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Cathy Gellis

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Lawyer, writer, all-around-great person I mostly post about technology, law, and civil liberties (especially free speech), and how they intersect. And mostly at Techdirt: https://www.techdirt.com/user/cathy/ I also post silly things too.

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“They’re both kind of similar because when I walked into prison my first day, I was like, ‘Damn, man, you are a fucking loser.’ And I had the same damn feeling every day I walked through the door with the Jets.” — Plaxico Burress. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Plaxico Burress: Playing for the Jets and going to prison were "kind of similar"Plaxico Burress's NFL career was put on hold during the 2008 season, when he accidentally shot himself and then went to prison for 20 months for carrying a gun illegally.www.nbcsports.com
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A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

Lucas Tieman

There would be more pushback if folks left of center were more serious about outreach. But folks aren't despite the fact that our system does give disproportionate power to rural areas. But instead of taking that as the rules of the game as it exists, and actually organizing, we complain about it.

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Reiterating that Musk's literal voter bribery last time was an unambiguous go-directly-to-jail felony, for which people have been successfully prosecuted over vastly smaller amounts. It wasn't just pouring money into a PAC, whatever one thinks of that. It was a black-letter plain-as-day crime.

Yes, Elon Musk’s Vote-Buying Is Against the LawPeople have gone to prison for comparable schemes.www.thebulwark.comMatt Novak

Musk got away with his $1 million vote-buying scheme in 2024. Why wouldn't he try something similar this November?

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