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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 1d

That is one risk of gerrymandering; if your assumption about how big of a wave is possible winds up being wrong you can wind up wiping out. With that said so far it seems like voters really do not care much what their elected representatives do. They care more about what lies they are told.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 4d

I don't think you could fully take away final jurisdiction. But I think you could, e.g., set up a 14 judge intermediate court between the courts of appeals and SCOTUS and allow SCOTUS to only have appellate jurisdiction if there is a 7-7 split?

FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, my fun plan for court reform is to give SCOTUS original jurisdiction over family law matters and traffic law violations in DC. Just make it too miserable of a job.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 5d

If you don't think criminal defense attorneys often take pride in representing their individual clients maybe you need to spend some more time meeting criminal defense attorneys.

FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 8d

Contrarian

noun:

Person who criticizes ideas I don't like.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 8d

This is how fair, open-minded, and fearless contrarians react when the Dear Leader's choice to run the State Network is criticized.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 8d

LOL. Anyone who believes Susan Collins deserves what they get.

FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 9d

I'd guess it's a mistake with the conference line. Everyone is scrambling to do the hearing, so a mistake seems very probable.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 11d

a man is talking to another man and the words `` dogs and cats living together '' are written on the screen .

ALT: a man is talking to another man and the words `` dogs and cats living together '' are written on the screen .

media.tenor.com

FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 11d

Welcome to the communist resistance David Bier of the ::checks notes:: Cato Institute.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16d

What will poor Eric Adams do for work?
That’s nbody’s business but the Turks!

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 22d

"Tylenol and MMR vaccines have nothing whatsoever to do with autism. So why does it feel like they do?"

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 22d

Trump is misinforming Americans about life-saving medicine the right way.

by Ezra Klein

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 27d

I’m truly sorry for the way you are being treated. it breaks my heart.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 27d

I may not agree with the FCC threatening a retaliatory investigation to suppress speech it doesn't like, but I respect its right to do it.

--Ezra Klein

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · 27d

The FCC is doing politics right.

--Ezra Klein

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · Sep 13

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Sep 13

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

www.nytimes.com

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · Sep 13

People think coaches are more important than they are. The team underachieved last year primarily because of some guard issues. This year's team looks to be pretty good and very fun to watch. We will see. Let's revisit in January.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · Sep 13

Dude, wait for basketball. Or at least promise me you will have someone there with you to provide support should your feelings of hopelessness turn dangerous. You can’t watch something that dark and terrible alone.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · Sep 9

Yes, do this.

"You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

Charlie Board @chboar.bsky.social · Sep 9

A provision banning racial profiling of Hispanics by ICE in reaction to yesterday's SCotUs action should immediately be added as a non-negotiable position for any kind of CR.

*Force* the GOP to *demand* racial profiling of Hispanics and make them threaten to shut down the government over it

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · Aug 27

While I'm not into drafting by hand, I think reading out loud is extremely useful. It helps you slow down and notice things you are reading over. I

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · Aug 14

Holy straw man. You are claiming that somehow Republicans confirming a circuit judge who ordered his subordinates to ignore court orders was caused by a contentious judicial nomination 43 years ago. Thinking that's a little far fetched is a little different from arguing Democrats have no agency.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · Aug 13

We run the most massive incarceration machine in human history and tell ourselves that our minimal due process makes us impotent to arrest “criminals.” Truthfully Trump didn’t need to find a mechanism of authoritarianism. We have been polishing it for decades.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · Aug 13

They will never stop. It’s one of the ways we built out the future destruction of our democracy. We are addicted to the story that our cities are so perilously close to anarchic lawless violence that drastic measures are necessary.

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FirstCritique @firstcritique.bsky.social · Aug 3

It was really brilliant work by the FPD there attacking the problem in this way. One of the most innovative motions I've seen.

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