The Thomas’s threaten the credibility of the Supreme Court as our last guard rail in federalism* at a time when public confidence in all federal institutions…
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@22AdeleCOYS@JaneMayerNYer@NewYorker is at an all time low. The democracy doomsday clock shows 11:55:59 pm. Justice Thomas rulings are clear he opines for the “imperial presidency” so long as a Republican holds power when a bench ruling is made.
Still, a Black man, from the segregated south, I neglected to…
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@22AdeleCOYS@JaneMayerNYer@NewYorker view him as a Libertarian advocating for “state’s rights” as Ginni Thomas’s email exchange with DeSantis’s office seem implies.
It’s a bridge far too far. It’s “Stockholm Syndrome” run amuck. Does Justice Thomas see a white man when he looks in the mirror? All kidding aside.
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1. Not unlike the #MAGAMob takeover of the RNC and Republican Party, *THIS* SCOTUS has a shadow Chief Justice. It’s Clarence Thomas.
Thomas seems to have transitioned from the dichotomy viewpoint…
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@DemocracyDocket@marceelias@allinwithchris of the imperial presidency combined with state’s rights, so long as the presidency is held by a Republican, to a full-throttle, nakedly Libertarian, Koch Brother disposition.
2. It could be Chief Justice (in name only) Roberts siding with the liberal judges has far less to…
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@CourtneyBanks I will humbly and proudly tell you I was on the Biden bus from wire-to-wire.
Not because I started off rah, rah, rah Joe Biden. I look at the path, I did the math. I took as much emotion out of it as I could, my answer no matter how impossible it looked was the same.
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@CourtneyBanks Did I have doubts, absolutely. Was I certain, nope. HOWEVER, I was 100% sure Joe Biden was the only Democrat the would beat the Maniac of Mayhem.
I’d go into an app, “Electoral Map” and update, I kept a spreadsheet with all the candidates. Even before anyone announced…
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@CourtneyBanks I went to see then former VP Biden on his “Promise Me, Dad” book tour. I think I was pretty convincing because he remembered me when I saw him next at his first big fundraiser in our area.
I told him if he didn’t run, we wouldn’t beat former guy. He’d have to live with…
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1. Any members of Minneapolis PD, incl. SWAT team attended Jan. 6, 2021 #Insurrection as part of Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Patriot Front, III Percenters, etc?
It’s a public safety issue pursuant to the oath they took to perform their job, which takes super-priority over any first amendment rights they forfeited when…
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@din_nw@WhiteHouse It’s war. We elect Presidents to make and accept the consequences for extremely difficult decisions most of us would not have the heart, stomach or comprehension to know where to initiate the first step.
President Biden had the guts to end a war his predecessors didn’t.
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@din_nw@WhiteHouse Was it smooth sailing? Hell no. Have we yet seen the worst? Surely not. Here’s what you can take to the bank and cash a check on. The 20-year war in Afghanistan is OVER. Gen. McKenzie said it best, “The mission is accomplished.”
I respect the President Biden for ending it.
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@din_nw@WhiteHouse Not because he kept his word. It’s because we had no business in Afghanistan after we took out Osama bin Laden. The “Axis of Evil” was built on a lie. Former First Lady Laura Bush’s efforts on behalf of helping Afghani women gain freedom and independence were noble, I guess.
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@peterbakernyt@chipgoines Warning: 🧵
Problem with current MSM reporting. It refers to “Biden team’s cold political calculation about getting Americans out of Afghanistan and not evacuating Afghanis…” Makes it sound inhumane.
Same mainstream media is normalizing the murder of Americans in America…
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@peterbakernyt@chipgoines occurring today in certain states by certain governors. These murders include innocent children under the age of 12, not eligible for #COVIDVaccines.
Excited to return to school to receive an education and see their classmates, being sent to their slaughter in the name of…
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@peterbakernyt@chipgoines politics. Governors suing and withholding funds from school districts some used to provide free meals — perhaps the only meals some of these children will get that day. This is torture under no uncertain terms.
Which single major newspaper reported this story TODAY in the…
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