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New Yorker, union activist, employment lawyer, dad, generational trauma ender. He/him.

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Three things that are true: 1) I did not support Biden in the 2020 primary 2) I thought Biden looked like a reanimated corpse at the debate 3) I have every confidence that he is fully capable of being President, and the New York Times and other outlets are fucking him to goose readership

I am just Some Guy but it definitely has compelled me to get way more vocally supportive of Biden in defense, just because of how obvious it is that this is ratfuckery from the bad guys and their painfully stupid patsies in the press

When 99% of the people you try to contact don't respond, doesn't the poll result say more about the type of people who respond to polls than it does about the electorate as a whole? Like, what are we even doing at this point?

I know that I'm an outlier on this, but I think judges should be required to recuse themselves if they know any of the attorneys representing any of the parties more than casually. If you've ever had dinner together, you shouldn't be allowed to decide their case.

just throwing things out there, but there really should be a moratorium on judges handling cases litigated by their former firm/employer for some reasonable period. two years? three years? i would rather not haver to consider whether i want to take a case litigated by the judge's former colleagues.

Missouri's standing arguments are the equivalent of the Fifth Circuit doctors suffering "aesthetic injuries" from not seeing babies born. If this is the future of our country, we don't have a country.

There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons. ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...

A friend of mine who's a professor of healthcare policy just asked me if I could collaborate with her for a project she's working on during her sabbatical next spring about legal protections for workplace safety, and I was like, "boy howdy, do I ever have some bad news for you."

Everyone seems to think a Labour landslide is baked in, but then again they also thought Remain was a lock, so who can say, really.

Huh?!

Seeing a bunch of new Twitter refugees coming here this morning, and on the one hand I'm curious what happened over there yesterday, but not curious enough to subject myself to looking at Twitter.

The domestication of dogs predates agriculture. Dogs were domesticated everywhere the right type of wolves existed. 30,000 years of parallel evolution of dogs and human civilization means dogs are integral to and largely inseparable from humanity. It's not really shocking that people are revolted.

Because dogs and cats are considered companion animals - even those born in the wild who have never encountered a human. Horses are considered utilitarian, and the shift from "work animal" to "food animal" isn't a huge one. Eating a dog feels closer to eating a human.

Apparently this is the poll that has every Democrat freaking out today, and I have... questions... about the pre-debate numbers.

Not gonna lie; if I walked into my local library and saw this sign, I would immediately start in motion my contingency plans to get a work permit in Ireland and bring my family there.

This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

My perhaps lukewarm take is that is actually very bad news for Trump - people really start paying attention to the election after Labor Day, and he'll be getting sentenced after Labor Day. There will be no time to appeal before the election. He may very well be in jail on election day.

All of the institutional safeties that democrats clung to instead of actually doing the hard, scary work of protecting democracy have collapsed and are now handing the republicans and Trump a clear field for the take over of the country. No one is coming to save us but ourselves.

I would also add that there's an extremely strong basis for Trump to seek reversal of the E. Jean Carroll verdicts based on the SCOTUS decision. Roberts tied the decision in to civil lawsuits by citing to Paula Jones' case against Bill Clinton, and the Carroll trials included official act evidence.

Breaking news: Donald Trump’s July 11 sentencing in his criminal hush money case will likely be postponed in light of the Supreme Court immunity ruling. Manhattan prosecutors said they would not oppose a delay Tuesday, following a request from Trump's lawyers.

Trump’s N.Y. hush money sentencing may be postponed due to immunity rulingwww.washingtonpost.com Donald Trump’s lawyers are seeking to vacate his New York hush money conviction based on Monday’s Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

The best part is that the metadata of the photo of him eating a barbecued dog show it was taken around the time he was diagnosed with literal brain worms.

I did not have "pictures of RFK Jr with barbecued dog" on my hellspace bingo card today

This article undersells the impact of this: while it's only state employees who are subject to this order - as an aside, I'm unclear as to why the state bothered with this, since state employees can't sue for overtime because of sovereign immunity - the analysis applies to all workers.

The Right has been licking their chops to dismantle worker and civil rights protection. This ruling was packaged up and ready to go within hours of the supreme court's announcement. Expect more of the same as this revanchist revolution against governance accelerates. www.hrdive.com/news/texas-s...

State employees in Texas not subject to overtime rule, judge holdswww.hrdive.com The ruling — which relies on the Supreme Court’s same-day decision that overturned the Chevron doctrine — is likely to foreshadow similar pending challenges, attorneys noted.

I didn't know this was real. JKR fell for the central trick of Lolita! This is the entire point of the novel! Humbert Humbert is a pedophile rapist and a murderer; he is pure concentrated evil. But because he's erudite and charming in his own head, it tricks readers into sympathizing with him!

I love this one as a fan of Nabokov, because I never really thought about it before, but ~of course~ JKR would be the type of person to completely miss the point of Lolita. ~Of course~ she would uncritically take everything at face value, without considering the biases and motivations of the source.

Nabokov: you all can't understand this! this is REAL literature JK Rowling: exactly Nabokov: see? she gets it Rowling: a beautifully tragic love ssstory Nabokov: yes a bea Nabokov: Nabokov: what

Every time I see this reference I'm reminded of this bugnuts paragraph Matt Levine wrote for Bloomberg on the morning of the 2016 Presidential election, which happened to be the 18th of Brumaire. He seems to have written it solely to brag about reading Marx in the original German?

First as tragedy, then as farce.

Oh, hey, I predicted this immediately upon reading the decision this morning.

Trump Moves to Overturn Manhattan Conviction, Citing Immunity Decisionwww.nytimes.com Former President Donald J. Trump took the action hours after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling granted him immunity for official acts committed in office.

At least in my area, 55+ housing is the only multifamily housing that gets approved for building, because it adds to the tax base without adding students to the school district.

I do think that 55+ housing communities probably shouldn’t be legal, in our current era of housing crisis that’s hitting younger people hard.

The Comptroller of the City of New York is low-key one of the most powerful political positions in the United States that nobody's ever heard of - you're in charge of spending and oversight for a ~$115 billion budget - and it really should only be held by serious people. But, alas.

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Something I've been thinking about in the wake of the debate last week is that terminally online political people (myself very much included) may have seen it as an absolute disaster for Biden, but much of the voting population may have already baked in their belief that Biden is just like that.

So we have our first apples-to-apples polling comparison by a reputable pollster: 7/1 Morning Consult | Trump 44, Biden 43 (Trump +1) 6/28 Morning Consult | Trump 44, Biden 45 (Biden +1) This is not a meaningful change.

Some weird choices made by the poll I just took. Gave RFK Jr.; Cornel West; and Jill Stein as options before Biden; and then asked how I approve of the job Biden has done... in Congress?

If Hillary Clinton and 2 of Jason Kander (lost by 79,000 votes); Katie McGinty (lost by 87,000 votes); and Russ Feingold (lost by 100,000 votes) had won in 2016, Democrats would currently have a majority on the Supreme Court.

Why didn’t voting for the lesser evil stop this? And other questions for the liberal mind

At the end of the day, all of this is Ralph Nader's fault.

December 2000 and January 2001 felt like the worst time but what made it seem like the worst time was that the door had been opened for this, the real worst time, to eventually arrive

I'm not saying Biden SHOULD order the military to shut down polling places in Republican areas of swing states on election day, but if he were to do so as an official act in order to preserve order or whatever he would be immune from prosecution for it.

From what I’m reading, the Supreme Court has made any order the president gives the military to throw the elections his way not-illegal for him. Under existing US CivMil norms that means they should obey.

Another way of thinking about this: in the last 50 years, Democrats have held the Presidency for 24 years; Republicans for 26 years. During that time, Republicans have appointed 11 Supreme Court Justices. Democrats have appointed 5.

The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

I think a quick look over at the French elections should give anybody pause about not coordinating with the broadest possible group against Trumpism.

When the left and far left and center quibble over details while the right and far right align, bad things happen. Every time.

On a lighter note, just got in a decision denying a motion to decertify a class, with the judge saying "the Court notes this motion, the parties' twenty-ninth [29] in this matter, is yet another attempt to stave off inevitability in this matter, to wit a trial." This case has a 2007 index number.

The thing I keep coming back to about... well, everything related to Trump, but this SCOTUS decision specifically... is that it shows that in retrospect, everything Nixon did was perfectly fine and the only mistake he made was resigning. That's the takeaway. Nothing is true; everything is permitted.

I'm reading the opinion and it says he enjoys absolute immunity regarding threats to fire the attorney general if they don't do what he wants. So, he could easily just say "investigate or prosecute my friends and you're fired" and he's 100% immune, right?

By the by, this decision (among other things) allows Trump to revisit his New York conviction, since some of the acts he was convicted for were committed while he was President. Wheeeeee!

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds, 6-3, that a former president is absolutely immune from prosecution for actions within their "conclusive and preclusive" authority and presumptively immune from prosecution for all official acts. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

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