Notices by Jamison Foser (foser@mastodon.social)

The New York Times still has not run a single news article about Donald Trump's convention speech that mentions his praise for Victor Orban & Kim Jung Un.

New from me on what Donald Trump really means by "unity" -- and on the news media complying in advance.

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/the-totalitarian-tell-in-trumps-unity

The "Dole/Gingrich" campaign was extraordinarily effective for Democrats, and Bill Clinton was re-elected with 379 electoral votes after being counted out the year before.

Democrats have a similar opportunity this year. https://www.findinggravity.net/p/trumpthomas-2024

Jack Kemp was Bob Dole’s official running mate in 1996. But Newt Gingrich was more useful to Democrats, so we did everything we could to run against “Dole/Gingrich” instead of “Dole/Kemp”

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/trumpthomas-2024

The Supreme Court is Donald Trump's real running mate. Democrats should act like it. (By me.)

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/trumpthomas-2024

one reason things are as f*cked as they are is elites like Stephen Gillers just insist on keeping their heads stuck in the sand.

LEFT: Stephen Gillers insisting Sam Alito cannot possibly have known that the flag flying outside his home was upside down, and anyone who says otherwise lacks objectivity.

RIGHT: Sam Alito's workplace, with flags in every direction.

Pretty sure Alito knows what the damn flag looks like.

Sam Alito can blame his wife, he can blame his neighbors, he can blame his dog. But with not just one but two insurrectionist flags flying over Alito's houses, nobody's buying his excuses. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

Clarence Thomas has turned his seat on the Supreme Court into what seems to be a full-time job placement agency for his "nearly adopted daughter," Crystal Clanton

MORE: https://takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/clarence-thomass-corruption-is-a

NEW, for @takebackthecourt, on the latest example of Clarence Thomas using his lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court to financially benefit his friends and family: https://takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/clarence-thomass-corruption-is-a

I am begging some of the people who are surprised by what the Supreme Court did today to start listening to some of the people who aren't

The Court's ruling in the Alabama gerrymandering case last year is instructive: The Court struck down obviously-illegal maps.

BUT FIRST it issued an injunction keeping them in place for the 2022 mid-terms, handing Republicans control of Congress using illegal maps.

Process matters.

Me, for @takebackthect.bsky.social, on how today's delay of the Trump prosecution is just the latest example of the Court giving Republicans a political win regardless of what their ultimate ruling is.

https://takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/the-supreme-court-just-handed-trump

Mitch McConnell is a malevolent bigot and enemy of democracy and I hope he is left to endure the scorn of his fellow citizens and petty snubs of all around him for the rest of his days, but he was not the problem.

https://www.findinggravity.net/p/mitch-mcconnell-was-never-the-problem

two straight days

the New York Times is gonna do everything it can to make sure this is the most important issue of 2024, like they did with Her Emails

Tomorrow some Koch-funded lawyers are going to the Supreme Court to argue a Koch-funded case before a Koch-funded Supreme Court justice, who has likely already read several Koch-funded amicus briefs filed in the case. https://takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-relentless-corruption

Just wrote a thing for @takebackthect.bsky.social about
the Kochs bankrolling a Supreme Court case and also a Supreme Court justice (Clarence Thomas, natch) and how just basically awful that all is: https://takebackthecourt.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-relentless-corruption?r=27fvr9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcome=true

Reminder:

LITERALLY EVERYONE THE NYT INTERVIEWS: yo trump is full-on fascist

THE NYT: People can't figure out if Trump means it or if he's just tweaking the left, just a little prankster, cracking a joke, having some fun

Zero people quoted or paraphrased in this article express even a hint of belief that Trump's fascist comments are "just his latest public provocation of the left," yet the Times insists on pretending that it is an open question. https://nytimes.com/2023/11/20/us/politics/trump-rhetoric-fascism.html