Aaron Bady

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It seems bad that Trump is ahead literally everywhere, I don't know, is that bad?

why hasn't the new york times called for Satan to step down in favor of a candidate to be selected at the next pandemonium of demons. Don't they think he's the false accuser? note that they always call him "son of the morning," which is a bit of a tell

The coconut tree thing reads different if you see her as simply saying it--as Kamala Harris--than if the clip you're seeing includes the lead-up, where she makes it clear that this is a thing her mom would say, and which she is delivering in her mom's voice

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Or just learn from the true masters of the genre, Kerala

I think places should do more to fuck with tourists. Name every restaurant in Delhi "Indian Restaurant" . Every building in London taller than one story is now the Tower. All water in Australia is Sydney Harbour.

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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.

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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

the sky crashed at Planet Hollywood

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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.

sure hope literally just some judge doesn't decide to arbitrarily alter the way in which the congress's authority is interpreted by this federal agency in order to screw workers and help their employers continue to derive profit from their exhausted bodies

Today, the federal government put itself on the right side of history by seeking, for the 1st time, to establish the precedent that every worker in America has the right to shade, water & rest while working in temps that could kill them. -UFW President Teresa Romero www.politico.com/news/2024/07...

Biden to announce heat rules as climate-related deaths risewww.politico.com If finalized, they would be the first U.S. regulations to protect workers from dangerous temperatures.

"The idea that Joe Biden would launch a drone strike against Mar-a-Lago is more plausible, more imaginable, than Alito or Thomas having a change of heart."

"The Republicans really have engineered a situation where the only way to be certain that constitutional democracy will endure is if certain named individuals were dead and buried." itself.blog/2024/07/02/w...

What do they think is going to happen?itself.blog A few years ago, I was part of an event commemorating Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom. Obviously, I was brought in to represent the "against" position (and you can read a version of my keynot...

A different perspective--if we want to leap headfirst into the analogy--would be that Biden has already become Gollum, is bringing Sauron his ring right now, and "we" are not part of any decision-making process that matters

Ben Gvir "urged the passing of the bill in the Israeli Knesset for executing prisoners, saying they should be given just enough food to keep them alive until the law is enacted." There are thousands of "prisoners" in these torture camps. www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-p... thecradle.co/articles/ben...

Ben Gvir calls for execution of Palestinian prisoners with 'shot in the head'thecradle.co Israel is holding almost 10,000 Palestinians in its prisons and detention camps, where torture is widespread

Biden: "We dare not take the ring, even to use it, in me it would achieve a power too--" OK first of all, Sauron already has the ring

inshallah joe will also die a warrior's death www.snopes.com/fact-check/b...

Biden Claimed His Uncle Was Eaten by Cannibals. Military Records Say Otherwisewww.snopes.com President Joe Biden made remarks about his uncle, 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan Jr., also known as "Bosie," while speaking in Pittsburgh in April 2024.

It is legal for the Executive Branch to do crimes however it is illegal for the Executive Branch to do governing.

Supreme court? More like "very bad" court, imo

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The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough. Absolutely flood the zone.

A woman in a filthy long coat, unwashed hair, her belt a police do-not-cross ribbon, softly murmered to herself and made eye contact with no one as she strolled past the cafe where i'm sitting, her finger absently brushing each table in turn, and then walked on

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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one element of Grants Pass is that it’s not just about whether you can enforce anti-camping laws against the homeless. it’s about whether you can enforce those laws **even when you haven’t provided adequate shelter beds**

First decision is Grants Pass. Gorsuch has the 6-3 opinion finding that the Eighth Amendment does not bar "generally applicable" laws banning public camping. Sotomayor writes the dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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"Should Biden step aside?" is a bad discourse because he's almost certainly not going to--literally everything about him tells us that he is not going to--but "he's not going to" is not actually an argument that we wouldn't be better off if he did

I find this a strange argument because although I have no love for The New York Times, they are correct to hear when Trump and the entire far right describe The Times and the media for which it's a synecdoche as their enemy and which they want to destroy

I don’t recall the NYT calling for Trump to step down after being convicted of 34 counts of fraud and being called by a judge at his civil trial a rapist in the common person sense

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It's such a wild coincidence that the court legalized bribing public officials a few days ago and today says that every activity the US government regulates now goes through them

Chevron famously said, "Judges are not experts in the field, and are not part of either political branch of the Government." Today, Roberts and the other chaos agents on the court say: "Judges are the only experts in any field, and can dictate policy to either political branch of the Gov't"

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I’m sure the election will be especially peaceful now that the Supreme Court has ruled you can’t be prosecuted for trying to overturn the results

don't worry, as the UK shows, after 14 years of irreversible damage, the radical right will fall apart so conclusively that power will devolve back to the center for a couple years, it's fine (as long as we make sure the left is dead)

So the center has run out of ideas and alienated everyone, and the left is basically not allowed to exist or take power, so -- WEIRDLY -- the radical right seems to be the only ones stepping up to the plate.

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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.

My spanish teacher in chile was like "tu presidente es un viejo que no pueda hablar, es un problema?"

Excuse the punditry but I am standing in line waiting for a flight (which is neither to nor from DC) and I’m overhearing people talk about the debate and I just don’t think this one can be chalked up to media framing, guys

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the roberts two-step described in the pages of the supreme court reporter! incredible and an excellent use of a dissent

There is a *very* sharp paragraph in Justice Kagan's dissent in Loper Bright on the dance this conservative majority has performed repeatedly to weaken liberal precedents en route to overturning them altogether -- on worker's rights, on the Establishment Clause, and on voting rights.

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This, from Roberts' majority opinion, is a flat-out lie. Deference to agency interpretations was uncontroversial when the Court issued Chevron. And It was unanimous! There was only a "bare quorum" because three justices recused! There weren't any dissents!

*SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS CHEVRON RULING IN BLOW TO AGENCY POWER Roberts for the conservatives www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

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honestly can't decide whether chevron or grants pass makes me feel sicker