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Max Kennerly
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I'd love a civil war. But no casualties, and no disruption to my lifestyle. Other than that, all good!
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17 years in court as a law-talking guy for plaintiffs, now a mix of stuff. Posts too much about politics. email max@kennerlylaw.com
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Max Kennerly
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I'd love a civil war. But no casualties, and no disruption to my lifestyle. Other than that, all good!
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Max Kennerly
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To decide the nominee, Democrats should play a game of Dungeons & Dragons—in 40 two-hour-long segments televised at 3am—with Bill Maher as the dungeon master. I am a savvy political commentator.
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Adam Bonin
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There's no longer any ceiling to how wackadoodle Republican lawsuits can go. As @elliemargolis.bsky.social has flagged, the sovereign state of Missouri, being unable to invade or embargo New York, has instead sued it before SCOTUS to try to aid Trump, because ... reasons.
ago.mo.gov/wp-content/u...
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Max Kennerly
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Yup. The GOP SCOTUS knows what an evil person would do with the power, and they carefully wrote the opinion to: 1) Excuse Republicans who will gleefully break the law, such as Trump. 2) Retain the looming threat of punishment against Democrats. Win-win.
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Max Kennerly
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<sighs loudly> <goes over to markerboard, angrily erases "talentless, overvalued hack"> <writes "innovator, humanitarian, truly great artist"> <sits down and stews>
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Max Kennerly
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LMAO, it turns out "X" actually does have a manipulated media policy, which I have only ever seen applied to me.
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Max Kennerly
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It was buried by other news, but, as a reminder, at the debate Trump gave a complete bullshit answer about Ukraine, literally copying Nixon's fake "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Neil Stenhouse
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One of the best descriptions of this kind of phenomenon I have seen. When your job/identity depends on making abstract rationalizations, you’re going to keep making them however real world circumstances change
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Max Kennerly
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People like Fallon start from the premise, "Can I imagine some explanation in which this thing, standing alone, can be fitted into a principled legal system?" I mean, yeah, sure, that can be done for anything. But doing so makes you a collaborator and a propagandist, not an honest & wise scholar.
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Max Kennerly
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London needs the Shard, the Sherd, the Shird, the Shord, and the Shurd.
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Max Kennerly
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It's a particular type of Lawyer Brain, the Wine Party Lawyer Brain. If your job and/or identity is being Mr. Smarty Pants who comes up with abstractions to explain away current events as fitting some principled form only you can see, then you'll just keep making up those forms no matter what.
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Daniel Feldman
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Mississippi is the poorest state in the US.
Even though the state gets federal welfare funds, it is difficult to get welfare.
The money was all getting stolen, and they got away with it.
Now the journalists who exposed the story are facing a lawsuit and jail.
www.nbcnews.com/investigatio...
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Max Kennerly
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Yes, it seems to be a non-issue that 78-year-old Donald Trump was incapable of staying awake during his own criminal trial. He's a spring chicken, you see, the very picture of youthful vigor.
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Laura Helmuth
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This is predictable but so important: Pasteurizing milk kills the H5N1 bird flu virus that is circulating widely in dairy cattle. It's easy to take a 150-year-old technique that has saved countless lives for granted, but don't fool around with unpasteurized dairy products. 🧪
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Max Kennerly
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Can't say I know her entire biography, but I think it's a fair assumption that she knows jack shit about France. What she does know is how to be racist.
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Max Kennerly
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I wouldn't fault you for that, she sure played it up that way. I just assumed she wasn't, given her history, and how she always skirted being explicitly progressive. But that's details. We both completely misread what an enormous racist she is. Yikes yikes yikes.
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Max Kennerly
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They both pretended they were. Carville at least tried, for a bit. Rahm Emmanuel was a chump from the get-go. I'll never forget, "I don't give a fuck about judges." Maybe you give a fuck now, Rahm.
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Max Kennerly
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Someone who I didn't think was progressive but who I assumed was reasonable went full-on "if the right-wing takes over France it's because the ungrateful immigrants tried to destroy the country" and welp.
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Wagatwe Wanjuki
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surged 48%. for a mass plagiarism tool that tells you to eat rocks and glue.
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Max Kennerly
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Me: Mornin' Drew. You: Mornin'. Me: Are you aware of how many penised lesbians are pushing to access female spaces? You: What? Me: Let's talk about your kinks. I assure you that your kinks include—wow you look so uncomfortable discussing this, which just proves my point.
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Max Kennerly
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My favorite part is how she doesn't even pretend the "lefty straight man" is a friend. It's just some guy—probably a barista or some employee at a media company—she cornered and then subjected to a deranged rant while he tried to escape.
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Max Kennerly
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One thing that annoys me about the Democratic consultant class is how they act like they're brass-knuckle streetfighters and yet don't have the stones to run nonstop ads about Trump's extensive connections to Jeffrey Epstein. It's all true! It's documented! There are photos!
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Col. Boozy Badger
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Judicial palate cleanser from me: The dissent in Commonwealth v Noel, 857 A.2d 1283 (Pa. 2004)
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Max Kennerly
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"Democracy Dies, We Hope" --The Washington Post
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Adam Sharp
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THE EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR IDIOMS: Romania vs Netherlands 🇷🇴 A slang Romanian version of “every cloud has a silver lining” translates to “a kick in the ass, a step forward” vs 🇳🇱 A very old (16th century) way of saying “it is what it is” in Dutch is “who knows why the geese go barefoot?”
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Max Kennerly
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Under the law, even the latest SCOTUS case, Trump's actions at issue in the state court proceedings were clearly not "official acts," and so he's not immune. Nonetheless, my professional opinion is, "idk what will happen, good odds SCOTUS leaps in to save him yet again."
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Max Kennerly
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FWIW, Trump argued that in the NY criminal prosecution and the court rejected it, holding the relevant evidence just couldn't be construed as "official acts" anyways. Question though is after it winds through NY state appeals, if Trump petitions SCOTUS for cert, do they grant it and reverse?
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Max Kennerly
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Counterpoint: if someone is a persuasive communicator of values you share, it's good to have them on the tallest soapbox you can find.
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Max Kennerly
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As 18 billion people have told me today, such a post is a literal threat on the former President's life or whatever. x.com/MaxKennerly/...
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Max Kennerly
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Correct. A prudent, law-abiding President who appoints qualified agency personnel to enact thoughtful regulations is going to see their agenda inevitably fail. A malicious, arbitrary President who runs around barking illegal commands at people will be rewarded.
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Max Kennerly
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It's a bit problematic how Biden has (a) narrow, limited power to have his agency draw up a student loan forgiveness process consistent with the statutes passed by Congress; but (b) complete immunity to tell everyone at Dept of Edu, "mark those loans as $0 or I'll put you in a pine box."
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Max Kennerly
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Yup. The Constitution includes a narrowly-defined legal immunity for members of Congress in a specific circumstance. Not one word about Presidential or Supreme Court Justice immunity. Those parts were made up out of thin air.
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Max Kennerly
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Yep. I'm 42. The first election I was old enough to vote in was decided by 5 Supreme Court Justices leaping in to stop a state recount, admitting their legal analysis was a one-off, then never analyzing any future case the same way. And it will be like this until I die.
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Max Kennerly
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Max Kennerly
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It's the centrist compromise: a President who isn't 100 yet, but will be as President.
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Max Kennerly
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It's time for Dem politicians to take a stand on something, and that something is, "who is the oldest possible candidate we can field?" That's right: Jimmy Carter.
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Max Kennerly
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I have a simple plan: 1) Joe Biden gives a tearful speech about the need for someone younger to lead. 2) Contested convention. 3) By secret ballot, Dem delegates select the new candidate: Jimmy Carter.
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Max Kennerly
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IMHO, in current circumstances, there's no way to have a contested convention that doesn't leave a substantial portion of potential Dem voters disillusioned, angry, and less likely to vote for the candidate. The margins of victory are too narrow, and the non-voter rate too high, to risk it.
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Max Kennerly
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If Biden drops out, there are two options: (1) the incumbent Vice President, who is already on the ballot; (2) someone else. (1) Has strong arguments for being the consensus candidate. Maybe they work and Dems rally. (2) Does not. Not any of them. Guaranteed chaos, infighting, and bitterness.
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Ashley M. Gjøvik
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🧵 I’m sorry to do this to you, but there’s a Part 2. I waited to share this part because I worried most of you'd not be able to handle all of this at once. But you’ve had a week to recover, so let’s dive into how Apple execs are giving themselves bonuses as a reward for illegal dumping! ⬇️
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Max Kennerly
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEI7...
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Max Kennerly
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Yep. Kamala Harris is routinely described as inept, incompetent, would fold under pressure, etc. Love her, hate her, whatever, but a person who went large city DA -> state AG -> US Senator -> US VP is not some trifling dilettante. They're necessarily a power player. But she's a Black woman, so...
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Max Kennerly
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2016: I'm fine voting for a woman for President, just not Hillary Clinton. 2020: Or Elizabeth Warren. 2024: Or Kamala Harris.
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Max Kennerly
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LMAO yup, only one of those team names I wrote is fake.
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Mirya Holman
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One consequence of the SC ruling on homelessness is that it further centers jails (esp rural jails) as THE social service provider in communities. That's... bad. AND it means that sheriffs make policy decisions abt who gets these services. Their individual attitudes matter for these decisions:
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Max Kennerly
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Tour de France started today, don't forget to pick which team you want to root for, such as "Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe," "Team DSM–Firmenich PostNL," "Decathlon–AG2R La Mondiale," or "Flippenspiel–Orf79 Bloppin."
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Faine Greenwood
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Watching the Tour de France, which I actually really like as it’s a pleasant French travel documentary with lots of cool aerial shots concealed as a sporting event
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Max Kennerly
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Word from the other replies is that pictures don't do it justice, it is a hideous monstrosity that can only be appreciated in person, and that is the essence of Cyberstruck, that your very soul has been tainted by experiencing its presence.
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Max Kennerly
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Thank you. For what it's worth, I never post on Facebook and virtually never comment, but made an exception to reply that they were going to become what every Cybertruck owner will eventually become: a plaintiff.
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Max Kennerly
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It is a bad design though. Given the amount of vertical space, the before/after numbers should be atop each other, so they begin at the appropriate location. (And even better, with the margin of error included visually...)
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