Z.V. Anjali

@zvanjali.bsky.social

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Author of sci-fi, fantasy, and mystery stories, including "Surya Gets a Lawyer" (https://www.frivolouscomma.com/fiction/surya-gets-a-lawyer/).

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Paul Crider

I have some anxiety about how they will adapt the later story involving Elaida (and the Seanchan) but the wonderful adaptation of Egwene's story in S2 gives me hope. I really think the showrunner has extracted and amplified the best parts of the book stories.

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Taniel

THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?

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☀️ Starshine

I mean, the implication is pretty bleak and terrible

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In my global inequality class I show this video on Argentine citizens holding ex-dictators accountable for crimes. "Escraches" were a big tactic, involving protests at their homes, embarrassing them in front of their neighbors, & not letting them live normal lives. www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today. Short thread with video on Twitter: x.com/LiteraryMous...

Video: Opinion | Atención! Murderer Next Doorwww.nytimes.com What to do when your neighbors have carried out crimes against humanity.

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AP story waits until paragraph 16 to mention police & prosecutors are accused of conspiring to protect the cop who's apparently the real killer, until then making him seem like a lone wolf

Just a jaw-dropper from the state whose attorney general is currently trying to execute an innocent man. innocenceproject.org/missouri-cir...

Missouri woman who has served more than 40 years for murder is declared innocent by judgewww.nbcnews.com She must be freed or retried for the 1980 murder within 30 days, a judge ruled, but the Missouri AG has asked an appeals court to review the judge's decision.

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Ned Resnikoff

It will be very funny when Trump drone strikes him despite his appeasement.

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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.

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The reason the NYT is publishing this piece is because your calls are working. Keep it up! Call Hochul and tell her that the MTA has already lost $2.5 million since yesterday due to her decision to block congestion pricing. It needs to go into effect NOW. ☎️: 518-474-8390

All of you have done a great job calling your elected officials. KEEP IT UP!!! www.nytimes.com/2024/07/01/n...

Hochul Is Pressed to Resurrect Congestion Pricing With Lower Tollwww.nytimes.com In conversations, New York legislators have suggested a way to bring back the program, possibly with a toll below $15.

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Radley Balko

A Republican president. A Democratic one will always be found to be acting unofficially.

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This is the tell for me. Trump’s lawyers claimed total immunity but SCOTUS is rewriting it for them so they can basically just make up official acts to cover Republican Presidents but bind Democratic ones.

The latter, with Jan 6 and its related conspiracies hovering in the background. The Court phrased the question as whether “a former President enjoy(s) presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office.”

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Agreed. If this is going down, let's have it on our terms.

maybe seizing and arresting the Supreme Court majority for aiding and abetting an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government can be a "core constitutional duty" and an "official act," why not

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Legal pundits over time Dec 1, 2023: SCOTUS will reject Trump's appeal on an expedited basis Dec 22, 2023: They are letting the DC Circuit handle it to not even dignify it. Feb 28, 2024: The are taking the case on appeal but will completely reject the claim. June: SCOTUS says Trump is your God/King

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southpaw

So...Biden should drone-strike Roberts?

Reply to

John Brown stan account

I mean this applies to Republicans too, and they manage message discipline. I think it's more pernicious than that--liberals and moderates from these elite backgrounds just aren't that attached to their principles, seeing them as ornamental.

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southpaw

From Jackson’s dissent. I believe the way this works in combination with Loper-Bright is really insidious, but ofc it’s not gonna get the headlines.

Today!!

March again for congestion pricing!

Reply to

Grudgie the Whale

I didn't even know about this.

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Faine Greenwood

Rural areas are economically dependent on cities, not vice versa.

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March again for congestion pricing!

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LMAO

BREAKING: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she is discussing a mask ban for protests with the City Attorney. Source: youtu.be/5R6krNYXnZI?...

Los Angeles’s Mayor Was Contemplating a Mask Ban. She Just Got Covid.newrepublic.com Karen Bass floated banning masks for protesters days before coming down with Covid-19.

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Grudgie the Whale

THANK YOU. I honestly think Biden should have refused to debate him. Being onstage w/a convicted felon, insurrectionist and rapist demeans the office of the presidency & is a security risk. But now that he did debate him, the discourse should just be about how Trump is a terrorist.

March again for congestion pricing!

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Bill

No "very smart person" is changing their vote based on this, by definition. Spineless Chicken Littles are going to be the death of the Democrats and possibly the country.

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Bill

Oh please. Anyone who changed their vote based on this has a brain of tapioca pudding and will change their vote back based on their horoscope before November.

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beccadagoo

SCOTUS has arrogated to itself the power to override agency regulations banning lead in your water and arsenic in your food, based on vibes

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b-boy bouiebaisse

Also foolish. Spin is what matters and it's not hard to spin Biden's performance. He's a mumbly old man who was right on substance, Trump is a convicted felon, an insurrectionist, and a drooling, senile fascist who wants a national abortion ban.

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Dr. Lucky Tran

She's basically trying to kill us

Truly infuriating. I'm still angry and will be until it's implemented and Hochul is out of office.