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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 22m

The Supreme Court under MAGA/GOP justices is where reason, honesty, and decency go to die.

Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1h

Trump wants to end judicial oversight. As cases from California, Oregon & Illinois move toward SCOTUS, you would expect the Supreme Court to object to the effort to render it irrelevant, but the question is whether this Court will.
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Trump's Power Grab is Headed for the Supreme Court

The Seventh and Ninth Circuit decisions on Trump's National Guard Deployments

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 22m

The Supreme Court under MAGA/GOP justices is where reason, honesty, and decency go to die

Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 13h

So they’re complicit. Ask them if they care. The regime has the keys to the treasury and the armory. We have no idea what it will take to get our democracy back. If we did, we’d have done it already.

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14h

Looks as if Trump is saying no Democrat will be allowed to win another national election—and he will use the FBI, the DOJ, and the CIA to make sure of that. This is a full-scale attack on American democracy, and every Republican, CEO, and conservative mouthpiece who doesn't object is complicit.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We can never let what happened in the 2020 election happen again. We just can't let that happen. I know Kash is working on it, everybody is working on it. And certainly Tulsi is working on it. We can't let that happen again to our country."

Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 16h

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 16h

And it will be some sort of runny liquid. Very likely viscous.

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 16h

It is so much more than not holding them accountable. Backers are positively lined up in full support of this travesty. I’d like to boycott them but look at this list. To disengage with most of these would get you most of the way to “off the grid.” Who can do that?

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 16h

None of this is legal! People are choosing to break the law! Other people are choosing not to hold them accountable! What the fuck!!!

Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 18h

Oh

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 18h

First thing we do is rip his name off of every federal building anywhere it was placed.

Straight into a dumpster.

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 17h

It’s what he does! It’s what he lives for!

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 18h

That Times subhead reads “Trump initially said.” When a sentence contains the words “Trump” and any form of the verb “said,” the entire sentence is without merit or meaning.
Carry on.

That Gay Guy Candle Co. 🇺🇸 @gayguycandleco.bsky.social · 18h

It’s official: the entire East Wing is coming down.

Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 20h

Trump voters can get mad at him but they can’t stay mad. Where are they going to go? Despise Dems with irrational passion. No GOP-er dares to present as an alternative at the risk political capital punishment. Trump - “if you hit me I hit you back 10 times harder” - is it.

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 21h

*tall order* 🤦‍♂️

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 21h

Stupefaction is the mainstream’s default setting. The spectacle can interrupt it for a minute. Meaningful change will require building on the spectacle, consistently applying political pressure, to force the high-dollar press and political class to accept what they routinely deny. Talk order.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 1d

If you keep lowering your standards to “win” against the other side, eventually you’ll just be on the other side

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a good one.

Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d

This week felt like someone ran a blacklight over the hotel bedspread of politics and it all came up smeary swastikas

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. What’s to anguish about? He and the party would spend precious time explaining - and in politics, when you’re explaining you’re losing. Meanwhile, Mills has a record of busting Trump’s balls - no explanation needed.

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 1d

What’s to anguish about? He and the party would spend precious time explaining - and when you’re explaining you’re losing. Meanwhile, Mills has a record of busting Trump’s balls - no explanation needed.

Slate @slate.com · 1d

Democrats are really torn up about whether to support this oysterman with a Nazi tattoo. slate.trib.al/IufRyHe

Are You Confused About the Oysterman-Turned-Democratic Senate Candidate With a Nazi Tattoo? I’m Here to Help.

A newcomer's guide to Graham Platner's tremendously confusing week

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 1d

If I can’t win, I’m not playing. ☹️

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on canceling his meeting with Putin: "Everybody take some time off because you got two countries that are killing each other." (Sounds like he's again trying to wash his hands of the whole war.)

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Jenna Somers @jennasomers.bsky.social · 1d

@indivisible.org Can we please get a nationwide protest together for Adelita Grijalva to be sworn in? Raise the salience of the Epstein files even more and demand her constituents get representation!

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 1d

Of course he won’t go away if we pay him. He will demand that we pay him again. And again, etc.

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 1d

Authoritarians can have my frivolity and absurdity when they pry it from my cold, dead hands. 🙂

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"Frivolity and absurdity are kryptonite to authoritarians..."

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Opinion | The Rise of the Inflatable Chicken Resistance

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 2d

Bondi will doubtless dress Halligan down for being careless, and direct her not to get caught in the future.

Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 2d

Not just the political mainstream media, but the mainstream culture in general. Sure, the press ought to express outrage as the indignities pile up, but the public and our institutions - academe, church, LE, chamber of commerce, boardroom - need to press the government harder to clean up its act.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 2d

The fact that the President of the United States posts an AI video of himself dumping shit on America from a “King Trump” jet and we’re supposed to pretend it’s perfectly normal, everyday stuff shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 2d

When Johnson says the president is using satire to make a point, shouldn’t the next question be, “What point is he making?”

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Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 2d

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think it's fair to hold a 30-year-old man responsible for intemperate things he said when he was a 28-year-old boy.

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

Pat Nason @patnasonsongs.bsky.social · 2d

Not quite. Needs to mention how he will personally profit from the deal.

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2d

Trump tearing down the People’s House to build a ballroom for his rich donors…just about sums it all up, doesn’t it?