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jag (aka j00bar)
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Isn't it nice to know that the question of "Can a President pardon himself?" was largely moot?
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jag (aka j00bar)@i-am-j.ag |
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Flawed but growing human, doing his best. Staff software engineer @ Hungryroot; co-founder of @seekhealing.org; TEDx speaker; Autist; Formerly Red Hat, Ansible, FSF; he/him; Asheville, North Carolina
Ask me for my Signal username if you want to DM.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Isn't it nice to know that the question of "Can a President pardon himself?" was largely moot?
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל
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jag (aka j00bar)
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(Shameless plug: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy8f... - can't believe it's been five years)
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Beautiful modeling of permission! I'm reminded of the book "I Don't Want to Talk About It: The Hidden Legacy of Male Depression," which catalogs examples of toxic masculinity culture making it hard for men to do this for each other. It helped inspire my TED Talk on the emotional lives of men.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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That's a really beautiful and powerful healing of intergenerational trauma - I'm happy you can heal together that way. 💛
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jag (aka j00bar)
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I'm a fake-licensed attorney and graduate of the T. Greg Doucette School of Internet Lawyering. As your fake attorney, I advise you not to threaten or commit acts of violence against federal officials and especially against federal judges. That's all.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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But every case, the person just couldn't see that they deserved to love themselves like that, to empower themselves and give themselves permission. It changed a lot of the ways I could let myself just be autistic/ADHD. The more I normalized it for myself, the more others treated it as normal too.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Dr.: "Put them through the dishwasher twice." Her: "Huh?" Dr.: "If it doesn't clean them in one cycle, run it again." Her: "My dad would be so mad at me if he saw that." Dr.: "It's not his dishwasher." Her: "Isn't that wasteful?" Dr:. "Not if it gives you your life back. It's a great use of water."
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Or a patient who felt defeated when she came home from work to a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. She had a dishwasher, but it sucked. You had to hand wash them before you put them in the dishwasher to get them clean. She berated herself for being crippled by something so small. So she'd get drunk.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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The doctor said, "Take it with you when you leave." Her: "Like, the curling iron?" Dr.: "Yeah." Her: "But it won't fit in my bag." Dr.: "So carry a bigger bag." Her: "With a curling iron in it." Dr.: "Yeah." Her: "But that's so weird." Dr.: "So?" It worked.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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One patient had trauma from having left her apartment with the curling iron still on. It burned down half her apartment. In the wake of it, anxiety that she'd left it on again was ruining her life. She couldn't be out with friends. She couldn't focus at work. Even if she checked it before she left.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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After I got my autism diagnosis, I saw a talk by a therapist encouraging us to find those acts of radical self-love, things where you say "fuck it" to the stories about how it makes you different and where you give yourself the love you need to make your life simply livable. She gave great examples.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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I think it's hard because it's such a radical act of self-love, and particularly for neurodivergent people (doubly so for AFAB ones) we've had a lot of the self-love bullied out of us by parents, teachers, and peers. Add more if you have poverty trauma and must get over the story it's "wasteful."
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Lol "part 1"
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Bethany Albertson
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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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cc: @niedermeyer.io - we were talking about this possibility in a thread a few weeks back I think.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Do: Share your opinions of their work, integrity, and aptitude to sit on the bench. Do _NOT_: Threaten them with violence or harm.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Biden directs the appropriate cabinet secretaries to forgive the loans. Court says no. Biden doesn't care. Promises every government official a pardon for going along with it and helping the scheme. Ultimately, now, what remedy exists?
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jag (aka j00bar)
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It's worth considering they intended to provide Trump an avenue to overturn his NY State convictions in a way that SCOTUS could rubber stamp. By casting a wide net of the presumptively immune and precluding evidence of intent or contemporaneous statements, there's not much of a case left.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.
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Katie Mack
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Keeping Trump out of the White House isn’t the only thing that needs doing and it isn’t enough to solve all problems facing the country & world but if it isn’t done then all those problems get exponentially worse in ways I don’t even know how to express and it scares me when people pretend otherwise
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again
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jag (aka j00bar)
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A stock with far higher than unusual ownership by retail investors and a complicit media willing to uncritically amplify any of Musk's batshit insane ideas he had while stoned combine to create a pool of rubes to bilk for cash by the professional investor class playing along.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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roberts essentially ignores the purpose of separation of powers, which was not to create entirely separate spheres of action but to prevent the emergence of unchecked authority. instead, he says, separation of powers *demands* unchecked authority.
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Paul Crider
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I would like to see Biden give an address to the nation from the Oval Office explaining what the SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity means and what its possibilities are. Then hit the campaign trail attacking "the MAGA Court" for shredding the Constitution to give felon Trump license to crime.
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Nicholas Wallace
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Absolutely wild that the court accuses the dissent of "fearmongering" with "extreme hypotheticals" when the actual basis for the indictment is a coup attempt that led to an attack on the capitol
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Don't forget to notice the cases she's citing there at the end.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Ooof. Pulling no punches on pointing out the hypocrisy and lack of consistent principles....
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jag (aka j00bar)
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I also appreciated her barb to the majority's selective reliance on history/tradition (note the case being cited).
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jag (aka j00bar)
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It's Sorkinesque, except if Aaron Sorkin were a Nazi.
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Yechiel ⍼ יחיאל
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Here's your reminder, that no matter what SCOTUS ends up ruling on the trump immunity case, they ALREADY handed trump a victory by allowing him to delay this far and effectively preventing the case from going to trial before the election.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Modern journalism needs to evolve. It's used to simply presenting multiple views of the same consensus reality without arbitrating among them. We're now in an era where the Republicans have rejected consensus reality. Journalists must now advocate for the actual truth, and they're bad at it.
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Blue Heron Farm
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I wrote to the Tractor Supply board today. Here is what I sent. Even if you've only ever bought one thing there, I encourage you to write, as a customer.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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They're following Colbert's advice.
www.c-span.org/video/?c5122...
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jag (aka j00bar)
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jag (aka j00bar)
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There are only two kinds of Trump supporters. 1. Those who like him because of his racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic/xenophobic/etc positions. 2. Those who are willing to look past all of that in order to get something else they care about more. That's it. That's all of them.
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Butt teeth! Butt teeth! Butt teeth!
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In case no one has told you lately: 1. You are strong 2. You are beautiful 3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus 4. You are deserving of love
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jag (aka j00bar)
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WHY DIDN'T YOU WARN US BROOKE YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING
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jag (aka j00bar)
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The way LLMs like ChatGPT suddenly emerged and irreparably poisoned all subsequent publishing is going to be looked back on like the way that PFA's ruined all water on earth or how above-ground nuclear tests tainted all steel manufactured since. There's no going back to the before-times.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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I once believed that it was immoral to vote for the lesser of two evils and voting my conscience was moral… which is precisely wrong. It is immoral to do what feels good for me regardless of the harm it creates for others. Biden or Trump will win in November. It's not a hard call for me.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Sure it is. Whatever you're wanting to say by not voting isn't going to be heard. Either Biden or Trump will win. You get a say in which or you get to leave it to the rest of us. I know you think it's a moral and principled stand you're taking, but it's really not.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Indeed. A non-vote is saying "Either one is fine with me, y'all decide."
i-am-j.ag/blog/posts/p...
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jag (aka j00bar)
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So imagine a Just Asking Questions guy, except they're on the federal bench.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Watched a panel of undecided voters last night, and it's an incredible abject failure of the press and the DNP that voters are able to see _any_ sort of equivalency between these two guys.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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I drop little French expressions into conversation. My grand-mère spoke French (and Yiddish) in the home, so I picked up the habit. This morning, my girlfriend (who does not speak French) in saying she didn't know something, said: "Juneau St. Paul." It took me a minute to figure it out and it's 🥰.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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I mean, when you make a really clear and convincing argument like "Not really, no," how could anybody disagree?
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Thanks, that's very helpful.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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It's not a bribe. It's a "thank-you" trip on my private jet for an all-expenses paid vacation. Obviously different.
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jag (aka j00bar)
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Fascists need to create a story: any attempt to hold them to account must always be unjust and corrupt, so that they are able to frame themselves the victims, and therefore when they destroy the system and employ violence on their opponents, they will call it justice.
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