Politics, backpacking, travel, photography, & all-purpose snark. Looks like I picked the wrong election year to quit sniffing glue
There's a place I pass on my way to the bus called Serenity Dental Spa, and that sounds like a nice relaxing place to spend an afternoon
Admiral Ackbar: It's A Trap MemeAlt: Admiral Ackbar: It's A Trap Memestatic.klipy.comDon't threaten me with a good time
Aaron RuparRep. Max Miller on Newsmax: "If any of these things were true, I would be in prison"
"One side prosecuted J6ers, the other side tried to prosecute ICE protestors...nobody has clean hands!"
Aaron RuparTillis admits Trump is weaponizing the DOJ during his speech announcing he'll vote for Todd Blanche: "Maybe it's a little bit more intense in this administration than the last one ... I'm going to support Mr Blanche's nomination"
I've said it before and I'll say it again: a law prohibiting punditry by anyone with three names would vastly improve the discourse.
Dan O’SullivanNope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass
I wish he had mentioned (maybe someone else did or will) that a district court judge found the entire scheme to be fraudulent. Seems like committing a fraud upon the court should be disqualifying in itself.
Aaron RuparWhitehouse: "Next we get to this crooked slush fund Trump family tax amnesty scam. We've got these two new pieces of paper. One signed only by Blanche, one not signed by anybody. Neither of which has any legal effect whatsoever. They are decorative. Can you trust Todd Blanche? I do not."
Reflecting Pool Infrastructure Week
Hemry, Local Bartenderoh my god he hit the reflecting pool with a "two weeks" dawgggggg that thing's never opening again
Are you talking about the guy who made all his coders print up all the code they had written over the last week just to show they were doing their jobs?
Max KennerlyThe richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
Related: democracy is a niche interest, because Republicans are against it
John ScalziBluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
Early on those people were saying just let it rip through the population so the survivors acquire "herd immunity", and even after it became clear that people could be infected multiple times--that infection did not bestow immunity *at all*--they were still peddling that stupid shit.
Tressie McMillan CottomI’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.
In other words, Cornyn and Tillis rolled over for an entirely spurious "order" that has no legal force, and actually compounds the offense for which Blanche got slapped in court.
Tom HiltonIt should be noted that the order currently has no legal basis, because Judge Williams nullified the "settlement" that supposedly authorized it. (Trump/Blanche have asked for a stay pending appeal, but it's unclear whether she'll grant that, even assuming the order is appealable.)
Reminder: one party to a settlement can't unilaterally change the terms of the settlement. This is just more confirmation that the "settlement" was never a settlement at all, and that the "lawsuit" was never a lawsuit, because the "opposing" parties had the same interest from the start.
MeidasTouch🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/