Finally got around to reading that unanimous SCOTUS opinion on the Colorado ballot, and hoo boy. I’m not a lawyer, so I’ll leave the legal analysis to qualified people, but tone is something I do understand. And folks, what we have here is a tone cop with a newly minted badge who is instructing us and her colleagues in a loud, booming voice.
I’ve had nothing but contempt for Justice Amy Coney Barrett ever since she trampled with unseemly haste over Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s freshly dug grave to snatch a lifetime SCOTUS sinecure from the Defendant’s dainty orange mitts. Everything about Barrett’s ascension was and is nauseating, including McConnell’s corrupt machinations to push the appointment through a week before voters bounced the Defendant out of office, Barrett’s bland-faced lies during the confirmation process, her supporters’ cynical cooption of motherhood to cloak the nominee’s religious zealotry, the repulsive celebratory super-spreader event, etc., etc., etc.
Barrett’s behavior in the role has been about as bad as we suspected it would be, from bolstering the Fed-Soc Bloc to impose theocratic and plutocratic rule on an allegedly secular and democratic country to public mewling in search of unearned respect and deference. Basically, Barrett is a turd like Alito with the abrasive edges sanded down and festooned with tasteful jewelry. Plus a reasonable expectation of two more decades ahead to immiserate Americans in the name of Jesus and money.
All that and more I expected. But now she’s appointed herself hall monitor, presumptuously telling Americans what they are required to conclude about the opinion:
“All nine Justices agree on the outcome of this case,” Barrett wrote. “That is the message Americans should take home.”
In other words, don’t worry your pretty little heads about the fine print, even if it leverages congressional dysfunction to shield Trump from any conceivable electoral consequences for the coup attempt, and even as the same court’s decision to slow-walk the immunity case will effectively exempt him from timely criminal liability.
Barrett also had the nerve to admonish Justices Kagan, Sotomayor and Jackson to watch their tone:
“In my judgment, this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency,” Barrett wrote. “The Court has settled a politically charged issue in the volatile season of a Presidential election. Particularly in this circumstance, writings on the Court should turn the national temperature down, not up.”
Shrill. She means the liberal justices were being shrill about their disagreement with the corrupt majority’s overreach in the opinion. It’s grotesque enough that we’re expected to pretend this preening fraud has shreds of integrity and legitimacy she definitely doesn’t possess. Now she wants to be the tone police too. It’s too much. Fuck her and the high horse she rode in on.
Open thread.
Tdjr
Betty, I love the way you write!
Josie
I wish we could front page this on the FTNYT as an antidote to some of the dreck they publish.
“Barrett is a turd like Alito with the abrasive edges sanded down and festooned with tasteful jewelry.” I love this so much.
Roberto el oso
The tone of her piece jumped out at me too. Smug, culty Xtian scolding a Jewish-, a Latina-, and an African-American woman for being insufficiently deferent to the male justices. And that crap about bringing down the temperature in the country. Talk about Handmaidensplaining.
Lymie
The women who do the Strict Scrutiny podcast did a great job snarking the opinion to death, yet with serious analysis. Love to listen to them:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/strict-scrutiny/id1469168641
Citizen Dave
People on twitter were doing forensic (my term) searches on the Scotus decision and seemed to be finding evidence that there, on previous versions, a partial dissent. Anyone have the info? I couldn’t make a lot of sense of the twitter go-round.
A second on Betty’s awesome turns of phrases!
Baud
@Tdjr:
That is why BC will be my first nominee to the Supreme Court. Nothing in the Constitution requires a law degree.
Leto
OffBarrett has spoken. I’m sure telling people to sit down and STFU is the way to bring the temp down. Absolute fucking morons, with the critical thinking skills of a Jello mold.
waspuppet
What would she know about what Americans want, think or should do?
Baud
Curious to see what she says about Alito and Thomas when they dissent from the immunity decision.
Old School
RandomMonster
We all know that the national temperature can only be turned down by exonerating former president Dementia of any and all crimes.
Baud
@Old School:
Michelle Obama.
Leto
@Citizen Dave: there was a guy on MSNBC yesterday who was saying something similar. The meta data of the opinion released indicated that a change was made at the last minute before the decision was released. And that potentially had to do with a type of deal being made regarding the Trumpov immunity case. Idk. It doesn’t really matter in that it just continues to show that the SCROTUS Six will continue to try to dictate morality/tone/thought from the highest court in the land for as long as they can.
matt
‘sit still and shut up while we laugh and high five over our unaccountable exercise of power’
Harrison Wesley
Beware of letting the Justice live rent-free in your head, Ms. Cracker. She might establish (pace Ferlinghetti) a Coney Island in your mind.
Baud
@Leto:
Seems like a lot of conjecture from metadata, but I didn’t hear the argument.
frosty
@Baud: Perfect!
Harrison Wesley
@waspuppet: All the things she learned by speaking to regular Merkins in Indiana rural diners.
terraformer
They didn’t want a “patchwork” of laws across states – for this topic
But they’re A-OK with a “patchwork” of laws for abortion and for voting
Someone posted on Twitter to the effect of that seems spot-on:
“They’re saying states can be more authoritarian than the federal law, but they can’t be more liberal than the federal law”
Leto
@Baud: yeah, dude had other arguments but I just don’t remember them atm. Tried looking for it online real quick but didn’t see it. But like I said, in the end it doesn’t matter.
Cacti
Nothing good about the United States will survive a generation of the current reactionary majority on SCOTUS.
The Judiciary Act needs to be amended and the Court expanded.
rikyrah
Phuck that unqualified trick.
Really, just phuck her.
rikyrah
I really enjoy her on TikTok because she’s always bringing receipts.
The single issue voters come for her because she always brings receipts.
I like this group of posts because it makes everything plain as day.
Hope that one of the FrontPagers will post her.
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 7:54 AM on Sun, Mar 03, 2024:
So Georgia out here asking for freedom papers in 2024. Ook https://t.co/jrN4A5x4s0
(https://x.com/colorfullstory/status/1764288361768825286?t=N-9xOxBF8EZVhp4jm0_jdQ&s=03)
rikyrah
I know that’s right.
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 5:39 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
At some point people are going to stop playing about the country we actually live in https://t.co/ERD7pO41Jo
(https://x.com/colorfullstory/status/1764978989779591446?t=jD-rdKLfuQDwx0J0djEFJg&s=03)
rikyrah
Keep on bringing that truth.
colorfullstory (@colorfullstory) posted at 7:45 AM on Sun, Mar 03, 2024:
Are we ready to admit the GOP is seriously coming for marginalized communities with policies? https://t.co/DtPe1r7IXu
(https://x.com/colorfullstory/status/1764286028506923181?t=eid3-zWXr6B7RCIwqj1zYQ&s=03)
rikyrah
clap clap clap
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:02 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
Pete Buttigieg schools Joe Kernan while defending Biden’s record on Squawk Box https://t.co/uF3RJmQuZA
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1765030131892945348?t=mEwuW1csBQchNQKcppGY6g&s=03)
rikyrah
lips so pursed.
Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) posted at 5:34 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
Oh what the hell, CNN. Is this what you’re going with? Blue-collar, populist and pugnacious? Really? https://t.co/Rs5GcNC8JJ
(https://x.com/eclecticbrotha/status/1764977722860736635?t=ntwWLs9fQR0ahHSNU_mZeg&s=03)
Snarki, child of Loki
“kinetically removing” a handful of MAGAt Repugs would put it under Dem control, so could quickly pass (a) aid for Ukraine (b) disqualify insurrectionists (c) add more justices to the court (d) declare that what the court did was “giving aid and comfort to insurrectionists” and boot those fnckers OUT.
Scout211
Cosign, Betty.
Well, of course Amy. Can I call you Amy? This is definitely not the time to stir up shit, right? That was JUNE 24, 2022! You really stirred it up then, didn’t ya honey? Can I call you honey? Sweetie? Bride of Frankenstein? Asshole? Hmm, I can’t find a proper nickname here. Something about coat hangers, maybe?
K-Mo
Let me know when it *is* the time to amplify disagreement with stridency.
Right now it’s only time to amplify disagreement my accusing those you disagree with of stridency- can someone let me know when that time is over?
rikyrah
Ian Douglas Rushlau (@IanDougRushlau) posted at 7:04 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
‘Blue-collar, populist and pugnacious’
Didn’t know there were so many silent letters in ‘fascist’.
Or for large media outlets, it’s the fascist part that’s kept silent.
(https://x.com/IanDougRushlau/status/1765000500255105441?t=Fn9hUgXqannhiVvh8Uf1eA&s=03)
Jackie
@Baud:
Apparently, you’re not the only one… Michelle had to make it official that she has no desire or intent to run for President!
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4509334-michelle-obama-white-house-bid-2024/
Old Man Shadow
Folks out there in Americaland really need to understand that the Judicial branch is just as political as the other two branches of government.
This mythology of judges as apolitical needs to die in a fire.
rikyrah
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 5:43 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
Amy Coney Barrett’s claim that we should be reassured by the ruling on Trump/14A is insulting. SCOTUS is peddling a lie: That stability/rule of law were upheld by mere unity in a ruling that evaded grappling with whether he committed insurrection.
New pod
https://t.co/0wpkysj6Zu
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1764980005321228455?t=jpUU4F_LLVo63KQ4Vw_UdQ&s=03)
eversor
In the minds of her fellow GOPers on the court, Leonard Leo, and all the rest of them her Christian faith including accepting all the nasty parts people on this blog want to pretend do not exist grant her integrity and legitimacy and there are millions of church going Christians including Bill Barr and speaker Johnson who agree.
And the failure to admit this is a religious civil war is why you are getting worked over and then crying into your Cherrios that people don’t care Trump has dementia. Won’t matter. Religion matters. Only religion matters.
catclub
@Baud: good point
rikyrah
CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP CLAP
More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) posted at 2:54 PM on Mon, Mar 04, 2024:
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs plans to cancel $2 billion in medical debt for up to 1 million residents.
This is the biggest medical debt cancellation proposal in the country.
The Governor plans to use $30 million in federal funds to buy and cancel the debt with @RIPMedicalDebt. https://t.co/jCF02cZ99F
(https://x.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1764756391699611986?s=02)
rikyrah
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline) posted at 10:21 AM on Mon, Mar 04, 2024:
#KamalaHarris #WomensHistoryMonth
My daughter’s in her senior year of high school. All girls. You should see these young women. They’re leaders and not afraid to make mistakes. They wait for no boy or man to go first.
One thing struck me that my daughter said a couple of years ago about her and her schoolmates that I will never forget. “We love Kamala Harris. She looks like us.”
To many, an insignificant statement. “She looks like us.”
To me, a powerful one. Think about what it means to young girls and women. ‘I can do this, because she did this.’
… https://t.co/i2ezRiFmwB
(https://x.com/cwebbonline/status/1764687517515948043?t=oKcHzl3B1EmYi9xMl_bY6Q&s=03)
geg6
I try not to use derogatory terms for other women, but fuck that fucking bitch. I’ll show that pig ignorant fanatic harpy what shrill can be, given half a chance.
Gretchen
@rikyrah: that’s great! The only people who don’t understand why representation matters is people who have always seen themselves represented – white guys. I’m old enough to remember the first woman who filled all kinds of roles and it changed my view of what I could hope for. I didn’t really believe I could do anything because those women were still rare, but I could imagine someone doing it. My daughters had a much more expansive view of what they could hope for.
japa21
IMHO, Barrett is the least qualified SCOTUS justice to be on the court in many decades. Even Thomas, for all his multitude of faults which would disqualify him today, was more qualified when he was first elevated to the bench.
...now I try to be amused
ACB is tone-policing now because we’re hitting ’em where it hurts.
A quote from Adam Serwer’s article in The Atlantic, “A Crime by Any Name” (2019):
(Emphasis mine.)
Bill Arnold
Is that about this?
Supreme Court Accidentally Forgets To Delete Basic Metadata In Trump Ballot Ruling – It looks like Sotomayor intended to author a dissent. (JOE PATRICE, abovethelaw, March 4, 2024)
SomeRandomGuy
Frankly, contempt (for me) only started when she insisted that there was no reason to recuse herself from a President who flat out said he wanted her “for the ballots” (i.e., to make decisions, in his favor, regarding the election).
Any honest jurist would have been forced to say “given the extremely prejudicial language of Mr. Trump, I’m unable to avoid recusal in any case regarding the election – boy, I really wish he hadn’t said that he wanted a 9th justice ‘for the ballots’ but he did, so…”.
I know, I know, “but RANDO!” “SHE’D NEVER GET THE JOB IF SHE DID THAT!”
Yes, I know, no honest jurist could have accepted a lifetime position, without a promise of recusal, after some fathead blabbermouthed out the corrupt intent in selecting a judge. (NEVER a “Justice”, never again. Sorry, SCOTUS, you F*CKED THE DOG. No, you didn’t ‘screw the pooch’; the LATTER is a METAPHOR. It means you didn’t do it literally. The poor dog!)
Warblewarble
Are there no work houses? Or better yet ,are there no service stations where she could be Carla Petaccied ?
eclare
@rikyrah:
Awesome!
SomeRandomGuy
@Bill Arnold: A lot of “unanimous” court decisions mean “there was a decision, that was 5-4(or better) that was more noxious to the holdouts.”
This is a known ‘thing’, and unsurprising. It’s not in the least surprising that there was an intention to write a dissent, that turned into a partial concurrence, once the decision was modified. Nothing at all weird, except it showed the court changed its decision, at least a bit, partway through the writing-up.
mrmoshpotato
@Josie:
Absolutely!
SomeRandomGuy
How do you say “what a fine German citizen; it is time to support Der Fuehrer, even if you disagree with him!” in German, circa 1938?
eclare
Taylor has encouraged her fans to vote for whoever “most represents YOU” today. No endorsement yet.
eclare
@SomeRandomGuy:
Perfect analogy.
Citizen Alan
@Cacti: Everyone who mocked the importance of SCOTUS nominations in 2016 should do the honorable thing and kill themselves.
Librarian
I’ve seen speculation that Roberts desperately wanted a 9-0 decision, so he made concessions to the 3 liberals in return for their votes, and that there was some kind of horse trading, or that he bullied them into concurring.
jimmiraybob
“…the Court should turn the national temperature down”
Is it too late to rescind their unwarranted and reckless decision on Roe and restore that measure of women’s rightful autonomy? That would be a start.
Betty Cracker
@eversor: Speaking of delusional, self-important twatwaffles who ride in on high horses with idiotic unsolicited advice, you can cram your condescending bullshit right straight up your ass and fuck off into the sunset too, MAGA-humping fuck-squib.
rusty
@Citizen Dave: The point is that actual horse trading for votes can take place. There was always a bullshit position that the court was too high minded to actually have negotiations and horse trading of votes, despite clear evidence that it happens. The commentary I ready was speculating that the three liberal justices were holding their votes on the 14th amendment case for an agreement on the immunity case. Since they lost the immunity case, it’s being heard and on terms favorable to Trump, the other two liberal justices joined Sotomayor in objecting to the breadth of the 14th amendment opinion. Sotomayor absolutely shredded the terrible reasoning, the other constitutional scholars have pointed out even more inconsistencies with older holdings and practice. It really is a stinking turd. The six reactionaries can’t even be bothered to author decent opinions now that they have an absolute majority.
VFX Lurker
When I was a kid in the 80’s, I took my representation where I could find it. I embraced James Cameron’s Aliens because it had so many women (and one girl) as role models.
I’m so glad people have more representation today.
Baud
@eclare:
“In order to stick it to Taylor Swift, thousands of Trump supporters voted for Joe Biden in Super Tuesday primaries across the nation.”
Harrison Wesley
@Betty Cracker: That sounds so…so….strident!
gratuitous
Awww, Amy wanna cookie? “The Court has settled a politically charged issue,” sort of like that’s their job or something, and they did it in a volatile time. Maybe she should get two cookies?
Of course, their decision in the matter is grounded in making up a requirement that isn’t in the text of Section 3, and that’s hard werk that is! If Congress had intended to require that Congress pass a law to make Section 3 executable, they could have said that, like they said at the end of Section 3 that Congress could cure any disability by a two-thirds vote. The majority opinion apparently posits a Congress that would both disqualify and undisqualify a candidate.
But pointing that out is strident, according to Schoolmarm Coney. I agree with Betty: Fuck that noise.
eclare
@Citizen Alan:
Couldn’t agree more. In 2016 NPR interviewed a woman in CO who said she needed a reason to vote for Hillary that did not involve TIFG or SCOTUS. That was the day that I turned off NPR forever, to keep veins in my head from bursting.
eclare
@Baud:
Hahahahaha…..
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/mar/05/taylor-swift-voting-primary-election
One Swiftie said she cared as much about Taylor’s endorsement as her granddaughter does. That is a united fan base.
Sister Golden Bear
Shrill and uppity.
rikyrah
@VFX Lurker:
One of the TikToks that I have found myself on is Med School Application Tok (don’t know why)
But, a former Admissions person said that the past couple of years have seen overall, more women than men apply.
He believes that it’s because you now have an entire generation of women who grew up watching Grey’s Anatomy. I thought that was crazy- at first. But, then, I thought about it more. It’s 20 years old. You have an entire generation watching women be doctors, with all their success and failure and everything in between. Living full lives as doctors and women. And, I had to really think about that.
SiubhanDuinne
@mrmoshpotato:
And right on schedule…
Head and subhead only; not linking.
eponymous
I recall back in the day, that when media critics wrote about feminists and their publications, the word ‘strident’ was employed freely – by all of them. I would then read what such feminists (Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, for example) wrote and wonder what was strident about their writing. This was my first inkling that critics of feminism, black liberation, queer liberation, etc., were perhaps not entirely objective and thoughtful.
Baud
@eponymous:
Donald Trump, of course, is not the least bit strident.
That’s why they call him mellow orange.
eponymous
@Baud:
mellow yellow works, too!
Miss Bianca
@Jackie: I think what Baud meant was that Michelle O would have a thing or two to say about Barack’s seeking a third term as POTUS.
Spanky
@eponymous:
But enough about the Depends …
cmorenc
Had SCOTUS been moving more promptly toward resolving the immunity decision in a similarly timely fashion as the insurrection issue, I wouldn’t have minded Barrett’s admonition to calm down. It’s the contrasting seemingly deliberate foot-dragging on making a similarly timely decision on the immunity issue that makes her comment offensive in the whole scheme if things.
JMG
Has Barrett ever read any of Alito’s dissents. He goes apeshit in almost every one.
Motivated Seller
+1 for Betty Cracker
p.a.
Well I look forward to Coat-hanger’s abstention from writing opinions, starting now.
cmorenc
@JMG: in criticizing Alito’s writings, you are disrespecting one of the sharpest, finest minds of the 14th century.
Bupalos
I read the opinion straight off and was immediately struck by how weird and ammaturish Barrett’s little op-ed was. It’s pretty jarring. Like if a baseball player suddenly stopped running between 2nd and third and started doing color commentary.
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: Women everywhere are entering professions and college at higher rates than men now, it would appear.
And RIGHT ON TIME, here comes all of White Patriarchal America meeping that even though college is too expensive, we shouldn’t be forgiving student loan debt, because fuck those elitist Underwater Basket Weaving majors anyway, and where’s *my* debt forgiveness for my big old F-250 truck, and hey – isn’t college overrated anyway? What about those manly-men TRADES, huh? Young white men, you don’t NEED to compete with those uppity women and POC – just go into construction!
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Dump’s totally mellowness is the entire reason I call him an orange shitstain. Mellow, mellow shitstain.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Miss Bianca: To be fair, adult training in trades needs to be more easily accessible, in addition to university education.
Suzanne
A reminder that this good woman is Very Concerned about The Domestic Supply of Infants.
lowtechcyclist
@Citizen Alan:
I’d settle for permanent wearing of sackcloth and ashes in public, and pinned posts/tweets/etc. on every social medium they’re active on, apologizing profusely for having done so.
mrmoshpotato
@Jackie: Seriously? March 2024 and Michelle Obama still has to be saying I’m never running for President?
Miss Bianca
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation: Sure – but that’s not what these people are saying. What they’re saying is that college is elitist and a waste of time, which by some strange cosmic coincidence is becoming part of White groupthink just as women’s and POC’s college enrollment numbers are the highest that they’ve ever been.
Leto
@Bill Arnold: that’s it. That’s part of what the guy on MSNBC was talking about. He went further with things but here’s the metadata screw up.
mrmoshpotato
@Old Man Shadow: Judges are too totally apolitical. It’s not like there are liberal judges and conservative judges and whatever the hell the Supreme Court majority currently is. /S
Peke Daddy
@Roberto el oso: Respect and deference must be EARNED, you unelected Christianist mandarin.
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: Infants of what skin tone?
Bill Arnold
@gratuitous:
Yeah, that from the [let’s call it a dissent] seems damning. Perhaps they are imagining a Congress disqualifying and a new Congress undisqualifying, but that is not a probable-enough circumstance to build an argument around.
Baud
Also, too, given debates we sometimes have about tone policing here
Nominated!
Suzanne
@rikyrah:
Admissions in many academic programs are getting more women. Being able to see oneself in a range of domains of society is really important.
I read something a few years ago that blew my mind. A North Korean defector talked about how she would watch contraband western movies. She discussed how “Titanic” blew her mind, not because of the effects, but because it was a completely different mindset, to be focused on human relationship and love, rather than seeing oneself in relation only to the state. Pop culture, advertising, TikTok, etc…. We underestimate all this stuff and we shouldn’t.
Leto
@Miss Bianca:
It’s an older reference sir, but it checks out.
<3
columbusqueen
I’m right there with you, Betty. Mrs. Serena Joy, along with Alito & Thomas, absolutely turn my stomach. If we’re lucky, God will find a way to strike all three of them down at once.
Scout211
Deleted.
rikyrah
This house is crazy 🤣🤣🤣
Who is gonna buy it 😅
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTLdqMP1k/
SomeRandomGuy
@eponymous: I saw a lot of anger at men, that was not answered by “true, but some men…”.
That bothered me when I was reading, and I didn’t understand it until I started to realize, a lot of people have to go through a lot of anger in order to come to some measure of peace… and peace could only really come, once there was more justice.That’s a very short answer to a more complicated journey. Let’s just say that I was bothered in my 20s, in peace during my 40s, and wondering if they were angry enough, now. Strident was probably the intellectualized version of “see you next Tuesday,” a joke I never would have understood, until Trump found out that E. Jean Carrol’s lawyers HAD BEEN COMPED FOR LUNCH (they’re here to DEPOSE people – you want them hungry and cranky?).(Oh: See=C, “you” = U, and if you can’t figure out Next Tuesday, you’re on your own.)
Kayla Rudbek
@columbusqueen: I should check and see if St. Catherine of Sienna is still the Opus Dei parish or not…
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Miss Bianca: Makes sense. The denigration of acedemics is about the same thing allowing costs to explode is about. The elite want the education and no competition so theu deployed their ignorant pawns, once they lost the cost and edquitable admissions questions, to denigrate academics itself.
Not entirely new. Anti-intellectualism has always been a strong thread with them.
JWR
@Leto:
You mean that if the so-called Liberals voted with their betters on this case, they might have a real shot at denying Trump immunity? As in we’ll scratch your backs if you scratch ours sort of deal?
lowtechcyclist
@gratuitous:
Thank you for saying this so clearly. The Amendment’s wording is crystal clear that it’s giving Congress the opportunity to remedy a disqualification that it feels has been wrongly done.
And if only Congress can disqualify, then one would think they’d specify the voting threshold for both the disqualification and the undoing of it, or neither, rather than just the latter. Why bother setting a threshold only for the likely quite rare case where Congress reverses its own disqualifying vote?
rikyrah
this is so important.
these jobs are American jobs.
And, they are outside the influence of the CEO’s who were determined to start a recession just in time November. Cutting jobs after posting record profits.
Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) posted at 1:35 PM on Mon, Mar 04, 2024:
President Biden’s infrastructure package by the numbers:
– 46,000+ projects in communities
– $649 billion in private sector investments
– $442 billion in funding announcements
We’re fully underway in America’s infrastructure decade.
(https://x.com/SecretaryPete/status/1764736360194138123?t=8BQ4KttjAGZHIkWf-Eb6uw&s=03)
rikyrah
CBS News (@CBSNews) posted at 8:15 AM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
The Biden administration announced a rule Tuesday to cap all credit card late fees at $8, or about one-quarter of the average late fee of $32. https://t.co/vEAcXz6JZt
(https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1765018177459655071?t=b9Iuoioaa-h7jqX87Vc1Lw&s=03)
rikyrah
David Darmofal (@david_darmofal) posted at 8:23 PM on Mon, Mar 04, 2024:
Ezra Klein & Laurence Tribe both pushed strongly for Elizabeth Warren to be the VP over @VP Harris. There’s no way Warren could have pulled off what the VP did the past two days. Maybe Klein’s & Tribe’s views on President Biden shouldn’t be listened to either.
(https://x.com/david_darmofal/status/1764839192582824158?t=tmgly0vkkFwCVgNtzdQS5g&s=03)
rikyrah
She is ALWAYS doing the work!
Lauren Underwood (@LaurenUnderwood) posted at 0:28 PM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
Since my time in office, I’ve had 14 bills signed into law. Stick with us as we highlight the work we’re doing to serve the people of IL-14. https://t.co/zcpog3Wjvz
(https://x.com/LaurenUnderwood/status/1765082064510976255?t=8jeDA86NVED8sU9Z_jXRAQ&s=03)
rikyrah
The Recount (@therecount) posted at 0:31 PM on Tue, Mar 05, 2024:
The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team votes 13-2 to join a union — the first such unionization in NCAA history.
Dartmouth trustees had filed a motion to halt the unionization vote. https://t.co/KrAaSMpEQ2
(https://x.com/therecount/status/1765082848149803311?t=3b-9AEVIWD722K5e0uNM-g&s=03)
Librarian
@Leto: One version I heard is that Roberts told the liberals that if they dissented on the Colorado case, he would move the immunity case to next year. That he basically blackmailed them.
Leto
@JWR: correct, but I don’t think it will play out that way. We’ll find out soon enough though.
wenchacha
@JMG: Correct. Alito apparently has no fucks to give when discussing anyone who disagrees with his pre- Enlightenment opinion. Coney Barrett is selective in her policing, which is unsurprising.
Leto
@Librarian: this is my surprised face. See my surprise.
Brachiator
I have not had time to dig into the Supreme Court opinion, so I really appreciate good commentary like this.
TBone
clarification
Now This Clarifies Yesterday’s Stupid Supreme Court Decision | Crooks and Liars
Bill Arnold
@Leto:
Wow. Really older (1953): What is the origin of the “underwater basket weaving” meme in Academia?
JWR
@Leto: Thanks for the confirmation. ;)
Ksmiami
@Tdjr: I can’t wait to see her dragged out of the court by her hair… the unmitigated gall of this ghoul
@Harrison Wesley: She can just fuck off. When we remake the Court, which we have to do, let’s send her and her fake family back to podunkville, or to Guantanamo- either works for me
Leto
@Bill Arnold: we used it in the military to signify useless officers, or just useless pursuits. I see it’s the same thing in academia. Glad some of these terms have long lasting appeal :)
Miss Bianca
@Leto: I am An Old, after all!
Ksmiami
@…now I try to be amused: they should be nervous. The end of their superiority will come fast and furious
randy khan
It’s very likely that the Jackson/Sotomayor/Kagan dissent was written only because the 5 justices who joined the per curiam decision refused to remove the entirely unnecessary language about Congress needing to enact law implementing a provision that appears to be self-implementing based on a generic grant of power to Congress that extends to the entire 14th Amendment.
So to complain about the concurrence without acknowledging that joining it would have required signing on to an argument that, based on the text and many prior decisions about the rest of the 14th Amendment, is entirely wrong seems to be an example of misplaced blame.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: People on xTwitter are really still trying to score points off who said what about a VP pick four years ago? When all of the political principals have moved on and worked well together? 🙄 Glad to be off that dumb hot-take hellsite.
Ramalama
@Old Man Shadow:
It’s like Candyland, right? Only more shooty, air scented with gun powder.
Ramalama
@Brachiator: Lindy West wrote a terrific book called Shrill about stuff / people / women in the run up to the 2016 election. It was so so good that I recall slow-walking the ending so that I could savor it.
Seems like it’s a good time to re-visit.
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: oh, man – that’s awesome!
Maybe he could tackle the insanely high interest charges on credit card balances next? Some sort of “anti-usury” legislation might prove very popular with the plebiscite like yours truly.
Dan B
@rikyrah: Quite the decoration. Poor realtor!
SomeRandomGuy
@Ramalama: … and you can only move based on color? Is THAT what you’re trying to say?
(NB: in Candyland, players *do* move by color – kids young enough for Candyland aren’t expected to be able to count, so they go to the next red/yellow/etc., or they can move to the one after, if they draw a double-color card. I do not think the author was intending to make a “color” joke, but you must admit, it was a straight line, begging to be struck.)
Nettoyeur
@Baud: So Thomas and Alito are gonna green light immunity for anything Biden does?
Baud
@Nettoyeur:
No. For reasons.
Betty
@Baud: Only women can be strident based on my experience.
Dan B
@Brachiator: My partner’s siblings are etiquette and “manners” police. They use the term environazi’s to rib us. When Obama was elected we got an Obama chia pet. The list is long. And they don’t see any lack of manners on their part. ACB’s tone policing has the same lack of self awareness. She doesn’t want any of “us” to get one more bit of power than she will dole out – ungrateful peasants w are we!
TBone
@TBone: here have some Mystal. He’s not a chicken shit like the rest of these mfers.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-supreme-court-must-be-stopped/
BellyCat
The deceit succinctly summarized. Well done.
karensky
@Tdjr: Ditto!
stinger
@Bill Arnold:
Hey! I resemble that year!
Tehanu
@Sister Golden Bear:
How a woman with 7 children can think she won’t get shoved back into the kitchen the minute her own ideas get enacted into law …
Paul in KY
@SomeRandomGuy: By enlisting in the Wehrmacht.