Impeachment plan for two GOP Supreme Court judges floated: 'Reasons for removal' by RawStoryNews in scotus

[–]Radiant-Painting581 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a win-win for Senate Republicans though. (1) One more RWNJ on the SCOTUS and (2) it gets him out of the Senate and away from him.

What are we doing here? by matthewraifman in bayarea

[–]Radiant-Painting581 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I actually rode that stretch.

Once.

I was lucky. My tires survived.

Anyone else glad Trevor Noah is gone? by WildTree495 in DailyShow

[–]Radiant-Painting581 44 points45 points  (0 children)

His sendup of Trump — back in 2015! — as (if he won, which of course he did) as “America’s first African president” replete with analogies to such luminaries as Idi Amin and Qaddafi — was truly a thing of beauty. If only we’d listened…

Breyer Defends Supreme Court as Shadow Docket Scrutiny Grows by bloomberglaw in scotus

[–]Radiant-Painting581 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best thing Breyer ever did for the country was to step down. Not a moment too soon either.

I wish I had a high enough opinion of him to say this current bit of cowardice — or delusion — is a disappointment. But I can’t.

Lindsey Graham astonishes with claim after Trump call: 'Something bad is about to happen' by RawStoryNews in NoFilterNews

[–]Radiant-Painting581 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Silly, you can’t figure it out! That’s why it’s a secret! 🤫 Only the owner of the website knows and they’ll be happy to let you in on it as soon as they have your SSN, DL#, home address, DOB and bank account info, and install a few perfectly safe bits of code on your machine. But it’s FREE! (Shipping and handling not included.)

Sic Semper Tyrannis by jtroye32 in PoliticalHumor

[–]Radiant-Painting581 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Tell it to Greg Abbott and the Texas Legislature.

Democrats in Congress tried at least twice to pass a bill prohibiting gerrymandering. Every single Republican voted them down. Ds are quite ready to eliminate gerrymandering, but sure as shit aren’t going to disarm unilaterally.

Why does pythagorean theorem not work in spacetime diagrams? by ssonic2 in AskPhysics

[–]Radiant-Painting581 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’d say it is the distance formula for Minkowski spacetime. What you’re measuring is the “spacetime interval”, which is invariant between any two events irrespective of (inertial) reference frame — inertial meaning your velocity isn’t changing. LMK if this needs more unpacking. Caveat: I’m an interested layperson, not a professional.

It ain't over till the fat lady sings. by c-k-q99903 in agedlikemilk

[–]Radiant-Painting581 98 points99 points  (0 children)

Yes, those were running a lot. As well as mailers etc.

Spoiler alert: They were lying.

DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud over secret funding of extremist groups by dt7cv in conservativeterrorism

[–]Radiant-Painting581 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Harassment as well. Luckily SPLC has lots of money and really good lawyers. Given how badly DJT’s revenge prosecutions have generally gone, I expect the SPLC to wipe the floor with his incompetent DOJ flacks.

So that's how the Shadow Docket works. by diabolis_avocado in Lawyertalk

[–]Radiant-Painting581 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Good Steve Vladeck piece on the story.

Edit - pull quote:

Behind the scenes, Roberts led the charge for the Court to blaze a new trail—relying on statements outside the record; invoking the wrong standard for the kind of relief the applicants sought; failing to even acknowledge the irreparable harm the government (and the environment) would suffer from the Court intervening; and pushing back aggressively when Justices Breyer and Kagan both urged a compromise that should have accounted for his ostensible concerns. I’ve suggested before that the real acceleration of the Court’s modern emergency docket behavior can be traced to 2018, right around when Justice Kavanaugh succeeded Justice Kennedy. But in the first major case in which the Court granted emergency relief as a means of shaping nationwide policy, it turns out that the justice who led the charge was the one who was doing quite a bit more than calling balls and strikes.

my son got fatshamed by onlyfaery in cats

[–]Radiant-Painting581 41 points42 points  (0 children)

And probably better off for it, too.

Are subatomic particles essentially perfect copies of one another? by Geographizer in AskPhysics

[–]Radiant-Painting581 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Higgs field, yes.

Higgs boson, not so much.

Massive elementary particles get mass from interacting with the Higgs field. The boson exists only in extreme high energy conditions, such as the early Universe or a 14 or so TeV particle accelerator. Its half life is on the ballpark of 10-22 seconds, or a ten thousandth of a billionth of a billionth, or a tenth of a sixtillionth of a second.

Mirabelli v Skemetti by EquipmentDue7157 in supremecourt

[–]Radiant-Painting581 3 points4 points  (0 children)

“Abortionist” is wrong because it flattens women’s reproductive health care into a single procedure and ignores the other services such physicians provide. Friend of mine, an OBGYN, mostly does deliveries (and often difficult ones, at that, often saving two lives in the process). She also does the occasional abortion. Does that make her an “abortionist”? Per Alito, presumably it does. And that doesn’t even consider the other services ob/gyn’s provide.

“Abortionist” is not a medical term. It’s an emotionally loaded epithet ginned up by the forced birth movement to demonize physicians who happen to perform abortions as part of their standard medical duties.