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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 21m

Freedom of choice is bourgeois? I fear I may not have read enough theory.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 23m

See prior skeet:

Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 29m

What does that have to do with political strategies?

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 29m

What does that have to do with political strategies?

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 33m

If you're arguing for a continental plate definition you're going to encounter some immediate problems with your "Central America is part of North America" premise.

Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 39m

I have reconsidered my formatting for this thought:

R(!)ACK

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 41m

*R*ACK

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 45m

I am also puzzled by "get back to what worked in the past." Not sure I see substantive differences between now and then.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 1h

I also noticed that!

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 1h

Hasn't Jones come out with some anti-Trump stuff recently? Particularly around the Epstein files I think. Maybe he's just too out of favor at the moment.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 2h

It remains bizarre though. They can't manage to find an unenumerated right to protect our privacy or autonomy from the government, but they think they can find an unenumerated right for parents to violate the privacy an autonomy of their children.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 2h

What is the constitutional question? They don't read a penumbral right to privacy and autonomy, but they can find an anti-right somewhere?

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 2h

So, a video game, premised on contemporary reality, replicated the contemporary reality that there are actually women in the military, therefore woke?

CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine living your life in constant fear of anything not being white men. Sounds exhausting and pathetic.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah. It’s technically but in no way meaningfully correct

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 14h

Always a good choice.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 14h

Definitely not going to share this with my Grinch obsessed friend. She'd be buying one immediately.

Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 15h

I think a couple, yes. One with at least some excuse. I was mildly a jerk to them when they keep coming back with “but the law might change”

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 16h

Hmmm?

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 16h

What Laura really has here is PTSD and imposter syndrome, because she is absolutely one of the smartest people I know, even if it was "self-educated."

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 18h

I have long ago given up trying to sort out the details of what I remember actually learning in school and what I remember reading about outside of school, particularly for history topics

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 19h

You’d have to show that the actions were outside the scope of their federal duties, otherwise they get supremacy clause immunity.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 19h

No, there aren’t. The court tossed Bivens claims for First Amendment retaliation three years ago.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 20h

And, the feds have sovereign immunity from such a claim. Westfall would allow the gov to stand in for them and false arrest is explicitly listed as an exception to the FTCA.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 20h

Tweet from Denys Beecher: "If they change the law to agree with me then I'll be correct"
Favorite comeback of legally ignorant people everywhere.

10:49 AM - Apr 8, 2022

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, law changed. Bivens actions only exist as a result of case law. The court acted and narrowed the applicability of that law. And the injunction won't help others in the future, it would apply to the person filing the suit. They'd be enjoined from taking specific action against that person.

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Denys Beecher @dbeecher.bsky.social · 20h

"Unfortunately, the details are held in secret files until 2017..."

Someone needs to get to the bottom of those secret files immediately.

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