December 12, 2020

TX GOP To SCOTUS - FU

The @TexasGOP is out with a statement in the wake of the Supreme Court decision, all but calling for secession:
“Perhaps law-abiding states should bond together and form a Union of states that will abide by the constitution.”

https://twitter.com/adamkelsey/status/1337549501507264515?s=20
https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2020/12/11/texas-gop-chair-allen-west-suggests-law-abiding-states-form-union-supreme-court-rejects-lawsuit-election-results/

smells like sedition
So none of the three justices Trump put on the Supreme Court was willing to take Paxton’s bullshit Texas case which Trump said was the big one. That must burn Trump’s ass. Plus we made Alito and Thomas cry.

December 12, 2020

Suitable For Framing!

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES Texas effort to invalidate GA, MI, PA, WI election results.

7 justices deny for lack of standing.
2 Would grant motion for petition but deny relief.

No justice sides with TX/Trump.

Trump/allies are 1-57 in court.

https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1337544289740599298?s=20

December 11, 2020

SCOTUSblog Editorial: Don't just deny Texas' original action. Decimate it.

Editorial: Don’t just deny Texas’ original action. Decimate it.
By Tom Goldstein on Dec 11, 2020 at 2:06 pm

Texas’ attempt to bring an original action challenging the election results in four states is not a serious legal claim in a legitimate procedural posture, for reasons that many people have already given and that I will not repeat here. The easy thing for the Supreme Court to do is simply deny Texas permission to file the complaint (and deny the motions to intervene as moot) and be done with it. No fuss, no muss.

But the court should do more. It is perfectly ordinary and appropriate for the justices to write an opinion explaining the various reasons why they are rejecting Texas’ request. Indeed, the minority of justices who think that the court is required to accept original actions like Texas’ may well write short opinions of their own or note that they think the case was properly filed. So there is nothing overreaching if a majority of the court explains why the case is meritless.


the rest:
https://www.scotusblog.com/2020/12/opinion-dont-just-deny-texas-original-action-decimate-it/
https://twitter.com/SCOTUSblogposts/status/1337473869947482118?s=20

December 11, 2020

NYT Finally Gets it Right..No Trump on the Front Page

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below the fold

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A small note about a SCOTUS case doesn’t mention the T word

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/12/11/2001316/-NYT-Finally-Gets-it-Right-No-Trump-on-the-Front-Page?utm_campaign=trending

December 11, 2020

Yes. All credit to the Trump. He slaved away week after week at his lab on the 14th fairway.

@realDonaldTrump
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“Donald Trump must get the credit for the vaccines. It is a miracle.” @Varneyco

https://twitter.com/Devilstower/status/1337420821288128512?s=20

December 11, 2020

Banksy - 'Aachoo!!'

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https://www.cnn.com/style/article/banksy-bristol-mural-aachoo-intl-hnk/index.html

December 11, 2020

Trump refers to: "... the Biden Administration..." in best concession tweet yet.

Now that the Biden Administration will be a scandal plagued mess for years to come, it is much easier for the Supreme Court of the United States to follow the Constitution and do what everybody knows has to be done. They must show great Courage & Wisdom. Save the USA!!!

https://twitter.com/PeterAlexander/status/1337388877787639812?s=20

December 11, 2020

See, masks aren't so bad, relatively speaking.

China Tells Cabin Crew to Wear Diapers on Risky Covid Flights

https://twitter.com/prchovanec/status/1337182291697799169?s=20

December 11, 2020

He has flipped his lid.

I just want to stop the world from killing itself!

https://twitter.com/rudepundit/status/1337374428724948992?s=20

December 11, 2020

COVID19 & other pandemics are the result of our negative impact on the total environment.

As diversity declines on Earth, the possibility of a pandemic increases dramatically

Abstract
If we want to learn how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, we have to embrace the complexity of this global phenomenon and capture interdependencies across scales and contexts. Yet, we still lack systematic approaches that we can use to deal holistically with the pandemic and its effects. In this Discussion, we first introduce a framework that highlights the systemic nature of the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of the total environment as a self-regulating and evolving system comprising of three spheres, the Geosphere, the Biosphere, and the Anthroposphere. Then, we use this framework to explore and organize information from the rapidly growing number of scientific papers, preprints, preliminary scientific reports, and journalistic pieces that give insights into the pandemic crisis. With this work, we point out that the pandemic should be understood as the result of preconditions that led to depletion of human, biological, and geochemical diversity as well as of feedback that differentially impacted the three spheres. We contend that protecting and promoting diversity, is necessary to contribute to more effective decision-making processes and policy interventions to face the current and future pandemics.

Graphical abstract



Long but HIGHLY informative:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969720375458?via%3Dihub
https://twitter.com/DelthiaRicks/status/1337150834824589319?s=20