They slightly reduce the distance and amount of infected moisture from your lungs spreading into the surrounding air a bit as you exhale, but that's pretty much the extent of their benefit. Not enough to matter, though, as evidenced by that CDC study.
No. Even the Hawaiian judge needed someone to bring that case to her for judgment. The inability to initiate cases by themselves is one of the fundamental checks and balances keeping the judicial branch of government from becoming too powerful.
Fucking up and committing to contract obligations based on dodgy expectations doesn't mean you should be released from those obligations just because the expectations fall through. After all, if us regular people took a loan and expected to be able to pay it off based on the expectation of getting a big raise or a well-paid job soon, we wouldn't be getting out of the loan just because we fail to get that raise or job.
Nah, looks like the URL was changed because he pinned it.
https://twitter.com/realjameswoods/status/1264840254361489410?s=21