@Legal_Fil

An acquired taste, like iocane powder. Wholly unwilling to spellcheck my tweets.

Joined July 2024
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If you describe what is occurring in the US as a “coup” or “fascism,” or refer to the elected government as a “regime” (left or right), I have deep contempt for you. Your cosplaying as oppressed makes light of the suffering of those who have lived under actual authoritarianism.
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As if that is going to do the trick for the election.
Faytuks Network
@FaytuksNetwork13m
US authorizes emergency release of up to 400,000 oil barrels from strategic reserve, putting the SPR at the ⁠lowest level since 1982.
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The responses to this are something else.
Yeerk.P 🦆
@PYeerk18h
No, actually, I'll say it again for you: grandparents are entitled to hug and kiss their own grandchildren- I am entitled to go and hug my own mother without getting "verbal consent"- this is what it means to live in a loving family and you are not going to take that away from us
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Derek T. Muller@derektmuller43m
I wrote about the issue this morning:
Rick Hasen@rickhasen5h
#ELB: Citing preamble to NVRA, DOJ sues to enjoin certification of Alaska’s Senate race (it won’t go anywhere) ift.tt/mP0Sd16

Citing preamble to NVRA, DOJ sues to enjoin certification of Alaska's Senate race (it won't go...

The Department of Justice has filed United States v. Alaska in federal court. The gist of the case is this: there’s a risk of voter confusion from having two Dan Sullivans on the ballot, and the...

electionlawblog.org
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How can newborns consent? People are now just saying absurd things because it is easier to double down that have minimal nuance.
Loreto Weir@Lor2ieOct 22
Consent matters at every age. Children aren’t toys or possessions, and even newborns deserve bodily autonomy and respect. No religious institution should put tradition above a person’s right to say no.
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“Sorry, you can’t hold your newborn.” “Why?” “No consent.” “Can I put a blanket on him so he isn’t cold?” “Did you get consent?”
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I don’t see how this is compatible with polls showing Talarico up. Mind you, I think any poll should be taken with a pile of salt—including this one.
Holly Hansen
@hollyshansen4h
New @UHouston @hobbyschooluh poll on #Texas rural & Latino voters: Rural LV: @KenPaxtonTX 65% @jamestalarico 27% Latino LV: Talarico 51% Paxton: 41%
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She made a poster about farting cows and thinks Deloitte is dumping toxic chemicals. She isn’t exactly a halogen. Or even a 10W.
RNC Research
@RNCResearch20h
AOC: Keeping men out of women's sports and locker rooms is "attacking" women's "ability to stand up against...abusers, rapists, and assaulters." What is wrong with her?
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I deleted some tweets b/c I really don’t want to blast people on here. I’d rather be someone positive, although I fail miserably, over and over. I would just encourage people to think about the remainder of the thread & the sort of person they are allowing themselves to be.
Legal Phil@Legal_Fil13h
Replying to @Legal_Fil
Because I’m exercised here, allow me to add: One big reason we are where we are, politically, is because otherwise decent people have allowed themselves to be compromised. Then, discovering they are compromised, they backfill a story about why they are not. ….
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I am under no delusion about how, in a binary system, people will choose a lesser evil. It is understandable & maybe even moral. But telling yourself that a lesser bad is actually good is an abdication of your responsibility as a moral agent. You should not shy away from truth…
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Because your conscience is nagging at you. A nagging conscience is a good thing: it means you will hold the lesser evil accountable. And that is critical if you are to keep the lesser evil from evolving into the greater evil.
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While I appreciate the effort that goes into early voting analysis, I genuinely don’t understand the breathlessness that surrounds it at this stage of voting Any number of narratives and counter narratives can be spun.
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At first, I thought that Slotkin had given up on pretending and was owning her statement from the other day.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
@SenatorSlotkinOct 22
Fear is the point. Intimidation is the point. And if the President can try to do this to me, he can do it to anyone.
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Slotkin obviously realizes that threatening to abuse the justice system to deter political participation might not be the best message. She realizes, of course, that she can’t spin her words, so is transitioning to “I’m actually the victim (of what I said we should do).”
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Mary Katharine Ham
@mkhammer14h
I don’t think all Muslims are supportive of Muslims Brotherhood. I think he has been, in his own hand, under his own name. To conflate Muslim and Muslim Brotherhood supportive, as he does here, is almost as bigoted as calling Arab-Americans cat-calling, loosie-selling quick stop owners, which he also did.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar17h
El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"
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Going to be interesting when people start making stuff up about Uygur after his death, knowing they can’t be sued for defamation, and Piker and the hive start crying about how it is inappropriate.
Cenk Uygur
@cenkuygurOct 21
We’re going to drop a bombshell documentary on @TheYoungTurks tomorrow morning called The Closetocracy. Which US Senator did we catch using male escorts?
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Matthew Johnson@KSL_Matt20h
(1/2)Between about 6:45-9:00AM today, an estimated 2” fell on the headwaters of Gould Wash! That was enough to send a flood wave down the Wash and into the town of Hurricane.
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Both shocking and totally expected. xitter.cf/drantbradley/status/21…
Anthony Bradley
@drantbradley14h
It's over. The higher ed dam has broken: Clemson is offering a voluntary separation program (VSP) to 452 eligible faculty and staff. Eligible employees who accept the offer will receive a lump-sum payment equal to nine months of their base pay.
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I am tired of seeing books that I can read whenever I want added to "banned books" tables. If bookstores want to show they are brave, show the Satanic Verses. They should have copies of the Charlie Hebdo issue that spurred that massacre. If you want to be brave, be brave.
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Eric W.
@EWess9216h
Holy guacamole: In a judicial smackdown, Judge J.E. Smith tears into Judge Wingate for his "careless[] exercise" of judicial power and "sloppy edicts based on falsehoods and fabrications." Mississippi's anti-DEI law can go into effect. Judicial AI use takes a beating. Reassigned.
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