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Joe Jackson
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Trombonist, arranger, retired military, dad, grandpa. Hobbies: macroeconomics, law, climate. Proud SJW. Diversity is strength, justice is freedom, knowledge is power. Columbophile. Trekkie. DON’T FEED THE TROLLS. Blocking is how we keep this site healthy.
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The single biggest question in American law today is:

Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?
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U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis just took the bench. She's expected to rule on a request for a preliminary injunction governing the use of force by federal agents in Chicago.
Good morning. Back in the courtroom of U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis, who is expected to rule in 20 minutes on the use of force by federal agents against protesters and journalists in Chicago.
Lecture you? Nah. Just that fact that jones renounced it and apologized alone is enough to differentiate him from Trump & the Trumps
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Given that I don't recall Leslie Knope ever suggesting any kind of ideas on the freedom of trade or even much on geopolitical reality outside of Pawnee and her seething hatred of the neighboring town (Eagleton? I forget) I'd really love to hear the argument for her being a neoliberal.
The reason 30 Rock succeeds years later while parks and rec has aged like a toilet full of milk, is that 30 Rock doesnt shy away from portraying Liz Lemon as an obvious villian with a victim/hero complex, whereas Leslie Knope was played just a straight hero character, even tho she is a neolib shill
👆 THIS RIGHT HERE may be my favoritist skeet ever
1. Nope
2. Possibly, eventually.
Baker street. I was 11 and doing my paper route at 4am in the morning.
Because an electorate elected crooks & fascists based on conspiracy theories and disinformation, because the electorate consists largely of credulous, ignorant morons that don’t know how anything works.

That’s the reason.
What would be even better is “military commanders: this admin won’t be here forever. But war crimes will never be forgotten. REMEMBER YOUR LOAC TRAINING.”
Populists are populists regardless of where on the horseshoe they are.

Strip everything superficial away and all all they want is (their flavor of) authoritarian.
Halligan is a dumpster fire. I almost feel sorry for her - it’s not gonna end well.
None.

If my math is correct, $130M is about what it takes to pay the entire military for about 4 or 5 hours.
But now they can’t be activated, correct?
Media training is a thing.

If somebody wants to be persuasive on camera they’ll take it.
24-year Air Force retiree here.

Scott Perry is a piece of shit.
Why is dhs Barbie retweeting the location of law enforcement?
Textbook definition of communism
To be fair, Vance & the rest of them didn’t exactly engineer the current version of their party to succeed in states where grown men can’t marry their 13-year-old nieces
Well I’m not against civil disobedience per se, but in order to even merit being reported in the media your suggestion would require tens of thousands of taxpayers to commit felony tax evasion, punishable by up to 5 years & $250k.

“Sheesh” aside: do you really think this is practical or effective?