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"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
— Alice Walker (February 09, 1944)
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN "secret asian man" was actually what I first thought that song said :/
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Morning Cat Haiku:
Mother. Feed us. Mo
ther. Feed us. We are fur and
bone. Mother. Feed us.
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Can we please be done with the whole “is potato” thing?
Why didn't space force grab the balloon and bring it down :/ 🤔
@Marlowe2 I must admit half the reason I followed @Marlowe2 was in hopes that she would post bad takes on things so I could say to myself "What the hell does Marlowe know?" #deadmendontwearplaid
Alternate reality Star Trek plot: Khan captures the Reliant, and instead of jumping right to baiting Kirk like a moron, he shows up at Regula I and takes Genesis using a believable excuse to come aboard instead of alerting the scientists, and uses genesis to destroy all life on some planet, using a bunch of mind control critters to control their space stations/vessels, all before baiting Kirk.
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SCOTUS, in Arellano v. McDonough: "Equitable tolling is a presumption we're allowed to find in statutes that don't use the words 'equitable' or 'tolling,' but we can't do that here because Congress used lots and lots of words in this statute that aren't the words 'equitable' or 'tolling'."
SCOTUS in Castle Rock v. Gonzalez: "When the Colorado state legislature used the word 'shall,' they didn't mean 'shall.'"
This court, I f*cking swear.
I want to hear what the Sedentary Wilbury's have to say.
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I spent yesterday unpacking the FDA's Race and Ethnicity Diversity Plan guidance for clinical researchers. Sometimes my job doesn't feel like total nonsense.
...I'd ask if it's weird to enjoy explaining federal regulations as much as I do, but I know the answer. 😆
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George Santos looks like Pee Wee Herman crossed with a ventriloquist dummy only the actual ventriloquist dummy knows when to shut up.
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@vieuxnez In this case, my fear is that both of those things will be true at the same time.
Which is indeed an exceptional legal feat, just exceptional...in the wrong direction.
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I'm finally catching up on the cases that are before SCOTUS this term, and the number of times I have said "what the fuck" or "oh no" to myself in the last ten minutes is...alarming
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Chief among the "oh noes": Jones v Hendrix, which is a habeas case involving (1) retroactively applicable SCOTUS decisions and (2) actual innocence, and if that alone isn't enough to make you go "oh no" just trust me when I say it should.
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Rob a liqor store - 5 years.
Take part in a decades long multi million dollar crime spree - 5 months.
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