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Christina Pesavento
c_pesavento
My thoughts on SCOTUS, FWIW:I understand the concern over the Supreme Court's legitimacy—and the proper functioning of our political institutions more broadly—that some on the right point to as reason
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Christopher R. Cook
ProfessorCook_
Problem of meme is that it focuses on tactics at expense of political strategy. Most Cold War groups took a bastardized version of Mao's People's War and promptly failed b/c
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Chris “Cal” Carnahan 🇺🇸
xtrixcyclex
This is an amusing but ultimately straw man portrayal of the legitimacy crisis the judiciary is in. Legitimacy derives from trust in the democratic process that led to a judge
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Pwn All The Things
pwnallthethings
The central thesis of the protests, and the thing all the governors get wrong here, is that there is no greater crime in democratic society than the disproportionate misuse of
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Red Army Duck
IronProle
Can anyone remind me how the best fighter responds to reaction?https://twitter.com/CapHillCenter/status/1300902886142963713 With better and more robust organizations. The enemy is a ruthless yard dog.We must out organize them. We canmot
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Rohn Jawls, very low IQ-haver
rohn_jawls
My hot take for the evening: yes, originalism collapses into incoherence under very little scrutiny, but it is still the most plausible theory of legal interpretation. This is because a
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Yoram Hazony
yhazony
This says adding liberal judges to the US Supreme Court will save the Court’s legitimacy. This is true: It will make the Court legitimate in the eyes of those who
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt
nadinebh_
You can acknowledge that Peter Mandelson may not identify as a Jew because only his dad was Jewish, and that other people who have Jewish dads do identify as patrilineal
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Tsedale Lemma
TsedaleLemma
Just finished reading this article by PM @AbiyAhmedAli. Interesting to see that the argument in the article is informed by,& in keeping with, the long established tradition of the Ethiopian
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Jon Walker
JonWalkerDC
The "Dems need to keep their minority on SCOTUS" is the worst argument for Biden. It is lost. SCOTUS just ordered people to die in Wisconsin to help the GOP.
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Conor Stokes, the man from online
xDirtyPunkx
The ALP and its orbital clingers-on launching a campaign to disenfranchise the AUWU and then trying to paint its leadership simultaneously as nasty trolls and illegitimate cos-playing dilettantes for not
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Filipe Brito Bastos
F_Brito_Bastos
Rules of procedure - QMV and unanimity - exist for a reason. Can we really imagine a scenario where the frugals, knowing they'd be outvoted anyway, would become more cooperative?
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Osprey
0x_Osprey
1/x Quick morning brain dump after reading the latest piece by .@VitalikButerin. All personal opinions, not financial advice.The #Bitcoin and #Ethereum ecosystems both spend far more on network security
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Spencer Yan
spncryn
I think at the end of the day what frustrates and angers people -- myself included -- the most about games like TLoU/RDR/Death Stranding isn't the specific contents of those
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Heidi Li Feldman
HeidiLiFeldman
I had real reservations about efforts to expand the Supreme Court, right up to the moment when Trump and McConnell said they are rushing through Barrett’s nomination and confirmation to
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Tomb Hellton
TVHilton
Assuming we take back the Senate, I would love to see televised hearings in conjunction with passing the Lewis VRA. Elicit testimony about real-world suppression efforts, and about the real-world
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