Max Kennerly

Max Kennerly

@maxkennerly.bsky.social

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17 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics.

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A thread about the value of the fine structure constant in Quantum Electrodynamics. (1/137)

Bolts is akin to Last Week Tonight: a much deeper dive on important issues than you're likely to get most anywhere else. Like, they have a guide to judicial elections. This is important stuff that gets skipped over by way too many outlets.

For folks who've appreciated my coverage of the French elections... @bolts.bsky.social is quite different—but we cover US politics with such attention to detail. So give us a follow if you've enjoyed this, and care about the US. And our newsletter is free! boltsmag.org/newsletter

Father-in-law, film professor, shares his name with an expert on nuclear proliferation, which throughout the years produced a variety of hilarious misattributions for both.

"Frankly, Scarlett, it's last call." --Elon Green

It's depressing and infuriating how long we've had to pretend that Bibi is some sort of Great Man of History, rather than an obvious criminal whose every move is determined entirely by his short-term interests, with zero regard for anyone else on Earth.

Bibi is pretty clearly now actively working to prevent a hostage/ceasefire deal. The man is a deranged lunatic who belongs in jail. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-jul...

Netanyahu issues list of Israeli demands as hostage-truce talks slated to restartwww.timesofisrael.com IDF major killed fighting in Rafah * Thousands rally nationwide demanding hostage release deal * Soldier and two civilians -- including US citizen -- wounded in Hezbollah attack

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Polls predicted a loss and the people said different. Important reminder.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Cruel and ghoulish Republican governors of a dozen states – Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming – opted out of a program, leaving about 9.5 million students without food benefits in repressive summer heat.

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

17 Presidents were Senators, 15 were VPs. Harris has been both. Standard POTUS qualification stuff. There's been only one President who never held a high-ranking government post before: Donald Trump, and it showed through his incompetence and mismanagement.

The best fashion advice was tucked into Bend It Like Beckham: "It's not how they look, it's how they make you feel." If a haircut / outfit / jewelry / whatever makes you feel good, then it's good.

Michael Tae Sweeney

Forrest Gump, front of the crowd on January 6th, going the wrong way, away from the open doors of the Senate.

Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴

"We wanted to make things worse, but this is worse than we intended!!!"

GOP attack ads will be all about Biden's mental state. They will land, but they will not hit nearly as hard as Dem attack ads about abortion.

I think GOP will avoid it like the plague. The ads of Trump bragging about it will come from Dem PACs.

He's crushing it.

That's douchebag Jasper "Disaster" Philipsen on the left, losing another Tour de France stage to Biniam Girmay, who Jasper blocked this shit out of last year, just like Jasper blocked the shit out of everyone, because he sucks and is a dangerous racer who should be banned from the sport.

I like to panic as much as any Democrat, but my general view still holds: SCOTUS gave Dems a tailwind with Dobbs. We haven't even started the wall-to-wall attack ads of Trump bragging about ending Roe v. Wade. When that happens in September and October, there will be a big movement away from Trump.

NEW: Biden has narrowed Trump’s lead in swing states despite a widely panned presidential debate performance, the Bloomberg News/Morning Consult poll finds

Biden Narrows Gap With Trump in Swing States Despite Debate Losswww.bloomberg.com The incumbent trails his GOP rival by just 2 points across key states, a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult shows, even as three in 10 Democrats say he should leave the race.

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nuked from orbit 🫡🫡

Athul K. Acharya

Lol, same

Tuvix is particularly interesting, because Tuvix had the same mass of Tuvok and Neelix combined, which would suggest the transporter is indeed reconstructing the original matter, even when things go awry!

Matti Price (he/him)

I think the canonical explanation is: a subject's matter is converted into energy, the energy is beamed, and then it is reconstructed into matter, and so it is still "you." Various incidents that have occurred on the show demonstrate this can't be correct, and it's really creating copies.

More than once, a transporter incident has caused the subject to "split" into two versions. That simply isn't possible if the final output is generated solely from the original matter; there isn't enough matter. It's entirely possible if the output is generated anew from other matter.

Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.

ICE created a fake university in order to defraud, rob, and deport students. The depths of depravity there know no bounds. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Students at fake university in Michigan created by ICE can sue US, court ruleswww.freep.com An appeals court ruled in favor of students who said they were tricked by ICE into enrolling at a fake university in metro Detroit.

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Fucking @nytimes.com changed the headline and thought no one would notice. The TL;DR: Times runs a stupid "don't vote" piece from an idiotic right wing pundit. Turns out: surprise! The dude voted in both 2022 and 2020, and has written elsewhere about voting in earlier elections.

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July 4 story: This book is one of 50 snuck out of Philadelphia and hidden in the countryside west of Philadelphia as the British approached. It contains one of the first official printings (1777) of the Declaration of Independence. It looks different than you might expect. 🧵

I completely agree with this column: conservatives should not vote. Stay home and feel morally superior about it. 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...

Opinion | Why I Don’t Votewww.nytimes.com If casting a ballot is merely expressive, then the same is true of not casting one.

This being a patriotic day, I read "the 7th Minnesota dairy herd" in the same way one reads "the 7th Minnesota Infantry Regiment."

#USDA has added the 7th Minnesota dairy herd to the list of farms with #H5N1 #birdflu infections, bringing its cumulative national total to 140 in 12 states. It still hasn't confirmed Iowa's 13th herd. www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

True, it's possible either way, but Biden *resigning* concedes that he is currently unfit and has been serving while unfit. Dems will have no answer to that. Biden withdrawing from the campaign merely concedes he suspects he might not still be fit through January 2029.

Thicc Semper Tyrannis

That one at least has an easy answer: Biden is withdrawing from the campaign because he's fine now, but he's thinking about what he might be like four years from now. He's being a prudent steward, etc.

Exactly. The media environment would destroy anyone Harris nominated and Harris too.

It will be portrayed as chaos in the White House because there is no VP, and that is the fault of Dems, who control the White House. Is this fair or true? That doesn't matter, it's how the media will play it nonstop to mislead low-information voters.