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Supreme Court Review: Chiles v. Salazar
A succinct, nonpartisan, balls-and-strikes overview of the first blockbuster case of the Supreme Court's October term (a thread 🧵...)
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Jordan L. Michelson
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Jordan L. Michelson
@JLM4CivilRights
Lawyer. Philosophy enjoyer. Attorney at @thejusticedept @civilrights. Personal account; all opinions are my own.
Katılım Ocak 2023
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This is such an underrated chart. Civilization was built upon the foundation of societies where 60%+ of the labor force were farmers, hunters, and fishermen. Now it’s like 2-3%.
the Rich@Duderichy
oh no what will the people do
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“Authoritarianism is when the media overwhelmingly supports a party that benefits from gerrymandering and lax campaign finance rules..” Buddy, I have terrible news for you.
Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchamp
Competitive authoritarian regimes do repression differently. Instead of locking up critics or stuffing ballot boxes, they use softer tools to suppress the opposition — like buying up media, rigging campaign finance rules, and gerrymandering,
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@JoyceCarolOates I like to use the Manchin Test: if Joe Manchin were on the faculty, would he be ideologically dead center? Or would he be the third-most conservative guy on the staff?
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anyone who says "academia went far left" has spent little time at a university department meeting or senate.
in fact, anyone who says "academia" isn't on any university payroll.
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@philosopherjstr Appellate practice is definitely the most philosophical area of law, for sure!
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@JLM4CivilRights This is definitely true of trial judges, but less true of appellate Courts, I think. Which also explains some of the distinctions between the dispositions of trial lawyers and appellate lawyers.
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This is surprisingly common in the law as well. Many are “wordcels” who despise philosophy-think. It makes more sense when you realize that judges generally aren’t looking for deep philosophical insights, they are looking for shallower analysis to resolve cases.
Steven Pinker@sapinker
A common experience: Many brilliant scientists cannot grasp elementary philosophical distinctions. Last night I could not get a colleague to understand the difference between the "hard" (sentience, subjectivity, experience) and "easy" (reportability, information access) senses of "consciousness." Nor the difference between a definition of consciousness and various explanations of consciousness. Hypothesis: scientists tend to equate rigorous thinking with mechanistic explanation, and don't recognize that abstract concepts requires sharp analysis as well.
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@SirajAHashmi “She uses a different social media platform.”
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Your Honor, I have a wife… but she goes to another school.
Captain Cringe@TravisG239
@SirajAHashmi Siraj always talks about his wife but never shows us he actually has one.
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@ijbailey But surely “merit” entails *something* context-specific and is not just a measure of the how many postgraduate degrees someone has accumulated… right?
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The next time they scream “merit,” you must get them to say precisely what they mean because “merit” is just whatever they decide it is in the moment or based on their own ideological beliefs.
Sean T at RCP@SeanTrende
Is the takeaway here that the Iranians have the upper hand? Because negotiating is a skill that has absolutely nothing to do with six years of specialized coursework in a field and archival/experimental research.
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Big problem with the up-and-coming generation is that everyone keeps telling them society/the economy/the world as we know it is going to end, so there’s no reason not to eat the marshmallow.
Sulla@gaulicsmith
>given one marshmallow >can get more if you just don’t eat it for 15 min >most people fail this test
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@IamSean90 It’s almost like we have a geopolitical rival with a vested interest in keeping it going and also a huge state intelligence apparatus
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The hysteria is unstoppable
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Maine is set to become the first state to pass a ban on data center construction.
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@razibkhan @matthewschmitz I spent an embarrassing amount of time this afternoon thinking he got appointed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Matthew Schmitz: Christianity as identity, New Atheism and the Texas of Lord Hanuman open.substack.com/pub/razib/p/ma… Today Razib talks to Matthew Schmitz, a journalist who previously served as an editor at the religious journal First Things. He is the cofounder of the online magazine Compact, alongside Edwin Aponte and Sohrab Ahmari. He currently serves as editor of Compact, religion editor of Washington Post Opinions, and co-host of the podcast Against the Grain. Compact His essays on politics and culture have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Claremont Review of Books. A native of O’Neill, Nebraska, Schmitz is a graduate of Princeton University.
First, they discuss Schmitz’s piece in the Washington Post, The unreligious religiosity of Christian identity politics. Here Schmitz articulates the view that the nationalist-inflected Christianity exemplified by many MAGA and MAGA-adjacent figures is quite different from the sincere but earnest evangelicalism of the older religious right. Rather, it is more performative, more civilizational, and tied into white identity politics. Additionally, it turns away from the philo-Semitism that has been typical of the American religious landscape. Schmitz and Razib also address the rise and fall of the New Atheism over the last 20 years, from the decline of public Christian faith as the center of the body politic, the rationalist critique and the marginalization of both by woke social-justice political theology. They also discuss the difficulties and travails of religious pluralism in the US today, including the tensions caused by the arrival of large numbers of Hindus in places like Texas, where they erect statues to their gods, including the semi-monkey divinity Hanuman.
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The banality of evil:
Emily S. Bremer@emilysbremer
(But I still say no distilling in the house.)
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@AlisonSomin It’s one of those subjects where people’s brains stop functioning. You so much as touch that sacred cow, & their entire worldview short-circuits. It’s bizarre.
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It’s kind of wild that a Supreme Court case upholding the rights of Asian American students not to be discriminated against in university admissions is coded as “anti civil rights” without question or exploration of the underlying premise.
Richard Hanania@RichardHanania
Washington Post: the current Supreme Court is the "first since at least the 1950s to reject civil rights claims in a majority of cases involving women and minorities." Alright, the Trump era hasn't been completely bad. Civil rights law is part of the reason our politics is now so broken.
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@dilanesper @CaseyMattox_ “Massively resist” 🔥 🔥 🔥
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It actually IS illegal under the Adarand case.
People IRL are shocked when I say it but many affirmative action programs widely practiced have been illegal for years. (Even many college programs were illegal before SFFA.) True believers don't care & massively resist SCOTUS.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Magic Johnson has I think become underrated as a basketball player but he's DEFINITELY underrated as a practitioner of government contracting grift based on "I can't believe the Supreme Court hasn't already made it illegal" minority vendor set-aside policies.
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@VirtualElena @politicalelle It’s a horseshoe theory turducken.
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These buddy comedies are getting waaaay out of hand.
Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs)@agraybee
You all thought the multipolar world order meant China and Russia get to call the shots when it actually meant a former Al-Qaeda commander teams up with a Jewish Ukrainian comedian to take down Iran.
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People say you don’t need to go to college to be a chef but where do you think this guy learned basket weaving?
TraderJill (Leigh)@RealTraderJill
This is Amaury Guichon and he made this entire Easter basket out of chocolate. I've never seen anything like this before. It's mesmerizing!! 🐇
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@Markmyoq @AlanRMacLeod Sure… but that’s hardly a free market governed by price signals, which is what most people mean by “Capitalism.” It resembles the old Soviet economy more than the modern American one.
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Hospitals make a lot of money from surgeries with donor organs. Donors give the parts for free and the hospital capitalizes off it , parts aren’t sold but “given” but hospitals still make money. Also people pay to get to top of donor list , “donations” to hospital and other things.
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I see we have reached the "harvesting the organs of the living" stage of capitalism.
Carl Zha@CarlZha
Crazy NYT headline
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