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Thursday, July 3rd, 2025

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    2:37a
    Federal court injunctions as overreach

    The Big Brutal Bill was going to strip federal courts of the power to issue injunctions to block specific unconstitutional or illegal practices no matter who the victim was. The decision on that bill has not yet been made, as far as I know. But the Supreme Court just did the deed.

    The Supreme Court's devastating decision effectively allows the bully to disregard the constitution, except against the specific plaintiffs that have sued about it.

    The same 9 justices upheld that power as legitimate when it was used against Biden's policies, and for a long time before that under other presidents.

    More about this.

    I've read that some lawyers are using a class-action suit to try to get around this change.

    2:37a
    Federal judiciary as meddlers

    Robert Reich: *Last night I couldn’t get out of my head that [the would-be emperor] is intent on abolishing the two branches of the government with the constitutional duty to constrain him.*

    2:37a
    Tick-bite that can cause meat allergy

    Ticks of a certain species, from the southeast US, cause a painful and lasting allergy to mammal meat and dairy, in humans they bite. Due to global heating, the ticks are spreading north and have been seen in New York and Maine, close to the northern border of the US.

    One could imagine that the spread of this allergy could reduce consumption of red meat and dairy thus curb global heating, but I don't think it would be enough to save civilization.

    2:37p
    Religion as political cudgel, Turkey

    The publication in Turkey of a cartoon which appears to show Muhammad and Moses shaking hands inspired Erdoğan's tyranny to revile and imprison the cartoonists.

    Apparently the idea of peace between religious groups is "against [the] sacred values" of religious fanatics.

    Condemnation of depicting Muhammad has not been a universal principle of Islam, and anyway, no religious group has the right to impose censorship on the public. Not Muslims in Turkey, not Christians in the US, and not Jews either.

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