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Today the Supreme Court hears US v Rahimi, a case about the gun rights of domestic violence offenders

Originalism says disarming abusers is unconstitutional bc the country didn't historically do so

And as I said in The Atlantic, it's going to get women killed

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Originalism Is Going to Get Women Killed
A federal court has ruled that a law barring domestic-violence offenders from owning firearms is unconstitutional.
www.theatlantic.com
November 7, 2023 at 2:53 PM
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i can't say for sure, but i'm willing to bet this is the first time a federal judge has given a plaintiff permission to serve a defendant via gab DM
November 8, 2023 at 1:54 AM
🐢🐢🐢🐢🐀✂️!
So there is literal green slime bubbling up from the ground next to the World Trade Center in NYC right now
November 3, 2023 at 3:00 PM
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So there is literal green slime bubbling up from the ground next to the World Trade Center in NYC right now
November 3, 2023 at 10:16 AM
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Alan Bean fourth man to walk on the moon, bless him, spent his retirement taking up painting as a way to try to express how it felt. Some of these paintings have moon dust in them that he shook out of the mission patches or other souveniers they let him keep.
November 2, 2023 at 3:31 PM
This thread is why I am here. ❤️
and also this bit from the Apollo 12 flight where the astronauts attempt to describe seeing an eclipse in space and basically end up with

DICK GORDON: Houston, ah, be advised that you should have sent a poet
WEITZ: We'll look into that, 12
November 2, 2023 at 11:40 PM
The house smelled like burned sugar before a meeting where I did not want to be distracted. So I opened the windows and turned the house fan on despite the rain, thinking moist warmth>burned sugar.

Now I have moist warmth and burned sugar.
October 26, 2023 at 4:53 PM
It is the time of the year where I find seeds in my pockets that I forgot I collected and put there.
October 25, 2023 at 6:29 PM