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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 1h
Each Saturday I put down the clean one, filled, with fresh filters, toss the used filters, and throw the basin and lid in the dishwasher. Spigot removed for a quick brush through in hot water. Swap them back the next weekend. Easy as pie.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 1h
I suspect it's different for your dogs, but we have them for our cats, and they don't drink enough to even need topping off during the week. I'm sure bigger dogs especially go through enough water that our routine wouldn't be practical, but:
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Career in terms of future political role? Maybe so. Career in terms of political influence within the Black community in Texas? Hardly over.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Because part of that due process is what you see happening in cases like these. You may not like that it takes this long. But taking shortcuts is the fastest way to have it reversed on appeal.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Then help us to understand. The process of holding officials, *when done in accordance with the rule of law*, takes time. It is unfolding. How would you speed it up while maintaining the rule of law?
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
If those who oppose his program (judicially and otherwise) take the same shortcuts, that just ratifies that sort of extralegal behavior, and turns things into a tussle of "which authoritarian do you like better?" instead of forcing things back to within the rule of law.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I may be jumping in here, Kathryn, but if I may: What Jeremy doesn't seem to grasp is that a BIG part of the problem with much of what Trump does is that he moves fast without taking the needed legal steps to accomplish his goals,because he doesn't want to wait how long those things take.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
You can choose otherwise, of course, but unless you've seen the affidavit submitted to obtain the warrant, you *know* no more than I do.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I *suspect* they did indeed lie, or misrepresent the truth. But because I don't have specific knowledge of said presumptive lie, I'm not going to say, definitively, that they lied.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm....not sure why you keep restating the points I've made, using different words, but somehow thinking you're correcting me or disagreeing with me?
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They may or may not have lied to the judge who authorized the search warrant. But that's a separate issue. The judge had to have found probable cause to issue the warrant; if it turns out the application for the warrant contained deliberate falsehoods, the results of the search can be quashed.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fair. But I believe Cruz gave up his Canadian citizenship in 2014. He claimed to not know he had it until 2013.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Also a citizen by birth. He was born in Canada to an American mother. One can be an American citizen at birth (ie a natural born citizen) either "juris sanguine" (by blood, ie parentage) or "juris soli" (by birth on US soil).
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Rubio is a citizen by birth, not naturalized. He was born in Miami. (Still a scumbag, but not subject to denaturalization).
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
... that there's an inherent conflict here, because both the DOJ and the NPS officials (no matter who recommended or chose to violate the court order) are parts of that unitary executive. I suspect that is going to bite the administration in the ass repeatedly in the lower courts.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
My understanding is that criminal contempt charges are referred to DOJ except when there's a conflict of interest, and then the judge can appoint an attorney to prosecute the contempt case without DOJ. Given the "unitary executive" theory being endorsed by this Supreme Court, it seems to me ...
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
As long as there's even a slight chance there was a misunderstanding of the order, even if that was deliberate, criminal contempt charges are unlikely. But civil contempt and other disciplinary measures are very possible. Especially going forward.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
There's two types of contempt: civil and criminal. They can only get jail time if criminal contempt were to be charged by the court, a prosecutor appointed, hearing/trial/proceeding held, etc. and the judge found said contempt, and judges are very reluctant to do that unless it's crystal clear.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Presumably they'd be looking for documents or other evidence that contradicted said paperwork. (Not saying it's *legitimate*, but if federal agents had probable cause to suspect that some of the paperwork contained misstatements of fact, that could be a valid reason for a search warrant.)
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Translation: as soon as we can find someone else to pay her to keep her mouth shut in a do-nothing job, she'll be removed, but everyone we might ask to do it is off for the weekend.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meaning, that if Virginia requires A, B, and C to be able to vote for members of its House of Delegates, then those are the only requirements to vote for US representative. That principle was extended to US senators under the 17th Amendment.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In fact, for choosing US representatives (at the time, the only federal officials directly elected by the people), the Constitution specifically requires states to use the same criteria for voter eligibility that the state uses for elections for its most numerous legislative chamber.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It can and does enact statutes all the time. But it's not allowed to pass laws that fall outside its powers as enumerated in the Constitution. And there's nothing in the Constitution that gives Congress the power to enact and impose voter eligibility requirements.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That has to be the most Kentucky-specific legalism I've ever encountered, not that I've run into many.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Returning from SC last week, I had the chance to skip my ATL-BTR until the next morning in exchange for $500 plus hotel overnight and transportation to/from the airport. I was tempted, but like you, just wanted to get home. I did agree to gate-check my carry-on in exchange for early boarding.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The owner says the proliferation of age restrictions and ID verification requirements from government bodies makes it impractical for him to continue.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Dude... Just....stop. I cut some slack to people who make a casual assumption that they thought that the rule applied to newspapers, but not for morons who confidently assert something like this in response to someone clearly laying out the law. This is just stupid.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And it's a bullshit approach that I would hope even THIS Supreme Court would stop.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Well, the state law in question cannot violate the federal constitution (and the federal district and circuit courts are saying that it does).
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
No, it's not. Missouri's Supreme Court is the ultimate arbiter of the state constitution there, and it already ruled. This was a federal appeals court ruling on the merits of a federal constitutional challenge, as is evident from WHICH constitution the opinion references.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And in fact, "resolving a circuit split" is a frequently cited reason that the Supreme Court might grant certiorari, or agree to hear the case. But they hear about 60 cases a year, compared with thousands of cert petitions and many thousands more cases where certiorari is never sought.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
But even if an appellate court rules that the given set of facts is enough, that precedent would only apply in that circuit. Illinois is in one circuit, California is in another. A circuit considering a similar case for the first time might or might not agree with another circuit.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yes, seriously. A federal fistrict court may hold that on a given set of facts, x should prevail. In a different federal district, the court may hold that x should not prevail unless also these additional factors are present. To some degree, differences like that may be worked out on appeal.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
You have a point. An idiotic one, but a point. -Addison Dewitt
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I suppose there might be some esoteric Senate rules that control committee assignments, but I would think that minority party assignments are largely the purview of the minority party leader, no?
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I may be missing something, but what would "jettisoning" him from the caucus have achieved? It either would have accelerated his party switch - giving Republicans even more of an edge to date - or at worst, he'd continue defecting on key votes.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
No worries! I figured out the confusion :)
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Granted on both counts. But I would still say "sorting characters" is a pretty poor description of what he does, just as you (and I) would describe "sorting beliefs" as a pretty crappy description of the practice of law. :)
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He claims to be a screenwriter; I wonder if he would agree that his profession consists of sorting alphabetical characters on paper.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The essential difference is that there can be (for now at least) more restrictions on electoral candidates than on coverage of issues.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Equal Time Rule (ETR) is still in effect for broadcasters (with certain exceptions) and requires them to allow opposing candidates time on the air, if it airs an interview by any candidate.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That was a separate rule called the Fairness Doctrine (FD). The FD required the actual message of the broadcaster to present both sides of an issue that was a matter of controversy.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I think one issue might be that at many leather and kink events of significant size, most of people attending are not from the state where the event is held.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Fair. But I never said the tapestry wasn't threadbare and full of holes, either.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Jcar8mm is an entire tapestry of idiocy.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In Massachusetts, I believe you are incorrect. Under that state's law, the state has to present proof beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant was sane, or at least understood her conduct was wrong, if that defense was raised.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Think harder, maybe it will manifest.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Further, I've addressed what *you* wrote (and clarified) separately. Your need to "be right" here - when it's clear you're not engaging with what he wrote - is really kind of sad. But you do you, buckaroo.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
His clear words were that $70 is a reasonable price for X, not a reasonable price for Y (and Y is the current method of digital license sales). However you slice it, that's saying that $70 is too much to pay for what he's getting. You just don't like that's what he said.
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cowboyinbrla.bsky.social @cowboyinbrla.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It may be irrelevant to you. It was clearly relevant to him. Why are you invested in deciding what he meant by his clear words? I asked YOU, earlier, to define what you meant by "the problem", and you finally did. Stick to that.
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