goofy
April 23, 2024, 8:05pm
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sam·iz·dat
Thank you to Matt Taibbi for his bravery in printing the material given to him by the richest man in the world
Didn’t read due to paywall, but nevertheless sure this belongs here.
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goofy
April 27, 2024, 9:12pm
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In combined SCOTUS + poor media outlet news (particularly galling to see WaPo throw their hat in the ring on this when it is already a guaranteed 6-3 conservative W):
In Martin , however, the Ninth Circuit held that under the Eighth Amendment, cities like Grants Pass can only enforce anti-camping laws if there are enough shelter beds for everyone who is “involuntarily” unhoused. The idea is that a government that is already failing its poorest residents does not also have carte blanche to lock them up for the crime of existing without a private place in which to do it.
Last week, the housing policy experts at the Washington Post editorial board urged the Court to take swift action to rectify this egregious miscarriage of justice. In an editorial titled “There Is No Constitutional Right to Pitch Your Tent On the Sidewalk,” the board lauds the “good intentions” behind the Ninth Circuit’s decision, but frames Martin as a case of judicial overreach that has “arguably…undermined quality of life not only for those who live or work near unsafe encampments, but also for the homeless people themselves.” This remarkable passage reveals a lot about how the board primarily conceives of homelessness: not as a problem for people who are suffering, but as an inconvenience for journalists at legacy media outlets whose office window views might be marred by the sight of people suffering in public.
The problem with Martin , the board argues, is that it created a series of perverse incentives: “Without a credible threat of sanctions against public camping, officials have little leverage to induce people to take shelter beds when they are available,” the board writes. This is (at best) a lazy oversimplification of the Ninth Circuit’s holding, which is, again, pretty limited: Only if cities have beds for everyone can they start arresting unhoused people who do not use them. Despite what the Fox News chyron-esque headline might lead you to believe, Martin did not invent a “constitutional right to pitch your tent on the sidewalk.” It prevents the state from jailing people for being biologically incapable of staying awake indefinitely.
After criticizing Martin for ostensibly doing more harm than good, the editorial arrives at its most casually unhinged assertion: “Federal judges shouldn’t be in the business of issuing injunctions while assessing the quantity and quality of shelters,” the board opines. But issuing injunctions to protect legal rights, and subsequently evaluating compliance with those injunctions, are things that federal courts do—sorry for the legal jargon—all the fucking time . To the extent that Martin transforms judges into amateur “homeless policy czars,” as the board puts it, this is no different than what judges do when deciding cases about abortion access, or immigration enforcement, or voting rights, or student debt relief, or any of the multitudinous policy questions that may come before them.
I am not saying that a legal system that entrusts this much political power to a small group of unaccountable, life-tenured lawyers is without its faults. But the judges who are trying to apply Martin to complex real-world circumstances are not doing anything inappropriate or out of the ordinary. They are simply spending their time and resources to protect a group that Washington Post editorial board members do not especially care about.
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d10
April 28, 2024, 12:02am
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Idk if they thought this would be a funny pun but this headline is terrible.
God, I thought we were done with the WHCP, what an absolute embarrassment at this point.
https://x.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1784366461152075878
goofy
April 28, 2024, 1:21am
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Colin Jost is hosting, lol this is gonna be the worst one in history
The one thing Trump had right. Lol these self important trust fund babies playing dress up to laugh at bad jokes as they let the country descend into a fascist hellhole. Should have ended this debacle forever when Michelle Wolff called them out.
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Poor pitchbot, how can he top this
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goofy
May 2, 2024, 3:23pm
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Guest essay from a founder of this piece of shit
Compact is an American online magazine that began operating in March 2022. The magazine was co-founded by Edwin Aponte, a populist and founder of The Bellows, Matthew Schmitz, a former editor of the conservative ecumenical journal First Things, and conservative opinion journalist Sohrab Ahmari. When it was founded, The New York Times described the magazine's listed contributors and contributing editors as ideologically diverse, including religiously conservative Catholics, populists, and Plann...
Wtf does this even mean?
How about
yes, rape is bad but the actuarial impact is better than you think
Someone needs to write a definitive history of how the NYT turned into an absolute clownshow. it used to be a serious paper sometime pre-W Bush?
I think the decline aligns almost perfectly with the current shitlib nepo baby assuming the throne. The guy is an absolute dope.
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Surf
May 2, 2024, 4:28pm
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Also seems they so shook to appear left wing bias that they intentionally publish some stuff that I genuinely believe they think is bullshit but somehow believe that will insulate from criticism
pvn
May 2, 2024, 4:54pm
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Yeah cf the Tom cotton op-ed
Bush-era NYT had garbage politics when it came to the war, but it wasn’t ever this insultingly stupid.
