Awful: The Radical Right Wing Supreme Court Kills Affirmative Action

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This is why the Republican Party will line up to support Donald Trump even if he’s convicted of stealing top secret documents; they worked for decades toward revanchist goals like this and repealing Roe v. Wade, but it took Donald Trump and his legitimization of racism and misogyny to make it happen.

And the GOP isn’t finished pulling us back to the 18th century. They want more. They see Trump as their vehicle, and they’re not wrong about that.

President Biden delivered remarks Thursday abour the Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action in higher education. The high court ruled that race-conscious admission policies by Harvard College and the University of North Carolina violate the Constitution, a move that will reverberate across campuses nationwide.

#news #supremecourt #politics

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darthstar  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:31:34am

Their white hoods are showing.

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Teukka  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:34:30am

re: #340 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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The love of God, and the love of our neighbor, it’s what the entire law rests upon (to paraphrase the Bible).

Also, Hillel the Elder:
“That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.”

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William Lewis  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:37:43am

The fascists on Supreme Court have shown their contempt for morality, ethics, the constitution and the law. We need to ignore the court until the Six are off of it and a legitimate court exists again.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:38:51am

re: #3 William Lewis

The fascists Supreme Court have shown their contempt for morality, ethics, the constitution and the law. We need to ignore the court until the Six are off of it and a legitimate court exists again.

What we need is for Democrats to show up on the next few elections, win Congress and the White House, and PACK THIS FUCKING SCOTUS TO THE RAFTERS.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:41:33am

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:42:08am

@tzimmer_history

“…If the ruling minority is willing to keep curtailing the rights of opposing groups, to further restrict their ability to take part in the political process, to mobilize state power and enable paramilitary/vigilante forms of violence, minority rule can absolutely be sustained.

Reactionaries won’t stop because of an epiphany they shouldn’t go *that* far. They will either *be stopped* - or install a system in which only they and those who reflect their image back at them are entitled to rule and be recognized as equal.
thomaszimmer.substack.com

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Dr Lizardo  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:42:34am

re: #4 Florida Panhandler

What we need is for Democrats to show up on the next few elections, win Congress and the White House, and PACK THIS FUCKING SCOTUS TO THE RAFTERS.

Exactly. We need 13 SCOTUS Justices. And they have to be young(ish).

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:42:53am

Just heard this on the radio, I forgot how much I like this song!

April Wine - Sign Of The Gypsy Queen (Live)

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:43:20am

RFK Jr. wants to kill the entire science of epidemiology. JFC.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:44:00am

re: #342 Thanos

Expect RW candidates start whining about how they are taking your AM radio away soon.
spectrum.ieee.org

We would lose all radio in my town if AM radio went away.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:44:35am

re: #5 Charles Johnson
The upcoming infectious diseases that will be coming down the pipeline because we are exposin more and more of the planet to areas that Hom sapins have never been near is quite likely to cause a serious reduction in populating. We are going to be expose even more zoonotic diseases that will kill.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:44:48am

re: #4 Florida Panhandler

What we need is for Democrats to show up on the next few elections, win Congress and the White House, and PACK THIS FUCKING SCOTUS TO THE RAFTERS.

Wouldn’t it take 66 senators voting YAY to expand SCOTUS?

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:45:25am

It’s time….. It’s beyond time. Retire in grace and not confusion.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:45:33am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

RFK Jr. wants to kill the entire science of epidemiology. JFC.

Until he gets a dangerous disease and needs treatment, no doubt.

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darthstar  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:45:37am

re: #7 Dr Lizardo

Exactly. We need 13 SCOTUS Justices. And they have to be young(ish).

We need 13 justices and the terms for all of them should be 10 years. We can grandfather the original 9 in to ten year terms 3 at a time two years apart. That way nobody can stack the court one way or another.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:45:37am
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darthstar  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:47:00am

Remember when Rick Perry wanted to get rid of three departments? DeSaster just turned the stupid up to 4.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:47:44am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

RFK Jr. wants to kill the entire science of epidemiology. JFC.

This is why not teaching history is so stupid and dangerous. Bubonic plague. Smallpox. Malaria. Some of the biggest killers in human history wear no faces. To believe that diseases aren’t that dangerous because, for the most part, science has managed to neuter them with progress is to construct a ticking time bomb of death and grievous suffering.

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wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:48:49am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

RFK Jr. wants to kill the entire science of epidemiology. JFC.

And get elected so he can steer the focus of science.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:49:56am

re: #17 darthstar

Remember when Rick Perry wanted to get rid of three departments? DeSaster just turned the stupid up to 4.

Asshat doesn’t even know what DOE does

Neither did perry

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:50:53am

Flips desk with knees…….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:50:54am

re: #20 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

Asshat doesn’t even know what DOE does

Neither did perry

Among other things, they are responsible for safeguarding our supply of nukes, aren’t they?

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:52:08am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Among other things, they are responsible for safeguarding our supply of nukes, aren’t they?

Yes indeed! Which is why the Department of Energy was involved in the Espionage Act case against the former guy, since, as we all know, some of the classified stuff he stole involved nuclear secrets.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:52:41am

re: #21 Dave In Austin

That’s actually a satire account and quite hilarious.

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:52:46am

re: #4 Florida Panhandler

What we need is for Democrats to show up on the next few elections, win Congress and the White House, and PACK THIS FUCKING SCOTUS TO THE RAFTERS.

They needed to show up in fricking 2016 and elect Secretary Clinton. We’re screwed for decades to come.

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sagehen  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:53:54am

re: #5 Charles Johnson

“I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health,” Kennedy added.

The Bubonic Plague killed between 75 million and 200 million Europeans in less than 10 years. About 60% of the population.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:55:28am

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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Based on these comments, JFK jr. Literally does not believe in Germ Theory.

He is literally a medical Flat Earther.

I suspect he will eventually run as an Independent or fringe party with Republican financing. It will backfire and pull more from loony-bin reliable Republican voters than Democratic.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:56:25am

FiveThirtyEight, today

Nonreligious Americans Are The New Abortion Voters

TL;DR the most likely group of people to support abortion rights are atheists and agnostics. That is a dramatic change from only a few years ago from when they were indifferent.

That distinction between people who are just unaffiliated and people who identify as secular is important, because people who are secular are united by a common definition, rather than by the absence of one. The broader lack of a political and ideological identity among religiously unaffiliated Americans has been a problem for Democrats so far. “It’s very hard to organize a group that’s defined by what it’s not,” Campbell said.

—-

But the issue of abortion may influence Americans’ views about religion down the road — strengthening the link between rejecting religion and supporting abortion rights.

Political scientists have previously shown that conservative Christian activism in opposing LGBTQ rights prompted some moderate and left-leaning people to stop identifying with religion at all. It’s possible that the abortion issue may operate in the same way. It would explain why a recent Pew study found the gap on abortion rights between secular and religious Americans is larger in the U.S. than in other countries. It would also explain the surge in nonreligious identity among young women, who are among the strongest supporters of abortion rights. Ryan Burge, analyzing the General Social Survey, found that young women (born around the year 2000, according to Burge’s analysis) are now as likely as young men to identify as nonreligious, a break from the past. And young women’s views of organized religion dropped sharply in just the last couple of years. A 2022 survey conducted by the Survey Center on American Life found that the number of young women who said churches and religious organizations “bring people together” dropped 10 percentage points since 2019.

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Teukka  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:57:14am

re: #11 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

The upcoming infectious diseases that will be coming down the pipeline because we are exposin more and more of the planet to areas that Hom sapins have never been near is quite likely to cause a serious reduction in populating. We are going to be expose even more zoonotic diseases that will kill.

Yeah. Like, when the news outta Wuhan first broke, I initially feared that we had a Nipah epidemic on our hands. So we got off lucky with “just” the ‘rona this time. Nipah has similar symptoms to the ‘rona, only its mortality rate is in the 50%-75% ballpark.

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A Three Hour Tour  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:59:11am

re: #27 Florida Panhandler

Based on these comments, JFK jr. Literally does not believe in Germ Theory.

He is literally a medical Flat Earther.

I suspect he will eventually run as an Independent or fringe party with Republican financing. It will backfire and pull more from loony-bin reliable Republican voters than Democratic.

JFK, Jr literally does not believe in anything … because he’s been dead for 24 years, QAnon conspiracy theories to the contrary.

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steve_davis  Jun 29, 2023 • 10:59:16am

won’t matter in the slightest. colleges and universities are completely capable in 2023 at microtargeting to know the demographics of their target group. Just because they aren’t allowed to pick an arbitrary number doesn’t mean they can’t get a diverse group.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:01:52am

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

From that article:

In the U.S. alone, 47 million people still listen to AM radio. In rural areas, it’s often one of a few options—if not the only one.

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JC1  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:02:16am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

RFK Jr. wants to kill the entire science of epidemiology. JFC.

He won’t be POTUS, but the extra exposure his views are getting due to his presidential run will cause serious damage among the conspiracy minded.

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gocart mozart  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:03:17am
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JC1  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:03:34am

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Wouldn’t it take 66 senators voting YAY to expand SCOTUS?

No. Just enough to break the filibuster or a willingness to nuke the filibuster. Problem is that we don’t have even 50 votes for expanding SCOTUS.

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JC1  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:05:43am

re: #21 Dave In Austin

Flips desk with knees…….

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Parody, gotta be. It’s like the political equivalent of 3yearletterman.

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:05:44am

Poland receives first batch of new Abrams tanks

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JC1  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:07:37am

re: #26 sagehen

The Bubonic Plague killed between 75 million and 200 million Europeans in less than 10 years. About 60% of the population.

That was demons, witches, and time traveling mRNA vaccines.

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:12:14am

re: #36 JC1

Parody, gotta be. It’s like the political equivalent of 3yearletterman.

Count on it. He’s very clever. Look thru his feed.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:12:15am

re: #38 JC1

That was demons, witches, and time traveling mRNA vaccines.

Mongols funded by Italian named Fauci in “gain-of-function” field research labs….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:12:42am
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HRH Stanley Sea  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:14:12am

re: #24 GlutenFreeJesus

That’s actually a satire account and quite hilarious.

See: Matt Gaetz forehead

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Thanos  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:14:23am

re: #10 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We would lose all radio in my town if AM radio went away.

They are only doing it in some EV’s, and there are ways around that as the article points out. (HD radio)

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:23:57am
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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:24:36am

re: #9 Charles Johnson

RFK Jr. wants to kill the entire science of epidemiology. JFC.

He’s not going to ever make policy. It takes a ton of Republican support to make a lunatic President, and they already have their own lunatics.

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Jay C  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:26:13am

re: #44 Charles Johnson

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Patience, Charles: I’m sure they’ll get around to you eventually….

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gocart mozart  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:28:19am
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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:39:35am

This is it!!

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:47:48am

meanwhile in Ohio, Judge Black has had enough with the former Ohio Speaker of the House and his shenanigans:

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jeffreyw  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:48:30am

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:51:30am

re: #22 Eclectic Cyborg

Among other things, they are responsible for safeguarding our supply of nukes, aren’t they?

pretty much that’s all they do

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:51:50am

re: #21 Dave In Austin

Flips desk with knees…….

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that’s steve harvey isnt it?

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:52:24am
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A Cranky One  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:53:16am

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:53:38am

Stripped out the last of our custom embedded tweet code. Posts should appear quicker now.

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Jay C  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:53:50am

re: #50 jeffreyw

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“only 11 ¢ per serving”

Looks overpriced even at that…..

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:54:33am

re: #49 Backwoods Sleuth

meanwhile in Ohio, Judge Black has had enough with the former Ohio Speaker of the House and his shenanigans:

Wow. That was a book-throwing. That judge was dead set on communicating that corruption in American politics is absolutely unacceptable.

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:55:49am

Turns out Trump is not the only idiot (or traitor, or both) to meet with Russians without any witnesses while in power, promising God knows what.

Boris Johnson and the Lebedevs: how I (Carol Cadwalladr) exposed the prime minister’s defining scandal

It concerns his relationship with an ex-KGB lieutenant-colonel, Alexander Lebedev, and specifically a meeting with him, without his security detail or Foreign Office officials, at the height of the Skripal poisoning crisis.

This scandal isn’t about breaking his own laws or impropriety with Conservative party funds or Lulu Lytle wallpaper. It’s not even a scandal in the traditional sense. This is about what appears to be a fundamental breach of our national security. A breach that potentially endangered not just our country but the entire Nato alliance. And we still know almost nothing about it.

theguardian.com

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:56:19am

re: #54 A Cranky One

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:57:04am

re: #56 Jay C

“only 11 ¢ per serving”

Looks overpriced even at that…..

where can you buy “ground leftover meat”?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 11:57:34am

re: #57 Nerdy Fish

Wow. That was a book-throwing. That judge was dead set on communicating that corruption in American politics is absolutely unacceptable.

Didn’t help that Householder did not apologize or even express any remorse for what he did.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:00:26pm

re: #61 Backwoods Sleuth

Didn’t help that Householder did not apologize or even express any remorse for what he did.

Well, he wouldn’t, because he is a Republican and he got what he wanted - corrupt legislation that benefits him and his friends. So he gets to spend the rest of his life in prison, that’s fine. He can claim martyrdom status when he gets to White American Heaven.

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A Cranky One  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:01:58pm

My money is on the kid. He looks completely unconcerned, and has his back exposed to the kaiju - even the Ultra-man has his head slouched like he just got scolded.

Obviously the leader of the gang.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:01:59pm

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Statement on Supreme Court’s Ruling in Students for Fair Admissions Inc. (SFFA) v. President and Fellows of Harvard College and SFFA v. University of North Carolina

“The Supreme Court’s decision undercuts efforts by universities across the country to create a diverse group of graduates prepared to lead in an increasingly diverse nation. It will significantly set back efforts to advance educational opportunity for all Americans. And it upends nearly 50 years of precedent.

“The Department of Justice remains committed to promoting student diversity in higher education using all available legal tools. In the coming weeks, we will work with the Department of Education to provide resources to college and universities on what admissions practices and programs remain lawful following the Court’s decision.”

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:05:21pm

Mastodon

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:05:28pm

re: #24 GlutenFreeJesus

That’s actually a satire account and quite hilarious.

And that’s Steve Harvey in the picture isn’t it.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:06:55pm

re: #64 Backwoods Sleuth

“And it upends nearly 50 years of precedent.”

That is the overall goal of the Calvinball Court. They are not bound by precedent, as any normal Court would be. They are gods among men, sent to enlighten us with Christian wisdom, and they will not be deterred from their path by something as simple-minded as “precedent.” Those previous decisions were made by corrupt mortals, not by the mighty Moral Majority.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:07:33pm

A whole lotta shit is coming down on Donald Trump and his crooked lawyers. It’s a beautiful thing to see.

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:08:14pm

re: #50 jeffreyw

I remember A&P’s Ann Page Beans. Mom HATED them because every time she bought them NOBODY struck a match in the dining room…

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:08:43pm

Trump indictment: Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say | The Independent

independent.co.uk

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:08:58pm

re: #66 Eventual Carrion

Looks like a mix of Steve and Clarence. 😂

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:09:33pm

re: #2 Teukka

The love of God, and the love of our neighbor, it’s what the entire law rests upon (to paraphrase the Bible).

Also, Hillel the Elder:
“That which is hateful to you, do not do unto your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.”

Which is a nice way of saying “Don’t be an asshole.”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:10:19pm

re: #72 Vicious Babushka

Which is a nice way of saying “Don’t be an asshole.”

Cf. my amended summarization of “mere Christianity,” to borrow the late great C. S. Lewis’s book title: “Love God, love other people, don’t be an asshole and always do the most good you possibly can.”

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:11:07pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

Trump indictment: Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say | The Independent

independent.co.uk

The implication is that the superseding indictment is going to be charges for activity related to 1/6, which makes me wonder if he will soon be an indicted traitor (seditious conspiracy or similar) as well as a spy.

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:12:07pm

re: #63 A Cranky One

My money is on the kid. He looks completely unconcerned, and has his back exposed to the kaiju - even the Ultra-man has his head slouched like he just got scolded.

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Obviously the leader of the gang.

Wow, cool. He grew up to be co-creator of Godzilla and Ultraman, apparently. Here’s what I found from the caption:

en.wikipedia.org

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:12:20pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

gonna need a bigger boat…

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Eventual Carrion  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:13:44pm

re: #52 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

that’s steve harvey isnt it?

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Exactly, that’s what I thought too.

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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:14:33pm

re: #67 Nerdy Fish

That is the overall goal of the Calvinball Court. They are not bound by precedent, as any normal Court would be. They are gods among men, sent to enlighten us with Christian wisdom, and they will not be deterred from their path by something as simple-minded as “precedent.” Those previous decisions were made by corrupt mortals, not by the mighty Moral Majority.

The problem with this court is that it is dominated by right wing hacks, not that it disregards precedent. SCOTUS needs to be able to overturn its own precedents, otherwise it is stuck with its mistakes (e.g., Plessy, Bowers) forever.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:16:02pm

Mastodon

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:17:00pm

re: #66 Eventual Carrion

And that’s Steve Harvey in the picture isn’t it.

that’s what i thought

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:17:30pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:18:01pm

re: #55 Charles Johnson

Stripped out the last of our custom embedded tweet code. Posts should appear quicker now.

Lemme test that.

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Teukka  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:18:03pm

re: #72 Vicious Babushka

Which is a nice way of saying “Don’t be an asshole.”

Not being a dick. I.O.W., being “politically correct” or “woke”…

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:18:14pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

Trump indictment: Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say | The Independent

independent.co.uk

i felt a great disturbance in the popcorn futures

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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:19:00pm
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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:19:31pm
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Dave In Austin  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:19:54pm

re: #86 Backwoods Sleuth

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:21:01pm

re: #78 EPR-radar

The problem with this court is that it is dominated by right wing hacks, not that it disregards precedent. SCOTUS needs to be able to overturn its own precedents, otherwise it is stuck with its mistakes (e.g., Plessy, Bowers) forever.

there’s precedents, and there’s precedents

this is not about correcting previous rulings because the court erred or because society (and the court) has become more enlightened

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:21:24pm

re: #84 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

i felt a great disturbance in the popcorn futures

I’m prepared!

A fresh box has been delivered…and yeah it’s upside down because Orville believes the country has gone fucking insane…

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:23:12pm

re: #88 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

there’s precedents, and there’s precedents

this is not about correcting previous rulings because the court erred or because society (and the court) has become more enlightened

Precisely my point, though inartfully articulated. Overturning a precedent should be a weighty decision, undertaken with care, and with clear and logical reasoning that is published. Not, “We’re overturning 50 years of judicial precedent because we said so.”

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:24:17pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:25:21pm

re: #70 Charles Johnson

Trump indictment: Prosecutors are prepared to hit Trump and his allies with new charges, sources say | The Independent

independent.co.uk

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BlueSpotinAL ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:26:57pm

re: #81 Backwoods Sleuth

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Turns out it was a bag of money! ///

Imagine living in a country where that chance of being true is not zero percent.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:27:34pm

Mastodon

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:34:31pm

I’m gonna have to do something about the extra memory usage of Twitter’s embedded tweets.

Maybe I’ll have a switch to turn off the Twitter rendering code and just display the text.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:38:16pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

Strangely, it’s not working against my paranoiaware.

Could this just be Google trying to dupe people into disabling ad blockers?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 12:56:53pm
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Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:00:41pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

I’m gonna have to do something about the extra memory usage of Twitter’s embedded tweets.

Maybe I’ll have a switch to turn off the Twitter rendering code and just display the text.

What happens in the legacy posts? Are you going to have to run a giant refactor on everything up to this point?

The Twitter codebase has lasted about 4 months longer than I thought it would, but every dev I talk to basically shudders when talking about it, because of all the crazy kludges keeping the thing up on the daily.

I wish Mastodon was a little more baked; the interactions there are still clunky and the lack of a way to aggregate trending topics really pisses me off.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:01:55pm

re: #85 Dave In Austin

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he associates with ‘only the best’ people

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JC1  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:06:05pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

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I just use apps like smarttube. No commercials ever.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:06:41pm

Biden is live on MSNBC right now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:07:26pm

We’ll make it up out of all the money we’re not spending on coal.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:08:34pm

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:09:12pm

re: #102 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

We’ll make it up out of all the money we’re not spending on coal.

“This doesn’t happen to baseload power.” No, they only get shut down in anomalous climate-change-fueled snap freezes or overloaded in anomalous climate-change-fueled heat waves.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:09:33pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

Damn it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:10:08pm
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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:10:38pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

And that’s it, in a nutshell. Everything else is just empty words. He’s going to let the minority party rule over us, to uphold traditions that aren’t even as old as the flag flying above the White House.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:10:38pm

re: #98 Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)

What happens in the legacy posts? Are you going to have to run a giant refactor on everything up to this point?

The Twitter codebase has lasted about 4 months longer than I thought it would, but every dev I talk to basically shudders when talking about it, because of all the crazy kludges keeping the thing up on the daily.

I wish Mastodon was a little more baked; the interactions there are still clunky and the lack of a way to aggregate trending topics really pisses me off.

remember back to life before twitter
now remember back to when twitter was first announced - what kind of tool *they* thought it was
now remember back to what it did (and didnt do) that first year or so
how many years did it take twitter to get where it got before elmo came along
how many years did it take the userbase to figure out how to get what they wanted out of twitter, and into twitter

it’s not surprising that there wasnt another thing waiting in the wings that did exactly what twitter did

and (to me) it’s not surprising that it might take a little time to now duplicate approximate that behavior, and maybe surpass it in some ways

also, i still find it astounding that everyone who relied on twitter thought it was stable, would never change and would never go away.

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Moe Avattar  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:10:49pm

re: #50 jeffreyw

“How ‘bout some more beans, mista Taggert?”

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:11:04pm

Mastodon

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Shropshire Slasher  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:11:39pm
A former sheriff’s deputy who failed to confront Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz and instead fled to safety broke down in court today when a jury found him not guilty of child neglect and other crimes.

Former Broward County Deputy Scot Peterson wept as the verdicts were read. The jury had deliberated for 19 hours over four days, acquitting Peterson of all 11 charges which included neglect, negligence, and perjury.

After court adjourned, Peterson, his family and friends rushed into a group hug as they whooped, hollered and cried.

dailymail.co.uk

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:12:10pm

re: #107 Nerdy Fish

And that’s it, in a nutshell. Everything else is just empty words. He’s going to let the minority party rule over us, to uphold traditions that aren’t even as old as the flag flying above the White House.

To be fair to Biden, it would be a tall order to expand the court and he likely couldn’t get it done (at least not by the end of this term).

But at the same time, to just come out and say you aren’t going to even try is the wrong message to be sending right now.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:14:39pm

Mastodon

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:15:25pm

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:16:17pm

re: #104 Nerdy Fish

“This doesn’t happen to baseload power.” No, they only get shut down in anomalous climate-change-fueled snap freezes or overloaded in anomalous climate-change-fueled heat waves.

some can also melt down

how fast can they be rebuilt?
oh, they cant? have to be encased in concrete?
hmm

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:16:55pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

how could he possibly right now?

we cant even get enough votes to agree to tank the filibuster

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:19:01pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

To be fair to Biden, it would be a tall order to expand the court and he likely couldn’t get it done (at least not by the end of this term).

But at the same time, to just come out and say you aren’t going to even try is the wrong message to be sending right now.

im wondering if Garland sent the message this morning

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sagehen  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:21:25pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

not like it’s up to him. Congress will do or not do as it pleases, he can’t force them.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:22:27pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:24:21pm

re: #106 Backwoods Sleuth

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DePaul or DePauw? I’d bet the latter. That’s were Quayle went (not that it matters).

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:25:16pm

Another afternoon, more thunderstorms. They are popping up all over Wyoming.

windy.com

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:26:33pm

We want to expand the Supreme Court? Republicans have to get crushed at the polls for three, maybe four election cycles, at all levels local state and federal. Which is all but impossible in gerrymandered states.

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gocart mozart  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:26:39pm

Did the Onion buy Newsweek?

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:27:07pm

re: #120 Barefoot Grin

DePaul or DePauw? I’d bet the latter. That’s were Quayle went (not that it matters).

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His daughter, Charlotte, went to DePaul.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:27:19pm

Mastodon

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:28:20pm

re: #123 gocart mozart

Did the Onion buy Newsweek?

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Lest we think Vlad is NOT scraping the bottom of the barrel at this point.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:28:44pm

I understand Biden feels he has to speak diplomatically. But damn, this comes across as simple denial of reality.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:30:00pm

Baldus Annoyingus Ferretus is on Cement Head’s show screaming about his new book “The Democrat Party Hates America.”

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:30:05pm

State moves to help survivors of domestic violence hide addresses

Kentucky domestic violence survivors just got a little extra help from the state in staying safe from abusers.

Republican-sponsored Senate Bill 79 passed the General Assembly during the 2023 legislative session and Gov. Andy Beshear signed it into law.

Called the “Safe at Home Program,” the law went into effect Thursday.

It lets victims of domestic violence hide their addresses when registering to vote without a protective order from a judge. It also allows the State Capitol to be the address on public records and lets those moving from out of state easily join the program.

The Secretary of State’s office and county clerks will know the person’s real address and can send them absentee ballots.

“Kentucky has one of the highest rates of domestic violence in the nation. Even worse, government facilitates this through unnecessary publication of individuals’ home addresses,” Secretary of State Michael Adams said. He appeared alongside Gov. Andy Beshear Thursday to speak about the law, wearing a purple tie. (Purple is widely worn to raise awareness about domestic violence).

“When a victim of abuse decides to leave and find a safe place, often her abuser is able to find her sometimes by learning her new location through easily-accessible public records,” Adams said.

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steve_davis  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:32:23pm

re: #89 Joe Bacon ✅

I’m prepared!

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A fresh box has been delivered…and yeah it’s upside down because Orville believes the country has gone fucking insane…

i literally just bought a fresh box of that two hours ago. We are in sync!

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:32:54pm

I watched. I’m so torn. I don’t feel inordinate affection for Biden, but he’s grown on me. But he’s going to be so easy to mock in the next year with quick edits, AI—I mean more than is already going on. In private in the Oval Office it doesn’t matter about his speech as long as his mental acuity allows him to perform, but out and about…..

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Orange Impostor  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:33:18pm

re: #125 Charles Johnson

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Slight correction: This Republican Party was started by your grandfather (Southern Strategy), nurtured by your father’s Republican Party (Reagan embracing white supremacist evangelicals) and brought to it’s current neo-fascist fruition by the current MAGA adherants.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:33:38pm

re: #131 Barefoot Grin

I watched. I’m so torn. I don’t feel inordinate affection for Biden, but he’s grown on me. But he’s going to be so easy to mock in the next year with quick edits, AI—I mean more than is already going on. In private in the Oval Office it doesn’t matter about his speech as long as his mental acuity allows him to perform, but out and about…..

Are you suggesting Biden needs a hype man?

/ half

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:34:14pm

re: #133 Eclectic Cyborg

Are you suggesting Biden needs a hype man?

/ half

I think he’ll be ok. I mean, he has to.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:34:50pm
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steve_davis  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:36:23pm

re: #105 Eclectic Cyborg

Damn it.

he’s “not going to expand the supreme court” because he can’t, and he’s savvy enough to know that’s an issue that plays much better as “leave it alone” rather than “burn it down.”

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:37:19pm

I wrote about this downstairs.

People (ie bigots) forget about legacies at Harvard. Almost half of all whites admitted to Harvard are legacies, children of staff or athletes. The breakdown I could find regarding race at Harvard: White 34%, Asian-Americans 28%, Hispanic 13%, African-Americans 13%. So the % of whites that are not legacies is aout 18%

Will that increase? Not likely since the whole thrust of the lawsuits was that asians were under-represented due to racism. But how much will it go up?

Let’s look at the demographics of Caltech (another expensive private university), which does not use race for admissions nor has legacies: White 21%, Asian-Americans 44%, Hispanic 22%, African-American 7%.*

So the % of whites is close to the number of non-legacy whites at Harvard. But the Asian and Hispanic numbers are much higher. So this is what one would expect if race is not part of admissions.

If the university is interested in diversity as well as the best.

All the bigots forget hispanics which now include a lot of well to do families. First approximation would see the 41% of Asians and HIspanics at Harvard going up to 66%.

It could well be that 50 years of affirmative action wrt colleges has created enough wealthy minorities that their children can compete educationally.

* How does Caltech get this diversity? It does not wait for the minority applicants to apply. It spends a lot of time, money and effort recruiting the best students from specific racial groups. One thing it can tell them, apply to Harvard and you have a 3% chance of getting accepted. Apply to Caltech and the number is almost 7%.

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:38:08pm

re: #91 Backwoods Sleuth

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First time I saw a European robin (and was told what it was) I was like, “What? That?” given how different they look from the North American bird called the robin.

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darthstar  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:41:13pm

Degrees of separation between me and Obama just cut in half.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:43:49pm

re: #122 teleskiguy

We want to expand the Supreme Court? Republicans have to get crushed at the polls for three, maybe four election cycles, at all levels local state and federal. Which is all but impossible in gerrymandered states.

+1

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:44:04pm
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Vicious Babushka  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:44:19pm

Here is your AWWWWW moment of the day.

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Dangerman (sigh...only in America)  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:49:43pm

re: #136 steve_davis

he’s “not going to expand the supreme court” because he can’t, and he’s savvy enough to know that’s an issue that plays much better as “leave it alone” rather than “burn it down.”

maybe, just maybe, he’s laying the groundwork for the next dem

that was a pretty pointed comment he made about the court
and garland basically said ‘we’ll get around this ruling’ this morning…

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Patricia Kayden  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:51:11pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s no sense in trying when you know it’s impossible given the configuration of the Senate.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:51:52pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

Of course not. He doesn’t have the power to do so, and would just activate the far-right if he acted like he was going to do this without actually being capable of doing it.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:52:48pm

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:53:47pm

re: #130 steve_davis

i literally just bought a fresh box of that two hours ago. We are in sync!

Folks talk about boycotting red state products when they pass draconian laws, yet will buy copious amounts of popcorn. /s

Indiana surpassed Nebraska as the state which produces the most popcorn.

Indiana leads the nation in popcorn production (WFYI-FM, Indianapolis, January 19, National Popcorn Day, 2023)

Today is national popcorn day, and for Hoosiers that should be cause for celebration.

That’s because in 2021, Indiana took the top spot in the nation’s popcorn production. Traditionally, Nebraska is the top producing state followed closely by Indiana.

In 2021, over 97,000 acres of popcorn stalks were planted; an 8 percent increase from the previous year.

Isaac Duckworth is a farmer in Morgan County. His family has been farming since the 1800s. For them, 2022 was a strong harvest.

(more)

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:57:31pm

Mastodon

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:57:39pm

re: #147 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Folks talk about boycotting red state products when they pass draconian laws, yet will buy copious amounts of popcorn. /s

Indiana surpassed Nebraska as the state which produces the most popcorn.

Indiana leads the nation in popcorn production (January 19, National Popcorn Day, 2023)

(more)

Dude. You just shit on everybody’s day.

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Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:58:05pm

He should have two years tacked on just for that haircut. The person who gave it to him should get 10-20.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:59:33pm

re: #150 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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He should two years tacked on just for that haircut. The person who gave it to him should get 10-20.

Or, hear me out, the person who gave him that haircut should get a medal because it makes him easier to identify as a loser.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 1:59:34pm

re: #135 Backwoods Sleuth

And it doesn’t matter much. Conservative voters are convinced of the lies, pox-on-both-your-houses voters will draw a “both-sides” narrative, and most voters aren’t paying attention to the politics which affects them every single day.

All the GOP needs is to keep up a whiff of a scandal like they did surrounding Hillary Clinton for forty years.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:01:43pm

re: #150 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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He should two years tacked on just for that haircut. The person who gave it to him should get 10-20.

So you’re saying the you’re not into the Zippy the Pinhead look?

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:02:23pm

re: #150 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

And this is why the LGBT+ “groomer” and “think of the children” argument is a lie.

If conservatives actually cared about children, they would warn and campaign against churches.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:02:29pm

re: #150 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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He should two years tacked on just for that haircut. The person who gave it to him should get 10-20.

I’d like to know who thought he looked OK to be around easily manipulated religious kids.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:03:12pm

re: #153 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

So you’re saying the you’re not into the Zippy the Pinhead look?

He’s missing the bow. It doesn’t work without it.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:04:21pm

re: #156 🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈

He’s missing the bow. It doesn’t work without it.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:05:56pm

This is pretty weird.

hi.

A little bit of background - mediaite.com

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:09:13pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:10:51pm

re: #79 Charles Johnson

YouTube is currently running what it describes as a “small experiment globally,” warning users to toggle off their ad blockers and avoid being limited to only three video views.

Suspect it is a ruse to force viewers to subscribe to Youtube. And it’s gonna financially hurt a lot of folk who have popular Youtube channels.

FWIW I’m not aware that use an ad blocker.
I have not subscribed to Youtube and see ads when I view Youtube.

But on some other sites popups “request” that I turn off my ad blocker, and/or register, or subscribe.

I’m not against subscribing like - LGF, NYTimes , and the Nashville paper.

But If I don’t want to subscribe, I’m cool with ads.

EFF this - registering in order to view content & ads is a bridge too far.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:12:21pm

re: #15 darthstar

We need 13 justices and the terms for all of them should be 10 years. We can grandfather the original 9 in to ten year terms 3 at a time two years apart. That way nobody can stack the court one way or another.

Doesn’t the Constitution specify it’s a lifetime appointment?

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gocart mozart  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:12:35pm

re: #150 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

He should two years tacked on just for that haircut. The person who gave it to him should get 10-20.

Hey, don’t blame the barber. He asked for the “Trey Gowdy” and I think he nailed it.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:14:06pm

re: #21 Dave In Austin

Flips desk with knees…….

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Is Gary Peterson serious? Or could he be a parody account?

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:14:29pm

….

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TarHellion  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:14:40pm

re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter

Congress established the courts and Congress can regulate them.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:16:00pm

London tube train ads go hard.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:17:37pm
[Dylan] Mulvaney explained that since the partnership caused uproar, she’s been afraid to leave the house, been ridiculed in public, and followed.

“I have felt a loneliness that I wouldn’t wish on anyone. And I’m not telling you this because I want your pity. I am telling you this because if this is my experience from a very privileged perspective, know that it is much, much worse for other trans people,” Mulvaney said.

“For a company to hire a trans person and then not publicly stand by them is worse in my opinion, than not hiring a trans person at all, because it gives customers permission to be as transphobic and hateful as they want,” she added, noting that LGBTQ+ community members are customers of beer brands like Bud Light too.

Mulvaney said to turn a blind eye to the situation is not an option right now.

“You might say, but ‘Dylan, I don’t wanna get political.’ Babe, supporting trans people — it shouldn’t be political. There should be nothing controversial or divisive about working with us.”

And that Bud Light can that featured Mulvaney’s face on it in the partnership video — it’s lost. “I hid it somewhere and now I can’t find it,” Mulvaney said.

(more at Mediatite, today)

Dylan Mulvaney Fires Back At Bud Light Alleging Company Never Reached Out After Backlash: ‘Supporting Trans People — It Shouldn’t Be Political’

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:18:34pm

re: #163 Hecuba’s daughter

Is Gary Peterson serious? Or could he be a parody account?

re: #24 GlutenFreeJesus

That’s actually a satire account and quite hilarious.

You answered my question.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:20:15pm

re: #160 BeenHereAwhile

Suspect it is a ruse to force viewers to subscribe to Youtube. And it’s gonna financially hurt a lot of folk who have popular Youtube channels.

FWIW I’m not aware that use an ad blocker.
I have not subscribed to Youtube and see ads when I view Youtube.

But on some other sites popups “request” that I turn off my ad blocker, and/or register, or subscribe.

I’m not against subscribing like - LGF, NYTimes , and the Nashville paper.

But If I don’t want to subscribe, I’m cool with ads.

EFF this - registering in order to view content & ads is a bridge too far.

Just to test this, I’ve been playing YouTube videos this afternoon. At least for now, there isn’t any block on viewing more than three videos.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:21:40pm

re: #169 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just to test this, I’ve been playing YouTube videos this afternoon. At least for now, there isn’t any block on viewing more than three videos.

I think it’s being tested on a limited number of users now, not everyone.

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:22:24pm

re: #106 Backwoods Sleuth

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TL:DR his is not the end of the world. We are going to adapt because I know of universities that have never used affirmative action to get a diverse undergraduate community.

I went to a university (Caltech) with no legacies and which does not use race at all in admissions. It is more diverse than many using affirmative action, such as Harvard (44% of the most recent Freshman class are Asian. 22% are Hispanic. It has twice the percentage of Nativer Americans than the state of CA and 10 times the number of Pacific Islanders. It still trails with African-American admissions with a percentage about half the population of the state.Almost 20% are the first person to go to college!)).

It does this by spending substantial time recruiting the best minority students, something that is not ever going to be unconstitutional. And it works hard to get the accepted students to flip to admitted and enrolled (over 50% of accepted enroll). Then it works really hard to create an environment to support students of any race, gender or economic background.

This ends up snowballing because when one student sees a fellow student get into Caltech, they are more likely to apply. (I know this effect personally as I applied and was accepted to Caltech because a senior I knew got accepted. This was from Houston, Texas, not a place the Caltech recruited from. But Texas is now the 2nd largest pool of students behind California. I like to think I helped ;-)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:22:31pm

re: #170 Charles Johnson

I think it’s being tested on a limited number of users now, not everyone.

Hm. I don’t have an account on YouTube. Maybe that’s it.

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Charles Johnson  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:22:48pm

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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:24:05pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

He doesn’t have the votes in Congress for it anyway, so it’s a moot point IMO.

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:24:11pm

re: #160 BeenHereAwhile

Suspect it is a ruse to force viewers to subscribe to Youtube. And it’s gonna financially hurt a lot of folk who have popular Youtube channels.

FWIW I’m not aware that use an ad blocker.
I have not subscribed to Youtube and see ads when I view Youtube.

But on some other sites popups “request” that I turn off my ad blocker, and/or register, or subscribe.

I’m not against subscribing like - LGF, NYTimes , and the Nashville paper.

But If I don’t want to subscribe, I’m cool with ads.

EFF this - registering in order to view content & ads is a bridge too far.

Rawstory won’t allow you to read their site unless you disable the ad blocker, but then when you do, they bombard you with so many ads that not only make it excruciatingly difficult to read the actual article but can crash the browser.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:25:14pm

The first tornado warning of the day issued for Laramie County, Wyo., in “mainly rural areas” of the county. Estimated population in the warned area: 48.

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🐈 Crush White Nationalism 🐈  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:25:58pm

re: #175 Vicious Babushka

Rawstory won’t allow you to read their site unless you disable the ad blocker, but then when you do, they bombard you with so many ads that not only make it excruciatingly difficult to read the actual article but can crash the browser.

It works fine for me with uBlock Origin running in Edge.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:26:59pm

re: #115 Dangerman (sigh…only in America)

some can also melt down

how fast can they be rebuilt?
oh, they cant? have to be encased in concrete?
hmm

And a subsequent half-life of 27,000(?) years.
(not sure what the half-life would be)

Dunno no concrete that lasts 27,000 years.

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wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:27:58pm

re: #171 silverdolphin

My brother decided he was going to go to Cal Tech when he was in 3rd grade. 12 years later, he graduated with a double major, math and physics. (1978)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:29:26pm

re: #175 Vicious Babushka

Rawstory won’t allow you to read their site unless you disable the ad blocker, but then when you do, they bombard you with so many ads that not only make it excruciatingly difficult to read the actual article but can crash the browser.

I can read Raw Story just fine.

I suspect the particular software that works for me on virtually every Website is NoScript.

After a while, you figure out which third-party sites you allow (for example amazonaws.com) and which ones you don’t (doubleclick.net).

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:30:05pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

Biden just said he’s not going to expand the Supreme Court.

Well, he really can’t do that by himself. We need a lot more Dems in the House and senate. I bet if we do that, he might change his view.

Although the best thing I like is to term-limit the seat on the Court to 18 years with each seat being filled by terms offset by 2 years. So each President gets to appoint 2 and none get to appoint more than 4. The Constitution only says the appointment of Federal judges is for life, not a seat at the Supreme Court. After the 18 years, they become emeritus and can sit on any open Federal seat.

And according to some experts this can be done by legislation.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:31:37pm

re: #135 Backwoods Sleuth

BREAKING: house republicans’ “human source” for the FBI 1023 they’re freaking out about has DENIED that anyone at Burisma had ANY contact with VP Biden when Hunter was on the board. Raskin has AUDIO TAPE receipts. Womp womp, Comer.

Fuck Off with the 1023, show me a 302.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:31:45pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Has this dipshit never heard of The Black Plague? Smallpox? Typhus?

What an ambulatory carnivorous fungus.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:32:42pm

re: #175 Vicious Babushka

Rawstory won’t allow you to read their site unless you disable the ad blocker, but then when you do, they bombard you with so many ads that not only make it excruciatingly difficult to read the actual article but can crash the browser.

And back in the day, Rawstory had the audacity to demand Charles not link to their articles…articles that THEY THEMSELVES swiped from other sources.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:32:47pm

re: #183 Romantic Heretic

Has this dipshit never heard of The Black Plague? Smallpox? Typhus?

What an ambulatory carnivorous fungus.

What doesn’t kill you doesn’t make you stronger, it makes you damaged.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:33:01pm

Biden probably is thinking that saying he wants to expand the court is going to drive more republicans to polling stations than Democrats. It’s a good policy to expand the court, but not one to run on. Republicans got what they wanted, make them defend it.

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:33:48pm

re: #179 wrenchwench

My brother decided he was going to go to Cal Tech when he was in 3rd grade. 12 years later, he graduated with a double major, math and physics. (1978)

No way.. 1978 is when I graduated. You don’t have to tell me any personal info but I’d love to know which house he was in ;-)

Also, ask him how he feels about diversity, equity and inclusion programs. As DEI means something very different from a Techer ;-)

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:35:00pm
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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:35:14pm

re: #150 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of Big Bird, Bert, and Ernie

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He should have two years tacked on just for that haircut. The person who gave it to him should get 10-20.

He’s a cone-head.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:35:31pm

re: #19 wrenchwench

And get elected so he can steer the focus of science shoot science in the head and piss on the body.

FTFY.

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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:36:05pm

I took a quick look at the affirmative action SCOTUS opinion, and it reinforces my view that Roberts (author of the court opinion) is the most competent liar among the right wing hack jobs on the court.

Unless I missed it, he very cleverly writes the opinion so that that only historical material he uses from when Congress passed the 14th amendment are brief quotes he can distort for his purposes.

This avoids the embarrassment that the superficial “colorblind” approach of today’s opinion was explicitly considered for the text of the 14th amendment back then, and rejected by Congress as insufficient for its purpose.

In other words, originalism is among the strongest arguments against today’s ruling, and that’s an embarrassment for a purported “originalist”.

But we already know that every conservative argument or justification is axiomatically dishonest.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:37:10pm

This is going to be the stupidest fucking primary season ever.

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ericblair  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:38:35pm

re: #138 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

First time I saw a European robin (and was told what it was) I was like, “What? That?” given how different they look from the North American bird called the robin.

Yep, the English saw a red-breasted bird in North America and went “yep, close enough.” Totally different species.

As an American moving to Europe, usually the first bird issue that pops up is finding out that that weird crow-ish bird with the white bands is what a magpie actually looks like. Know the name, never seen one before, don’t see them in zoos, good to know. Noisy bastards.

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wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:39:00pm

re: #187 silverdolphin

No way.. 1978 is when I graduated. You don’t have to tell me any personal info but I’d love to know which house he was in ;-)

Also, ask him how he feels about diversity, equity and inclusion programs. As DEI means something very different from a Techer ;-)

Click to Reveal

Blacker.

That’s for the first item.

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Nojay UK  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:39:07pm

re: #166 Charles Johnson

London tube train ads go hard.

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I think you’ll find those are samizdat adverts posted up in the Tube trains by private individuals with something to sell you (sort of). They’ve got the London Transport logo in the bottom right-hand corner but the text isn’t the usual copyright and company blurb.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:39:16pm
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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:39:43pm

re: #192 teleskiguy

Republicans are so fucking stupid. It would be an amusing clown show, except for the unpleasant fact that they are as dangerous as they are stupid.

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Romantic Heretic  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:40:41pm

re: #26 sagehen

According to some estimates there were 300 million deaths from smallpox in the 20th Century.

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:41:12pm

re: #161 Hecuba’s daughter

Doesn’t the Constitution specify it’s a lifetime appointment?

The Constitution only says that the appointment to the office of Federal judiciary is for life, not a seat at the Supreme court, I believe.

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Nerdy Fish  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:41:56pm

re: #192 teleskiguy

This is going to be the stupidest fucking primary season ever.

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Just wait until the catturd2 poll shows up in Nate Silver’s formerly-FiveThirtyEight election model.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:43:47pm

re: #200 Nerdy Fish

Just wait until the catturd2 poll shows up in Nate Silver’s formerly-FiveThirtyEight election model.

Someone should send that to him on Twitter and ask if he’s going to include it, and weight it for accuracy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:44:02pm

re: #112 Eclectic Cyborg

To be fair to Biden, it would be a tall order to expand the court and he likely couldn’t get it done (at least not by the end of this term).

But at the same time, to just come out and say you aren’t going to even try is the wrong message to be sending right now.

The Republicans control the House. It is a total waste of time to even discuss this proposal. And I guarantee you that if the GOP takes control of the Senate in 2024 — which is a bad Senate year for Democrats — no Democratic nominee to SCOTUS will be approved. This is a proposal worth pursuing ONLY if the Democrats have 60 seats in the Senate and control of the House.

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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:44:03pm

re: #199 silverdolphin

The Constitution only says that the appointment to the office of Federal judiciary is for life, not a seat at the Supreme court, I believe.

This appears to be the relevant text

The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

On its face, that says that SCOTUS judges hold their office for life (or until they voluntarily step down).

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BeenHereAwhile  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:44:28pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

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Thanos  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:44:45pm

Jan. 6 participant, identified nearly two years ago, is arrested near Obama home

Earlier Thursday, a Truth Social account that uses the same screen name that Taranto uses on other social media accounts, re-posted a Trump post that included what is alleged to be the address of Obama’s home in Washington and noted that the home is located near a mosque. “Got them surrounded!” the Truth Social account wrote.

NBC News has also been reviewing Taranto’s Telegram account. His last post was a link to a website touting conspiracy theories about the Obama’s home.

It was not immediately clear when Taranto would make a court appearance.

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:45:41pm

re: #193 ericblair

As an American moving to Europe, usually the first bird issue that pops up is finding out that that weird crow-ish bird with the white bands is what a magpie actually looks like. Know the name, never seen one before, don’t see them in zoos, good to know. Noisy bastards.

A few times this summer those little fuckers have squawked at top volume right outside my bedroom window. More of those flying around than any other bird around these parts (southern Rockies).

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:47:45pm

re: #194 wrenchwench

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Thanks. I had a couple of friends in Blacker but not many. I was a biologist.

Click to Reveal

I was in Page.

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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:48:38pm

re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter

The Republicans control the House. It is a total waste of time to even discuss this proposal. And I guarantee you that if the GOP takes control of the Senate in 2024 — which is a bad Senate year for Democrats — no Democratic nominee to SCOTUS will be approved. This is a proposal worth pursuing ONLY if the Democrats have 60 seats in the Senate and control of the House.

Every election is a bad Senate year for Democrats. That’s just a symptom of the underlying problem of the Senate itself. That model is unsustainable if present trends of population change continue. Of course we are nowhere near the farcical extreme of 26 states each with population 3 having an unassailable 52-seat Senate majority, but that is the direction the US is trending in.

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Ace Rothstein  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:48:50pm

What in the ever loving fuck…

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ericblair  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:50:51pm

re: #206 teleskiguy

A few times this summer those little fuckers have squawked at top volume right outside my bedroom window. More of those flying around than any other bird around these parts (southern Rockies).

Yeah, different species, but act the same. You don’t get them in the eastern US.

They wake us up in the morning when they’re busy fighting with the local foxes or pigeons. Territorial as hell and not afraid to start shit.

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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:51:09pm

re: #209 Ace Rothstein

Could be a parody, since Trump worshippers usually try to forget his flag humping moment.

But I’ve grown to despise parody in this degenerate age — it seems way too likely to be a net win for the Nazis to see their ideas expressed better than they can do on their own.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:51:49pm

re: #209 Ace Rothstein

Two racists and white rethuglican jebus. The right-whingers are an odd lot.

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wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:52:34pm

re: #207 silverdolphin

Thanks. I had a couple of friends in Blacker but not many. I was a biologist.

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I went to one dance at Caltech (is that how it’s written?). Blues Image was the band. I had been a fan when Ride Captain Ride was on the airwaves.

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EPR-radar  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:53:12pm

re: #212 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Two racists and white rethuglican jebus. The right-whingers are an odd lot.

But white Republican Jebus is holding a globe with a big fat crack running through it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:54:03pm

re: #196 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Do yourself a favor. Stay away from the Blue Check Chuds replying to that tweet.

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Nojay UK  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:54:41pm

re: #212 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Pretty sure it’s a parody image, shades of McNaughton. Note the flag popping out of Big John’s gun barrel.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:55:48pm

re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg

Do yourself a favor. Stay away from the Blue Check Chuds replying to that tweet.

Too late. They’re oozing with racism.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:57:08pm

In the category “one bad apple”:


So how many police officers in his department knew and didn’t say anything?

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:57:15pm

Mastodon

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jaunte  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:57:41pm

re: #217 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

This is a huge day for millions of white victims to sneer and snark. They won’t accept a SCOTUS win quietly.

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Nojay UK  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:58:14pm

re: #210 ericblair

It used to be legal to shoot magpies as pests here in the UK, one of very few bird species that were regarded as pests and not protected under law. I don’t know if that’s still true though.

222
wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:59:01pm

Mastodon

223
Romantic Heretic  Jun 29, 2023 • 2:59:55pm

re: #218 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
So how many police officers in his department knew and didn’t say anything?

All of them?

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No Malarkey!  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:01:03pm

re: #220 jaunte

This is a huge day for millions of white victims to sneer and snark. They won’t accept a SCOTUS win quietly.

99.999% of whom have zero chance of them or their progeny getting into an Ivy League school with or without affirmative action.

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wrenchwench  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:03:06pm

re: #221 Nojay UK

It used to be legal to shoot magpies as pests here in the UK, one of very few bird species that were regarded as pests and not protected under law. I don’t know if that’s still true though.

When my late husband was a kid, he shot crows and made money turning in their feet in PA, USA in the 40s.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:03:15pm

re: #221 Nojay UK

It used to be legal to shoot magpies as pests here in the UK, one of very few bird species that were regarded as pests and not protected under law. I don’t know if that’s still true though.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

Legal magpie control methods

“Legal control methods involve trapping or shooting.”

Illegal magpie control

We do oppose illegal magpie control, including poisoning, which has a high risk of accidentally poisoning other birds, including rare birds of prey.

Many people wish to control magpies in gardens because they take eggs and chicks of other birds. Since research indicates that magpies do not pose a conservation problem to garden birds, the use of general licence in this context is at best debatable.

It must be remembered that if challenged, anyone killing magpies in their garden may have to prove to a court of law that they had acted lawfully. This may be difficult given the lack of scientific evidence that magpies affect the conservation of garden bird species.

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:03:56pm

re: #209 Ace Rothstein

What in the ever loving fuck…

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John Wayne needs to be in those short-shorts that VB always posts

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Vicious Babushka  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:05:12pm

re: #227 Backwoods Sleuth

John Wayne needs to be in those short-shorts that VB always posts

The epitome of the Master Race
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Hecuba's daughter  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:05:33pm

re: #199 silverdolphin

The Constitution only says that the appointment to the office of Federal judiciary is for life, not a seat at the Supreme court, I believe.

Article 3 Section 1 classifies SCOTUS with the rest of the federal judiciary. So same rules apply to both:

The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

Changing this would seem to require a Constitutional amendment.

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Jay C  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:07:27pm

re: #212 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅

Two racists and white rethuglican jebus. The right-whingers are an odd lot.

Especially as Jesus(?) seems to be wearing a dress.
Jesus Bo Peep???

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:07:29pm

re: #228 Vicious Babushka

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that’s the one!

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teleskiguy  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:07:36pm

re: #228 Vicious Babushka

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Backwoods Sleuth  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:08:34pm

re: #228 Vicious Babushka

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MrBWS just said “that’s…disturbing…”

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:08:37pm

re: #203 EPR-radar

This appears to be the relevant text

On its face, that says that SCOTUS judges hold their office for life (or until they voluntarily step down).

Maybe. Or the office is a Federal Judge. Pelosi just asked for term limits for Justices. The relevant sentece in an article about this says “It would require a constitutional amendment, or Congress could pass legislation requiring justices to retire, take “senior” status with lesser duties or move to an appeals court.”

A bill detailing how legislation could do this has been submittted a couple of times.

An Amendment would be moree definitive but legislation would also work. And Congress can add an amendment saying it is not reviewable by the Supreme Court. That is in the Constitution. Article III Section 2 - “…the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make”

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Barefoot Grin  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:09:29pm

re: #209 Ace Rothstein

What in the ever loving fuck…

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It’s a visual of the title of a really good book about the rise of Christian Nationalism, etc.

amazon.com

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Joe Bacon ✅  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:10:55pm

re: #209 Ace Rothstein

What in the ever loving fuck…

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2 draft dodgers and JC…

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silverdolphin  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:21:38pm

re: #208 EPR-radar

Every election is a bad Senate year for Democrats. That’s just a symptom of the underlying problem of the Senate itself. That model is unsustainable if present trends of population change continue. Of course we are nowhere near the farcical extreme of 26 states each with population 3 having an unassailable 52-seat Senate majority, but that is the direction the US is trending in.

I’m pretty sanguine about the 2024 elections. The GOP will continue to piss off lots of people with abortion, climate change, infrastructure, taxes, SS and Medicare. If we run some good candidates and see a lot of MAGA Republican nuts run, we could pick up some seats. Cruz only had 50.8% of the votes. Rick Scot had 50.1%. If a lot of sane conservatives (not many but even 5% could have an effect) decide to sit out the election, …

It could happen.

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calochortus  Jun 29, 2023 • 3:23:04pm

re: #234 silverdolphin

Maybe. Or the office is a Federal Judge. Pelosi just asked for term limits for Justices. The relevant sentece in an article about this says “It would require a constitutional amendment, or Congress could pass legislation requiring justices to retire, take “senior” status with lesser duties or move to an appeals court.”

A bill detailing how legislation could do this has been submittted a couple of times.

An Amendment would be moree definitive but legislation would also work. And Congress can add an amendment saying it is not reviewable by the Supreme Court. That is in the Constitution. Article III Section 2 - “…the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make”

I have read that term limits for Supreme Court Justices is fairly broadly popular across political lines, so that is probably a better place to start than increasing the size of the court.

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Florida Panhandler  Jun 29, 2023 • 4:20:56pm

re: #224 No Malarkey!

99.999% of whom have zero chance of them or their progeny getting into an Ivy League school with or without affirmative action.

This ruling was yet another handout gift for the wealthy and connected to enable colleges to ignore any and all admissions considerations other than who can afford to pay not only tuition, but whose Daddy can build the next School of Business.

other than who can afford to pay not only tuition but whose Daddy can build the next School of Business.

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jeffreyw  Jun 29, 2023 • 4:47:30pm

re: #109 Moe Avattar

“How ‘bout some more beans, mista Taggert?”

“I’d say you’ve had enough!”

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eharris  Jun 30, 2023 • 6:10:09pm

Two things about the ridiculous decision.
1). It does not apply to the military.

Chief Justice Roberts appended a sneaky little footnote exempting the nation’s service academies, West Point, the Naval Academy, and the Air Force Academy. Roberts doubtlessly thought he was being crafty when he noted that there are “potentially distinct interests that military academies may present” that necessitates exempting them from the decision. Earlier in his opinion, Roberts wrote that because the 14th Amendment affords citizens “equal protection under the laws,” it forbids discriminating between them on the basis of race. “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it,” Roberts wrote.

-Lucian Truscott IV.

2). On the radio this morning, one analysis said that students are permitted to put in an essay how racism has affected their lives.

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 1, 2023 • 6:23:46pm

re: #204 BeenHereAwhile

re: #204 BeenHereAwhile

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