Matt Ficke

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Very cool to see Mark Cavendish win a record 35th Tour de France stage just now. Incredible sprinting to navigate his way up front in the final few hundred meters.

Kind of reminds me of the reactionary Me Too backlash in that respect.

Yes, the consistent background assumption of the conservatives is that the cases against Trump are retaliation for ordinary presidential behavior and not an attempt to hold the former president accountable for aberrant and illegal behavior.

The thing that gets me about this is that the overturned district court decision wasn’t particularly radical. It just said the city needed to have more shelter beds if they’re going to ban camping. Everyone is treating this like some impossible burden instead of a safe harbor.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges”

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once again its very cute that everyone who has poisoned their brains thinks that this election is going to be about anything other than abortion, the thing donald trump looked down the barrel of a camera and said it was good to ban

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges”

As expected, 6-3. Gorsuch opinion. *SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS PUBLIC CAMPING BAN AIMED AT HOMELESS www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

www.supremecourt.gov

Golf courses in the American West are like

Similarly: a single golf course uses a bit over 5% the water of all Google data centers.

So what contortions were required to keep this from making civil asset forfeiture unconstitutional, or did they just accidentally ban that too?

Sotomayor, for the liberals, on the decision that the SEC (and presumably other agencies) can't levy civil penalties on lawbreakers without a jury trial: "Congress had no reason to anticipate the chaos today's majority would unleash after all these years." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Interesting piece on gun arrests in DC. Do any law-talking folks ( @proptermalone.bsky.social @legalminimum.bsky.social ?) know how much of an outlier the DC Circuit is on the 4th Amendment? USAO is blaming the court but the details are vague. washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7227...

D.C. Judges Keep Tossing MPD Gun Seizures Out of Court. Have Cops Changed Their Ways?washingtoncitypaper.com Notorious “jump-out” searches persist, despite judges repeatedly finding them discriminatory and unconstitutional.

smh

This is a fun treat for anyone who hasn’t heard about this movie btw.

I just started laughing thinking again about the ending of the (very bad) movie Remember Me (2010). Highly recommend reading the plot summary if you don’t know the twist. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembe...

Remember Me (2010 film) - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Look, some people just like watching silverfish leaping through the shag pile like giddy dogs in a cornfield, OK?

Feel like it could’ve gone either way but I can’t argue

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in retrospect it seems inevitable that the furries would wind up running the gears of the thing

This is a vaguely disorienting fact I just learned from the crossword.

Dragged (I’m woodworking)

Which kind of former coder are you: baking bread, too many synthesizers, or woodworking?

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Watch Reggie Jackson speak absolute unfiltered truth tonight - I watched it twice. He isn't romanticizing shit - just jaw dropping.

Full Reggie Jackson answer to Arod's question about returning to Rickwood Field.old.reddit.com Posted in r/baseball by u/Stock412 • 4,147 points and 367 comments

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You just so rarely see a Priest body someone so hard

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My sister may have created the next great personality analysis tool: “Would Or Would You Not Eat the O’Reilly’s Auto Parts Candy?”

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unrelated, but a guy at the airport bar just asked the bartender if she could put a beer in a to-go cup to take it with him, and without missing a beat or even looking up, she said “only if you’re a pilot” and it stopped the guy cold

i am the righteous michelada’s strongest bluesky soldier

Some of the most hostile interactions I have with people these days is when I’m at a park with my kids and I ask people to put their dog on a leash. They are consistently FURIOUS that I would dare to ask.

a friend of mine just lost her pup to an unleashed dog that attacked it, so this my reminder to you to leash your fucking dog when you’re in public

Don’t pet the fluffy cows

An 83-year-old woman was gored on Saturday by a bison in Yellowstone National Park. After a string of tragic events involving park visitors and the animals, experts offered advice on how to avoid dangerous encounters.

Want to See Bison at Yellowstone? You’re Likely Not Prepared.nyti.ms An 83-year-old woman was gored Saturday by a bison. Experts offered advice on how to avoid a similar situation.

“I’m paying $20 for McDonald’s”

Every detail about the guy makes him sound like the adult version of the nazi kid from Knives Out

if you told me that the pretentious weird eugenics couple obsessed with having a large brood of uberchildren (ironically destined to wear coke bottle glasses) were also child abusers who didn't know shit about parenting, i would not have even blinked an eye, it'd be more surprising if they weren't

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One of the best places to give. If you're in the DMV, we donate to DC Diaper Bank. SNAP and WIC don't pay for diapers! It's criminal. greaterdcdiaperbank.org/give-dollars/

Give Dollars - Greater DC Diaper Bankgreaterdcdiaperbank.org

Recycling aluminum cans is basically the only individual action that’s even vaguely meaningful, everything else is systemic. Change happens through voting.

“When people confess their green sins as if I were some eco-nun, I want to tell them they’re carrying the guilt of the oil + gas industry’s crimes. That the weight of our sickly planet is too much for any person to bear. And that that blame paves the road to apathy, which can really seal our doom.”

“I work in the environmental movement. I don’t care if you recycle.”www.vox.com Stop obsessing over your environmental “sins.” Fight the oil and gas industry instead.

It’s it’s been pretty clear for a while

Man, at what point do we start to wonder if all of the detransition panic is adults who regret their prior life choices projecting that dissatisfaction onto trans people?

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Dwayne Wade remains the GOAT. wsvn.com/sports/nba-g...

NBA great Dwyane Wade launches Translatable, an online community supporting transgender youth - WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports | Fort Lauderdalewsvn.com MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade was back in South Florida on Thursday to do battle again.He spent more than<a class="excerpt-read-more" href="https://wsvn.com/sports/nba-great-d...

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Hello John, it's Tim, I hope this email finds John well. Tim was wondering if John had sent in that report John and Tim had finished yesterday or if Tim should do it.