volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
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And the justices that Trump didn't appoint (with permission of the senators that we elect, mind) agreed that the Trump justices were correct.
So?
The Court was unanimous in its decision. Not a single justice said "three dipsticks" got it wrong. Maybe don't fall for the dramatic sensationalized stories so many are telling about the members of the Court.
And yet, they were still not involved in the case itself. They merely pointed out laws dictating the venue where the trial was to be heard.
That's exactly the question more people needed to be asking themselves this whole time because the answer corrects so many assumptions.
How did this idiot become the champion of so many? Because so many projected themselves onto him; this loser is not a leader but a suck-up to a mob.
MAGA folks don't actually like Trump. Rather, they convince themselves that he's someone he's not, and he's such a spineless wimp that he goes along with it.
Trump's not in charge here. The MAGA crowd leads him around. THEY are the ones that need to be addressed, not Trump.
Trump is not involved in this case.
It's between states and Chevron.
If Trump was involved he might simply drop the case or settle nicely, but since he's not, the prosecution of Chevron continues after this decision.
I mean, it's pure invention in the sense that all law is invented. But this isn't Thomas's invention. It's a longstanding mechanism for providing a check on states that might try to use their courts inappropriately.
Federal removal is nothing new, and the Court unanimously applied the longstanding rules to this case, pointing out that federal removal covers exactly this sort of situation.
The quote below is the problem as it gets the story EXACTLY backwards. This is the OPPOSITE of the message that the decision sends.
La Gordiloca sued the wrong people, as in, the civil charges that she filed were against the wrong parties for the suit to be successful. It was right to throw the case out since that's not how the legal system works.
"First Amendment experts say this decision sends the message that if police make a bad-faith or far-fetched interpretation of a law in a way that violates someone’s constitutional rights, including those of journalists or protesters, the courts will protect the cops and prosecutors from consequences."
It took Trump's people way too long to discover the phrase "nuclear dust" but here we are.
For all these weeks they had to grapple with the contradiction where he totally and completely destroyed Iran's nuclear program, but now the US needs to go spend serious resources because Iran's nuclear program continues.
If only someone had thought of "nuclear dust" weeks ago they could have squared that circle.
#BrianKilmeade: #Iran has to give up its "nuclear dust."Nuclear dust this, nuclear dust that.#USPolitics #rhetoric
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Trump "failed to implement any of his major policy initiatives through executive order in any realistic sense. Think about the Alien Enemies Act, federalizing the National Guard, worldwide tariffs, birthright citizenship. These are the main pillars of Donald Trump’s policy presidency, the substantive aspects of it. And they’ve all failed":
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/opinion/supreme-court-trump.html
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #SCOTUS #HumanRights
Meh, I've known plenty of Christians who ABSOLUTELY say to their pastors what they say to you. Heck, I've known some that were so bold that they left to start their own congregations over disagreements with their pastors.
Christians and their pastors dismissing each other isn't even rare where I come from.
(I personally think it's a sad case of confirmation bias--only tell me what I want to hear, preacherman)
But in the end, these folks may cloak themselves with authority, but that's not a cloak anyone else has to respect. Let them cosplay significance.
I imagine a big part of that religion-in-society picture is the neverending jousting between different sects of Christianity, Catholic vs protestant being the most obvious on the large scale.
There's a lot of interesting nuance and implications for organization of society at large--including non-religious aspects--in there.
If you're familiar with the cathedral vs bazaar allegory, same thing. There's a strong analogy between someone doing their own research to find the OT passages to support their priors and someone doing their own research in medicine, both ignoring what experts have to say.
I'd say this isn't so much about a Christian right trend as much as a trend in society as a whole.
KBJ is often shortsighted, and she's showing it here too.
The staying of lower court decisions is often the exact opposite, AVOIDING disruption by the lower courts as the process runs its course.
After all, a stayed decision doesn't disrupt. It is stayed. It's allowing a decision to take effect that threatens disruption.
Yes, he got a detail wrong, but his larger point was correct: RBG was pushed to retire earlier so Obama could appoint her replacement, but it was widely circulated that she intentionally chose to hold on to be replaced by the next president, who was predicted to be a Democrat as well.
That Trump was wrong about her passing after instead of before the election doesn't change the core point.
Yes, he got a detail wrong, but his larger point was correct: RBG was pushed to retire earlier so Obama could appoint her replacement, but it was widely circulated that she intentionally chose to hold on to be replaced by the next president, who was predicted to be a Democrat as well.
That Trump was wrong about her passing after instead of before the election doesn't change the core point.
Yeah, it's been sad-funny to watch as Trump supporters and opponents BOTH claim vehemently that the courts, and the SCOTUS in particular, have tilted the scales far in the other direction.
Based on what you hear from the left the Supreme Court is backing everything Trump is doing. Here we see the opposite.
@renewedresistance
It seems Jackson calls them oblivious largely because they're not taking up her personal crusades and instead focusing on the work before the Court.
Over and over we see Jackson try to interject irrelevant issues into cases before the Supreme Court with speakers from all sides trying to explain to her that that's not how the Supreme Court, or courts of appeals in general, function in our government.
That's not a show of integrity. That's a show of undermining core principles of democracy and separation of powers and then complaining when even the other Democratic appointees rebuff that effort.
This was such a stupid stunt that only the slowest folks would fall for.
Who with a glimmer of thoughtfulness would accept that an everyday Door Dash driver would be allowed anywhere near a President? But that's what they're asking us to believe.
If the woman was a stooge, that would be the better outcome. Imagine if you WERE a random Door Dash driver, you'd be held for hours for background checks, maybe even health screenings, before being used as a prop in, well propaganda.
And you'd lose all of the other income while sitting there.
This was a lame stunt that appeals to idiots. But that's pretty much the core of US policy these days.
#Trump often acts from a paternalistic mindset.
There's a trope of a father threatening, Do x or I'll do it for you, as in, Shut your mouth or I'll shut it for you.
Well I think Trump gets this one backwards.
His latest rhetoric seems to be, Open the straight or I'll close it for you!
Siiiigh
I really do think he sees himself as something like a father to all, someone to give everybody advice and take care of everybody and end all the suffering and all of the other stuff.
He's just a really bad father though.
#Trump often acts from a paternalistic mindset.
There's a trope of a father threatening, Do x or I'll do it for you, as in, Shut your mouth or I'll shut it for you.
Well I think Trump gets this one backwards.
His latest rhetoric seems to be, Open the straight or I'll close it for you!
Siiiigh
I really do think he sees himself as something like a father to all, someone to give everybody advice and take care of everybody and end all the suffering and all of the other stuff.
He's just a really bad father though.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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