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Satadru Pramanik
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He/Him. Cinema snob, ST pessimist, LT optimist.
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Open Source Dev at Chromebrew, and contributor to OpenZFS + sundry other projects.
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evanbernick.bsky.social
This is fucking remarkable. Never thought I'd see Thomas outright rejecting the doctrine of discovery.
Next, and leaving the Constitution behind, the Kagama Court gestured to the European doctrine of discovery. 118 U. S., at 381–382. But our Constitution makes no mention of that doctrine. Nor, at least as conceived by the Marshall Court shortly after the Nation’s founding, does the doctrine imply plenary federal power over internal tribal affairs. As that Court put it, even after the European “discovery” of North America, Tribes remained “distinct, independent political communities retaining their original natural rights,”
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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evanbernick.bsky.social
What's remarkable about it is that it unambiguously and repeatedly describes Tribes as sovereign nations with sovereign powers, something that Thomas has raised unwarranted questions about. This is the very first paragraph after the opening!

www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
As “sovereign and independent states,” Native American Tribes have governed their internal affairs “from time immemorial.” Worcester v. Georgia, 6 Pet. 515, 559–561 (1832) (internal quotation marks omitted). Among the sovereign powers Tribes have always enjoyed is the power to redress crimes involving their own peoples. Reflecting as much, a great many Tribes today have courts, not wholly unlike those found in States and counties across the country, open to render justice when one tribal member commits an offense against another on tribal land.
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
if you put AIPAC in a room with Hamas, Hezbollah, and JStreet and you give AIPAC a gun with two bullets they're shooting JStreet twice
November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
you can dislike them both if you want but you might want to look into the differences between them and why they hate each other first
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
satmandu.bsky.social
He claims to have a medical degree.

Understanding how insurance works should be a prerequisite for a medical degree. Health insurance has been around for most of his lifetime, so...
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM