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Trumpers can’t lawyer for shit
CNNThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
I got two: Trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment thus all his pardons and executive orders are null and void. also, it cannot possibly be the case that the Founders intended the pardon power to be a viable criminal conspiracy tool. pardons in service of crime are void as well
karl rove knausgårdThis is why the number one thing liberal con law people should be working on is arguments that Trump’s pardons are not valid. Obviously none of this can happen without court packing but once the new liberal court is in place, there need to be arguments ready to hand them.
learned the other day that John Kennedy's Foghorn Leghorn shtick is fake as well. he used to be a Democrat too!
Mikhail GorbaechevThat's not her real accent, no one sounds like that. She's doing a weird bit. youtu.be/APp8qJ9nD3Y?...
"hat is very much the mark of a personalist regime, one in which the full breadth of the U.S. government’s foreign policy architecture has been hollowed out and you really are operating within the whims, fantasies, impulses of one guy." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/plumb...
Plumbing the Depths of Trump’s Iran DebacleHere in the U.S., we’re looking at the Iran War in terms...talkingpointsmemo.com"We’re told by its makers that it will take away everyone’s jobs, require unimaginable new supplies of energy, has a non-trivial shot at leading to the extinction of the human race … and this is the argument of its supporters!" talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-t...
Why the Backlash Against Data Centers Is So PotentWe held an event Wednesday evening at a bar in Brooklyn, co-hosted...talkingpointsmemo.com"it’s clear that the bond market reaction wasn’t a judgment on the rate decision itself. It was, instead, a judgment on Warsh." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-bond-m...
The Bond Market Doesn’t Like BullshitWhy Kevin Warsh just bombedpaulkrugman.substack.comI was real skeptical of this idea at first but the guy largely brought me around www.volts.wtf/p/is-the-bra...
Is the brand new city in California for real?Jan Sramek joins me to discuss the controversy, funding, and master plan behind the massive California Forever project.www.volts.wtfgreat thread
Sarah TaberOk so this lady says solar panels are getting built on "the most productive farmland" in her area. Which just ain't true at all. It ain't true here in NC either. Where I ALSO hear that talking point over & over again. Smells like astroturf! So let's get the dirt on solar farms & dirt ✨
been meaning to establish a code phrase with my family, probably good for everyone at this point
Chris HayesRapidly becoming convinced that one major immediate impact of AI diffusion is a massive uptick in the sophistication and scale of scams and hacks. Seeing it everywhere.