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One of the men photographed carrying zip-tie handcuffs on the Senate floor unmasked as a decorated Air Force veteran. My latest for @newyorker: https://t.co/6gt0wVAOTt
— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 9, 2021
2. First, an important distinction: The military can *recall* most retirees to active duty. But that's not the same thing as whether they can be tried by court-martial for offenses committed *while* retired (and before being recalled).
That's where things get complicated.
3. The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) authorizes courts-martial for *any* offense committed by those who have retired from a "regular component" and are receiving pay, along with members of the Fleet Reserve and Fleet Marine Corps Reserve (who are effectively retirees).
4. But the UCMJ authorizes courts-martial for offenses committed by those who have retired from *reserve* components only while "receiving hospitalization from an armed force." And #SCOTUS held in 1955 that the military cannot try those who have *separated* from the armed forces.
5. So whether Brock can be tried by court-martial — under current law, anyway — for his role in Wednesday's attacks depends upon his *exact* status as of Wednesday, i.e., whether he is separated from the Air Force, retired from active duty, or retired from the reserves.
But...
So, if the government has accepted that the bills had these flaws where do those people stand who were defending them as perfect?
— smg (@sialmirzagoraya) December 9, 2020
The eyewash that the proposal is aimed to put better clauses in place. A very nice example is contract farming column itself. GOI proposal suggests that ‘PAN card registration will continue but state govt can register the trader if it WANTS to- literally shifting onus to state.
Another example is that onus is shifted on farmer himself to go to the higher court with his expenses. The trader can choose to go to SDM at primary level. Both the options are kept open. This amendment proposal is literally a joke.
Regarding the MSP, govt proposal nowhere cites that it will be assured at C2+50 formula. It is indicated that a written assurance will be given. This is very ambiguous for govt with legal battery of dozens. And disappointing too.
There are concerns on payment systems that haven’t been addressed in the proposal and have been kept as ‘as per understanding between trader and farmer’. This is ambiguous again. Why isn’t DBT assured at govt agency procurement?
The 1st person on your list was a white supremacist who tortured and then murdered William Frederick Mueller, his wife Nancy Ann Mueller, and his 8-year-old stepdaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Powell.
Say their names instead.
Thread continues 🧵👇
The 13 people murdered by Trump's death row killing spree:
— Cori Bush (@CoriBush) January 17, 2021
Daniel Lee
Wesley Purkey
Dustin Honken
Lezmond Mitchell
Keith Nelson
William LeCroy Jr.
Christopher Vialva
Orlando Hall
Brandon Bernard
Alfred Bourgeois
Lisa Montgomery
Corey Johnson
Dustin Higgs
Say their names.
The 2nd person on your list kidnapped, dismembered, and set on fire 16-year-old Jennifer Long before dumping what was left of her in a septic pond.
Say Jennifer Long’s name. (/2)
The 3rd person on your list was a meth dealer. When he found out law enforcement penetrated his drug dealing operation, he murdered five people in attempt to evade justice.
Two of his victims were police informants Greg Nicholson and Terry DeGeus.
Say their names. (/3)
The 3rd individual on your list’s other victims were the informant Greg Nicholson’s girlfriend, Lori Duncan, and her two daughters, 10 y/o Kandace Duncan and 6 y/o Amber Duncan.
Say the Duncan family’s names. (/4)
The 4th individual on your list murdered a 9 y/o girl named Tiffany Lee.
When he did not immediately succumb to her throat being slit, the man on your list beat her to death by striking her in the head with rocks.
Say Tiffany Lee’s name. (/5)
Focus.
This is how our system of government was designed to work. These soldiers swore to defend the constitution.
They are doing exactly that!
Love this, the quintessential minutemen, and minutewomen, guarding democracy.
— Eduardo Sanchez (@edusanchez19us) January 13, 2021
This time, the MAGAs were coming.... https://t.co/AjNticJmyq
Inside: My Fellow Americans; Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism; SC GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges"; Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers"; and more!
Archived at: https://t.co/X4sEk5g09z
#Pluralistic
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My Fellow Americans: Audio, text and commentary for every president's inaugural address.
https://t.co/LR7wvnV8i0
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My Fellow Americans is Yuvraj Sing's open licensed (CC0) /name your price book tracing the histories of US presidential inaugural addresses; it reproduces each address along with a scholarly essay exploring its context.https://t.co/xbfkZNleKS
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 4, 2021
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Digital manorialism vs neofeudalism: Tech companies as warlords with walled gardens.
https://t.co/uQ9rDCA8i3
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These warlords - Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft - all have the best cybermercenaries money can buy stationed at their gates and on their parapets, and they will defend you against anyone the warlord declares to be your enemy.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 4, 2021
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South Carolina GOP moots modest improvements to "magistrate judges": Lewis Carroll was an optimist.
https://t.co/1AQpZYwhOj
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In 2019, @propublica and @postandcourier ran blockbuster investigations into SC's magistrate judges: inexperienced political appointees with no training who held South Carolinians' lives in their hands - and who use the bench to extract bribes, deal in overt racism and worse.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 5, 2021
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Pavilions replacing union workers with "gig workers": Prop 22's other shoe drops.
https://t.co/hlX0A0S96c
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#Prop22 was the most expensive ballot initiative in history: "gig economy" companies firehosed $200m over voters, outspending 48/50 state legislative races on a single question.
— Cory Doctorow #BLM (@doctorow) January 5, 2021
That question: can employers misclassify workers as contractors and escape legal obligations?
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Good God, how frustrating.
Call me with questions, Chris. Happy to fill you in on a decade or so of work on the matter.
The reason I keep thinking about the gallows erected outside the Capitol is that it appeared to be *an actual gallows*, with a noose and a platform. And I truly wonder if this was intended for something more than just...symbolism. pic.twitter.com/QIAHvO69Ou
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 9, 2021
“Zip-ties: what are they for?”
Layoff the cops, you guys - they really want to get to the bottom of this for us pic.twitter.com/IyQ5rnyJiM
— Provost of Antifa / \u0633\u064a\u062f\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0641\u062a\u0646\u0629 (@MsEntropy) January 10, 2021
Twitter is infested with some of the absolute dumbest takes I have ever seen on the issue of white supremacy, insurgency, and political violence.
Please vet your sources.
People are falling for so much utterly ridiculous shit, my God.
And indeed it is...
Just like to dedicate this song to everyone commentating on the judicial review of TfL's streetspace plans due to receive judgement tomorrow.https://t.co/Kj7TVIjZ0O
— Alex Ingram (@nuttyxander) January 19, 2021
Transport for London proposed during the first wave of the pandemic to adopt a 'Streetspace Plan' (though a lot of 'people called is Streetscape) and rough theory was "hang on pandemic means fewer people can be on public transport, can't let everyone move to cars, do something"
This was of course at the same time as the government changed the Network Management Duty, which was sold as a major change in guidance that would make a lot happen, very quickly.
As campaigners may well be aware, it didn't quite pan out that way on a national basis and a lot of stuff happened, and then unhappened. Quite a lot of things were done that wasn't that great. Some great stuff happened that got ripped out. And some great suff remains.
A big problem was what to do with Central London. So, the Mayor proposed a series of corridors to be made traffic free. As is usual with a Mayor it was promised to be world leading.