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Ding Dong Chevron's dead...The wicked Chevron's dead.
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John J. Vecchione
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John J. Vecchione
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Senior Litigation Counsel @nclalegal Counsel of Record, Relentless v. Commerce. Chevron delenda est. Opinions are solely my own. Which is a shame.
Virginia Katılım Nisan 2023
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@DeTahmineh There is virtually no pressure in America to marry that guy. The evaporation of the expecation of marriage is worse than some idea of "bad" marriages.
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Marriage for the sake of just being married is wrong. Marrying the wrong person who is abusive, emotionally shut-down, and unable to bring their side of the bargain is substantially worse than never marrying. And divorce brings financial ruin on both parties and children.
Jake Kozloski@jakozloski
The data on marriage and life outcomes is consistent and not subtle. Married people live longer, earn more, accumulate more wealth, report higher life satisfaction, have lower rates of depression and substance abuse, and produce children who outperform on every measurable dimension. The cultural narrative that marriage is one lifestyle option among equally valid alternatives isn't supported by any longitudinal research. It's a story people tell themselves to feel okay about not getting there.
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@Miller4NCSenate @BadEvan And a lot of girls in that vignette?
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I've been far too tired for afterparties this convention, but I made myself go out last night anyways. I'm glad I did. I made a few new friends. Had some great conversations. Changed my mind on something.
I was in the room when this speech was given by our new Chair @BadEvan
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@AStuttaford @GreenPlusAnE At least he wants there to people in the future. Unlike the head of the Church of England.
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@GreenPlusAnE Another left-corporatist. Same old, same old.
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I am glad the Pope’s new encyclical recognizes that finance is “irreplaceable”, but I am struggling with its claim that finance should be aimed at creating new human work.
Finance is aimed at the creation of value, that is producing more for consumers with *less work*.
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When the Left was winning nobody gave a crap how long they served.
reason@reason
Of the various ideas that have been proposed over the years to "reform" the U.S. Supreme Court, the call for imposing term limits on the justices has generally enjoyed the broadest bipartisan support. reason.com/2026/05/21/sco…
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@billybinion And his body was lost. I can't think of a better end to the worst Founder.
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The site where Thomas Paine died is now a gay bar called Marie's Crisis where people gather around the piano each night and scream-sing Defying Gravity
JT@jiratickets
does anyone have any more examples of this
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@ishapiro @AdeleScalia He said from his hot yoga appointment.
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I obviously know The Odyssey but I have never read it. 🤷♀️
Thomas Chatterton Williams@thomaschattwill
Ok, that’s objectively crazy
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@MHowellTweets he doesn't have the charisma or the same issues for 40 years. Still a chameleon which Trump is not.
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If Vance does run, he will basically have the same path as Trump did versus the old Republican establishment.
They've already started the primary against him.
Daily Mail@DailyMail
JD Vance considers abandoning run for president in 2028.
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@cjscalia If that were the normal evening every married couple would have 10 kids.
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While I watched Rio Bravo next to her and the kids built Lego in front of the TV. A great afternoon.
Adele Scalia@AdeleScalia
Epic nap on the couch. Probably ruined for sleep tonight. Worth it.
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The Coke Zero people need to be stopped at all costs.
A line must be drawn here.
The Wall Street Journal@WSJ
As Coke Zero gets bigger, and threatens to dethrone Diet Coke as the most important diet soda property in the Coca-Cola extended universe, the feud between Diet Coke fans and Coke Zero drinkers is getting pretty fizzy. on.wsj.com/4wKhvI5
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🙄Off the top of my head - the Fantastic Four remake w/ the hispanic Reed Richards flopped, the gender swapped remake of Ghostbusters flopped, hispanic Snow White was a disaster & black Little Mermaid made basically zero profit.
But sure, a Serious Movie Director like Nolan whose directorial brand was established based on his care in how he delivered fantasy to his audience with a sense of unflinching gritty realism will totally do great with casting a black Helen of Troy, an indian as Odysseus' second in command, a hispanic greek goatherder Eumaeus and a well-known mentally ill, surgically butchered "trans" girl as fucking anything in a movie about ancient Greek myths
Gowron’s Eyes@gowronseyes
@doc_gero Most movie goers do not care
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Correcatamundo.
Jason Willick@jawillick
Why the tariffs case was important. (James Burnham writing in 1959)
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Ilya Somin is right. Waiting out the U.S. is now the go to move for every dictatorship and tyrannical party in the world.
Ilya Somin@IlyaSomin
I will reserve final judgment until an agreement is actually reached. But, so far, it looks like the deal Trump is working out with Iran will be no better than the status quo ante, and may well be worse. As I have explained in various writings (see link), this is in large part a consequence of his starting the war without proper congressional authorization (as required by the Constitution) and thereby failing to build the necessary political support for it. As a result, the US has no political staying power, and the enemy knows it, and acts accordingly. thedispatch.com/debates/donald…
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@shipwreckedcrew And what is Trump behind in this equation?
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I'm going to say this only once:
I heard Walter Mondale supporting Democrats issues "Prophecies of Doom" about the national debt since Reagan's first term.
We have a massive debt because we are too "generous" -- the Democrat Party loves to give away tax revenue in exchange for political support.
Any fair evaluation of the debt shows it is a function of spending, not insufficient revenue, and spending is dominated by the social welfare state.
There have been many constructive suggestions offered by Boomers for reducing the level of social welfare spending, but the Dems will have none of it.
Cody@codysviews
@shipwreckedcrew 40 trillion in national debt...
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Proud to be in DC tonight. Honored to be the Grand Marshall for the Memorial Day Parade tomorrow. Here to give Respect and Gratitude to our Fallen. Remember them on #MemorialDay.
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@AStuttaford Contracting population probably doesn't help.
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For about ten years, the DVD made Hollywood more money than the movie theater did. A film could flop in cinemas and still turn a tidy profit once it hit the shelf at Best Buy. In 2005, discs sold around $16 billion in the US. Theaters made about half that.
That safety net changed the kind of films that got made. Since a strong disc run could cover a box-office miss, studios were willing to bet on smaller, odder movies. A scrappy comedy like Napoleon Dynamite or The Big Lebowski could rake in as much from disc sales as it ever made selling tickets, sometimes more. And the hours of behind-the-scenes extras Jackson misses got made for the same reason: the discs sold well enough to pay for them.
Then streaming showed up, and the disc money fell off a cliff. Sales sank more than 80%. By 2018, DVDs were down to barely $2 billion. By 2023, a full half-year of disc sales added up to about $754 million, less than a tenth of the old peak. With the safety net gone, the risky bets stopped. The mid-size movie, the $20 to $60 million film that filled theaters for decades, mostly stopped getting made. Hollywood's big studios put out 204 movies in 2006. By 2010, that was down to 141.
The digital version that replaced the disc comes with fine print. When you click "buy" on a movie, you're really just renting it. What you actually get is a license, a permission slip the store can take back. In late 2023, PlayStation warned customers it was about to wipe more than 1,300 shows they had already paid for. It backed off only after signing a fresh deal, and even that one expires in a couple of years. California now has a law, on the books since 2025, that makes stores admit the "buy" button is actually a rental.
Jackson's old box sets still sit on a shelf and still play, extras and all. The digital copies most people traded them for can vanish the morning a licensing contract runs out.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Peter Jackson laments the death of physical media: “You can get Blu-rays and DVDs, but they’re almost a niche product for aficionados now,” Jackson said. “Since they only sell small numbers, no studio wants to put extended features on them or to extend the cuts. We did hours and hours of behind-the-scenes material for The Lord of the Rings DVDs, and so many people have thanked me for doing them. People would watch that stuff over and over again because it inspired them to make films. That’s all gone now, and I think it’s a real shame.” Do you still get real books and DVDs?
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@KurtSchlichter They have let themselves be humiliated by Russia for years.
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MY INTERIM TAKE ON THE IRAN NEGOTIATIONS
I still haven’t seen the final outlines of this alleged deal, but what I have seen (after the initial panic) is not the utter disaster that people were talking about – or that they’re currently characterizing the deal as. As I warned everybody yesterday, the initial reports were gonna be wrong. And apparently they are.
So, I’m not taking seriously those people who are characterizing this as an utter surrender or “Trump is a taco!” or whatever other idiotic claim they toss out there. None of them has seen the final deal, and most of them would be pissing themselves no matter what Trump did.
A lot of the stuff I’m hearing is just stupid. We devastated their military and industrial capacity. They can’t build a bomb right now. That is reality, and anyone who doesn’t lead with that is trying to lead you astray.
If you think Trump, Rubio, and the rest are going to allow themselves to be humiliated, you haven’t been watching for the last decade. Is there anyone out there who seriously thinks Trump doesn’t understand what capitulation would be and what it would mean, and yet would do it? Why would he do it? Because of Trump’s inherent badness? That’s not serious – that’s the reasoning of a child, not a strategist.
Here’s the test. What’s their alternative? Not having done it at all and leaving around with an active military/nuclear complex? A full scale invasion? What’s the plan that leads to a result as good as this or better? Cue the tumbleweeds.
Calm down. Chill out. Many people want America to be defeated for various reasons, all of them bad. I don’t think it’s gonna happen.
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FWIW, @AndrewCMcCarthy agrees with @tedfrank on the Trump sluch fund. nationalreview.com/2026/05/the-tr… He also adds the payoffs to loathsome FBI Trump haters.
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In 1998, the United States achieved its first federal budget surplus in 29 years, effectively ending a streak of deficits that had lasted since 1969.
This milestone was achieved under President Bill Clinton, following the passage of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which resulted in a fiscal surplus of approximately $69 billion for that year.
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