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  1. > “For a program that’s been around since 2013, it was shocking that you’d come
    > across its cancellation, effectively, in the corner of the bowels of a subpage of the internet.”

    TWEEET!

    Doubly-mixed metaphor; 10-yard penalty. Repeat first down.

    #whistle #football #penalty #metaphor #MixedMetaphor #LanguagePolice

  2. The court, a panel of 3 Democratic appointees, did NOT overturn the conviction. But it said that a lower court judge erred in deciding that #Brock should face a stiffer sentence for “substantial interference w/the administration of justice,” ruling that the #penalty does not apply to #crimes committed at the Capitol.
    
≥100 people convicted in connection w/the #Jan6 attack have had their punishments shaped by that enhancement, & they could now ask to be sentenced anew.

    #law #insurrection #Trump