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Yes. Stop thinking of Supreme Court Justices as anything other than politicians.

NY Times today writes how another check on Trump ends with Friday's Supreme Court decision. It's far worse than they are saying. That is why Democratic governors MUST start exploring withholding federal tax dollars and creating legal means for residents to pay the state their federal taxes.

"This Supreme Court is an existential threat to the rule of law." – Supreme Court Justice
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There are lines you can feel echoing through history. They'll wonder how so many saw it coming, but it all still happened.

This government is a joke

FIGHT BACK Friday's fascist Supreme Court decision is designed to make us submit ... DON'T

📌Thanks to a loaded, radical-Right Supreme Court that believes in monarchies, not democracy, a convicted felon, who regards the truth as his mortal enemy, now has the power he needs to wage war on the citizens of this country he pillages for his gain.
It is an existential threat to the rule of law.

Fetterman Voted With GOP to Make Sure Trump Can Attack Iran Again After Trump’s Iran attack, most Democrats rallied behind Tim Kaine’s war powers resolution in the Senate — but not John Fetterman.

ICYMI — “FRIDAY evening theSenate rejected a war powers resolution that would have blocked Trump from making further attacks on Iran, despite widespread disapproval of last week’s strikes… Rand Paul (R) voted for it… Fetterman (D) voted against…”

And then ordered all the vaccines destroyed.

I sometimes sit up straight in the middle of the night and realize the country is being run by a lunatic…

And a stupid one at that.

RFK Jr. is reportedly going to forbid government scientists from publishing in the world’s most respected medical journals — the Lancet, The New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, etc.

It’s going to take decades to repair the damage done by this administration.

Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

this is gonna be really bad tho

Oil Companies Are Sued Over Death of Woman in 2021 Heat Wave

Breaking News: A woman sued oil and gas companies over her mother’s death in a heat wave. It's the first wrongful death case targeting fossil fuel companies over their role in global warming, experts said.

Do laws matter if the court doesn't follow them?

Does the court matter if it doesn't enforce the laws?

Richest guy in the world cut funding for cancer research but at least he had fun

The White House is a white supremacist house.

I definitely didn't want to wake up to a force install of this new Outlook @microsoft.com. Leave my stuff alone.

Page One must have been crowded.

So NYT puts it on Page 13. 🤡

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A constituent was forcibly removed from Mike Lawler’s town hall.

He has inadvertently created an instantly iconic image of the resistance.

Tweet by the Luigi Case on Twitter: BREAKING: Latest motion states patrolwoman searched Luigi’s backpack at McDonald’s without a warrant, then repacked the items and left the restaurant with the backpack, with no body cam footage for the next 11 minutes during her drive to the precinct. Upon arriving at the precinct, she resumed the warrantless search and “found a handgun in the front compartment.”

Okay Luigi absolutely didn't do it and this is a pin job

April 22, 2025 BY EMAIL Todd Blanche Deputy Attorney General United States Department of Justice Dear Deputy Attorney General Blanche, The Department placed each of us on administrative leave ostensibly to review our, and the Southern District of New York U.S. Attorney's Office's, handling of the Adams case. It is now clear that one of the preconditions you have placed on our returning to the Office is that we must express regret and admit some wrongdoing by the Office in connection with the refusal to move to dismiss the case. We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none. We have served under Presidents of both parties, advancing their priorities while pursuing justice without fear or favor. The role of a career prosecutor is not to set policy. But a prosecutor must abide by the oath to uphold the Constitution and laws of the United States and the rules of professional ethics set by the bar and the courts. The Department has long understood that these duties can and should coexist with the need to follow Department policies and orders. This is to the benefit of all: the courts, defendants, and the public, who can have confidence in the good faith and judgment of line prosecutors; the Department, which retains credibility while still receiving zealous advocacy from its lawyers; and the prosecutors themselves, who can stand in court confident that they are ethically carrying out their duties. Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington. That is wrong. Serving in the Southern District of New York has been an honor. There is no greater privilege than to work for an institution whose mandate is to do the right thing, the right way, for the right reasons. We will not abandon this principle to keep our jobs. We resign. Sincerely, Celia V. Cohen Andrew Rohrbach Derek Wikstrom Assistant United States Attorneys

NEW: Read the resignation letter of three federal prosecutors who'd worked on the Eric Adams case: "Now, the Department has decided that obedience supersedes all else, requiring us to abdicate our legal and ethical obligations in favor of directions from Washington." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

arrest and prosecute

Jake Tapper: "One 60 Minutes source tells me, 'The lawsuit was baseless. Bill Owens wouldn't apologize. He wouldn't bend. He fought for the broadcast and for independent journalism and that cost him his job. It's shameful.'"

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