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"Today's builders of Babel tell us that there is no room for losers, that those who fall along the way are losers. Theirs is the construction site of hell."

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3m

"VRA also forbids maps that have discriminatory effect ... So, Barrett, wondered, if Section 2 goes “above and beyond what the 15th Amendment""
The Civil Rights Act also prohibits discriminatory effect (ie disparate impact) for state government employment. This is no different.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 21m

Yeah. More accurate to say "Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor Nazis."

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 42m

There are fairly standard nonpartisan/non-gerrymandering ways of redistricting. One of the most well known is the Iowa Model. For some reason, Gorsuch doesn't know any of these.

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 1h

Ask JD Vance if saying "I love Hitler" is antisemitic, and I'm 100% certain he would bloviate.

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans: "Banning discriminating on the basis of race is itself discriminating on the basis of race."

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans: "The best Catholicism is the Catholicism in the US, where most Christians are Protestant."

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 2h

Republicans: "If all Blacks are fired, then the Blacks can't be hired back because hiring the Blacks (instead of more Whites) would be discriminating on the basis of race."

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 2h

The national conservatives are all anti-Christian "Positive Christianity" Nazi worshippers.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3h

lol. This is something Jefferson Davis would say to Abraham Lincoln to troll him.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3h

lol "Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press. She co-created and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes."

www.thefp.com/w/olivia-rei...

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 4h

There's no company that Trump doesn't want an equity stake in.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 4h

The entire 13th amendment constitutional doctrine of "badges of slavery" uses race. So Kavanaugh is now arguing the 13th amendment is unconstitutional. Also the Civil Rights Act of 1866 expressly uses race when it says "full and equal benefit of all laws ... as is enjoyed by white citizens".

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 5h

Rebellion against the Reconstruction amendments of the Constitution.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure he could get USCIS to give him a certified copy of his naturalization certificate if he really was naturalized.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 1d

US diplomats get a diplomatic passport. So Hoekstra got one. It's not clear he even has a regular passport.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 2d

The Supreme Court judges, unlike every other federal judge, has a summer break and one of those Republican judges still acts like she's too busy to do the same thing other federal judges do.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3d

Summary: "Supreme Court Republican opposes writing opinions."

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty surprised Vance didn't say something like "You're making $50,000+ a year for services. What can't a honest God fearing patriotic American Christian like Tom Homan do the same thing?"

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3d

lol So the Supreme Court is giving out advisory opinions. Barrett is even dumber than Kavanaugh.

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jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3d

I believe Mike Johnson because he would delay the swearing in of any Democrat.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3d

ICE pays better wages.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans: "We're gonna destroy another Woke program!"

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 3d

Oh well, I guess DOJ will prosecute her niece for perjury then.

jackjones23.bsky.social @jackjones23.bsky.social · 4d

Another act of rebellion against the Constitution. As I said before, if the Constitution no longer matters, Trump can simply issue an executive order to increase the debt limit.