Joshua Erlich

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civil rights lawyer, exhausted

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭

please, her friends call her U Boat

from time to time I think it’s important to remind everyone that semafor launched with a Tucker Carlson event

Hey you guys wanna see the dumbest plan to replace Biden possible? www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

there are people I like at semafor (and I think it’s unfair to be mad at anyone for taking a stable, paying job in journalism these days), but it is fundamentally a VC funded, right wing project run by centrist reactionary types

Martha Ann Alito is taking about being German again

BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

watching Eyewitness (1981) and cannot get over how Morgan Freeman has looked the same for 45 years

about once a week, i have to explain to someone on the phone that the police have no obligation to do anything for you and, even if their refusal literally leads to your murder, the courts have been clear that there's no case to pursue

A man has been using Facebook to terrorize his ex and their children. He brags about it: “I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner.” But police do nothing and nobody seems to take it seriously. Chilling story from Stacy St Clair and Joe Mahr www.chicagotribune.com/2024/07/07/f...

How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children's mother and why police do nothingwww.chicagotribune.com An analysis of data from nearly two dozen Illinois police departments found police rarely arrest people for electronic harassment, even as complaints increase.

I regret to say that this is funny

how are there ~27 pending applications to register hawk tuah as a trademark

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Delbert Grady Seasons

yeah man waffles are great

what the fuck dude

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Helen Rosner

we have six weeks until the convention and it’s already unclear what would happen legally if we tried to switch now. I take your point but the time just isn’t there.

very hard to figure out what this use of DEI could mean other than the n word

Subtle. Very subtle.

like, it does not mean Black in this context, or at least it doesn’t only mean that

oh come the fuck on

summary, as always, from @shortcircuitij.bsky.social link here: hub.ij.org/e3t/Ctc/5E+1...

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Herpes Trismegistus

yeah but i decided to start over

not to get on my old man shit, but it’s impossible to convey the experience of this tape existing in the 90s, but I didn’t have it, so there was just no way to hear this one weezer song

30 years old. We gotta go back

picked elden ring back up today. i’m in my maidenless phase. i’m tarnishpilled. my dungeater is rizzed up. and so on.

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Dell Cameron

payment to daniels via national enquirer in August 2016 but the lying and repayment through cohen was largely after

to the best of my understanding, trump's lawyers aren't arguing that his acts were official. instead they're arguing that testimony and documentary evidence about official acts should have been excluded. per the opinion, they might have a point. per any reasonable human logic, they do not.

if stealing classified docs and lying about it while no longer in office is an "official act", we are well and truly cooked

NEW: Judge Cannon pauses some deadlines in the classified-docs case to allow for further briefing on effects of SCOTUS immunity ruling

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Dell Cameron

this sooort of makes sense. Merchan delayed sentencing to let the parties brief whether the supreme court decision changes the outcome of the criminal case. theoretically, if it did, he wouldn't be a felon.

i really have no interest in continuing to post about this man but this is tremendous content

"wait wait don't dunk on me"

lol lmao one month

me: Nuzzi is basically constructed out of condensed Hitler particles Peter: wait wait don’t tell me

Sagal going to bat for Nuzzi is 🤌🤌

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

me: Nuzzi is basically constructed out of condensed Hitler particles Peter: wait wait don’t tell me

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ApocalypticaNow

I agree in that I think Dems do a lousy job of party building and fighting for votes everywhere, but I mostly think this polling was a reason for reforms before fixing anything became completely polarized.

remember like 10ish years ago there were a bunch of stories about polling that showed young people were not committed to democracy? unfortunately, ignoring that issue entirely did not fix it.

Like it or not, the Democratic electoral strategy of “democracy is on the ballot” may not be successful because many Americans have already lived most of their lives in a marginalized majority without a functioning democracy. It is a slogan penned by a tone deaf and privileged political class.

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Sov Cit Decider Alice

skill issue