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Infosec poseur and recovering editor. Fan of public transport, public spaces, public education.
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Polls predicted a loss and the people said different. Important reminder.
BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.
Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...
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the Supreme Court is the legal department of the RNC and we owe it no more respect than that
Roberts rules for Trump. Absolute immunity for “official acts.” Vacated and remanded. Party line case. Both Sotomayor and Jackson dissent. Fuck this. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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The country of the Alitos' and the Heritage Foundation's dreams is an imaginary past idyll that never existed, and they're convinced that they have to destroy much of what currently exists in order to return to that imaginary place. Calling that "conservative" does violence to the English language.
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The only thing the Supreme Court has special competence in is squeezing every last luxury vacation, RV, and nickel of private school tuition out of the right-wing billionaires it was going to rule in favor of anyway.
Roberts, overruling Chevron with incredible and unearned hubris: "Perhaps most fundamentally, Chevron’s presumption is misguided because agencies have no special competence in resolving statutory ambiguities. Courts do."
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