Joshua Erlich

Amazing the Olivia Nuzzi story can’t get a single person to go on the record, and the strongest evidence against Biden’s mental health is he didn’t remember her name.

reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Reskeet with a tweet you still think about

Mayor: we’ve heard you, we’ve seen you protest, and I’m happy to announce that this city is replacing the Karma Police with the Karma Rapid Action Team

thought i'd check my camera roll for "nuzzi"

Amazing the Olivia Nuzzi story can’t get a single person to go on the record, and the strongest evidence against Biden’s mental health is he didn’t remember her name.

need a name for a political system where a white guy who votes tells other people not to vote. novel idea though. we'll probably need to brainstorm.

Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

“Are you still a believer in America? Because at seven, it’s marginal, right?”

not going to get into this but saying "it's true" and having the problem with that being "it'll get believed" is something else

I appreciate what you’re saying, and it’s true. But this is how we Democrats beat ourselves *every time.* You’re tearing down Biden with this, and it’ll get quoted and believed. Instead, point out the GOP is a responsible for these popular Biden policies being blocked.

the dog is john roberts

July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)

I don’t think any of these have actually gone into effect? Banning non-competes, expanding OT pay, credit card fees are all enjoined. Medicare negotiating drug prices has at least nine ongoing challenges. You can’t just list things that didn’t happen as accomplishments.

Banning medical debt from credit reports. Cracking down on junk fees. Banning non-competes. Capping credit card fees. Negotiating drug prices. Expanding OT pay. These Biden policies don't make headlines, but this is what it looks like when government works for the people.

Roses are red Add a little more cumin … uh …

it’s King of Queens erasure

All this weird shit about “is Bridgerton normalizing mixed-weight relationships” is kind of ignoring that most TV romances are between two hot people and Nicola Coughlan is really hot

FTC non-compete ban, health discrimination rules, and now this Title IX ruling all today. All injunctions against the administration. fwiw, I don’t think Loper-Bright changed any of these outcomes but it did make it easier for these judges to justify what they were doing to do anyway.

NEWS: Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee in Kansas, today blocked the Biden admin Title IX rule as to Alaska, Kansas, Utah, & Wyoming — but also any school nationwide where Young America's Foundation members or the kids of Moms for Liberty go. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

lol

Change in Headline

BILLY MADISON (1995)

Breaking news: President Biden and his senior team said they accepted the grim ultimatum they’ve been hearing from almost all quarters of the Democratic Party — to demonstrate his fitness for office or face a significant effort to force him to step aside.

Biden and aides concede he needs to quickly demonstrate his fitness for officewww.washingtonpost.com Critics have been shaken by his relative inaction to directly address the panic ignited by his halting debate performance last Thursday.

I don’t think the FTC exceeded its authority, but that’s also a fair enough argument. It’s a sweeping new rule. the idea that the rule is arbitrary and capricious is laughable, but who knows how admin law works now.

Breaking: Judge Ada Brown, a Trump appointee in N.D. Texas, has blocked the FTC’s noncompete rule, limited to the named plaintiffs, in an APA challenge as likely contrary to law and arbitrary and capricious. The rule is set to go into effect in September. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

infuriating stuff. this happens from time to time when someone doesn't like the advice they paid for. i never actually lose the dispute, but it's just maddening to have to go through the process because someone's pissy that their case wasn't a case.

If you subscribe to a newsletter but later change your mind, just email the author and ask for a refund. Most of us will give you one. Really tired of people canceling by filing "fraud" disputes with their banks over a $6 charge. I get charged $15 for each dispute, whether I win or lose.

this is full on nonsense. nothing in Bostock depended on a "but for" standard. it was a textual ruling on the meaning of "sex." this is fully made up bullshit.

The Biden administration cannot enforce new anti-discrimination rules in health care for transgender Americans, a Mississippi federal judge ruled, citing a recent landmark Supreme Court ruling that weakened the power of federal agencies.

Judge cites new Supreme Court ruling in blocking health care anti-discrimination protections for transgender Americans | CNN Politicswww.cnn.com The Biden administration cannot enforce new anti-discrimination rules in health care for transgender Americans, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled Wednesday, citing a recent landmark Supreme Court r...

just throwing things out there, but there really should be a moratorium on judges handling cases litigated by their former firm/employer for some reasonable period. two years? three years? i would rather not haver to consider whether i want to take a case litigated by the judge's former colleagues.

lol, got a package today from an IC agency in an plain, large envelope with handwritten addressing.

the vibes are horrendous and i think it's because we're heading into a july 4th when approximately no one at all is excited about this country

The Vibes today are Very Bad and if you're out there mansplaining fascism and its ills right now after ignoring our warnings for years, I hope you have an even worse week than my own

really feel like we have not fully processed that the energy in these growing fascists movements, at home and abroad, is in the youth. this is a long term problem, even if we avoid the worst of it today.

Italy's fascist leader is embarrassed by blatant young fascists. So uncouth! www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/w...

Meloni Condemns Fascist Nostalgia Amid Scandal in Her Party’s Youth Wingwww.nytimes.com A news report used a hidden camera to show members of the youth arm of Brothers of Italy glorifying fascism.

a weird tension in using Title VII to attack alleged (but fake) discrimination is that we have decades of caselaw that basically says businesses can do whatever they want in hiring. unless a plaintiff has really specific, behind the scenes info, it's *very* hard to win this kind of case usually.

this entire crusade against diversity in hiring and admissions is based on the supposition that all white men are necessarily more qualified than any nonwhite person or woman who might be considered for the job. like, this lawsuit more or less states that outright.

Lawsuit: Northwestern’s law school is biased against White men in hiringwww.washingtonpost.com The lawsuit, filed by a prominent attorney, alleges the university’s law school gives hiring preference to women and people of color.

people on here will post anything. Castro was a fascist. No he wasn't. That isn't true.

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whats fun about Letterboxd is that I only have like 10 followers and it’s entirely because I don’t deserve more than that

for some reason clicked on my FB memories today and saw this from 2017

everyone needs to calm the hell down. i'm not in the biden-defending business, but he had one half of one debate that went poorly. that elected dems are talking about removing is ridiculous.

choosing to believe this was keir starmer

Sorry wouldn’t normally put her on the timeline but this might be the most insane thing j k rowlings ever written