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3 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Middlin' Days Open Thread · 0 replies · +2 points

Ugh I saw the spangram first but didn't put the s on the end.
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6 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Middlin' Days Open Thread · 1 reply · +10 points

Gateway Pundit is filing for bankruptcy to try to delay and avoid damages from their election lies and defaming two Georgia election workers.

9 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Middlin' Days Open Thread · 0 replies · +4 points

It's an extraordinary situation. Here the Attorney General and Solicitor General of Oklahoma are saying that Glossip's death sentence must be overturned but the Oklahoma courts are trying to force his execution:

Both the State of Oklahoma and the current Attorney General have resisted earlier efforts by Richard Glossip to attack his first-degree murder conviction and capital sentence. Last year, however, the State uncovered evidence — long suppressed in violation of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) — revealing not only that the State’s one indispensable witness against Glossip lied on the stand, but that the prosecution knowingly elicited his false testimony and then failed to correct the record, in violation of Napue v. Illinois, 360 U.S. 264 (1959). In light of that troubling evidence of grave prosecutorial misconduct, the State initiated an extraordinary independent counsel investigation and, based on the evidence, made the difficult but necessary decision to confess error before the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals and waive any procedural obstacles to adjudication of the Brady and Napue issues.

Rather than accept the State’s confession, the OCCA rejected it in a remarkable and remarkably flawed decision. The OCCA dismissed the Brady and Napue violations by suggesting that Glossip somehow was aware of the withheld evidence during his trial and that the critical testimony was not actually “false” because the witness was “more than likely in denial of his mental health disorders.” JA991. On top of all that, the OCCA gave no weight to the State’s confession of prosecutorial misconduct and refused to even honor the State’s waiver of procedural obstacles. [...]

9 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Middlin' Days Open Thread · 0 replies · +9 points

JFC why do some people (no doubt this pool has a very high % of white men) think it's their job to fucking enforce their perceived norms on the road? It's one thing to yell at or flip somebody off, but an entirely different thing to use their car to try to control you. Utterly reckless on his part, and completely deranged, toxic entitlement.

10 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Middlin' Days Open Thread · 1 reply · +5 points

In all the cases the Supreme Court has heard, I wonder if there's ever been anything like this before.

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21 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Middlin' Days Open Thread · 0 replies · +3 points

Oh my! Too spectacular for words!

21 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Middlin' Days Open Thread · 10 replies · +3 points

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23 hours ago @ Crasstalk - Kicking Off The Week O... · 0 replies · +2 points

About 4 months, assuming courts don't interfere.
More precisely, 120 days after publication in the Federal Register. Not sure how long that part will take, but I think it's usually quite short, just a few days, after an agency has promulgated the final rule.

1 day ago @ Crasstalk - Kicking Off The Week O... · 0 replies · +6 points

1 day ago @ Crasstalk - Kicking Off The Week O... · 1 reply · +6 points

A couple of raw peanuts in the shell will make you their human.

ETA: Here's that thread I was talking about earlier. Unfortunately you need a bluesky account to view it. Best viewed on a laptop/desktop IMO. https://bsky.app/profile/carlbergstrom.com/post/3...

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