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Trump already gave pardons to his lackeys. They either intended this or they gave the last few years of rulings from a coma.
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Nonbinary journalist covering state politics, LGBTQ+ rights, and reproductive rights Bylines at Teen Vogue, LGBTQ Nation, and the Baltimore Sun
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Trump already gave pardons to his lackeys. They either intended this or they gave the last few years of rulings from a coma.
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It's even worse than that. While you can't do that for an individual job, we can see what hiring practices are better in general. Study after study has shown that racially diverse companies outperform their monochrome competition. Their goal isn't "the best business," it's "the whitest one."
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It feels like breaking the law should immediately disqualify it as an "official act." Maybe we could have a group of their peers decide whether or not they broke the law after lawyers for the defendant and the government present all the relevant information?
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That was bad, but I'm more scared of his statement that we should let Israel go in and "finish the job." He gave a direct answer about his policy on Israel/Palestine, and we should take it seriously. It's practically the only specific plan he gave in the entire debate.
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Law Dork
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“Chief Justice John Roberts announced the latest — and biggest — step in a continued judicial aggrandizement project on Friday.”
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social’s report on Friday at SCOTUS —>
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To use your example, it would be more like saying "You can't charge someone with murder unless the victim dies instantaneously. If the victim survives for even one second, that's not a crime." It's now legal to murder someone. All you have to do is let them bleed out, or drown, or poison them.
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I have been checking Geidner's bluesky feed every decision day. Before that I was following his coverage of the judge shopping investigation into LGBTQ rights lawyers - and the laughable double standard applied to actual judge shopping by conservatives. There's no better legal journalism than his.
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Are they allowed to cut it up like Thomas Jefferson did and teach from that? That's a historical document from a founder. No miracles or prophecies. Moses wrote the ten commandments and said to follow them. Jesus was a smart person who died - no resurrection, no virgin birth. A founder's faith.
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What an insane strawman. "Do you support building more housing?" "I oppose totally unfettered building with no zoning or regulations." Also, does he actually think *zoning* is what bans sex work in the US? ZONING?? He's either an idiot or flagrantly making bad faith arguments.
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Me: "I mean, there's something to be said about the way social media allows digital blackface and hides how much of 'Gen Z' slang is actually decades old AAVE/Black language that's been whitewashed." Me: "Oh they meant this in the 'old man shakes fist at cloud' way. Nvm."
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Urgente: Gato
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I'd say "destruction of public property should be minimally connected" simply because lots of protests involve blocking big roads for marches. I've seen people use minimally connected language about road closures as well, which is where "it should be disruptive" applies.
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Yep. I understand it to be a weaker genetic link than schizophrenia or depression, which themselves typically will not "cause" their associated mental illnesses without major life stressors as the trigger. It increases the probability, but isn't deterministic in the way hair color genes are.
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That being said, the genetic links are weak and complex, so it's not like there's a direct line. It's more reasonably about the level of trauma the twins lived through, even if we could prove they have any/all of the genes linked to death by suicide
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There's some evidence of genetic links to suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, AND death by suicide, which is a shockingly distinct section. Only ~10% of people who survive a suicide attempt will die by suicide later, while ~half of all people who die by suicide have never attempted before.
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Plus they couldn't push a 3d update to my existing tv, so I could just ignore it. Now I have to add ‐"ai overview" to every Google search to keep that shit off my results
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Look, I had a fact checker ask me to source some truly obvious details once, and it took forever to get a response. Now I ask the dumb questions so I can point to the answer three weeks later instead of praying the professor isn't dying under a pile of term papers when I ask a follow-up question.
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In theory, but the rich people get to decide what evidence is or is not convincing to them, rather than having elected officials, experts, or regulators making the call. There's also terrible conclusions drawn from EA. "Should disabled people be allowed to live" is an ongoing debate, for example.
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Chris Geidner
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Here was my earlier post on the Louisiana-based Title IX case and Doughty, the judge who is hearing it, as well as Texas's case: www.lawdork.com/p/texas-loui...
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Law Dork
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Here is @chrisgeidner.bsky.social report on today's unanimous SCOTUS decision rejecting the anti-abortion doctors and associations' challenge to mifepristone on standing grounds.
From the court: "[A] plaintiff’s desire to make a drug less available for others does not establish standing to sue."
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Why wouldn't you go with "A swing revival band with only White members named 'Big Bad Voodoo Daddy' played at the 1999 Super Bowl halftime show next to Gloria Estefan."
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Jacob T. Levy
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Campaign ad that includes the correct precise numbers. Scrolling text: 60 courts rejected Donald Trump's claims that the 2020 election was stolen. 900 people convicted or pled guilty to January 6 crimes. 10 Trump lawyers disbarred or facing disciplinary or criminal charges. 1/
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Repost how old you are using a vague proxy: I remember being excited when we got cable internet, because that meant I could play games online *even when someone was talking on the phone.* Bonus: I remember pop songs using the word skeet, so I refuse to call posts here skeets.
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ACM and the other hospitals are arguing the government didn't give them as much money as it should have for treating low-income patients. They claim that hospitals in rural and underserved communities need the help to stay open. Idk enough about the system to say which ruling I'd prefer.
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The US tries very hard to downplay the president's role as commander-in-chief of the military. People know that a close relationship between executive and military authority is a recipe for dictatorships, not democracies. That's also why right-wing fascists use the CiC title a lot.
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Brendel
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The Joker does not arrest the Batman but the Batman still arrests the Joker, this is what is called “hypocrisy”
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Yeah, it's only been in the last few years that I could build actual muscle. I'd get definition, but no mass. Even when I was working out 4-5 times a week in college, I was 195 lbs, which is just barely out of bean pole territory
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I have a theory that the tallest person most people have met is 6'5". A weirdly high number of people guess I'm 6'5", then tell me about their cousin/friend/neighbor that's 6'5"
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I'm 6'7" and I wish I was 6'3" instead. Chairs, clothes, cars, planes, desks, bikes - nothing is made for my height. Riding uber is like Russian roulette where losing gives me a crick in my neck for an hour
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Scalia received a little over $200,000 in 12 years, from 2004 when this data starts to 2016 when he died. Thomas averages about $200,000 *every single year.*
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Yeah, I'm proud of my TDB article on trans people being forced to leave their home states, but also worried it won't be a great publication to include in my clips in the near future
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Even if he orders the cheapest steaks/entrées, no appetizers or drinks, that's still around $12,000 a year at Mortons before tax or tips
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Over the past two years, as anti-LGBTQ bills and laws were proliferating, a secretive investigation into the lawyers behind many of the challenges to those laws was going on by several federal judges in Alabama. It’s still not done. Part 1, at Law Dork —>
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My sister almost quit nursing in 2020. She worked in the ICU. One day she told me her job was now to sit next to someone on a ventilator until they died, then they would be replaced by a new person on a ventilator. That's what she did every day for a year. I'm glad that's not true today.
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It comes out of the "safe, legal, rare" framework, even if the writer isn't aware of why they're focusing on those cases.
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Who among us didn't grow up with a troop of improv jazz band Silverback gorillas? Aside from everyone who is a Dalmatian or mermaid-turned-human, of course.
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If you can't figure out the opening, write it out of order. Write something you know will be there - a description of a person or place, an explanation of a policy or decision, whatever. Sometimes it's easier for me to have three or four disjointed grafs and ask "OK, how do I connect these?"
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Disney is known for universally relatable blockbusters like "all of us are toys," "only I am a wooden doll and I want to be real," "I'm a mermaid who became human," and "We're dogs at risk of being turned into a coat." You know, the every day, every person experiences we can all relate to.
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However, it DOES have an office budget to pay for video recording so you can live your certainly lifelong dream of pretending you're a cable news anchor in 2 minute clips. (Nothing against news anchors, but if that's what I wanted I would apply for that)
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I've heard people oppose AI images for human rights scenarios because the image will reflect the assumptions of whoever wrote the prompt. How skinny/fat are people? How dirty/clean? What's their skin color? Are they disabled? It shows the biases of the prompter, not reality, which gets dangerous.
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I’m gonna need all 331 of you who reposted above to read and share this:
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Someone who breaks out the thesaurus for "news velocity" but can't be bothered to spell check "Janelle Bouie"
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There's a pernicious belief that laws are basically complex math problems. People think SCOTUS just has to use the right formulas. Poor decisions have nothing to do with the judge's beliefs, they just did the math wrong. Unfortunately, interpreting a law is just as political as writing one.
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One of the biggest issues right now is that we have an anti-democracy party and a pro-democracy party, rather than conservative and progressive parties. Current Democrats include people like Manchin, who is obviously a pro-democracy conservative. Progressive priorities are stalled by that reality.
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It does work though. Democrats are demonstrably more progressive post-Bernie Sanders/the squad, even if they didn't go all the way to their positions. "Outside" left-wing candidates absolutely create space for moderate Dems to become more progressive.
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When I read they suppressed it I didn't expect "The creators say the FBI was involved. They pulled the film from theaters after 3 weeks and destroyed almost all copies. Only one negative survived, which was locked in a vault and cataloged under a different name for nearly 30 years."
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I'd add the anti-junk fee campaign Biden is running in here. Regulations on what you can be charged for and how much the fee can be are also great ways to bring down household expenses.
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Extremely well done and important radio journalism from 1A on Texas' war on trans youth and their families, including interviews directly with families most impacted. Please share widely.
the1a.org/segments/tex...
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They changed the rules so women get the same number of shots in 2013 and now women hold all the Olympic records in 10 meter air rifle
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I don't know enough about the sport, but I'm guessing this is like when women started winning air rifle competitions, so they made separate women's categories and then gave them fewer shots (60 for men, 40 for women) so they couldn't break the men's records.
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