"My Mom Canceled Christmas And Invented A New Holiday. We Doubted Her At First — But Now It’s Our Favorite Day.", Amy McHugh, #Huffpost
"A decade ago, my mother announced we were no longer celebrating Christmas. Instead, we’d celebrate Seagull Day. I was sure she’d seen it on Pinterest.
'No, no,' she said. 'It’s something I thought up all on my own. We are going to decorate a tree with stale food from the cabinet and leave it for the seagulls to eat. Those guys must get hungry in winter when there aren’t any sandwiches to steal out of people’s hands.' "
This is a nice and happy family story, fit for the holiday season.
"Ocasio-Cortez Sounds Alarm On Supreme Court’s ‘Dangerous Creep’", #Huffpost
"'We have a broad level of tools to deal with misconduct, overreach and abuse of power, and the Supreme Court has not been receiving the adequate oversight necessary in order to preserve their own legitimacy,' Ocasio-Cortez declared.
And in the process, they themselves have been destroying the legitimacy of the court, which is profoundly dangerous for our entire democracy.'"
"The ruling also declared the debt forgiveness plan to be in violation of the court’s so-called major questions doctrine.
This doctrine allows the court to declare an executive branch policy that the court thinks wasn’t authorized by Congress to be unconstitutional if a majority of justices agree that it is too “major” a policy. Its application is highly subjective.
The major question doctrine acts as a 'get-out-of-text-free card' that conservative justices make 'magically appear' whenever they see an executive branch policy that goes against their ideological 'goals,' Justice Elena Kagan wrote in a dissent in the 2022 case of West Virginia v. EPA."
In that #Huffpost article about the #CNN hate fest last night, Michael Fanone weighs in:
“It’s worse than I could have ever imagined. It’s an absolute disaster,” he said. “There’s no way to fact-check this guy in real time. He’s a volcano of bullshit.”