David

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Minimizing anger, ignorance and attachment (if slowly).
this is sacrasm or jokng around
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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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And speaking of Baltimore, I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles for my latest update on our astonishing fall in homicides. The wait is over! 😏

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A few months before he was reelected overwhelmingly, it was widely reported that Ronald Reagan napped during cabinet meetings.

President Biden told a gathering of Democratic governors that he needed to sleep more and to work less at night, but said he was staying in the race.

Biden Tells Governors He Needs More Sleep and Less Work at Nightwww.nytimes.com The president’s opening remark to a group of key Democratic leaders — that he was in the race to stay — chilled any talk of his withdrawal, participants said.

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No one has written about this (I will) but Project 2025 will destroy federal lands as we know it as well as any progress towards recognizing Native peoples.

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If you ever wonder things like "how does the Supreme Court justify this BS?" & "do we have to buy what they're selling?" I have a book rec for you it's called The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution & How We the People Can Take it Back www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

The Originalism Trap by Madiba K. Dennie: 9780593729250 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Bookswww.penguinrandomhouse.com A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as...

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Luckily, when we hear the excuse "we were just following orders" there's nothing horrific that comes to mind.

Seems crazy! But just logical. If a President cannot commit a crime in the course of an official act, like giving an order to the military, how can you prosecute the person who follows the order? There’s a whole code of military conduct about “illegal orders.” All orders are legal now.

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Someday a lot of people will claim not to have supported any of this and you need to survive to remember that they did

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Kagan's response on this is perfect. I'm not sure Roberts would even disagree that this is his preferred modus operandi.

"The Court, for its part, has not deferred to an agency interpretation under Chevron since 2016." And that is supposed to reflect the incoherence of Chevron, as opposed to the fact that there was a major change to the Court's personnel in January 2016?

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This is closer to a Brexit vote than a presidential election but what we'd be exiting from is democracy

In short: You should have tried to beat him in a primary. You didn't and couldn't for the same reasons demanding the ticket be blown up now is a bad idea. We only have bad ideas now. But disconnecting them from the stakes is just weaponized bad faith.

ladies and gentlemen wordle has been replaced as teh paper of record www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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Well, now it's up to federal judges to closely examine and decide what to do with "fecal soup."

In other Iowa news, "Fecal Soup" - "Health experts are warning of the possibility of floodwaters containing "fecal soup" after an agriculture-heavy region in Iowa was inundated with an unprecedented amount of precipitation." abcnews.go.com/US/fecal-sou...

'Fecal soup' could be lurking in Iowa floodwaters, health experts warnabcnews.go.com Health experts are warning of the possibility of floodwaters containing "fecal soup" after Iowa was inundated with an unprecedented amount of rain.

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UPDATE: To folks who told me they missed last night's event with me, Melissa Murray, and Elie Mystal and asked if a recording would be made available, the answer is yes! Check out our convo about the Constitution, extremism, and my debut book The Originalism Trap! www.youtube.com/live/hJLWxXm...

The Originalism Trap: Extremism and the Constitutionwww.youtube.com Join Madiba K. Dennie, Melissa Murray, in conversation with Elie Mystal on Dennie’s The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We th...

[email] cake in teh conference room [watch] you met your stand goal

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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start. www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

Supreme Court Corrects EPA Opinion After Gorsuch Confuses Laughing Gas With Air Pollutantwww.forbes.com The error came in an opinion blocking an EPA policy meant to improve air pollution.

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I think we can rule out the “Biden took uppers” angle

Kind of amazing how your average smol baby Eastern Cottontail looks like it's so obvious in the grass – until you look at it like a predator without color vision.

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I’ve texted so many friends: “Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” takes place on June 27th. Enjoy your day!” Heheheheheehehe. 🪨

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As @joshchafetz.bsky.social says, this is a massive election year gift to the Republican Party. Instead of the consequences of right-wing extremism being fully on display, the story will be a "muddled legal landscape" with the suggestion that federal law can save us from red state legislatures.

There it is: SCOTUS DIGs (dismisses as improvidently granted) the EMTALA cases (on emergency abortion treatment in Idaho), as we learned from their inadvertent post yesterday www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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In sum: hospitalizations from COVID-19 are still a significant public health issue. Uptake of vaccines is very low among those who are hospitalized. Age is still the biggest risk factor for hospitalization among adults. Half of hospitalized kids have no comorbidities.

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It has been a week since CJ Boasberg released court filings that revealed the investigation into a suspected $10M payment to Trump during 2016 election implicated files in China, and AFAIK I'm the only one who reported that. www.emptywheel.net/2024/06/23/a...

An Egyptian Bank Claimed Details of a Suspected $10 Million Payment to Trump Might be in China - emptywheelwww.emptywheel.net A bank owned by Egypt said it couldn't comply with a subpoena seeking information on a suspected payment to Trump during the 2016 election, in part, because China's laws would prevent that.

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When future historians periodize US history, 2013 will mark the end of the US's first era of officially consensual multiracial democracy. After Shelby County v Holder began a period of acute struggle over democracy in the states and eventually at the federal level. The denouement remains to be seen

Eleven years ago, SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act in #ShelbyCounty, arguing that "things have changed" since the 1960s. Today, we know that things have changed since this ruling: namely, that the turnout gap exploded in formerly-covered places 1/n www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

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Closing in on $4k raised in our Prideraiser benefitting Time Out Youth! Chip in a pledge per goal that CLT FC scores this month! www.prideraiser.org/campaigns/qc...

I loathe the accuracy here.

the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on corruption is basically at a point where the only thing that counts as a bribe is someone handing a public official a giant bag of money with a dollar sign on it while saying “this is a bribe” out loud

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the erasure of 20+ years of news stories here is yet another sign that future generations will have much richer knowledge of the 1930s than they will the GW Bush and Obama years. The wayback machine is carrying a lot of weight these days. If that goes, adios: variety.com/2024/digital...

MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offlinevariety.com The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.

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This is a cool example of what the Biden administration is good at: small, wonky changes that meaningfully make public services easier to access. Am excited about Martin O' Malley as SSA head: a rare politician who cares about implementation. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Social Security to drop obsolete jobs used to deny disability benefitswww.washingtonpost.com For decades, Social Security has used obsolete jobs like pneumatic tube operator and nut sorter to deny disabled claimants.

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Every time there's a mass shooting, the police want to make it clear that there's "no longer an active threat". Just the normal, everyday passive threat that comes with living in this country.

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DOG: I think that job interview went well! *looks in mirror and sees ear was inside-out the whole time* Son of a

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As RBG wrote at the time: “Throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet”

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people find it so hard to believe that stormtroopers from Star Wars have terrible aim probably because bad equipment it's 2024 on earth and we have two of the most valuable companies in the history of the world: one of them is making airplanes that crash, the other makes trucks that can't get wet