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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941. Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control. Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action. Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power." Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.

Beach adventures in 🇻🇳

@KarlBauuu Wait I thought half the point is we won’t see it live, it’s going directly to Paramount Plus now

spoilers for the new avatar movie 🤨 please stop.. let’s respect the creators PLUS. it’ll be so epic when we see it live

Southeast Asia hotels have a weird design fetish with making showers that are impossible to use without soaking up the whole bathroom

@utacult @1x7x3x8 Yeah but the next season isn’t as big of a time jump, so it could still be within their resident year. Plus, they could decide to do a fellowship at PTMC too

@1x7x3x8 They should lose some of them bc I don't see why Mel or McKay need to stay beyond their residency? Not everyone can attending and we only get two per shift

wait so this mean that season 3 is the last one for McKay and Mel?

@ronyenorth Of course! There’s so many queer interest groups out there. I met most of my friends through gay rock climbing and hiking circles, gay book club, etc Clubbing is honestly one of the worst ways to make *real* friends.

it is possible to make friends with gay boys if you don’t club serious question

This is why lowkey dating or even being friends with somebody who is really popular on insta is a total nightmare. Everything becomes a vehicle for their narcissistic need to document every aspect of their lives

One thing that stops people from getting belligerently drunk every night is fear of the hangover. This is a good way to understand why we should not fund the Iron Dome.

I kinda think spending every day on social media scrolling through hundreds of pictures of people with abs talking about cutting and bulking and weight gain and weight loss and body mass and muscles day in and day out is lowkey frying everyone’s brains

@draxofoy No fr the cgi isn’t bad but the costumes even in the first season were trash

why does this look like those low budget vertical cdrama 😭

En el día de la visibilidad trans quiero recordarles que

This is America's Suez Crisis. Another declining empire, drunk on imperial hubris, publicly discovers the limits of its own power as it embarrasses itself in the Middle East.

@wallahibestie If this is something you pursue remember ethical kink is important! The paypig is *actually* the one in charge. Remember you’re fulfilling a fantasy as a dom but you still need to respect boundaries, safe words, and limits - the goal is to PLEASE the paypig, not exploit them

how do yall actually get pay pigs omg????

Was feeling so off all day today and then realized I hadn’t taken my antidepressant in three days and my brain was literally screaming for serotonin

@VibesSedai Like the script is being written?? Bitch we already know what happens! Blah blah chamber of secrets and professor Lockhart wow. Why are we giving JK Rowling blood money for this?

“It’s not going to be annual” Then genuinely it’s already a done deal. The age jumps between seasons is gonna be so bad lol

Briones is one of my fav parks in East bay; during spring it’s basically Ireland. Rolling hills sprinkled with wildflowers, challenging hiking but still accessible.

Heading to 🇻🇳 next month for pretty much all of April; get me out of the USA while we still can

@antirepressant For better or worse, furries weirdly or not are concentrated in industries that can afford that kind of villa in Thailand. Those fur suits aren’t cheap!

@AgingAnarchist Lmao these kind of posts radically overestimate the friendliness of Southerners as a real thing rather than a facade covering deep racism and xenophobia. The typical southern phase is “bless your heart” which is outwardly nice, but actually is a veiled insult

アメリカ人やさしいからXで「ウチのバーベキュー食べに来いよ！」って言ってる人の家にガチで行っても大丈夫だと思う。空港まで迎えにきてくれるだろうし泊めてくれるだろうし腹一杯肉を食わせてくれてクリスマスには家族の写真が入ったカードを送ってくれる。懐が深いんだよ。カリフォルニア民以外。

> Be Israel > Desire to be the Middle Eastern hegemon > Can't do that on your own > Make the Americans get into a war with Iran > Let the Americans use their military > Get the Americans to invade Iran on land > Don't join them for ground operations > Laugh > Laugh more