'There Are No Kings in America': Biden Blasts Supreme Court, Issues Dire Warning After Immunity Ruling ( dailyboulder.com )
“(With) today’s Supreme Court decision on presidential immunity, that fundamentally changed. For all practical purposes, there are virtually no limits on what the president can do. It’s a fundamentally new principle and it’s a dangerous precedent because the power of the office will no longer be constrained by the law...
Going out of business ( i.ibb.co )
Giuliani disbarred in NY as court finds he repeatedly lied about Trump’s 2020 election loss ( apnews.com )
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After Supreme Court immunity ruling, Biden draws sharp contrast with Trump on obeying rule of law ( apnews.com )
President Joe Biden warned Monday that a Supreme Court ruling granting presidents broad immunity from prosecutionwould make an unchecked Republican Donald Trump “more emboldened to do whatever he wants” if he regains the White House in November’s election....
Rachel Maddow Warns That SCOTUS Trump Immunity Decision Is ‘a Death Squad Ruling’ | Video ( www.thewrap.com )
Borzoi ( lemmy.world )
Supreme Court rules Trump can and probably should shoot someone on 5th Avenue ( www.thebeaverton.com )
In Georgia, conservatives seek to have voters removed from rolls without official challenges ( apnews.com )
They’re asking election administrators to use their data to purge voter registrations, which means names could be removed in a less public process than a formal voter challenge. The strategy could mean electors won’t be summoned in advance to defend their voting rights and the identities of those seeking to purge voters...
Can you relate? ( i.imgur.com )
On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid?
Idaho library bans minors from entering without parental consent
This is the context - an Idaho law that penalizes any library that allows minors access to "inappropriate" content, and lets each child's parent define what "inappropriate" means. So libraries could be penalized if, for example, a homeschooled Christian child reads a book on biology that mentions evolution or a YA novel with a...
Trump Amplifies Calls to Jail Top Elected Officials, Invokes Military Tribunals ( www.nytimes.com )
A post that Mr. Trump circulated on Sunday called for Liz Cheney to be prosecuted by a military court reserved for enemy combatants and war criminals....
Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket ( arstechnica.com )
The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."...
Man who posted deliberately offensive thing on social media can’t understand why people are offended ( newsthump.com )
Priceless ( i.imgur.com )
Okay, Biden isn’t popular. But his policies sure are. ( www.washingtonpost.com )
President Biden’s policy agenda is incredibly popular, much more popular than his opponent’s. But Biden the man? Not so much....
Biden Administration to Announce First National Heat Protections for Workers ( www.nytimes.com )
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New Jersey refuses to renew Trump golf club liquor licenses because of hush-money convictions ( lawandcrime.com )
Bernie Sanders: Right-Wing Supreme Court 'Out of Control' and Must Be Stopped ( www.commondreams.org )
"At a time of massive income and wealth inequality, billionaire control of our political system, and major threats to the foundations of American democracy, it is clear to me that we need real Supreme Court reform."
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genius, fighting poverty by outlawing it
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Obsession with growth is enriching elites and killing the planet. We need an economy based on human rights ( www.theguardian.com )
Just the sunset, not an action movie ( lemmy.world )
Photo by Mike Lentz...