In a book shop. Three school age teenage girls are in the sci-fi section. One asks if the others like Star Wars. "Nope". "Maybe if I was born 30 years ago but there's now too much to catch up on". Disney, I think you have a problem.
Also, 30 years? I may have instantly expired upon hearing that.
A four panel comic. In panel 1, there's an image of a closeup on the head of a yellow morph timber rattlesnake, with text above it that says "Behold the snake: Cunning, cruel, and bloodthirsty, it embodies evil and sin. Who knows what malevolent thoughts lurk in its mind?" In panel 2, the snake is zoomed out slightly, and a thought bubble rises above its head with three dots inside it. In panel 3, we're zoomed out more to see the whole snake curled up on a rock with a colorful background behind it, and there's a thought bubble rising from its head that says "Mmm warm sun." In panel 4, we're zoomed out even more, and the snake is sitting on a rock at the top of a hill with green grass and trees, a vibrant background of mountains and lakes behind it, and a bright blue sky with a golden cloud and birds flying. The snake is thinking "Nice day."
Behold the snake.
If any of the Chicago Bluesky biking community sees me out and about, you can identify me by my signature insult.
The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!
Republicans: [unsavory tactics]
Media: Gosh, that’s some maneuvering.
Democrats: [punch back]
Media: We need to ask ourselves if this is the sign of a healthy democracy.
"I was ABSOLUTELY told that the Democrats would be bringing knives to the gun fight. What the fuck are they doing bringing guns?" --a whole lot of Republicans looking at the results from Virginia right now
Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings
pete hegseth is so bad at his job that we're like one tick away from the gray zone being like "actually, pete hegseth is good, because he effectively stands against american imperialism"
I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"
Exactly 💯
Excited to attend the ribbon-cutting for the next segment of California’s solar canal initiative later this month in Hickman. Imagine generating solar power over 4,000 miles or so canals across the state. A lot of Sierra and Colorado River water to save via avoided evaporation.
Would you be willing to repost the monster page/stats for lesser finger horror, maybe with some new material, as the Monday update? Give yourself some room to catch up?
Technically oligarchs, since it takes five acting in concert to legislate from the bench or rewrite the Constitution, but your point stands.
However, the authority to punish their malfeasance is the "good behavior" clause of the Constitution, if Congress ever wrote enabling legislation for it.
The Constitution gives Congress almost total control over the structure of the judicial branch, the qualifications of judges, and the power of the Supreme Court. I don't think most establishment Democrats are willing to USE that power, but it's not like they couldn't fix things if they wanted to. /6
(4) Set up a system of non-political, non-partisan state level judicial selection committees to screen potential federal judges. Require the president nominate federal judges from pools of experienced, honest, widely-respected state judges, picked outside the political process. /5
(3) Federal judges have good behavior tenure, not "life" tenure. Congress can write enabling legislation for the good behavior clause, which would set up a process for the judicial branch to fire any judge, including a SCOTUS justice, for misconduct in office. No impeachment required. /4
Put non-partisan judges on the new court by having each circuit send one judge, picked by supermajorities of fellow judges, to sit for a term (say, 5 years). They'll need to keep most of the other judges on their circuit happy if they want to come back, which will encourage judicial restraint. /3
(2) Create a new court technically below the Supreme Court that takes over nearly all SCOTUS appellate jurisdiction. Congress has complete control of appellate jurisdiction, so they could leave SCOTUS with largely administrative oversight and ceremonial responsibilities if they chose. /2
(1) Limit the power of precedent in federal courts. SCOTUS wields the power it does because their opinions are effectively the highest law in the land, above the Constitution itself. Lincoln suggested a way to change that in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Congress could codify Lincoln's proposal. /1
The "principle" is "SCOTUS is dominated by unprincipled, power-mad Federalist Society hacks who are accountable to nobody and therefore see no need to justify their actions to anyone."
That's certainly not the way things *should* work, but it's not really a mystery why it's happening.
how do i vote for this guy for any office he wants
What's your favourite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only.)
"To cast away honesty upon a foul slut were to put good meat into an unclean dish."
What's your favourite Bible verse? (Wrong answers only.)
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
Exactly one year ago today:
An understandable mistake. But ours rides a unicycle and carries bagpipes.
I like the style of #3 the best. The others strike me as too busy.
If you haven’t heard about it yet, the youths are super into IRL human interactions, no AI, and “physical media” (vinyl! DVDs! tapes!) right now and it’s glorious.
Like there are 20yo influencers that just read old paper books and talk about feelings.
It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for
holy shit he actually conceded
folks, they tell you they’re invincible
they tell you they’re inevitable
they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting
and absolutely none of that is true
