@Legal_Fil

An acquired taste, like iocane powder. Wholly unwilling to spellcheck my tweets.

Joined July 2024
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If you describe what is occurring in the US as a “coup” or “fascism,” or refer to the elected government as a “regime” (left or right), I have deep contempt for you. Your cosplaying as oppressed makes light of the suffering of those who have lived under actual authoritarianism.
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I deleted some tweets b/c I really don’t want to blast people on here. I’d rather be someone positive, although I fail miserably, over and over. I would just encourage people to think about the remainder of the thread & the sort of person they are allowing themselves to be.
Legal Phil@Legal_Fil8h
Replying to @Legal_Fil
Because I’m exercised here, allow me to add: One big reason we are where we are, politically, is because otherwise decent people have allowed themselves to be compromised. Then, discovering they are compromised, they backfill a story about why they are not. ….
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I am under no delusion about how, in a binary system, people will choose a lesser evil. It is understandable & maybe even moral. But telling yourself that a lesser bad is actually good is an abdication of your responsibility as a moral agent. You should not shy away from truth…
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Because your conscience is nagging at you. A nagging conscience is a good thing: it means you will hold the lesser evil accountable. And that is critical if you are to keep the lesser evil from evolving into the greater evil.
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While I appreciate the effort that goes into early voting analysis, I genuinely don’t understand the breathlessness that surrounds it at this stage of voting Any number of narratives and counter narratives can be spun.
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At first, I thought that Slotkin had given up on pretending and was owning her statement from the other day.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin
@SenatorSlotkin19h
Fear is the point. Intimidation is the point. And if the President can try to do this to me, he can do it to anyone.
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Slotkin obviously realizes that threatening to abuse the justice system to deter political participation might not be the best message. She realizes, of course, that she can’t spin her words, so is transitioning to “I’m actually the victim (of what I said we should do).”
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Mary Katharine Ham
@mkhammer10h
I don’t think all Muslims are supportive of Muslims Brotherhood. I think he has been, in his own hand, under his own name. To conflate Muslim and Muslim Brotherhood supportive, as he does here, is almost as bigoted as calling Arab-Americans cat-calling, loosie-selling quick stop owners, which he also did.
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar13h
El-Sayed: "We had a little debate. Or I had a debate and he just pointed at me and said, 'He's Muslim.'"
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Going to be interesting when people start making stuff up about Uygur after his death, knowing they can’t be sued for defamation, and Piker and the hive start crying about how it is inappropriate.
Cenk Uygur
@cenkuygurOct 21
We’re going to drop a bombshell documentary on @TheYoungTurks tomorrow morning called The Closetocracy. Which US Senator did we catch using male escorts?
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Matthew Johnson@KSL_Matt16h
(1/2)Between about 6:45-9:00AM today, an estimated 2” fell on the headwaters of Gould Wash! That was enough to send a flood wave down the Wash and into the town of Hurricane.
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Both shocking and totally expected. xitter.cf/drantbradley/status/21…
Anthony Bradley
@drantbradley10h
It's over. The higher ed dam has broken: Clemson is offering a voluntary separation program (VSP) to 452 eligible faculty and staff. Eligible employees who accept the offer will receive a lump-sum payment equal to nine months of their base pay.
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I am tired of seeing books that I can read whenever I want added to "banned books" tables. If bookstores want to show they are brave, show the Satanic Verses. They should have copies of the Charlie Hebdo issue that spurred that massacre. If you want to be brave, be brave.
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Eric W.
@EWess9212h
Holy guacamole: In a judicial smackdown, Judge J.E. Smith tears into Judge Wingate for his "careless[] exercise" of judicial power and "sloppy edicts based on falsehoods and fabrications." Mississippi's anti-DEI law can go into effect. Judicial AI use takes a beating. Reassigned.
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I can’t imagine how dumb you have to be to come up with “stock buybacks should be illegal.”
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
@AbdulElSayedOct 21
GM just announced the biggest stock buyback in automotive industry history. Instead of investing in their workers or new product lines, GM executives are robbing from the future to pay themselves and their shareholders today. Stock buybacks should be illegal.
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What Tur is noticing is that Talarico is a weirdo, and putting up a weirdo makes it harder for people to cross the aisle (even when the alternative is a reprobate like Paxton). He could still win, of course, but a more normal candidate, like Allred, would’ve been an easier sell.
OSZ
@OpenSourceZone13h
MS NOW’s Katy Tur Says She’s “More Skeptical” of Texas Midterm Polling After Her Trip to Texas
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truly wild stuff. the polls are just fake.
Basil🧡
@LinkofSunshine18h
GEM claims it’s likely a fourth pollster this cycle, SoCal Strategies, has been distributing fake polls
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Has anyone figured out why centimillionaire Ro Khanna draws the line at billionaires? Seems like the same arguments would call for a wealth tax on people with his level of assets too.
Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna16h
Looks like billionaires will stay and figure out a way to pay the tax. If we pass Prop 40, poor California kids can have healthcare. Gavin, can you and Sergey Brin stop with your fear-mongering of a billionaire exodus?
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In the spirit of solidarity with poor California kids, I’m sure that @RoKhanna will donate 5% of his roughly $230 million to the state. Thank you for your leadership, Rep. Khanna!
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Jokes aside, if Khanna was serious or had a modicum of political acumen, he’d give away that ~$11.5 million. But he has such avarice and is so dishonest that we know he won’t.
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Yeah, totally not scapegoating.….
Bernie Sanders
@BernieSanders15h
No. I’m not “scapegoating” AIPAC. You support Trump's illegal war in Iran. Americans don’t. You want taxpayers to spend billions funding the Israeli government. Americans don’t. Your super PAC is spending $9 million to defeat Abdul because he opposes your agenda. Unacceptable.
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