@gfodor @esrtweet From Roe v. Wade: > First, the Court considered whether the case was moot, concluding that it was not. When the subject of litigation is “capable of repetition yet evading review,” a case need not be dismissed as moot.

RT @esrtweet: Donald Trump's actions since his inauguration have caused public discussion of some questions in Constitutional law. I'm not…

@ontothedrywall @QuetzalPhoenix No, that’s the character for adultery or rape

@nickcammarata This was literally the Nova festival. The “high valence” people on MDMA who’d led their guard down were gunned down by demonic terrorists. There’s a lesson there.

@MentisWave @cremieuxrecueil The problem with eliminating the nickel is that then the next smallest unit is the dime, which doesn’t evenly go into a quarter. I think we’re either already at or pretty close to the point where we could eliminate everything smaller than a quarter.

RT @cremieuxrecueil: Another neat fact is that pennies are–or shortly, *were*–the most commonly minted type of coin. The nickel is compara…

RT @aziz0nomics: Good riddance

@gonglei89 Note that the PRC changed a bunch of characters in the 1950s and ’60s to simplify the writing system, thereby breaking historical continuity and making it more difficult for modern readers (outside of Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan) to read old texts.

RT @FischerKing64: One reason for skepticism about the coming ‘brilliance’ of AI. The models have been trained on things like books, artic…

RT @Indian_Bronson: This is a national security, economic, social, cultural crisis. We have to fix this, within about ten years, or it’s a…

Oh no, Hamas University is getting its funding cut!

@mcbyrne @ArmandDoma This is democracy. You were defeated at the ballot box.

What’s up with all the people who think the federal government spends money super efficiently and the president hiring someone to audit spending is a “coup”? Blows my mind.

@JusticeTyrwhit @DirectorJTS @EricLevitz “Management” here is Trump; he’s the leader of the executive branch. You’re complaining about government employees being given access to government services while calling them “non government employees.” You’re a colossal moron.

The thing about Kanye is that no one pays attention to him or goes to his concerts because they care about his music (the only one of his songs I know off the top of my head is “Stronger,” which is highly derivative of a Daft Punk song). Everyone wants to see him have a meltdown.

@an0nygir1 @James_J_Marlow > Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions prohibits the taking of hostages.[1] It is also prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention and is considered a grave breach thereof.[2]

@JusticeTyrwhit @DirectorJTS @EricLevitz At every job I’ve ever had, all my expense reports were reviewed by a manager to make sure I wasn’t spending money frivolously. The fact that Congress authorized the overall program is not sufficient.

@KashPrime I was in Toronto in October and noticed the zoo had a bald eagle in their “ageing animals” exhibit:

RT @NiohBerg: President Trump on the three hostages released yesterday: “They literally look like the old pictures of Holocaust survivors.…