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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • What exactly does “fighting” look like to you in this context? You keep repeating that word without explaining what you mean by it. Because I kind of feel like this is what it looks like: Making plans to regain control of the government and try to stop this sort of situation from ever happening again. It might seem boring and too little too late, but it’s exactly how the Republican party got where they are. They spent decades planning and scheming and stacking the deck in their favor. You can’t undo that overnight.






  • At public events, some Supreme Court justices have defended their use of the emergency docket as a legitimate response to the increase in swift presidential policy-making by executive order, as opposed to legislation passed through Congress. Offering extensive reasoning or explanation, they argued, would risk locking the court into a position that might not turn out to be its final view.

    I could almost accept this reasoning on the vagueness of their rulings. But the fact that, in nearly every case, they’ve allowed the administration to keep doing things that are causing massive upheaval in the lives of thousands of people seems at direct odds with such a conservative attitude.