The point of the Court is to maintain general confidence in the lawfulness of the government
By creating a mechanism, as fair as it can be made, for ensuring that lawless measures do not go into effect
In the absence of this function, everything breaks down. Sound familiar?
But IN ORDER FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO ACCEPT THAT, they need to believe that the Court is indeed deciding cases honestly, according to law. That all that could have been done to give the losing side a fair hearing, given the basic conditions of pluralism, has in fact been done
CBS News has invited Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller to join them at that execrable dinner, and now, via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social, we learn that CBS’s parent, Paramount, has invited Brendan Carr.
Yes, that Brendan Carr.
www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...
I work too much to be this broke
sarawiley10 9h @ Threads Posting "should I plant mint in ground" in my Facebook gardening group just to feel something
lol I genuinely enjoy a superhero skyfight cgi mess, but this would have burnt me out of all my goodwill if Disney gutting marvel’s visual development team hadn’t already incinerated it
Bernie really co-signed the campaigns of a Nazi and a billionaire that’s just… not being about shit.
Aht. Aht! This is not an invitation for liberals to chime in with your opinions on Bernie. You have just as little standing on matters of being about shit.
when you read cultural injunctions from the past, you have to remember that some of them were written by crazy people even by the standards of their day, like this shit is.
unless and until republicans agree to a ceasefire in the form of strict anti-gerrymandering provisions: fuck them to hell, squeeze every last drop of blood from the stone, lock them out of every seat you can
our fascist president has become so incoherent that even the liberal media is beginning to notice
An AI-free OS for an AI-free product line with a written guarantee from Apple not to insert AI into users’ devices at a later date.
It's happening, IT'S HAPPENING @sarahgailey.bsky.social (although I know I must be the 100th to tag them for this)
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I consider mids loud
420 blaze it
A salty chug in a kitchen with a round face
Feelings of injustice after biking home in a downpour.
My discharge packet from the hospital has about five pages of "here are substance abuse resources" because I use cannabis to help manage the debilitating symptoms of Crohn's disease.
This country is a fucking joke. 4/20 post
Oddly enough this is what uncles from salm9n tribes look like when they have too much cocaine
The press is intent on whitewashing Republican agency out of everything.
Turns out if you want to totally unhinge a certain type of LLM enthusiast, all you have to do is give them a question that they need to do the tiniest bit of research to answer
doing my part
The NYT is a fascist rag
a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror
found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page
what’s french for “lisan al gaib”?
The Capitol has something called "the office of the attending physician" — in other words, Members have their own, on-site, doctor.
Oh, and there's also WRNMMC, you may have heard of Fetterman going there?
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Please don't be like this well 'akshually jackass'
1) Understand that "health insurance" is not the same thing as "health care." Your MoC is not getting care in the overflow hallway you got stuck in for 12 hours, he's on the VIP floor (you know most, if not all, major 🏥 have a VIP area, right?)
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
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Ziggy the diabeetus pug
I think Ziggy is feeling good.
I hope Alex Jones is super mad today. Lol
announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
Tweet from Alex jones that reads “Yeah, stealing peoples identities so you can misrepresent them is criminal. Just keep laughing like the last time you guys tried this.”
Alex Jones is alternating between being Not Mad Online about The Onion thing and accusing someone I’m not even clear is connected to The Onion of fraud for “stealing peoples identities”
INFOWARS @infowars Lies! Lies! Lies! The Epic Lies And False Reality That The Onion Lives In!
"The Onion lives in a false reality"