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RIP to a legend
crystal meth?
03.07.2025 23:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am once again confronting the fact that over the course of a decade of being called a hysterical Elon Musk hater I never came close to imagining the depth of evil he was actually capable of.
02.07.2025 20:33 — 👍 2066 🔁 553 💬 37 📌 5Painter of light
Driver of drunk
The cast of the television show Hey Dude but with their eyes blued and little crude tubes drawn on their face making them look like Fremen from Dune
Hey Dune
28.06.2025 21:54 — 👍 389 🔁 67 💬 9 📌 7![The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an
unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative
task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And,
indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is
imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia
of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that—
and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand
the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to
achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing
judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and
not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources
of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s
its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreih3qdtlloz3yhggypbtwiveqdgzzfgapsnetvq7qsni7wfmyuovoi@jpeg)
The majority’s contention that I reject “ ‘pure textualism’ [a]s insufficiently pliable to secure the result [I] seek,” ante, at 10, stems from an unfortunate misunderstanding of the judicial role. Our interpretative task is not to seek our own desired results (whatever they may be). And, indeed, it is precisely because of this solemn duty that, in my view, it is imperative that we interpret statutes consistent with all relevant indicia of what Congress wanted, as best we can ascertain its intent. A methodology that includes consideration of Congress’s aims does exactly that— and no more. By contrast, pure textualism’s refusal to try to understand the text of a statute in the larger context of what Congress sought to achieve turns the interpretive task into a potent weapon for advancing judicial policy preferences. By “finding” answers in ambiguous text, and not bothering to consider whether those answers align with other sources of statutory meaning, pure textualists can easily disguise their own preferences as “textual” inevitabilities. So, really, far from being “insufficiently pliable,” I think pure textualism is incessantly malleable—that’s its primary problem—and, indeed, it is certainly somehow always flexible enough to secure the majority’s desired outcome.
Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
20.06.2025 14:37 — 👍 3990 🔁 1102 💬 127 📌 150![• Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of Big Star, recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread'' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it"). [31]
• The Monkees' Micky Dolenz said that when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon, and Harry Nilsson, Wilson played "Shortenin' Bread" on piano "over and over again". [291
• Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended, contumacious Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room proclaiming, "I gotta get out of here, man. This guy is nuts!"[32]
• Musician Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson considered "Shortenin' Bread" to be the greatest song ever written. According to Cooper, when he asked why, Wilson responded
"I don't know, it's just the best song ever written." [33]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreiezoi2xwo35alw7yhztpyuwpiuikzdsnj63tek5fzaspvfj2dxgve@jpeg)
• Alex Chilton, the former lead singer of Big Star, recalled receiving middle-of-the-night phone calls from Wilson asking him to sing on a recording of "Shortenin' Bread'' ("He was telling me I have the perfect voice for it"). [31] • The Monkees' Micky Dolenz said that when he tripped on LSD with Wilson, John Lennon, and Harry Nilsson, Wilson played "Shortenin' Bread" on piano "over and over again". [291 • Biographer Peter Ames Carlin wrote that Elton John and Iggy Pop were bemused by an extended, contumacious Wilson-led singalong of "Shortenin' Bread", leading Pop to flee the room proclaiming, "I gotta get out of here, man. This guy is nuts!"[32] • Musician Alice Cooper recalled that Wilson considered "Shortenin' Bread" to be the greatest song ever written. According to Cooper, when he asked why, Wilson responded "I don't know, it's just the best song ever written." [33]
RIP big dog
11.06.2025 17:28 — 👍 3681 🔁 990 💬 46 📌 78Bro they lobotomized your aunt
22.04.2025 23:57 — 👍 10463 🔁 1955 💬 238 📌 37
Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov) https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im.. immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. No information is available for this page. Learn why
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.
The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
"Please get rid of Elon," I whispered to the little paw. "Replace him with anyone. I don't care who." A finger curled.
03.04.2025 15:52 — 👍 2411 🔁 361 💬 12 📌 101. Real Genius
2. The Doors
3. Heat
4. Tombstone
5. Willow
Silicon Valley is the worst of the worst. A bunch of jumped up drug addicts thinking that giving each other billions in Saudi wealth fund money for useless apps makes them John Galt
27.03.2025 15:05 — 👍 87 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0
Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
20.02.2025 12:56 — 👍 15322 🔁 4704 💬 1338 📌 519
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Administrative Law is holding a hearing at 10 ET on “Reining in the Administrative State”:
judiciary.house.gov/committee-ac...
I’m the minority witness. My testimony offers some thoughts about reining in the *real* executive branch abuses we’re currently seeing.
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
10.02.2025 21:12 — 👍 6993 🔁 2896 💬 116 📌 127
just finished The Strange World of Gurney Slade. really neat little TV series from the early 60s about a sitcom character who walks out of the show and has a series of surreal encounters, is put on trial for not being entertaining, meets his actor, etc.
08.02.2025 17:22 — 👍 291 🔁 25 💬 7 📌 2Elon is president and now Luka is gone? Does god hate me specifically?
02.02.2025 13:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin
02.02.2025 01:07 — 👍 33868 🔁 7964 💬 208 📌 176"Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed."
press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago...
me to my dog, doing something he shouldn't: 'that's a hard no from me big dog - hahahaha'
my dog to me: 'kill your neighbor'
This thread contains a nonexclusive list of phrases that you do not ever want to see a court direct at you:
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1: "Defendants' arguments...invoke the time-loop in the film 'Groundhog Day.'"
2: "Defendants' contention...is pure sophistry."
DJ Donkey Punch was a rapist?!
07.09.2023 18:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Farewell to Gary Wright, a proggy classic rocker who had a pair of sentimental synth-rock hits in the 1970s with “Dream Weaver” and “Love is Alive.”
05.09.2023 00:32 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1
Archived perma.cc link: https://perma.cc/L5KA-NQ9B
16.08.2023 12:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
With the passing of Robbie Robertson today, I would like to remember him with a solo song and not a song he wrote for The Band. It just feels more right.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OaXJYBHoxuo
Painting of Sisyphus pushing a boulder up a hill with the caption “keeping my fucking glasses clean”
bruh I’m tired
01.08.2023 10:35 — 👍 2393 🔁 746 💬 45 📌 48
