Nowhere GirlIt has been repeated many times, but the idea that cis het men would go to any bother whatsoever pretending to be trans women in order to sexually assault someone when they do so all the time already and are rarely and barely punished for it is patently absurd, and yet we are constantly forced to address this nonexistent, made-up problem by people who just want trans people to disappear and die.
Polywogy
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Poster of inconsequentialities.
Joshua HollandThe climate provisions in the IRA were intended to spur this kind of "competition" and create a ripple effect. A big, big win that most people don't appreciate.
"The European Commission will propose a Net-Zero Industry Act that lays out a series of clean tech objectives for 2030 in order to compete with Washington's massive green subsidy package, President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday."
Steve HermanOver the past 24 hours, 28 Chinese aircraft entered the #Taiwan ADIZ, according to the defense ministry in Taipei.
Tyler SmithHappy #PublicDomain day to my American friends!
Like Thanksgiving, we celebrate later in Canada. Unlike Thanksgiving, we celebrate 20 years later, since #Trudeau brought in #copyright extensions that mean no new works will enter public domain until 2042.
The Canadian Government Makes its Choice: Implementation of Copyright Term Extension Without Mitigating Against the Harms - Michael Geist
The Canadian government plans to extend the term of copyright from the international standard of life of the author plus 50 years to life plus 70 years without mitigation measures that would have reduced the harms and burden of the extension. The Budget Implementation Act, a 443 page bill that adopts the omnibus approach the government had pledged to reject, was posted late yesterday by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's department and could be tabled in the House of Commons as early as today. Page 328 of the bill features the shoehorned amendments to the Copyright Act, including an extension of the term of copyright. While the government is not making the change retroactive (meaning works currently in the public domain stay there), no one seriously expected that to happen. What many had hoped - based on the government's own committee recommendations and copyright consultation - was to introduce mitigation measures to reduce the economic cost and cultural harm that comes from term extension. Instead, Freeland, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Innovation, Science and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne, and Canadian Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez have chosen to reject the recommendations of students, teachers, universities, librarians, IP experts, and their own Justice Minister.
Ken WhiteMurderball two years ago today: all murder, very little ball
Murderball today: all ball, very little murder
John OverholtJanuary 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
Public Domain Day 2023 | Duke University School of Law
Tweet By Jennifer Jenkins, Director of Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain January 1, 2023 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1927 are open to all! On January 1, 2023, copyrighted works from 1927 will enter the US public domain. 1 They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon. These include Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse and the final Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, the German science-fiction film Metropolis and Alfred Hitchcock’s first thriller, compositions by Louis Armstrong and Fats Waller, and a novelty song about ice cream.
Reach for the Stars 
I used to pool this question regularly Over There and the answers were always amusing.
Pop Quiz: What was Charles Schenck saying that Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes thought was so dangerous that it was the equivalent to "Shouting fire in a crowded theater?"
The Fourteenth AmendmentSection 4.
The validity of the public debt of the USA, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the USA nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the USA, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
The validity of the public debt of the USA, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the USA nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the USA, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
Sherrilyn IfillI’m a civil rights lawyer. I don’t want to practice before a Court that’s compromised. I want a fair Court. Expansion would make this particular Court more ideologically balanced. Agree. But w/o a real, enforced ethics infrastructure, there will be 18 justices not fully disclosing financials, not compelled to recuse, praying in chambers w/their own faith leaders, going on trips w/groups filing briefs in cases before them, owning stock in indiv companies whose interests are before the Court.
Paul FairieWhenever I'm tempted to think that a new thing seems too complicated, I read newspaper articles about pizza from the early 1950s.