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Mar 4 8 tweets 2 min read
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. Barrett's opinion reads like she's auditioning to be the fourth-most-pointless Washington Post columnist. Image
Jun 21, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
This is amazing. He thinks he can just casually sneak the private jet trip to Alaska there in at the end and nobody will notice. 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! ImageImage
May 1, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
why do you have a doorbell Image 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?
Apr 25, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
This letter from John Roberts to Durbin is basically "fuck you," but less honest 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.
Apr 25, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
ah yes, left-liberals, famously commfortable with Sean Hannity Image When we started Media Matters in 2004, we launched with a report that critiqued 33 television segments & print reports spanning more than 3 years.

17 of the 34 were from Sean Hannity's television show.

"Libs" do not like Sean Hannity. mediamatters.org/legacy/backdat… Image
Dec 9, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
Elon's gonna try to pizzagate former twitter staff Image (For the record, I dunno if Lesley Podesta is actually related to John Podesta -- not that it would matter -- but you should assume it's true just because the idiots are saying it. Again, not that it would matter.)
Dec 9, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
*taps sign*
Again I am not a lawyer but based on @alexstamos's thread if the FTC isn't investigating by morning I want to know why.

Dec 9, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Periodic reminder that Twitter for years allowed Donald Trump to break its rules, because *Twitter was not a liberal company* even before Musk. And Musk/Taibbi/Wiess aren't releasing info about *those decisions,* because they are right-wing propagandists.
cnn.com/2019/07/15/tec… Musk and his witless lickspittles can dredge up all the out-of-context slack messages about someone nobody's ever heard of and misleadingly tweet them, but nothing changes the fact that on the biggest content issue it faced, Twitter again and again let Trump break its rules.
Dec 9, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
Dec 8, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
When he was on Oversight, Rep. Dan Burton shot up his vegetable garden trying to prove Vince Foster was murdered and refused to eat soup in restaurants because he thought that's how you get AIDS.

MTG continues a long history of Republican congressional lunatics. guy brought his own scissors to the barber shop

I swear I am not making this up
Dec 6, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
ah I see the Musk/Taibbi quest for dirty pictures is resuming 🙄 lol JONATHAN TURLEY
Dec 6, 2022 26 tweets 8 min read
Tomorrow the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Moore v. Harper, a case in which Republicans are pushing an undemocratic scheme that would allow state legislatures to unilaterally change the rules governing elections.
New resource from @TakeBacktheCt: stopthescotuscoup.com Ideally I will live-tweet tomorrow's oral arguments about the "independent legislature" scheme, but the Supreme Court has RUDELY scheduled them for 7 am west coast time and I *really* enjoy being asleep at that time, so here are a few advance notes just in case...
Nov 10, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
thinking of writing in "adversarial" oh boy
Nov 9, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Despite:
* Historical mid-term trends
* Highest inflation in decades
* Two years of media hyping crime & inflation as *the* two issues
* a host of structural advantages (Senate, EC, etc)
* SCOTUS decisions helping them gerrymander, suppress votes, and more 1998 and 2002 were better years for the WH party than 2022 is going to end up being, but I can’t think of a midterm in which the out party has performed worse relative to its advantages than this one.

Just a *massive* failure by GOP/success by Dems, given the context.
Nov 9, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
if Fetterman holds on, will all the national news companies run special editions devoted entirely to mea culpas from their various reporters and pundits who suggested voters would find his stroke disqualifying? Or will they space them out, one a week for a year? UPDATE:
Nov 8, 2022 18 tweets 4 min read
While we await results, here’s a brief thread about something that tends to get lost in the shuffle when we talk about election outcomes: The right-wing Supreme Court tilting the electoral playing field in the GOP’s favor. (1/15) I’ll start in 1976, with Buckley v Valeo, in which the Supreme Court declared that in campaigns & elections money = speech – thus advantaging the party of big business and wealthy special interests. (2/15)
Nov 6, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
these tweets are not only by the same person on the same day, they are part of *the same thread* ImageImage *18 minutes apart*
Nov 3, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
I thought it was interesting that this New York Times article hyping Truth Social by comparing its traffic only to right-wing sites so here's a quick comparison of Truth Social & @dailykos, which hasn't been the subject of a NYT article in at least 10 years. Truth Social is significant because Donald Trump -- the former president of the United States whose every utterance has captivated the news media for the better part of a decade -- has 4! million! followers! there.

(that's a little more than Jake Tapper has on Twitter)
Nov 2, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
holy shit she emailed un-redacted police reports & rap sheet to a personal email address, then used them in the recall campaign San Francisco's new DA seems to have gotten the job in part by ... committing a crime.

All those reporters who obsessed over Chesa Boudin are gonna swarm to this Brooke Jenkins scandal, right? Right?

missionlocal.org/2022/11/brooke… ImageImage
Nov 2, 2022 10 tweets 4 min read
I just scrolled through the last several days of tweets by Ted Cruz, which include a *whole bunch* of claims and innuendo that would benefit from "context," and I can't find one with a note like the one Twitter appended to @ChrisMurphyCT below. why don't these Ted Cruz tweets, to choose just two examples, feature additional "context" appended by Twitter, like they did with Chris Murphy?
Nov 2, 2022 8 tweets 3 min read
Speaking once ever two months about the relentless assault on democracy by a fascist Republican Party that has spent the last three days joking and lying about the attempted knee-capping of the Speaker of the House it inspired does not seem like a lot? BIDEN: So, democracy: it's important, and at risk.

RIGHT-WINGERS: *show up at polling places with guns to intimidate voters, break into Pelosi's house with a hammer, intending to break her kneecaps; beat her husband.

REPORTERS: OMG Biden's gonna talk about democracy *again*