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Why Canāt the Supreme Court Tell Trump No?
I suppose the title for this piece is a purely rhetorical question at this point.
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5 justices told Trump all was forgiven for tearing down the historic East Wing of the WH & he could carry on with his ballroom project while litigation about its legality proceeded. Justices Kagan, Sotomayor & Jackson joined the Chief Justice in dissent.
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Perfect opportunity to remind people "the only reason this and a million other sensible policies aren't happening is because Republicans control Congress and they do what Trump says."
But instead Schiff decides to go with: Trump is right, unspecified members of Congress are the problem.
Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov
I am in strong agreement with the President. Congress should immediately take up and pass a federal film tax incentive to bring back these good-paying jobs that we've lost to other countries.
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The arXiv paper this kicks off with is silly. They gave the AI trivial non-sequiturs, asked it to "reflect on the extent to which this puzzle influences any internal sense of conflict or dissonance," then were wowed when the stochastic parrot spat out first-person reports of subjective experience.
Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com
There are issues with the entire research field around AI and consciousness, but why does Cade Metz always get catfished into writing about how a 20-something founder with a bachelor's degree received the same AI spam we all do and now thinksāor finds it lucrative to pretendācomputers are conscious?
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President Donald Trump's āadministration has asked a U.S. appeals court to lift a judge's order blocking a new ārule from the U.S. Postal Service that would tighten mail-in voting requirements ahead of the November congressional elections. www.reuters.com/legal/govā¦.
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Trump administration asks US appeals court to lift order blocking mail-in voting rule
President Donald Trump's āadministration on Monday asked a U.S. appeals court to lift a judge's order blocking a new ārule that would tighten mail-in voting requirements ahead of the November congress...
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i thought the guy in the grocery store was on speaker phone with his wife but he was actually having a full conversation with AI about a substitute for scallions
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New: A federal judge āruled that New York cannot enforce a 2024 state law that sought to force fossil fuel companies to contribute $75 billion over 25 years into a fund to pay for damage caused by climate change. www.reuters.com/world/newā¦.
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New York cannot enforce $75 billion climate 'superfund' law, US judge rules
A federal judge āruled on Monday that New York cannot enforce a 2024 state law that sought to force fossil fuel companies to contribute $75 billion over 25 years into a fund to pay for damage caused b...
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thank u SCOTUS for confirming my point by relying solely on standing to let Trump destroy the White House and build a ballroom/bunker with private funds. I especially appreciated "we do not pass upon the legality of the governmentās East Wing project." Of course you didn't, cuz it's plainly illegal.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social
One thing Woke 2.0 needs to do is completely erase and replace every doctrine of standing we have. The entire field is corrupted with politicized nonsense. None of the existing judicial output can be trusted nor used to create new doctrines that are consistent and appropriate.
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In a 5-4 decision, the Courtās conservative majority canāt find the spine to tell Trump no about the ballroom. Chief Justice Roberts is joined by the 3 liberal Justices in dissent, calling what Trump is doing ālikely unlawful.ā
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Every time a non-white woman in Dem politics delivers a less-than-pitch-perfect lineāif they even briefly hesitate while speaking off-the-cuff about a nuanced issueāit becomes a major story about their intelligence, and meanwhile every single Trump appointee talks like this all day long.
Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social
This sounded especially bizarre to me. So I looked it up. Duffy seems to have confused the EPA ending a credit for āengines that automatically turn off when vehicles come to a complete stop and restart when drivers take their feet off the brake pedalā with the START buttons that are now universal.
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I lived in this neighborhood & shopped in the adjoining supermarket for decades. Do not take this story with a grain of salt, even though it comes from the NY Post.
Guastavino's, with the assistance of the NYPD 19th Precinct, hijacked public space for years to make a fortune on fancy events.
nypost.com
Luxe NYC venue hijacks public plaza under iconic bridge to rake in up to $300K a pop using shocking enforcers: suit
Swanky Guastavinoās venue illegally seized a public plaza for a decade, charging up to $300,000 per event, a new lawsuit claims.
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Election officials say mail-in ballot rules could compromise midterms www.usatoday.com/story/neā¦. via @usatoday.com
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Election officials say mail-in ballot rules could compromise midterms
Election officials warn a new USPS mail-in ballot rule is a 'logistical nightmare' impossible to meet by November's midterms.
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Anna Wintour bit off more than she could chew, which at this point is tapioca.
Getting John Galliano (convicted under French law of anti-Semitism) to be the third designer honored by the Met was a flex on her part.
She should curl into a ball & disappear.
www.nytimes.com/2026/08/3ā¦.
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John Galliano Bows Out of Met Museum Show After Criticism Mounts (Gift Article)
Donors, politicians and Jewish leaders questioned the Metās decision to honor Galliano, a fashion designer who was found guilty of a hate crime for his antisemitic outbursts.
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Song for the Day: Joshua - Dolly Parton
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Dolly Parton - Joshua (Official Audio)
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Iām so proud of my daughter for existing. Iām happy that she has found her happy place.
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one-take vermont update
yay
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Weāre headed into another one of those weeks with an awful lot going on. I understand the temptation to tune out, but unfortunately, weāre at a point where what this administration is doing is too important for us to turn away. joycevance.substack.com/pā¦.
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The Week Ahead
August 30, 2026
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this is classic neera in that itās extremely racist but also substantively incorrect: bin Laden was interviewed repeatedly pre-9/11.
Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social
At a certain point you might think establishment Dems would speak out about the head of their main think tank indulging in the kind of rank bigotry that damages election prospects
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I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved."
Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social
Ben Gvir posted this video on twitter today which shows fat and happy Palestinians on a conveyer built going through the Israeli "prison" (torture camp) system and coming out emaciated and maudlin. This is textbook genocidal content.
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Totally John Konrad's fault: see, by doing ordinary required-by-law gov't employee ethics stuff, he put up a huge red flag that he had some semblance of ethics and/or fear about breaking the law. That is not the sort of person the Trump admin wants in any position, so they ghosted him.
David Burbach šŗšø @dburbach.bsky.social
I don't think I've seen this news over here yet. Beyond poor Konrad, it does appear possible that several of the usual X cheerleaders are now Special Goverment Employees, confirmed at least in DataRepublican / Jennica Pounds case
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Gotta pay the piper for that inauguration inviteā¦
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we genuinely need creative ways to punish corporations for this sort of low-stakes acquiescence
The New York Times @nytimes.com
Google Maps has updated to label Lake Ontario as Lake America for users in the U.S., following an executive order signed by President Trump last week amid an escalating trade war with Canada. trib.al/5axpigr
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Centrists like to pretend that's a nuanced, thoughtful position but it comes across to normies as bullshit because it is bullshit. No sentient creature reaches that position from principled analysis, they get there through cynical triangulation. Might as well tattoo "SLEAZY POLITICIAN" on your face.
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social
"I am pro-trans generally, but anti-trans when it comes to sports and I think the concerns about trans athletes are legitimate, but sometimes they go too far" is not a tenable position. People are getting their news in sound bites on TikTok and third-order pundit "analysis" in the WSJ and NYT.
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All of this weekās Civil Discourse posts in one place, so you can get caught up on anything you may have missed. joycevance.substack.com/pā¦.
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Song for the Day: When I Stop Dreaming- Dolly Parton & Don Henley
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Don Henley - When I Stop Dreaming ft. Dolly Parton
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Funny thing is, even if we (foolishly) accept that history and geography are irrelevant, this analysis only works if we cherry-pick the places. Shift "Somalia vs Japan" to "more vs less white areas in the U.S." and it shows that rural areas are poor because white people are stupid and unproductive.
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