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DIVIDING

WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM:  Halperin’s “Presumption of Grace” is naïve and silly.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: It is still impossible to say what the impact of any decision will be on the midterms, the law, or anything else.

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JOURNALISMING

There is not a single essential read on the Supreme Court abortion story that I can find so far.

WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: I am already sick of reading and hearing about this.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: There is a lot of good journalism on this important and delicate matter coming soon, although not necessarily any based on more blockbuster leaks from the Court itself. What is the next move, if any, of the original leaker?

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LEAK INVESTIGATING

WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Let’s spend this entire call speculating without any basis about who leaked this and why.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Nobody knows for sure, but the best theory (and the one with the most currency among the Gang of 500) is to be found in the New York Times:

“I would be wary of jumping to a conclusion that the leaker is necessarily someone who opposes overturning Roe v. Wade,” said Richard L. Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.

Kermit Roosevelt, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said the source was probably trying to increase the price of switching positions.

“In terms of who leaked it and why, it seems much more likely to me that it comes from the right in response to an actual or threatened defection by one of the five who voted to overturn Roe,” he said. “Leaking this early draft makes that more costly for a defector because now people will think that they changed their vote after the leak in response to public outrage.”

Professor Hasen said there was another benefit to the right from the disclosure of the draft opinion.

“This kind of leak could in fact help the likely future majority overturning Roe if it deflects the conversation to the question of Supreme Court secrecy and the danger of leaks to the legitimacy of the process,” he said. “That’s better than a conversation about the potential illegitimacy of overturning longstanding precedent allowing reproductive choice. It also could be intended to soften the blow by signaling to everyone the earthquake to come.”

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POLITICKING

WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM:  This decision will definitely help one of the two political parties in the midterms.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Democratic elected officials want to talk about women’s rights, civil liberties, and voter mobilization; Republicans want to talk about the leak and late-term abortions; and the Dominant Media wants to talk about the leak, women’s rights, civil liberties, and voter mobilization.

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J.D. VANCING

WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Watch Tim Ryan in the general.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: It remains amazing the lengths the Dominant Media will go to minimize the hold that Donald Trump has on the Republican electorate. Vance owes his win to one person (or, maybe, three, but really one).

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TESTING

The Associated Press @AP

North Korea has launched a suspected ballistic missile toward its eastern waters, South Korean and Japanese officials say, days after Kim Jong Un vowed to bolster his nuclear arsenal “at the fastest possible pace” and threatened to use them against rivals.

apne.wsNorth Korea fires ballistic missile amid rising animositiesSEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to speed up the development of his nuclear weapons “at the fastest possible pace” and threatened to us…

WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Who cares?

WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: One day, one of these tests is going to shake and rattle the world. But not this one, at this time.

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BANNING

The Associated Press @AP

BREAKING: European Union leader calls on member nations to ban oil imports from Russia in a new set of sanctions targeting Moscow over its war in Ukraine.

apne.wsEU leader calls for Russian oil ban in new set of sanctionsBRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top official on Wednesday called on the 27-nation bloc to ban oil imports from Russia and target the country’s biggest bank and major broadcasters in a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow for its war in Ukraine .

WHAT THAT LOUDMOUTH WILL SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: I will believe it when I see it.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SAY ON YOUR MORNING ZOOM: Put this one at the top of the list of all the things Putin could never have predicted would happen.

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abazar 🦇🔊 @abazar

#davechappelle attacked at #hollywoodbowl #netflixisajoke

DoZay @DoZay1

Someone just ran on stage and attacked Dave Chappelle 😮 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles #netflixisajokefest #netflixisajoke

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Sad losses of two important and inconic figures:

Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel

Rob Stein — who founded the Democracy Alliance & helped seed key liberal groups (@amprog, @mmfa, etc) — died Monday. The DA changed how politics is financed, spurring the right to form its own donor coalitions. He later pivoted to cross-partisan efforts.

nytimes.comRob Stein, Who Changed How Politics Is Funded, Dies at 78In the wake of Republican electoral victories in 2004, he convened major liberal donors to finance a network of political groups aligned with Democrats.

Karen @TheDarkPages

Sad to learn that David Birney has passed at the age of 83. I remember him best from TV’s Bridget Loves Birney. He was married to actress Meredith Baxter from 1974 to 1990.

Rest in peace.