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Tahir Duckett@tahir.bsky.social |
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Executive Director + Adjunct Prof. Georgetown Law Center for Innovations in Community Safety. Policing, consent, soccer, food. He/him.
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Dave Levitan
@davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Ppl with kids in the District of Columbia on July 4th... Bedtime. How? Help??!!?? Should I just leave town?
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Can editorial boards be saved? There *might* be more embarrassing writing happening elsewhere, but rarely with the audience and backing of WaPo or NYT's absurdly out of touch, ill-informed group of nonsense peddlers.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Wop bop a loo bop a lop bom bom Tutti frutti, oh rootie
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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.bsky.social
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Fucking unbelievable that the big publications are running with this as the lead story after the Supreme Court just promised to install a convicted felon rapist insurrectionist as Emperor for Life.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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The NY Times continues to be the most embarrassing version of itself.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Jennnnnnnn 😭😭😭😭😭
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Brendan Nyhan
@brendannyhan.bsky.social
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Official act. Immune.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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We are really not designed to be this angry, this incessantly.
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people.
reason.com/2024/07/01/s...
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Like what are the Dems doing if they're not starting every interview with a reference to this quote bsky.app/profile/mmfa...
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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A lot of this is on the Times but a lot of this is also on Biden and the Dems. Dems shouldn't be talking about ANYTHING but the Court. But not only do they refuse to full-on run against the Court, they're the ones giving quotes and tidbits that are fueling the fire. Embarrassing party.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Ah gotcha. I mean I do think that's already his message but I think for lots of us there's some skepticism that he'll actually do anything, even if he gets the chance. Seems pretty anti court reform.
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Sam
@very-simple.com
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So based on decisions from just this week, the President, as long has he has the gloss of officialdom, can basically do anything without legal restraint, whereas the President, acting via duly appointed agencies authorized by Congress, is more restrained than ever? What a coherent jurisprudence!
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Wait sorry how do they do that without packing the Court?
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Yes
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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The case for abolition, UBI, universal housing and healthcare has the power of moral force. Couching these positions in the idea they’re actually secretly popular muddles the argument and elides the very real work that needs to be done in convincing people.
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Nails Nathan
@chadstanton.bsky.social
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In general, I think it’s important to remove the argument for leftist positions from the idea there’s an overlooked silent majority just waiting to support them if only for the machinations of the dastardly elite.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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I've heard worse ideas!!
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Gautham FC
@gauthamrao.bsky.social
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on the very day the Supreme Court's conservatives said 'we know best' and put themselves in charge of complicated agency decisions one of the geniuses confused nitrous oxide and nitrogen oxide. So they had to have a do over. Not exactly an auspicious start.
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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Jailing people for being homeless is a classic American policy: stupid, brutal, and very expensive.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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I'm also just embarrassed by how BAD the arguments in the opinions are. The finest conservative minds in the nation and we get, "banning sleeping outside is no different than banning public alcohol use." Bro what????
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David
@finagle-a-hegel.bsky.social
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This is my sense of it as well. As with so many right wing projects,, the chaos will be fun and exciting to them for a while, but eventually things will get so baroque and absurd that they'll start slowly walking this back and maybe 10 years from now they'll make a new Chevron
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Max Berger
@maxberger.bsky.social
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We've reached a point in American political life where the vast majority of the public and much of the elite agree our political system doesn't work, but we've not yet reached the point where anyone is proposing changing it at the scale of the problem.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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This opinion is nauseating. Textbook criminalization of poverty. Too poor to afford a bed? We'll just jail you.
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Josh Chafetz
@joshchafetz.bsky.social
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Gear up for several years of doctrinal chaos as courts try to figure out how to deal with regs in complex areas that the judges can't possibly understand ...
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Elizabeth Picciuto
@epicciuto.bsky.social
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From a non-tech person’s point of view, the AI discourse went very quickly from “there’s a 78% chance this will end civilization” to “we’re installing this in all dishwashers, stepladders, social sciences research, and novellas and you will be so so grateful”
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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
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A phenomenon that galls me: *continues to spend time on a toxic, miserable social platform* *constantly screenshots example of the toxicity and misery* *brings screenshots over here because we were just dying to know how it was going*
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John Pfaff
@johnpfaff.bsky.social
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I think it’s hard to understate the extent to which two-century old history is incomplete, contradictory, and subject to multiple interpretations—and thus fundamentally incapable of providing the sort of clear guidance Originalists claim that it can.
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Saeed Jones
@theferocity.bsky.social
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“A study that followed a cohort of nearly 34,000 women, found that those who frequently used chemical hair-straightening products, a majority of whom were Black women, were two and a half times as likely to develop uterine cancer as those who did not use the products.”
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Telephone Friend
@ironyhat.bsky.social
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Everyone who still uses Twitter in June 2024
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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When we talk about "taxing rich people" there's folks who think we're talking about Aunt Edna who has the second summer home. The astronomical levels of "rich" that now exist are almost unfathomable to people. It's the stuff of vast empirical dynasties. We're talking about taxing emperors.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Someone saw the Elizabeth Holmes playbook and was like, "let's run it back"
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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Remember when Obama decided to get “tough on immigration” in 2014 to win over voters in the center and his own staffers were like why did we do that, it won us zero votes and alienated some of our base? Reposting for no particular reason!
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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My dentist told me: Listerine, floss, brush, fluoride mouthwash with no rinse after, which helps get rid of the toothpaste but gives the benefit of longer fluoride exposure
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Johnny Killoran
@johnnykilloran.bsky.social
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this decision by the MLB that gambling is bad is brought to you by MLB partners FanDuel and Draft Kings sign up now for $300 in free bets with promotional code “TUCUPITA”
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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We have given so much power and influence to the dumbest people on earth.
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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“Turning Red” is one of the realest movies I’ve ever seen about the adolescent experience, wtf this is such a galling reminder that stories about fathers and sons get framed as “universal” but stories about mothers and daughters are “niche” and “not everyone can relate”
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Oh yeah 100%, I can't imagine a single way to defend the process choice... Just a tiny edge case for the outcome.
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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Perhaps to have access to documents that were supposed to auto-save but because Microsoft can't seem to do that reliably, often doesn't? Obviously not worth the tradeoff and you could, ya know, just make auto-save reliable.
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Adam Serwer
@adamserwer.bsky.social
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Remember when the most important issue was civility in politics because restaurant workers politely decline to serve Sarah Sanders and now everyone targeted by Trump or his cronies needs private security and we don’t talk about civility much anymore www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
@audrelawdamercy.bsky.social
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Where's that legal ethics professor who told the Washington Post a couple days ago that it was “impossible” to believe that Alito “knowingly chose to fly the flag upside down knowing its political message”?
I just wanna talk
ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains. (I don't know any albums by the rest of these bands but will forever take the opportunity to celebrate the best album of the 90s)
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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Glad that the ICC is adopting the correct position of "There's room at the Hague for everyone."
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Perry Bacon
@perrybaconjr.bsky.social
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"If anyone is being subject to undue propaganda, it’s the American pundit class that only reads each other, that flows in and out of cocktail parties with the very people behind the leveling of Gaza," writes Adam Johnson. inthesetimes.com/article/bide...
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Tahir Duckett
@tahir.bsky.social
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You know SCOTUS justices don't actually prioritize originalism over preferred policy outcomes b/c if they did, they'd spend resources - any resources - on in-house, independent professional historians to help them make sense of dueling historical claims link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Matt Gabriele
@profgabriele.com
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jfc @jbouie.bsky.social nails it
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