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Nick Garcia@nwgarcia.bsky.social |
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Medical Laboratory Scientist, biologist by training, fan of comedy, punk rock, heavy metal, guitar, comedy, movies, cooking, animal videos, and politics.
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Nick Garcia
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I fucking love not having a king, because I'm an American. I have hot, red blood in my veins, and I love that Americans get to govern themselves.
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Nick Garcia
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Smaller is also ok by me. To make a point, etc!
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Nick Garcia
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So I am catching up on reading @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com books and so far I've read American Gods, Norse Mythology, and I'm in the middle of the back half of my Sandman trades and Coraline. Anyone have good recommendations, Neil or otherwise based on those readings?
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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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Nick Garcia
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Lots of service members I've known have been fairly conservative. However. They also have a very low tolerance for stupidity, and no patience for shirkers. I imagine it is a very hard sell to get them to like a draft dodger who regularly asked why we can't nuke hurricanes.
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Phil Lewis
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NEW YORK (AP) — Rudy Giuliani is disbarred in New York as court finds he repeatedly made false statements about Trump's 2020 election loss.
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Nick Garcia
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Sorry. You want the only *Black* man with an openly pro-liberation left wing voice at the Times to martyr himself!
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Nick Garcia
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If you are a pragmatist, as most leftists present themselves, you want MORE Jamelle Bouies writing for the NYT. If you are a whiny internet poster, you want him, a grown man with a family and a huge platform to express his left wing voice, to martyr himself.
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Nick Garcia
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The actors were doing their best, because Lucas was pretty clear that he didn't want to direct them, and poor McGregor has to convey being heartbroken about Ani even though they're separate for almost all of it, and is asked to be annoyed/disapproving dad and not caring dad in their shared scenes.
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Nick Garcia
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Why does the mystery and its solution get totally ignored by the 3rd act? Because George assumes children (why, George, why?) understand that the Jedi are getting played by Sidious at every turn, so the mystery doesn't matter, and he needs a big ending set piece!
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Nick Garcia
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I think the Obi Wan storyline is a great microcosm of the entire prequel trilogy, good and bad. It's conceptually interesting, but becomes a mess when filtered through George's brain without editing. Why is there a noir homage in a kid's movie? Cause George likes that stuff!
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Kelsey Atherton
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I am so tired of the already elected saying that things hinge on the next election. Do more now and run on it. If I was president the day I learned that crimes were legal for me I might act on that knowledge and get the Supreme Court in line.
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Nick Garcia
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Knowing nothing about Watergate, a few years ago I decided to read about it, and imagine my face when I saw the name of the person who helped Nixon accomplish the Saturday Night Massacre.
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Nick Garcia
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See that is the only part that I can't wrap my head around. I can see them giving unfettered power to an idiot, but that particular idiot will punish them, *personally*, the first time they deliver a decision that even slightly annoys him
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Nick Garcia
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Order Seal Team 6 to break into Alito's place and turn all of his furniture upside down when he's out of the house.
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tinybaby
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wait is watergate retroactively legal now
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Nick Garcia
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And also Nixon can order an Attorney General to fire Cox.
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Nick Garcia
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That's the conservative position, yes.
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Nick Garcia
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Drone strikes and Seal Teams are fun to talk about, but if Biden isn't giving some pretty explicit directions to DoJ today since the Court's opinion affirms that is an official POTUS action, then I don't know what we're even doing here.
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Nick Garcia
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Yep. A lot of people semi-seriously suggesting Biden abuse the power they've nominally just given him. That would be fun, but I think the move here, which he should've done 3 years ago, is plead to Congress to put some restraints on his office. Codify all the norms Trump broke.
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Nick Garcia
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One of the few completely correct, uncorrupted ideals of the American revolution is "Kings are anathema to human liberty."
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Paul Crider
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With the stated intent to engage in a massive deportation roundup, the option to use the Insurrection Act, and SCOTUS-bestowed immunity, I think it's worth noting how fast the total Trump takeover will occur. Weeks. That's it.
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Nick Garcia
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Even if it is actionable, this Court has so narrowly defined a bribe that the President would have to be recorded while someone hands him a check and says, "this is a bribe so you'll pardon John Doe," and the check says "bribe" in the memo, which he then signs and deposits in his personal acct.
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Nick Garcia
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Griffith is down the road from me, and is most famous for being the city mentioned in A Christmas Story where a "clodhopper" swallowed a yo-yo, an event Ralphie's father calls "real news."
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Nick Garcia
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In a functional republic, Congress would do exactly what the Court does to them and say "SCOTUS didn't give us a rule to determine 'official acts' so we passed a law defining official acts." But that's probably not gonna happen!
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Nick Garcia
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Things like courts and laws and voting in a republican system give people an orderly way to handle disputes without killing each other. They keep the heads of rich people on their shoulders, but the rich always, always, always get up over their skis, because greed is insatiable.
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Tom McAllister
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this newspaper headline is the 1930 version of encountering an incomprehensible trending story about some Twitch streamer with 4 million followers
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Nick Garcia
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Yep. I see very few prominent people noting that, and fewer noting that SCOTUS is saying that the Executive branch does not have the power to understand laws they are tasked with executing, which is... Insane?
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Asawin Suebsaeng
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It is wildly, unquestionably maddening how the Republican nominee is a widely and intensely loathed figure who is also a convicted criminal who is awaiting trial for stealing state secrets & staging a bloody coup attempt, and oh by the way he got hundreds of thousands of Americans killed & oversaw…
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Nick Garcia
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Correct. Additionally, they mean the following: women showing any skin at all, anyone wearing anything the worst homophobe you've ever met considers for "<slur>s," and basically any form of art that isn't a literalist interpretation of a Bible story.
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Nick Garcia
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It is instructive who they think should avail themselves of the democratic process and in what circumstances. Democrat has a bad night at an unusually early CNN debate: Removal by elite institutions. Republican tries to overturn election: Somehow, trial by new democratic election.
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Nick Garcia
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I'm now vaguely recalling it may have also been something Beau related? Grieving time or the like?
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Nick Garcia
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My personal view is that Biden would've beat Trump in '16, and I'm a little surprised I don't see more people criticizing him for not running that year. But I also don't clearly remember why he didn't run that year. We'd be wrapping his 2nd term or a less destructive Rubio term, or whoever.
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Nick Garcia
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Maybe it's a distinction without a difference, but I'm starting to think that Douthat's job is to sell the weirder RW views to liberals, and Brooks' job is to pretend that most Republicans aren't actually weird.
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Nick Garcia
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That's true. It's still wild to me though that a lot of death and suffering in this country is almost certainly the result of very low level corruption, i.e. "I want it to be easier for any idiot to become a cop in my town, because my son, an idiot who wants to be a cop, flunked the exam."
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‘Yes, chef’ I mutter while refilling the cat bowl.
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Nick Garcia
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She's not going to cast him in that new Fantastic Beasts that is definitely gonna come out. And then he'll be sorry!
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Nick Garcia
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It's inescapable. Local town council member ran for reelection last year. Mostly standard stuff on her mailer... Except "Update police recruitment standards" which seemed out of place. Turns out her son didn't make the cut!
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Nick Garcia
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Tapper asked him if he wanted to deport every undocumented immigrant and what that would actually look like, and he ignored it to jump back to attacking Biden about Ukraine. I would've pledged my soul to the elder gods to make Tapper force him to answer the question.
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Nick Garcia
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Yes. It's also convenient that treating Republicans this way means you will receive fewer plausibly serious death threats.
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Tyler King
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This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.
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Nick Garcia
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Yeah that one is the only real consequence we might see with a ton of pressure. I mean, if the response to a justice taking millions in bribes is a polite invitation to chat with the Senate, then #1 and #2 are never happening.
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Nick Garcia
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I hope the SCOTUS judges live to regret doing this, and that the suffering caused by the workload for them and all the lower courts is mighty. They deserve it.
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Nick Garcia
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I think *they* think it's gonna be a lot of "Out of the way EPA! Drill, baby, drill!" cases they can greenlight, and are unprepared for the dry specificity and sheer volume of cases deciding whether there is a typo in the law describing the assay method for trace impurities in imported steel etc.
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Kieran Healy
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Overturning Chevron is going to usher in an era where self-taught judicial expertise in technical areas such as chemistry, statistics, mechanical engineering, biology, geomorphology, epidemiology, mathematics, and many other fields will once more be able to shine forth as it did in the Middle Ages.
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Nick Garcia
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Hell awaits these judges.
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Nick Garcia
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The largest, most reliable bloc of Dem voters are Black women. There is no universe where the party says "The 2nd in command, the person we elected for the express purpose of succeeding Biden if he can't do the job, now has to scrabble with everyone else to be the nominee" without a revolt.
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Nick Garcia
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For 8 years Trump has been saying that doctors kill live born babies and I can't believe no one has even said, "Wtf are you talking about?" To him. He says it all the time. It's one of the craziest things he says. I don't get it.
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Nick Garcia
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16 minutes for fuck face to accuse doctors of committing infanticide. I'm gonna lose my mind.
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Nick Garcia
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Hypocrisy isn't uniquely American, but we have put up some incredible numbers
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