Remembering how people would share Scalia dissents and be like “I disagree with his politics but he has a way with words!!” and they all read like if a school shooter wrote A Confederacy of Dunces
Over the weekend, one of the major party presidential candidates promoted the idea of trying a former congresswoman for treason with televised military tribunals, and I’ll bet you haven’t seen a news article—much less a catastrophizing op-ed—about it.
the combination of the Federalist Society's efforts to raise a generation of judicial reactionaries and the fact that judicial impeachment is a dead letter have led to an unsustainable situation
far from threatening it, court packing and reform are necessary for rule of law to exist at all
NEW: When Judge Aileen Cannon drew the Trump classified documents case, two more experienced judges in Florida's southern district—including its chief—urged her to step aside and let someone else take it. She refused. (gift link)
How do we explain we need ubi because then we can justify ripping the money away from the people who earned their piles of cash pointing our economy at the wall then dropping a brick named ai on the accelerator
It for real feels like tech execs are like...buying tickets to jump off a bridge, where theres just a gangly fuck in a top hat saying that the bottom is a magical money pit and despite hearing soppy sloppy gore noises none of them can not buy the ticket because what if the magical money pit is real?
I hope people understand that what we are seeing is the systematic destruction of the civil war amendments by the Supreme Court, which are what made America and actual democracy and upon which all minority rights in the United States rely
I injured something without any sort of trauma trigger, it happened during work hours. That if the injury is work related or not has any bearing on my care is a deep failure of the state and electorate. Financials 1st care 2nd ass system.
Once again facing the prospect of dealing with people "eternally mad" at not getting to own the voting decisions of a narrow band of people instead of them asking why their candidate couldnt attract enough votes to win. And, being automatically shuffled in to the group they get to be mad at.
"Now is not the time to criticize biden" well yes because the criticisms have already happened now is the time for biden to have his come to jesus moment, but he wont come, and it will be his fault if he loses his incumbency. And we will all suffer.
You ever do something clumsy and you have to adjust to take a seat and process how close you came to just beefing it? *asking while sitting on his cement porch*
I still think Roberts in denying the feasibility of recusals due to judge count handed biden the perfect explanation for expanding the courts but maybe I just dreamed that explanation. But just say, "Oh, we have a solution, we will add justices so they can recuse and we will still have enough judges
Don't let the technicality that the mechanism is by donations get in the way of noticing that if you can buy the mayor's promise to use his official powers, that is actual corruption
Some discussed making political donations to Mayor Eric Adams, as well as how the chat group’s members could pressure Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police to the campus to handle protesters, according to chat messages summarizing the conversation.
A fun moment in history was when all that stuff about Sam Bankman Fried came out and Elon/Elon type guys were like “funny how when someone gives to the DEMOCRATS no one sends him to jail and all the leftists are silent” and then he went to jail and everyone on the left went yeah fuck that guy lol
I brought home cake squares telling myself imma share them with my trainer. It was only gonna be in my house for a day.
Friends there js nothing left to share.
I'm going to let other people comment on the other aspects of this, but one part I want to speak to is this:
"everything we wanted in terms of an open source protocol, suddenly became a company with VCs and a board"
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Jack Dorsey's problem with Bluesky is...moderation. And the absence of Nazis.
"they started asking Jay and the team for moderation tools, and to kick people off. And unfortunately they followed through with it. That was the second moment I though, uh, nope."
www.piratewires.com/p/interview-...
and yeah, probably now is the time for democrats to start publicly stating that the certification process is a formality and that there is no post-hoc opportunity to change the outcome of the election
I had a very difficult conversation about zionism tonight. And im going to try to unpack my feelings on it here. It was a bluesky thread and I was the villain, I dont think im wrong (who does?) but its certainly strong evidence that I am in the wrong and in need of self-examination. So, will try.