WATCH: ?????? New York’s Pride parade took place amid polarizing debates over LGBTQ rights. The ACLU tracked 491 anti-LGBTQ bills in state legislatures this year. Listen to the Reuters World News podcast on LGBTQ+ around the world: https://t.co/zxcra5HPfS pic.twitter.com/MbcsflIJ3j
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 2, 2023
??????Thousands poured into the streets of London to take part in the annual Pride Parade pic.twitter.com/b4v0Wm9jSR
— Reuters (@Reuters) July 2, 2023
In celebration of Pride, @VP visited the Stonewall Inn with @Andy.
Together, we will continue to fight to advance the American ideals of equality and freedom. pic.twitter.com/CVRBZRLDSv
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 1, 2023
Not saying US democracy doesn’t have its flaws but one complaint I don’t get is when people say “*insert elected official* is only doing the thing I want because he needs the votes next election.”
Uh… yes? That’s the elevator pitch for the system.
— Melania Trump’s Burner Account (@IRHotTakes) June 30, 2023
god bless Biden for never talking to white house pool reporters *and* rubbing it in their faces. king. https://t.co/jLHrN9n6WL
— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) June 29, 2023
ETA: If you want to read the stories, click on the urls (apnews.com, missoulian.com), not the tweets!
DOJ announces it will be putting more resources toward addressing the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. https://t.co/cfHX8ayGLJ
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 29, 2023
'Absolutely epic': Blackfeet Nation releases wild buffalo on tribal land, returning free-roaming buffalo to their native habitat https://t.co/79S1RiUFbC
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) June 28, 2023
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
Baud
That buffalo picture is gorgeous.
NotMax
Heading into the holiday, a little wake-up music from the other John Adams.
;)
Baud
@NotMax:
Quincy?
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: 😘 C’mon, the Blackfeet tribe releasing the buffalo is cool.
Rk
Everything links to Twitter. I don’t have an account any more ( nor will I create a new one), so this post is impossible for me.
Baud
@Rk:
If you click on the URLs rather than the tweets, you can go directly to the story.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: It’s an obligatory “Blech.” I mean, Ron DeSantis still walks the earth, does he not?
(and yes, wild buffalo being released on Blackfeet land isn’t just cool, it’s making me plan a visit. been way too long since last I was in that neck of the woods).
Mike in NC
This stuff is going to be Ground Zero of the GOP culture war campaign in 2024, even more so than the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim hysteria of the last couple elections. Hate and fear is what drives them to the polls, and nobody did it better than Fat Bastard.
Scout211
@Rk: AL is choosing tweets that have links in them to the news article in the tweet. Go to the lower part of the tweet that includes the articles and click on the link to the article. It will take you there. (Don’t click on the tweet itself).
And the embedded videos still will play here. So the tweets are still helpful if you want more information or want to watch the videos. It’s the best that she can do right now with Twitter in such a mess.
I definitely appreciate her tireless work to inform us.
Suzanne
That “Padam Padam” song is absolutely the song of the summer. WHAT. A. BOP.
Today is a glorious day of clouds and rain. Cools everything off and improves the air quality. Love it.
Yesterday, I made one of my favorite lazy-ass meals, in which I put a package of chicken and a jar of salsa in the crockpot, and shred it when it’s done. Then add rice, beans, avocados, cheese, salsa, crema, whatever to make tacos or bowls or burritos. It is kind of fantastic, relative to the effort it takes. Which, in some days, will be zero. Today I will expend slightly more effort and make chili.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
mali muso
Resharing another Twitter viewing hack that was posted here yesterday.
https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-name/ [twitterhandle]
ie.
https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-name/TheRealHoarse
Baud
Oh, there’s video of the buffalo running at the link…with babies! They seem so happy.
OzarkHillbilly
US ‘mom influencer’ guilty of falsely accusing Latino couple of trying to kidnap her children
No need to quote the article, it’s exactly what you think it is. At least she gets a 30 day taste of prison.
moonbat
Thank you AL for that link to the buffalo being released! It was absolutely beautiful.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Maybe they should take her kids away.
NotMax
@Baud
I don’t know; I’ve never quinced.
;)
JPL
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich is an excellent read about native americans.
Chief Oshkosh
As to the USSC ruling on the supposed web developer who doesn’t want to provide service to gay couples, is it true that the gay couple is non-existent, that the request for service is non-existent, and that the supposed web developer didn’t even have a business until she created the entire episode from whole cloth?
Can any attorneys here tell us whether the web developer commits perjury? And do we know if the USSC knew that the entire case was fictional (assuming that is so)?
Sorry to just be catching up on this aspect of the “case,” but it’s so far through the looking glass that I just didn’t comprehend that these particulars may have just been lies.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JPL: I read that. As I recall, it’s set during the pandemic too, which was interesting.
japa21
@NotMax: But have you ever been quinced? It’s quite the experience.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Did you see the pic of a baby drenched in trump paraphernalia yesterday? All I could think was, “A clearer case of child abuse I have never seen.”
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I didn’t see it. Hopefully, it’ll be like an allergen and the kid will grow up to shun fascism.
rikyrah
@Mike in NC:
Hate is all they have
Another Scott
Some Mastodon tips:
(via https://law-and-politics.online/@Teri_Kanefield )
Cheers,
Scott.
OzarkHillbilly
@Chief Oshkosh: As far as I am concerned the whole case is null and void and if they had any shame they would reverse themselves, but they don’t so we are probably stuck with their homophobic decision. As for the plaintiff, yes, she should be sanctioned and so should her lawyers. Actually, they should be disbarred.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It made me shudder with the creepy crawlies. I hope you are spared the sight.
rk
@Scout211:
@Baud:
Thank you.
sab
@satby: Are these actual buffalo, or beefalo? Wiki says there are only four true buffalo herds left.
satby
@sab: I’ll leave the vetting of buffalo up to the Native tribe that released them.
Another Scott
For D.A.W. and the other writers among us who are figuring out how to climb the Tik-Tok learning curve, this short AndroidPolice.com article on how to edit a TT video might have some useful information.
Haven’t tried it myself.
Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
pat
@Chief Oshkosh:
No one even bothered to contact the person who was named in the complaint until it was all over and he is married for the last 15 years to a woman, does websites himself, and had no idea that he was being identified. Oh, and the woman who “won” is just thinking about doing websites in the future.
I am shocked that someone can make up such a ludicrous story and it fits with what the court wants to do anyway, so they run with it.
You’d think at least SOMEONE would have at least checked. And poor old Roberts, whining about the dissents attacking the poor justices they are dissenting from.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Not to mention the real life Stewart falsely identified in her bogus claim has grounds to file a strong case against her.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Another Scott: Thanks. I bookmarked it.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: So cool! Looks like Devil’s Butte from Close Encounters in the background…
JPL
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It took place in the fifties, when native american females wanted to escape to the big cities and the abuse that they sustained. It’s heartbreaking.
bbleh
@Mike in NC: Hate and fear is what drives them to the polls.
‘Twas ever thus, no? And yeah, anti-gay — and in particular anti-trans — does seem to be their flavor of the month. But I’m not sure how much appeal it’s gonna have beyond the hard core (and the mindless sheep nearby). It feels … tired. Like, yeah you’ve already blown this horn and it turned out civilization didn’t crumble, and by the way, I kinda like my gay neighbors / coworker / nephew.
Not to minimize recent setbacks, and this entirely made-up thing from Colorado is just the cherry of outrage on top, but it feels more like a movement lashing out from a position of long-term weakness than one making long-term gains. I feel the same way about what they’re doing on reproductive healthcare: it’s gonna do more to turn the apathetic middle against them than to win them converts.
Certainly hope I’m right, for many others’ sake as well as my own…
Suzanne
Y’all, does anyone know of a site or a nonprofit (or a social media account) that tracks bigoted businesses? I obvs know the big chains, like Hobby Lobby (spit). It would be great to have a resource to ID the assholes so we can boycott.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JPL: Oh you’re right. I have it mixed up with “The Sentence.”
Betty Cracker
@Chief Oshkosh: Yep — gift link to the WaPo story here. I don’t get it either. Why not just traffic 100% in hypotheticals if it’s okay to use fictitious “harms” as a basis to decide a case? (Probably shouldn’t give the court’s radical clerics any ideas…)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker: Especially since in their testimony to congress, they all declined to comment on hypothetical cases
moonbat
Since we’re talking alternatives to Twitter Just want to toss this in from Spoutible’s About Us page.
I’m a “First Wave” user since February and have zero complaints. They are responsive to user suggestions and constantly work hard to improve the site based on what users want. NOT vulture capitalist funded so no perverse incentives to abuse their users. They are definitely worth a look.
Jerzy Russian
@satby: I assume they are actual American Bison. According to the article, the tribe has raising that herd for a number of years, getting ready for this event.
Another Scott
@Chief Oshkosh: @OzarkHillbilly:
The fact that there was no customer and they hadn’t actually made any wedding web sites was mentioned in the Sotomayor’s dissent (70 page .pdf): (Sorry for any mangled formatting…)
She gives all kinds of reasons why the decision is wrong (public accommodation isn’t compelled speech, she’s free to put whatever speech she wants on her web sites, etc.). The RWNJs don’t care – they’re more than happy to twist the record and make crap up to punch down on the non-white-male, non-RWNJ people in this country.
It’s worth a read.
Cheers,
Scott.
Jerzy Russian
@Betty Cracker: When you are there, you can understand why Montana is sometimes called “Big Sky Country”.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
The babies, yes! Love those little buffles!
bbleh
@Chief Oshkosh: @Betty Cracker: I wondered about that too — there’s NO HARM to anyone, so how can she have standing? — but from what I read, that particular aspect of standing doesn’t even figure in the dissents, so I guess the “reasonable fear” based on other prosecutions that the state HAD conducted is good enough for the legal eagles.
I guess Kagan was pretty acid when it came to the student-loan case though, where there was a real question of standing, and the majority just brushed it aside with this “major questions” thing they’ve invented.
rikyrah
David Heath (@davidhth) tweeted at 4:55 PM on Fri, Jun 30, 2023:
Listen to Colorado’s Attorney General Phil Weiser complain that the case allowing businesses to discriminate against gay couples was a made-up case with no real victim or any real business. The court should have refused to hear it, he says. https://t.co/F9yMQLoXFM
(https://twitter.com/davidhth/status/1674899407001600002?t=VYjRqJ5IztTWfGnjtIKedA&s=03)
Baud
@Another Scott:
Do you recommend a particular server?
Betty Cracker
Pitch-perfect response to a question about DeSantis’s bizarre ad that was discussed here yesterday (you can watch the ad at the Advocate site via Twitter embed).
Hopefully non-twits can view it here without going to the fucked up bird site. If not, I’ll sum up: Buttigieg asks who the garbage DeSantis is serving up is supposed to help? Excellent question! And he juxtaposes DeSantis’s incel-themed ad with action the Biden admin has taken to help real people as opposed to making life harder for folks who already face plenty of persecution, thank you.
NotMax
@Jerzy Russian
Philip II of Macedon had a bison.
::rimshot::
OzarkHillbilly
@NotMax: If it were me I’d probably just say, “Fuhgeddaboudit.” and move on with my life. Been there, done that. There is a point where it is just not worth the trouble.
SiubhanDuinne
@sab:
@satby:
I can tell an alligator from a crocodile from a cayman; I know the difference between a dromedary and a bactrian camel; and I can easily distinguish African elephants from their Indian cousins. But I have no idea how to tell a buffalo from a beefalo from a bison.
Lehrjet
When do the ” No ( fill in blank)” signs start going up? And on a make believe case? Never seen such judicial quakery in my life. I’d say shame on them, but they have none, Calvinball court indeed.
Suzanne
@Betty Cracker: That ad is bonkers. WTF.
Jerzy Russian
@Betty Cracker: That quoted line in the embedded tweet (“I’m going to leave aside the strangeness …”) should be a rotating tag. Also, since I have been 12 years old for the past 44 years I laughed at the banner text at the bottom: “DESANTIS UNLOADS ON TRUMP …”
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Jeez. Everyone knows you prove your manhood by irradiating your balls.
Another Scott
@Baud: I haven’t posted anything on Mastodon – I set up an account a few months ago when the rush was in the news and many places were limiting signups. (It would take me a while to find that login…)
Mastodon.social seems to be the biggest one.
I don’t think it matters which one one picks, other than the URLs might be longer in referring to other instances, but I dunno.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
https://mastodon.social/auth/sign_up – let us know how it goes. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Jerzy Russian:
Ha! Good catch. Props to the chyron person.
OzarkHillbilly
@Another Scott: As far as I’m concerned, Jesus Fucking Christ says it all: “Your religion is not my burden to carry.”
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Thought for a fleeting second you were going for a Modern Major General riff.
:)
Betty Cracker
@Suzanne: Completely batshit insane, and the account that published it is the official “rapid response” account for DeSantis 2024 that is run by Christina Pushaw, who used to be DeSantis’s taxpayer-funded press sec before she switched to a campaign-side gig. WTF indeed!
Baud
@NotMax:
Me too! I just couldn’t recall the name.
Eunicecycle
@Betty Cracker: I notice Buttigieg highlighted two examples in red states, KY and ND.
Jerzy Russian
@Baud: Any tips on how best to apply brain bleach? I am thinking of filling the toilet bowl with Tidy Bowl and dunking my head in, but I am open to other suggestions.
NotMax
@Baud
When you become president you’re going to need a Secretary of Trivia.
Just sayin’. ;)
Suzanne
@Betty Cracker: Right wingers seem to spend so much time feeling insecure about their masculinity, their junk, their weight, their wealth signaling, whatever. I remember feeling insecurity about my looks in my teens and twenties, which I’m sure is fairly universal, but holy shit. Mellow the fuck out. Have an edible. Take a good poop. Go for a run. Do something to release the stress.
Chief Oshkosh
@Another Scott: Staggering. Not sure how Biden squares this with his current (previous?) stance on expanding the court. I sure appreciate (if not completely agree with) all the reasons for not stirring that pot, but this past week seems to have made such thinking…obsolete?
Of course, if he does starting moving towards change, I doubt that he would advertise it too far in advance.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
“I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies” ?
oldgold
The argument about standing in the Wedding Website case might be good fodder for the How Many Angels Can Dance on the Head of a Pin Law Review, everywhere else it is a glorious waste of time and a distraction.
The bigger problems are: 1. Article 3 of the Constitution was poorly thought through and wretchedly drafted; 2. This was exacerbated by Marbury and its progeny; and, 3 Made even worse by a cabal of corrupt Supremes.
In sum, there is now no such thing as Constitutional Law. They should stop teaching it in law schools.
JPL
@Suzanne: This is the guy who thinks he knows more that educators what students need.
snoey
@SiubhanDuinne: Bison and buffalo are the same animal. Bison is now preferred to avoid confusion with cape and water buffalo. Beefalo were bred when there were only a few hundred bison left. It didn’t work well and was abandoned. Yellowstone bison and some others are pure. Most ranched bison now have a very low percentage of cattle DNA.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JPL: Or maybe he doesn’t care what students need. It’s all campaign directed, ie what he needs.
Suzanne
@JPL: My uncle and aunt are retired educators, and they live in Florida. (They moved there after retiring, so they never worked there.) We routinely ask them WTF they are doing there. They sound less and less sure of the answer with time.
OzarkHillbilly
If he gave a F what students need he’d commit ritual seppuku. If he cared what I want he’d do it live on national TV.
Another Scott
@Suzanne: HRC.org does various corporate rankings.
This 2019 article has several links. I haven’t quickly found anything more recent.
HTH a little.
Cheers,
Scott.
Eric S.
@JPL: 2nd’d on The Night Watchman
apocalipstick
@oldgold: Agreed. The standing issue is the hole. The doughnut is the expansion of the Hobby Lobby ‘sincere belief’ carve-out.
It’s never the decision in a SCOTUS opinion; it’s the reasoning used to get thete.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
John Quincy Jones Adams.
rikyrah
Grandmama told her that she needs to find some business of her own to mind and stay out of hers 🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8expSTk/
Tony Jay
@Betty Cracker:
That’s the first thing that occurred to me when I heard about this.
If this lunatic judgement stands – and why wouldn’t it? – that legitimises the idea that wingnuts don’t need to wait for a case to come up that they can push to the Supremes. They can just invent one out of whole cloth, tailor it to provide issues that the Sanhedrin Six can pronounce their judgements on, and voila! From the highest bench shall they legislate into a land that respects not their right to win elections.
Seriously, since they’re pronouncing judgements based on fiction and lies, what’s actually going to stop them?
Steeplejack
@mali muso:
Thanks! That seems to work for me (Win11, Firefox). Have only looked at a couple of feeds, haven’t clicked anything.
SiubhanDuinne
@snoey:
Thanks very much! I hadn’t realised that bison and buffalo are the same beast — no wonder I had trouble telling them apart!
StringOnAStick
I’m thrilled to see those bison on the plains, where they belong and are an essential part of the natural carbon capture system that is regenerative ranching. Seriously folks, if we’d go to grass fed beef and bison on properly managed graising rotations (move them often, just like when predators kept them doing the same), we’d be a HUGE part of the way to dealing with all the carbon in the air getting locked up back in the soil like it used to and needs to be!
Ramalama
@Suzanne: The crockpot dish sounds delish. I however cannot get over my ill-tred (vs hatred) for Andy Cohen.
Alison Rose
@OzarkHillbilly: Ew, she’s from my area. In fact, a city I used to live in and now live about 15 miles from.
Ramalama
@Jerzy Russian: Maybe just go out and hug a tree? Less painful than your first option there.
oldgold
The idea that these corrupt robed pols are engaging in good faith constitutional analysis that leads to their decisions is laughable. What they are doing is running the cases through their ideologic filter and/ or their paymasters and then dressing up their decisions with constitutional mumbo jumbo.
If it was not already dead ( could argue round or flat), Constitutional law died with Bush v. Gore.
StringOnAStick
@Tony Jay: What you describe so well is exactly what they’ve been doing, for decades now. I recall reading lawyers with their hair on fire about this before Citizens United, because that case was generated in order to get the exact outcome it achieved. The name Citizens United Not Timid was just an extra fuck you aimed at Hillary, for some extra spite on top. It was a Federalist Society -engineered case from day 1.
surfk9
At what point does the executive have the right to ignore wildly extra-constitutional rulings by a rogue court?
Chief Oshkosh
@Betty Cracker:
Thanks for the gift link.
Baud
@Another Scott: You’re no help.
Tony Jay
@StringOnAStick:
How long before some gun-toting jackass declares that they intend to start up a mobile gun-shop to bring the joys of the 2nd Amendment to neighbourhoods across the country as they believe God wants them to, but are concerned that they may be punished if they find themselves under attack by criminal thugs and Stand Their Ground in a state lacking SYG laws?
Bish, Bash, Bosh, we the Six declare that all gun restrictions and laws restricting self-defence are now unconstitutional as they could infringe on 2nd amendment rights and something to do with “the right to life” textual gobbledegook.
Ridiculous? Sure. But so what? I’d they want it, they’d pronounce it. And that would be that.
UncleEbeneezer
95 degree heat yesterday compelled us to treat ourselves to a couple hours of indoor, dark, air-conditioned enjoyment of a movie. We went to see Asteroid City and I must say it’s probably my favorite Wes Anderson movie since Moonrise Kingdom (maybe even since The Royal Tannenbaums). The look/vibe is typical Wes Anderson style of heightened artificiality, marvelous sets, and every shot looks like a painting. The cast is an overload of A-list actors who all give incredible performances. It’s ultimately a film about loss, grieving and the importance of story-telling and despite the actors staying within the parameters of Anderson’s direction to have them under-emote most of the time, there are still some incredibly emotional moments (at least there were for us, who have both lost loved ones recently). If you hate Wes Anderson, skip it. But if you like his stuff, generally, I highly recommend it. Really a lovely, funny and moving experience.
Nukular Biskits
Good late mornin’, y’all!
wenchacha
My high school in NW Pa was called Fort LeBoeuf. We had a very large taxidermied bison head in the main lobby. George Washington and troops were in the area at one time, presumably with large herds of bison.
Up the road a ways, along I-90, many large plastic buffalo roam the entrances into the city of Buffalo. I have only seen the real thing at a couple of farms, one in PA and one out on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
The pictures of mountains of bison skeletons killed for sport and malice always makes me angry at the terrible waste and destruction.
Another Scott
@snoey: @SiubhanDuinne:
The same name is applied to the American version, but as snoey says they’re different from true buffalo.
SI.edu:
[/well-actually]
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Chief Oshkosh
@surfk9: Don’t know. Are there historical examples?
JPL
@UncleEbeneezer: Thanks! It’s on my list since I’m a real fan.
Joey Maloney
@OzarkHillbilly: Only thirty days actual prison time but I enjoyed reading some of the other conditions of her sentence: No social media presence allowed, and she has to submit to warrantless searches of her devices at any time.
So much for her career as an influencer.
surfk9
@Chief Oshkosh:
IIRC Lincoln blew off some rulings of the Taney court
Another Scott
@Tony Jay: You’re not too far off in your hypothetical…
RollCall.com (from 6/30):
Your right to be secure and free and safe in public does not trump the right of deranged nutjobs who are afraid of everything and hate everyone to parade around with weapons of war and threaten your existence with them. There is no right to Safety in the Constitution. To say otherwise is a “Major Question” that Congress has not specifically addressed in legislation which passes Constitutional muster. Reversed and Remanded.” – Thomas, for the 6-3 majority on the court, June 28, 2024.
Grr…,
Scott.
zhena gogolia
My brand new office desktop computer has locked me out and there won’t be anybody to help me until Wednesday
laura
@Another Scott: OMG- this is headed to that whole concrete mixing machine imbroglio isn’t it…
mali muso
@Steeplejack: You’re very welcome! Someone shared it on a thread yesterday. Guess we will see if it lasts, but for the moment at least, us non-twits can at least catch up on favorite feeds.
zhena gogolia
I had a feeling of dread as I entered my office this morning. New computers are never never never an improvement. I can’t figure out why it won’t accept my password. Somehow it had switched itself to the czech keyboard and I didn’t notice that until after I tried my password three times. But it won’t accept it on the US keyboard either now
lowtechcyclist
@Mike in NC:
Can’t forget grievance. They’re being treated so unfairly.
Another Scott
@laura: Of course!
[ rofl! ]
Cheers,
Scott.
MomSense
@pat:
Did she even have standing?
Nukular Biskits
@OzarkHillbilly:
Thanks for putting me onto that Twitterer!
realbtl
The eastern part of Glacier where the bison are is my favorite section of the park. It’s generally less crowded and offers some gorgeous wide open vistas.
rikyrah
Colorado Law Firm Files Complaint with Education Department over UC-Berkeley’s ‘Black’ Graduation
The firm is alleging that the school violated a federal law prohibiting institutions that receive government funding from discriminating based on race.
https://ground.news/article/colorado-law-firm-files-complaint-with-education-department-over-uc-berkeleys-black-graduation
different-church-lady
There’s also the old favorite, “He’s doing what I want but he’s doing it wrong.”
Tony Jay
@Another Scott:
Would not surprise me in the least. And your preemptive Thomas opinion lacks only the concurrence of Alito scrawling “Ka-Ching, Libs!” across it.
trollhattan
“Free-range buffalo? They’ll give my cattle brucellosis!”
–Ranchers everywhere
“Cattle introduced brucellosis to buffalo.”
–Science
“Go ahead and shoot any buffalo who get loose, gotta protect those cattle.”
–Federal government
And, scene
lowtechcyclist
@Another Scott:
IMHO, this is one of those instances where people should distinguish between scientific, legal, or professional usage of a term, and colloquial usage of that same term.
Sure, if I’m talking to a zoologist, I’ll try to remember to refer to the North American animals as bison, but otherwise, I’ll say ‘buffalo’ and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna sing “o give me a home where the, um, bison roam.”
And if anyone gives me a hard time about it, they’d better not use phrases like ‘almost everywhere’ near me in a manner inconsistent with their mathematical meanings.
snoey
@Another Scott: Now lets ask Tony Jay about elk.
different-church-lady
@surfk9: At no point. But that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t consider it.
snoey
@trollhattan: and the only actual wildlife brucellosis transmission to cattle is from elk but that’s different because reasons.
different-church-lady
Tell me about it …
different-church-lady
@snoey: I don’t have that kind of time!
Another Scott
Meanwhile, in Paris, France, … VOANews.com:
Not enough wars over there with overt US and UK involvement. Gotta keep beating those drums of war, and support the groups that the RWNJs support because they’ve never been wrong about foreign entanglements in the past…
Grr…,
Scott.
trollhattan
I see today’s heat dial is now set to kill: 108. Be seeing you.
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
What’s Mikie’s take on his old boss blowing up the very-favorable to the West Iran nuke deal? I know that involves “thinking” so not Mike’s forte, but surely Mother has told him what he thinks.
Dorothy A. Winsor
The limits on tweets seen seem to be gone from twitter. Maybe Elon paid his bills
StringOnAStick
@Tony Jay: Yep.
Bill Arnold
@Betty Cracker:
That 5 second pause by P. Buttigieg before talking was very effective; such silence on a news show is rare and poignant.
RaflW
@OzarkHillbilly: Am I ridiculous to think that the utterly false pretenses of this 303 “case” make it really easy for a reconstituted Court to jettison at its earliest convenience? (Assuming either Biden gets the message in January ’25 to go like hell to expand the court, or we have a combo of health crises and (oh, FSM make it so, corruption charges that opens two seats for Biden to fill).
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
It just screams “Nashville hot chicken and waffles!” at my belly on this dreary, rainy day.
hueyplong
@UncleEbeneezer: We also saw Asteroid City in an afternoon heat escape to a local theater. This new one and Grand Budapest Hotel are my two favorites.
In this era, I’m kind of tired of constant gunplay and CGI-driven action sequences. Anderson’s tender-hearted goofiness (generally called “quirkiness” by reviewers) is welcome here.
As you say, though, people who don’t like Wes Anderson in general are likely to find that this latest movie includes those characteristics that turned them off to begin with.
trollhattan
@Dorothy A. Winsor: The browser redirect to log-in is very much alive, unfortunately.
mrmoshpotato
@mali muso: Still works! Thank you!
Tony Jay
@snoey:
We’ll I’m no expert, but it does remind me of an amusing 6000 word anecdote involving an elk, a whelk and the gifted German actress Elke Sommer…
Timill
@zhena gogolia: Does any of this help?
https://allthings.how/how-to-unlock-a-locked-out-account-in-windows-11/
Another Scott
@trollhattan: You know the answer already. ;-)
WNG.org (From February 2019):
He was TIFG’s biggest cheerleader. Now he’s running for the GQP nomination for president against him because, …, er, what’s the question again??
Cheers,
Scott.
trollhattan
@Another Scott: Leading with leadery leadership!
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
I learned very young to not accept the stress in the first place. IOW don’t go down the road of stress. Think about what it gains you. And what it costs you. Sure, there will be stress in life, sure sometimes more than you want. I even ADDED stress to my life by riding motorcycles for almost 60 yrs. Except I recognized, and learned how to look at stress as just a part of some things and how to actually relax and release that stress, set it free. I’ve watched people who had no concept of this and what it did to them. I studied Buddhism because it seemed like the focus of it was to relax, to deal with what comes. At least that’s what I got from it. I didn’t/don’t follow it but to me it’s one lesson was to look at the whole picture, to find a place to fit in, to not stress on things you can’t change/fix, to relax – using their method, or one you devise for yourself. That doesn’t mean that things don’t piss you off or give you stress, it’s what you do with it that matters for you. Your responses are the same as mine, other than the concept of chemicals – I don’t think they are wrong, just not for me. (They do seem to work, I just found they are a stopgap – for me) Mellow the fuck out, Do something to not let the stress run your life. The first step is to recognize what stress is, to recognize when you are stressed, the next step is to release it – let it go, not build upon it.
Kathleen
@zhena gogolia: Have you double checked domain on the sign in screen?
Kathleen
@MomSense: Here’s a link to the New Republic article:
https://newrepublic.com/article/173987/mysterious-case-fake-gay-marriage-website-real-straight-man-supreme-court.
ETA Betty Cracker gifted link to WaPo article in Comment 42.
zhena gogolia
@Timill: It’s a Mac.
zhena gogolia
@Kathleen: There’s no way to check anything on the screen.
I’m just going to have to wait until everyone comes back on 7/5. Luckily I can still use my laptop that I paid for myself.
It’s Mac, not Windows.
Kathleen
@zhena gogolia: Ah! Well good luck! I totally get frustration with tech issues. That sucks.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
Apple store (if one near you) may be open Monday, even if for only a half day.
Apple customer service phone lines:
800 275-2273
800 442-4000
zhena gogolia
@Timill:
@Kathleen:
@NotMax: Thanks for trying to help! I think I’ll wait for my university people to return. I can limp along with my laptop. But it’s frustrating.
Captain C
@Tony Jay: For that matter, if, say, Thomas and Alito were in a Stand Your Ground state and someone snuck up behind them and put two each in the back of their respective heads, wouldn’t the assassin have a claim of self-defense on the grounds that those two might, hypothetically at some point in the future threaten their lives?
This court is a prime example of what happens when one side is shameless about using judicial Calvinball to get outcomes they want (which always boils down to hate, greed, and sadism).
(Note that the Captain does not recommend 2nd Amendment solutions to this court. I would prefer either expanding the SCOTUS to at least 13 or, barring that, that the Shitty Six either resign or do the Honorable Thing themselves.)
apocalipstick
@Tony Jay: Doesn’t need to be that complex. Hobby Lobby establishes the ‘sincere belief’ standard, tip tap, over and out.
Bill Arnold
@Captain C:
The prosecution would not want me on that jury. Just saying.
If that hypothetical wedding web site designer had picked some other minority to hypothetically discriminate against for religious reasons, e.g. Jews, or mixed-skin-color couples, would the decision have been the same?
Glidwrith
@mali muso: Thanks!
Glidwrith
@Tony Jay: IANAL, but since the case was a lie, then one could argue that whatever effects the decision would have downstream are moot. Ironically, as a hypothetical, if some ass acts on the court’s decision, sue according to original law and shoot down the citation of their decision as fabrication. BJ lawyers, would this work?
Chris T.
@SiubhanDuinne:
I read that and my head went straight for Gilbert and Sullivan: I am the very model of a <insert something that rhymes with cayman> / I can tell an all-i-gator from a croc-o-dill or cay-ay-man …
Chris T.
@NotMax:
We think disturbingly alike!
The Lodger
@Chris T.: An educated layman?
A Tampa Devil Ray man?
A rockin’ Robert Cray man?
Chris T.
@Tony Jay:
That’s why we need to flood their zone with shit. Perhaps have ChatGPT instances write up billions of fake cases and submit them continuously…?
Kayla Rudbek
@Suzanne: I use the app Goods which tracks political contributions D/R by brand or company name. It’s why I don’t buy anything from Bath & Body Works anymore.