Can somebody please explain the Kagan/Sotomayor beef without using as much legal speak? Made no sense to me.
I just read that they're getting closer to actually putting a split pair, One democrat and one republican, on the 2024 ballot. Names like Manchin and Collins are some, because nobody else of any real consequence has committed to the party, and there aren't any libertarians that are appealing to enough people to make it close. I think if anytime a third party could do it, it's now, with the bullshit choices it looks like we'll have.
Sotomayor: When the Andy Warhol Foundation licensed Warhol's work of Prince based on a photograph, they violated the copyright of the photographer, because the original contract with the photographer to use the photo as a reference was limited in scope and did not cover this most recent use, especially without payment or credit. Kagan: Warhol substantially transformed the photograph, thus making it fair use and not requiring a license from the original photographer. Also the other justices are destroying art by undermining the scope of fair use. Sotomayor: The fuck did you say about me? Read these footnotes you no-legal-theory-having bitch. Kagan: Omg, why is the majority so obsessed with me, look at how much they talk about my dissent in the footnotes.
His point was that a chick does not have to be famous to be hot. Kagan has to be the worst-looking woman alive. SC judges always look like play-doh left out in the sun. Getting paid to fuck up a country constantly while not ever having to answer for it must really take it out of you. That and the blood rituals.
So because I'm way too deep in the culture wars, I've been following with morbid fascination what's been going on at New College of Florida. It's long been an unorthodox school for weirdos and liberal types, that nonetheless churned out some pretty impressive graduates. DeSantis intentionally targeted it as part of his takeover of higher education in the state, and basically gutted it. Installed a new board of trustees that included some really vile right wing shitheads, fired the President and hired a crony at double the salary, denied tenure to professors, etc. The students and faculty have been rebelling for months. Commencement was yesterday, and the trustees picked Trump COVID advisor Scott Atlas for speaker. The crowd turned their backs on him, and after his speech defending his COVID record was met with a few shouts of "This isn't about you" and "Go fuck yourself" eventually the crowd starting drowning him out with a unified chant of "Wrap. It. Up." Apparently at one point the sign language interpreter was translating the heckling instead of the speech.
So the thing his fans said would never happen but everyone else saw coming a mile away *did* happen, and the "100% neutral free speech absolutist" who offered him the platform to do it couldn't even do that right. I didn't tune in, but I heard DeSantis' prez campaign launch via Twitter Spaces was a disaster. The campaign proper will be more of the same, this guy is actually less likable than Ted Cruz, and on a Primary debate vs Trump he will wilt.
Texas GOP FINALLY files articles of impeachment for that slack-eyed piece of shit Ken Paxton. I'd post a link, but my phone is acting up. For those who don't know, he's been under indictment since 2015. And idiots still voted for him.
Looks like Jack Smith is fixing to indict Trump over the classified documents he illegally kept. Get your popcorn ready.
What's this I hear about a Mar-A-Lago employee draining the pool and accidentally flooding the room where the data servers kept all the surveillance footage?
You say that like it's not totally normal for the guy who moves boxes of classified documents to also have pool cleaning responsibilities, and for a Florida resort to be so unfamiliar with pools as to drain the pool directly into the security room.
What season of, The Walls Are Closing In are we on now? If I buy the battle pass, do I get a free subscription to The Atlantic?