On Monday, the Supreme Court effectively eliminated the right to hold a Black Lives Matter protest in three US states.

On Tuesday, the same justices were very, very afraid that January 6 insurrectionists are being treated unfairly.

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The Chief Rabbi of Ukraine responds to Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene to inform her that there are no Nazis, only Russian invaders.

Russian propaganda has been running rampant in Congress and it’s dangerous

Are you able to replicate this for Ukraine? What does it tell us?

Case is submitted. That was fucking infuriating.

6-3 (at least) to let J6 rioters off the hook on the obstruction charges.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit

Infinite supply of good band names here

We would invade, stay there for 20 years, and then leave all our interpreters behind while Congress fails to pass a bill to help our stranded allies

A reminder that it was the GOP who demanded all border provisions be removed.

👀 Speaker Mike Johnson’s foreign aid plans include separate votes on Ukraine/Israel/Taiwan, plus a fourth vote on a bill that includes TikTok forced divestiture, REPO, lend-lease & more.

Scooped by Jake Sherman & John Bresnahan

Never try to cross a river that is on average 4 feet deep.

'Russia’s reaction to Ukraine weakening—due in large part to the loss of US support—is not 'oh thank God, we’re safe, we can stop this awful war now,' but something more like 'see, I told you they’re weak, now’s the time to push harder, they’ll break.''
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Minor scoop: Alabama is threatening to throw Biden off the ballot unless he reschedules the Democratic convention. I found that the state allowed Trump to miss that deadline in 2020: newrepublic.com/article/180674…

Black hole sun, won’t you come
And wash away the rain?

NYTimes headline: Biden surrenders all murder rates gained under Trump

The shorter way of saying all this is, FF = a resource + tech problem, whereas RE = just a tech problem. So while FF prices can be expected to fluctuate wildly but remain roughly steady over time, RE prices can be expected (with smaller fluctuations) to fall over time.

“I’m asking about right and wrong”

“This is about politics”.

TBH, that’s going to be on the tombstone of the moderate Republican right there.

When researchers sent 80,000 fake résumés to jobs they found:

-racial discrimination: employers gave 10% more call backs to White vs. Black applications
-no gender discrimination
-no LGBT discrimination

One thing predicted less discrimination: a centralized HR operation.…

The introduction of No fault divorces reduced suicides among women by 20%

A string of republicans local and national want to make divorce harder.

A point I made in last week’s post on negativity — serious problems that have relatively straightforward solutions (give the money needed to get aid to Sudan) tend to be neglected compared to intractable problems.

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The emergency supplemental funding bill that passed the Senate with 70 votes has funding to replenish Iron Dome. There is no need for the House to craft new legislation or do anything tricky. Just pass the Senate bill next week. Anything else is an intentional delay.