Supreme Court and Avoiding the Bigger Issues
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"The US Supreme Court continues to support Donald Trump and his administration’s policies, not by ruling in favor of the big issues at stake necessarily, but by not ruling on them. The most recent case, Trump v. CASA, Inc., stops lower courts from ruling directly that presidential orders are unconstitutional. The only way of stopping More
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Norwegian pension fund divests from companies selling to Israeli military | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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#Palestine #Israel #BDS #Norway
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KLP, Norway’s largest pension fund, will no longer do business with two companies, one US, the other German.Yarno Ritzen (Al Jazeera)
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It's been over a year since gave up on Facebook and started dabbling in the Fediverse. After the initial excitement of talking to myself on two different Mastodon instances, trying out Pixelfed and PeerTube, and setting up this blog, i soon became bored because nobody i knew had yet come across to the distributed way of doing things.
And so i pretty much ignored the entire thing, until a few weeks ago when Elon Musk bought Twitter for $44bn and promptly set about to destroy it. Suddenly loads of my friends on the birdapp were talking about Mastodon, sharing their new identities even though they hadn't posted anything yet, and asking me what mine was.
So it felt like a good time to come back to it. I tidied up my Mastodon profile, added a verified link to my website, installed a new app: MetaText is so much nicer than the standard Mastodon app. And i sort of just started posting again.
Slowly and surely, some of my friends also started posting. I've had meaningful replies and conversations! Even mainstream media is now talking about Mastodon! It looks like this thing is actually happening for real. And it's all thanks to Elon Musk!
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It’s almost remarkable how much ink has been spilled about Irish rap trio Kneecap.
The act, whose music celebrates drug use and puts down colonialist authorities in equal measure, became internationally infamous after a Coachella set that broadcast their views of the ongoing war in Gaza to the world. An onstage graphic that claimed Israel was committing a genocide funded by the United States landed the band in hot water. Their visas were revoked, and critics scoured their past performances for further things to get up in arms about.
When a video was found of member Mo Chara waving a Hezbollah flag he was handed from the audience, the frontman was quickly brought up on terror charges in the United Kingdom. Given the controversy around the act, and the UK’s past stances on broadcasting Irish Republicans, it might not be surprising that the BBC blacked out the band’s set from its regular feed of the annual Glastonbury Festival. ...
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#music #kneecap #palestine #rap
Irish rap trio Kneecap aren't bothered by all the heat their pro-Palestine actions have generated.Alex Galbraith (Salon.com)
Unsung observatory worker was UK’s first professional female astronomer, experts say | Astronomy | The Guardian
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"But unlike the celebrated German astronomer Caroline Herschel, who was granted a salary by King George III to assist her brother William in his work as the court astronomer a century earlier, Walker’s work as a trailblazing female astronomer has been neglected."
Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy is trying to find a photo of Annie Walker, who died in 1940, to give her star billingDonna Ferguson (The Guardian)
Israel-Gaza war live: Israeli forces kill 23, Gaza authorities say, amid IDF warning of major offensive in north
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"At least three children among the dead from airstrikes at five locations around Gaza, agency says, as tens of thousands of Palestinians flee Gaza City"
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La fascisation rampante.
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New head of Britain’s MI6 is granddaughter of Ukrainian Nazi mass murderer - World Socialist Web Site
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Handwritten letters to his Nazi superiors boast of Dobrowolski “personally” taking part “in the extermination of the Jews” and killing hundreds of Ukrainian resistance fighters.World Socialist Web Site
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The state is comprised of people and fictions. It is a fragile thing.
For this reason, authoritarians must first and foremost put forth an *image* of a strong state, because if the fictions--borders, nationality, the connection between state violence and justice--all are revealed for what they truly are, the people defect, and that's that.
A border does not exist except in the minds of those who have accepted it as truth, without questioning. A border is not different from a national identity: a falsity, but an important one if you're trying to pit one group against another so you can stay in power.
Don't fall for it.
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Dunno if it would meet your needs, but I've been using Input Remapper for binding macros to various key presses and mouse buttons under Wayland. It does prompt for root access, but it's a GUI. It supports any input method, as far as I can tell. It even supports my tablet.
I use it to bind stuff like hold(key(BTN_LEFT).wait(100)) to some button to repeatedly left click while I'm holding that button down.
🎮 ⌨ An easy to use tool to change the behaviour of your input devices. - sezanzeb/input-remapperGitHub
Now that all can see that lawfulness under fascist America is simply a badly-written play & since it's clear that our highest court is, in fact, the most corrupt one, I was reminded by these statements at the close of Pussy Riot's trial in 2012.
It really does feel like we must all rise together. Authoritarians know who their friends are, but do we understand that we must lift each other up, across false boundaries, against the death cult of old men in power today?
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![A screenshot of part of the statement by Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot, reading:
"In this framework, people begin to place high value on meaningless trifles. In prison these trifles are things like a tablecloth or plastic dishes that can only be procured with the personal permission of the head warden. Outside prison, accordingly, you have social status, which people also value a great deal. This has always been surprising to me. Another element [of this process] is becoming aware of this government functioning as a performance, a play. That in reality turns into chaos. The surface-level organization of the regime reveals the disorganization and inefficiency of most of its activities. And it’s obvious that this doesn’t lead to any real governance. On the contrary, people start to feel an ever-stronger sense of being lost—including in time and space. In jail and all over the country, people don’t know where to turn with this or that question. That’s why they turn to the boss of the jail. And outside the prison, correspondingly, they go to Putin, the top boss."](https://friendica.eskimo.com/photo/preview/640/7835952 "A screenshot of part of the statement by Maria Alyokhina of Pussy Riot, reading:
\"In this framework, people begin to place high value on meaningless trifles. In prison these trifles are things like a tablecloth or plastic dishes that can only be procured with the personal permission of the head warden. Outside prison, accordingly, you have social status, which people also value a great deal. This has always been surprising to me. Another element [of this process] is becoming aware of this government functioning as a performance, a play. That in reality turns into chaos. The surface-level organization of the regime reveals the disorganization and inefficiency of most of its activities. And it’s obvious that this doesn’t lead to any real governance. On the contrary, people start to feel an ever-stronger sense of being lost—including in time and space. In jail and all over the country, people don’t know where to turn with this or that question. That’s why they turn to the boss of the jail. And outside the prison, correspondingly, they go to Putin, the top boss.\"")
On August 8, the three members of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot delivered their closing statements at the Moscow Khamovniki District Court.n+1
Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative MatrixCaitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
我爸的朋友，原本已经离婚了的。现在又要去和前妻住一起。
因为，儿子要出国了
就把房子卖了，给儿子200万，带出国。让儿子在那边买房子
我妈：那不是还有160万，足够买一套小的，装修完还有的剩。为什么要和前妻住一起。
我爸：那不是还要考虑，儿子将来还有需要钱吗
我妈：那是无底洞了
我爸：他老婆到没心事的，每个月退休工资吃光用光还不够，她两个侄子每个月一人一千，一共两千的补贴她
我妈：我命苦 你生活费都不给我，我自己工资全部贴家用，没钱出去玩
我爸：。。。。。
我身边的两个哥都是上海这边房子卖了，海外买房
我认识的一位姐，人在海外定居。
让自己妈把房子卖了（老伴死了）。钱留着，她妈自己养老用。到保姆老家去养老（无法自理）
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Me falta acá en mastodon más cuentas que compartan arte: pinturas, ilustraciones, esculturas… tanto antiguas como modernas (si puede ser con ALT bien usado).
Saben?
A man takes photos of the sculptures in Los Angeles, the United States, on June 28, 2025. A ceremonen.people.cn
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Nearly 20% of cancer drugs defective in 4 African nations
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Across Africa, cancer medications have been found to be substandard or counterfeit. That means people are being given medicine that may not work, or that could even cause them harm.Matthew Ward Agius (Deutsche Welle)
Accomplishment for the evening. Screenshot of netbsd running on a Gateway NE 522 Series laptop with AMD E1-2500 cpu.
It's been a while, so took me a bit to get pkgin working. Had to reference the netbsd docs to bootstrap pkgsrc and install pkgin, as I didn't do that step during the installation process.
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¿Creéis que Cerdá es un héroe de la izquierda?
Quizir, para salir de esta Perrosanshes va a tener que aparentar ser más izquierdoso que Lenin.
Pero eso YA LO HIZO. (Perdón por el enlace)
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jaja, pero eso es un ritual, como en padrenuestro.
El peaje a pagar por tener el "socialista" en el nombre.
Just do want to say briefly that Bob Vylan saying “Death to the IDF” was an important, strategic and, yes, brave thing to do. Of course it pushed the limit of what is acceptable, was shocking to hear at Glastonbury (i was shocked!), but that was the point.
He single-handedly shifted the Overton Window on what is said. And he was right: The IDF is a violent war organisation that kills unarmed civilians on a daily basis and should indeed come to an end. We all know this, actually. #Gaza
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unpopuläre these: der westen und alle politiker*innen in charge haben den verstand verloren.
erweiterte these: alle, die nicht sehen, dass der westen und alle politiker*innen in charge den verstand verloren haben, haben den verstand verloren.
The Book of Shaders
Link: thebookofshaders.com/
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Gentle step-by-step guide through the abstract and complex universe of Fragment Shaders.The Book of Shaders
Hay un motivo por el que resulta difícil de definir el fascismo y es que casi todas las demás ideologías se definen por lo que proponen, por lo que quieren conseguir. En cambio el fascismo se define por lo que odian. Sus objetivos en realidad son difusos y no están claros.
Se habla siempre de "volver" a una supuesta "grandeza anterior", de "patriotismo" y "viejas tradiciones" pero nunca explican exactamente cómo hacerlo. No hay un plan organizado ni un proyecto claro.
Sus propuestas solo se concretan y se vuelven claras cuando hablan sobre lo que odian. Sus propuestas son siempre destructivas, no constructivas.
No quieren conseguir nada, lo que quieren es que los demás no lo hagan.
Why value never penetrates your mind.
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What is clear is that as long as one operates from a dynamic of content conquest, whether as a consumer, reader, listener or producer, author, composer,… the potential value of this content c…Notes & Silence
Buenos y tórridos días. Mientras estoy con el café, ya con 27,6 grados a las ocho menos diez de la mañana, veo esto y me dan más ganas de salir corriendo. Mientras en Madrid cierran el retiro y solo se puede estar fresco en un centro comercial o en casa pagando aire acondicionado non stop, en Bilbao ponen más parques con tumbonas (si, estos ya no tienen bancos, sino tumbonas para relajarse en medio de jardines) y duchas para refrescarse. Que los disfruten.
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Lo que nació como respuesta a las restricciones del COVID se ha convertido en una alternativa veraniega que triunfa por su accesibilidad y cercanía.Iñaki Serrano (Deia)
Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) denounces the re-launching of SPREE Scheme, introduction of Amnesty Scheme 2025 and reduction of damages payable by the employer as schemes decriminalising the offences under Employees State Insurance Act 1948 and…Centre of Indian Trade Unions
Traiter quelqu’un sans égard est parfois une marque d’affection…
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Traiter quelqu’un sans égard est parfois une marque d’affection… de la même manière que les ellipses de langage indiquent une connivence… si l’on ôte parfois le décorum affectif autour des én…Notes & Silence
Lorsque l’on dit : « Dieu est grand »...
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Lorsque l’on dit : « Dieu est grand »,il ne s’agit pas tant, en réalité, de montrer un surcroît de sensibilité obséquieux : « regarde-moi, Seigneur, je dis que Tu es grand, je reconnais Ta grandeur…Notes & Silence
La alcaldesa de El Prat, Alba Bou, recuerda que el municipio mantiene su rechazo frontal a la propuesta y que no descarta llegar a instancias europeas con el objetivo de parar el proyectoelDiario.es Catalunya (ElDiario.es)
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作为一个没怎么了解过这方面知识的人，很想听听大家对中医中药的看法。
网上刷到不管什么疾病的内容，下面都会有评论推荐看中医吃中药，本来觉得有点咯噔，因为他们说话的方式总给我一种在传销的感觉。但包括身边的人在内推崇中医的人越来越多了，我就疑惑了，大家推崇中医，到底是因为很多人真的用它治好了病，还是一种意识形态宣传的结果。
韩国日本也会有人用汉方药，我觉得传统医学本身并没有那么可恨，但它一旦和其他东西绑定在一起，就变味了，所以现在有一种很奇怪的感觉。反中医的理由我当然也听过，并且觉得挺有道理，想在毛象再听一听香油的意见。
Y, digo yo, ¿realmente es imprescindible barrer las calles a las 4 de la tarde en plena hora de calor?
Esto se resolvía si las empresas realmente tuvieran responsabilidad penal sobre las muertes de sus trabajadores. Porque todos sabemos que a FCC no le va a pasar absolutamente nada.
@disisdeguey porque no hay consecuencias. ¿Tú crees que alguna de las empresas que no permitieron a sus trabajadores irse a casa en la DANA va a tener que pagar algo o va a ver a los responsables que tomaron dicha decisión en la cárcel? No la va a pisar ni Mazón.
Matar a personas trabajadoras en este país sale gratis.
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More than 56% of violent deaths during the Israeli genocide of Palestinians have been women, children, or the elderly—more than double the proportions seen in previous wars. The pre-print of a new study led by Prof.Orinoco Tribune - News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
Buenos y antisionistas días ✨
El genocidio sionista sigue, matan sin parar a personas con hambre que van a recoger alimentos. Día tras día, semana tras semana. No seas indiferente.
Introduction Too many political interviews and debates miss the real questions. They aim for theatre, not scrutiny.Funding the Future
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I love the fact that, in their efforts to shut down Kneecap and Bob Vylan, media orgs have exponentially increased the reach of their music.
#Kneecap #BobVylan #Music #israel #Gaza #FreePalestine #FuckColonisation #DeathToTheIDF
About two months ago, an agreement was reached to establish several distribution centers in Gaza for food and humanitarian aid, supervised by a group ofAmira Al-Zaneen (CounterPunch.org)
President Trump’s so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” now on the floor of the Senate, is the most dangerous piece of legislation in the modern history of ourBernie Sanders (CounterPunch.org)
Gaza (Quds News Network)- The Israeli military has issued new forced displacement threats for several areas in northern Gaza amid heavy bombardment. Israeli forces “will operate with intense force inEditing Team (Quds News Network)
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The confidence trickster was at it again on his visit to The Hague, reluctantly meeting members of the overly large family that is NATO. President DonaldBinoy Kampmark (CounterPunch.org)
People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York overRalph Nader (CounterPunch.org)
LIVE: Israel bombards Gaza City after ordering Palestinians to flee | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- Meningitis cases in Gaza rise to 35 during Israel’s aid blockade
- Israeli cabinet to meet again as Netanyahu predicts ‘dramatic’ week
#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
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Israel launches 50 aerial attacks across Gaza, with at least 72 Palestinians killed on Sunday.Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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Israel’s siege on the Palestinians is leaving the population starving, and Albanese lambasts other nations for not stepping up and completing their obligations under international law.Chris Hedges (CounterPunch.org)
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is planning to come to Washington in the next week or so, and probably will make his case for regime change in Iran.Melvin Goodman (CounterPunch.org)
J.K. Rowling Destroyed Trans Ideology With One Savage Tweet
Famed “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling became a vocal critic of transgender ideology back in 2019, when she supported a woman who lost her job for saying that biological sex is immutable. In 2020, Rowling’s tweets and essay argued that prioritizing “gender identity” over biological sex threatens women’s rights and safety, drawing from her experience as an abuse survivor. She faced fierce backlash, was branded a “TERF” by activists, and even endured death threats, but stood firm.Rowling’s stance has only grown more defiant as she continues to call out the bullying tactics of trans activism and the erasure of women. Despite relentless attacks from activists, media outlets, and even cast members from “Harry Potter,” her unapologetic wit and unwavering resolve have made her a leading voice of resistance against a radical ideology that silences dissent. This week, she once again proved why she remains a formidable force in the culture war over gender, giving courage to countless women who’ve been too afraid to speak out.
Apparently some people have been attacking Rowling by saying she looks like a “trans woman.” Her response to such attacks says it all:
Attention all men telling me I look like a trans woman: I’m sensing that this isn’t meant as a compliment. In fact, the implication seems to be that trans women look male, or odd, or ugly. This is appallingly transphobic and I’ll thank you to take your bigotry off my timeline.
Guest Post by Matt Margolis Famed “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling became a vocal critic of transgender ideology back in 2019, when she supported a woman who lost her job for saying that biological sex is immutable.www.theburningplatform.com
Now he must be supported in big numbers in spite of the attempts of the scared right wing to smear and bring him down
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The vicious reaction to his New York mayoral success tells us this: the establishment will not countenance mainstream voters making common cause with Muslims, says Guardian columnist Nesrine MalikNesrine Malik (The Guardian)
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Trump threatens to cut off #NewYorkCity funds if #ZohranMamdani ‘doesn’t behave’
#Democratic mayoral candidate denies #Trump’s accusation that he is communist while reaffirming push to tax wealthy
from #TheGuardian #Guardian
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Sun 29 Jun 2025 13.06 EDT
"#Mamdani said he was inspired by the #US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, who once remarked: “Call it democracy or call it #DemocraticSocialism. There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.”
He then reiterated his intent to raise taxes on #NewYork’s wealthiest as part of a campaign pledge “to shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods”.
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality..."
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#TaxTheRich
#FreePublicBuses
#FreeChildcare
#USA #USPolitics #politics #NYC
#news #press
Democratic mayoral candidate denies Trump’s accusation that he is communist while reaffirming push to tax wealthyEdward Helmore (The Guardian)
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Just in case anyone was still considering visiting the USA:
"Blood-sucking ticks that trigger a bizarre allergy to meat in the people they bite are exploding in number and spreading across the US, to the extent that they could cover the entire eastern half of the country and infect millions of people, experts have warned."
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Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for themOliver Milman (The Guardian)
And then never cloned humans 🤔
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More ....Justice Jackson on birthright ruling's impact
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn’t mince words in her dissent against the ruling that limits federal judges from issuing nationwide orders, a decision that could clear the path for Trump’s birthright citizenship executive order to take hold.
#Canada ditches tax on tech giants in bid to restart #US trade talks
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With digital services tax rescinded, Donald Trump and Mark Carney agree to resume negotiations with a view to agreeing a deal by 21 July
Neo liberals are just as bad as hardcore pro-Soviet hardliners, if not worse.
All neoliberals did was make capitalism suck even more than it already did. At least the Soviet Union was an upgrade from the feudal backwardness that came before it in history.
The only reason people don't write op eds about deaths from capitalism or build memorials to its victims is because the West is more effective at enacting mass violence and using the illusion of democracy to conceal the totalitarian abuses they inflict (primarily on the African, Asian, and South American continents)
The Soviet Union had a brutal and repressive system. The Soviet Union was worse at it than the Western European powers that invented the game, and that's why it collapsed.
Stalin could not beat the brutality of Washington, or Jefferson, or Churchill, or Reagan. He simply couldn't. His brand of despotism was too blatant and too ineffective in its deceptiveness to continue beyond a couple generations.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has denounced Donald Trump’s “ridiculous” anti-Iran rhetoric as a futile effort to undermine Iranian officialsPressTV
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The “IDF” is carrying out a literal holocaust in Gaza right now. “Death to the IDF” is a moderate demand.
#BobbyVylan spoke for millions. ✊🏾
#Gaza #Palestine #Syria #iran #lebanon #Genocide #geopolitics
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#SettlerColonialism
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I think the one thing I am most angry and least likely to ever forgive Chump and the GOP for is…making me have to learn all this crap about the law.
I was happy. I didn’t need to know anything about habeus, I didn’t need to know about injunctions, about “stays”, about class actions, about stir dececis (or however that’s spelled) and the rest of that crap… I didn’t need to know.
I knew about Miranda and that was about all I really needed…
Happier, simpler times.
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