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Programmer/Analyst, occasional content creator; Enjoys a fine cuppa coffee. Politically active out of necessity. he/him. šŸ’‰šŸ’‰šŸ’‰

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Thatā€™s pretty good. My brain went to a mylothecat/thisishowyougoviral mashup of Rowlf as Snoopā€¦šŸ¤£

youtu.be/3AarCpIOuUk?...

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Oh I knew it was gonna be bad the FIRST time around, too, but it just took the rest of the world six years to catch up to how far ahead of the curve the rest of us are.

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Me, having been talking about this/the buildup to it over the past 2 years to no avail, FINALLY seeing people start to take it seriously:

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Me, having been talking about this/the buildup to it over the past 2 years to no avail, FINALLY seeing people start to take it seriously:

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Probably.

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I am going to keep resharing this because everyone needs to know about what the GOP will do if they win this election.

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have you all heard of THE RADIUM GIRLS? if you havenā€™t, go look that up because any post i try to do wonā€™t be enough and will get suppressed. come back when youā€™re done looking up THE RADIUM GIRLS okay. you done? cool. okay so Clarence Thomas wants to get rid of OSHA

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So, after using a theragun on the area on my back the doc said had spasm'd(?), I felt a bit better. Then I took the muscle relaxer and what I think was just prescription Aleve and went to bed...*doodlydoodlydoodly* TEN HOURS LATER-! I woke up completely fine. Still a little tender on my back...

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Between the pistol and baton bit, I now want to see one of Scarlet's characters cosplaying as Aya from Parasite Eve because I'm sure that at least one of them could ROCK that.

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Was about to say ā€œDankPods has joined the serverā€ only to immediately stop his pkcellsā€¦

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Showed up in following, but I appreciate the notion. Though I think *Iā€™M* the one who needs to apologize; my own setup is a hot mess (minus the hot)ā€¦šŸ¤£

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Soā€¦THAT was a new experience. Iā€™ve never been hooked up to an EKG beforeā€¦ Before anyone gets worried, I had a weird feeling in my arm thatā€¦weā€™ll say INSISTED upon me I go get checked out because it could have been a NUMBER of things from meh to catastrophic. Currently in the lead? Pinched nerve?

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My first thought (before I saw OPā€™s post regarding the Tarzan ost) was just ā€”ā€œšŸŽ¶ The hurt doesnā€™t show, but the paaaaain still grooooows. Itā€™s no stranger to yoooou and meā€”šŸŽ¶ā€

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Oh. That wasnā€™t my idea. I was thinking we were still in the tar-and-feather phaseā€¦</joke>

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True. It should be met by the people doing to them what revolutionaries did to Loyalists back thenā€¦

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Sounds to me like an admission of weakness, like they know theyā€™d lose if it DID come to blowsā€¦right; guess I got 6 months to trainā€¦

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Amras, A Werewolf Story Īøāˆ†'s avatar Amras, A Werewolf Story Īøāˆ† @amras.me
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šŸšØāš ļøšŸšØ Share this FAR AND WIDE. šŸšØāš ļøšŸšØ

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The fact they put in a relief valve in the form of the courts getting to decide (and they wonā€™t let someone with a D next to their name do it, but an R? Game onā€¦) what actually counts for immune. So in addition to Biden not having the spine for such, he actually WOULD get prosecutedā€¦

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To be fair, it wouldnā€™t even take that & could happen (in select locations) even if Biden wins. Paper cases to overturn Obergefell but more importantly Lawrence have already been in the works. Coupled with budgeted spending on ā€œexpanded migrant facilitiesā€ that double as overflow prison space, wellā€¦

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Didnā€™t help that Iā€™m LEGENDARILY BAD at signaling. At a Ravnica MtG prerelease a month prior, she showed up with painted nails, green and black, and my only thought was ā€œyou painted your nails in Golgari colors for the team? Thatā€™s DOPE!ā€ and just completely missing all the other hints. Iā€™m dumb ltā€¦

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Iā€™ll admit, while aware of general targeting within the wider LGBTQ+ community, it didnā€™t really connect *HOW MUCH* fire was really being focused onto the trans community until late 2018 when one of my closest friends came out as trans Yā€™know, that bollocks about ā€œitā€™ll never happen to US/friendsā€

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Iā€™ll admit, while aware of general targeting within the wider LGBTQ+ community, it didnā€™t really connect *HOW MUCH* fire was really being focused onto the trans community until late 2018 when one of my closest friends came out as trans Yā€™know, that bollocks about ā€œitā€™ll never happen to US/friendsā€

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Well hey; at least bump stocks are legal now, apparently. Maybe the next step is a belt-feed mod to work with itā€¦

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Not 1, but 2, sorta. In addition to being one of the crew cleaning up a failed Canadian reactor post-partial-meltdown, he also stepped into the control room/other places at TMI at a time where scientists were literally still debating the possibility of a hydrogen explosion in the container vesselā€¦

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Iā€™m actually realizing today, as this continues to marinate and develop, it could become either of TWO Ken Burns Documentaries ā€” either the Civil War one of WWII, since all of the rulings from Friday/Monday, when taken as a whole are equivalent to The Enabling Act, which months after felled Weimarā€¦

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ā€œItā€™s only a war crime if you lose, ehā€¦ā€ -ā€œCanadaā€ on HabitualLineCrosserā€™s videos

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ā€”Or as Iā€™ve been saying: ā€œA Ken Burns Documentaryā€¦ā€

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Yā€™know, now Iā€™m just kinda realizing we got something in common with the Saiyansā€¦ WELP; Iā€™m off to go train for the fight thatā€™s comingā€¦

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Apparently when there is nothing left to lose, and it is getting DAMN too close for comfort at thatā€¦

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ā€¦and at this point, therefore, we must succeed at such. Partially a joke in that Iā€™m obviously not saying to revolt, but in that success in the short term is Trump loses, and loses in a way so spectacular that it drags Congress firmly blue as to expand the court and FIX THIS over the long term.

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No no no; thatā€™ll be NEXT year, when the wholeass Clean Water Act is up on the chopping block. </sarc> [ā€¦is not actually kidding; thatā€™s one of the challenges for next session.]

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I think thatā€™s the point. Means Eternal Slapping.

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ā€œā€¦WHAT?! TUESDAY!? F*CK!!ā€ Also realized that in my haste to finish posting, I mis(spelled? ordered?) LGBTQ+ rights. Iā€™m not fixing it/redoing the post; I think it serves as a testament to how much of a ā€œbrace for impactā€ moment in history this is, that there wasnā€™t time to spellcheck the post.

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šŸŽ¶šŸŽøšŸŽ¶ ā€œ& thatā€™s all until the Fall! Next season has some big ones, like challenges to Medicare, Lanham, ghost guns, the Clean Water Act, & LGTBQ+ rights! So buckle up and keep a firm grip on those handlebars until the next ā€œšŸŽ¶šŸŽøSC(r)OTUS TODAY!šŸŽøšŸŽ¶ā€ ā€œWhat timeā€™s the whiskey room open; I need a drinkā€¦ā€

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Sidenote: in Thomasā€™s concurring opinion, he went to so far as to say that Jack Smith was unlawfully appointed. I donā€™t think his voice alone on such CHANGES anything, but seems to suggest if a decision ever came to make Trump a king/dictator, he will rule in favor of it.

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Probably means J6 trial pushes to late next year, possibly ā€˜26, if it happens AT ALL. This was so broad it might actually have just given him a get-out-of-jail-free card. The other two are already on hold and the prosecution can be prepping their piles to present as soon as their cases can resume.

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What this appears to mean: all actions in Trumpā€™s criminal cases need to be separated into official/unofficial acts. Official while Pres are dropped as immune, official as FORMER litigated, UNofficial acts are fair game. They also brought into question the obstruction of official proceedings.

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[Trump v. US (6-3)] Itā€™s a split for immunity. ā€œCore functionsā€ of the President (appointing ambassadors, etc.) carry ABSOLUTE immunity. FORMER presidents can claim immunity for SOME official acts. No immunity can be claimed for UNofficial acts.

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Sidenote: Basically, if successful, those challenges would have barred platforms like Facebook and YouTube from moderating posts as stipulated in such laws (read: basically those laws wanted to stop platforms from moderating alt-right and N*zi propaganda)

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The court laid out some of the problems with the challenges, as well as some principles the lower courts can follow in order to build a better argument for later.

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[Moody v. NetChoice, NetChoice v. Paxton] Both cases were vacated because the lower courts did not properly consider the nature of their challenges and how to apply laws a state would add to such. Basically, Section 230 and the way platforms moderate/present content stands as it is - for now.

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Sidenote: given Fridayā€™s destruction of the Chevron Deference saying IT does not change existing regs, this new one probably means all EXISTING ones can now be challenged through this ruling. Looks like leaded gasoline and asbestos are back on the menu, boys!

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This effectively means any regulation can be challenged at any time, so long as a business challenger files suit within six years of noticing the ā€œdamageā€ (remember that legal damages do not necessarily mean physical ones).

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[Corner Post v. Federal Reserve (6-3)] Challenges to The Administrative Procedure Act are limited to six years from injury, not six years from an agencyā€™s final decision.

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šŸŽ¶šŸŽ¶šŸŽøšŸŽøšŸŽ¶šŸŽ¶ ā€œšŸŽ¶Yeah itā€™s the seeeeeason finale of SC(r)OTUS TODAAAAAAY!šŸŽ¶ā€ Letā€™s get right into it!

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If only he could dole out the kind of punishments he did AS the Doctor...*something-something immortally-suspended as a scarecrow that no one will ever see, hear, or know about, but trapped for all eternity held within a single moment on the inside...*

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Was about to say, he just had to be like:

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*realization that tomorrow is Monday*

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