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Progressive foreign policy. Nukes. Democracy. Hurricanes hockey. Opinions are my own. In the case of retweets, opinions belong to other people.
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The bar doesn't give a fuck about anything other than stealing client funds.
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If anyone expected biglaw lawyers to do anything except argue on behalf of whoever was willing to pay them the most money, they expected wrong.
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Imagine you have to make a $50 purchase for office supplies. You can use a credit card, and the cost is $50
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You can get prior permission, and complete a bunch of forms. Then the cost includes plus your time and the time of the person processing the forms. A $50 purchase now costs $200.
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When you are given power, you need to actually wield it in service of the things you stand for, not cower in fear of that power.
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It's always funny when Republicans appoint oil and coal boosters to DoE. It does do some renewable energy stuff, but it's really the Department of Nukes. Oil and coal is controlled by Interior.
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And Gov. Hochul should remove Adams.
She's got enough political cover at this point.
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Passing counterfeit money is now considered art and protected by the 1st Amendment
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From the discussions around the trillion dollar coin, I seem to recall that the law gives the President unilateral control over coinage.
The penny is stupid and deserves to die. The only thing it's good for is those cool floors. This one ain't a 5 alarm fire. Or even a fire at all.
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The craziest part is at the same time Ronald Reagan, seeing the slaughter, called Begin and threatened to withhold all US aid to Israel until it stopped. The bombing ended 20 minutes later.
It’s insane how Reagan is the good guy and Biden was the evil far to the right of him in this instance.
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It sounds like I’m exaggerating but in the 80s Biden gleefully celebrated the slaughter of Lebanese civilians and talked about how he’d murder every Canadian if canada ever threatened the US. It was so extreme that Israel’s far-right leader Begin gave a speech distancing himself from Bidens comments
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The legal system does not police itself. Never has, never will. Everyone is too clubby. Lawyers know that bad faith claims and lies drive most of their income, and they will always protect their guild first and foremost.
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After monumental efforts and one of the most egregious cases in history, and as a lawyer in private practice. It's the exception that proves the rule. John Durham is the better example. Every bit of the bad faith, malicious partisan prosecution we're going to see now. Lawyer in good standing.
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If we're relying on bar associations or judges to show courage in sanctioning bad faith efforts by any lawyer, much less a DoJ lawyer, we have lost.
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If I study anxiety via threat-biased attention, the word "biased" gets me flagged. You can't design a study of humans without using at least one of the terms on the banned list, which means that biomedical, brain, social science research is now on ice in the USA
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The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?
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These keywords could show up in the text of ANY grant involving human participants. If you say you're going to study men and women, you get flagged. If you say you're going to control for socioeconomic status - totally standard practice - you get flagged. Disability? Flagged.
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Yep. And apparently they'd often only get to meet the Senator for their grip and grin photo. Can't have been a great experience.
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I mean, I'm from the era when we were entirely unpaid as interns, and offices with high volume would have several dozen interns to handle it. Doubt they can do that anymore if offering any pay at all.
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Staff sizes and budgets have to increase, and tech needs to be modernized. Logging each voicemail is a PITA.
But Congress investing in itself has been a political hot potato since Gingrich killed the Office of Technology Assessment.
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At a guess, since interns have to be paid now, so they're probably hiring too few to process the call volume, and the voicemail system itself was probably set up in 1995.
Call volumes skyrocketed in the Trump era, and Hill staffing and tech hasn't caught up.
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No. We know about it. You're still adding an extra step unless you have recipes where everything goes into the bowl at once, which is not most recipes.
Stop being an ass. You asked why people prefer using volume, you got an answer. If you have a system using a scale that works for you, great.
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What you replace them with is the question. Trump wants to replace them with his personal brownshirts. But we cannot run on a defense of failed institutions. Especially law enforcement, intel, and the post-9/11 military industrial complex!
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Meh. More of the status quo-ism that doomed Biden and Harris. Dems need to run away from that thinking as fast as possible. Major parts of our government have been broken at a deep and fundamental level for generations. They deserve to be torn down.
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You're right. The law and the system are broken. So why are law profs and reporters still going on as if "norms" still apply?