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scoob has been practicing his kiss face

SCOTUS announced three of its remaining opinions. A jurisdiction case (Mallory v. Norfolk Southern - 5-4 Justice Gorsuch for the majority), a free speech case (Counterman v. Colorado - 7-2 Justice Kagan for the majority), and the big redistricting whammy Moore v. Harper. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-1271_3f14.pdf Moore v. Harper was the case where NC's GOP legislature argued that state courts have no authority to block partisan gerrymandering because legislatures have "plenary" authority to redistrict. There was a whole lot of pants-shitting on this one, as Chief Justice Roberts wrote the Rucho decision a couple years ago that said partisan gerrymandering claims fall outside the reach of federal courts. Roberts wrote the majority opinion in Moore, joined by the libs, Kav, and ACB: Kavanaugh wrote a concurrence: Basically, they're saying that state courts can act on elections issues, but the federal courts can say "hold it you've gone too far". Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito dissented. Seven cases left to go, next opinion day is Thursday and presumably one more day after that.

lol just listen https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1673487904465616896

https://twitter.com/Santos4Congress/status/1673493762755149824

I'm still in the honeymoon period where I feel like I'm massively benefitting from the reduced commute, but there's definitely cons around the lack of forced exercise.

I fall so far behind in opening/giving gifts I was recently given a parking permit to park in my office building's garage and that's killed my fifteen minute walk to/from my car. PoGo suffering immensely.

There are ten opinions left and this is the final week of the term. I believe decisions will be announced on Tuesday and Friday. Here's a short summary of issues to clench over this week: https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-student-loans-gay-rights-elections-a3007709350cd1606d5ce9ac4de957a6

also https://twitter.com/Seinfeld2000/status/1672667136270147586

https://twitter.com/maxseddon/status/1672692778604670986

I am truly conflicted

Honestly the real nuclear question is whether he's going to authorize the use of tactical nukes within Russian territory to wipe out the insurgency, and as of now it seems like the answer is no.

Putin's address: https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1672508593969549312

The SAG-AFTRA authorized a strike, but they haven't gotten to that point yet.

They've been feuding forever, pretty sure that demand (which was like the nuclear option) was followed by Prigozhin showboating by sending them a signed contract that would do the reverse.

Here's the ISW's summary, I linked the last tweet so you have to scroll to the top and read down https://twitter.com/TheStudyofWar/status/1672418286397706240

https://twitter.com/macrotargeting/status/1672378183285350400

how does this work, is everything collectively the 'submission' or is one piece on each side the submission?

Here is the reddit feed on russia/ukraine: https://www.reddit.com/live/18hnzysb1elcs Keep in mind that (a) absolutely nothing is confirmed (aka physical troop movement/conflict) beyond that both sides have declared what they've declared, and (b) everyone is taking it seriously

yeah apparently the navy knew the whole time https://www.thedailybeast.com/navy-system-detected-titanic-sub-implosion-days-ago-us-official-says

Honestly with all everything related to the ASMB's anniversary etc., I kinda had that thought that it would be cool to connect more with like-interested people from similar places, like Toonzone. So hopefully we can enrich your internet experience just as you enrich the conversation. Little by little we all come together.

https://twitter.com/AnicaSeelie/status/1671489922232926208?s=20

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