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Hazen Hammel
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Retired New Mexico lawyer (he/him)
I wasn't going to re/post on this because it was totally shrugworthy from a legal perspective

But Mrs. Betty killed it
The US Supreme Court has acted like it's one of Kim Davis's many husbands and kicked the "Marriage is Sacred, Y'all!!!" hypocrite to the curb. Glory!
November 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I prefer the singular possessive, "Oh, for fuck's sake." It just sounds more professional.
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Maybe not as bad as it looks

but it looks pretty fucking bad

We may get our court packing and jurisdiction reform yet.
#BREAKING: Justice Jackson has issued an "administrative" stay, temporarily pausing a district court order that would've required the USDA to continue using contingency funds to pay SNAP benefits.

The stay expires 48 hours after the First Circuit rules on USDA's request for a stay pending appeal.
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Coumo makes good on promise and flees to Florida with supporters
November 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
They never learn, do they?

(so much for "full faith and credit")
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Doooo eeet Dersh
I didn’t think this night could get any better.
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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This lady is directing traffic for all the people who said they’d flee NYC if Mamdani won. 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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This.

It's the Achilles Heel of extreme redistricting.

The greedier you get, the more you dilute your side's votes, leaving open the possibility that you lose even your "safe" districts in a landslide election

Like she said, unlikely

but it sure would be funny
Universal swing roughly 8 points to Dems in all VA counties.

If that holds in Texas next year it'd make a HILARIOUS backfire, not just neutralizing but reversing the gerrymander.

It's not *likely*, but it's possible, which is already pretty funny.

#spanberger #gerrymander #yeson50
The Abbot/Paxton plan took like, five R+>10 and five D+3 seats and turned them into ten seats around R+6. So at D+8, the exact result depends on the distribution, but it could actually wind up ten seats at D+2.

It this happens I will laugh so hard I may injure myself.
November 5, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Reminder that DHS and ICE were created under the Cheney/Bush. So Cheney is directly responsible for the evils we see on our streets today.
November 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I predict the jury will send the judge a note asking if they can award damages to the defendant.
November 4, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Pardoxical fanatiques of insanely over-complicated historical simulation/strategy games may commence rejoicing!

EUROPA UNIVERSALIS V IS HERE
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Hell does not exist, except as a metaphor for how we should remember Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
They also have way better internet than we do.

Unfortunately, generating the electricity at the place you might use it doesn't allow utilities to charge you for moving the current around, so it will never happen here in the US.
November 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
You dimwitted liberal centrists who keep posting memes demanding that we return to the "Fairness Doctrine"

(even though you don't remember what it was or how it worked?)

That's how he gets "100% ANTI TRUMP WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL"

Let THAT sink in
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
AI companies will be to the 2020s bubble what radio stock was to the great crash of 1929

"After the 1929 peak, [RCA] stock collapsed, declining from 114.75 in September 1929 to 2.625 in May 1932, a 98% decline."

finaeon.com/rca-and-the-...
RCA and the Roaring Twenties – Finaeon
finaeon.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you see ICE near a polling place, call State and local police

that's a felony

(and they are not immune from arrest, prosecution and unpardonable State prison time)

New Mexico's Secretary of State directly addresses misuse of law enforcement during elections:

www.sos.nm.gov/voting-and-e...
Guidance on Voter Intimidation and Discriminatory Conduct | Maggie Toulouse Oliver - New Mexico Secretary of State
www.sos.nm.gov
October 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I'm not keen on the trend to optimize every game for a controller, instead of a keyboard

but I could be convinced
this would fix me
Gameboy peripheral PediSedate was designed for dentists and dosed kids with nitrous oxide as they played games.
October 28, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I like this will so much

back when I was practicing law I would have stapled it to some pages for signature blocks and had it signed and notarized

just as it is

(yeah sure handwriting is self-authenticating but I was a belt and suspenders guy when it came to wills)
my girls aren’t big on legalese so i wrote my will on the back of a cvs receipt: “hi girls! im dead! lol. sell my house. or don’t. idc. cuz im dead! all ur shit from hs that u left in my basement? it’s still here. & now you gotta rifle thru it. ha! sucks for u. but not for me. cuz, like i said, im d
October 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
The people who say people on SNAP "need to get a job" know exactly what they are doing

They enjoy spouting Nazi rhetoric, because it's like saying "I have power"

The more lies, the more power

correcting them with facts or reproving them with morality just adds more spice to their enjoyment
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM