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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Under Oregon law, this would be 2nd degree assault and 2nd degree kidnapping. If they weren't performing a legitimate government function, the ICE agents who did that can be criminally charged by Oregon AG or Multnomah County DA.

States really need to start indicting these thugs.

Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Really, there's a LOT Congress can do to cut the Supreme Court's power and to create checks and balances on the Court. They need to get a LOT more imaginative than "expanding the court", since expansion alone won't prevent partisan capture of an overpowered Supreme Court. /end

Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Let Congress disapprove SCOTUS opinions as non-binding based on errors of law. SCOTUS proposes an interpretation of the Constitution; Congress passes a law to disagree, and the President takes sides by signing or veto. Let all branches argue what the constitution means until they agree. 5/

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Restrict Supreme Court appellate jurisdiction to cases that can't get a 2/3rds majority on the Court of Review. Also, give the Court of Review final say on interlocutory appeals. No more shadow docket. 4/

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Create a "Court of Review" between the courts of appeal and the Supreme Court. Staff it with one judge from each appellate circuit, chosen by a 2/3rd majority of each circuit to minimize partisanship. Court of Review judges serve 4 or 5 year terms, and are thus accountable to fellow judges. 3/

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Pass enabling legislation for the "good behavior" clause. Set up a judicial process to fire judges (including SCOTUS justices) for misconduct. 2/

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1h

Other possible reforms:

Put statutory limits on stare decisis. Only unanimous decisions are binding precedent. All other decisions are deemed to reflect unresolved issues of law, and may be followed at lower courts' discretion. 1/

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 2h

The key to avoid non-stop coverage of one scandal is to do ALL THE SCANDALS ALL THE TIME so nobody focuses on any one of them.

And normalizing scandalous behavior becomes almost unavoidable when the entire administration does literally nothing else 24/7.

Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 13h

Oregon law says false arrest is second degree kidnapping if done "without legal authority." Federal agents have immunity to state criminal charges for crimes committed when doing their job. But illegal arrest isn't part of their job.

Oregon AG needs to indict these thugs for kidnapping.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 19h

It's a story that works astonishingly well as a 40-minute planetarium show. A real-time radio play set entirely in an observatory, built around what we see happening in the sky. I imagine there aren't many SF stories that would fit that bill.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 19h

Federal officers have Supremacy Clause immunity for state crimes committed while carrying out their federal duties. It's broad immunity, but it isn't total. They can face indictment for doing things beyond the legal scope of their jobs.

It's time to find out just how much ICE has overstepped.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 2d

Portland be like...

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1d

What got me into science fiction in the early 1970s: as a fourth-grade kid, I saw a planetarium show adaption of Asimov's "Nightfall" (1941). So I searched for the original story and found it in an anthology. I read the whole book. And I was off.

But I don't assume that would work for anyone else.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1d

Exhibit 32,486 in the case against allowing billionaires to exist at all.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 1d

I just imagine an inheritance was involved somewhere.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 2d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 2d

Share a TV show you love from the 1970s

Scene from M*A*S*H* with main cast at a table in the mess tent

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It's Me, Mike Olson at Gamehole Con @devlin1.bsky.social · 4d

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 4d

I do that all the time. But I've never been married, so maybe that's the single dude default.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 4d

Stylized image of a frog over the word HOP, parodying the classic Obama HOPE poster.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 4d

Hope so.

Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 4d

Took my bike for a shopping trip to Freddy's this evening. Turned out to be good timing; I got home less than five minutes before *that* started.

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Douglas Kelso @darkpoole.bsky.social · 5d

I get it's all allegory, but – being a literal-minded type – it always struck me that at least a few of those folks who walked away from Omelas would have taken the kid with them.

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