common and Sense because I'm about to bring the Paine
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
December 1, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I named my fists Laurel and Hardy because, once they get started, things never end well.
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It’s so funny that the main impact so far of Trump throwing a fit about “treacherous” senators has been to drive coverage of his war crimes and to hugely elevate the profile of the popular astronaut senator from a key swing state who visibly loathes him
Mark Kelly: "This president, when he says things like 'third world countries,' what is he really saying? I think what he's saying is he doesn't want brown people in our country. And that's disturbing. It's un-American."
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It’s so funny that the main impact so far of Trump throwing a fit about “treacherous” senators has been to drive coverage of his war crimes and to hugely elevate the profile of the popular astronaut senator from a key swing state who visibly loathes him
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A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A new post by a Republican state Senator in Indiana, saying she will "not cave" on redistricting as she shares that she was just the target of a pipe bomb threat to due "DC political pundits."
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They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
KARL: Did you know about the judge's order when you issued your order for the planes to continue?
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
KRISTI NOEM: This is an activist judge. We comply with all federal orders that are lawful and binding.
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
They’re simultaneously arguing that soldiers have to follow all orders from the president, legal or not, but they get to ignore orders from a federal judge if they feel they’re not legal.
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November 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 AM
With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.
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A group of influential liberal senators is directly challenging Senator Chuck Schumer’s approach to the midterm elections and President Trump, in another sign of growing frustration among Democrats toward the minority leader.
Schumer Faces Pushback From ‘Fight Club’ Group of Senate Democrats
A group of liberal senators is quietly challenging the minority leader over his approach to the midterms and President Trump, in a sign of the party’s deep frustration.
nyti.ms
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
A group of influential liberal senators is directly challenging Senator Chuck Schumer’s approach to the midterm elections and President Trump, in another sign of growing frustration among Democrats toward the minority leader.
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Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Mark Kelly: "I said something that was pretty simple and non-controversial, and that was that members of the military should follow the law. In response to that, Trump said I should be executed, I should be hanged ... it says a lot more about him than it says about me. I'm not going to be silenced."
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I feel like 30 percent support for going to war with Venezuela—a terrible idea that nobody has bothered to justify through reason or propaganda—is a pretty good proxy for Trump’s floor of support.
November 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I feel like 30 percent support for going to war with Venezuela—a terrible idea that nobody has bothered to justify through reason or propaganda—is a pretty good proxy for Trump’s floor of support.