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Sean
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nuked from orbit 🫡🫡
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Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social |
22407 followers 848 following 2689 posts
17 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics. email max@kennerlylaw.com
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Sean
@publichealth.bsky.social
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nuked from orbit 🫡🫡
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Max Kennerly
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Lol, same
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Max Kennerly
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Tuvix is particularly interesting, because Tuvix had the same mass of Tuvok and Neelix combined, which would suggest the transporter is indeed reconstructing the original matter, even when things go awry!
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Max Kennerly
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More than once, a transporter incident has caused the subject to "split" into two versions. That simply isn't possible if the final output is generated solely from the original matter; there isn't enough matter. It's entirely possible if the output is generated anew from other matter.
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Max Kennerly
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I think the canonical explanation is: a subject's matter is converted into energy, the energy is beamed, and then it is reconstructed into matter, and so it is still "you." Various incidents that have occurred on the show demonstrate this can't be correct, and it's really creating copies.
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Max Kennerly
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Among the many, many issues here, it's clear that ICE has way too much money to play with.
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Patrick Matthews
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Fucking @nytimes.com changed the headline and thought no one would notice.
The TL;DR: Times runs a stupid "don't vote" piece from an idiotic right wing pundit. Turns out: surprise! The dude voted in both 2022 and 2020, and has written elsewhere about voting in earlier elections.
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Matthew Schafer
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July 4 story: This book is one of 50 snuck out of Philadelphia and hidden in the countryside west of Philadelphia as the British approached. It contains one of the first official printings (1777) of the Declaration of Independence. It looks different than you might expect. 🧵
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Max Kennerly
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I completely agree with this column: conservatives should not vote. Stay home and feel morally superior about it. 🙏 www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/o...
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Max Kennerly
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This being a patriotic day, I read "the 7th Minnesota dairy herd" in the same way one reads "the 7th Minnesota Infantry Regiment."
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Max Kennerly
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True, it's possible either way, but Biden *resigning* concedes that he is currently unfit and has been serving while unfit. Dems will have no answer to that. Biden withdrawing from the campaign merely concedes he suspects he might not still be fit through January 2029.
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Max Kennerly
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That one at least has an easy answer: Biden is withdrawing from the campaign because he's fine now, but he's thinking about what he might be like four years from now. He's being a prudent steward, etc.
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Max Kennerly
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Exactly. The media environment would destroy anyone Harris nominated and Harris too.
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Max Kennerly
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It will be portrayed as chaos in the White House because there is no VP, and that is the fault of Dems, who control the White House. Is this fair or true? That doesn't matter, it's how the media will play it nonstop to mislead low-information voters.
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Max Kennerly
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Biden ending his campaign is one thing; Biden *resigning* would mean: a) endless GOP House "investigations" on Kamala Harris "covering up" Biden's mental state; b) the GOP House and broken Senate both have to confirm the new VP, they won't, and GOP will blame Dems. It's simply not a viable plan.
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Max Kennerly
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Wow, I take offense at that, I was quite good at the LSAT, given my experience with mas—uh, nevermind.
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Max Kennerly
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Biden should, as an "official act," threaten to deport the investors in any company that tries to enforce a noncompete in violation of the FTC's rule.
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Max Kennerly
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I'd love a civil war. But no casualties, and no disruption to my lifestyle. Other than that, all good!
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Max Kennerly
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To decide the nominee, Democrats should play a game of Dungeons & Dragons—in 40 two-hour-long segments televised at 3am—with Bill Maher as the dungeon master. I am a savvy political commentator.
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Adam Bonin
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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons.
ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...
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Max Kennerly
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Yup. The GOP SCOTUS knows what an evil person would do with the power, and they carefully wrote the opinion to: 1) Excuse Republicans who will gleefully break the law, such as Trump. 2) Retain the looming threat of punishment against Democrats. Win-win.
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Max Kennerly
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<sighs loudly> <goes over to markerboard, angrily erases "talentless, overvalued hack"> <writes "innovator, humanitarian, truly great artist"> <sits down and stews>
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Max Kennerly
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LMAO, it turns out "X" actually does have a manipulated media policy, which I have only ever seen applied to me.
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Max Kennerly
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It was buried by other news, but, as a reminder, at the debate Trump gave a complete bullshit answer about Ukraine, literally copying Nixon's fake "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Neil Stenhouse
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One of the best descriptions of this kind of phenomenon I have seen. When your job/identity depends on making abstract rationalizations, you’re going to keep making them however real world circumstances change
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Max Kennerly
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People like Fallon start from the premise, "Can I imagine some explanation in which this thing, standing alone, can be fitted into a principled legal system?" I mean, yeah, sure, that can be done for anything. But doing so makes you a collaborator and a propagandist, not an honest & wise scholar.
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Max Kennerly
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London needs the Shard, the Sherd, the Shird, the Shord, and the Shurd.
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Max Kennerly
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It's a particular type of Lawyer Brain, the Wine Party Lawyer Brain. If your job and/or identity is being Mr. Smarty Pants who comes up with abstractions to explain away current events as fitting some principled form only you can see, then you'll just keep making up those forms no matter what.
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Daniel Feldman
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Yes, it seems to be a non-issue that 78-year-old Donald Trump was incapable of staying awake during his own criminal trial. He's a spring chicken, you see, the very picture of youthful vigor.
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Laura Helmuth
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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪
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Max Kennerly
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Can't say I know her entire biography, but I think it's a fair assumption that she knows jack shit about France. What she does know is how to be racist.
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Max Kennerly
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I wouldn't fault you for that, she sure played it up that way. I just assumed she wasn't, given her history, and how she always skirted being explicitly progressive. But that's details. We both completely misread what an enormous racist she is. Yikes yikes yikes.
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Max Kennerly
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They both pretended they were. Carville at least tried, for a bit. Rahm Emmanuel was a chump from the get-go. I'll never forget, "I don't give a fuck about judges." Maybe you give a fuck now, Rahm.
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Max Kennerly
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Someone who I didn't think was progressive but who I assumed was reasonable went full-on "if the right-wing takes over France it's because the ungrateful immigrants tried to destroy the country" and welp.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.
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Max Kennerly
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Me: Mornin' Drew. You: Mornin'. Me: Are you aware of how many penised lesbians are pushing to access female spaces? You: What? Me: Let's talk about your kinks. I assure you that your kinks include—wow you look so uncomfortable discussing this, which just proves my point.
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Max Kennerly
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My favorite part is how she doesn't even pretend the "lefty straight man" is a friend. It's just some guy—probably a barista or some employee at a media company—she cornered and then subjected to a deranged rant while he tried to escape.
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Max Kennerly
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One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!
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Col. Boozy Badger
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Judicial palate cleanser from me: The dissent in Commonwealth v Noel, 857 A.2d 1283 (Pa. 2004)
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Max Kennerly
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"Democracy Dies, We Hope" --The Washington Post
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Adam Sharp
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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Romania vs Netherlands 🇷🇴 A slang Romanian version of “every cloud has a silver lining” translates to “a kick in the ass, a step forward” vs 🇳🇱 A very old (16th century) way of saying “it is what it is” in Dutch is “who knows why the geese go barefoot?”
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Max Kennerly
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Under the law, even the latest SCOTUS case, Trump's actions at issue in the state court proceedings were clearly not "official acts," and so he's not immune. Nonetheless, my professional opinion is, "idk what will happen, good odds SCOTUS leaps in to save him yet again."
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Max Kennerly
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FWIW, Trump argued that in the NY criminal prosecution and the court rejected it, holding the relevant evidence just couldn't be construed as "official acts" anyways. Question though is after it winds through NY state appeals, if Trump petitions SCOTUS for cert, do they grant it and reverse?
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Max Kennerly
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Counterpoint: if someone is a persuasive communicator of values you share, it's good to have them on the tallest soapbox you can find.
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Max Kennerly
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As 18 billion people have told me today, such a post is a literal threat on the former President's life or whatever. x.com/MaxKennerly/...
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Max Kennerly
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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.
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Max Kennerly
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It's a bit problematic how Biden has (a) narrow, limited power to have his agency draw up a student loan forgiveness process consistent with the statutes passed by Congress; but (b) complete immunity to tell everyone at Dept of Edu, "mark those loans as $0 or I'll put you in a pine box."
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Max Kennerly
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Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.
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Max Kennerly
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Yep. I'm 42. The first election I was old enough to vote in was decided by 5 Supreme Court Justices leaping in to stop a state recount, admitting their legal analysis was a one-off, then never analyzing any future case the same way. And it will be like this until I die.
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