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Sean Flaim
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Meanwhile a week later on the OC boardwalk
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Government litigator with interests in antitrust, IP, cyberlaw, and privacy. Views = own != legal advice. He/him/y’all.
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Sean Flaim
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Meanwhile a week later on the OC boardwalk
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Sean Flaim
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The fact that the Overton window has shifted so much that people think this is within political bounds is what concerns me the most. They are effectively declaring that democracy is for suckers.
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Joe Katz
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"They're just fearmongering about Project 2025," brought to you by the people behind "They're just fearmongering about a coup" and "they're just fearmongering about abortion bans"
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Sean Flaim
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Also check out this combo cooler and portableS peakers. It’s Tricky!
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Sean Flaim
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Beach time.
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rahaeli
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If you are going to be protesting anywhere near the Republican National Convention, write the NLG number on your stomach in Sharpie (not your arm: cops use that as "evidence of premeditation"). They are fucking superheroes. Give them money to keep being superheroes: www.nlg.org/donate/
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Sean Flaim
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Traumatized for life though. My Grandmother saved every scrap and refused to throw things out due to her childhood during the Depression.
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Sean Flaim
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The thing that worries me is I took care of three elderly people whose grasp on things gave way to dementia closer to the end of their lives. So what I've seen of Biden seems awfully familiar to me, even when he has teleprompters and is giving great speeches.
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Dr. Holly Walters
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Don't forget the Sharpie.
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Katie Mack
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I kinda feel like now that the Supreme Court has declared it legal for a president to straight-up murder people they don't like, it's probably even more important to not elect people who seem extremely inclined to murder people they don't like
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Sean Flaim
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My wife’s mom was a missionary in Spain for two years and she’s completely fluent in Castilian Spanish.
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Sean Flaim
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Judging by my interactions with people both in and off social media, virtually everybody is very unhappy with the Supreme Court's immunity decision. Even my 95 year-old grandmother is angry.
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Sean Flaim
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When I was in basic training, most of the other kids with me were not politically aware at all. The few that were swung to the left. Once I was done, there was a lot of heavy recruitment of the same kids by religious orgs like the Mormons, and those people virtually always ended up on the right.
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Sean Flaim
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It occurs to me that Biden could just start ignoring Supreme Court orders because he has absolute immunity for his official acts. Let's see how John Roberts and his compatriots handle that.
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Sean Flaim
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I wonder if this is how it felt in the days just before Augustus Caesar took control of the Roman Republic, turning it into the Roman Empire.
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Sean Flaim
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I mean, he could order DOJ to lock up the six conservative Justices and according to them he’s immune from any consequences.
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Popehat
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I don’t think it’s an exaggeration at all to say the decision threatens the Republic. I might not have said so in 2015, before I saw how triumphantly lawless and autocratic the President could be, and how so many people would applaud it or at least shrug.
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Sean Flaim
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In the past, I would have thought that the American public would have reacted with total revulsion to the concept that a President is above the law. Today - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Sean Flaim
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Days like this I think as a lawyer, what the fuck are we doing here. It's all just raw power disguised as law. And it happens whether you are the President or a pauper, only the latter is seldom protected by the law.
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Sean Flaim
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Endless Screaming
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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The Silvered Spherical Ideal Median Voter
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In a lot of ways the entire Republican establishment since the 70s has been dedicated to making sure that what happened to Nixon would never be allowed to happen to one of theirs again
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Sean Flaim
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So I guess the President can order Seal Team 6 to murder a U.S. Citizen and since that's a core part of the President's Commander-in-Chief power, he is absolutely immune from prosecution for doing so.
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Sean Flaim
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Every single one was picked because they were devoted to Biden. So if he told them someone else, they'd do it. If just left to them without such advice, who knows what they would do.
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Sean Flaim
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Congress could completely override most of these decisions but since they favor the party of obstruction, what incentives are there to change things.
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Sean Flaim
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Someday, as the world becomes a smoldering ember, I'll be able to tell my grandchildren that I was there when Loper Bright & Corner Post came down.
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Sean Flaim
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Whelp, the one-two punch of getting rid of Chevron and allowing anybody to form a new corporation to sue decades after a rule becomes final is here. I'd hate to be teaching admin law come September.
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Sean Flaim
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I've made this mistake before. You have to give the brief some enticement.
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Sean Flaim
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Happy Steve Bannon Goes to Jail Day for those who celebrate.
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Sean Flaim
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Ok, people. Time to stop being so gay.
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Sean Flaim
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Turley (WTLF, 2016)
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Sean Flaim
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Pffft, he’ll love it. It’s been almost in weekly rotation around our house for the last six months.
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Sean Flaim
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What about "put on your grannie panties?" Because that means you can just lounge around on your porch sipping out of a large cup of gin and juice that you are pretending is just fruit punch. Bonus points for telling kids to get off your lawn.
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Sean Flaim
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I’m a huge fan of the people he chose to help him run the government. And that when he’s been called on to make decisions at the top, he’s made a lot of good ones. I still have some skepticism in my heart about him because of his decades of lawmaking in areas that really hurt some people.
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Sean Flaim
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I don't particularly mind the aesthetic, but the downstairs looks like a place where everybody there is wearing lab smocks and face masks while they divide and bag up the drugs to sell elsewhere.
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Sean Flaim
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This is why my motto is block early and often.
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Sean Flaim
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Obviously, all of the big bads should now be creatures with wings or magical abilities. Dragons polymorphed into human form, liches who can feather fall as a cantrip, etc.
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Sean Flaim
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Oh man, that's an epic game. I think the most I've gone is 2 1/2 years. I'm in the middle of prepping to DM a new group using all the new (to me) online tools, and I feel the prep work is as much as studying for the bar.
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Sean Flaim
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Personally, I think people scared of an open Democratic convention overestimate the support that Biden has. This isn't a situation like Obama/Clinton when some people swore they'd never vote for Obama if Clinton didn't win.
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it's fucked up that in the united states there are so many jobs that require tips to make a living wage. like baristas and supreme court justices
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Sean Flaim
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Even if the House only doubled in size, to 870, we'd still be a lot more representative than we are now.
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Sean Flaim
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The Constitution would still be workable had two things not happened: 1) a bunch of "states" filled with no people got established in the west, with corresponding representation in the Senate; 2) the House hasn't expanded its size since 1913, even though we now have 3.6x more people than in 1910.
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Sean Flaim
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I read this in as best a Scottish brogue as I could manufacture and it sounds even better spoken.
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Sean Flaim
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Usually takes me 30 minutes tops.
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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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Sean Flaim
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In particular, it was Earth fiction from the 20th century and we already have Star Trek set in the same period, e.g. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, set in 1986 San Francisco
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Sean Flaim
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At this point, "he's too old" seems baked into the equation. What I'm more concerned with is "he's not competent."
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Sean Flaim
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Meanwhile, the New York Times continues to beclown itself into irrelevance.
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Sean Flaim
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I'm currently prepping to run a D&D game starting on July 8 and I think the prep work is more intensive than actually teaching a course.
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Sean Flaim
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ATREYU!
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