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Except nobody believes any Democrat would do that
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Except nobody believes any Democrat would do that
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Got the clearance to return to jury duty today, and we were promptly told we weren't needed today. Which is good because I have also discovered that post-COVID "I've been standing/walking for more than 5 minutes and I feel like I'm going to sleep for a month now" fatigue
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Helen Kennedy
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On the eve of Independence Day, the Supreme Court rules the Revolution was wrong.
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Radley Balko
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This Originalist™ court has effectively immunized both the president and all federal law enforcement officers from any meaningful accountability. Because if there are two things the Founders cherished, it's the power of a king-like executive and armed agents of the government to act with impunity.
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Pwnallthethings
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Folks overfocus on the "what if drone strike opponent" question, but it seems to me the more relevant one is "what if President asks CIA to bug opponent's headquarters". Which normal people would correctly identify as a criminal action, and which, as I read this ruling, would be an official act.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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To me, this is the actual ruling. The ruling isn't that they can do anything. It's that the courts will be the final arbiters of whether what they did counts as an official act. And ultimately these same six ghouls determine whether any act is "official"
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Max Kennerly
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The GOP SCOTUS ruling on Presidential immunity, summed up.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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I wore my mask into court & into the jury room when we got sent in there. But if we had snacks I'd remove my mask while eating. Eventually one of the other jurors came in with COVID and no mask, 14 of us sitting around a table, I take mine off for a bit to eat a donut or an apple, go home with COVID
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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I've felt for a long time that politics and sports journalism both got boiled down to their absolute worst parts in and by talk radio. I'd always assumed the direction of influence was the other way but never had a good reason for that
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Neither does my need to eat food, so I remove my mask to insert food into my mouth.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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To eat the snacks in the jury room.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Like, a 2 man show would be called the Debate-Me-Bro and The Moderator.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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I wasn't clear. Both have airs of "please acknowledge that I am an intellectual" but my description of how was only directed at Klein. Yglesias does so by being contrary and condescending while Klein does so by "creating space for conversation" where none is needed.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Both Klein and (especially) Yglesias present this air of "I am an intellectual, please acknowledge it" though in different ways. This is in contrast to, say, Bouie, who starts with a set of principles and argues from there - admitting when he's wrong, but not retreating for the sake of conversation
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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He very much has that thing where he wants to demonstrate that he is open to the conversation and is not an ideologue and really started to embody this view from nowhere intellectualism. One of the things I've always liked about Bouie is that he comes off as just "he is who he says he is"
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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I felt like Klein got better after the split for a while but started doing more and more stuff that felt very "just asking questions" but from the (center) left. For a while I really liked his interview style but he kind of disappeared into a haze of credulity that put me off.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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If you see this you have to post a picture from your phone but don't explain it
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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They're also the intervention that is entirely the responsibility/fault of the individual rather than a shared social responsibility.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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I caught COVID last week (for the first time!) because we had started keeping snacks in the jury room (which we had been spending HOURS in every day) and so my mask was rarely on in the jury room for the entire time. One of those "good idea, not panacea" things.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Tomorrow is literally Day 5 of my quarantine. So far our family's quarantine process has worked - no one else has gotten sick. And my symptoms have been VERY mild and almost entirely gone. But still feels like, I dunno, not the best way to handle this when we have an alternative. 4/4
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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...I haven't been offered a chance to continue via zoom. Not have they just said all the jurors will just zoom in. Instead the county health office is calling me tomorrow morning to see if I'm symptomatic and if I've tested and I will probably be ordered back to court along with everyone else. 3/x
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Which they did eventually do. The next day after I called out with COVID as well, which would have taken the jury down to the bare 12 members - and I get the impression that that only happened because I did not ask to be excused entirely and offered to join via Zoom. But... 2/x
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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The wild thing for me was when one juror called out with COVID and the court reacted by offering masks if people wanted them and reminding us to monitor our health. I kept expecting them to send us home for a few days to make sure more jurors didn't get sick. 1/x
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Age verification systems are surveillance systems. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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That's only a step or two away from a Dean Scream, though! Think of the children!
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Here's a thing I find particularly interesting about CVS in particular: My local CVS has half the store behind locks now, but half a mile down the road the Target with a CVS in it has almost nothing behind locks other than electronics.
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The purpose of society is to give people the tools to flower like a fucking mallorn tree, and we are doing pretty badly on that atm
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Oh, also be sure to always explain in very basic terms who these outside experts are and why their additional input is needed. If the consultant does something insane, like gesturing to the employee during a meeting and saying "Exactly! They get it!" be sure to take a very important phone call.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Look, you can never ever take the advice of a person that's done it before. Otherwise you won't be being a disruptor or something. You hire those people in the hopes that they'll agree with what you already decided. If they don't, hire consultants and hope they do. If they don't, ignore all of them.
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Coach Finstock
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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Would that make them madder or sitting down with the LA Times?
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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He balked at a single-payer healthcare plan in the state. He has been overly cozy with big tech because he's been counting on their tax dollars instead of working to reform the state's broken property tax system. And the GOP knows every personal secret of his prior to his split with Guilfoyle.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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The man violated his own COVID rules, blatantly ensured that his friend's restaurant chain was immune from minimum wage hikes, and spent most of his time since winning a recall election against a talk radio host doing a stealth campaign for president instead of governing the state.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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As a Californian, I have to agree. The man is 50 gallons of hair gel in a trenchcoat who looks like a strong contender because he's a Democrat in California running against California Republicans - who are seriously the most rake-stepping group of people known to man.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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That's just standard operating procedure
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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I do not blame my cats. Their favorite person in the world, who is also my favorite person in the world, has abandoned the three of us to an uneasy arrangement where the lone human in the room does not like to be slept on or head butted while sleeping and is a dick with the laser pointer
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Day 3 of quarantine: I have now watched all of Dark Matter and Manhunt on Apple TV. I dragged my music stand and one of my ukes into the bedroom and started practicing and then remembered that the windows are open. I am convinced our cats are plotting against me.
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Popehat
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.
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Pwnallthethings
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So to recap, SCOTUS says: * We justices are the executive branch now * The majestic equality of the laws prohibits both rich and poor alike from sleeping under bridges * Obstructing the certification of the president after an election is, at least in isolation, very cool and very legal
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The Chief Justice has no clothes, but the Court has ruled 6-3 it is inappropriate to notice
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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This is...insane. The man is not well.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Cinnamon altoids? Is death an option Instead?
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Sent a message asking my doctor if I should look at taking Paxlovid because my symptoms so far are pretty mild (mostly feels like a sinus infection, low grade fever in the morning) and instead of answering my message with words, he just sent a prescription in. I actually find this very annoying
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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To be fair, I am not from Boston and I also get emotional about the Great Molasses Flood.
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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This is the correct answer
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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Matt Robold (rumdood)
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Update: No remote juror, but I have not been excused and have to test and call in on Monday to see if the trial can resume with me or if there's going to be some plan B.
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