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🌊#TeamHarris2024 🌊 Semi retired law enforcement officer with 15 years experience. #TheATL-Tikkun Olam
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UPDATE: Reyes now walking through every finding of the studies Hegseth relied on for transgender ban. Virtually every finding cuts against Hegseth's conclusion that it supports the ban. She wants to know why she should defer to his "cherrypicking" and "misleading" analysis.
March 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Reyes notes that a key study relied on by Hegseth for his transgender ban actually concluded that transgender service members were *more* deployable and had fewer lapses in service than people diagnosed w depression who are not automatically excluded from service.
March 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Reyes then recounted meeting Barrett and appreciating that the new justice had complimented a photo of Reyes' dog Scout. For more on Scout www.politico.com/news/2024/10...
March 12, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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While we're waiting: Reyes began the hearing in her usual friendly but frenetic way. She asked the new DOJ lawyer, Jason Manion, whether it was true he previously worked for Ted Cruz on the Amy Barrett confirmation. Then she asked him what it was like. He said "fast."
March 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Judge Reyes taking a 30 minute break asking DOJ lawyer to read the reports and compare how they are quoted in the Hegseth transgender ban policy. Then she wants to hear DOJ's position on whether she should rely on Hegseth's representation of those reports.
March 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Reyes now chewing out DOJ lawyer for not having read the three reports cited by Secretary Hegseth's transgender ban policy — she says the policy "egregiously misquoted" the reports and wants to get into that, and she can't fathom that DOJ lawyer hasn't read them.
March 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reyes now chewing out DOJ lawyer for not having read the three reports cited by Secretary Hegseth's transgender ban policy — she says the policy "egregiously misquoted" the reports and wants to get into that, and she can't fathom that DOJ lawyer hasn't read them.
March 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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REYES notes that SecDef Hegseth RTed "Transgender troops are disqualified from service without an exemption."

DOJ trying to argue that Hegseth was using "shorthand" and didn't mean it that way. Reyes not buying it: "Explain to me why i should ignore that?"
March 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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REYES now wondering how the government intends to define people who "exhibit symptoms of gender dysphoria," which could include all sorts of things -- like depression. "This seems like it opens up the entire scope to basically anything."

DOJ says there is no guidance on this yet
March 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Reyes has kicked off a crucial hearing President Trump's effort to ban transgender people from serving in the military. She is beginning by pressing DOJ lawyer on the changes in military policy toward transgender people beginning in 2017.
March 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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It’s time for everyone who writes for the Post to quit. Put this disgraced enterprise out of its misery.
February 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Oh, looky—here’s an ACTUAL ad paid for by ELON MUSK that Bezos’s Washington Post DID Run a few months ago.
February 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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For those of you I don't already know from the other place, my apologies. I tend to get sort of sarcastic about issues like this.
December 4, 2024 at 1:45 PM
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Seems like there's a better way for people to have access to the courts? Maybe televising proceedings for starters? We do have that technology. & if the Justices had to spend time in line with people they're supposed to serve, I'm sure they could come up with a better plan for in person access too.
Nearly 50 people bundled up in line overnight awaiting seats for tomorrow morning’s SCOTUS oral argument on healthcare for transgender minors
December 4, 2024 at 1:44 PM
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Fear of books is fear of ideas. It's fear of democracy itself. Let's ban that!
December 4, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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I alphabetized my spices today, which is pretty much the only thing I felt up for today.
December 5, 2024 at 3:51 AM
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What’s with all the “alpha males” looking to men like Tucker and Rogan for what to believe and for other male approval? Now they all look act and believe the same.

Sounds kind of Beta to me actually
December 4, 2024 at 7:02 PM
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December 5, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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Why is it called gerrymandering instead of cheating?
December 5, 2024 at 5:19 AM
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pete hegseth doesn't want women to serve in combat roles yet he has his mother out here fighting his battles....
December 5, 2024 at 1:23 AM
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Dear President Biden,

In the spirit of Dark Brandon, please use one of your Executive Orders to CANCEL ALL STUDENT DEBT.

That way, if trump wanted to reverse it, he'd have to disappoint all those families and reinstate all that debt.

You have immunity.
Just do it.

Signed,
US
December 4, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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I think President Biden should pardon a shit ton more people -- a bunch of marijuana convictions, but mostly preemptive pardons to take trump's retribution targets off the backs of his press and political "enemies list."

No fucks left, Joe.
Just do it.
December 3, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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7. So, employment didn't decline between September and January because of the wage increase. It consistently declines during that period every year, which you can see reflected in the red line in the chart below. That's why the BLS offers seasonally adjusted data, represented by the blue line.
December 3, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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6. Every year, there is a modest decline in employment at fast food restaurants from November through January, “when many people travel for holidays like Thanksgiving or Christmas and spend time cooking and eating with family.”
December 3, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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5. It's based on a Wall Street Journal article from March 2024 that claimed that, between September 2023 and January 2024, employment at fast food restaurants in California decreased by 1.3% or 9,500 jobs.

One issue is that this period was before the law even went into effect.

But it gets worse
December 3, 2024 at 3:31 PM