@realTuckFrumper Good idea. I withdraw my previous notion that Biden should withdraw. Right now he should use his powers as President that are immune from prosecution.
@oclsc @mattblaze @ionica Will I have to demonstrate a fluency in French?
Mandatory online ID checks won’t just affect minors. They will harm adults’ right to free and anonymous speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/california-lawmakers-should-reject-mandatory-internet-id-checks
It's easy to conflate a traditional American upbringing with conservative values, but this perspective leaves out traditions that don't align with Christian conservatism. In this piece from The Big Picture, Amelia Mavis Christnot uses her childhood in a traditional, Indigenous family to explain why for her, LGBTQ+ allyship has always been a traditional family value. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/indigenous-family-values-lgbtq-allyship
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze @jvagle I'm old enough--and so are you--to remember when the consensus was that Nixon resigned after he did awful things. It's no longer clear that people think they were awful.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) continues to be the member of Congress who best demonstrates the qualities of leadership so badly needed by her party. She will not succeed in impeaching these Supreme Court justices, but she will shine a light on their corruption and lay down a marker for voters.
Every Democrat should learn from her example.
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-justices-impeachment-aoc-1919728
The new Ladybird initiative is exciting: a new US non-profit initially backed by $1m to support development of Ladybird, an open source web browser that isn't based on a fork of something older and that doesn't depend on Google for funding! https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/1/the-ladybird-browser-initiative/
@realTuckFrumper Won't work. Who OWNS the media, baby?
@mattblaze @jvagle I'm old enough to remember when Nixon was considered a uniquely awful president.
Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson: “In sum, the majority today endorses an expansive vision of Presidential immunity that was never recognized by the Founders, any sitting President, the Executive Branch, or even President Trump’s lawyers, until now. Settled understandings of the Constitution are of little use to the majority in this case, and so it ignores them.” 3/
@SteveBellovin @mattblaze Hmm. This didn't work for Clinton.
@mattblaze Did you even realize that you had such power?
WE THE PEOPLE are the ones who will have to take down Trump.
Not the courts - they've been corrupted.
Not the media - they're desperate for access and cash.
Not the prosecutors - the courts are stopping them from doing their jobs.
Us, together, this November.
@mattblaze Of course, working as intended. However, Biden should now consider what he can do using this ruling. He IS president now.
I don't have any bookkeeping to do, but I'll gladly join you in telling Paypal to go fuck themselves. 🎉
Justice Roberts’ Drone Strike on George Washington’s Legacy
www.emptywheel.net/2024/07/01/justice-roberts-drone-strike-on-george-washingtons-legacy
In an opinion that tries to cloak his power grab with an appeal to President Washington, John Roberts has suffocated the greatest thing Washington gave the United States, the presumption that Presidents would cede to the power of elections. The post…
Sooooo,
If the Supreme Court ruled President's do have some immunity, why can't President Biden simply have convicted Felon Donald Trump arrested and jailed, with Biden claiming it was his official duty to save the country from terroristic threats.
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@brainwagon I'd like to know too.