How Originalism Ate the Law: America is captive to a legal theory that dictates our laws on guns, abortion, and so much more. We need to act. (slate.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/originalism-ate-the-law-what-no…
Democratic Hopes of Retaking Congress Threatened Again by Allegations of Wife Corruption (slate.com)
Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar’s household has allegedly been up to no good.
What Rubber Bullets Can Do to the Human Body - The “less lethal” weapons were used against student protesters at UCLA. (slate.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/rubber-bullets-blind-kill-trama…
What Columbia Should Have Done Instead of Brutalizing Its Student Protesters (slate.com)
One example, from just up the Ivy-garlanded I-95, at Brown University, was announced just hours before Shafik again called in the police. Brown’s governing body agreed to vote on a proposal that would divest the school’s endowment of companies affiliated with Israel in a meeting in October. The proposal is based on a 2020...
The Crypto Bros Are Back—and They Have a Dangerous Political Goal (slate.com)
You may already have noticed crypto and tech money swishing around in the 2024 primaries. For the open California Senate seat, crypto-backed super PAC Fairshake splurged $10 million on ads against candidate Katie Porter, whose progressivism and crypto skepticism made her an enemy of the industry. She, of course, would lose. An...
The Anti-Defamation League Has Abandoned Some of the People It Exists to Protect (slate.com)
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A Family’s Disappearance Rocked New Zealand. What Came After Has Stunned Everyone (longform). (slate.com)
The title of this piece is very clickbaity but the article is quite interesting....
I’m Dying to Have a Threesome With Two Men. Why Does Every Attempt Fall Apart in the Same Way? (slate.com)
One Day 10 Years Ago, I Stopped Paying My Taxes. I Don’t Regret a Thing. (slate.com)
I ignored the IRS for an entire decade and got away with it. I think....
So, Fake Images of Trump With Black Voters Are a Thing Now (slate.com)
Recently, Donald Trump fans in Florida and Michigan have been auto-generating and spreading around faked “pictures” of Trump surrounded by crowds of Black supporters—and earning significant traction for doing so. Coming at a time when President Joe Biden is worried about losing the Black voters who came out for his 2020...
Your Coffee Is About to Change, Whether You’re Ready or Not (slate.com)
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I Thought About Making Travel Plans for the Eclipse—Then I Had a Realization. (slate.com)
Clarence Thomas Hires the Luckiest Clerk in Supreme Court History (slate.com)
The saga of Crystal Clanton, a rising star in the conservative movement who’s been credibly accused of extreme racism, continued last week with a new deep dive into Clanton’s close ties with Clarence and Ginni Thomas, courtesy of the New York Times. A “nearly adopted daughter” to the Thomases, Clanton has lined up a...
The Low-Key Republican Officials Quietly Dismantling All of Our Rights (slate.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/10653276...
Leonard Leo's Republican Attorneys General Association is Quietly Dismantling All of Our Rights (slate.com)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/raga-republican-officials-leona…
The Low-Key Republican Officials Quietly Dismantling All of Our Rights (slate.com)
cross-posted from: midwest.social/post/10653278...
The Political Divide Between Men and Women Is Getting Wild. One Party Is Primed to Take Advantage. (slate.com)
It has long been the case that American women are generally more liberal than American men. But among young Americans, this gender gap has widened into an enormous rift: According to recent Gallup polling, there is a 30-point differencebetween the number of women age 18–30 who self-identify as liberal and the number of men in...
Why Is the DOJ Prosecuting a Journalist While Pretending Otherwise? (slate.com)
When President Joe Biden said “journalism is not a crime” last April, federal prosecutors in Tampa, Florida, apparently took that as a challenge. Not a crime yet....
A Capitol Rioter Has Become a Right-Wing Media Darling. She Just Got Arrested. (slate.com)
Isabella DeLuca’s “persecution” is now a cause célèbre....
The Real Reason No One Is Giving Biden Credit for How Good the Economy Is Right Now (slate.com)
The Oral History of Pitchfork (slate.com)
I wasn’t aware of anyone hating Pitchfork… archive.is/7tqu1
Dune Two Little – How can a movie be so big and, at the same time, so small? (slate.com)
It Sure Seems Like the Courts Have Placed Christianity Above Other Faiths (slate.com)
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It Sure Seems Like the Courts Have Placed Christianity Above Other Faiths (slate.com)
A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. (slate.com)
