Eric Koski

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#rstats, climate policy, wireless, science, justice, human rights, 日本語, vegan ice cream. He/him

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SCOTUS: We take a strict textualist approach: The Text: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/strongman-...

Honestly still in shock that the most crooked American President in history said "I need immunity" and the GOP Supreme Court said "well, it's nowhere in the constitution, but sure, why not? Whats the worst that could happen?"

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If you don’t watch cycling I want to share the joy of Eritrean Biniam Girmay, who is the first Black person to win a stage in the Tour de France and now won his second! In the first week! And he’s in green, which means he’s winning the most sprints (and beating Jasper Phillipsen, which is great.)

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This @theausinstitute.bsky.social survey illustrates kind of perfectly why the fossil fuel industry spends so much marketing spend talking about jobs, economics and how dependent government revenue is on fossil fuels. australiainstitute.org.au/wp-content/u...

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I don’t even know where to begin with this.

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You just reminded me about Japanese Firemen's Coats publicdomainreview.org/collection/j...

Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century)publicdomainreview.org Firemen's coats in 19th-century Japan were reversible — one side was plain and the other side (worn on the inside while tackling blazes) was decorated with rich and symbolic imagery

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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.

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“Biden is doing what we demanded of him, but because we are dishonest hacks we’ll keep moving the goalposts because the boss is an adult child throwing a tantrum”

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I was reading an article this morning about how the Swedish Navy is starting to put QR codes on the sides of their ships. This lets them Scandinavian.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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My favorite line about war applies here: "The aggressor is always peace-loving... he would prefer to take over our country unopposed." No man, if you're trying a revolution against the Constitution of the United States, pro-Constitution Americans aren't going to simply get out of your way. Hard no.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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Constitution: People involved in insurrections should not be President. Roberts court:...hmm, no, I don't see it. Constitution:.... Roberts court: but the president should have immunity for crimes

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the fact that the same people pushing Biden to drop out immediately are also proposing shit that wouldn't fly on The West Wing makes me think we need a complete and total shutdown of the nation's op-ed pages until we can figure out what's going on

Wild to watch horserace journalists suggest the most politically suicidal shit and pretend it's savvy. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Official act. Immune.

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Yep. One of the biggest blind spots people have is assuming that underneath, others share the same basic values as them. They have trouble imagining an ideology that is completely misaligned with theirs.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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Justice Jackson: the next time a President wants to fire his attorney general, he has options.

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RICHARD NIXON: Listen, you all laughed when I said that if the president does it, that means that it is not illegal, BUT WHO’S LAUGHING NOW

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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.

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Wife does not grok that I need the stuff in the tech junk closet in case I have to contact E.T.'s home planet.

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very angry to see Jamelle Bouie so regularly speaking sense. Very rude of him to keep writing and saying things that are just objectively correct

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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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Trump's debate performance was awful because he lied constantly. Biden's debate performance was awful because he seemed tired and stumbled a lot. A problem Biden has is that a large portion of the public and media has showed they care more about presentation than facts.

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

www.supremecourt.gov

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Trump should drop out. For his many crimes. Also for his inability to express any knowledge on any topic. Where are those headlines?

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The right wing majority on scotus legalizes bribery and criminalizes homelessness because to them, rich people deserve rights and poor people deserve nothing. If they were deserving they’d be rich.

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making the night about Biden's voice and not Trump's lies is a real choice on the part of our news media

Media has an incentive to sensationalize what was a debate that ultimately showed us that Trump is Trump and Biden is Biden Trying to make a contested/brokered convention happen is their way of making the above seem like news

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Undocumented workers use fake SSNs when they're hired for a W2 job, meaning they're paying into Social Security & Medicare, but can't get payments out of them. They literally contribute more money to our government than they will ever receive Source: I've done their taxes

I am not kidding. Social Security depends on young workers. Immigration is what keeps it going. These young recent immigrants are not drawing from Social Security right now! Once they start working, they pay INTO it! Why can't anyone SAY that?

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My take on the debate is that debates have always been useless propaganda events at best and in the case of Trump harmfully normalizing pageantry and Joe Biden should have publicly announced a year ago that Donald Trump is criminally unfit and as such would not be granted one.