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Replying to @openargs
I manage a forum of 5,000 American archaeologists. There is extreme angst about what this admin means for our jobs. Deregulation will likely lead to more work on federal lands, but ending NAGPRA, the NHPA, and the Antiquities Act will change how ethical or long-term our work is.
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This is what I've been talking about. We need to stop fighting each other about things that don't actually affect the election. This is the problem. This right here. We're busy bothering with reality and they are not in reality and don't even hear about reality.
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Florida did the thing where they voted over 50% for weed and abortion and then chose Trump and the Republican senator. Big Darwin awards energy in this country.
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And the first major anti-trans candidate of the night goes down! Fox News projects that Democrat Josh Stein wins North Carolina Governor, beating Republican Mark Robinson. Robinson criticized Biden for Trans Day of Visibility. Then it came out he was a purveyor of trans porn.
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I have co-authored the J-1 Visa Guidebook published by LexisNexis which has been published in annual editions since the 1990s and is the main treatise on the subject. So I'm pretty familiar with the rules for J-1 visa holders including at the time Musk attended Stanford. The moment he dropped out and was no longer in good academic standing, he was out of J-1 status (e.g. illegal) and unauthorized to work. If he successfully transitioned to H-1B status, it was because he either left the country and reentered in that status or he lied to USCIS (then the INS) about his status. They didn't track J-1 students all that closely until after 9/11 when they created SEVIS. So it was a lot easier to get away with things. I have no idea if it was the former or the latter, but it doesn't look like Elon is claiming he was still attending Stanford when he got the H-1B and the emails published with the story certainly seem to show otherwise.
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The crux of Chutkan's ruling: "As the court has stated previously, 'Defendant’s concern with the political consequences of these proceedings' is not a cognizable legal prejudice."
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Hilariously, the question is whether, in evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's use of force, courts can ignore everything (including everything unreasonable) the officer did until the moment they used force. That the circuits are divided on this question says a lot.
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Holy mackerel SCOTUS granted cert in a Fourth Amendment case: supremecourt.gov/search.aspx…
#SCOTUS adds *13* cases to its calendar for the upcoming term: supremecourt.gov/orders/cour…
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Given the xenophobic tenor of this election cycle, I just want to point out (again) that so many big American newsrooms – Axios, Politico, MSNBC, NBC News, NOTUS, etc – have no serious, full time immigration reporter to inform their audiences. Frankly, this is malpractice.
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“I have concepts of a plan”
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Replying to @openargs
Odd tactic to admit that under his leadership he was unable to prevent terrorists from killing our soldiers until he started making deals to help the terrorists.🤷
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I’ll see your “I got involved with the taliban…” and raise you an, “I’ve got concepts of a plan”
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not saying it's lie! it's just the funniest possible way to say "I negotiated a peace deal with the Taliban"
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How about “I have concepts of a [healthcare] plan”?
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I’ve been a leader on fertilization. Omg
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What a wild ride
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Replying to @SoneX
He’s lying that every lawsuit was dismissed for lack of standing. (And almost all of the suits weren’t by him.)
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Article III standing—drink!
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