Notices by Andy Daitsman (adaitsman@mastodon.online)

@i_gvf @therobburgessshow
Biden is not going to release his delegates and the convention will not be contested.

@i_gvf @therobburgessshow
I am no expert on this whatsoever, but all of Biden’s delegates are pledged to vote for him on the first ballot. By endorsing Harris, I believe, he is not releasing them from that pledge but rather shifting it to her.
I don’t expect a contested convention.

@hannu_ikonen
The Supreme Court just proved in the Cargill decision that it does a very much worse job of adjudicating rules than the experts in the agencies it just decided can no longer have the power to make rules.

I mean, Justice Thomas included six diagrams and a video to demonstrate that a machine gun is not a machine gun!

I understand that Emory University economics professor Caroline Fohlin committed battery on a police officer's fist with her head while he was arresting her for asking why he was finally restraining a nonviolent Gaza protester. After committing that battery, her head then struck the concrete pavement and the officer applied zip ties to her wrists. She then spent the night in jail.
All hail the brave Atlanta PD for keeping us safe from rogue professors!

This news makes me sick to my stomach. Israelism is a movie about Jews like me, raised as Zionists but after travel to Israel and observing the profound repression Israel imposes on Palestinians have come to reject the Zionist project. (In my case, the Sabra and Shatila massacres during the invasion of Lebanon were the final straw.) Zionists recognize the ideological threat Jews like me pose to them so they paint us as anti-Semites, closing down free debate on campus.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/university-pennsylvania-hunter-college-israelism-screening_n_6568e323e4b028b0f3cf8517