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You’ll feel different about that when you’re older. He/Him

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In the meantime the UK electorate voted strategically (meaning they prioritized getting the Conservative Party out by coalescing around the middle of the road party instead of splitting the vote or staying home) and got this on day one.

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

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Hemry, Local Bartender's avatar Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social
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The discourse around biden needing more sleep is fully insane. Does no one remember "Executive Time," the thing Trump spent the majority(!) of his schedule on where he would just watch TV and tweet? Dude was categorically unable to fulfill any of the demands of the office and the press barely cared

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.

AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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When the impeachment happens hammer on the fact that the senate already declined to convict a POTUS for this. Talk about Biden wanting the outcome to follow the popular vote not just Trump wins. Say a real free and fair election a LOT. If the Democrats can’t pull it off then they really are useless

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If it were me I wouldn’t abolish the EC as much as bend it by doing things like ordering the VP to only certify under specific rules. Mirror that part of the J6 plan as much as possible and highlight that.

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Impeachment is a dead letter. Civil suits would take too long to matter. Even if some judge did to fast track it then Trump’s efforts to overturn his state convictions get a lot more complicated which is a win for Biden

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The idea that’s growing on me (which means it must be really, really bad) is that Biden should formulate and announce a plan using his new powers to sideline the EC and certify the next Presidential election based on the popular vote. Demonstrate how much power Roberts just gave the president

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It’s a coup if Biden handles the PR poorly. (So a genuine risk, to be sure.) Otherwise it’s deft handling of the opening the Supreme Court gave him

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At the rush of repeating myself, if we’re talking about this kind of thing would it make more sense to just declare that the popular vote will decide the election instead of the electoral college?

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Agreed but we’re well into “the constitution is just a piece of paper” territory. It sure looks to me like the choices Biden has are to either take off the gloves or hope that our apartheid state ruled by an emperor phase goes better than Russia’s is

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Just as a thought experiment, if Biden wanted the winner of the 2024 presidential election to be decided by the popular vote instead of the electoral college is that in the scope of his new powers?

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Right, I forgot about one of them blocking the other. I think I can still call it a win

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Does “blocked” mean I blocked them or they blocked me? Either way I’m taking it as a win

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The far right showed up and voted for people to the left of them long enough to be seen as reliable allies by Republican candidates who made more efforts to appeal to these voters. You have to appeal to the party, not the other way around

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If progressives were willing to consistently vote for candidates to the right of them for a decade or so they could take over the Democratic Party the same way the far right took over the Republicans. This is also why progressives will never take over the Democratic party.

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The old CEO’s house is on the market and has the same aesthetic

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I don’t know what’s more depressing here, the fact that he’s passed away or how old the statement that you were introduced to him on Roseanne as a young teen made me feel

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Dave Karpf's avatar Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social
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Credit where it’s due: Elon Musk wanted the Cybertruck to have a futuristic, movie-based-on-Philip-K.-Dick-story vibe. And sure, it’s no Blade Runner. But what we’re looking at *is* a Total Recall.

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My hot take is that the internet cares way too much about spoilers. They don’t matter and letting go of the idea that they do made movies and TV much more enjoyable for me

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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”'s avatar The future producer of “Himbo Heist” @legalminimum.bsky.social
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This is exactly what we need. Let’s go back to the good old days when executives did time.

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The method returning a string and the declared return type being void is also insightful commentary

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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Gonna get back on my hobby horse to remind folks the point of the second amendment was to prevent the federal government disarming slave patrols in the slave states, not to prevent states regulating private firearms (which they did)

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I was never in the ‘Boeing killed whistleblowers’ camp. I wouldn’t have been shocked but I was, like, 90% sure they didn’t. But I don’t know what legal calculus gets you here that doesn’t involve pinning a couple of murders on some executive that died of cancer recently.

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Review bombing the most potent expression of impotence.

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When my Dad died I missed the phone call because my phone doesn’t ring for unknown numbers any more.

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Ah, to be on that jury. “Your honor, we find the defendant guilty. And also the plaintiffs. This is a death penalty case, right?”

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If you know how to set up a custom search on a browser then just add &udm=14. For everyone else there’s this

udm14.org

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Jacob Montgomery's avatar Jacob Montgomery @jacobmontgomery.bsky.social
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This is five times the annual budget of the NSF. Its like funding the Manhattan project and ending up with …. nothing.

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Pwnallthethings's avatar Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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I think one of the really under-appreciated things in the US is how much SCOTUS' statutory interpretation decisions are damaging--and they are--but almost exclusively because of /Congress/ being a failed institution.

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Mine are more like a magic 8 ball. “Are you paired to my phone yet?” “Answer unclear. Try again later”

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Ginevra's avatar Ginevra @ginevra.bsky.social
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Angela Basset convinced the dogsitter to feed her only sliced turkey and treats for a week

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I’ve said this a zillion times but I switched to a not chronically underfunded VA primary care provider/facility from a top of the line PPO and I’m getting just as good, if not better, care from the VA. It’s almost like certain people don’t want vets going around saying single payer works

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Oh, that’s right. The Federalist is for people too embarrassed to admit they read InfoWars and NRO is for people too embarrassed to admit they read The Federalist. I had a whole hierarchy of embarrassing right wing media back on Twitter

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NRO is the one for people too embarrassed to admit that they read InfoWars, right? I’d be interested to see their position on a flag burning amendment. I’ve got $20 on super hypocritical

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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the wild thing about FIRST BLOOD is that at no point does the movie stop to try to explain why these cops hate this random vet so much. it’s just like “listen, you get it, cops fucking suck.”

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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Social media platforms can undermine the spread of misinformation. But in the last couple of years they have simply chosen not to.

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