Ryan Tack-Hooper

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Attorney for underdogs @TMLG_Law, formerly @ACLU

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Nenuit les copaines les copains C'est qu'une victoire Le vrai combat commence Mais en attendant LOVE SUR VOUS

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Left heading for shock victory in French election — first estimateswww.politico.eu France on course for a hung parliament after early forecasts put the left ahead of the far right.

I wonder if the process permitted writing a negative number.

Case in point: the simplistic and wholly arbitrary process by which the US Navy decided in the 1950s how many submarine-launched ballistic missiles (and therefore how many thermonuclear warheads) its new ballistic missile submarines should carry.

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yelling at politicians: sometimes it works!

Hooray for the New York Public Library! It's going to be open 7 days a week, thanks to the budget passed by the City Council today—and all the organizers who pushed to make this happen

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Me, watching Biden’s energy surge: “Whoo! Drugs are kicking in!!!” Our 11yo who has been watching us watching the debate in despair: “Yours, or…?”

Googling mortality tables

Lifehack: If you put a fridge that looks like a hotel minibar somewhere in your house other than the kitchen, everything you take out of it for free will feel like snatching gold from the dragon's hoard

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A new study says that due to an increase of around 55% in wind and solar generation between 2019 and 2022, air quality in the United States shot up and asthma risk fell. #ShareGoodNewsToo buff.ly/3Rh9C9Z

Increasing use of renewable energy in US yields billions of dollars of benefitsbuff.ly New study published in Cell Reports Sustainability finds emission reductions provided $249bn of climate and health benefits

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“Prude with a highlighter” may be one of the best things I’ve ever read in an opinion

Affirming the district court's preliminary injunction finding that removal of library books because of disagreement with their content violates the First Amendment, 5th Cir. Judge Wiener absolutely TORCHES Kyle Duncan for his dissent. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Strongly believe that every account should have like an emergency button and if enough people you know press it you have to log off for a week.

Well you can’t say he is just a corrupt politician with no real convictions anymore.

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Getting food to hungry kids Our crew in Deir el-Balah at the Gaza Soup Kitchen South does this daily, and they feel fulfilled doing this for desperate families. 🍲😊🇵🇸 Today's dish featured potatoes soaked in tahini sauce and 🥩 Photos by عبود محمد المدهون www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-...

I see that Lion King nepo baby discourse hasn’t hit bluesky yet. So before it does I will just point out that casting a nepo baby for a spot in regal succession has a certain accuracy.

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We're all exhausted--hustle culture, constant slew of bad news without respite, environmental catastrophe--but it's important to realize this does not need to mean spiritual and moral exhaustion. We can lean on each other, be there for each other, draw strength from each other.

This kid-made newspaper from the elementary school is a real piece of 2024 Americana. Note the below-the-fold reporting(!).

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“She was always careful to avoid ‘conflicts’ of interest. ‘I had to cut out a lot of my friends because of the cases involved.’” - Profile of Cecilia Suyat Marshall, wife of Justice Thurgood Marshall in 2013 interview. supremecourthistory.org/society-news...

Society News: Cecilia Marshall: An Appreciation | SCHSsupremecourthistory.org Cecilia Marshall: An Appreciation. Updates on Society events, lectures, programs, curriculum development, documentaries, publications, acquisitions, preservation.

Sorry @mollytack.bsky.social, the Supreme Court says I can fly whatever flag I want and since you have no legal recourse you’re all out of options.

Ironically, US citizens can be less protected from mass deportations than immigrants because citizens don’t necessarily have ID documents that ICE can verify. Not unheard of for US citizens to be detained by ICE because ICE assumes they are non-citizens and can’t find proof of their lawful status.

Context for Trump’s promise to deport protesters: a GAO analysis estimated that dozens of US citizens were deported during his presidency, including kids. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | Trump pledges to turn ‘love it or leave it’ into policywww.washingtonpost.com Speaking to donors, Trump promised to deport protesters opposing Israel’s war in Gaza. Dozens of citizens may have been deported during his presidency.

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On hour three of the Star Wars hotel video and it's clear that the smartest thing the Disney board could do is install Jenny Nicholson as the new CEO.

Did you know that a dingo did in fact eat her baby?

This got a laugh out of me: “Those seeking to oust him and Justice Kathryn H. King have turned to the slogan ‘Vote Them Out!’ which, he said, ‘packs with venom what it lacks in substance.’”

“Arizona Supreme Court justice targeted for removal over 1864 abortion ban blasts critics” electionlawblog.org?p=143162

"Arizona Supreme Court justice targeted for removal over 1864 abortion ban blasts critics" #ELBelectionlawblog.org Arizona Republic: Arizona Supreme Court Justice Clint Bolick forcefully decries the effort urging voters to remove him and a colleague from the bench since upholding the state’s 1864 abortion law, arg...

We have a long way to go. But it is really heartening to see federal judges saying things like this.

Judge Carlton Reeves has a new opinion out condemning qualified immunity as unlawful and egregiously unjust. He calls the doctrine a "perpetuation of racial inequality" and "an extra-constitutional affront to other cherished values of our democracy." s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Why You’ll Never Get that Outkast Reunion - Key & Peeleyoutu.be Big Boi has an unwelcome run-in with his former collaborator André 3000. About Key & Peele: Key & Peele showcases the fearless wit of stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as the duo takes on everything from "Gremlins 2" to systemic racism. With an array of sketches as wide-reaching as they are cringingly accurate, the pair has created a bevy of classic characters, including Wendell, the players of the East/West Bowl and President Obama's Anger Translator. Subscribe to Key & Peele: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdN4aXTrHAtfgbVG9HjBmxQ?sub_confirmation=1 For more original comedy, check out @Comedy Central Originals : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNVBYBxWj9dMHqKEl_V8HBQ?sub_confirmation=1 Watch more Comedy Central: https://www.youtube.com/comedycentral Follow Key & Peele: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KeyAndPeele/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/keyandpeele Watch full episodes of Key & Peele: http://www.cc.com/shows/key-and-peele Follow Comedy Central: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentral/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comedycentral/ #KeyAndPeele #Outkast

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Just spitballing, but could it be that big law lawyers are uniquely poorly positioned to give advice at this moment?

Further indication that university leaders are paying astronomical sums for useless advice on these situations. "How Public School Leaders Upstaged Republicans and the Ivy League" www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/u...

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Very strong argumentation by @emilyctamkin.bsky.social

Why American Jews Should Oppose the Antisemitism Awareness Actslate.com Hatred in America is real. But the bill that passed the House will only make it worse.

They should be charging Tom Cotton. Instead they are charging the injured protestor.

Driver Charged After Allegedly Hitting Pro-Palestinian Protester With Carsg.news.yahoo.com Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesA group protesters who gathered on Tuesday to urge Columbia University to divest from Israel said a man intentionally drove his car into their group, hospitalizing one person...