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Ray Radlein
@radlein.bsky.social
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Old. "Atlanta." He/Him. Cats, SF/Fandom, Women's Soccer, Cats, ME/CFS, Politics, Cats I Wear a Kitten Now. Kittens Are Cool.
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SaÑdra💙💯⚽️ @sandraherrera.bsky.social · 1h
In a not-busy, nothing-happening-at-all-here, day -- The #USWNT October roster is here! The team returns after 113 days as Trinity Rodman returns and Jaedyn Shaw is back in the mix. On @cbssports.bsky.social
www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/...
USWNT roster: Trinity Rodman, Jaedyn Shaw back in the squad and European club players return to the mix
The October window will feature retirement celebrations for Alex Morgan and Alyssa Naeher
www.cbssports.com
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Ray Radlein @radlein.bsky.social · 1h
How many times has NOT going for two when down eight resulted in a win?
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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 1h
The Chief Justice & Justice Alito asking the lawyer for the Trump admin to tell them why vitiating the Voting Rights Act would be consistent with the Court's decision 2 years ago in Allen v. Milligan, which reaffirmed longstanding VRA precedent & rejected many of the arguments in this case is yuck.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 2h
Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/palestinian-bodies-released-israel-show-signs-torture
Israel returns Palestinian bodies showing signs of torture and execution
Some bodies show evidence of strangulation, mutilation and being run over by tanks
www.middleeasteye.net
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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1h
Nice rough beast if it even thinks about slouching anywhere I’m emptying my clip into it
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Chris Barkley (He/Him) @cmzhang42.bsky.social · 1h
gizmodo.com/ohio-lawmake...
Ohio Lawmaker Wants to Ban Marriage Between Humans and AI Chatbots
Love should stay between a human and a human, according to one Ohio legislator.
gizmodo.com
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1h
This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1h
Tommy Robinson trial delayed because he is going to Israel as ‘guest of government’
Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, said his legal fees are being paid by Elon Musk
www.the-independent.com
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
But that means he was there when Kagan was a professor, just before she became Dean. So it's *possible* he had her for a class. I choose to believe that she's embarassed this man before, and now it's just more public.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
Sorry, I'm just googling "Ed Greim," mainly to see if he has a submission kink.

Turns out he's a HLS grad, class of 2002, so I guess we overlapped briefly, but I don't remember him from anywhere.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
Roberts and Alito skipped their chance to ask questions.

Sooo... what's basically happening is that the Republicans have decided to let the Democrats absolutely dog-walk Ed Greim so they can feel better about this case that they're going to lose.

Greim, meet bus, tell me how the wheels look.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
Sam Alito is going to have to stop knitting his next flag to show up and save this man.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
Ed Greim is getting rocked here by the way. Not that it matters.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
It's rare in a case of this high profile that the court gives time to one lawyer from one side, and THREE lawyers from the other side.

*Technically* both sides are supposed to have equal time, so like, the 3 lawyers arguing for racism are supposed to share time. But it doesn't work out that way.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1h
Kagan is going back to the difference between Section 2 and Section 5. This would work if Roberts was an intellectually honest person. Unfortunately, Roberts hates Black people voting as much as any Klansman ever did.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
Now we're onto the 3rd lawyer, Ed Greim. He's arguing on behalf of the white folks who believe their constitutional rights are being violated by not being allowed to overrepresent themselves in Congress. He's arguing for a straight reppeal of Section 2 of the VRA.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
KBJ is pissed at this Louisiana guy now.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
One of my only remaining joys is that every single time Amy Coney Barrett makes a stupid argument, Ketanji Brown Jackson gets a chance to follow up and illustrate her stupidity.
And this will happen again, and again, for the rest of Barrett's life.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
Gotta say, it takes an *amazing* lack of shame for Louisiana to show up to the Supreme Court to make the exact OPPOSITE argument than they made last year in the same case.

I couldn't do it. But I have, you know, intellectual integrity.
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
The thing about Kagan is that... if you show her your juglar, she's gonna go for it. :)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
Haaahahaha. Kagan says "in Milligan, we rejected a number of arguments. It seems to me that you just made every one of them." Then she started to list them.
... she's still listing them. :)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
Sotomayor keeps bringing up the face that the white folks ARE SPREAD OUT TOO. But Louisiana regularly makes weird ass districts to protect incumbents (white incumbents, of course)
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
Louisiana guy "If you look at the black population in Louisiana, they're all over the place."

Again, the fundamental argument for why Louisiana (which has 6 congressional districts and is 1/3 nonwhite) should over-represent white folks is because black folks are "too spread out."
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 2h
The Louisiana argument is essentially that you CAN use race to be racist but you CAN'T use race to ameliorate racism.
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