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  1. Taps the sign @lukeoneil47/1674522510396620800
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  2. The SCOTUS majority that seemed to kill what was left of affirmative action today had a few goals: Explain to people who care about the law that this was a legitimate move Not throw the notion of precedent out the window Not upset institutions Showboat for their donors/base
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  3. Ultimately, the trouble with the court’s recent culture war decisions is that it offers legislative and policy reasons for why something might be a good or bad idea, but when it comes to law, or even the majority’s beloved originalism, it simply can’t logically back them up. @sandeepvaheesan/1674439623404052483
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  4. It’s going to be a wild ride to see Heller and Bruen’s shoddy historiography and motivated half-wit policy reasoning undone in the eyes of the law by a decade-long march of reductio ad absurdum. @mjs_DC/1674168003250860033
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  5. Because a diverse nation has many people some may not like or understand, maintaining a system where affairs of your body and basic rights are generally none of the state’s business remains essential. Making people’s existence or bodily autonomy a poll-able matter is evil. @KatyMontgomerie/1673971375340437505
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  6. This is largely a case of the kooks of the base outflanking party judges. They may be politically/judicially right, but they’re not going to shred bedrock law or the Constitution because some kooks decided LGBT people don’t have rights anymore and can be erased with state power. @imillhiser/1673301644312813573
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  7. America’s whole history as a nation is desperately requiring a large influx of immigrants to remain sustainable. And in every era, the incumbent immigrants deploy more or less the same ignorant, racist, ahistorical tripe as before. Word for word the same, in fact. @GeneProck/1672950334161862658
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  8. It’s become emblematic of today’s radical right-wing social revolutionaries to go around arguing that the government must have absolute control of some area with minimal to no public interest at stake, and to insist that experts and facts and human agency be damned. @daveweigel/1671948813756497963
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  9. I’ve been saying this for awhile. The level of socio-economic and political control this new right demands invokes the tactics of Soviet Marxists, and in some ways aspire to much more in terms of cruelty and control. The accusations are essentially confessional in nature. @David_Boaz/1671561441931821072
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  10. As it turns out, allowing claims that holders (often without evidence) designate as religious to override compliance with laws that reasonably should apply to all leads to absurdities. @JustinParmenter/1671853973827887105
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  11. This is exactly right. Our agencies and contractors are unspeakably inefficient/corrupt, and we can’t even compete with nations that pay workers more with better benefits and conditions. Until we lower costs dramatically, these projects can never be worth it. @Izengabe_/1671849463478992898
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  12. 2 key points: It’s civically immoral and lawless to have religious conviction dictate the law of a diverse land The temptation to get power in this way by dressing up kooky personal convictions as religious convictions is substantively hollowing out religion/theology @AliceOllstein/1671518204680712195
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  13. There’s a lively debate as to whether the corporate tax itself makes sense and maybe we should tax that income in other ways, but blowing a $2 trillion hole in the deficit for no documented economic benefit in an already hot economy was totally insane. @andover_gary/1670818894066401281
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  14. I guess in light of Florida doubling down on its anti-ESG kookery, this is worth re-upping. As usual, it’s about the money. In exchange for higher public costs, the state’s money flows to right-wing finance donors in low-return, high-fee investments. @augustf/1625292286757163009
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  15. We all saw how the agitprop campaigns ran. First it was trans surgery in minors (a vanishingly rare occurrence) is bad. But within days, it became about removing trans people from public life, and within weeks, moving against the gay folks they’d always hated. @edroso/1670064736371716096
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  1. All the “riots are bad” people seem to have all gone into rhetorical quarantine. Imagine my shock. @greg_doucette/1337985000940187651
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  2. …in reply to @PostOpinions
    @PostOpinions @DougJBalloon This court ruled that it’s legal to protest outside the home of abortion clinic workers and at their kids schools, etc. Madsen v. Women's Health Center, Inc. (1994). They’re welcome to change the status quo, but until they do, they deserve no privilege from the 1st Amendment.
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  3. …in reply to @TPM
    @TPM Sarah Sanders, call your office. The toddler concentration camps are on the line for comment.
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  4. I feel like this is a metaphor for how we dealt with the bad-faith arguments and policies of the Trump cult before recently. We took it seriously, tried to talk policy, tried to engage. You can’t engage with nihilistic insanity. @MSpicuzzaMJS/1330274604523335681
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  5. …in reply to @bradheath
    @bradheath I’d be curious to see the DOJ lawyers who wrote this pablum defend it in front of a House committee considering de-funding them next fiscal year.
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  6. …in reply to @robertwolf32
    @robertwolf32 @KevinMKruse @AriMelber @MikeBloomberg What neither they nor most people realized is that we have a Republican electorate addicted to cherry-picked nonsense, lying as a form of tribal identity, and conspiracy theories for nearly everything. This is only the beginning. theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-2020-disinformation-war/605530/
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