Sapna Sharma
@sapnasesq.bsky.social
Lawyer | Mother | Feminist | Book Lover | @Penn | GMU Law | #Desi | Washington, D.C. Sometimes I post about garden stuff.
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
No one has ever crashed out over Andromeda, princess of Aethiopia, being cast as a white woman.
It looks like Platner still hasn't learned when something his not his choice to make.
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 4mo agoPlatner now in a pissing match with the Maine Democratic Party:
Nov-Dec 2000 was when the entire Republican Party showed they did not consider "votes," "laws," "precedent," or "the Constitution" to be meaningful constraints on their pursuit of power. It confirmed they didn't just see America differently; their values are expressly anti-American.
Stu F.@sdfstu.bsky.social · 4mo agoThis is the correct take, the timeline went off track not in November 2016 but November-December 2000. It was a curse brought on by the dark magic of butterfly ballots and Sandra Day O’Connor’s fateful choice.
With this character's election loss, the thread of prophecy was severed. Unable to restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, we must persist in the doomed world we have created
@darren32359.bsky.social · 4mo ago
People love a champion of the working class who just so happens to hate women and black people
I have never loved McSweeney's more. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning
“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...
mcsweeneys.net
Basically the Supreme Court is 5-4 on whether America is white man's country
This seems to me the headline. I happen to think there’s a lot to be said for the legitimacy of incremental constitutional change through genuine movement-building over decades. This is something else entirely. Unworthy of a constitutional democracy.
Quinta Jurecic@qjurecic.bsky.social · 4mo ago2 more thoughts on birthright: 1. The movement to overturn Roe and Humphrey's Executor was built over decades. It took an enormous amount of effort to manufacture that sense of scholarly viability (see: Teles, Hollis-Brusky). The right got 5-4 on birthright with a sloppy last-minute scramble
The Supreme Court Gives Donald Trump Full Control Over the Executive Branch, Except the Part of It that Impacts Their Retirement Portfolios
As with some other things, i suspect if we have another dem president we will discover that the court did not so much transfer power to the executive as to themselves, ie they will find novel bullshit reasons to block a dem president the same way the find novel bullshit reasons to enable trump
We badly need Democrats that both understand the stakes and are willing to exercise power.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 6mo ago💯 When Biden had majorities in both chambers (with VP the Senate tie-breaker), Dems should have expanded the Court to 13 seats. (First remove the filibuster to get law through the Senate). Power to wield, not waste. Instead, he formed a commission that created a report and then he took no action.
Put plainly by @adamserwer.bsky.social "The Constitution of the Roberts Court is not color-blind. It is a Constitution that permits discrimination on the basis of race, but forbids alleviating discrimination on the basis of race. "
Yoon and Prince Andrew wishing they had a friend like John Roberts.
The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power
Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport
Absolute banger by @ceilidhann.bsky.social on Nuzzi, Lizza, and...everything. It captures the primal scream I want to let out every time I read more about it. pajiba.substack.com/p/olivia-nuz...
Olivia Nuzzi is An Embarrassment to Journalism, But Is Also the Monster It Created
Everyone in this story is a nightmare person.
pajiba.substack.com
This is why the Epstein files story does matter, beyond just Trump's involvement. This is why so many Silicon Valley billionaires went fascist. #MeToo instilled this fear that rich men may have to lose their boys club where women are objects for trade, instead of people.
I just googled this man like 'ew who tf is this Tom Barrack guy' and the answer is the sitting, Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Ambassador to Turkey
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 11mo agoyooooooo
All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism
One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.
Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 2y agoDereliction of responsibility by the court. It is so flagrantly illegal. www.huffpost.com/entry/us-wis...
Wasn’t expecting the Epstein scandal to blow up the New York Times but sure, why not
Jorge A. Caballero, MD@datadrivenmd.social · 11mo agoTo recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?
We’ve built two justice systems in the US—one that bends over backward to shield the wealthy and powerful, and another that comes down hard and fast on the poor and marginalized. Trump and Epstein show that it’s easier to squeeze a rich man through the eye of a needle than to see one sent to prison.
John Cluverius@johncluverius.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
I've said it many times before and Andrew Cuomo is making me say it again: we don't have a cancellation problem. We have never had a cancellation problem. To the contrary, we have a problem that "disgrace" is a very temporary embarrassment— an brief entr'acte more than an intermission.
Why am I not surprised to see this exchange between Epstein and Deepak Chopra? And also not surprised that Deepak feels a "kinship" with Woody Allen?
