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Raptorpat

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  1. there's an argument to be made that because the federal appellate courts are divided into circuits and below that they are divided into districts, an emergency injunction pre-trial should only apply to that judge's own district
  2. Republicans spent four years going to the same judge in some podunk corner of Texas over and over to get national injunctions to stop Biden policies and now they've suddenly decided turnabout isn't fair play.
  3. Summary of the mixed bag of proposals that might go into the Republican tax bill: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/12/nx-s1-5389644/trump-student-loan-program-forgiveness-overhaul
  4. Yeah, NY has "fusion voting" which means candidates can run on as many ballot lines and be endorsed by as many parties as they want. Want to run on a line with a gimmicky name? Just gotta collect the petitions and you can!
  5. Trump endorsed Lawler and Blakeman for re-election despite their interest in a gubernatorial bid to clear the way for Stefanik.
  6. the short of it is that fast-track totalitarian overhauls tend to backfire monkeypaw style Mao's "great leap forward" probably led to more human death and suffering than any other single event in history
  7. He's running in the Dem primary and on an independent line. Adams isn't even bothering with the primary, just running on his own made up line.
  8. guys the election was literally six months ago
  9. my undergrad capstone course was about various efforts by totalitarian governments to create utopias, and the dystopias that resulted
  10. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/us/politics/north-carolina-supreme-court-gop-concession.html
  11. Lots of things happening at once. Lots of things happening outside my control. Lots of things happening in my control that I don't have energy for because I'm anxious about all the other things.
  12. happy birthday @QueenoftheDorks and @TwistedSister!
  13. my anxiety is also high
  14. The Trump DOJ is settling with the Ashli Babbitt estate for $30 million. What an absolute disgrace.
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