Justice Kagan dissenting in the South Carolina gerrymandering case:
“The majority’s attempt to explain its contrary result fails at every turn. The majority picks and chooses evidence to its liking; ignores or minimizes less convenient proof; disdains the panel’s judgments about witness credibility; and makes a series of mistakes about expert opinions. The majority declares that it knows better than the District Court what happened in a South Carolina map-drawing room to produce District 1. But the proof is in the pudding: On page after page, the majority’s opinion betrays its distance from, and lack of familiarity with, the events and evidence central to this case.”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem is now banned from all tribal lands in her home state (www.cnn.com)
An honorable warrior (lemmy.world)
Fashies get the bashies (lemmy.world)
The Biden administration is actually doing something about ludicrously expensive concert tickets (www.vox.com)
An American soldier examines an (ineffective) Nazi bent barrel attachment for the STG-44, WW2, sometime after 1943?
More castle cutaway
Octo (sh.itjust.works)
Senate Democrats Open Inquiry Into Trump’s $1 Billion Request of Oil Industry: Committees are seeking information from oil executives about a dinner where the former president proposed a quid pro quo (www.nytimes.com)
Key context:...
Happens once per thread (lemmy.cafe)
Castle cutaway
Sara Forbes Bonetta, goddaughter of Queen Victoria, 1862
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The US is thinking about letting Ukraine use its weapons to strike Russia, even if it enrages Putin: report (www.businessinsider.com)
US officials are considering letting Ukraine strike Russia with US weapons, The New York Times reports....
Pure evil concentrated in one photo (lemmy.world)
Supreme Court finds no bias against Black voters in a South Carolina congressional district (apnews.com)
Hornyposting
Indian PM Narendra Modi convinced to be 'emissary of God', questions his biological origins (www.telegraphindia.com)
Ocasio-Cortez mocks Trump over bad weather ahead of Bronx rally: ‘God is good’ (thehill.com)
Etruscan hanging lamp, bronze, ~480 BCE
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Congolese megaphone with a crocodile motif, wood, ~18th century AD
Black(en)ed
Soldiers of the 19th Indian Infantry Division, Italy, WW2, 1943 (colorized)
Liechtenstein legalizes same-sex marriage in near-unanimous vote (www.politico.eu)
The microstate is the last German-speaking country to introduce marriage equality.
"Of course not - that might hurt my accelerationist dreams!" (lemmy.world)