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Chris R

@volcommie.bsky.social

I make offbeat noises with my little guitar 🎸
In-House Tech Lawyer ⚖️
Virginia Tech Hokie 🦃
Recovering Emo Kid
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Sure, but I don’t see how FDR’s plan in the 30’s couldn’t work at least from a constitutional if not political standpoint. “Oh, yeah, you’re a justice on the bench that’s over 70 and won’t retire? That’s fine, you can stay there I’m gonna appoint someone new anyway 👍”
At the risk of being precisely who everyone expects me to be, I don’t think you can put term limits on justices without a constitutional amendment, and I’m 100% confident at least five current justices think you can’t.
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A good cover is so good that people think it was your song to begin with. The obvious answers here are: “All Along the Watchtower” by Jimi Hendrix (originally Bob Dylan) “Blinded by the Light” by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band (originally Bruce Springsteen)
Other than Hurt by Johnny Cash and any version of The Sound of Silence, what are your favorite cover versions of famous songs?
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Rage Against The Machine You take stock of the other bumper stickers in the Trader Joe's parking lot, and look for an emergency exit in every room you enter. You aspire to Tom Morello's twitter presence, but you've already had two accounts banned for tweeting your frustration at senators.
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Death Cab For Cutie "I miss the simple challenge of texting by T9," you post on X, Threads, bluesky, notes, cohost, tumblr, & as your facebook status. "The friction meant what you said mattered more." You are driving to pick up a CSA box, last month's veggies freshly composted.
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Fall Out Boy The Pete 2020 bumper sticker on your Chevy Volt is peeling, revealing the Still With Her sticker underneath. You've always been more "Pops" than "Punk," but it took a Billy Joel cover to accept you love the suburbs, & want them to be denser. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LkV...
Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start the Fire (Lyric Video)www.youtube.com I thought about this song a lot when I was younger. All these important people and events- some that disappeared into the sands of time- others that changed ...
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The Wonder Years You're running late to soccer practice pick-up because your favorite beanie was misplaced. Hitting all yellows, you tap the ceiling each time, like you have since sophomore year. The weekend trips don't happen, but the group chat's strong
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I remember listening to this on The Daily and just arguing with that absolute buffoon as if he could hear me. The NYT is a fucking rag, we need better journalists in this country.
In which the New York Times' top Supreme Court reporter says the court "enhanced the availability of abortion" this term www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/p...
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Ok, y’all, this is a totally scientific (NOT!) research study: Please reply to this if y’all have the coriander/cilantro soap gene *AND* also can’t stand creosote tea… erm… I mean… Earl Grey tea. If y’all could please repost to get a wider sample, I’d be much obliged.
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Make a band meatier Bologna for Soup
Make a band meatier My Capicola Romance
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Make a band more vegetable My Chemical Romaine
Make a band more vegetable 10,000 Maniocs
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Oh just me showing my naïveté
Call me naive, but I don’t think even *this* Supreme Court (save maybe Alito and Thomas) would take the Nixonian “if the president does it it isn’t illegal” approach
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Every year around this time I’m reminded that in Glacier View, Alaska they celebrate the 4th by fucking launching cars off a cliff since it doesn’t get dark enough for fireworks in July that far north. Our founding fathers would be proud of that great tradition.
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Is the Dave Matthews Band buttrock? Asking for a friend
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US. Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare. The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it. Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail. www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
She exposed how the nation's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.www.nbcnews.com "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.
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I like AOC specifically *because* she’s a pragmatic progressive. Hell yeah fight and advocate for what you believe in, but practically speaking you’re not gonna get 100% of it and any % is better than nothing. Fake internet points for clout don’t matter—legislation does.
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That debate should’ve been a fistfight
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Trump: I’M GOOD AT GOLF THEREFORE I’M GOOD AT PRESIDENT
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Did I just hear Trump say the got a dog to stop opioid addiction….? Did I catch that right the dog that spots the drugs? Like McGruff the crime dog?
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CNN: [Asks Trump a direct question] Trump: I’LL GET TO THAT BUT FIRST I NEED TO GO ON THIS COMPLETE NON SEQUITUR
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Presidential candidates string together coherent thought challenge 2024: difficulty level - impossible
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Did Biden just say rent capping? I can get behind that…
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Oh boy, they both just look fuckin exhausted. It’s past their bedtimes
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It's only bribery if you do it in front of a notary, shake hands with the special bribery handshake, and recite the words "this bribe of current market value $5000 or more is for a corrupt action you otherwise would not perform" and the official responds "thank you for your bribe for my corrupt act"
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Made it 2 weeks without nicotine and wow how do you folks do it?
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I'm Shawn Harris. I defended our nation and its democracy for 40 years and retired as a Brigadier General. I'm taking on that mission again: I'm now the official Democratic candidate facing MTG, and I'm going to fight like hell. Can you follow and share this to help grow our base here on Bluesky?