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23 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"Today’s mass murder at a supermarket in Boulder took place across the street from the apartment where I lived for the first three years after I moved to this city" lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/americ…
Every one of these involved a firearm, and all but two a semi-automatic firearm
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23 Mar
A brilliant piece of writing in its own right about how wanting a sycophant to be your biographer can be counterproductive on multiple levels:
Bailey apparently writes women characters like Oliver Stone, which is even worse when describing real women ImageImage
Of course -- and I say this as an admirer of many of his novels -- a major issue here is the subject himself 😬😬😬 Image
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21 Mar
Federalist Society’s favorite judge pens hysterical diatribe attacking purported media bias lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/federa…
Larry Silberman's ridiculous Fox News rant about the Liberal Media -- in the context of arguing that NY Times v. Sullivan should be overruled! -- predictably earns the ecstatic praise of a notable Donald Trump superfan
Glenn is a Free Speech absolutist, and the values of Free Speech require, er, conservative politicians and judges to be able to bankrupt media organizations for printing things about them they consider insufficiently flattering
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18 Mar
Yalie hedge fund asshole attacks other rich people for insufficient racism lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/yalie-…
Really, J.D. Vance is a reprehensible person and anybody who promoted his piece-of-shit book should be profoundly embarrassed
It doesn't get much more cynical that an Ivy League-educated and Peter Thiel-affiliated hedge fund vampire pretending to be a fish out of water at "masters of the universe" events he repeatedly finds himself at for some reason
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17 Mar
Republican Attorneys General: "we will take the federal government's money, but we have an inalienable right not to plow its driveway" lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/roscoe…
In a rational universe these arguments would be laughed out of Court, but based on the de facto "conditions on federal spending Republicans don't like might be unconstitutional" holding in Sebelius they may well succeed
Federal spending power doctrine is a total shambles because Roberts didn't *actually* think the ACA's revision of Medicaid conditions was unconstitutional, but he wanted to do something to damage the ACA and that was something lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2019/03/john-r…
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16 Mar
Forever in debt to Mitch McConnell’s priceless advice lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2021/03/foreve…
The reason Mitch McConnell is palpably terrified about Dems eliminating the legislative filibuster is that the legislative filibuster primarily serves reactionary interests, always has and always will. What is in the best interest of Democrats is not a complicated question.
"It's actually not very hard at all. What's hard is Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema makin' it feel hard" rollingstone.com/music/music-ne…
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16 Mar
Among other things, it's considerably more insulting to assert that justices make literally life-and-death decisions about when to retire based on spiteful reactions to op-eds than it is to write op-eds urging them to retire
Incidentally, it's become a widely-accepted truism that RBG didn't retire because of the "Notorious RBG" wave, but the timeline just doesn't add up. It was a reaction to her dissent in Shelby County, and she had already told Leahy months before she wasn't going to retire
Not retiring at the end of the 2013 term was a very bad decision, but it was almost certainly one she made for her own complicated reasons, not because of her late-in-life prominence in pop culture
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