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Graeme Edgeler@graemeedgeler.bsky.social |
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Graeme Edgeler
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I'll let you know. Current issue is getting X support to recognise that the account and my email are connected. Not sure a screenshot will help with that, but good to know its probably not compromised :-)
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Graeme Edgeler
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Have (hopefully temporarily) lost access to my twitter account (it wants me to use a 2FA that isn't set up to reset my password). If anyone can see my account and let me know if anything weird is going on with it over there, please let me know!
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Keith Ng
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There's dumb shit like dual key, which are just massive waste of space to create the fiction of one unit for bank loan purposes. Like, how does this make sense at all??
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Graeme Edgeler
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Do you have a sense of how many extra seats they won off the Conservatives because their position on Israel meant they didn't scare voters in those seats in the way eg Corbyn did?
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Emily St. James
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I like that the UK seems to have, like, three people with an actual shot at the seat, then another three people who have Bits.
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Chris Geidner
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Judge John Broomes, a Trump appointee, issued a nationwide Title IX rule injunction covering all children of "Moms for Liberty" members this week. That's bad enough, but the procedural/notice mess he made of it is also really absurd: www.lawdork.com/i/146289012/...
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Idiot/Savant
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When 36% is a landslide, and a 4% increase in vote share gives you 200 more seats (and twice as many as last time), something is fucked with your electoral system. And then the media establishment paints this is _voters_ being volatile. The UK needs proportional representation.
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Graeme Edgeler
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None of the powers is new. If those powers exist after the decision, they existed before it. It's been the case for a long time that the President couldn't be prosecuted while in office. The difference is whether the President can be prosecuted once he leaves office.
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Emma Hart
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It’s here! The day Britain pretends proportional representation is a dumb idea but voter ID is aces
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Graeme Edgeler
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That became more and more likely as time went on
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Graeme Edgeler
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So do I. But part of that is that people who are prosecuted can challenge the laws they are charged under as unconstitutional.
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Graeme Edgeler
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Like I said, I prefer Barrett's approach over the five: Were Congress to pass a law creating a pardon commission, and banning the President from issuing pardons not recommended by the Pardon Commission, the President should argue not that he is immune, but that the law is unconstitutional.
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Graeme Edgeler
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(I prefer Barrett's resolution of this hypothetical, but the argument that the circuit decision was so broad SCOTUS had to hear an appeal, has something going for it).
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Graeme Edgeler
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I know. And I haven't heard Isgur's NPR piece, but I do see something in the arguments she has made at the Dispatch that there must be some level of protection for the President (if say Congress passed a law making it a crime for the President to issue pardons not approved by a pardon commission)
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Graeme Edgeler
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Clinton was not prosecuted by Ken Starr. No criminal charges were filed in court.
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Graeme Edgeler
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Are we sure the account was actually a reform account? Absolutely could be. It's believable that it was. But have we ruled out directed or non-directed semi-troll?
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John Pfaff
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New post up, on how there was never an actual bipartisan push for decarceration. It's true that red and blue states alike saw prison populations decline. But within those red states, the work was done by the blue counties. The politics of punishment are local, not state, not federal.
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Graeme Edgeler
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Your discussion reminded me of this wonderful piece of train-related journalism I wanted to make sure you had seen. For someone in New Zealand, this was definitely an unknown unknown. Why would anyone even think this would be an issue?
www.propublica.org/article/trai...
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Graeme Edgeler
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Oh, I am not a fan of this decision. Just think it is good to note that, on the whole, SCOTUS has done a lot of limiting presidential powers. Several cases literally last week.
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Graeme Edgeler
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It's not unlimited executive powers. It's the same limited powers there have always been, with the same ability of the Courts to overrule you, just without the threat of post-presidency prosecution for the exercise of some powers, and with a more limited threat for some other powers.
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Faine Greenwood
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life under authoritarian regimes is like war: most Americans don’t know that it’s often really normal and boring, up until the rarer, horrible moments when it isn’t
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Graeme Edgeler
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In fact, it didn't even go quite that far. It said that if it was a core presidential power, you couldn't prosecute, if it was an official act you probably couldn't prosecute, but could prosecute if the prosecutor could show there was no risk to the functioning of the presidency.
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Graeme Edgeler
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No. SCOTUS didn't rule that President's have power to do these things: Courts would step in and stop them. SCOTUS rather said if the president did that, and it was an official act, you couldn't prosecute them once they left office.
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Josh Gondelman
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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Graeme Edgeler
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First watch through of Avatar the Last Airbender
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Graeme Edgeler
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I had this thought as well :-) I would also dispute that there is an effective ban on foreign donations. While donations from companies are still allowed, foreign influence through donations remains easy, given New Zealand's company ownership rules.
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Isaac
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The classic text on this by @chrislhayes.bsky.social is still jaw-dropping to read 20 years later archive.is/V3sbx
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Graeme Edgeler
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Donald Trump cannot resign. He is not currently in office.
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Graeme Edgeler
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They call for him to lose, which seems stronger
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Graeme Edgeler
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NYT editorial board shortly after Trump was convicted:
"The jury’s decision, and the facts presented at the trial, offer yet another reminder — perhaps the starkest to date — of the many reasons Donald Trump is unfit for office."
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/o...
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John Dellaporta
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A few years ago, Jon Lovett floated a theory that media treats Democrats like protagonists - to be challenged, accounted, and forced to be behave in growth-oriented ways - while the GOP are treated like antagonists - immutable, expected to disrupt, thematic obstacles. Thinking about that a lot.
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Graeme Edgeler
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talk away
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Graeme Edgeler
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Happily there has been recent news where SCOTUS added rights: SCOTUS applied the 7th Amendment to administrative proceedings SCOTUS applied the rule of lenity for the benefit of defendants in prosecutions under 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)(2)
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southpaw
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The Court’s last case today, Fischer, sees Chief Justice Roberts limit the application of the 1512(c)(2) obstruction statute to Jan 6 insurrectionists’ conduct, joined by 4 other conservatives and Justice Jackson. It inspired a pithy dissent from Justice Barrett. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Graeme Edgeler
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I'm with Jamelle. Politically, it's Biden, and if its not Biden, then politically, it's Harris. But this is politics, not law, so I do feel like I have to note than the 25th Amendment is not relevant to who is nominee.
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Graeme Edgeler
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Biden probably should be the nominee
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Graeme Edgeler
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One way to make things clearer (not saying I support this, but if clarity is your sole aim): Biden resigns as President. Harris becomes President. She is then seeking renomination as President.
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Graeme Edgeler
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Closest analog in US politics is LBJ announcing March 31 1968 he would not seek the Democratic nomination for the 1968 election. There are eg's in other countries: Jacinda Ardern took over as leader of the New Zealand Labour Party 7 weeks before the 2017 election (she won, becoming Prime Minister).
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Graeme Edgeler
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the theory behind this is (as a theoretical argument, not actually pushing it): if the reason Biden is stepping aside is inability to actually be president for the next four years, Harris was involved in misleading the American public about Biden's ability to be president for the next four years.
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Graeme Edgeler
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Hey! They might have got the idea from watching this Outer Limits episode that aired the same year theouterlimits.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sen....
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Keith Ng
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all polls are bad but some polls are special
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Graeme Edgeler
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I did watch The Visitor on the recommendation of others, but I think the warning I received - that you needed more exposure to the series - was correct, As a first ep seen (I think?) it didn't really come close to Blink of an Eye..
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Graeme Edgeler
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The episode of Voyager I watched and loved was Blink of an Eye. The episode summary of the episode after it was: "Visiting aliens who have never before encountered music become fascinated with the Doctor's Opera singing, and ask him to leave Voyager and join their society." Probably no from me.
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Graeme Edgeler
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It is also wildly different from how I generally watch TV. I'm looking forward to watching the new season of SNW week by week. It just seems really unlikely that I'll sit down and watch 178 episodes of ST:TNG (which I did watch as a kid) or 176 of DS9 of 172 of ST:VOY, but some might be cool?
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Graeme Edgeler
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Do you have favorite episodes of TNG or of the other series? I watch an episode of ST:VOY based on some random YouTube shorts the algorithm provided and loved it (sampled some others and fine, I guess), but that one I've watched like four times.
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Graeme Edgeler
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A concussion is not a minor injury
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Graeme Edgeler
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Which means we'll have to wait and see, because it nay be how New Zealand law applies now and in the past.
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Graeme Edgeler
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I am open to the argument it will fail. I might even bet it would fail, whether in this case, or perhaps even generally, but it simply is not certain it will fail.
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Graeme Edgeler
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Given the dearth of cases on that ground, I don't know how one could be certain either way. Wait, dearth does mean lack, right?
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Chris Hayes
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Strongly agree with this. I *loved* one of the earliest examples which was a bunch of dudes competing to draw the most perfect circle.
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