Xenophile23

Xenophile23

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Accidental cosmic tourist. Always present a moving target!

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It's still very early for polls to mean much (plus people lie to pollsters, right?). So screw the polls: there's work to do. Also, Allan Lichtman is still predicting that Biden will win. I'm going with the guy who bases his opinion on data, not vibes or feels. politicalpulse.net/us-politics/...

"but the polls" "but nobody has ever won with" blah blah blah, there's time, and nobody in modern history has ever had to run against such a deranged view of what America will become. It's winnable. Pack up the pity party; off to work we go.

Allan Lichtman Prediction for 2024 Presidential Electionpoliticalpulse.net Allan Lichtman Prediction for the 2024 Presidential Election

Or, as Evan Hurst at Our Wonkette put it, "Trump Picks Unlikeable Pile Of Human Butthair As Running Mate, Excellent Choice!" www.wonkette.com/p/trump-pick...

Every picture of JD Vance just looked like you rolled a greasy, over-microwaved hot dog in a pile of Hitler's pubic hair trimmings.

Trump Picks Unlikeable Pile Of Human Butthair As Running Mate, Excellent Choice!www.wonkette.com CALLED IT WEEKS AGO.

Awwww, that's awfully nice of you - thanks! A delightfully weird cephalopod. 😻

"Look at me, I'm a human, I spend all day on tiptoes with my body held up like a flag and my head flopping everywhere, I have to move my legs in counterpoint for hours so I don't fall, I swing my arms like this so everyone knows how good I am at being bipedal, doot de doo"

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This is the best book review ever written and it took 15 seconds to do.

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Nyarlathotep is all “okay I love chaos and madness and cruelty but this guy is just a dick.”

Thanks for the ... pep talk? ... Ken. You make good points, as usual. Though I'm also rooting for the yacht orcas to pitch in and do their part.

Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

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T. Greg Doucette

Emergency Assassination Remedy (EAR) Act

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Senate Dems should take one of their assorted gun control bills off the shelf, rename it something like "Trump Assassination Prevention Act," and force Rs to do a talking filibuster to block it

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Like yes he might very well win and we should all be aware of the extremely real dangerous possibility of that, but also he can be beaten and we should all be working toward that possibility I think, because him winning would be, to use a wonky technical political term, bad.

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Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

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just pounding my anxiety into writing postcards to voters. If you would also like to write hundreds of postcards and mail them all in October.... join me why don't you

Postcards to Swing States - Progressive Turnout Projectwww.turnoutpac.org Voters who receive handwritten postcards are significantly more likely to vote. We proved it in 2020.

This is an excellent story on an excellent observation. Thanks, Greg.

Remarkable finding in new Marist poll: By 68-32, voters say they're more concerned about a president who doesn't tell the truth than one who is too old to serve. Maybe we should cover Trump's serial lying as a sign of his unfitness for the presidency. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1837...

Shocker Poll Suggests Trump’s Lying May Be Huge Weakness for Himnewrepublic.com One possible reason the polls haven’t moved as much as pundits expected: Voters still don’t like or trust Trump. Can the Democrats shift focus to that?

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Yeah because the White House was working on a bill to help those with Parkinson’s disease that was signed this week. This is literal far right disinformation from the New York Times.

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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This is journalistic malpractice. The Biden admin was working on Parkinson's policy.

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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1. Voters generally reject fascism when they know that's the choice. 2. Thus, the MAGA freakout at people figuring out what Project 2025 does.

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Pledged! Sandman Slim is an absolute fave; I just wish I hadn't devoured **the entire series** in one go so quickly after I discovered them (due to a post about reissues on William Gibson's bird-app account, as it happened). This one looks like a hoot. Hope it gets off the ground!

The Kickstarter to bring KAMIKAZE L’AMOUR back into print is doing well, but with a week to go it could use some help getting it over the top. Please take a look at it and consider backing the project. Thanks! www.kickstarter.com/projects/kam...

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Not everyone has cash to give. There are ways that can help flip Arizona that mostly just cost you time. www.erlywrm.com/giving-guide

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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.

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/6 Later Trump orders a staff member at Mar-A-Lago to kill a Muslim employee, possibly by serving him the food. Under the Court’s rule, even assuming that ordering Mar-A-Lago to kill people is unofficial conduct (not 100% clear), Trump’s anti-Muslim tirade to the AG would be inadmissible at trial.

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/5 …but it’s obvious that my statement can be introduced as evidence if I’m accused of murder. Contrast this type of Presidential immunity. Say Donald Trump, days into his second term, meets with the Department of Justice and demands a way to deport all Muslims, reviling them as subhuman.

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/4 More powerful, to a trial lawyer, is the prohibition on the use of immune acts as evidence. In almost every other context (save Speech & Debate), you can use things as evidence when you can’t prosecute for them. If I say “this man must die,” that’s usually protected by the First Amendment ….

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/3 The problem is that almost anything can be shoehorned into an official act depending on how you characterize it or the level of generality you use. The Court’s “well of course a President has to use due care that election laws are enforced” hints at this.

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/2 Motive being irrelevant means that the President can do a thing for expressly lawless reasons so long as the thing is within the extremely broad range of official acts. So question isn’t “can the President conspire to defraud,” it’s “can the President call a state official about an election.”

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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1

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Philip K Dick anticipating how AI could improve Moby Dick

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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.

New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”

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This disabled veteran thought she would have to just let her kitty go when she found out he needed surgery to remove bladder stones, because she has no social media presence. I told her that I did, & could get her the help he needed. www.gofundme.com/f/uthjc-jasp... youtube.com/shorts/6az-O...

Jasper & Carmenyoutube.com I met Carmen in the waiting room of the ER where Harpo got his echocardiogram. She's a disabled veteran struggling to get the care she needs from the VA, jus...