Busy afternoon, here's an open thread, all topics welcome.

BTD - I'm really busy today and tomorrow. Maybe something for the weekend.

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TalkLeft's webmaster Colin and I have spent the last five days re-constructing the old TalkLeft Duke Lacrosse Forums from 2006 and creating new TalkLeft Forums for the George Zimmerman case.

While I will continue to report here on major Zimmerman case news when it occurs, most of the case discussion from now on will be on the Forums, so that TalkLeft can get back to other topics. For more about the new forums, see our announcement here.

The Duke La Crosse Forums, which had 75,000 comments as of 2009, have been restored through mid-2009 and moved here. (In 2010, when we moved servers, the content after October, 2006 got lost and it took until this weekend to find and restore it. The restoration is for historical purposes only, the Duke Forums are closed.) [More...]

The final season of Weeds begins tonight. Here's what I thought would happen when the last season ended.

The Prime Minister of New Zealand has rejected calls for an inquiry into the Kim DotCom raids.

The New York Times reports young voters "are looking past" Obama. But when you read the article, the stats show he still has a lead among them and there's little reason to think they'd vote for Romney.

Exit polls show Pena Nieto has won the Mexico election. We'll see what he does with U.S. drug policy, but it's doubtful much will change. Still, Washington is nervous.

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The polls are open in Mexico as the country votes for its new President. Enrique Pena Nieto of the PRI is expected to win.

Heat waves and power outages on the East coast, fires burning in Colorado and the West.

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Tour de France has commenced today.

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Spain-Italy in the Euro2012 final Sunday. VAMOS ESPANA!!! Our banks are broker than yours!!!

Tour de France starts tomorrow. Wiggins the favorite. I took a flyer on Valverde at 33-1.

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Your turn. All topics welcome.

Get your Obama SUX jollies out here.

I won't be in this thread.

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Update (TL):

107 degrees according to my dashboard. Maybe it's the thin air, or that we're a mile closer to the sun, but whatever it is, it feels surreal to be outside. And very uncomfortable.

The Supreme Court issued its decision on Arizona SB 1070 "papers, please" law. the upshot, most got struck down but Arizona law enforcement officials can report undocumented persons to the feds.

Of particular note is Justice Scalia's bizarre rant in dissent:

Would the States conceivably have entered into the Union if the Constitution itself contained the Court’s holding [that the national government has supreme jurisdiction over immigration policy]? [...] Through ratification of the fundamental charter that the Convention produced, the States ceded much of their sovereignty to the Federal Government. But much of it remained jealously guarded[. ...] Now, imagine a provision—perhaps inserted right after Art. I, §8, cl. 4, the Naturalization Clause—which included among the enumerated powers of Congress “To establish Limitations upon Immigration that will be exclusive and that will be enforced only to the extent the President deems appropriate.” The delegates to the Grand Convention would have rushed to the exits.

Never before in my memory has a justice questioned that ""[t]he Government of the United States has broad, undoubted power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens. See Toll v. Moreno, 458 U. S. 1, 10 (1982)[.]"

Until today.

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104 degrees today, another record broken. The town of Manitou Springs, outside of Colorado Springs, was evacuated today due to the spreading Waldo Canyon Fire. More than 11,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes.

All eyes will be on the Supreme Court this week, as the fate of the Affordable Care Act and Arizona's Immigration law will be decided. Also this week: A decision on whether life without parole for juveniles violates the 8th Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

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The New York Times reports on what a Supreme Court defeat of the Affordable Care Act may mean for Obama.

Paul Krugman on the problems with prison privatization.

Dick Cheney is delighted over daughter Mary's marriage to her partner Heather.

Mexico goofs in drug arrest. It parades a 24 year old in front of the cameras, proclaiming to the word he was Chapo Guzman's son. Turns out, he was an innocent car salesman with no connection to Guzman.

BTD -Spain-France at 2:45. Must see at the Euros. Also too, Yanks to avenge loss to Mets yesterday. Let's go SPAIN! Let's go Yanks!

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