1/ We have a broody hen named Pepper (that means she wants to sit on eggs & hatch them, even if they aren’t her own) so I ordered her some fertile eggs since we don’t have a rooster & I feel bad taking eggs from her every day.
2/ This is what she did with the first egg I put in with her
3/ So I put all of the eggs in the nesting box with her
4/ Meantime, the other chickens were all running around playing the mud because it rained overnight.
5/ When I checked back in, she had all kind of helpers. I’m dubious about the prospects she’ll actually hatch chicks, but I wanted to give her a shot at it.
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1/One of my very smart friends pointed out last night that Joe Biden has gutted so many of Trump’s “arguments." They are gone in one fell swoop: President Biden’s age, Hunter Biden, the whole “Biden crime family” corruption allegations. All out the door.
2/ Nothing says women refuse to accept second-class citizenship like electing one. Nothing.
3/ It's now the prosecutor v. the convicted felon for President of the United States. Don’t believe anyone who tells you Trump is going to change. Remember all those moments when he “became truly presidential”? Trump is who he is, and that’s the one constant in his universe.
1/Public education is important. Well-educated citizens are more employable & prepared to compete in the 21st Century economy. Education reduces crime & improves public health & health equity. So of course, Project 2025 eliminates the Dept. Of Education. joycevance.substack.com/p/what-happens…
2/The Education Chapter in Project 2025 is 44 pages long. They are counting on the fact that no one will read it. So we looked at some of the details in Civil Discourse, my newsletter:
3/In the banal language of conservative policy, Project 2025 spells an end to public education in this country. It spells the establishment of religion, even at the college level, in ways that are inimical to creating a population that is taught to think, not what to think.
1/A week ago, Kevin Roberts, the head of the Heritage Foundation & architect of Project 2025, responded to Democrats plans to take on Project 2025. Roberts said, “Project 2025 will not be stopped,” & that Democrats are “more than welcome to try” to stop it.
2/On Tuesday, Roberts was on Steve Bannon’s War room. It was minus Bannon, of course, because he’s in federal prison. Roberts told a guest host: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be"
3/Is Roberts threatening people who speak out with violence? What if they protest? What if they vote? He’s saying it will get bloody. The more we learn about Project 2025 and the people behind it, the worse it gets. substack.com/redirect/f5e68…
1/ The more I read the immunity opinion, the clearer it becomes that the conservative majority is more concerned with concentrating power in the hands of the president than in how a president might abuse that power. Presidents as kings.
2/There is absolute immunity for a president acting within his constitutional authority and up to the full extent of the outer perimeter of whatever the Court says that authority is. Then, it gets even more troubling.
3/Presidents get “presumptive immunity" for their implied authority, what the Court characterizes as the "Twilight Zone" of presidential authority. They don't have to decide if it applies "at this stage" which suggests they expect further appeals once the district court does, but
1/There are a few bright lines for today's immunity decision. Trump's lawyer conceded at oral argument that they were only asking for immunity for *official acts* not private ones, what I've often viewed as President Trump vs. Candidate Trump. Assuming the Court agrees, they may
2/provide a test for lower courts to use in distinguishing between official and private acts. That's likely a fact-based test, which will require judges to let parties argue the evidence, hold an evidentiary hearing, or both. It's also possible that the Court will decide that...
3/some official conduct merits immunity-a president who orders a strike on foreign enemies based on the best advice of advisors in a time-constrained situation & one result is killing an American citizen, which is a fed'l crime. The Court might decide there is a narrow band of...
1/Loper Bright v. Raimondo, handed down on Friday by SCOTUS, will have a direct impact on all of our lives. It will upend agency regulations that are used to implement federal law. That sounds dry and far away from our daily lives. But it’s not.
2/The "administrative state" has operated since the Chevron decision in 1984 on the basic premise that Congress passes laws and agencies issue regulations that implement them. What happened when a regulated entity didn’t like an agency’s decision? They could sue.
3/The longstanding Chevron deference doctrine required courts to defer to agency action when the law was ambiguous and the agency’s view was reasonable. That came to an end on Friday, when Chief Justice Roberts wrote for the majority in no uncertain terms, “Chevron is overruled.”