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Monday, July 3, 2023

Happy Fourth of July!

Stay safe and enjoy the festivities.

See you on Wednesday!

Peace.

Friday, June 30, 2023

SCOTUS rules for web designer who refused to work on gay weddings

SCOTUS rules for web designer who refused to work on gay weddings

The Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled Friday that a Christian graphic artist who wants to design wedding websites can refuse to work with same-sex couples.

Our children are not going to thank us for the world we're leaving them. - Stonekettle tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

At some point we have to talk about how one third of the Supreme Court was appointed by a guy who is indicted for espionage. - Andrea Junker tweet

A Clear and Present Danger

Jan. 6 fugitive Taylor Taranto shared a post from ex-President Donald Trump revealing an address for former President Barack Obama hours before his arrest near the Obamas’ home.

Taranto was arrested Thursday on charges related to being a fugitive over that January 6 warrant but was also found to have multiple firearms and materials for making a Molotov cocktail in Obama’s Washington, D.C. neighborhood...

New Study Shows That People’s Empathy Decreases After Spending Time on Billionaires’ Boats. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

Shouldn’t be lost that Clarence Thomas secretly accepted $150,000 in tuition payments from rightwing billionaire Harlan Crow…but he just voted to strike down loan forgiveness for students who don’t have a Supreme Court position to sell for favors. - Kaivan Shroff tweet

Republicans Love To Rub Salt In Wounds
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) suggested on Thursday that young students should look to “role models who didn’t need affirmative action” after the Supreme Court decided to effectively end affirmative action in college admissions.

I’m putting a sign up in my flower shop that says, “If you’re an evangelical Christian, I won’t sell to you, talk to you or acknowledge you. Get the f out of my shop.” - SethMcFarland87 tweet

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Rock The Voter News

Justice Alito accepted tens of thousands of dollars in lavish vacation gifts from a billionaire who lobbied to cancel the student loan forgiveness.

After the gifts, Alito voted to overturn. This SCOTUS’ corruption undercuts its own legitimacy by putting its rulings up for sale. - Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweet

She warned us in 2016

Biden Needs To Throw A Hail Mary Pass

President Joe Biden announced that he will address the nation on Friday after the Supreme Court rejected his student debt forgiveness plan and announced new steps forward in finding an alternative solution.

So we’re clear:

The Supreme Court ended affirmative action yesterday by saying you CAN’T discriminate by helping a minority group, then turned around today and said you CAN discriminate by hurting them. - Mike Jollett tweet

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Business/Tech News

Musk v Zuck: The Colosseum, Seriously? Yes, Seriously.

The proposed fight between billionaire rivals Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg may take place in Rome’s Colosseum, according to both Musk and a new report.

“Some chance fight happens in Colosseum,” Musk tweeted on Thursday.

Today the Supreme Court (I use that term ironically) decreed that student debt relief is unconstitutional, but discrimination isn’t. What a f-cked up time to be alive. - aintscarylarry tweet

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Thursday, June 29, 2023

End of affirmative action is step backward, civil rights leaders say

End of affirmative action is step backward, civil rights leaders say

The 6-3 decision on race-based admissions overturned decades of legal precedent and could have long-term effects on...

Just a casual reminder that in 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for? - Andrea Junker tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Republicans

F's in the chat for every United States postal worker who has to cover the Sunday shift for his lazy-ass Christian co-worker sitting on his couch watching a Packers game this year. - Liam Nissan tweet

MTG Is A Wannabe Scarlett O'Hara

Months after re-launching her podcast MTG Battleground, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene unveiled interesting new cover art for her show.

The picture began circulating on Twitter via PatriotTakes where Greene can be seen sitting in a military vehicle, holding a gun, parked in a smokey field in front of the U.S. Capitol building.

Welcome to America,
where ppl opposing Affirmative Action
(bc they don't want a level playing field for minority ppl)
defend the Electoral College
(bc they want a level playing field for minority states) - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

LOL. Mike Pence gets points for being the first GOP candidate to quote MLK on the affirmative action ruling. My head is just shaking like a bobble head. - Victoria Brownworth tweet

Former Republican Ohio House Speaker Sentenced to 20 Years In Prison

Former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday in federal court in the largest corruption case in state history.

The Republican received the maximum 20-year sentence after being convicted in March of orchestrating a $60 million bribery scheme, secretly funded by Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp., to secure his power, elect his allies and pass a $1 billion nuclear power plant bailout.

The leading Republican candidate for president is a major national security threat and, for good measure, apparently lusted after his own daughter...but by all means, let's discuss whether Biden uses a CPAP machine to help him breathe easier while he sleeps. - David Rothkopf

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Rock The Voter News

Obama: Affirmative action "allowed generations of students like Michelle and me to prove we belonged"

CNN Is Getting Desperate For Bad News About Biden

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins confronted Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg about two instances in which President Joe Biden said “Iraq” when he meant to say “Ukraine.”

On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN Primetime, Collins interviewed Buttigieg about the air travel difficulties that Americans have been experiencing but wrapped up by asking about the President’s age, citing the “slip-ups”

Republicans dream of inventing a time machine to go back and stop Obama from getting into Harvard. - Schooley tweet

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Business/Tech News

I’m scared af of Jack Smith and I’ve never even committed a crime. - Captain Obvious tweet

Whew, Our Money Is Safe. 🙄
All 23 US banks that participated in a new Federal Reserve stress test would be able to withstand a severe global recession, demonstrating the strength of the biggest financial institutions at a time when the banking industry still is on uncertain ground.

“Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”
-Ketanji Brown Jackson

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