Ceiling fan posted:

I heard part of a talk Justice Sotomayor gave a few years ago that explains this. She said that the preliminary voting process just after arguements involves no debate. Just a combined statement and vote done in order of seniority. So the junior Justices especially ask questions in a way to communicate their position and reasoning to their seniors ahead of the votes.

Samurai Sanders posted:

This happened in Seattle too, if I remember right.

feds: You are doing these fifteen awful things. Fix them.
SPD: Some of those are hard to fix, can't we negotiate about this?
feds: Sorry, I must have misheard that, what did you loving say?

edit: I didn't clearly hear what happened after that though; I wasn't living in Seattle at the time.

Potato Salad posted:

I keep reading things in print media along the lines of "the scientific community is in overwhelming consensus regarding climate change." I've only started reading research publication journals outside American Journal of Physics in the last year and feel like I've largely missed the boat on what precisely contributes to that consensus.

Are there any environmental subject matter experts in this thread, or in another thread that I'm missing? I'd love to (because I'm lazy) put together a short reading list of what you consider to be modern milestone publications in climate change. I realize that climate change as a research field is quite broad now, so even if you know of a well-known paper in a specific field, I'm interested in what you'd have me read.

zoux posted:

Samurai Sanders posted:

This happened in Seattle too, if I remember right.

feds: You are doing these fifteen awful things. Fix them.
SPD: Some of those are hard to fix, can't we negotiate about this?
feds: Sorry, I must have misheard that, what did you loving say?

edit: I didn't clearly hear what happened after that though; I wasn't living in Seattle at the time.

quote:

Justice Department suing Ferguson over deal, attorney general says

The U.S. Justice Department is filing a lawsuit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges a pattern and practice of unconstitutional police conduct in the city.

Federal authorities had no other choice but to file a lawsuit against the city after the Ferguson City Council voted to change the terms of a consent decree, Lynch said.

"We intend to aggressively prosecute this case," she told reporters, "and we intend to prevail."

"The residents of Ferguson have suffered the deprivation of their Constitutional rights, the rights guaranteed to all Americans, for decades. They have waited decades for justice," Lynch said. "They should not be forced to wait any longer."

Potato Salad posted:

I keep reading things in print media along the lines of "the scientific community is in overwhelming consensus regarding climate change." I've only started reading research publication journals outside American Journal of Physics in the last year and feel like I've largely missed the boat on what precisely contributes to that consensus.

Are there any environmental subject matter experts in this thread, or in another thread that I'm missing? I'd love to (because I'm lazy) put together a short reading list of what you consider to be modern milestone publications in climate change. I realize that climate change as a research field is quite broad now, so even if you know of a well-known paper in a specific field, I'm interested in what you'd have me read.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Loretta Lynch has apparently had enough of Missouri's poo poo.

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://kut.org/post/tracking-down-austin-pac-behind-ann-kitchen-recall-petition

A shady super-PAC that's not following any of the disclosure or funding regulations in Texas is trying to recall an Austin city councilwoman for trying to regulate ridesharing services. They're hiring canvassers with scripts full of misinformation to collect signatures. Recently if you tried to get an Uber in Austin, it popped up a dialog saying this councilwoman is trying to take away your freedoms and that you should vote against her. Nobody seems to know who's funding the super-PAC and it's been caught blatantly lying about its donations. Hmm.

mintskoal posted:

Notable shithead James O'Keefe is stirring up poo poo again by EXPOSING VOTER FRAUD in the NH primary. Like it means something. Or something.

Logikv9 posted:

Why is James O'Keefe still alive

zoux posted:

I would consider myself to be an extremely high information voter who spends tons of time following politics at all levels and I still have no idea who the gently caress Jim Gilmore is.

Joementum posted:

Watch out Bloomberg!

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/697559444633358337

Joementum posted:

Watch out Bloomberg!

https://twitter.com/aseitzwald/status/697559444633358337

Timby posted:

On this note, if anyone hasn't read The Nine and The Oath, Jeffrey Toobin's two books on the Supreme Court, they're pretty much required reading for anyone who wants to understand how the current Court's makeup operates.

Zeroisanumber posted:

Loretta Lynch has apparently had enough of Missouri's poo poo.

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

This is the definition of poo poo Getting Real

You do NOT want to be in a lawsuit against the Feds

Zeroisanumber posted:

Loretta Lynch has apparently had enough of Missouri's poo poo.

Trabisnikof posted:

Honestly, I'd suggest the IPCC's AR5 WG1 report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Assessment Report 5, Working Group 1 Report) as it is the summation of the global consensus and will cite all of the best research.

Potato Salad posted:

The piece -- and I forget who posted it -- on suburban infrastructure expansion as something like a ponzi scheme through the last two generations was fascinating. The notion that a township or city doesn't justify expenditures based on whether or not X statue or Y park will generate enough tax revenue to maintain itself in the future is not difficult for me to accept purely on an anecdotal basis. What is a little more confusing is that solar and wind infrastructure aren't being built out large scale, even with ROI commonly coming down below 15 years in (admittedly biased) strategic energy research projects I support professionally. It was apparently justifiable to throw money at projects with no clear tax revenue returns in the future, but if you want to propose renewable energy that just shits electricity and pays itself back in less than a generation, maintenance and upgrades included?

Eminent domain exists for a reason.
Don't put windmills near my house. The property value will go down.
Cheaper energy is a good thing for you, businesses around here, and people are going to get used to windmills soon enough.
I have investments to protect! This is my nest egg.
This is for the survival of the species,

Just throwing at energy infrastructure is a financial mistake I hope we get to make with [insert unicorn Democrat preliminary thread candidate here]. Our kids will thank us for any domestic surplus of energy we can provide them.

zoux posted:

Luigi Thirty posted:

http://kut.org/post/tracking-down-austin-pac-behind-ann-kitchen-recall-petition

A shady super-PAC that's not following any of the disclosure or funding regulations in Texas is trying to recall an Austin city councilwoman for trying to regulate ridesharing services. They're hiring canvassers with scripts full of misinformation to collect signatures. Recently if you tried to get an Uber in Austin, it popped up a dialog saying this councilwoman is trying to take away your freedoms and that you should vote against her. Nobody seems to know who's funding the super-PAC and it's been caught blatantly lying about its donations. Hmm.

Scrub-Niggurath posted:

You do NOT want to be in a lawsuit against the Feds

DeusExMachinima posted:

That's a really smart move on Uber's part. Let people use a service on your app of their own accord and then go, "oh by the way if rear end in a top hat was king you couldn't do what you just decided to do." Reminds me of weird laws Uber went through getting into Vegas. If you're not outside the terminal at the airport when they show up they have to make another pass through the terminal pickup. Normal cars can wait for whoever of course. Taxis are allowed to stop and wait for customers of course.

And not even that can save them.

computer parts posted:

"Them" being Uber, who blew through $700 million last quarter.

DeusExMachinima posted:

That's a really smart move on Uber's part. Let people use a service on your app of their own accord and then go, "oh by the way if rear end in a top hat was king you couldn't do what you just decided to do." Reminds me of weird laws Uber went through getting into Vegas. If you're not outside the terminal at the airport when they show up they have to make another pass through the terminal pickup. Normal cars can wait for whoever of course. Taxis are allowed to stop and wait for customers of course.

And not even that can save them.

computer parts posted:

"Them" being Uber, who blew through $700 million last quarter.

quote:

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the City of Cleveland (“Creditor”), located at 601 Lakeside Avenue, Room 122, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, has a claim against the Estate of Tamir Rice in the amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), see Exhibit A, which is past due and owing for emergency medical services rendered as the decedent’s last dying expense under Ohio Revised Code §2117.25(A)(5). This notice constitutes a presentation of a creditor’s claim pursuant to Ohio Revised Code §2117.06.

DeusExMachinima posted:

Fire with fire.^^^

Solkanar512 posted:

Yeah, setting up an illegal PAC and trying to force an "Austin vs. Californians" type recall election sounds really loving smart.

Tobermory posted:

In other Cleveland news, white people continue to be horrible:

Tobermory posted:

In other Cleveland news, white people continue to be horrible:

Samurai Sanders posted:

what possessed the Ferguson police department to look at Lynch, look at the political situation right now, and think she was bluffing?

Sylink posted:

Being in Ohio, I will just add that Kasich is a piece of poo poo. He has not helped this state. The only plus is that he is just corrupt and not corrupt and religiously crazy.

mother jones posted:

Since Kasich entered office in 2011, he has enacted 16 anti-abortion measures. Some directly restrict abortion access, such as the 20-week late-term ban that he signed six months after entering office. Others limit the work of abortion providers. For example, in 2013 he signed the state's budget bill, which included one provision that prohibits state-funded rape crisis counselors from referring women to abortion services and another that stripped Planned Parenthood of an estimated $1.4 million in federal family-planning dollars. The measures have had drastic consequences for access to abortion and medical care for Ohio women: During Kasich's time in office, the number of abortion providers in the state has dropped from 16 to eight.

[...]

During his first term as governor, Kasich was outspoken in his anti-abortion rhetoric. In 2011, after signing the Late-Term Abortion Ban, a bill that required physicians to test the viability of an unborn child if the mother sought an abortion at 20 weeks or later in her pregnancy, Kasich released a statement saying, "Life is a gift from God and one way that we express our ongoing gratitude for it is by respecting it. This bill does that in a very fundamental way and I'm proud to have signed it into law." In October 2012, Kasich appointed Michael Gonidakis, the Ohio Right to Life President, to the state medical board.

the nation posted:

At issue is a state law requiring clinics to have written transfer agreements with local hospitals. (Like the admitting-privileges requirements that have popped up in Alabama, Texas, and other states, the transfer agreement is a regulation meant to force abortion providers into shutting their doors.) In 2013, Ohio’s legislature banned public hospitals from entering into such agreements. Private hospitals, which are often Catholic institutions, have a track record of rejecting or ignoring clinics’ requests, according to the complaint.

Tobermory posted:

In other Cleveland news, white people continue to be horrible:

Your Dunkle Sans posted:

NPR just played an interview yesterday with a guy who is a manager at GE manufacturing and trying to push the whole "work for us during college and we'll pay for you to get your degree."

Long story short, he talked about how he got his degree in mechanical engineering (I think) while working and married when he was young and how his son by contrast is graduating with a degree in Aquatics and Marine Sciences with >$30k in debt. On the one hand, he thought it was ridiculously hard for college graduates dealing with what is essentially a mortgage at their age, but on the other hand is against the idea of Sanders et al making college free because (in a clearly begrudging tone) "if you make students graduate debt free, they won't be incentivized to work as a hard so they'll slack off. Debt gives them incentive to work harder, so I dunno, I'm skeptical."

The interviewer and the manager also talked about how that kind of debt is dissuading people like his son from pursuing his dreams re: Aquatics and Marine Sciences due to trying to find work in a narrow field, so the dad is doing all he can to help by getting his son a job at the GE manufacturing plant they were conducting the interview at instead so he can get a good job (albeit not in his intended field) to pay off the debt.

Basically the American mindset and state of higher education in a microcosm: a dream deferred (or not pursued at all) due to prohibitive debt requirements, but the hard-wired assembly language cultural coding of the Protestant Work Ethic makes it impossible for people to even consider making college cheaper/free for fear of reducing our collective fascist dedication to workaholism, so we continuously shoot ourselves in the foot even harder.

(For what it's worth, I groaned heavily at my car radio.)

e: Although it's an improvement from the current situation by making a community college to 4-year college pipeline, we're essentially handicapping everyone from upper-middle class on down through the socioeconomic ladder by foisting immense debt obligations on teens/young adults who have most likely barely started to learn how to handle a basic credit card and limiting their "realistic" options to cheaper community colleges versus going to, say, a private/Ivy League school if their credentials qualified (yes, I know about Ivy funding with grants and work-study, that's a murkier area beyond what I'm driving at here).

This is in stark contrast to the Greatest/Boomer generations that had any school of any caliber either paid for by the GI Bill or literally able to be paid for in full by working a minimum wage job/painting houses during the summer. Germans with free/~250 Euro semester fees would flip a poo poo at our tuition fee requirements.

tl;dr America is forcing anyone below Upper Class to either mortgage their futures with college debt or resign themselves to spending their college years at a location which might be less engaging/suited for their abilities and personal preferences when they could otherwise enter based on merit. I think it's totally anti-democratic and anti-meritocratic to gate higher education (or healthcare or basically anything considered a public utility) based on wealth inequality.

moller posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCDKQ8qDLDQ


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/wolf-sheeps-clothing-gov-kasichs-reproductive-rights-record


http://www.thenation.com/article/john-kasich-is-no-moderate-when-it-comes-to-abortion-rights/