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JoanofArgh's JournalAlito cited writers from the 1700's and 13th century in his opinion
https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/1540355794008526848?s=20&t=z8AQsr5aqFV9Vt9h1lmlVAAs in the leaked draft, the Court majority signs on to Alito approvingly citing:
A "13th-century" treatise which said hitting or poisoning a pregnant woman in a way that "caused abortion" was "homicide."
https://twitter.com/AriMelber/status/1540356252815032322?s=20&t=z8AQsr5aqFV9Vt9h1lmlVA
Alito cites writers from the 1700s to approvingly note their view that "abortion of a 'quick' child was 'by the ancient law homicide or manslaughter' [or] a very 'heinous
misdemeanor'"
This court( the Republican members) has absolute contempt for women.
Originalism is a scam. But we all knew that.
https://twitter.com/jrubinblogger/status/1539980170739720192?s=21&t=yZgg04Ydh9KyUOh67UgspgThomas declares: "the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect an individual's right to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home" - there is ZERO textual support for that. Ex. 9999 why "originalism" is a scam
Political scientist says the Senate's failure to act on guns is an example of political decay
Here’s yet another reason to do this: because this sense of paralysis might stem from something that runs deep in our system.
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama has argued that such inaction is rooted in a form of “political decay.” This decay flows from complex processes that include interest-group capture and the entrenchment of patterns in our institutions that constrain them from keeping pace with evolving problems.
Fukuyama says this concept of political decay applies to the current moment. The Senate’s malapportioned representation constrains action supported by popular majorities (but opposed by powerful interests) to deal with increasingly pressing problems such as gun violence.
The adherence to the antiquated filibuster makes it even worse. As Fukuyama told me, it “adds to the stasis of the system.” We’re suffering from “the entrenching of a kind of anti-majoritarian rule that can’t be fixed,” he said, and the system isn’t responding to its “need to evolve.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/25/democrats-chris-murphy-action-shooting/
So, gun sales can only be kept on paper. Can't be in a computer database because of the NRA
https://twitter.com/hondanhon/status/1529277022102429696?s=20&t=zhLY3Ud9eS2Lqb_rWk_gFw“People don't think,” Charlie tells me. He's a trim guy, 51, full lips and a thin goatee, and he likes to wear three-piece suits. They fit loose, so the overall effect is awkward innocence, like an eighth grader headed to his first formal. “ I get e-mails even from police saying, ‘Can you type in the serial number and tell me who the gun is registered to?’ Every week. They think it's like a VIN number on a car. Even police. Police from everywhere. ‘Hey, can you guys hurry up and type that number in?’ ”It's a shoestring budget. It's a bunch of friggin' boxes. All half-ass records.”
So here's a news flash, from Charlie: “We ain't got a registration system. Ain't nobody registering no damn guns.” There is no national database of guns. We have no centralized record of who owns all the firearms we so vigorously debate, no hard data regarding how many people own them, how many of them are bought or sold, or how many even exist.
Anytime a cop in any jurisdiction in America wants to connect a gun to its owner, the request for help ends up here, at the National Tracing Center, in a low, flat, boring building that belies its past as an IRS facility, just off state highway 9 in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in the eastern panhandle of the state, a town of some 17,000 people, a Walmart, a JCPenney, and various dollar stores sucking the life out of a quaint redbrick downtown. On any given day, agents here are running about 1,500 traces; they do about 370,000 a year.
That's been a federal law, thanks to the NRA, since 1986: No searchable database of America's gun owners. So people here have to use paper, sort through enormous stacks of forms and record books that gun stores are required to keep and to eventually turn over to the feds when requested. It's kind of like a library in the old days—but without the card catalog. They can use pictures of paper, like microfilm (they recently got the go-ahead to convert the microfilm to PDFs), as long as the pictures of paper are not searchable. You have to flip through and read. No searching by gun owner. No searching by name.
https://www.gq.com/story/inside-federal-bureau-of-way-too-many-guns
This is insane!
This press conference by Warrior's Head Coach Steve Kerr calling out the gun-loving politicians...
https://twitter.com/mattmfm/status/1529253008072183822?s=20&t=J6kfimaM-ycFG9eXVuL5FQSteve Kerr's father was Malcolm H. Kerr a professor at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.
From Wikipedia: On 18 January 1984, Kerr was shot and killed by two gunmen. He was shot twice in the back of his head, by gunmen using suppressed handguns, in the hallway outside his office. His death was claimed by the Islamic Jihad Organization.[15] Years later, information regarding Kerr's assassins and their motives still remain uncertain.
News of his sudden death appeared in the media worldwide.[18] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_H._Kerr
Meet Tony Gonzales , who represents the district that contains the Uvalde elementary school
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1529177112288145413?s=20&t=J6kfimaM-ycFG9eXVuL5FQTrump is the headliner at the NRA convention taking place in a couple days on May 27th. They all make me sick.
https://twitter.com/dianabutlerbass/status/1529214792547844096?s=20&t=J6kfimaM-ycFG9eXVuL5FQ
Jfc- Elon Musk just tweeted this
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526997132858822658?s=20&t=M-LaFjBXJdDPZ5ZUKUxQWQIn the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party.
But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican.
Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold … 🍿
Musk is a troll who loves drama.
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1527005281527508993?s=20&t=M-LaFjBXJdDPZ5ZUKUxQWQ
Dave Wasserman on 2022 redistricting
https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1519423162978557952?s=21&t=89cZ7nFz3BESpJYTnpjAdAhttps://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1519423164442423298?s=21&t=89cZ7nFz3BESpJYTnpjAdA
Trump says he feared being pelted with 'very dangerous' fruit at rallies
Former president Donald Trump said he feared protesters would hit him with tomatoes, pineapples and other “very dangerous” fruit at his campaign rallies, declaring in a sworn deposition that “you can be killed if that happens.”
Trump’s comments about the potentially lethal effects of projectile produce were made public Tuesday with the release of excerpts of 4½ hours of videotaped testimony in a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who allege that Trump’s security guards assaulted them in 2015.
“I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit,” Trump said in the October 2021 deposition, according to a transcript of the proceedings. He added that “tomatoes are bad” and that “some fruit is a lot worse.”
“But it’s very dangerous. … I remember that specific event, because everybody was on alert. They were going to hit — they were going to hit hard,” he said.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/27/trump-says-he-feared-being-pelted-with-very-dangerous-fruit-rallies/
Madison Cawthorn's Problem Is That He Picked a Fight With a Koch Brother Mini-Me
The hits just keep on coming on Rep. Madison Cawthorn, the tree-punching MAGA troll from the newly insane state of North Carolina. Geez, it’s like a guy can't get pulled over (again) for a motor-vehicle violation or stopped (again) at an airport while carrying a gun without it ending up all over the newspapers and on TV. And mysteriously, every time it happens (again), the local news somehow gets ahold of the details of Cawthorn’s entire rap sheet.
And now, a questionable stock thing? And Senator Thom Tillis wants to bring the House Ethics Committee down on his ass? How’d that happen? Isn’t it enough that Cawthorn made those infamous remarks about cocaine-fueled sex orgies among his fellow Republicans? Can’t a brother get a break?
On the surface, as far as his politics go, Cawthorn isn’t any different from Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Taylor Greene, or any of the other Bedlamites in the Republican caucus in the House of Representatives. So why has he turned into Velcro for almost every kind of public scandal? The answer may lie in the fact that, unlike those two, Cawthorn has made some dangerous enemies back home, the kind who want the wingnut playground all to themselves, and who have the money to buy their way in.
To understand what’s happened to Cawthorn, you have to go back to last fall. Art Pope is North Carolina’s Koch Mini-Me, a wealthy conservative sugar daddy who is probably the person most responsible for the newly insane state of North Carolina becoming newly insane. He bankrolled the Republican takeover of the state legislature, as Jane Mayer detailed in the New Yorker in 2011:
The Republicans hadn’t controlled both houses of the North Carolina General Assembly for more than a century. (“Not since General Sherman,” a state politico joked to me.) That day in Raleigh, though, Gillespie had lunch with an ideal ally: James Arthur (Art) Pope, the chairman and C.E.O. of Variety Wholesalers, a discount-store conglomerate. The Raleigh News and Observer had called Pope, a conservative multimillionaire, the Knight of the Right. The redmap project offered Pope a new way to spend his money. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/10/10/state-for-sale
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39841527/madison-cawthorn-insider-trading-airport-gun/
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