Mr. Biswas
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1. presidential immunity even for criminal actions
+ 2. unitary executive
+ 3. VRA sec 2 voided
+ 4. partisan gerrymandering OK'd
+ 5. 2030 reapportionment
==> we are so cooked
+ 2. unitary executive
+ 3. VRA sec 2 voided
+ 4. partisan gerrymandering OK'd
+ 5. 2030 reapportionment
==> we are so cooked
December 8, 2025 at 6:39 PM
1. presidential immunity even for criminal actions
+ 2. unitary executive
+ 3. VRA sec 2 voided
+ 4. partisan gerrymandering OK'd
+ 5. 2030 reapportionment
==> we are so cooked
+ 2. unitary executive
+ 3. VRA sec 2 voided
+ 4. partisan gerrymandering OK'd
+ 5. 2030 reapportionment
==> we are so cooked
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NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.
www.propublica.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.
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October 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here
The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision.
www.theatlantic.com
October 8, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Only the military remains outside Trump’s grip. Despite the firing of several top officers—and his threat to fire more—the U.S. armed forces are still led by generals and admirals whose oath is to the Constitution, not the president. But for how long?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!
October 9, 2025 at 2:50 PM
When the Supreme Court struck down Biden's policies, it was tempting to think: "At least these limits on executive authority will bind Trump if he comes back into office." But no—the court's skepticism of executive power vanished on Jan. 20, 2025. This dynamic is obvious to anyone paying attention!
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My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com
How the Supreme Court could aid the GOP's redistricting games
If the court rules quickly enough in a key voting rights case, it could allow yet another round of partisan redistricting before the 2026 midterms.
www.msnbc.com
October 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com
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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...
October 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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...
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Justice Jackson's sharp dissent accuses her Republican-appointed colleagues of abusing the court's shadow docket "to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible." She also takes a dig at their refusal to write opinions explaining their actions.
October 3, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Justice Jackson's sharp dissent accuses her Republican-appointed colleagues of abusing the court's shadow docket "to allow this Administration to disrupt as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible." She also takes a dig at their refusal to write opinions explaining their actions.
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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
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Donald Trump and Republicans fought hard to build this 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. It’s paying dividends. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
September 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Donald Trump and Republicans fought hard to build this 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court. It’s paying dividends. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
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J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."
#BREAKING: Over dissents from Justices Sotomayor, Kagan & Jackson, #SCOTUS grants a stay in the Slaughter case (allowing President Trump to remove the last Dem member of the FTC), *and* grants certiorari "before judgment" to decide whether to formally overrule its 1935 ruling in Humphrey's Executor.
September 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
J. Kagan dissent: "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars.Still more, it should not be used,as it also has been,to transfer government authority from Congress to the President, and thus to reshape the Nation’s separation of powers."
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Trump has done more to establish a unitary executive than all the judges or legal scholars in the world could ever do.
And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.
And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.
September 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Trump has done more to establish a unitary executive than all the judges or legal scholars in the world could ever do.
And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.
And Trump has done more to discredit and expose the unitary executive theory as lawless authoritarianism than any judge or legal scholar could ever do.
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While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Rogue Nation on the High Seas
Trump is treating the military like his personal mercenaries.
www.theatlantic.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
While we're all distracted by the domestic sideshow, Trump is sending the military out to kill people he says are "terrorists", in violation of US and international law. No wonder people at the Pentagon are checking in with their lawyers.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.
Dems ought to be telling people now these letters are worth absolutely nothing.
September 19, 2025 at 3:45 PM
I would call this “consciousness of guilt” in an eventual domestic trial or international war crimes tribunal.
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One point I try to make in here is that Trump and Stephen Miller are trying to eradicate the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence. All prosecutions are just a power struggle, there's only winning and losing, there's no such thing as justice. It's all power all the way down.
There's a deeper absurdity here. Trump and Stephen Miller have been shrieking that Letitia James is corrupt.
But James' team *did the actual work* necessary to *successfully* bring a case against Trump on the facts, and Trump is failing to do even that.
newrepublic.com/article/2006...
But James' team *did the actual work* necessary to *successfully* bring a case against Trump on the facts, and Trump is failing to do even that.
newrepublic.com/article/2006...
September 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
One point I try to make in here is that Trump and Stephen Miller are trying to eradicate the very idea of legitimate guilt and innocence. All prosecutions are just a power struggle, there's only winning and losing, there's no such thing as justice. It's all power all the way down.
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This has been the Supreme Court in a nutshell: where clear and immediate harm has been done by Trump to others, they delay and prevaricate, siding with Trump. Even if later deemed to be illegal, the damage is already done and Trump gets his way.
Indeed it was illegal. But we can thank SCOTUS for making full relief impossible.
September 14, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This has been the Supreme Court in a nutshell: where clear and immediate harm has been done by Trump to others, they delay and prevaricate, siding with Trump. Even if later deemed to be illegal, the damage is already done and Trump gets his way.
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Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
The Supreme Court Just Gave the OK to Racial Profiling
The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate round-ups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
www.thenation.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.”
My latest in @thenation
My latest in @thenation
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#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
September 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#SCOTUS all-but overruled a unanimous, 90-year-old precedent through an unexplained "administrative" stay this morning, and that's only the second-most-problematic thing it did before lunchtime.
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This is one good illustration why diversity on the court matters: Sotomayor can imagine a version of the world where this ruling would affect a younger version of herself, her family and people that look like her. Kavanaugh cannot.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government
can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."
September 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
This is one good illustration why diversity on the court matters: Sotomayor can imagine a version of the world where this ruling would affect a younger version of herself, her family and people that look like her. Kavanaugh cannot.
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Really important that district judges keep applying the law as best as they can interpret it and not worry about what SCOTUS is going to say (or not say! - in their often unsigned, unreasoned orders)
September 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Really important that district judges keep applying the law as best as they can interpret it and not worry about what SCOTUS is going to say (or not say! - in their often unsigned, unreasoned orders)
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I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.
September 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.
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Ah- Trump is apparently going to be the guest of “Rolex, the Swiss watchmaker which may be looking to curry favor with Trump during his visit to their luxury suite in hopes of lowering the high tariffs he has imposed on imports from Switzerland.”
What the actual fuck.
US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”
US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.
www.benrothenberg.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ah- Trump is apparently going to be the guest of “Rolex, the Swiss watchmaker which may be looking to curry favor with Trump during his visit to their luxury suite in hopes of lowering the high tariffs he has imposed on imports from Switzerland.”
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September 6, 1970
Jimi Hendrix made his final live appearance when he appeared at the Isle Of Fehmarn in Germany. The guitarist died 12 days later on 18th Sept 1970 after choking on his own vomit.🎸
Not the best video, but it was all I could find.
#ClassicRock
#RockNRoll
youtu.be/q7s_G_VZIfY?...
Jimi Hendrix made his final live appearance when he appeared at the Isle Of Fehmarn in Germany. The guitarist died 12 days later on 18th Sept 1970 after choking on his own vomit.🎸
Not the best video, but it was all I could find.
#ClassicRock
#RockNRoll
youtu.be/q7s_G_VZIfY?...
jimi hendrix-isle of fehmarn '70
YouTube video by wes
youtu.be
September 6, 2025 at 11:28 AM
September 6, 1970
Jimi Hendrix made his final live appearance when he appeared at the Isle Of Fehmarn in Germany. The guitarist died 12 days later on 18th Sept 1970 after choking on his own vomit.🎸
Not the best video, but it was all I could find.
#ClassicRock
#RockNRoll
youtu.be/q7s_G_VZIfY?...
Jimi Hendrix made his final live appearance when he appeared at the Isle Of Fehmarn in Germany. The guitarist died 12 days later on 18th Sept 1970 after choking on his own vomit.🎸
Not the best video, but it was all I could find.
#ClassicRock
#RockNRoll
youtu.be/q7s_G_VZIfY?...
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If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.
Luttig is communicating vastly more clearly and honestly about Roberts and Scotus than most Democratic officials are. It’s absolutely flabbergasting.
August 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you had told me 30 years ago that Michael Luttig and Bill Kristol would have a clearer understanding about what's going on than a lot of Democratic leaders, I'd have wondered whether you tried the brown acid.