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Kat
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Update: he is now the rider with the most sprint points and wearing the Green Jersey, the first Eritrean cyclist to do so! 💚💚💚
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Kat@longwayback.bsky.social |
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the middle of the venn diagram that is national security issues + geek culture. hellsite veteran. chaotic disaster bisexual. she/her. (header image by a softer world)
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Kat
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Update: he is now the rider with the most sprint points and wearing the Green Jersey, the first Eritrean cyclist to do so! 💚💚💚
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Josh Chafetz
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1/ I'm agnostic as to whether Biden should withdraw from the race. It's a genuinely tough question IMO. But I have clarity on one thing: He should absolutely not step down as president. If Harris becomes President, the Vice Presidency is empty. Under the 25th Amendment ...
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Meredith Rose
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Apparently the government of the Yucatán recently erected a Poseidon statue on one of their major beaches. It’s a very heavily Mayan area, where people still pray to Chaac, the god of rainfall. They’re now being slammed with 3 hurricanes and significant flooding, leading to memes like this
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Medusa’s Wink😉
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You need this today. For morale.
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Kat
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The Tour de France continues to be a ray of fucking sunshine this week. Mark Cavendish just won his 35th stage. He now holds the record for most stage wins of all time. At 39, he's one of the oldest riders in the Tour this year. Congratulations, Mark!! 🎉🚲🏁
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Daniel Drezner
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SCHOLARS:
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Josh Chafetz
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2/ Most of us don't like to remember it on a daily basis, but at the end of the day, our legal structures are layered atop the instruments of death, and at base--once everything else runs out--they depend on those instruments for their motivating power.
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Hayes Brown
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John Roberts must be the most neurotypical person in existence because the immunity ruling reads like someone who has never had a single “but what if…???” anxiety spiral in his life
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Kat
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"If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little. Even at the risk of being heroes."
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John Bull
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2nd July 1863. Battle of Gettysburg. For perhaps the only time in the entire war the Confederates seem to be winning. Dan Sickles, commander III Corps, is ordered hold on Cemetery Ridge. For reasons unknown he advances. Broken, his men begin to flee. This is the moment on which the war depends /1
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Kat
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LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOO!!!
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Kashana
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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.
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scott⚡️mccloud
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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).
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Paul Tobin
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Look, I'm willing to try anything at this point.
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Paul Crider
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Douglass speaks urgently to our crisis. "It was an honest president backed up by ... people ... who regarded society as superior to its forms... They resolved to save the country with the Constitution if they could, but at any rate to save the country. To this we owe our present safety as a nation."
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The Washington Post
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Hurricane Beryl is now a “potentially catastrophic” Category 5 hurricane, the earliest ever to reach that strength in the Atlantic. Grenada and the nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines were reeling from a storm that probably will be the region’s most intense hurricane on record.
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Kat
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Kat
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exactly. let's raise some heartrates.
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Kat
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of course biden would never use his newfound powers of immunity to drone strike scotus but he could buzz the tower a little, for democracy
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Kelsey Atherton
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"Expand the court" has gone from radical solution to the most exceptionally moderate option on the table.
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Kat
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(i jest, but I was really hoping for some of that J6!Biden energy--pissed off that people were out there wiping their feet on the fabric of our nation and ready to convince you that you should be be pissed too)
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Kat
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it was a well-written speech and well-delivered, but next time let Biden drink the whole Mountain Dew before you go live
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Kat
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can we give him the performance enhancing drugs this time
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Kat
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At least I got a good grade in having an optic nerve, something both normal to want and possible to achieve
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Pwnallthethings
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wait wait wait is it too late for "Today is the day Trump became precedent"
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Comics Outta Context
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Stephen
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Pwnallthethings
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Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
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Spencer Ackerman
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The president can legally order the Purge
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Kat
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big "but for Wales?" energy in this whole thing
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Kat
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Reading a book* about a 1947 lynching and tripped over this line that hit a little harder today: "Rather than an abstract set of rules and principles, the law was whatever respectable white men did to preserve their vision of the local order." *In the Pines by Grace Elizabeth Hale
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Mark Stout
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I bet the Secret Service is psyched to have to consider the possibility that one of their protectees might legally try to assassinate another protectee. Even if they calculate this is unlikely, it would something that they would Not Want To Screw Up. Low probability-high impact scenario.
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Kat
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the real question for SCOTUS is does the president still enjoy absolute immunity if he is homeless
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Marisa Kabas
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the supreme court is an extremist organization being treated like a pesky HOA
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Adam Serwer
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The “joe biden has the chance to do the funniest thing ever” jokes are now literally correct
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Jonathan Ladd
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The words in the constitution don't give the president immunity, nor was that the intention of the authors. But you must understand that the meaning of the constitutional vibes have evolved over time in a way only I can detect. Now there are penubras and emanations that tell me he is in fact immune.
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Kat
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One thing today that isn't flaming garbage: Biniam Girmay just became the first rider from Eritrea to win a stage at the Tour de France 🇪🇷🚲🏁
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James Downie
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Sotomayor's dissent is chilling: "When [the president]...orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune."
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Nicholas Wallace
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If the lower court understood the present moment, this would be its response: "The court is surprised this needs to be said, but anything related to a coup attempt is not an official act. That includes all of the conduct in the indictment. Trial begins September 1st."
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Pwnallthethings
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The central thesis of the case here is just ... wrong. That's not the crux of the dispute. USG always always always maintained official acts are immune and non-official acts are not. That's the easy bit. The hard bit is deciding if an act is official, and SCOTUS just punts on that actual core
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✨brit ✨
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tired: got them brain worms wired:
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ArtButMakeItSports
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The Ecstasy of Saint Joseph of Cupertino, Italian School, 18th c, 📸 via @NBCOlympics
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Lar deSouza
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Cartoon: Don't be sad Pride Month is ending tonight. Let us also remember that it is Bannon Goes To Jail Eve!
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Philip Bump
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Everyone in Busytown is trying to find the guy who did this.
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Kat
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train and bean are definite highlights! also recommend: lake, pizza, dinosaur.
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Pwnallthethings
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And yes, Biden's nominees and staff have done some genuinely good things. But also ... we should not be here. We should not be here as a country. It is outrageous. People should be outraged. Everyone involved in us being here should be banished to the top of a tall mountain to repent for it
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Pwnallthethings
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Truly infuriating that we all have to pretend like any of this is normal. Like, yes, Biden is better than Trump on every possible axis of measurement, in the same way a scarecrow, or a small child wearing a blue ribbon, or a person who literally thinks they are a tree would be better on every axis
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southpaw
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We have the first Category 4 hurricane to develop in the Atlantic Ocean in June.
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Kat
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LRS - the time in college that my friend had an energy drink and felt compelled to run 8 flights of stairs and move his car + I had the same energy drink and just felt more focused should have been a clue.
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