Tim Low

New York Times dropped a bombshell on Saturday. Reporters Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak obtained 16 pages of leaked internal memos from six SCOTUS justices, showing in their own words exactly how Chief Justice John Roberts led the Court to invent what we now call the shadow docket.

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BREAKING: PARDON IMPLOSION! Rapper Boosie Badazz files a massive lawsuit alleging that he paid for a pardon from Trump and never received it. This is a stunning look under the corruption hood... Boosie Badazz, real name Torence Hatch Jr., alleges that he paid $600,000 to the MAGA-connected DC lobbyist firm JM Burkman & Associates to obtain a pardon for a 2023 incident in which he was convicted for bringing a loaded weapon to a music video shoot. Hatch has filed suit to recover half of the sum he paid for the backroom maneuvering because the pardon never materialized. According to The Guardian, this suit could portend an entirely new "genre of litigation stemming from Trump’s habit during his second presidency of doling out pardons en masse to people whom he considers to be aligned with him and were convicted of federal crimes." In other words, Trump has so debased presidential pardons by handing them out for money and favors that a shadowy secondary market has sprung up in which brokers, both fraudulent and genuine, offer to obtain pardons for clients in return for large sums of money. The Guardian refers to it as the "clemency economy" and it's a thriving, hidden market through which millions of dark dollars flow. A criminal President breeds a criminal country. In this instance, lobby records prove that Hatch hired the firm in question to pursue his pardon. The lobbyists eventually falsely informed Hatch that Trump had signed the pardon and they were simply waiting for the announcement. It never came. Hatch stated that the lobbyists, far-right convicted felons Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, were "real aggressive – they were talking like they had Trump on speed dial.” When Hatch's attorney contacted the White House for clarification, administration officials insisted that they had never received the request in the first place. Regardless of the truth of this specific case, this scandal is the natural result of allowing a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and alleged pedophile to wield the power of the presidential pardon. He was always going to use it to destroy the very idea of the law itself. Once we have subpoena power again, Democrats need to investigate every single one of Trump's pardons and prosecute every single act of corruption. Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation of the "clemency economy" when Democrats retake control of Congress!

This looks bad. The beautiful, peaceful Boundary Waters closed.

Protests continue in the name of Lorenzo Salgado, who was unalived by ICE agents in Texas.

@patgagnon_75 @thesecondellen To be fair, we have a very problematic, uneducated, racist, bigoted, propagandized minority in this country that the right wing weaponized into two trump terms.

Americans as a whole aren't the problem. Their government is. Iranians, Russians, the Chinese, and Israelis as a whole aren't the problem. Their governments are. There's a difference.

Guess what!. Yeah. While President #Trump claims he just now received "wonderful" phone calls from Middle Eastern kings and emirs pledging billions in investments to TACO out of his Hormuz Jolly Roger 20％Toll Plan, official state media across the Gulf (such as Saudi Press Agency, UAE’s WAM, Qatar News Agency, and Kuwait’s KUNA) have remarkably declined to verify or announce any new investment pledges.

WE paid the tariffs but the businesses get the refunds. As long as I live, I’ll never understand why millions of Americans voted to get fucked over by this child-raping piece of shit.

Now, a tuberculosis outbreak brought to you by trump, republicans, Markwayne goober and the feckless RFKJ.

The state should not murder.

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Jennifer Hudson performs 'America The Beautiful' ahead of the All-Star Game in Philadelphia 🇺🇸

Gianni Infantino has been reported to the IOC over his ties to Trump at the World Cup - ESPN apple.news/A97v_E-dASx29O…

@jacqui683 @LadyForProgress MAGA Somehow think that people born on the wrong side of some arbitrary line are less human than they are. Of course, that’s not what Jesus taught…

Imagine if under a Democratic POTUS there were masked troops killing people within our country. Why aren't the 2a folks up in arms right now? Makes me think they are all just racist AF and don't really care about protection from tyranny. 🤔

Not another fucking dime until we get healthcare for all and higher wages.

@GNOBOTS @smc429 And they are not removed from Congress.

@smc429 That's what happens when insurrectionists overthrow the government to cling to power.

It's not that they can't. It's that they don't want to while they're being paid off

I am for no clock changes, but we should use STANDARD TIME, not daylight saving time @RepAdamSmith @PattyMurray @SenatorCantwell

@WisconsinFix That’s pretty awesome. I’ve heard good stuff about HyVee.

@tlow At our new HyVee store ...I religiously use their Gas Perks card when I grocery shop ...I got 20 gallons of gas yesterday for 19 cents (you have to pay the gas tax per gallon which is around a penny). So far this year I have saved over $600 on gas.

$5.99/gal today

@MikeNellis She’s also describing a threat from 4 years ago. She’s mostly targeted by trumpist extremists on the right because Trump has called out his flying monkeys on the justices in the very rare instances when the court has not sided with his fascist monarchy 100%.

Just watching Justice Barrett talk about how the threats she’s faced have forced her kids to “think about and see things that children should not think about and see.” That’s obviously awful, and I don’t want that for anybody’s children. But that’s also what so many parents are asking of our own kids when we send them to school in a country where shootings have become normalized. One of the worst days of parenting was answering my son’s questions after his first active shooter drill. He clearly didn’t feel safe, and he was too young to understand why he was being asked to prepare for something so terrifying. Safety shouldn’t just be a privilege for the kids of powerful public officials.