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Ryan North Miller 🌻@ryannorthmiller.bsky.social |
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Amateur pundit. Patent attorney and IP litigator. Sci-fi movie geek. Former rivethead DJ. Opinions my own. Here for the lulz.
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Julia Azari
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i am an American and I only call people "sir" when they're a service worker cleaning up after me and I feel awkward about the dynamics and need to cover by being extra respectful. Or if a stranger has toilet paper on their shoe.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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I mean, he is English.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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NBD
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Popehat
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Heritage: it will remain bloodless so long as the libs agree to take cyanide.
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Corey Rayburn Yung
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It's incredibly disturbing how little attention the media is paying to an insurgency that will lead to a permanent seizure of power. It's all right in the open, FFS.
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Nicholas Grossman
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A president supporting court packing for the explicit purpose of reigning in presidential power, including his own, after a Supreme Court made a wildly un-American, precedent-breaking decision to expand it, would be making the best case for a president to support court-packing.
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Pwnallthethings
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It's what the founding era leaders* would have wanted King George
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Josh Gondelman
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I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.
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Andrew Parker
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The only people who benefit from a fatalistic belief that the right-wing has irrevocably won (and nothing can be gained by ensuring they don’t win elections) is the right-wing. They want you demoralized. They want you focused on “why didn’t the democrats stop this” to distract from hating the GOP
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Roxane Gay
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The Court ruling today is terrible but expected. I will just gently remind everyone that the election hasn’t happened yet. We shouldn’t assume the worst outcome as a foregone conclusion. That only encourages more apathy than many are already feeling.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Are there good races to put some money into to help drive turnout?
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Seth Cotlar
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Guys, hear me out. "The Originalist Case for Monarchy."
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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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Nicholas Grossman
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Trump tells his rally crowd Chuck Schumer has “become a Palestinian.” Second time this week he’s used “Palestinian” to describe non-Palestinians he dislikes as if the word is a slur. I remain skeptical of the claim that Trump becoming president next year would improve the lives of Palestinians.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Everybody's lost their damned minds.
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Pwnallthethings
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Annoys me that folks accept the framing that this is about "peace talks". It's not. It's about surrender terms.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Also: THERMOS was at one time a trademark that had nothing to do with William Stanley Jr. Alas.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Wow. This is pretty close to an automatic block.
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Peter
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this has always been the meat of the Alito stories. not just that there’s a “scandal” in the traditional sense, but that he is legitimately a moron
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Timothy Burke
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thinking about how Trump pardoned five different convicted murderers and Biden won't even pardon his son and how it doesn't matter, at all, nobody cares about either thing
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Apropos of this conversation: bsky.app/profile/jaco...
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Yup. Though this is a good time to note that extremely online is not real life.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Definitely, but that particular squabble is between those (frankly on the left, center, and right) who see MAGA for what it is (and understand the need to band together to defeat it) and those so blinded by their grievance (again in the left, center, and right), they want to watch the world burn.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Indeed, though I have other thoughts on that. The wider parallels from the utter capture of the right down to the ideological squabbles between the left and center are pretty stark.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Reading this rather reminds me that far too many people in this country are unfamiliar with the political history of the Weimar Republic.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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ryan cooper
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my observation is that the Gaza war is so atrocious that people are powerfully motivated to come up with some way that voting will solve it. simply not the case alas
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Pwnallthethings
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but, again, this is why: Trump-45 was constrained-lawlessness, so extremely damaging and chaotic, whereas Trump-47 is planned as unconstrained-lawlessness, and taking aim at the bedrock norms directly. So the country will just straight up break under it.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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The Black Cauldron. Rewatched it when we got Disney+ and...yeah, the 80s were a special time.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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So, there's a pretty stark historical analog to that, but I am cognizant of Godwin's law and do not feel the need to go down that road here. Next time we have a couple beers in us maybe.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Yeah that was...not ideal. None of it is. But the consequences of getting wrong are that *everything* gets worse. In some cases by a lot. That's what wieghs on me.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Not lecturing anyone. Merely noting that my choice in the voting booth is a pretty clear one. And the "Biden has been terrible on Isreal" line is a conveniently reductive rationalization for disavowing the consequences of the failure to collectively act at this moment.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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I will! bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Who wants to be a hero.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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My recollection is that he would be a Scalia-lite. That was way off.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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Yeah should have waited. Just saw you answered that in your third post.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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In this analogy, is "college" a circuit court seat or...something else?
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Corey Rayburn Yung
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I'm not denying that the Alito flag story is worth covering. But, the better evidence that Alito is a partisan hack can be found in his opinions.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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This.
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Peter
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they made this same polite request of Roberts last year and he gave them the finger. he will almost certainly do the same this time. the Dems are at a crossroads with the courts. if they want voters to understand this as an existential crisis for democracy they need to act like it is one.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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"Basketball Player Blames God For Poor Performance"
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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36 people died of "evil".
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Seth Cotlar
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“This super-rich dude who seems to be good at making money doing one specific thing must also be a philosopher-king qualified to wield influence over every aspect of American society” is such a profoundly dumb, yet fairly common assumption.
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Ryan North Miller 🌻
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TFW the candidate openly talking about SEAL team raids and drone strikes *IN MEXICO* is seen as the peace president. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Seth Masket
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"I've said it before.. there is somebody, paid, not-paid, but they are radicalizing our students"
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Corey Rayburn Yung
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If you care about Palestinians, you need to do everything possible to keep Trump out of office, which means voting for Biden. Voting 3rd party b/c you believe Biden is actively facilitating genocide might soothe your conscience, but it won't help Palestine. It's self-indulgent, not moral.
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Nicholas Grossman
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I care about college students' opinions more than most, and I can't believe "Hundreds of College Students Protest at University of Over 36k" is the no. 1 story in the country, with top outlets doing live updates, placing those updates higher than updates about Gaza, and pushing Ukraine out entirely.
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