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@firecracker1956

Can tweet while horseback riding

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Nic Cruz Patane
Nic Cruz Patane@niccruzpatane·
Everyone is going to want a ~$30K Tesla Cybercab when it becomes available, they just don’t know it yet. • Much safer than human driving. • No steering wheel or pedals. • Have the ability to legally sleep as it’s driving you to your destination. • Two-seater design, with tons of legroom • Great for elderly individuals who are no longer able to drive, as well as people with disabilities. • Work as are you being driven, or watch movies/play games. • Send off to run errands (pick up kids, pick up someone at the airport, etc). • The ability to add/subtract from the Tesla Robotaxi fleet to earn passive income. • You could buy a fleet and run your own business. • Send to pick up groceries, or other orders. • Have the ability to send home after getting dropped off your location, eliminating the need for parking. • Send for service autonomously when needed. • Autonomous Home Delivery • Virtually Zero Maintenance • $0.20 or less per mile operating costs • Wireless charging capabilities with well above 90% efficiency. This car will revolutionize the transportation industry and car ownership.
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Rose Smith
Rose Smith@itsrosesm·
Obama donated NONE of his salary. Michelle had a staff of 23. Trump donates ALL of his salary. Melania has a staff of 4. In life there are givers and there are takers.
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Sachin Jose
Sachin Jose@Sachinettiyil·
The blood of third-century Saint Januarius miraculously liquefied in Naples today. Video: Vatican Media
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James Woods
James Woods@RealJamesWoods·
Truly the greasiest grifter of all time.
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Thomas Sowell Quotes
Thomas Sowell Quotes@ThomasSowell·
Elon Musk: "We’re seeing Grok be very helpful in customer service. The AI is infinitely patient and friendly you can yell at it, and it’s still going to be very nice. That’s actually quite valuable.”
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Vickie@firecracker1956·
The majority’s logic rejects this framing on these core grounds: 1. Race cannot predominate in districting without a compelling justification (strict scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause). Louisiana’s SB8 map (creating a second majority-Black congressional district, District 6) was struck down as an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because the state expressly used race as the predominant factor to achieve >50% Black voting-age population in a non-compact district described as a “snake.” Traditional districting principles (compactness, contiguity, respect for political subdivisions) were subordinated to race. No compelling interest justified this, as the map violated the constitutional rule against racial classifications in most government decisionmaking. supremecourt.gov 2. Section 2 of the VRA did not require Louisiana to create the additional majority-minority district. The majority clarified (or “updated”) the framework from Thornburg v. Gingles (1986) and later cases: • Section 2 prohibits practices that, under the totality of circumstances, give minorities “less opportunity than other members of the electorate to … elect representatives of their choice.” • It does not mandate proportional representation by race or force states to draw majority-minority districts. • Liability requires a “strong inference” of intentional racial discrimination/dilution—not mere disparate impact from race-neutral factors like partisanship. • Plaintiffs must provide alternative maps that achieve the state’s legitimate (non-racial) goals and still allow the minority group an equal opportunity. Here, the state’s prior map satisfied Section 2; the lower court’s order (and Louisiana’s compliance via SB8) went beyond what the statute actually demanded. supremecourt.gov 
Quote from Alito: “Because the Voting Rights Act did not require Louisiana to create an additional majority-minority district, no compelling interest justified the State’s use of race in creating SB8.” supremecourt.gov 3. The ruling explicitly distinguishes permissible partisan considerations from prohibited racial gerrymandering—directly countering the “guise of partisanship” concern. • Partisan gerrymandering (e.g., drawing lines to protect incumbents or achieve partisan advantage) is generally non-justiciable by federal courts (Rucho v. Common Cause, 2019) and is a legitimate, race-neutral factor states may use. • Section 2 does not “intrude on States’ prerogative to draw districts based on nonracial factors, including to achieve partisan advantage.” • To succeed on a VRA claim, plaintiffs must disentangle race from politics (e.g., prove racial bloc voting independent of partisan affiliation). If politics explains the map, there is no Section 2 violation requiring a race-based remedy. • This prevents “repackaging partisan claims as racial” while still allowing challenges to actual intentional racial dilution. The VRA’s core anti-dilution purpose is preserved, but it cannot be used to mandate unconstitutional racial sorting or proportional racial entitlements.
Barack Obama@BarackObama

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

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Lucy
Lucy@TheLucyShow1·
Oh sweet mama knows exactly she is in Jesus 🥹 🙏
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Attorney General Liz Murrill
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: We win in Louisiana v. Callais! The Supreme Court has ended Louisiana’s long-running nightmare of federal courts coercing the state to draw a racially discriminatory map. That was always unconstitutional—and this is a seismic decision reaffirming equal protection under our nation’s laws. I vigorously defended our first map and said then that the only way to draw a second majority-minority district was to expressly take race into account. We raised our objections at that time to racial gerrymandering, but the district court and the Fifth Circuit directed us to draw the map anyway. It is gratifying that the Supreme Court has finally vindicated our original position and, in doing so, clarified that only under very narrow circumstances—where there is proof of intentional discrimination—may race be used as a remedy under Section 2. It is frustrating that this has taken five years, millions of dollars, and many lost hours to get here. I will continue to work with the Governor and the Legislature to provide guidance as we move forward to adopt a constitutionally compliant map. #lalege #SCOTUS
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NIK
NIK@ns123abc·
🚨 Musk's lawyers just showed the jury the most damaging document in evidence on Brockman: November 2017 Brockman writes in his private diary: >"the true answer is that we want [musk] out... if three months later we're doing b-corp then it was a lie" >“can’t see us turning this into a for-profit without a nasty fight. i’m just thinking about the office and we’re in the office and his story will correctly be that we weren’t honest with him in the end about still wanting to do for profit just without him” January 1, 2018 Brockman emails Musk: >"it's an honor to work alongside you. every meeting with you, i continue to learn, grow, and see the world in a new way" Brockman was planning to oust OpenAI co-founder Musk while publicly thanking him for the privilege of working alongside him.
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Harmeet K. Dhillon
Harmeet K. Dhillon@HarmeetKDhillon·
This is YUUUGE!!! Big day in constitutional law. VRA remains intact, but to protect Americans AGAINST discrimination rather than requiring it to engineer racial outcomes. So proud of the @CivilRights team who pushed this amicus forward with our incredible SG colleagues.
AAGHarmeetDhillon@AAGDhillon

Extremely gratified to see this decision we’ve been waiting for! I was proud to co-author the brief for the United States as amicus in this important case, perhaps one of the most important developments in decades in Voting Rights Act jurisprudence!

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James Woods
James Woods@RealJamesWoods·
Man, the second the money laundromat was closed in Ukraine, the Democrats never mentioned it again. I’ve never seen a noble cause abandoned so quickly. They are such phonies.
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