Hello, journalists! Please read @creynoldsnc’s excellent piece, to which I will only add the attached screenshot of something I wrote 14 years ago, nearly to the day. More true than ever!
particularly if the media covers it as “wow, that’s probably effective” (a worthless assertion even if true, but also completely speculative and probably false) rather than “here are seven ways Trump lied” (verifiable facts of value to readers/viewers!)
MSNBC is spending the moments leading up to this debate talking about 2016 polls undercounting Trump’s white non college support because everything is stupid and everyone is shockingly irresponsible.
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The Supreme Court Stephen Breyer served on gave GW Bush the White House, gutted the Voting Rights Act, overturned Roe v Wade, and invited corporations to flood our elections with cash. It was a tool wielded by America's political minority to impose their will on the rest of us.
making it harder for black people to vote and women to make decisions about their own bodies while genially chatting over some herbal tea in the Supreme Court dining room
I am extremely angry about how goddamned stupid this is.
The 14th amendment's prohibition on insurrectionists gaining high office is a hell of a lot more clear than whatever the 2nd amendment says about guns.
Maybe Congress should have to specifically enforce the 2nd Amendment in order for it to have effect.
CLARENCE THOMAS: These free luxury vacations are totally ethical because the GOP donor who takes me on them is a dear friend! It’s just what friends do!
SAM ALITO: This free luxury vacation is totally ethical because I barely know the GOP donor who took me on it!
These guys might want to huddle up and settle on a consistent story, you know?
I mean yes okay this guy is a fucking psychopath but also it seems like he could save himself some anxiety if he just got rid of his door bell. They aren’t mandatory you know?
“Folks you do NOT ring doorbells in 2023” — a guy who has a doorbell on his house
Note Roberts says won't testify to congress because of the "importance of preserving judicial independence."
This is bullshit. Judicial independence does not mean -- cannot mean -- that the Judiciary is immune from accountability and oversight.
Justices are not kings.
On the other hand, "judicial independence" *does* require that Supreme Court justices refrain from taking millions of dollars in secret gifts from a Republican megadonor, but *that* obviously isn't something John Roberts has prioritized.