Alex Aronson
@alexaronson.bsky.social
Co-founder & Executive Director, Court Accountability. Contributor, MeidasTouch Legal AF.
Former U.S. Senate/Justice Department. Views my own.
https://courtaccountability.substack.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/courtacctability.bsky.social
Former U.S. Senate/Justice Department. Views my own.
https://courtaccountability.substack.com/
https://bsky.app/profile/courtacctability.bsky.social
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he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
October 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
he's knocking down the literal white house and illegally murdering people by dropping bombs on international boats and the government has been shut down for weeks and it's just like....yep
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Some of the Platner coverage/discourse is making me feel insane. Whatever game you want to play in terms of "true intentions" behind symbols, this particular symbol is unambiguous in its meaning. The Totenkopf is not open to speculative interpretation! It does not "resemble" a Nazi icon, it is one!
October 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Some of the Platner coverage/discourse is making me feel insane. Whatever game you want to play in terms of "true intentions" behind symbols, this particular symbol is unambiguous in its meaning. The Totenkopf is not open to speculative interpretation! It does not "resemble" a Nazi icon, it is one!
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The Platner stuff reminds me of the Kavanaugh confirmation, because of the sneering at the idea that we should have high standards for a man who wants to be one of the most powerful people in the country.
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The Platner stuff reminds me of the Kavanaugh confirmation, because of the sneering at the idea that we should have high standards for a man who wants to be one of the most powerful people in the country.
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My feelings, exactly.
October 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
My feelings, exactly.
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Just amazing that, as things worsen week after week, the nation’s most powerful court keeps proceeding as though the gravest threat to our democracy is district courts failing to get out of the President’s way.
October 4, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Just amazing that, as things worsen week after week, the nation’s most powerful court keeps proceeding as though the gravest threat to our democracy is district courts failing to get out of the President’s way.
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When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
October 16, 2025 at 7:56 PM
When the Nazi group chat ruins your talking points
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in 2023, Miller and Vought were ranting about how weak and squishy the Federalist Society lawyers were. They were going to have none of those legal types who followed the law this time
"The Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is,” said Russell T. Vought"
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/u...
"The Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is,” said Russell T. Vought"
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/u...
October 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
in 2023, Miller and Vought were ranting about how weak and squishy the Federalist Society lawyers were. They were going to have none of those legal types who followed the law this time
"The Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is,” said Russell T. Vought"
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/u...
"The Federalist Society doesn’t know what time it is,” said Russell T. Vought"
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/01/u...
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John Roberts broke the appropriations process and made any deal impossible. What Roberts doesn't understand is that there are benefits to allowing someone to legally bind themselves!
Trump: "We're getting rid of problems that we didn't like but that were negotiated in but we didn't like. We're terminating those programs. And they're gonna be terminated on a permanent basis."
October 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
John Roberts broke the appropriations process and made any deal impossible. What Roberts doesn't understand is that there are benefits to allowing someone to legally bind themselves!
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The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
October 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
The Supreme Court's Republican appointees sound ready to transform the 14th and 15th Amendments into a weapon against the very racial minorities they were meant to protect—handing Republicans 15-19 additional House seats in the process. A disaster for democracy.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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i'm a traditionalist but sponsored content should be better labeled
The White House is pledging to fire more federal workers — the next salvo in Trump’s push to pressure Dems to sign onto the GOP’s continuing resolution and end the government shutdown.
White House to continue RIFs as shutdown drags on
The pressure is on Democrats to end the shutdown, the White House argues.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
i'm a traditionalist but sponsored content should be better labeled
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The more mockery there is before the actual violence, the better. If the public sees months of ICE brutality and chicken suits, then suddenly there are shootings, it's going to be hard to pin that on the chicken suit guys.
October 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The more mockery there is before the actual violence, the better. If the public sees months of ICE brutality and chicken suits, then suddenly there are shootings, it's going to be hard to pin that on the chicken suit guys.
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Trump and Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually. We don’t know when or how it will unfold, or how the public will come to perceive it. But we do know that no matter how it unfolds or is perceived, it is already their fault. All we can do is our best.
It'll Be Trump's Fault
Donald Trump created this unstable equilibrium; no matter how it breaks down, it will be his fault.
www.offmessage.net
October 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Trump and Miller will probably get the blood in the streets they want eventually. We don’t know when or how it will unfold, or how the public will come to perceive it. But we do know that no matter how it unfolds or is perceived, it is already their fault. All we can do is our best.
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Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.
North Carolina Republicans announced today they’re going to pass a new congressional map to draw a Dem out of Congress; they already did last cycle, going from 7-7 to 10-4. Thus would be 11-3. t.co/XLJIhe8vZn
October 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Legitimately disgusting that were getting legal rigging of elections and nobody cares in the media or the electorate. This is not that functionally different than tossing out thousands of votes to help your side win.
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NEW: Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings.
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Barrett turns to Fox News, rather than the docket, to explain her silence in key rulings
Justice Barrett wrote nothing in the racial profiling shadow docket ruling, but had something to say on Fox News Sunday. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
www.lawdork.com
October 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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There have to be consequences. Not just for the masked goons snatching people off the street. For the elites issuing the orders, the justices giving them the green light...
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
There have to be consequences. Not just for the masked goons snatching people off the street. For the elites issuing the orders, the justices giving them the green light...
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We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
October 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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Bullshit.
Amy Coney Barrett defends heavy use of the shadow docket: "If we wrote a long opinion, it might give the impression that we have finally resolved the issue, and in none of these cases have we finally resolved the issue."
October 12, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Bullshit.
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I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘We’re fighting for you!’ Podcaster Ben Meiselas on taking on the Maga media – and winning the ratings battle
His channel, MeidasTouch, puts out 15 videos a day exposing Republican failings – and it is getting bigger audiences than Joe Rogan’s. Is this the champion the American left has been waiting for?
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I spoke to the hardest working man in podcasting: BEN MEISELAS of Meidas Touch, who's taking the fight to Maga (and beating Joe Rogan in the ratings), and doesn't mince his words about the state of US media, and its failure to meet the current moment.
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Public funding of elections, then instead of giving mostly-ceremonial ambassadorships to big donors, we give them to elderly Senators.
We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route
October 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Public funding of elections, then instead of giving mostly-ceremonial ambassadorships to big donors, we give them to elderly Senators.
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Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
October 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...
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More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
October 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
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The most galling fact about obsolete Democratic spending is that instead of helping build up a center-to-left ecosystem, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚.
Most Dem ads go to local TV news. They are putting billions of dollars in the pockets of Fox, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc!
WTAF
Most Dem ads go to local TV news. They are putting billions of dollars in the pockets of Fox, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc!
WTAF
October 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The most galling fact about obsolete Democratic spending is that instead of helping build up a center-to-left ecosystem, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚.
Most Dem ads go to local TV news. They are putting billions of dollars in the pockets of Fox, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc!
WTAF
Most Dem ads go to local TV news. They are putting billions of dollars in the pockets of Fox, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc!
WTAF