Posts by jonberger@sfba.social
(DIR) Post #AuUMYEdrRQtRGSuBdY by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-05-26T14:34:21Z
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@Nonilex And here's CNN doing their "gosh, that was certainly strongly worded" thing about this posting. If Biden . . . oh, never mind. It's just pointless.https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/26/politics/trump-memorial-day-political-opponents
(DIR) Post #AucnL3zfRAteUPujeC by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-05-30T16:12:10Z
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@Nonilex @indivisibleteam According to you, abortion results in the death of a fully-formed human being with all the exact same rights and privileges as adults. But this human being was going to die anyway, so no problem. Do I have that right?
(DIR) Post #Av9pqQkyrSkc0dWysC by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-06-15T14:45:46Z
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@Nonilex Wow. UFC. Damn. I assumed it would be bad, but I never thought it would be THAT bad. Of course, I could say the same about both Trump presidencies.
(DIR) Post #AvotH5HFDjdZgwYg7M by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-07-05T07:48:07Z
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Misha showing off his lovely brown markings.#caturday #CatsOfMastodon
(DIR) Post #Avzh9dqpjIjvtRRsh6 by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-07-10T15:13:24Z
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@Nonilex I can't even begin to imagine what obscure procedural dodge the Supremes are going to pull out of, umm, the air in order to justify reversing this order without reaching the merits of the Fourteenth Amendment issue. Nevertheless, I'll bet that's exactly what they're going to do. With their army of graduated-first-in-their-class clerks, they'll be able to come up with something. It's always easier when you don't have to worry about being reversed yourself.
(DIR) Post #Aw1jmQfjFeayXMnVaK by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-07-11T14:52:17Z
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@Nonilex Here's a heartfelt Canadian take on that whole business.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_IuLWmLRuA
(DIR) Post #AwGv79TKgRMy4raWS8 by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-07-18T22:39:37Z
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@Nonilex Case number 1:25-cv-23232-XXXX in Florida Southern District, if anyone wants to follow along on Pacer (or Courtlistener, probably). No filings yet and the "XXXX" indicates that it hasn't been assigned to a judge yet. Trump is listed as pro se, which means that whatever lawyer is ultimately going to get stiffed for walking into this particular buzz saw hasn't made an appearance yet.
(DIR) Post #Aws6iffiPS310DoDz6 by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-08-05T21:14:15Z
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@Nonilex About damn time, if you ask me. I've never worked in federal courts, so maybe DOJ actually merits that deference that the judges are now questioning, but I can tell you that local prosecutors in California absolutely don't, but receive it anyway. I won't say all, but a significant number of California prosecutors think that their job is to get convictions at any cost, and are extremely willing to tell the court "trust us, we represent the People" in order to achieve it. (They pronounce "People" like that, with the capital P. You can tell.) And judges let them get away with it because a sizeable proportion of judges used to be prosecutors. This whole scenario of "fine upstanding assistant District Attorneys deserve a level of deference that the court would never in a million years grant to sleazy crooked defense counsel" is annoying and insulting, and if it's starting to get chipped away at the federal level, I say hurray.
(DIR) Post #AwuIQdsJwEwHz3nK1g by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-08-06T22:34:46Z
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@Nonilex Every time I read one of those stories about parents trying to rid libraries of pornographic trash like "And Tango Makes Three," the word "BALLLL - ZAC" goes through my mind. Someone should sell band instruments to the Moms for Liberty.(Does everybody know the secret trivia item about "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Good Night, My Someone"? It took me years to notice it.)
(DIR) Post #AxQpxsDr89sxaE2T68 by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-08-22T15:21:24Z
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@Nonilex "Nice little city you got there. Be a shame if something was to happen to it."
(DIR) Post #AxX5PAgpF4wMwDp6h6 by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-08-25T15:42:42Z
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@Nonilex Justice Rehnquist's dissent in Texas v. Johnson appealed to historic practice, and as an example of the historic practice of respecting the flag, he quoted John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Barbara Frietche," the one about "shoot if you must this old gray head, but spare my country's flag." My Con Law professor Calvin Massey promptly published a delightful law review article in which he definitively proved that "Barbara Frietche" is pure unadulterated fiction, and "ask[ed] whether the law of the Constitution ought to be driven by poetic fancy masquerading as history." https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3088&context=dlj
(DIR) Post #AyZk4G9zBos1hoWgDo by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-09-25T20:19:52Z
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@Nonilex Jesus. What is he, 12?
(DIR) Post #Ayq3SOu5L8aXQofkEC by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-10-03T17:12:30Z
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@Nonilex My guess is that what he means by "non-international" is "not between nations." Whatever this is certainly isn't between nations, but it's not clear that an "armed conflict" qualifies as a war when it's not between nations, and it's also not clear that both sides of this conflict are armed.
(DIR) Post #AzfozFfROzZGNc6DnU by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-10-28T16:34:59Z
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@Nonilex I suspect that she doesn't stand a chance. This is happening in Sonoma County, where I live. The big industry here is agriculture; wine, mostly, and lately cannabis, but basically when the ag industry says jump, everyone else in the county says "how high?" The ag industry strongly dislikes Ms. Rosenberg. Maybe her lawyers managed to keep people who felt that way off the jury, but that's pretty tough around here.If I were doing her appeal, one thing I'd focus on is the judge's refusal to instruct on the necessity defense. The usual example of that is that if you run into a burning building and carry a baby out, that's technically kidnapping but you can defend by saying that you had to do it to save the kid's life. It seems to me that that's at least arguably available here, and it should have been up to the jury, not the judge, to decide whether it applied.
(DIR) Post #B0CrN1eC9Iv3iqEemm by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-11-13T15:07:32Z
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@Nonilex Turns out that "Wag the Dog" was a documentary. Who knew?
(DIR) Post #B0sSoCUpIamhyh4F3w by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-12-03T16:50:11Z
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@Nonilex Ooooh. Secretary of *Defense*. Sick burn.
(DIR) Post #B1aLz0TQSKe3cVbr1c by jonberger@sfba.social
2025-12-24T21:01:01Z
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@Nonilex I mean, come on, how could they possibly have anticipated that they'd have to disclose the documents to the public and that therefore they should get started right away on redacting victims' names? Nobody could have seen that coming. Of course, the guy who's now President specifically promised to disclose them during his campaign, but who takes him seriously, right? Everybody knows he lies all the time.
(DIR) Post #B1ujHGBwwGgVglJ50K by jonberger@sfba.social
2026-01-03T16:56:14Z
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@Nonilex They've got to be protected / All their rights respected / 'Til someone that we like can be elected.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFvxqQTh3m4&t=19s
(DIR) Post #B27RdIUyRrhm9BMJ1M by jonberger@sfba.social
2026-01-09T20:09:48Z
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@Nonilex Doesn't play on my system.
(DIR) Post #B2RkQL1rEg9mG01Tfc by jonberger@sfba.social
2026-01-19T15:14:35Z
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@Nonilex Not the main issue here, but he's saying that now, not having won the Nobel prize, he can "think about what is good and proper for the USA." That compels the conclusion that before the prize was awarded, he was prioritizing winning it over the best interests of his country; that is, that he did things that were NOT good and proper for the USA for the purpose of influencing the Nobel committee. If he had acted contrary to the interests of his country in exchange for a personal reward, that would be bribery, which is certainly an impeachable offense; is it any less impeachable if he did it in hopes of receiving a reward that he ended up not receiving?