Doubtful Owl

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In-depth look at the Christian Nationalist Industrial Complex that's surrounding Nashville. religionnews.com/2023/11/08/h...

How a bucolic Tennessee suburb became a hotbed of 'Christian Nashville-ism'religionnews.com (RNS) — The mix of religion, power, money and influence around Nashville and its suburbs makes it fertile ground for a Southern evangelical take on Christian nationalism.

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Stop, or I’ll say stop again

BREAKING: Sens. Durbin, Whitehouse request meeting with Chief Justice Roberts over Alito ethics scandal, call for Alito’s recusal in Jan. 6 cases. www.whitehouse.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

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NONE OF THIS EXPLAINS WHY YOU WOULD HANG A FLAG UPSIDE DOWN.

More details on the Alitos vs. the neighbors story, none of which actually explain the upside-down flag

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Incredible DC brain on display here. An EXTRAORDINARY break with Norms to ask for a different debate schedule. Is this Biden’s January 6??

The takes about how the Commission on Presidential Debates is some venerable sacred bipartisan institution is one of the most on-the-nose examples I've seen lately of NY/DC centrist elite media bubble brain. Nobody cares and most people who are aware of the CPD's existence vehemently hate it.

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Here's a picture that speaks a thousand words

Every single one of these threads is a guy with no training in political history hand waving away decades of research grounded in the archives with a Map I Discovered on Wikipedia

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BREAKING: Judge Mark Pittman blocks the CFPB's credit card late fee rule under Fifth Circuit precedent re: CFPB's funding structure. He does so, however, in a ruling that repeatedly challenges the Fifth Circuit's behavior in the Chamber's case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Background on this from earlier at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/i/143048090/...

The Fifth Circuit's lawlessness is now spreading from California to D.C.www.lawdork.com Two federal judges in Texas recently granted motions to transfer cases to other courts. Then the Fifth Circuit got involved. Now, it's a nationwide mess.

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Decades from now, the polite mainstream will claim the legacy of the protester who stands bravely against the jeering white boys - just like it currently claims the legacy of protesters who stood bravely decades ago. But let’s remember where the polite mainstream stands in the moment.

JFC, this photo of a pro-Palestinian student protestor at the University of Mississippi with a jeering crowd of white boys in the background thedmonline.com/may-2nd-pro-...

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JFC, this photo of a pro-Palestinian student protestor at the University of Mississippi with a jeering crowd of white boys in the background thedmonline.com/may-2nd-pro-...

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Throughout the morning, conservative justices have been citing infirmities in the criminal justice system writ large as reasons to give former presidents immunity, rather than things that ought to be fixed for everyone.

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As King of America you’re allowed to do anything except forgive student loans and regulate carbon.

in a country founded directly on "no kings, fuck kings in particular" it is beyond insulting that supposed "originalist" judges are taking seriously the proposition that the President is in fact a king

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Residents Establish More Exclusive Gated Community Within Firstwww.theonion.com NAPLES, FL—Claiming they had to do what was best for themselves and their families, a group of local residents confirmed Thursday they had established a more exclusive gated community within the alrea...

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Courtney Milan

Originalism is the worst of all possible constitutional theories. It leaves every decision open to a judge, untrained in the actual history they’re writing about, where they get to use history as their personal decision-making Ouija board.

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Seth Cotlar

One of the primary sources referenced in that podcast is a 1976 Ford campaign memo that sought to understand how Reagan had been able to mobilize so many voters. Their conclusion was that they were being "out-organized by...highly motivated right wing nuts." www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/exhi...

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Joshua J. Friedman

THE JUDGE LOOKED AT ME FUNNY THE JUDGE SMELLS LIKE JUSTICE THE JUDGE HAS A WEIRD EYEBROW THE JUDGE SAID HE LIKES DOGS THE JUD-- i mean we're talking abt trump. all of this shit is plausible because he's a scared idiot.

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X promoted a trending story on Thursday via its homepage with the headline: “Iran Strikes Tel Aviv with Heavy Missiles” one problem: the story was fake even worse: the headline + story was created by a new feature powered by X’s own AI chatbot, Grok mashable.com/article/elon...

Elon Musk's X pushed a fake headline about Iran attacking Israel. X's AI chatbot Grok made it up.mashable.com The AI-generated false headline was promoted by X in its official trending news section.

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But wait, there’s an update! www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/241...

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LIVE AUDIO AT 10 AM ET: The US Supreme Court hears arguments about access to the abortion drug mifepristone. Official livestream: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen... C-SPAN livestream: www.c-span.org/video/?53429...

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Mexico says it will not accept deportations from Texas

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Sonia Sotomayor could announce her retirement tonight, using the moment to denounce the Supreme Court’s descent into dipshittery and call for broad reforms. But she’s an institutionalist who’ll hang on, writing dissents and doing PR work with Justice Barrett, until she’s replaced by Aileen Cannon.

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If my math is right, #SCOTUS has issued 21 "administrative" (temporary) stays since the beginning of OT2020. 11 of the stays have been indefinite; 10 have had deadlines. 9 of the 10 with deadlines have come from Justice Alito—who's had to issue *8* extensions of those deadlines:

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I am once again begging people with power within the Democratic Party to devise a better strategy for dealing with the right-wing death grip on the courts than "win every election for 30 years and hopefully appoint their replacements." In 30 years of this there won't be anything left to salvage.

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My guess is that SCOTUS thinks Jack Smith didn't adequately address this argument from Trump (and he didn't--not below and not in his brief). Smith is just going to have to distinguish Trump's use of presidency for personal gain. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23...

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Tonight at 9 ET/8 CT, I'll be answering your questions through my "One First" newsletter about SCOTUS’s decision to take up former President Trump's immunity appeal. Anyone can join, but if you're not already subscribed, there's no time like the present! stevevladeck.substack.com/p/tonight-9-...

Tonight @ 9 ET: Live Thread on the Court's Decision to Take Up Trump Immunity Appealstevevladeck.substack.com Hi “One First” Subscribers!! Tonight at 9 ET/8 CT, I’ll do my best, through this Substack thread, to answer your questions about this afternoon’…

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I asked AI to create “the flag Cobra Commander would use if he took over America but was also a divorced dad behind on child support”

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these weirdos want to dictate how you eat ice cream