T to the K-M, Esq.

Better to die than to have no hope. Ad astra per aspera.

[T to the K-M, Esq. @Perkunas687]

Somewhere out there, there's a complex lifeform wondering if it 'wonders' alone. As long as I'm alive, it won't.

[T to the K-M, Esq. @Perkunas687]

@VABVOX And not even original Dune books, he's quoting one written by the son. Not nearly same quality.

[T to the K-M, Esq. @Perkunas687]

I'm just wondering how often @UPS claims a residential address in the middle of a neighborhood, surrounded by neighborhoods, is a 'business' that is somehow 'closed' when everyone was home. Just say you ran out of time, man. Don't make up stuff.

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

"One analysis of 61,998 stock trades made from 2004 to 2010, for instance, showed that politicians outperformed the market by 20 percent, with the portfolios of high-ranking Republicans beating the market by a whopping 35 percent.” https://t.co/neSEyHnRtD

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

We honor the storied legacy of American Indians & Alaska Natives who from the Revolutionary War to present-day missions around the world, contribute greatly to national defense. Learn more about National #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth ⬇️
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[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

It's a lawful order. Also, my man is still an E5 with over 11 years. Which probably helps explain why he is too stupid to understand what is a lawful order.

[T to the K-M, Esq. @Perkunas687]

Cool thread.

[NFL @NFL]

.@Buccaneers WR @cyrilgraysonjr hadn’t caught a TD pass since high school before catching a TD from Tom Brady on Sunday.

He has one of the wildest paths to the NFL [THREAD].

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones” where residents breathe carcinogens. ProPublica reveals where these places are in a first-of-its-kind map and data analysis. https://t.co/BhvNKPH9X1

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

Schumer says a deal has been reached among Democrats on drug pricing provisions. They will add it to the $1.75T legislation. Says Medicare empowered to negotiate drug prices. Democrats had said would focus on just the most expensive drugs and insulin, which will be capped at $35.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

One of Youngkin's closing ads blamed McAuliffe (who hasn't been governor since 2018) for a sexual assault that happened in a Virginia high school in 2021 and everyone seemed cool with it

[Eric Boehlert @EricBoehlert]

for 6 mos press refused to call out Youngkin's lie abt CRT being taught in Va. schools, but they're now hitting McAuliffe over definition of "with"

[Go to Bluesky to save your brain -- L O L G O P @LOLGOP]

Republicans depend on the press taking their obvious bad faith seriously.

Imagine how differently the Virginia elections would be, for instance, if the reporters could be honest and say "Republicans spent months exploiting a girl's sexual assault by amplifying convenient lies."

[Oliver Willis @owillis]

chart showing how many nypd cops are on unpaid leave after refusing to vaccinate, vs the overall nypd.

[Garrett Haake @GarrettHaake]

If Joe Manchin had sat in his office all day and played Angry Birds on his phone, the House was on a path to pass both his infrastructure bill, and send the BBB bill to the Senate where he could continue to influence it.

After that press conference? Who know what happens next.

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

Prelogar ends with this: If states are permitted to hand over their enforcement authority to private individuals, "then no constitutional right is safe, no constitutional decision of this court is safe." "That would be an intolerable state of affairs," she says.

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

Gorsuch returns to the broad nature of the injunction the federal government is seeking. He says there's never been such an injunction "in the history of the United States." Prelogar replies: "In the history of the United States, no state has done what Texas has done here."

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

Roberts responds that it's hardly "traditional" for a federal court to issue an injunction that prevents state court clerks and judges from docketing state lawsuits.

Prelogar: "I recognize that this is a novel case. That's because it's a novel law."

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

More Kagan: "To say, 'Oh we've never seen this before, so we can't do anything about it' -- I just don't understand the argument."

[SCOTUSblog @SCOTUSblog]

Kagan, with more than a hint of sarcasm, says she doesn't buy the idea that SCOTUS can't intervene simply because "after, oh these many years, some geniuses came up with a way to evade the commands ... that states are not to nullify federal constitutional rights."

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

Right now the Supreme Court is hearing arguments to the Texas abortion law – a law that flies in the face of Roe v. Wade.

What's happening in Texas won't happen in New York. I will make sure of it.
https://t.co/IQJAVQ1OTH

[T to the K-M, Esq. @Perkunas687]

"Welcome to Superman's America, where he stopped Lex Luthor from killing 1/4 of the world population."

What an idiotic take.

[Chuck Grassley @ChuckGrassley]

Welcome 2 Pres Biden’s America where 10,000 pounds of fentanyl hv been seized by Customs & Border patrol so far this fiscal yr which is enough to kill over 2 billion ppl or more than 1/4 of the world’s population