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Chuck DarwinRepublicans have declared war on Biden and middle class people who want to save for retirement. Odds are you’ve never heard of their shock troops: Judge <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jeremy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jeremy</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Kernodle" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Kernodle</a> or Judge <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OConnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OConnor</a>, both federal judges appointed to Texas districts by Donald Trump and George W. Bush respectively. For reference, both are hard-core rightwingers: 🔸Kernodle was one of the 13 federal judges who pledged not to hire clerks from Columbia University after the student demonstrations there against Israel’s destruction of Gaza; 🔸O’Connor struck down the Gun Control Act of 1968 and tried to take down Obama’s Affordable Care Act.But even if you’ve never heard of them, ♦️they’re trying their best to have a huge "impact" on your ability to comfortably retire when the time comes, or on how you can live off your retirement funds if you’re already past 65. Millions of Americans use investment advisors to manage their retirement funds; the total that could be affected by these judges’ actions is, according to The Washington Post yesterday, 🔹more than $770 billion.<a href="https://hartmannreport.com/p/golden-years-or-golden-scams-the-2f1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://hartmannreport.com/p/golden-years-or-golden-scams-the-2f1</a>

Chuck DarwinElon <a href="https://c.im/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Musk</a>’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/judge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#judge</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/shopping" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#shopping</a> attempt to get back at advertisers has <a href="https://c.im/tags/failed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#failed</a>.The CEO of X (formerly Twitter) is trying to sue a coalition of advertisers who he claims conspired against the social networking site by refusing to buy advertisements. Reed <a href="https://c.im/tags/OConnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OConnor</a>, a federal judge in the northern district of Texas, <a href="https://c.im/tags/recused" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#recused</a> himself from the lawsuit Tuesday after NPR reported that he owns stock in <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tesla</a>, another one of Musk’s companies.Musk appears to have chosen the northern district because it is a favorite of conservatives, as almost all of its judges have been appointed by Republicans, even though the case has little, if anything, to do with <a href="https://c.im/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Texas</a>. O’Connor has a reputation for giving the right the rulings they are looking for. For example, he has repeatedly tried to gut or eliminate the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Affordable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Affordable</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Care" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Care</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Act" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Act</a>, popularly known as Obamacare, even going after HIV drugs and cancer screenings. NPR’s report found that O’Connor owns between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Tesla stock, which gives the appearance of a <a href="https://c.im/tags/conflict" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#conflict</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/of" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#of</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/interest" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#interest</a> and ultimately seems to have led to O’Connor’s recusal. But while that will delay the advertiser lawsuit, O’Connor is still presiding over a different Musk lawsuit against <a href="https://c.im/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Matters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Matters</a>, filed in November, accusing the liberal media watchdog of defaming X by pointing out the rise in <a href="https://c.im/tags/hate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#hate</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#speech</a> on the site.<a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/184851/elon-musk-loses-judge-lawsuit-x-twitter-advertisers" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://newrepublic.com/post/184851/elon-musk-loses-judge-lawsuit-x-twitter-advertisers</a>

Chuck Darwin⚠️Suing advertisers⚠️"Mr. Free Speech" is also availing himself of the courts to try to force companies to advertise on X.On Tuesday, X filed a lawsuit against the World Federation of Advertisers ( <a href="https://c.im/tags/WFA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WFA</a> ), an advertising trade group, in the Wichita Falls Division of the Northern District of Texas. Why Wichita Falls, some 300 miles from Austin, where Tesla is located? Because the Northern District of Texas enthusiastically embraces judge shopping, and every case in Wichita Falls goes to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OConnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OConnor</a>, a George W. Bush appointee who 💥routinely tries to throw out the whole of the Affordable Care Act 💥 and is a reliable vote for anything conservatives want. 🔥The WFA announced Thursday that it’s shutting down because it does not have the financial resources to fight X in court.🔥Musk already has another case before Reed O’Connor on a similarly twisted legal theory.Late last year, X sued Media Matters in O’Connor’s court after Media Matters accurately pointed out that ads were appearing next to the Nazi and white nationalist content that is rife on X now. That case shouldn’t exist, period, and it especially shouldn’t be in O’Connor’s courtroom. As Mike Masnick pointed out over at Techdirt, X is incorporated in Nevada, with headquarters in California. Media Matters is in DC, and the Media Matters writer named in the suit is in Maryland.👉The only connection to Texas is that Reed O’Connor is very friendly to conservatives. 👈And O’Connor has already proven himself eager to help Musk along. Although he’s a Tesla shareholder, he has not recused himself from the case. And even though Media Matters has a pending motion to dismiss precisely because the lawsuit should not be in Texas, O’Connor refused to stay discovery, 💥which means Media Matters is racking up litigation costs while O’Connor sits on the motion to dismiss, 💥pending since March. Back to the advertisers and X’s latest lawsuit. X CEO Linda Yaccarino did an “open letter” explaining why X is suing the WFA, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, and four individual companies — CVS Health, Mars, Orsted, and Unilever. It’s an antitrust lawsuit over what X calls an “illegal boycott” that has “cost X billions of dollars.” 😨How dare companies not advertise on X, which Yaccarino calls a “unique, dynamic, and safe environment”? 😨The failure of private companies to give Musk and Yaccarino money is, per Yaccarino, “threatening your global town square.”Had the federal courts not gone full Calvinball over the last several years, it would be easy to say this nonsense would be thrown out. These are <a href="https://c.im/tags/private" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#private</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#companies</a>, and to the extent they are boycotting X, they have a <a href="https://c.im/tags/First" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#First</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Amendment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Amendment</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#right</a> to do so — in two ways:🔹First, boycotts based on political reasons, such as not wanting to support Nazis, are considered <a href="https://c.im/tags/protected" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#protected</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#speech</a>. 🔹Next, the First Amendment provides for <a href="https://c.im/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#freedom</a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/association" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#association</a> and freedom from association. You aren’t obliged to engage in speech you find morally repugnant or spend money subsidizing someone else’s speech you find repugnant. Indeed, that concept is at the heart of so much litigation by evangelical conservatives who don’t want to bake a cake for a same-sex couple or allow their insurer to provide birth control for their employees. But don’t expect Reed O’Connor or any other conservative judges to display the same tender concern for Media Matters or companies that don’t want their ads to run next to hate speech. ♦️Musk is, without a doubt, a uniquely terrible individual. While his wealth and fame would always insulate him from some level of consequences, ♦️thanks to the dysfunctional federal judiciary, these days, he can truly thrive. <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericaPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AmericaPAC</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/actual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#actual</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#crime</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/toothlessness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#toothlessness</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/slowness" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#slowness</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jacob" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jacob</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wohl" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Wohl</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Jack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Jack</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Burkman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Burkman</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NLRB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NLRB</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/AmericaPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AmericaPAC</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NLRB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NLRB</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tesla</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/massive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#massive</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#racism</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SpaceX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SpaceX</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Alan</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Albright" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Albright</a>

Chuck DarwinHis campaign forced Sinead O'Connor to scrap a 1997 Jerusalem concert. Now he is a Cabinet minister <a href="https://c.im/tags/Death" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Death</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/threats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#threats</a> forced Irish pop singer <a href="https://c.im/tags/Sinead" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sinead</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OConnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OConnor</a> to call off a peace concert in Jerusalem in the summer of 1997. At the time, a young man named <a href="https://c.im/tags/Itamar" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Itamar</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ben" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ben</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/Gvir" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Gvir</a> took credit for the campaign against her.Today, he is Israel’s national security minister.The transformation of Ben-Gvir from a fringe Israeli extremist trying to take down O’Connor’s coexistence-themed concert to a powerful minster overseeing the Israeli police force reflects the dramatic <a href="https://c.im/tags/rise" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#rise</a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Israel</a>’s <a href="https://c.im/tags/far" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#far</a>-<a href="https://c.im/tags/right" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#right</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/sinead-oconnor-itamar-bengvir-jerusalem-concert-e08c0903f413e8fb56663cf2adb0c0ef" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://apnews.com/article/sinead-oconnor-itamar-bengvir-jerusalem-concert-e08c0903f413e8fb56663cf2adb0c0ef</a>

Chuck DarwinJudge's Decision Would Make Some No-Cost Cancer Screenings a Thing of the Past - Scientific AmericanA federal judge on Thursday <a href="https://c.im/tags/overturned" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#overturned</a> a portion of the Affordable Care Act that makes <a href="https://c.im/tags/preventive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#preventive</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/services" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#services</a>, such as some <a href="https://c.im/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cancer</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/screenings" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#screenings</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#free</a> to enrollees, a decision that could affect health insurance policyholders nationwide.The decision from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas could open the door for insurers or employers to <a href="https://c.im/tags/reinstate" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#reinstate</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/copayments" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#copayments</a> for some of those preventive services, although many may be reluctant or unable to do so, at least immediately.The ruling by U.S. District <a href="https://c.im/tags/Judge" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Judge</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Reed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Reed</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OConnor" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#OConnor</a> builds on a September judgment in which he also said the ACA requirement that employers cover preexposure prophylaxis treatment to prevent HIV violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.His ruling is the latest shot in the legal battle over the ACA. “Previous cases threatened the very existence of the law and fundamental protections. This decision does not do that,” said Larry Levitt, KFF executive vice president for health policy. But “it strikes down a portion of the law, albeit a very popular one, that is used by a lot of people.”It is almost certain to be <a href="https://c.im/tags/appealed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#appealed</a>, possibly by both sides: the conservative groups that brought the case and had hoped the decision would be broader, and the Biden administration, which supports the <a href="https://c.im/tags/ACA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ACA</a>.<a href="https://khn.org/news/article/braidwood-becerra-aca-preventive-services-court-decision-reed-oconnor/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://khn.org/news/article/braidwood-becerra-aca-preventive-services-court-decision-reed-oconnor/</a>

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