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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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You summed up his steeze quite well. And I'm equally perplexed by his popularity. The Juice™️, I just don't see it.

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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Visions of Jon Polito in Seinfeld...

youtu.be/MWGciuLuH8k?...

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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This is Sim City Politics

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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“SEE DAD? I’ve destroyed two and a half centuries of America. WHO’S NEVER GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING NOW?”

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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This appears to be a national epidemic, honestly

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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“you hysterical lib do you REALLY think — LIB (communist) — that Trump would order the shooting of a domestic political enemy? Cmon” He did already! I happened, he tried to! Sure an unarmed Black Lives Matter protester in front of the White House is a different kind of political enemy than Hillary…

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow's avatar Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social
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fuck man, I don't even know what to say anymore. One political party wants to burn everything to the ground and institute theocratic, kleptocratic autocracy. I think this is bad, just one man's opinion.

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Radley Balko's avatar Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social
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It's just hilariously disingenuous. Imagine looking at, say, ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY and concluding that the biggest threat to liberty isn't abuse of power, but powerful people refraining from sufficiently wielding their authority out of fear that they might one day be held accountable.

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David Noll 's avatar David Noll @david.noll.org
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Saying someone is presumptively immune from prosecution then barring the introduction of evidence of their mental state is a neat trick.

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Eric Rauchway's avatar Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social
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VERY SERIOUS JUSTICES: The New Deal was unconstitutional and Watergate was constitutional.

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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His shtick is so tiresome. But I do enjoy noting that his books are straight-up elite level intellectual projections. Sustainable decadence, elite privilege, etc. Come on, man!

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Margarita Noriega 's avatar Margarita Noriega @margarita.bsky.social
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Re: Chevron, from the lobbying group that contributed most to the American student loan debt crisis

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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Snyder 》Loper Bright 》Cargill Legalize corruption, courts subjectively interpret laws, draft nonsense opinions written and paid for by industry. Rinse and repeat. I'm no lawyer. But that shit is easy to see 👀

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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This is the Roberts court establishing the "well akshuallly doctrine," allowing judges to write subjective nonsense opinions like Thomas's in Cargill.

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among the problems created by Loper Bright: the U.S. is now a significantly riskier climate for investors than it was yesterday. Regulation is far less predictable and will be susceptible to extreme geographic variation. No way to know if the end result helps you or a competitor.

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southpaw's avatar southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
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I commend Justice Jackson’s dissent to you, particularly her more detailed description of the case.

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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So where do those links drive to support his argument?

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Coach Finstock's avatar Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social
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When AOL and Prodigy started taking off in the early 90s, our neighbor bought a bunch of cement slab and busted it up and sold it online as "Real Pieces of the Berlin Wall" and "Real Pieces of the Great Wall of China" and that guy realized what the internet was gonna be before everyone else

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Adam Kotsko 's avatar Adam Kotsko @adamkotsko.bsky.social
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The fact that a second Trump administration is even a POSSIBILITY is such a tremendous failure on the part of every segment of our political elites. He could have been impeached, convicted, and permanently excluded on the very day. He could have been arrested the second he left office. Etc., etc.

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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I thought "well, akshually" was as good as a cite?

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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I've been thinking a lot lately about how the lack of public services & investment and the GOPs knee-jerk resistance to it is the opposite side of this coin, which just ossifies a degree societal graft that likely wouldn't be there otherwise.

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Four Years Ago Today's avatar Four Years Ago Today @fouryearsagotoday.bsky.social
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The indoor rally is held in deep red Tulsa, Oklahoma, where health restrictions on gatherings were lax. Former GOP candidate Herman Cain, an advocate of mask “freedom,” is among many who catches the virus at the superspreader event. He dies a month later.

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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Quote skeet with one of your fave films that isn't a hit

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❀°。der Siebenschläfer  *.゚✿ ⋆'s avatar ❀°。der Siebenschläfer *.゚✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social
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The chief judge of S.D.Fla. knows Aileen Cannon's intervention after the FBI's search was egregiously bad and has no confidence in her ability and/or impartiality Seems bad!

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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Was expecting to see Dunning-Kruger on the byline

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Scott Santens's avatar Scott Santens @scottsantens.com
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Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

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Joshua J. Friedman's avatar Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com
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DOJ unseals indictment against doctor accused of stealing private health records from Texas Children's Hospital to leak to Chris Rufo to attack gender-affirming care

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Max Kennerly's avatar Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Excluding actual wars, Brexit is one of the greatest own-goals of all time. Britain and Europe had forged something their finest leaders and intellectuals considered an impossible dream: an alliance of shared prosperity. Then Britain tore it up in a fit of nativist dipshittery.

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Mark Joseph Stern's avatar Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social
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To justify legalizing bump stocks, Clarence Thomas literally copied and pasted materials from an extremist pro-gun group whose violent rhetoric makes the NRA look moderate.

This is who has the Supreme Court's ear these days. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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school kids bunkered in a classroom around the nation hearing rapid fire shots in the corridor will be very happy to know that well akshually /technically/ it's an altered semiautomatic rifle with a plastic mechanism designed to allow rapid re-engagement of the trigger mechanism and not a machinegun

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Asawin Suebsaeng's avatar Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social
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Best column written yet about Alitos-palooza

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Popehat's avatar Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social
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If you’re not a law nerd, and you’re wondering why people who are not themselves theocratic fascists would support theocratic fascists, it’s to achieve this: to limit the power of the regulatory state.

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Helen Kennedy's avatar Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social
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I made a flag for Alito's neighbors:

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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Anyone have a gift link? This is important to share broadly with folks who constantly get these cheap fakes.

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L O L G O P's avatar L O L G O P @lolgop.bsky.social
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I wouldn't like to know her as her husband hid but the coup flag went up long before the c-word ever did

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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Right. It could just be a reflexive "new taxes piss me off" sentiment that doesn't outlast the net positive results following implementation.

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Anil Kalhan's avatar Anil Kalhan @akalhan.bsky.social
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Oh look, it's a wholly owned subsidiary of Leonard Leo

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kottke.org's avatar kottke.org @kottke.org
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In the last 10 years, Paris has closed 100 streets to cars, removed 50,000 parking spots, tripled parking fees for SUVs, and built more than 800 miles of bike lanes. “Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution.” [nbcnews.com]

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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He should be sponsored by the company that makes artery stents

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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The Rapture comes before the babies!!

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kilgore trout's avatar kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social
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we were watching the pillow report on lindell tv when the verdict in the sham trial broke and our six year old son claudius basspro turned to us and said “fear not, patriots, it’s all going to plan”

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Mark Harris's avatar Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social
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Tune out, for a day, the yahoos--governors and senators among them--who insist that the problem is Democrats, jurors, judges, the law, the justice system, New York, and democracy rather than a convicted felon. They're links in the human centipede who long ago decided where to sew their mouths.

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Gene Penise's avatar Gene Penise @genepenise.bsky.social
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That's like the center square that everyone gets!

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