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Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, had asked the court to reconsider its landmark 2015 opinion.

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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/politics@lemmy.world
 

It sounds like a bunch of Democrats want to cave in exchange for no concessions whatsoever. Edit: Bloomberg has more details

Current likely Democratic votes for this:

  • Shaheen - NH
  • Hassan - NH
  • King - ME
  • Fetterman - PA
  • Peters - MI
  • Durbin - IL
  • Warner - VA
  • Kaine - VA
  • Ossoff- GA
  • Warnock - GA

If you want to change things, you need to call their DC office NOW, and leave an email if you can't.

Edit 2: enough Democrats joined the Republicans to reopen the government with no real concessions.

The list:

  • Durbin
  • Hassan
  • King
  • Cortez Masto
  • Kaine
  • Shaheen
  • Rosen
  • Fetterman
  • Schumer
  • Gillibrand

There was a caucus meeting right before this, so the bulk of the Senate Democrats were likely OK with giving in, even if not willing to vote for it in public

 

A new study suggests that the shingles vaccine may help prevent dementia by reducing the risk of varicella-zoster virus reactivation.

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Judge Mark L. Wolf, writing in The Atlantic, said he was stepping down to defend against the “assault on the rule of law” by President Trump, who he accused of “targeting his adversaries.”

The Judge's own words are here

 

Notably:

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

A whole bunch of Democratic-leaning states made an attempt to load peoples debit cards between the appeals decision and the Supreme Court stay. I have no idea to what extent they succeeded. If they did, we may end up with a month of Democratic areas being less hungry than Republican-majority ones

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This post claims to have an educated guess:

In a world in which Justice Jackson either knew or suspected that at least five of the justices would grant temporary relief to the Trump administration if she didn’t, the way she structured the stay means that she was able to try to control timing of the Supreme Court’s (forthcoming) review—and to create pressure for it to happen faster than it otherwise might have. In other words, it’s a compromise—one with which not everyone will agree

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They have now issued a temporary block on requiring that people be fed, which means that folks will go hungry

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He actually read one book: an anthology of Hitler's speeches

Donald Trump appears to take aspects of his German background seriously. John Walter works for the Trump Organization, and when he visits Donald in his office, Ivana told a friend, he clicks his heels and says, "Heil Hitler," possibly as a family joke.

Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed. Kennedy now guards a copy of My New Order in a closet at his office, as if it were a grenade. Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Billionaire Burgers. Now with actual billionaire meat!

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 44 points 2 days ago

Its all excuses for what he wanted to do to begin with, which is take food out of the mouths of kids so that billionaires can become trillionaires

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 3 days ago

Not sure, but several fast-moving Democratic states managed to get money to people before the appeal was filed

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Better ad targeting does make ads more valuable...but because only Google and Facebook have the visibility and ML to do it effectively, they wound up with all the ad revenue. Everybody else ended up with a few pennies

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 days ago

Because as a society, trillion-dollar pay packages for billionaires are more important

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I'm a bit sympathetic to them — they do need to get paid to keep operating, and ads don't cover the cost of providing news anymore

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