President Biden has pulled ahead of his challenger in the latest Fox News poll, both campaigns expect low-information voters to learn about the debate through social media, and another quirky detail about the unconventional lifestyle of presidential candidate RFJ Jr. has been revealed.
BTW with regard to mandating display of 10 commandments in all schools, how will teachers in states like FL be able to respond to those 1st & 2nd graders who ask: “what is adultery?”
Pumpkin Head weighs in. Bet he can’t recite a single commandment. Would be a good debate question.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024 Jun 21, 2024, 1:22 AM
First step in the revival of religion? Hey, Dumbass, have you taken a first step toward religion? Didn’t think so (Hawking $60 Bibles with a flag on the cover and the words to the Star Spangled Banner inside is not practicing religion).
So is 10:00 tee time for the next tranche of decisions from SCROTUS?
Also, TODAY: At 9:30 am ET, Judge Cannon, in the MAL classified documents case, is holding a hearing on Donald Trump’s “Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based on the Unlawful Appointment and Funding of Special Counsel Jack Smith.”
I hope she grants the motion and gets herself thrown off the case by the appeals court. Would actually be good for her politically. She’s done her job in pushing the trial past the election, could go out a martyred hero in MAGAt world — and a promotion if Trump elected.
note in yesterday’s guardian (reporting about the NYT story on ms aileen being urged to step aside) the little tidbit in the last 2 paragraphs:
The attempt to persuade Cannon to step aside was reportedly prompted by her actions after the FBI seized the documents – when she intervened on Trump’s side after he had filed suit claiming they were his personal property, appointing a special master to review them before prosecutors had a chance to see them.
This ruling was later reversed by the 11th court of appeals in Atlanta, which issued a rebuke of Cannon’s judgment, saying she had no authority to bar investigators from seeing the documents.
The argument that this episode was sufficient reason for Cannon to pass on the case was reportedly put forward by Cecilia Altonaga, the chief judge of Florida’s southern district.
Another unnamed judge was said to have put a different line of reasoning to her – that it would be better to have the case transferred to a jurist based closer to the district’s busiest courthouse in Miami, which had a facility to store the classified documents and where Trump had initially been indicted.
Since Cannon rejected entreaties to defer the case to another judge, a secure facility to store the documents has since been built at taxpayers’ expense in the courthouse where she presides at Fort Pierce, around two hours’ drive north of Miami.
would love to see a follow-up story on just how much it cost those taxpayers and who else benefitted in addition to the loser guy with her rather selfish decision.
For a 6-3 (ideological) majority, Justice Barrett holds that a citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country
First opinion – not a good day for states’ rights.
Second case, not a good day for Biden’s proposed expansion of rights for non-citizen spouses of citizens. Could be an impediment for his executive action. a quote – “Munoz’s argument is built “on the premise that the right to bring her noncitizen spouse to the United States is an unenumerated constitutional right. To establish this premise, she must show that the asserted right is deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition” — but, Barrett writes, she cannot. “Congress’s longstanding regulation of spousal immigration–including through bars on admissibility– cuts the other way.”
Third (but not last) ruling from #SCOTUS is in Erlinger. For a complicated 6-3 majority, Justice Gorsuch sides with federal prisoners about whether jury or judge must decide whether past offenses were “separate” for sentencing purposes:
The fourth SCOTUS opinion is out, not the immunity case
Smith v. Arizona.
It’s a majority opinion by Justice Kagan in a messy case with lots of separate opinions about when expert testimony is admissible for its truth
4th case – Smith v. Arizona, by Justice Kagan,
Confrontations clause case mixed with hearsay exception.
The court holds that when an expert conveys an absent analyst’s statements in support of the expert’s opinion, and the statements provide that support only if true, then the statements come into evidence for their truth.
But the court does not decide whether the out-of-court statements that the expert conveyed in this case were in fact testimonial, because the state court did not decide that question.
fifth and final decision of the day: United States v. Rahimi. It is by the Chief Justice.
The Supreme Court rejects the challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that bans the possession of a gun by someone who has been the subject of a domestic violent restraining order.
The vote is 8-1. Thomas dissents
A rare vote for sanity – which, of course, Thomas rejects.
Fifth and *last* ruling from #SCOTUS is in Rahimi (Second Amendment case). For an 8-1 majority, Chief Justice Roberts *reverses* Fifth Circuit and upholds federal ban on gun possession by those subject to domestic violence-related restraining orders.
Could be a hint they’ll uphold law used to convict Hunter.
By tradition they’ve got until next Friday to get the presidential immunity decision out, but it is not unheard of for a release to slip into early July. Whatever the outcome, they have already given Trump a victory — by delaying they have granted him immunity from trial before the election.
I lived through the 1952 epidemic with only mild flu symptoms (later effects showed up as an adult). My stepsister was paralyzed from the neck down at first in an iron lung and then fully casted in a wheelchair. She eventually died during her third spinal surgery.
Children should be removed from these anti-vaxxers as unfit parents.
I guess I lived thru the ‘52 epidemic as well, but I was 4. Seems like there was also a hurricane that year. And we got a tv. With one channel. CBS. Probably the year I saw Jimmy Piersall with the Birmingham Barons.
No Uncle Millie, no Sid Caesar, no Bonanza, no Soupy Sales, no Beanie and Cecil,
Hurricanes ‘52
only one of them reached the United States coast. This was the first storm of the season, designated “Able,” which moved into South Carolina late on August 30, and ad- vanced northward over the Atlantic Plain to die out over New England on September 2
Or at least the 11th Circuit. If Dumbass by some unfortunate miracle is elected, it’s crucial that Dems retain control of the Senate (although that doesn’t look likely) so that he doesn’t get to run roughshod over the judiciary with partisan hacks (prima donnas) like Cannon.
https://newrepublic.com/article/182972/end-clarence-thomas-court Two years ago, Justice Clarence Thomas led an originalist revolution of sorts to expand the Second Amendment. The 6–3 decision that he authored in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen set up a narrow history-and-tradition test that invalidated any gun restriction without a “historical analogue.” The Supreme Court reversed course on Friday. In an 8–1 decision in United States v. Rahimi, the justices upheld a federal law that temporarily disarms gun owners who are under domestic violence protection orders. This time, Thomas was the sole dissenter in the case. All five of his conservative colleagues in the Bruen majority flipped sides. “Our tradition of firearm regulation allows the government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. His 18-page ruling clarified the Bruen test to explain that while courts must still look to founding-era laws for analogues, they need not find a “historical twin” to uphold a modern gun restriction. Thomas was left to protest the narrowing of his landmark ruling by himself. “After [Bruen], this Court’s directive was clear: A firearm regulation that falls within the Second Amendment’s plain text is unconstitutional unless it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” he wrote. “Not a single historical regulation justifies the statute at issue. Therefore, I respectfully dissent.” The ruling has major consequences for gun rights and the Second Amendment. First and foremost, the court shut down the possibility that it would make guns easier to obtain for domestic abusers. Loosening Bruen’s history-and-tradition test also ensures that lower courts will likely find it easier to uphold other restrictions that are currently under scrutiny. Friday’s decision will not restore the pre-Bruen legal landscape, but it is a substantial push in that direction. Rahimi may also be a watershed moment for the court’s internal dynamics. Periods of Supreme Court history are typically described by the term of the chief justice; we have all lived in the Roberts court era since 2005. For the last few years, the six-justice conservative supermajority led some to describe it as the Thomas court, reflecting his influence as the dean of… Read more »
“…digital price tags could, in effect, allow Walmart to utilize a strategy that’s become known as “dynamic pricing,” which more or less means that it can change the price of items on the fly.”
https://www.vox.com/money/24105250/fast-food-restaurants-dynamic-pricing-algorithm-wendys
“Above all, the Wendy’s fiasco also highlights an uncomfortable truth: It feels impossible to know what to expect to pay for anything. There are a lot of reasons for this — inflation, hidden fees, tipping creep — but one simple one is that we’ve been in the trenches of dynamic pricing for a long time. Between flights, hotels, concerts, car insurance, electricity, gas, Ubers, and online retailers like Amazon, many sellers adjust their prices using the trove of data at their fingertips to predict what people might pay at any given moment. Restaurants are just dipping their toes in an arena that Amazon and Uber seem to have perfected.”
“In 1999, for example, Coca-Cola tested (but did not roll out) vending machines whose prices would rise as the temperature did.”
It’s ill will that will ruin brands unless everyone jumps on board and consumers have no choice.
A-hem, this is something Congress needs to address now.
Well, i hopped in the ol’ clunker and took a sunset drive to a nice spot for my daily stroll and grooved out to this while the full summer moon ascended from the horizon:
…gotta love those summer nights (especially when the days are unbearable, and pardon the music repost, it’s what i listened to 🤷♂️)
add this to that school fence above unless they’re all taught equally as social studies and historical or cultural phenomena:
runner-up ‘toons for today
Attribution: Teach the Constitution by John Darkow, Columbia Missourian
President Biden has pulled ahead of his challenger in the latest Fox News poll, both campaigns expect low-information voters to learn about the debate through social media, and another quirky detail about the unconventional lifestyle of presidential candidate RFJ Jr. has been revealed.
BTW with regard to mandating display of 10 commandments in all schools, how will teachers in states like FL be able to respond to those 1st & 2nd graders who ask: “what is adultery?”
last year, maher suggested adding to our holidays “atheists day”
The fastest growing religious group in the United States are “Nones” – as in no religion at all – and it’s time they get a holiday of their own.
and ron reagan’s take
Ron Reagan Jr. reflects on what’s changed since he first recorded an infamous ad for FFRF in 2014.
Every rally speech Trump says “I will deny all federal funds to any school that mandates vaccines” — Bring on small pox and polio.
Pumpkin Head weighs in. Bet he can’t recite a single commandment. Would be a good debate question.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I LOVE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PRIVATE SCHOOLS, AND MANY OTHER PLACES, FOR THAT MATTER. READ IT — HOW CAN WE, AS A NATION, GO WRONG??? THIS MAY BE, IN FACT, THE FIRST MAJOR STEP IN THE REVIVAL OF RELIGION, WHICH IS DESPERATELY NEEDED, IN OUR COUNTRY. BRING BACK TTC!!! MAGA2024
Jun 21, 2024, 1:22 AM
First step in the revival of religion? Hey, Dumbass, have you taken a first step toward religion? Didn’t think so (Hawking $60 Bibles with a flag on the cover and the words to the Star Spangled Banner inside is not practicing religion).
So is 10:00 tee time for the next tranche of decisions from SCROTUS?
SCOTUS heads up! More rulings at 10am ET.
Also, TODAY: At 9:30 am ET, Judge Cannon, in the MAL classified documents case, is holding a hearing on Donald Trump’s “Motion to Dismiss the Indictment Based on the Unlawful Appointment and Funding of Special Counsel Jack Smith.”
I hope she grants the motion and gets herself thrown off the case by the appeals court. Would actually be good for her politically. She’s done her job in pushing the trial past the election, could go out a martyred hero in MAGAt world — and a promotion if Trump elected.
note in yesterday’s guardian (reporting about the NYT story on ms aileen being urged to step aside) the little tidbit in the last 2 paragraphs:
would love to see a follow-up story on just how much it cost those taxpayers and who else benefitted in addition to the loser guy with her rather selfish decision.
First SCOTUS opinion today: Texas v. New Mexico.
water rights case — Justice Jackson, for 5-4 majority, sides with federal government
3 boxes of opinions out at #SCOTUS. Likely 5-6 opinions coming shortly
2d ruling — Dep’t of State v. Muñoz.
For a 6-3 (ideological) majority, Justice Barrett holds that a citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country
First opinion – not a good day for states’ rights.
Second case, not a good day for Biden’s proposed expansion of rights for non-citizen spouses of citizens. Could be an impediment for his executive action. a quote – “Munoz’s argument is built “on the premise that the right to bring her noncitizen spouse to the United States is an unenumerated constitutional right. To establish this premise, she must show that the asserted right is deeply rooted in this Nation’s history and tradition” — but, Barrett writes, she cannot. “Congress’s longstanding regulation of spousal immigration–including through bars on admissibility– cuts the other way.”
You can find the opinions as they are posted here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/slipopinion/23
Third (but not last) ruling from #SCOTUS is in Erlinger. For a complicated 6-3 majority, Justice Gorsuch sides with federal prisoners about whether jury or judge must decide whether past offenses were “separate” for sentencing purposes:
Third case is Erlinger v. United States. It is by Justice Gorsuch.
The court holds that the Fifth and Sixth Amendments require a unanimous jury to make that determination beyond a reasonable doubt.
The fourth SCOTUS opinion is out, not the immunity case
Smith v. Arizona.
It’s a majority opinion by Justice Kagan in a messy case with lots of separate opinions about when expert testimony is admissible for its truth
4th case – Smith v. Arizona, by Justice Kagan,
Confrontations clause case mixed with hearsay exception.
The court holds that when an expert conveys an absent analyst’s statements in support of the expert’s opinion, and the statements provide that support only if true, then the statements come into evidence for their truth.
But the court does not decide whether the out-of-court statements that the expert conveyed in this case were in fact testimonial, because the state court did not decide that question.
fifth and final decision of the day: United States v. Rahimi. It is by the Chief Justice.
The Supreme Court rejects the challenge to the constitutionality of a federal law that bans the possession of a gun by someone who has been the subject of a domestic violent restraining order.
The vote is 8-1. Thomas dissents
A rare vote for sanity – which, of course, Thomas rejects.
No ruling on immunity again.
Fifth and *last* ruling from #SCOTUS is in Rahimi (Second Amendment case). For an 8-1 majority, Chief Justice Roberts *reverses* Fifth Circuit and upholds federal ban on gun possession by those subject to domestic violence-related restraining orders.
Could be a hint they’ll uphold law used to convict Hunter.
Gun ruling is a surprisingly narrow reading of the 2d Amendment, gun lobby will hate this. Of course, Thomas is the lone dissenter… https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-915_8o6b.pdf
By tradition they’ve got until next Friday to get the presidential immunity decision out, but it is not unheard of for a release to slip into early July. Whatever the outcome, they have already given Trump a victory — by delaying they have granted him immunity from trial before the election.
I lived through the 1952 epidemic with only mild flu symptoms (later effects showed up as an adult). My stepsister was paralyzed from the neck down at first in an iron lung and then fully casted in a wheelchair. She eventually died during her third spinal surgery.
Children should be removed from these anti-vaxxers as unfit parents.
Polio vaccine timeline
Public schools—vaccinate.
Private schools, die at will.
Suprem Court: “ Guess which hand! Guess which hand!”
I guess I lived thru the ‘52 epidemic as well, but I was 4. Seems like there was also a hurricane that year. And we got a tv. With one channel. CBS. Probably the year I saw Jimmy Piersall with the Birmingham Barons.
No Uncle Millie, no Sid Caesar, no Bonanza, no Soupy Sales, no Beanie and Cecil,
Hurricanes ‘52
only one of them reached the United States coast. This was the first storm of the season, designated “Able,” which moved into South Carolina late on August 30, and ad- vanced northward over the Atlantic Plain to die out over New England on September 2
On gun ruling upholding bans against domestic abusers — it shows just how lost we are that letting wife beaters have guns is even a question.
If there was a case to bring back lynching, Clarence Thomas would be all for it.
Two-thirds of Trump’s May fundraising haul came from six billionaires.
Supreme Court: “Pull my finger.”
Just saw an Ad for Road Trip Magic Mushroom Gummies.
Just another, “Fuck you, Boomer.”
Reggie Jackson interview, I think Fox. He told em ALL about it.
https://www.foxsports.com/watch/fmc-lz9kfft3srnel39m?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2xbDIiwucE4bhJ6PcZpjZtIa6-FgrdJhOR-5ZhOuLN60EaDOClqNe2oMU_aem_74h7NomjkbKvuX-t5TkdBQ
don’t hold back, Ty, tell us what you really think.
Ty Cobb hits Judge Aileen Cannon over Donald Trump case: ‘Partisan prima donna’ (thehill.com)
Pat, Cannon knows if she hangs in here for The Felon on the documents case, she’ll be a shoe-in for an easier gig on the Supremes.
Q: What do you call a woman with one leg who perverts justice?
A: Aileen
Or at least the 11th Circuit. If Dumbass by some unfortunate miracle is elected, it’s crucial that Dems retain control of the Senate (although that doesn’t look likely) so that he doesn’t get to run roughshod over the judiciary with partisan hacks (prima donnas) like Cannon.
These SCOTUS judges are all very unimpressive, very pedestrian writing, contrived self-serving logic, and just an utter lack of wit or wisdom
That goes for the 3 liberals’ weak-throated dissent in every case
i think our law schools might suck, y’all
https://newrepublic.com/article/182972/end-clarence-thomas-court Two years ago, Justice Clarence Thomas led an originalist revolution of sorts to expand the Second Amendment. The 6–3 decision that he authored in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen set up a narrow history-and-tradition test that invalidated any gun restriction without a “historical analogue.” The Supreme Court reversed course on Friday. In an 8–1 decision in United States v. Rahimi, the justices upheld a federal law that temporarily disarms gun owners who are under domestic violence protection orders. This time, Thomas was the sole dissenter in the case. All five of his conservative colleagues in the Bruen majority flipped sides. “Our tradition of firearm regulation allows the government to disarm individuals who present a credible threat to the physical safety of others,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote for the court. His 18-page ruling clarified the Bruen test to explain that while courts must still look to founding-era laws for analogues, they need not find a “historical twin” to uphold a modern gun restriction. Thomas was left to protest the narrowing of his landmark ruling by himself. “After [Bruen], this Court’s directive was clear: A firearm regulation that falls within the Second Amendment’s plain text is unconstitutional unless it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearm regulation,” he wrote. “Not a single historical regulation justifies the statute at issue. Therefore, I respectfully dissent.” The ruling has major consequences for gun rights and the Second Amendment. First and foremost, the court shut down the possibility that it would make guns easier to obtain for domestic abusers. Loosening Bruen’s history-and-tradition test also ensures that lower courts will likely find it easier to uphold other restrictions that are currently under scrutiny. Friday’s decision will not restore the pre-Bruen legal landscape, but it is a substantial push in that direction. Rahimi may also be a watershed moment for the court’s internal dynamics. Periods of Supreme Court history are typically described by the term of the chief justice; we have all lived in the Roberts court era since 2005. For the last few years, the six-justice conservative supermajority led some to describe it as the Thomas court, reflecting his influence as the dean of… Read more »
WTF is the “founding era?”
…whatever they want it to be
https://kottke.org/24/06/0044848-walmart-is-switching-to-e
Walmart is switching to electronic price tags that “allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds”. No one wants this!! No one wants surge pricing on ice cream and price increases on items already in your cart.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91144262/walmart-digital-price-tags-explained-dynamic-pricing
“…digital price tags could, in effect, allow Walmart to utilize a strategy that’s become known as “dynamic pricing,” which more or less means that it can change the price of items on the fly.”
Dynamic pricing aka price gouging
https://www.vox.com/money/24105250/fast-food-restaurants-dynamic-pricing-algorithm-wendys
“Above all, the Wendy’s fiasco also highlights an uncomfortable truth: It feels impossible to know what to expect to pay for anything. There are a lot of reasons for this — inflation, hidden fees, tipping creep — but one simple one is that we’ve been in the trenches of dynamic pricing for a long time. Between flights, hotels, concerts, car insurance, electricity, gas, Ubers, and online retailers like Amazon, many sellers adjust their prices using the trove of data at their fingertips to predict what people might pay at any given moment. Restaurants are just dipping their toes in an arena that Amazon and Uber seem to have perfected.”
“In 1999, for example, Coca-Cola tested (but did not roll out) vending machines whose prices would rise as the temperature did.”
It’s ill will that will ruin brands unless everyone jumps on board and consumers have no choice.
A-hem, this is something Congress needs to address now.
First we have to get a Congress capable of addressing things.
Okay, we’ll leave it here. We had a good time. Well worth the time, the expense and the exertion. Pogo, you should get to one of the remaining shows.
https://iorr.org/tour24/denver.htm
Crowd picture, Mr. Ivy got in the frame, the small face on the far right.
https://denvergazette.com/multimedia/photos-the-rolling-stones-electrify-empower-field-at-mile-high/collection_021540d2-2f8d-11ef-a5e5-0bf0cdaee372.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2lP–E_K-SOK4xcnDd1SwCvX-fzDX_1wDmRIuy12ijADxOoPgApc_nJTI_aem_R8QN8wJIyWYUHOmM9Zvc2Q#6
perfect pun, Sturge 😏
80 is the new something-or-other. Mick can still move.
Blue: He really can, better than any of them. The other thing he can move, is the crowd. Secret of the ages.
a rose by any other name is still illegal
they’re gonna reclassify murder as “dynamic lifepanning”
theft, “dynamic ownership”
fraud, “dynamic expectation management”
WHEN THEY DO IT, old rules for you
Bink – LoL and 🙌🏻
Well, i hopped in the ol’ clunker and took a sunset drive to a nice spot for my daily stroll and grooved out to this while the full summer moon ascended from the horizon:
…gotta love those summer nights (especially when the days are unbearable, and pardon the music repost, it’s what i listened to 🤷♂️)
…and i blame man-made climate change for these relentless mosquitoes everywhere
iykyk
…not gonna lie, couldn’t make it through that last one. This one, tho… 😉
8 year old remix! 👴
ok 1000 apologies for the Bananarama video, i will uphold a higher standard henceforth ✌️ 🌕 🇺🇸
hidden bonus track
once upon a time before the internet that was a very hard to find track
NEW THREAD inspired by Ivy’s latest adventure