Jerry Copus
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“We walk in the dark places no others will enter. We stand on the bridge and no one may pass.”
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This was the inevitable direction of his racism and hate.
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This was the inevitable direction of his racism and hate.
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Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.
Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.
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Fine, we’ll show you respect. You can stay for life. Everything else goes.
No shadow docket. Ride the circuit. No clerks. No building budget. Fine, you can stay for life. But there will be 16 new colleagues, with fixed terms, & it'll be 9 by lottery for any case. Or, you could simply start following the law & constitution.
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I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
December 5, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Fine, we’ll show you respect. You can stay for life. Everything else goes.
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.
The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
December 4, 2025 at 11:09 PM
The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.
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At every level of courts, it’s always too late to stop a Republican gerrymander & always too late to implement anti-gerrymander rulings that will benefit Democrats & democrats. It’s been this way in Wisconsin & nationwide for at least two decades now.
just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
At every level of courts, it’s always too late to stop a Republican gerrymander & always too late to implement anti-gerrymander rulings that will benefit Democrats & democrats. It’s been this way in Wisconsin & nationwide for at least two decades now.
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hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
hi i'm a billionaire my company, which will definitely not murder everyone, is named SauronMurdersEveryone Inc after the beloved jrr tolkien character sauron whom i have always admired for his disruptive use of world changing technology and for murdering everyone
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I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.
December 4, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.
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Johnson is a hard-core, devoted 9-11 truther (every "argument" as far as I can tell is exactly the same as it was 24 years ago)
Senator Ron Johnson went on a conspiracy show to promote 9/11 Truther-type nonsense.
This is a sitting U.S. Senator.
This is a sitting U.S. Senator.
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Johnson is a hard-core, devoted 9-11 truther (every "argument" as far as I can tell is exactly the same as it was 24 years ago)
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Story: buff.ly/zaCzr0I
Kushner’s Moscow mission wasn’t just corrupt. It was unconstitutional.
Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law, has been traveling the world to participate in high-stakes foreign policy negotiations on behalf of the president.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Story: buff.ly/zaCzr0I
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Barely a week ago, we learned of Witkoff and Kushner’s plot to launder an unedited Russian proposal as US policy, primarily so that wealthy American businessmen can benefit from Russia’s natural resources. Now they’re meeting with Putin.
Vladimir Putin today, ahead of his meeting with Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to supposedly talk peace: “We have no intention of fighting Europe — I’ve said this a hundred times. But if Europe decides to start a war, we are ready right now.”
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Vladimir Putin accuses Europeans of sabotaging Ukraine peace push
[FREE TO READ] Russian president hosts Witkoff and Kushner for peace negotiations as military claims battlefield advances in Ukraine
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December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Barely a week ago, we learned of Witkoff and Kushner’s plot to launder an unedited Russian proposal as US policy, primarily so that wealthy American businessmen can benefit from Russia’s natural resources. Now they’re meeting with Putin.
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losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
December 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
losing my mind at the 25% of GOP voters who think most Italian Americans are "more loyal to a foreign country than to the United States."
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These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
There are now 2,900 billionaires, and they hold $15.8 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
The wealth of the bottom 50% of the global population, over 4 billion people, is estimated at $3.7 trillion.
December 4, 2025 at 9:57 PM
These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
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Sen. Tammy Baldwin among Democratic leaders on a letter to Trump's Education Secretary, saying transfer of responsibilities to other agencies is illegal wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/04/r...
Trump’s Education Department transfers illegal, US Senate Dems say • Wisconsin Examiner
Sen. Tammy Baldwin and other Senate Democrats told Trump's Education secretary that transferring responsibilities to other agencies is illegal
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December 4, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Sen. Tammy Baldwin among Democratic leaders on a letter to Trump's Education Secretary, saying transfer of responsibilities to other agencies is illegal wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/12/04/r...
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The new owners sound like a nightmare.
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#Wisconsin #wipolitics #wisdems #wisgop #Sparta
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#Wisconsin #wipolitics #wisdems #wisgop #Sparta
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The new owners sound like a nightmare.
flatwaterfreepress.org/milk-and-mon...
#Wisconsin #wipolitics #wisdems #wisgop #Sparta
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#Wisconsin #wipolitics #wisdems #wisgop #Sparta
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Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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What happened to this RFK Jr.?
December 4, 2025 at 8:46 PM
What happened to this RFK Jr.?
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The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
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December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The Citizens United decision has corrupted our government and is destroying our democracy. Here's a way to get rid of it. robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get...
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The Trump admin's claim that it was targeting criminal aliens was always bullshit, and it's just hard for me to believe that most Americans don't know that. And assuming they do, this signals just how broken our society has become—it's a sick game we're playing.
December 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Trump admin's claim that it was targeting criminal aliens was always bullshit, and it's just hard for me to believe that most Americans don't know that. And assuming they do, this signals just how broken our society has become—it's a sick game we're playing.
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Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
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And we should tax each and every one of them!
December 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
And we should tax each and every one of them!
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With the exception of his marriages and the illegal immigrants his company employed, Trump has never seen a problem bashing immigrants can't fix, in his head, anyway
For Trump, Even the National Guard Shooting Is About Immigration
And he won’t let the facts get in the way of his agenda.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
With the exception of his marriages and the illegal immigrants his company employed, Trump has never seen a problem bashing immigrants can't fix, in his head, anyway
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A FOIA search - not even a release - for a single document will take nearly a year.
It's hard to think of a more clear example of WHY whistleblowers, leakers, and journalists are essential for the public's right to know.
It's hard to think of a more clear example of WHY whistleblowers, leakers, and journalists are essential for the public's right to know.
IRS says it needs at least 8 months to find a single email about ICE's request to access taxpayer data in response to my FOIA.
Helpfully reminds me I can sue them for the delay.
Helpfully reminds me I can sue them for the delay.
December 4, 2025 at 3:27 PM
A FOIA search - not even a release - for a single document will take nearly a year.
It's hard to think of a more clear example of WHY whistleblowers, leakers, and journalists are essential for the public's right to know.
It's hard to think of a more clear example of WHY whistleblowers, leakers, and journalists are essential for the public's right to know.
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"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning." —Adolf Hitler
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"All great cultures of the past perished only because the originally creative race died out from blood poisoning." —Adolf Hitler
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