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ryan cooper
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thank fuckin Christ somebody is trying to bring up SOMETHING ELSE to talk about
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Dr. Lauren@dragonmustang01.bsky.social |
72 followers 143 following 95 posts
Astronomer, Data Scientist, dog parent, soccer player, and gamer. Resident Critrolestats number nerd. They/she Aroace
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ryan cooper
@ryanlcooper.com
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thank fuckin Christ somebody is trying to bring up SOMETHING ELSE to talk about
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Dr. Lauren
@dragonmustang01.bsky.social
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Seriously like five minutes of scrolling white house official business and you can see there was a bill to provide funding to end Parkinson's working it's way through Congress last summer and that Biden signed last week, you absolute dipshits.
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Cooper Lund
@cooperlund.bsky.social
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I am firmly agnostic on Biden staying on at this point but I am fully ready to shove Peter Baker and A.G. Sulzberger’s heads in the toilet for a swirly if I see them in public for this shit
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Worth noting the EPA's brief correctly uses "nitrogen oxide" 7 times, and the EPA submitted a declaration from an official who used it twice. But nobody involved in the majority opinion, Justices and clerks, bothered to take the EPA's brief seriously, and so none of them noticed the error.
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Dr. Lauren
@dragonmustang01.bsky.social
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What the fuck are you doing.
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Dr. Lauren
@dragonmustang01.bsky.social
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More stories about the convicted felon and rapist who's openly admitted he wants to do fascism, please. Less about how Biden fucked up a single debate. Those two things are not in any way equivalent, stop treating them like they are.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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i refuse to believe that americans who watched the debate think that biden’s first 15 minutes are somehow stronger evidence of old age decline than falling asleep, *in public*, DURING YOUR OWN FUCKING CRIMINAL TRIAL, *IN COURT IN FRONT OF THE JUDGE AND JURY*, but, you know, i’m not a columnist.
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andy™
@andylevy.net
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what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Dr. Holly Walters
@manigarm.bsky.social
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Don't forget the Sharpie.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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Top headline in NYT now. Turns out the SCOTUS decision offering unprecedented immunity for the President breaking the law was really more of a mixed bag that should be narrowly understood to be about a specific case!
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Daniel Roberts
@drobertsimg.bsky.social
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In a weird way, SCOTUS did the Biden campaign a big favor, because everyone knows the stakes now and no one should give a flying fuck about whether Biden spaces out every now and then. The alternative has become unimaginably bad.
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Jacob T. Levy
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Yes, maybe there's some clever version of hardball Biden's team can come up with, something that doesn't involve ordering assassinations. But one thing he *should* be able to say is "I reject the idea that the president is above the law, and I vow never to use this illegitimate 'immunity' defense."
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/7 Justice Roberts smug and superior dismissal of the dissents’ concerns seems to come to us via time warp from some time that never knew Trump. The danger of lawlessness he poses are manifest — he and his followers brag of them. Only a liar or fool would dismiss them.
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Popehat
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/6 Later Trump orders a staff member at Mar-A-Lago to kill a Muslim employee, possibly by serving him the food. Under the Court’s rule, even assuming that ordering Mar-A-Lago to kill people is unofficial conduct (not 100% clear), Trump’s anti-Muslim tirade to the AG would be inadmissible at trial.
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Popehat
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/5 …but it’s obvious that my statement can be introduced as evidence if I’m accused of murder. Contrast this type of Presidential immunity. Say Donald Trump, days into his second term, meets with the Department of Justice and demands a way to deport all Muslims, reviling them as subhuman.
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Popehat
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/4 More powerful, to a trial lawyer, is the prohibition on the use of immune acts as evidence. In almost every other context (save Speech & Debate), you can use things as evidence when you can’t prosecute for them. If I say “this man must die,” that’s usually protected by the First Amendment ….
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Popehat
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/3 The problem is that almost anything can be shoehorned into an official act depending on how you characterize it or the level of generality you use. The Court’s “well of course a President has to use due care that election laws are enforced” hints at this.
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Popehat
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/2 Motive being irrelevant means that the President can do a thing for expressly lawless reasons so long as the thing is within the extremely broad range of official acts. So question isn’t “can the President conspire to defraud,” it’s “can the President call a state official about an election.”
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Brendan Nyhan
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Col. Boozy Badger
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“You’re a lawyer! What does this mean, really?” Man, I don’t fucking know. In the last week an entire area of law I studied was more or less rendered entirely moot and now there’s one specific guy in the whole country who may be able to do anything he wants without recourse. This is kind of new.
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The Onion
@theonion.com
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The landmark reversal nullifies all previously lawful forms of right and makes it very difficult for Americans to make ethical decisions or be generally decent human beings without facing criminal charges.
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Don Zeko
@donzeko.bsky.social
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It's hard to even imagine the limits of the power that SCOTUS has just handed the president. If you can keep 34 senators and the military on your side, you can do anything.
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Don Zeko
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The really bitter irony here is that SCOTUS is making the president a king while a Democrat is president. They aren't worried about it because they know Democrats won't accept Biden actually acting the way they are saying he can.
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Radley Balko
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My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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Convicted felon appoints judges who rule it's ok for him to do crimes.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
@questauthority.bsky.social
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I expected some level of immunity from prosecution for a President's official acts. Frankly, a limited amount of immunity is probably appropriate and consistent with past decisions. But absolute immunity for anything POTUS tells the military to do, no inquiry into motives allowed, is terrifying.
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Don Moynihan
@donmoyn.bsky.social
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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Not making any threats here, just thinking out loud as a historian — do they people brazenly pushing for impunity for the wealthy elites not know what traditionally comes next?
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Microplastics Sommelier
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einstein sent this to curie in 1911 when she was being harassed by tabloids. it contains everything you’d want in such a letter: (1) your haters are trash (2) you’re a baller, a true queen (3) i have determined the statistical law of motion of the diatomic molecule in planck’s radiation field 🧪⚛️
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Andrew Baker
@abakern7.bsky.social
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The best part of these extra episodes is the professors are even more salty than usual. A+ episode and worth a listen because other than the obvious yes corruption is really bad, the analysis of the EMTALA decision will probably be poorly reported on and this will give you needed context.
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Kevin M. Kruse
@kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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Looking forward to the next Supreme Court decision, a 6-3 ruling that weirdos who taunt their neighbors with political flags are actually “very cool, according to the Constitution”
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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It is very funny how one of the Supreme Court’s big issues is making it impossible to outlaw bribery because they like being bribed
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andy™
@andylevy.net
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congrats to clarence thomas for protecting his retirement account
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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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Well, one episode in the next season of LEVERAGE:REDEMPTION just got a lot more relevant.
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Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com
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If we are friends I cannot guarantee I will remember your spouse or children but I will frequently ask after your pets by name 🙃
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lacey
@byelacey.bsky.social
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thinking about my dog and how he makes sure i get my daily mental health outings for #makeaterriblecomicday2024
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Prof. Kevin J. Kircher
@kevinjkircher.com
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I learned at an engineering conference recently that one crypto mine in TX, 100s of MW, makes more money off ERCOT demand response markets than it does off crypto repeat: TX ratepayers pay them more to sometimes stop mining than they make by actual mining just bananas misuse of power markets 🔌💡
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Tom
@tomel.bsky.social
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ChatGPT already has “Ph.D.-level intelligence,” in that once you remove it from its extremely narrow field of expertise (assembling words into credible-sounding passages) it is wildly out of its depth, but people vastly overestimate its authority because they don’t understand what “intelligence” is.
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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alito took off yesterday because he needed to grind a bunch to level up to beat mohg and unlock the elden ring DLC, and he was absent today because he's engrossed in it. pretty obvious really
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Grandma Field
@fieldexplores.bsky.social
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A Productive Weekend
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
@ugarles.bsky.social
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As for SCOTUS, the modest rollback of Bruen's history test on 2Am would be a useful model for similarly rolling back Qualified Immunity. Rather than requiring a precedential case exactingly on all-fours with the facts at issue, cases with *notice-deriving principles* should be sufficient.
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Dave Weigel
@daveweigel.bsky.social
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Just my guess: the Chevron decision will go exactly how conservatives want it, but be buried by the same-day Trump immunity decision. The justices aren't stupid. They know how news cycles work and they've done this before. You'll hear about Chevron in a John Oliver segment in a few months.
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lyndsay
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That's one way to disarm the police
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Let’s be fair to Thomas. YOU try spending six weeks in a camper with an agitated woman talking nonstop about dead people voting in Georgia and see if YOU don’t want to keep your fuckin gun.
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Dr. Lauren
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Caught part of this after my alarm went off this morning and it made me so mad I was immediately wide awake. Another "highlight": extolling the secular virtues of the commandments as a neutral moral code for society and def not proselytizing, citing all of the commandments except the first one.
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