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MYSTERIOUS: 6 - What They Never Told You

Part I—A Response to Professor Jed Shugerman on Slate in 2017, and his most recent 2024 Tweet Thread(s), About The 1793 Hamilton Document!

Professor Shugerman's argument that the 1793 Hamilton Document, that is, a list of "every person holding any civil office or employment under the United States, (except the judges)," was intended to ensure compliance with the Constitution's Sinecure Clause lacks support.

Reason

Prof. Rick Hasen (UCLA) on Trump's Brief in the Section 3 Disqualification Case

From his Slate column today: There are many ways that Trump could win in the Supreme Court. For example, the court could accept the First Amendment defense Trump has offered. Or it could agree with Trump that states can only consider disqualifying candidates under Section 3 if Congress passes a…

Reason

No, Slate, An Eight-Speed Transmission Doesn't Mean A Car Is Massively Powerful

The Ford F-150 has a 10-speed automatic. The Bugatti Chiron has seven forward gears.

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Should 'Sensitivity Training' Be Forced on Southwest Airlines?

A Texas judge ordered that the airline submit to training on the rights of religious believers after losing a religious discrimination lawsuit.

Reason

Trump and Tucker Carlson: ridiculing Biden’s health and revelling in criminal charges

The controversial broadcaster Tucker Carlson asked Donald Trump in an interview released last night if he’s worried someone will try to have him killed.

The Week

Lizzo: has she betrayed the sisterhood?

She is the classically trained flautist who has become a pop superstar on the back of her joyful, inclusive, body-positive image. So the allegations made last week against Lizzo have come as a “bombshell”, said Nadira Goffe on Slate.

The Week

Aisha Harris' 'Wannabe' offers stream-of-consciousness-style musings on the pop culture that shaped her

"It's nearly impossible to escape this world untouched by pop culture: moviegoing, TV watching, music listening," writes pop culture critic Aisha Harris in the introduction to her book, "Wannabe." "It doesn't all just happen to us — it helps shape us and informs how we move about the world, whether…

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40 Years Ago, An Infamous Sci-Fi Movie Changed Hollywood Forever

No one remembers the movie. Everyone remembers the aftermath.

Inverse

Why GOP justices are so whiny

The Federalist Society keeps SCOTUS judges in a perpetually whiny state

Salon

Unbound Gravel and the evolution of gravel bikes

How gravel bikes started tame, got wild, then returned to where they started

Cycling News

6 of the best Thailand holiday destinations for luxury retreats and budget breaks

Experience the ‘Land of Smiles’ in all its authentic glory, from jungle rafts to cosmopolitan hotels

The Independent UK

Diane Feinstein denies she was ever absent from US Senate after months spent recovering from shingles

Feinstein faces calls to resign due to questions around her cognitive abilities

The Independent UK

Dianne Feinstein: oldest serving senator says she ‘hasn’t been gone’ despite absence

The 89-year-old legislator insisted she had been working when questioned by reporters on Tuesday after being gone for three months

The Guardian - US

Some Less-Tentative Thoughts On Abortion And Religious Liberty, One Year Later

On June 20, 2022, I published a post titled Some Tentative Thoughts On The Jewish Claim To A "Religious Abortion." I started thinking about that post several weeks earlier. I only published it when I did to get ahead of the imminent Dobbs decision, which eventually was released on June…

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The politics of disposability

On the burdens of bearing witness

Zenger

Stephen King No Longer Takes Twitter Very Seriously As Elon Musk Now Owns The Platform

Other celebrities including Elton John and Jim Carrey quit the platform as King has called Twitter ‘very strange’.

Fortune

Stephen King slams Elon Musk’s ‘weird’ revamp of Twitter’s blue check marks: ‘I get paid to write. I don’t have to pay to do it’

Stephen King calls Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue subscription “kind of a head-scratcher.”

The Week

Donald Trump’s most serious legal challenges

Donald Trump’s growing list of criminal indictments is putting his “time-honoured strategy of delay, denial and distraction to its ultimate test”, said CNN. The former president, who is seeking re-election next year, will have to run his campaign while fighting “converging legal battles”.

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Salon

Critics scoff at Clarence Thomas defense

Right-wing Supreme Court justice "broke the law, and it isn't particularly close," legal analysts say

The Guardian - US

In Florida, parents are always right – even when they think a Michelangelo is porn

A principal was fired after a Renaissance art class was shown David in the latest example of the state’s censorship crusade

The Independent UK

Alabama Republican wants to proudly enshrine the AR-15 as America’s ‘national gun’

AR-15 dubbed ‘weapon of choice of the worst mass murderers’ by CBS’s 60 Minutes

The Independent UK

George Santos’ campaign spent more than $26,000 at Italian restaurant – enough for 1,700 Margherita pizzas

Santos reportedly ate meals exactly a cent short of threshold at which spending reciepts are submitted

Irish Mirror

Screen Ireland announces huge slate of TV and film productions for 2023

44 projects, spanning a multitude of genres, will be released this year

The Independent UK

Kyrsten Sinema is selling clothes and athletic gear on Facebook Marketplace, reports say

The independent Arizona senator is a prolific Marketplace user

Reason

What Happened When Mark Joseph Stern Interviewed Judge William Pryor

Slate's legal correspondent questioned the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit about the Federalist Society.

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