Potomatic

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Lawyer, reader of too few books, enjoyer of too many jokes

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Ay George Galloway lost thank god that nutter

Oh god DC water not again

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Happy 4th of July! 🇺🇸

Probably nothing but still very upsetting and necessary

FYI, DC: “This is a precautionary notice to all customers to boil water that may be ingested due to water of unknown quality. Customer should not drink the water without boiling it first.“

DRINKING WATER ADVISORY: DC Water Issues Boil Water Advisory for All Customers in the District of Columbia, the Pentagon, Arlington National Cemetery and Reagan National Airport | DC Waterwww.dcwater.com

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Under Trump v. United States Biden has more constitutional authority to order the DoJ to maliciously prosecute corporations that use noncompetes than to bar noncompetes through notice and comment administrative rulemaking.

"The president is above the law, and the trial court judges of the Fifth Circuit are above the president" is an odd constitutional structure. www.reuters.com/legal/us-jud...

US judge blocks Biden administration ban on worker noncompete agreementswww.reuters.com A federal judge in Texas on Wednesday partially blocked a U.S. Federal Trade Commission rule from taking effect that would ban agreements commonly signed by workers not to join their employers' rivals or launch competing businesses.

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it does strike me that a lot of the people certain that biden should drop out, that trump is unstoppable, etc, are also the same people who thought desantis would cruise to the nomination.

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A common lament is there is no civility left these days, because those on the “left” refuse to be friends with the “right" over "political views." This implies something startling: conservatives want to be friends with the rest of us. Had you realized? www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?www.the-reframe.com A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."

Interesting reminder these days

2nd July 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. For perhaps the only time in the entire war the Confederates seem to be winning. Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee. This is the moment on which the war depends /1

Dad is asking for tips on how to stay safe in the event that Trump wins and things get really ugly with the government. Any advice? For background, ~70 year old white Jewish man, near retirement, college professor, no kids in home, stable finances, single family home in a metro area but not a city.

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Remember that the law is, and always has been, a tool. It can be used for good and ill, and much of the time it may be best not to putz with its settings too much if you're trying to get a standardized output But it is a tool, and if someone is using that tool to kill you, do not lay down and die

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"Don't comply in advanced." Losing hope is compliance with fascism. Nurture it, and it will guide you through.

saying this is NOT the same thing as saying that the situation is no big deal and everything will be fine - but the truth is, when things look really bad, ceding defeat before you've actually been *defeated* is a completely useless strategy.

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Obviously, won’t go anywhere in a Republican House, but at least she’s doing something. Hopefully, there’s more coming.

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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.

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if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."

what i am saying is "don't say dumb things on the public internet that could theoretically be used to give authorities an excuse to fuck with you"

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frankly, the first defeat that we can hand them, in November, is the easiest possible one we are going to be offered, and we'd be fools not to make it happen.

a thing to remember, in all of this horror, is that these are not the actions of a political party that is confident it represents the will of the people, and who is currently out of power and enslaved to a deeply flawed avatar. the struggle is not over and they have not won

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"While there’s a strong historical precedent for a lavish excursion to Bali, the plaintiff has instead taken a more unorthodox approach and presented an all-expenses-paid diving trip off the shores of Aruba."

Clarence Thomas Torn Over Case Where Both Sides Offer Compelling Scuba Tripswww.theonion.com WASHINGTON—Admitting that he had never been more conflicted about a ruling in his life, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was reportedly torn Monday over a case in which both sides offered compell...

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look i'll be clear, I will be voting, and encouraging everyone I know to do the same, against donald trump and the end of democracy in this country in november. I do not care if that means i'm voting for a man who is literally dead.

Joe if you’re not having a conversation with the Joint Chiefs right now what the fuck are you doing

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Sotomayor: "Today’s decision ... makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law."

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Been saying for years: Netanyahu is at best callously indifferent to the diaspora and happy to ally with those who hate us. At worst, he thinks it’s a positive good to make out lives worse so as to encourage Aliyah. Ethnonationalists believe that like belongs with like.

The far-right National Rally leader is unconditionally opposed by French Jewish groups for her party's historic antisemitism. Israel's diaspora affairs minister, however, is 'impressed' by her positions, adding that Netanyahu is seemingly 'of the same opinion' www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Diaspora affairs minister Chikli says Le Pen as French president 'excellent for Israel'www.haaretz.com ***

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just finished gary wills’ “Bomb Power” and the chapters on the dubya administration are a good reminder of a) the horror show of those years and b) the remarkable fact that in an administration of degenerates, john yoo stands apart as the absolute worst

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It is enormously frustrating to know, as an evolutionary biologist with experience from the trenches of the creationist wars on science, that nobody on Biden’s team nor CNN’s seem to be aware of the Gish Gallop, 30y after Eugenie Scott described it and years of Trump deploying it!

"CNN Defends Decision to Not Do a Journalism"

Gish gallop - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

All the homies love Val-d’Oise 8th District

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Attal's comment sounds like a sincere promise to drop out of three man races where Macronists came third, and if that indeed materialises then like, sorry, but you have to be a real sensationalist to claim RN can transform that 34% into 51%.

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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

With the insightful @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social at the People’s Parity Project conference discussing originalism, legal education, and academia

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I refuse to believe that actual adults are seriously arguing that swapping out candidates 4 months before an election isn't the equivalent of buying an ad in every constituency that says "we have no idea what the fuck we're doing "

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the 9th Circuit never said that you can’t, e.g., bust up homeless encampments. They just said that before you do, you need to provide shelter beds, otherwise you’re just being punitive and cruel. An extremely basic a call for decency, but many West Coast city leaders were outraged