Swenson

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Retired social scientist. Runner, hiker, meanderer, antifascist, and sadly, still an invasive species.

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The conservative majority of the Supreme Court doesn’t think bribery is much of a crime, but someone sleeping in their car is

I appreciate Justice Sotomayor's humanity and compassion, as ever

Any of you willing to marry a retired academic looking to emigrate to Canada, say, in the fall?

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Good news everyone, John Roberts who called the science behind determining gerrymanders "sociological gobbledygook" just gave himself the power to rule on extremely technical matters over the expertise of people who have dedicated their lives to mastering administrative tasks.

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Breaking: Abortion soon to become inaccessible in Iowa as divided Iowa Supreme Court allows state to enforce near-total ban. Read the 4-3 opinion and dissents: www.iowacourts.gov/courtcases/2... Highlights from majority opinion and dissents here: twitter.com/LauraRBelin/...

Bleeding Heartland on X: "Breaking: Abortion soon to become inaccessible in Iowa as divided Iowa Supreme Court allows state to enforce near-total ban. Read the 4-3 opinion and dissents: https://t.co/oQMwylgvQK" / Xtwitter.com Breaking: Abortion soon to become inaccessible in Iowa as divided Iowa Supreme Court allows state to enforce near-total ban. Read the 4-3 opinion and dissents: https://t.co/oQMwylgvQK

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Opinion | Louisiana will require public schools to post the Ten Commandmentswapo.st Ann Telnaes cartoon on Louisiana posting the Ten Commandments in schools.

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Memory lane newrepublic.com/article/1819...

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Look I have unbridled disdain for libertarians, and for the libertarian party as a whole, but the first major nominee who speaks at their convention getting audibly booed so hard he pivots to a "fuck you speech" is legitimately funny.

Trump got booed so hard at the Libertarian National Convention that he did a full heel turn on the crowd

Aaron Rupar (@aaron.rupar) on Threadswww.threads.net "Maybe you don't want to win ... keep getting your 3 percent every four years" -- Trump is going full heel on this Libertarian National Convention crowd

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Trump’s ‘unified Reich’ video was a message not a mistake | Margaret Sulivanwww.theguardian.com You’ll hear no apology, no disavowal, no expression of regret for what he did. And certainly no promise that this will never happen again

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What voice should OpenAI use now that ScarJo’s is off-limits? Wrong answers only.

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Breaking news: The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a broad challenge to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, reversing a lower-court ruling that would have undermined the watchdog agency created by Congress 12 years ago.

Supreme Court rejects broad challenge to CFPB, a consumer watchdog agencywww.washingtonpost.com The Biden administration urged the Supreme Court to reject an appeals court decision that cast doubt on Congress’s authority to decide how to fund an agency.

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Motion to start calling Kristi Noem “Cruella Dakota.”

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statement by UT Austin faculty, announcing a strike tomorrow in protest of the police presence on campus

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Our reporter — who specializes in privacy — bought a Chevrolet Bolt with her husband in December. They were among the millions of people whose driving behavior was tracked by General Motors and then sold to the insurance industry without notice.

How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me)www.nytimes.com This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since.

According to grandson Harvey, the sun was a very skinny banana here

Sunny, my tough little beagle, and I ran a trail race today. The race director made her a personalized finishers medal. What a great guy!

Covid excess death rates by country. Why, you might ask, was Canada’s rate half the U.S.’s? www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countrieswww.economist.com In many parts of the world, official death tolls undercount the total number of fatalities

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Trump's transphobic call for an Election "Day of Christian Visibility" is deeply offensive to both sides of what should be church-state separation. nymag.com/intelligence...

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An Iowa woman who sought to boost her husband’s unsuccessful congressional bid in 2020 through a voter fraud scheme was sentenced by a federal judge to four months in prison Monday in a rare case of fraudulent voting.

Republican candidate’s wife sentenced to prison for voter fraudwww.washingtonpost.com Kim Taylor, who was convicted on 52 counts, was accused of filling out registrations and absentee ballots to generate votes for her husband in a GOP primary.

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Presumably No Labels people are buried in unmarked graves.

Perfect

Hi, @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social , meet Bebe Beagle. First day at her new home.

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“Got that? Trump owes this money because he fraudulently misrepresented the value of his assets, and now apparently no one will accept those assets as collateral. Oops.” Trump can’t find anyone to spot him $464 million. Would you?

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Tough to accept the world's most powerful democracy has a credible candidate for president who talks like and admires the most brutally repressive authoritarians. NPR has great discussion with a political scientist who says press doesn't talk about this enough: loom.ly/gCZ0LUM

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Shocking! Oh, wait. Livestock industry co-opts academics to downplay its climate impact, study says