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Yet another banger from @docseuss.bsky.social. I highly recommend you read the first article first if you haven't, because I'm sequentialist and such beliefs are embedded in the core of my being. Also because it perfectly describes what games are missing. docseuss.medium.com/first-person...
Pritzker on Trump sending troops into cities: "He has other aims other than fighting crime... he would like to stop the elections in 2026 or frankly take control of those elections. He'll just claim there's some problem with an election and then he's got troops on the ground that can take control."
Pretty sure that's an 8th Amendment violation.
By law an enemy is ordinarily a foreign subject in some open hostility with the United States. There is no requirement for a formal declaration of war, though that does make the charge a lot easier to prove. For example, the AUMF functionally defined "enemies" without a formal declaration of war.
Enemies don't have to be declared.
You don't need war for treason. It also includes "adhering to [the United States'] enemies" or "giving them aid and comfort." Conviction requires at least two witnesses to the same overt act or a confession in open court.
But the statement doesn't say that. It says he was injured later after he left the scene and was driving somewhere else.
Cave, box of scraps, etc.
Yeah or Jerry's in his 80s and was lucky, not smart. Maybe Jerry's vibes-based approach is yet again biting him.
Why I oughta...
For sure. The lesson is focusing on process over outcome is how prosecutors become...well, Kamala Harris style prosecutors. Paxton has his job because he's winning procedurally, not because he's factually innocent.
One of the most insightful things I've ever heard concerned gays and trans people in the military. A good friend who's an officer told me that if respecting gay and trans rights an order, it doesn't matter what troops personally believe, they'll comply. We need something similar. Make it law.
Not at all, I'm adding not criticizing. I think the paradox of tolerance coupled with the success of Republican cheating necessitates that the left (Dems are hopeless) go further then Mamdani and Planter to secure the future.
I know several people who listen to him with rapt attention. There's a reason he became popular enough that Ron Howard directed his memoir. I understand *you* don't see it but the appeal is not meant for you. Again, it's for people who care about style over substance and he knows how to bullshit.
Remember, this is also where we get Juneteenth. Texas celebrates the traitors at the Alamo, but there's also a deep connection with the immigrant experience. It's a study in contradictions. And it's bumbling along despite the oligarchy that runs it.
Sincerely doubt they will, Americans take a lot of their lives for granted. Separately, I think if you're not from Texas or haven't really been there, there's a certain fascination with it as a little fail state. But it's a place that pushes through despite Paxton and Abbott.
I dunno, that crossroads story has some real lasting energy.
Jamelle, you're brilliant. Miller is the most dangerous person in this administration. He functionally controls the Stasi. RFK, Jr. has a lot of power, but his ability to harm is dwarfed by Miller's.
Real talk, I love mixing black tie up with colorful paisley bowties/pocket squares. Do you think it's possible to pull off something similar with a Nehru jacket given the collar?
For *you*. Vance is incredibly charismatic and it's dangerous to ignore it. If you only listen to how he speaks and not what he's actually saying, he's very persuasive. Style over substance, as a Liverpudlian baker says, but that's what people gravitate towards.
...I should get the print edition.
I repeat: drugs are a hell of a drug. Bannon is Alex Jones with a less desperate grift. All this said, there is a Cheney now who's worse: fucking Stephen Miller. That self-hating Nazi shithead is the most likely reason we'll end up in Fallout. There's no one in the administration more evil.
It's truly fascinating how most people just do not understand we would already be in anarchy but for the American experiment being held together with the duct tape of underpaid bureaucrats doing their level best to not get fired for no reason while understaffed and underresourced.
I generally agree with this. I also think it's fine to learn lessons from people that were on the wrong side of history. Lee had some interesting tactical ideas that are worth looking at. He doesn't deserve any honors despite that.
"The Bro"
Well Cheney had goals outside of himself. He had (and has, fucker isn't dead) a vision for the world. Bannon is more focused on himself than he is on some broader plan. And caring about his image is what's killing it.
Whatever their intentions, I increasingly feels like we're being pushed to the edge of a cliff. It's felt this way for a decade, but BLM and MeToo were ways to push back and stay away from the edge. The regime not giving a fuck this time invites a harder response.
Drugs are a hell of a drug.
Meanwhile, consider a movie like Encanto or Frozen. Banger soundtracks, but weaker stories that don't quite have the same appeal. Encanto does a little too much, it gets scattered, while Frozen has distracting plot holes. They're hits but not in the way Toy Story was.
My favorite Pixar movie is Ratatouille because again, simple premise that has something to say about it. Both Luca and Ratatouille are reactionary, but their message is positive. That's what makes Pixar work and why Up or Finding Nemo are classics. Brave is highly underrated in this regard.
I sort of agree with you but I think the issue is focusing on appeal over the story they're trying to tell. I personally think the best movie Pixar has made in a long time is Luca because it's a simple story that has something to say. That's the core of all Pixar's bangers.
Bannon could have been the current Dick Cheney, but he got greedy. The tendency of these grifters to shoot themselves in the dick is the left's biggest advantage. Cheney is harder. He wasn't just another grifter, he was the real deal and incredibly dangerous because of it.
It's dangerous to underestimate them. Vance is not charismatic to you or I, but if you care less about what he's saying than how he says it, he has an incredibly persuasive speaking style. He's like Bill Maher: great at seeming smart but he'll probably be exposed as a fraud by a MAGA Ben Affleck.
I have a buddy who can, on command, spit out a Trump-style tweet. I'm certainly not saying I can do it, but there are scores at people practiced in mimicry. I'm sure it's possible to find one who would take the job. Now, I have less confidence that the admin *will*, but the talent exists.
Honestly, right there with you. I look away for half a day and suddenly there's a mass conspiracy theory about the president's mortality.
she said that “black” with a hard r
I more mean there were several who held the title and rarely made public appearances while someone else ran the show. Now, that's harder to do in 2025 than in 1873, but it's not impossible. We do, in fact, have the technology.
Hey now. Those guys were monks and they chose that procedure. Now I've never fully understood why Jabba let the B'omarr monks hang around the palace but .
He wouldn't be the first figurehead president.
"Thank you, server, may I have another."
I mean, you're a reporter. Ask some questions.
There will be a manufactured crisis, a prominent Democrat (Jeffries or Schumer, maybe Pelosi) will fall for it. It will happen when the CR is up and allow Democrats to co-sign the end of the Republic. And whoever it is that sides with the regime will have an op-ed ghostwritten about it.
Sometimes the asshole is the rulemaker, sometimes it's the person who did the thing we must now design around. My favorite is the Onion Futures Act. Why is there a restriction on trading onion futures? Because some asshole cornered the American onion market one year and caused havoc.
My shorthand explanation for why laws/regs can be so unwieldy is the "some asshole" theory of the law. If you ever wonder why there's a rule that you can't do something or things must be a certain way, it's almost always because some asshole did something and now we have to have a rule about it.
Well-worth reading, @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social is right that there's a difference between blaming Trump voters and demanding they take responsibility. We live in a society and that means even when something gets broken, and it isn't your fault or intention, you still have to fix it.
All in all a good read. Appreciate the thoughtfulness throughout.
Witnesses said the second strike took place after rescue workers, journalists and other people had rushed to the site of the initial attack. The Reuters live video feed from the hospital, which was operated by Masri, suddenly shut down at the moment of the initial strike reut.rs/41pmNLb
One of the journalists killed in the strikes was cameraman Hussam al-Masri, according to the officials. He was a contractor for Reuters. Photographer Hatem Khaled, who was also a Reuters contractor, was wounded, the officials said. Keep up with the latest updates: reut.rs/3JvmZ5w
BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr
Many of the men deported to CECOT said they are permanently changed: struggling to sleep, drink water or leave their homes. One man broke into tears describing how he had a panic attack the first time he walked down a busy Venezuelan street.
"Runs" is doing a lot of heavy lifting that Dean Cain can't.
The last Democratic candidate bragged about owning a gun and featured police as speakers in their convention.
the reason this discourse will never end is because it is completely untethered from any kind of evidentiary standard. as long as there is a 19-year-old barista somewhere saying “cultural appropriation,” guys like nichols will complain that “democrats” use alienating language.
Plenty of black people in Virginia have a similar accent. The guardsman likely did it because it's an instinct so he can attempt to be more relatable, which would be literally the opposite.
But they lob a cruise missile into that crater. His name is Tom, he was the main character and he flew the missile in himself. Did we even watch the same movie?
Journey starts playing.
It's quite good, you'd probably like it.
No? South Park isn't anti-intellectual, it's just reactionary to whatever's popular. The show makes plenty of fun of anti-intellectual types too and always has. The very first episode makes fun of rightwing Christianity.
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
They can have a TSP-style retirement plan or pension, either would be fine.
More so antithetical to the very concept of a queen shit.
It is if you actually get shit for it.
Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night on the House floor after refusing to agree ‘to round-the-clock monitoring by state troopers’ www.keranews.org/texas-news/2...
This is the way the bubble ends: Not with a pop, but with smog and brownouts. [Disappointed that some readers didn't recognize the TS Eliot ref] paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-happe...
John Hume, the South African who bred the world’s biggest rhino herd, has been arrested on charges of smuggling of the endangered animals’ horns.
Wild how easily some of you are fooled by an obvious fake. The sound doesn't come close to matching the video & the whole thing pauses while she keeps talking at one point!
A key thing to always remember is people who are extremely online are not any less prone to behaving like others who are extremely online because they're trans. Being trans is their identity, but it's not their entire identity. Touching grass is important.
What's in your wallet?
I got a copyright on that like 3 years ago.
Yeah...it's not ideal.
Here is video taken by an employee, caught outdoors when the shooting started, crouching behind a stone retaining wall Content warning: gun shots, obviously
Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc
Hundreds of thousands of people are on the streets of Tel Aviv to protest against Netanyahu.
$50,000 signing bonuses; $60,000 in student loan forgiveness ICE has launched an all-out recruiting blitz across social media to staff up as quickly as possible Agency website declares: “America has been invaded by criminals and predators. We need YOU to get them out.” www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-...
I'm not disagreeing, but there's a distinct difference between "tough on crime" and terrorizing a city by trying to take it over. Part of it may be that they're not confronted with it since they're not in session, so they can pretend it's someone else's problem.
It's a gimme issue. I have no idea why they aren't capitalizing on this.
After all, it was first popularized by Jane Austen in —ma.
You poor thing, all the rambling dialogue you had to go through to get to the point.
You'll never believe this, but occasionally people from Crown Heights suck.
Not sure how good your geography, but that detour isn't very li'l a'tall.
The one in Jersey?
I guess now that person learned what it feels like to be nonwhite in any majority white space.
Or that she shoots her kids while panicking. Unsurprisingly, the presence of guns leads to gun deaths.
#ReleaseTheCuomoList
They'd have to deign to speak with MPD to learn of such dark magic.
Another day of carnage in crime-ridden Washington, DC.
Yeah, that intersection can be a huge pain in the ass with traffic.
The latest from @theaircurrent.com upcoming TAC/Intel feed as part of our new iOS app is the emergence of photos of the first wings for the C919-600, the shortened version of the Comac single aisle.
They're probably doing MPD's normal patrol for them. Trinidad was and still sort of is a higher crime neighborhood, though it's getting better. But as many have noted crime is down overall. And MPD can be very lazy. So if MPD can "direct" feds to walk their beat, especially in Trinidad, they will.
TS Erin official as activity in the tropics heats up. Forecasted to become a major hurricane but too soon to tell exact track and if US impact. One to watch in today's update for the All Hazards Consortium. Also a disturbance in the Gulf, a major rainmaker & more. 🧪🌀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfwr...
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Chah brah.
Palantir is in the news a lot lately. However, the public discourse about the company often misconstrues it as a data broker, a data miner, a single centralized database, etc. But what does Palantir actually do? I wrote a piece to firmly & clearly answer that question: www.wired.com/story/palant...
He doesn't leave the White House. He has no idea what's going on in DC.
Je suis ennui.
There is a degree to which when you respond to hyperbole (AI is magic), the response also needs to exaggerate.
Dumbest battle too. Said because the Texians felt entitled to keep a canon that was loaned to them that Mexico wanted back.
Oh cool, didn't realize Majora's Mask got remastered.
Well no, just different. You don't use a thesaurus to solve a math problem.
They're not saying it's unimpressive, but it is significantly less impressive than it's being made out to be. It's complex math. The why of the outputs are not well understood because it is a MASSIVE pain in the ass to backtrace all the tokens and vectors, not because it's unknowable.