The insane thing about this bullshit is that the only the latter of these two were actually voted on by the people of these states.

Cf. the Bezos Post, "Republicans gerrymandering in Texas is fine, actually" b/w "Democrats gerrymandering in Virginia is a threat to democracy"

did Carville happen to be on Fox News around 30 minutes before this was posted?

it's striking how clearly you can see it in Trump v US; she went along with the deeply misguided part, but refused to join the comically absurd bit

yeah, so this lady is a sovcit, or at least sovcit adjacent

that’s why you have to carry a pike, to repel the cavalry charge

Fair point; I’m going to need to work on my hamstring flexibility so I can go full-Rockette to defend against this scenario

agreed, but I don't understand what the conspiracy is supposed to be? as I understand it the film industry has been artificially manufacturing stars since the silent-film era!

indeed, it's all fun and games until the chimpanzee rips off your genitals

good point; maybe the NYT was misled (or just lied to!) with the specific usage of the word "disabling," for all we know the round hit and a bunch of alarms went off on the bridge, so they killed the throttle (or they stopped b/c, you know, they just heard and felt their ship get hit by a 5" round)

yeah, but if you can pull if off you get to be suave like Rhett Butler
(NOTE: you do do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to" the Confederacy)

moreover *feet*, and in a shoe (or better yet a boot) at that; figure if you have the nerve to stand your ground, face the thing, and kick it really hard at the base of its neck you'll probably mess it up, and your leg should give you enough separation from its long-ass neck coming at you

I'm not an expert in naval architecture or anything but if you aim your 5" round at the rear third of a cargo ship somewhat above the waterline wouldn't you have a pretty high probability of hitting the engine room?

Ben Collins before and after taking over InfoWars

the Captain America movies alone exemplify this; First Avenger was a WW2 movie and then Winter Soldier was a paranoid 1970s conspiracy thriller!

the behind-home ads are also changed to booking dot com; presumably whatever distribution deal that was getting the game to your TV versus the one getting it your phone has some sort of exclusivity provision for advertisers

but the kicker is "settlements of actual or imminent litigation," settling imminent litigation is a *prelitigation* settlement, meaning there's no case yet filed, so there wouldn't be any judge to approve a settlement, let alone enter a judgment

okay, this seems significant (if indirect); here's Treasury's website for federal agencies to get them to fund "judgments and compromise settlements," note it draws a distinction between the two
fiscal.treasury.gov/payments-fro...

indeed, but there are certainly officials at DOJ with the legal authority to resolve litigation by entering into settlement agreements that are legally binding on the US Government (there must be more detail on the scope and nature of that authority somewhere in the USC or CFRs)

ahh, thank you, I missed that in the article itself

though to be honest my personal experience of having participated in thousands and thousands of depositions (especially depos of expert witnesses) is probably helping me here, and the typical user probably isn't bringing that background

I found using Claude for search if you keep interrogating it (give me a link supporting your claim "XYZ," that link doesn't support your claim "XYZ" give me another) eventually you can drill to something useful, and for a sufficiently obscure search it may not actually be slower than alternatives

Montage set to upbeat music of Platner and Fetterman doing various fun activities around town and laughing, final shot is them getting matching tattoos

heck, it could it be any of the around 425 lawsuits that will be filed in the LA Superior Court on Monday alone!

and to be frankly realistic if RBG had died on January 15, 2021, Barrett would have been confirmed by January 19

presumably the manager of "The Poodle Room" is sick of his bullshit

I suppose it's worth pointing out Alea said "enough of a majority"; a simple majority isn't enough if it includes, say, a Manchin and a Sinema

Complaint – #1 in Trump v. Internal Revenue Service (S.D. Fla., 1:26-cv-20609) – CourtListener.com COMPLAINT against Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Department of the Treasury. Filing fees $ 405.00 receipt number AFLSDC-19169654, filed by DONALD J TRUMP, THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION, LLC., Eric Trump, Don...

maybe? I suppose I'm out of my depth as to if any of their specific COAs would require judicial approval; in any event here's the complaint; 2 COAs, 1st for violation of a specific tax privacy statute and 2nd for violation of the Privacy Act: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

it's not plead as a class action and the defendants haven't even answered yet; a settlement wouldn't require approval from the judge in the slightest, and furthermore if plaintiffs were to dismiss (i.e. as part of a settlement agreement) the judge wouldn't even have authority to stop them

you just caused me to have the oddest Proustian reverie, to growing up in RI in the 90s and hearing the local TV news continually reporting on the status of orders for Seawolf-class boats and the effects on EB Quonset