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A damning joint report by Yale Law School and Yale Medicine finds the UK's Cass Review "levies unsupported assertions about gender identity, gender dysphoria, standard practices, and safety of gender-affirming medical treatments, and it repeats claims that have been disproved by sound evidence.”

Report Addresses Key Issues in Legal Battles over Gender-Affirming Health Carelaw.yale.edu A new report from The Integrity Project provides an evidence-based critique of a recent independent review that has become central to U.S. litigation regarding health care for transgender youth.

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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.

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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.

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Good time to remind folks how the Supreme Court botched basic statistical data in Shelby County. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

It’s a Fact: Supreme Court Errors Aren’t Hard to Findwww.propublica.org A ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices can botch the truth, sometimes in cases of great import.

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I don't know why people act like moderation is hard, it's literally as easy as making all the right decisions and not making any wrong ones. Why would you make wrong decisions? They're bad! You really have to go out of your way to screw this one up

"nobody has got their ... phones on ... the policy is crap ... I'm not saying stupid things ... I'm not on the front page of the newspaper"

Huh. Americans are more reasonable than I expected.

We should go to war* *except me

Technically not quite correct. The best kind of correct.

Britain’s Tories are on course for a crushing election defeat — but it’s not their fault, honest!

Putin, Farage and pesky teens: 5 people the Tories blame for a Labour ‘supermajority’www.politico.eu Keir Starmer’s Britain will mean prisoners, teenagers and Vladimir Putin stealing from your grandma for decades. Maybe.

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Oh. Oh my. www.npr.org/2024/06/06/n...

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This is also very funny.

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In the 20th century, the spot of Chief Justice was filled by politicians who had formerly been (1) Senator, (2) President, (3) Governor & presidential candidate, (4) attorney general, (5) Senator, (6) Governor & VP candidate, and (7 & 8 both) party activist and assistant attorney general

not to harp on my own hobbyhorse but one big problem is that SCOTUS consists of people who are peers to those in the legal academy. would be better if at least a few justices were high-level politicians in a previous life. no illusions about who or what they are, then.

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This from the Times's write-up about Dartmouth [chef's kiss]:

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Happy Refusal Anniversary Day to Stan Cullis, who did the right thing when everyone around him was horribly, catastrophically wrong

Cheshire's England football legend who refused to do Nazi salute in Germanywww.cheshire-live.co.uk Stan Cullis, from Ellesmere Port refused to do the salute in a football international in 1938 and was dropped from the team

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She sent the images but they were real, not deep fakes It was creepy behavior but it became international news instead of remaining a local curiosity b/c "A small police force made a mistake that became too big to fix. 'Once it blew up, the police couldn’t extricate themselves without losing face.'

Remember the story about the Pennsylvania mother accused of making deepfakes of teenage cheerleaders to get them in trouble? Turns out there was much more to the story- and the allegations were false. www.theguardian.com/technology/a...

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after allwww.theguardian.com The moral panic following Raffaella Spone’s ‘deepfake’ video spread around the world. She talks for the first time about being the centre of a story in which nothing was as it seemed …

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“you can’t judge us by our headlines” is the kind of defense you have to resort to when this is what you do to your headlines

I think a plausible defense for Kahn here is that he demands readers be more than "casual" consumers of the news. It's not a smart take, IMO, but it's defensible: We don't write for you to skim it, we write for you to *read* it. It's not smart because it calls your readers dumb or lazy.

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The first two excerpts are from a February 2023 NYT column. The second two are from a NYT column published yesterday. The same columnist -- Pamela Paul -- wrote both. 14 months apart. Just a mind-blowing lack of self-awareness.

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relatedly, the fact that someone would rather use their senate seat to get listeners for a podcast than use it to govern or influence the direction of the federal government is a testament to the perverse incentives of conservative politics and the stark weakness of congress

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i get flamed for this but we legitimately need to return to the age when we put actual career politicians on the court

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What is with elites' bizarre fetish for polite disagreement? Amy Coney Barrett's ideas are wrong and their implementation is harming people, it's perfectly reasonable to point that out.

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett are headlining joint public appearances to make the case for disagreeing more agreeably at a time when the country is more polarized than ever and public opinion of the Supreme Court is at historic lows.

The Supreme Court seems bitterly divided. Two justices say otherwise.wapo.st Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett have taken their friendship onstage to encourage civil public discourse.

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Say what you will about Ea-Nasir, but he sure as hell would never violate 18 U.S.C. § 1519 by failing to preserve any "any record, document, or tangible object" potentially subject to federal investigation. His business records outlived his entire goddamn civilization.

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But still, whatever the reason for the firing, the argument for publishing Cotton's call for govt force was that it's important to know what a US Senator thinks, no matter the substance. If NYT editors changed some substance—because they, correctly, thought it sounded bad—that defeats the purpose.

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ya weirdly gets spun as like "the first 48 hours are critical!" vs like "they solve the obvious murders right away and never solve the hard ones"

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According to Governor Alikhanov, Kant created the “godless German philosophy” that led to World War I and then (somehow) to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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carefully positioning the rake for maximum damage and then stepping directly onto it and expecting applause from the audience for not going around

Wow shocked that appointing a Federalist Society guy to investigate Biden's document handling turned out embarrassingly for the Biden administration rather than winning fairness brownie points that all the DOJ protocols were being followed or whatever.

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Oh, but not us, NOT US...!

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The Watts case will be on my mind as I teach health law this semester. The nurse’s call to the police was apparently at the direction of the hospital’s Risk Management office. The long delays she experienced on her 1st 2 visits were for ethics committee consults she wasn’t even notified about.

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I suspect that even though a jury of his peers found that former President and Presidential candidate Donald Trump had committed sexual assault and lied about it, that he is not required to register as a sex offender because it was a civil jury, not one of his four criminal cases.

This is a good question that all local reporters should be asking in their coverage — “did Trump have to register as a sex offender here?”

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Don Moynihan

Faculty working with Claremont strategically sought to use "academic freedom" as a wedge issue to get liberals on their side, even though their true intent was to purge ideas and faculty they disliked.