pennysmoak.bsky.social
I’m still working on my profile - there’s a lot to unpack or repack, depending on point of view.
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@dahlialithwick.bsky.social @strictscrutiny.bsky.social @justsecurity.org @mswmedia.com @openargs.bsky.social
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Indeed. Illustrative of the swath of mostly dudes who claim it’s the blue haired feminists (whatever the fuck that is; old? Creative? Brave?) who help us as a culture understand enthusiastic consent causing all their problems. Dude has taken too many colors of pills, I’m sure.
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By Blocking aid, leveling cultural centers, executing doctors & aid workers, apartheid system, no water/power access, siege of strip & occupation of West Bank seem no less aggressive than Russia-Crimea-Ukraine. Isreal has a right to exist but not to ignore responsibilities to international law.
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Furthermore, anti-genocide isn’t pro-Hamas, which anyone who is intellectually honest can understand. Hamas hasn’t wiped out Israeli population, culture & memory. Same can’t be said about Israeli actions for quite some time. SPLC is wrong about anti-apartheid / anti-genocide & criticizing govt.
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Shameful tactics.
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I’m pretty livid listening to some of these.
Of course Districts 4, 5 & quite a few others seem quite delayed in posting case updates & audio to their websites, so I’m sure I haven’t heard the worst of the inertia yet.
Who *cough* **DOGE** *cough* manages or processes their sites’ content?
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Some circuits don’t want to follow the 1st Step Act, even as narrowly as SCOTUS says they must. They must at least do a review for qualified incarcerated ppl (served over 10 years served,more to go, would’ve resulted in many fewer decades today) for resentencing.
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Add to that further non-contextualized “reasonableness” and “dangerousness” and “state of mind”. But whatevs.
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8th seems a little split.
The government fails to really persuade me or anyone they had better case, IMO.
They act as if “extraordinary” and “compelling” are objective standards equitably & consistently applied if comparing 3 cases’ opinions usage, or even 2 different cases within their own.
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This may be why 4th circuit stopped updating audio online. Perhaps they’re just waiting til things get thru scotus or something. That makes some sense but not really. Because courts are OURS, must be equitably accessible to public we can contact reps re: power wielded in our name by Articles 1,2&3
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Stability isn’t an excuse to funnel public funds into some industries without oversight, accountability & a proven value to the public at large. Kills me to hear this govt use stability as an excuse in court, ffs.
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1 hour 5 minutes, “because that’s the way it has always been” or “we said so” is never an acceptable final response to any question. We stopped putting off ramps after on-ramps. Officials (private or govt) must show evidence that decisions have solid foundations w good results AND adjust w changes.
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as a bonus, counsel claimed 1000 miles is a single pipe, not a single pipeline or section of pipeline. No physical possibility; seams exist. @openargs.bsky.social at around 37 minutes. Govt should show their work. At beginning, he claimed FARC doesn’t just accept vendor claims as correct.
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This is the link - filings were typically here at the same time as on the scotus case documents, sometimes ahead of time. I’m disappointed. www.justice.gov/osg/supreme-... here’s the # I called ASG Sarah M Harris 202-514-2217
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I think we’re past monarchy and well into Empire territory. They don’t respect the authority of their own department heads, FFS
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Im not sure we’re really mindreaders when we’re just following predictable predictable patterns repeat and stating the most likely previous & next thing to a given point but we’re right to keep it up! I hope more attorneys in the government want to avoid flushing their reputations down the toilet.