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It’s likely Trump didn’t know.

RETVRE. Is this anything?

"No, no - not yet! Martha-Ann still needs time to iron the flag!!"

@mollyjongfast.bsky.social His retirement would just give trump the ability to put in another stooge to replace him.

Nope it aint He has done the creatures bidding Now hell be rewarded with big cash & they get to add another corrupt inept white catholic justice

Possibly, but for Totenberg’s reporting on Ginsberg’s smoking pot during law school, Kennedy wouldn’t have been on the Supreme Court to be the fifth vote in Bush v Gore. And Gorsuch & Kavanaugh were two of Kennedy’s clerks. And it must be remembered Ginsberg was Reagan’s pick after Bork was rejected

Like the Pope and white smoke, we'll know for sure when Martha-Ann hoists her MAGA flag

She’s the devils stenographer

Is this like how they pre-write obituaries in order to have all the facts ready to publish quickly?

He's the justice I most want gone, even though I know Trump is likely going to nominate a terrible and younger replacement.

Who leaked the retirement announcement of the person who leaked the Dobbs decision?

So now does Alito have to stay longer just to prove Totenberg wrong? Is that a good thing if it prevents an even more corrupt person from being nominated to the court for a while longer? Perhaps past November?

“I don't care what they say about us anyway I don't care about that” —Weezer

It’s what that fucker deserves

No just until he dies which hopefully is post trump and is replaced by a reasonable facsimile of a justice. Far better than him retiring today and being replaced by a clone 30 years younger.

The Media that Couldn't Shoot Straight

My cranial sieve is unreliable, but one bit of lint is her in vacation garb with a tropical drink being interviewed about RBG...

Nina Totenberg hid her knowledge of how sick RBG was. She deserves no respect.

I’ll take “Should happen but never will” for $500, Ken

Nina is going to have to bring an extra nice bottle of wine to the next party

Nina Scrotenberg should have had looser lips when she was helping her bestie RBG conceal the severity of her health problems and thus fucking dying in the saddle thereby handing Trump a GIGANTIC fucking court tipping W. NPR is a joke. Put TMZ on the SCOTUS beat at least we’d get some truth!!!!

😂🤣

Completely agree. She is another who should retire and leave the stage. Why she is do revered is beyond me.

Maybe this is why Thomas met with Speaker Johnson yesterday? Though you'd think he'd meet with Thune and Grassley if it were about an appointment to the Court.

I kind of want a Spider-Man pointing meme of Nina Totenberg now.

A real shitty thing that we have to consider now is the possibility of making huge sums on Polymarket. Alito retirement prices were at 15 cents this morning; a brief spike to north of 50 cents could triple somebody's money.

Exactly. And very LBJ (with no disrespect to the memory of LBJ). bsky.app/profile/did:...

I’ve been listening to NPR to hear the rulings this morning and that was announced right after they were finished. Alito’s retiring first is expected so I wasn’t surprised to hear it, but this is HILARIOUS! Omg Nina!

Nina was at the Court. SCOTUSblog confirmed she didn't know and that it was a mistake. Someone at NPR pushed the wrong button (or it was set to auto-publish, maybe?).

She sounded a little shell shocked just now.

It’s perfect tbh

Won't be the only retirement announcement on Friday is my guess

"Call Ben Bradlee and tell him fuck you."

As long as he's getting bribes from billionaires I don't see him retiring any time soon.

They said it on air this morning too!

Nina already baked him a retirement pie.

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Nina Totenberg should have retired after ProPublica broke the story on Harlan Crow after she'd been covering SCOTUS for three decades and had never said shit about the corruption imo.

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Roaring with laughter. How humiliating.

Yeah, journalists on substack who publish their own stories is quite a different thing than large media outlets who have editors and other staffers who aren't the people originally writing the stories.

Good time for a reminder that McConnell held off Obama's Supreme Court nominee for 286 days. “All we are doing is following the long-standing tradition of not fulfilling a nomination in the middle of a presidential year.” Let that tradition continue until 2029. Tradition has no meaning.

Embargoed, likely

This is how you lose trust and followers.

Lol like Nina Totenberg would have any idea how to use the CMS. This was a staffer.

Like when the AP killed off Bob Hope way back when

As someone married to a reporter, but also someone who has *many* bones to pick with Nina Totenberg, I am alternatively chuckling and wincing.

There has to be just a bit more to this story. They reported it on the air live as they wrapped up coverage!

Is it a deliberate distraction? Using her to troll?

He has done enough.

I feel horrible for Nina. The next dinner party is going to be so awkward.

The original, before it was removed by NPR: web.archive.org/web/20260630...

I actually think she is Not Great

I’d bet it’s coming soon but Alito may be waiting to pull the trigger until Trump decides on the replacement and gets the Senate in line to push it through. It’ll be another Amy Coney Barrett job. Just hoping it’s not Aileen Cannon or Emil Bove, because they’re both so horrible.

I am sure he us going to retire before the midterms so Trump can appoint another right-wing white supremacist hack to the court. In the end his seat is irrelevant, if Dems win the mid-terms with the votes needed they need to reform and stack the court anyway.

god, that motherfucker is going to stay on just to spite npr now isn't he

Long past time for her to have been fired, hopefully this will be the final nail.

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How did Nina Totenberg miss the Thomas bribery scandal given that she was so close to the justices for so long? Maybe not actually good at her *job*?

She apologized. She said she made a mistake and she sent an apology letter to Alito (as reported by NPR) & NPR interviewed her during the broadcast.

are we going to find out about her decades-long friendship with *him* too?

Shall we 'accidentally' impeach him now for a proper send off?

Ah, what the hell. Maybe the Alito retirement rumor will get more Dems out to VOTE us both the House & Senate to keep Orange Caligula from appointing another extremist right wing, corrupt horse's ass to the Supreme Court. And they better NOT be afraid to McConnell ANY trump SCOTUS appointee.

I won't be laughing if Alito retires even though in isolation this would be amusing.

So he is retiring. NPR just jumped the gun. The story here is that he’s retiring, to be replaced by a 35-yo Hitlerjungend I’m sure.