abrab.bsky.social
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Thomas and Goruch would hear the case, none of the liberals would; you need 4 votes to take a case
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To some degree this is why law in the US has a JD, ML, and a DJS
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Visions of 2009 again
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The YouTube kids music lady? She is from a small town in Maine
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Fetterman (PA), Hassen (NH), Kaine (VA), Kim (NJ), Shaheen (NH), and Slotkin (Mich), and Peters (Mich); Fetterman and Hassan are up in 2028, Slotkin, Kaine and Kim 2030, Shaheen and Peters are retiring at the end of their term
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It also sets up a real weird sequel to Field of Dreams
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It is more or less more like running in real life a 21 Jump Street plot of placing a "new kid" at a high school who is actually a narc
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As someone that has lived in some very hot places without AC, frozen fruit can also be very pleasant in the summer...
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Rubio and Kissinger now are the only two people to be both NSA and Sec of State at once, no?
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Like Joe I have been using FPs as a daily driver at work for a long time
< $50 Lamy Safari/AL Safari, kaweco sport, TWSBE Eco/Eco-T (bottle ink only)
<$100 Lamy Studio, Kaweco Piston (bottle only)
<$200 pilot custom 74, Franklin Christoph 02 or 20, Pelikan M200 (bottle only)
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"Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one" - Generally attributed to Former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn
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Started in business before becoming a teacher to get by; he is an angry white guy who doesn't like the aesthetics of the Bush era GOP because of the Christian/Dixie stuff but liked the libertarian/anti-authority rhetoric of the Tea Party and was happy with McCain even if he didn't like Sarah Palin
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It is a state rule; there is no line item veto for the President, Congress passed one in 1996 but in 1998 SCOTUS overturned it in Clinton v NY as unconstitutional
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1925: Der Prozess (The Trial) by Franz Kafka is published (2/x)
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Gov. Kathy Hochul is the incumbent. Rep. Stefanik is a Republican, Hochul is a Democrat
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Boomers are also not as conservative as the Korean War generation
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It is a state crime, so the guy whose house he set fire to holds the pardon power
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Birth certificates are not a national document but a local document; not everyone has one because it is possible for it to be destroyed if, for example, a natural disaster destroyed the hospital you were born at or a county office; re passports, Warsaw is as far from Madrid as Seattle is from NYC
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... that tells them that the only people who will be harmed "deserve" it as a cosmic punishment and after the business closes Rod Serling will come out and let us know where this took place or Crypt Keeper will make a joke at their expense; and not the reality that this is going to affect us all 2/2
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I have survived multiple recessions because I am very good with phone calls and emails and people like having lunch with me in a break room
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About a year ago I cleaned out some old stuff from my parent's house and found my no brand school pen which was very similar to that and still wrote just as well as it did in the 90's
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Universal and Disney both are putting a lot of money in parks in the US but lately seem to have also started spreading it out (another Universal park in China not long ago, Disney Paris is expanding), I have wondered how much money slowly moves out of the US with them
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He did a show at the UCB at least as far back as 2013, he seemed to always have "very tall comedy guy" as an idea of a post playing career, if we still had a regular stream of American comedies in theaters he probably would be trying to be a character actor in them
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There might be something to not making trolling part of his political brand? Like he can make a heel face turn since his schtick was being for what "you" want him to be for instead of being a jerk but "your jerk?"
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They all still want to be Bill Clinton as if the electorate still looked like 1992
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Yeah; “Hoovering” means “vacuuming;” it was from when the Hoover company was so ubiquitous with vacuums, their name was synonymous with it
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The first amendment has a right to assemble but it gets complicated after that
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Same parent company, Condé Nast, as Wired, Vanity Fare, and The NewYorker; they still get by on reporting and the economics and political pressures of magazines are different
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The increasing collapse of NPR and PBS here in the US should be a real warning to every other democracy
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Insulated not insulted, my kingdom for an edit feature
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A line attorney is a career civil servant, not a political appointee, so they are supposed to be insulted from partisan influence in their job; so thus is all the career lawyers in the DOJs public integrity unit, which is the unit that prosecuted public corruption
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Isn't even a "John Wayne/Gary Cooper" style macho either, which also had a strong notion of the obligations of duty and honor, its a masculinity that only valorizes Gordon Gekko and Tyler Durden