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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
@VecchTweets
Senior Litigation Counsel @nclalegal Counsel of Record, Relentless v. Commerce. Chevron delenda est. Opinions are solely my own. Which is a shame.
Virginia เข้าร่วม Nisan 2023
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Trump turned out to be more hawkish than many ppl thought, and it's clear that the key moment was Trump's decision to snatch Maduro, which hooked him on decapitation strategies. Unless ppl think the Israelis were behind that one too.
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Read the NYT piece and even the anon leaks don't actually make it appear to be "Bibi's war" or whatever. Article says Trump wanted to do two things: decapitate the regime that tried to kill him and stomp their missiles. His CIA chief said doable. So he ordered it done.
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Shouldn't one be a throat singer?
Reihan Salam@reihan
The prime ministers of Nepal and Mongolia are both former rappers.
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@gerardtbaker Let's not forget all the Democratic election guys who go to Israel to beat Netanyahu every election.
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Your boss did this when he went to Britain before the Brexit referendum - it was worse actually because he threatened trade penalties if they voted the wrong way. He failed. I think interventions like this always fail. People don’t like being told how to vote by a foreign power
David Axelrod@davidaxelrod
This is truly unprecedented. A vice president of the United States wading hip deep in another country's election. And he is doing it on behalf of Viktor Orban, the autocratic prime minister of Hungary, whose efforts to gut democracy there were a template for @realDonaldTrump's here.
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i wonder how Trump will take this obvious tale-telling about how he was tricked by Bibi -- since the tale being told is from the lips of JD Vance, obviously. See you, JD.
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@PacificLegal @cpoetzscher Is their position that this is a nothing burger?
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BREAKING: Salina, Kansas has spent over $800,000 in taxpayer money trying to force a local restaurant owner to paint over a mural — because it includes burgers. Pacific Legal Foundation filed an amicus brief defending the owner's First Amendment rights at the Tenth Circuit.
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When I want to know what people want, I turn to Ben Stiller, man of the people, who got Apple to pony up an extra $100 million because he didn't like how the first four episodes of his own TV series turned out.
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@RandyEBarnett Yes. I also think she did not like both advocates pretty much saying the Congress had no power to change anything. I think she thinks on the margins, at least, it does. I forget who brought up Section 5, probably Gorsuch but impression was she liked that question.
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@VecchTweets Me too. But Kagan was unexpected. Perhaps she’s genuinely disturbed by the phenomenon?
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Did anyone detect that Justice Kagan might be open to restricting birthright tourism (but not children of illegal but “permanent” residents)? Would be an interesting and unexpected splitting of the baby.
kurt lash@kurtlash1
Jon Adler @jadler1969 over at Civitas has some fair analysis of the oral argument in Trump v. Barbara. Adler sees a statutory off-ramp, and I concede that's possible, though I remain hopeful the court will engage the original meaning of the 14thA. bit.ly/4cvO5oY
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@jbarro "we learned" who is saying that? Vance is not trustworthy.
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The Israelis should be punished for this, and there is no reason for a Democratic presidential candidate to suggest we will lift one fucking finger for them after the shit they have pulled boosting the Republicans and then inducing our idiot president into launching their war
Tim Miller@Timodc
People keep telling me its anti-semitic to say Israel influenced US on Iran war. Now we learn Bibi made a "hard sell" in sit room on 2/11. Think telling people not to believe their eyes will cause more anti-semitism than being honest about Bibi influence. nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/…
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@nickgillespie I knew the lawyers trying the accutane case with the actor from "A Few Good Men" and read the deposition. He was not crossed about this lapse! (and its makes good reading). fiercepharma.com/pharma/hollywo…
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A great actor, who also lied for years about serving in Vietnam (ironic, given his role in First Blood, the original Rambo movie): '“I lied about serving in Vietnam,” Dennehy told the supermarket tabloid The Globe, “and I’m sorry. I did not mean to take away from the actions and the sacrifices of the ones who did really serve there…I did steal valor. That was very wrong of me. There is no real excuse for that. I was a peace-time Marine, and I got out in 1963 without ever serving in Vietnam… I started the story that I had been in ‘Nam, and I got stuck with it. Then I didn’t know how to set the record straight.”' dallasobserver.com/news/dont-tell…
Mike David@mikemoviez
BRIAN DENNEHY [1938–2020] was one of the most respected American actors of his generation. He came to acting late, after a Columbia University education on a football scholarship, five years in the Marines, and a stretch of working-class jobs including cab driving and bartending. He educated himself on theater by catching matinee performances on his days off, and it showed. His screen breakthrough came playing the bullying small-town sheriff opposite Stallone in First Blood (1982), which immediately established him as the go-to guy for authority figures, lawmen, and heavies. He was versatile enough to play corrupt sheriffs, alien leaders, serial killers, and a beloved comedy dad, but while Hollywood loved him as a character actor, the theater world recognized something deeper. He won two Tony Awards — one for Death of a Salesman (1999) and another for Long Day's Journey into Night (2003) — and a Golden Globe for the TV adaptation of Salesman in 2000. Variety once called him "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of Eugene O'Neill's work on stage and screen. He appeared in well over 180 productions across film, TV, and stage, working consistently right up until his death at 81. Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) Semi-Tough (1977) Foul Play (1978) 10 (1979) First Blood (1982) Split Image (1982) Gorky Park (1983) Never Cry Wolf (1983) Silverado (1985) Cocoon (1985) F/X (1986) Legal Eagles (1986) The Belly of an Architect (1987) Best Seller (1987) The Man from Snowy River II (1988) Cocoon: The Return (1988) Miles from Home (1988) Presumed Innocent (1990) F/X2 (1991) Gladiator (1992) Prophet of Evil (1993) Tommy Boy (1995) Romeo + Juliet (1996) Stolen Summer (2002) She Hate Me (2004) Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) 10th & Wolf (2006) Ratatouille (2007) — voice Righteous Kill (2008) The Next Three Days (2010) Alleged (2010) Knight of Cups (2015) The Seagull (2018) Tag (2018) Driveways (2019) It's worth noting that The Belly of an Architect (1987) is the one Dennehy himself considered his finest film work. He won Best Actor at the Chicago International Film Festival for it and said it was the first time he felt he'd actually made a film rather than just appeared in one. And Tommy Boy is the one most people remember, even though he dies in the first act. His rapport with Farley was genuinely warm, and by all accounts he looked out for the troubled comic during production.
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That list gets less fun all the time.
Will Rahn@willrahn
Fun-ish fact: Trump is one of three presidents born in the summer of 1946, the others being George W. Bush and Bill Clinton
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Big cheers to the Artemis II crew! 🚀 Safe travels!
Clip from Deana Martin LIVE! Show # 292
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@mattyglesias What's the use of all those speed cameras you are always on about if they can't do this!? :)
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I don't actually think this is that unsolvable of a problem.
What you need to do is identify the people who are driving ATVs and dirt bikes, arrest them, and punish them.
Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle
For years there have been complaints and concerns around ATVs and dirt bikes on D.C. streets, and the city has tried lots of things: impounding them ahead of time, sharing images of their users in hopes of finding them, etc. Yet the issue persists, and now this.
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@ringwiss did you notice that the congressional record omitted Thune's UC request to be recognized?
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@IzaBooboo Excellent. And applies to so many stupid comments about the Justices from this guy, to the President to Sheldon Whitehouse.
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1. Congress does not have constitutional authority to oversee the ethics rules for the Supreme Court, which is a separate branch under Article III.
2. There is no rule or law-based foundation to impeach any Justice currently sitting.
3. If this person is proposing that we make up ex post facto rules in order to impeach Justices who currently have violated no law or rule (and he is), he's living up to his well-deserved commie nazi reputation.
Western Lensman@WesternLensman
Democrat Graham Platner wants to impeach “at least two” Supreme Court Justices. "But to make that happen, we need to elect people to the Senate that want to wield power like that, who understand that power matters." Platner leads in the polls for the Senate seat in Maine.
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"Remarkably, I became obliged to conclude Catholicism, merely because Thomas [Aquinas] had told me to do so."
Evangelicals who convert to Catholicism often end up adopting a new and very different way of understanding the world.
Denny Burk@DennyBurk
Ryan Hurd has been a reformed theologian and a lecturer at the Davenant Institute. He published an article today explaining why he has converted to Roman Catholicism. Here's the bottom line: "As I became intellectually obliged to follow Thomas wherever he leads me, so withholding my assent became intellectually unjustified–even regarding those contradictions where, initially, I had no reasons for the Catholic part, or even my remaining Protestant doubts. Remarkably, I became obliged to conclude Catholicism, merely because Thomas had told me to do so. And in the end, I listened. And that’s really it. I’m trying here to just be real, rather frank, and to the point." I don't know how else to read this except that his conscience became obliged to Thomas Aquinas. If you don't think the old differences between Protestants and Catholics aren't alive and well, this article will cure you of that. I'll post a link to this astonishing testimony in the thread.
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