Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Acknowledging the stark, ugly truth that the Republicans basically had no good reason to do what they have done for the last 11 years and have lapsed into vast collective psychosis over totally immaterial and utterly depraved delusions is terrifying, and as such most commentators simply do not do it

Similarly, I get why people chafe at the term "unskilled". But, we do need a term to describe jobs that have a relatively low training time and cost, that can be filled by a relatively large percentage of the working population, because that's an important group to recognize in labor dealings.

This is a similar problem to the federal "essential" vs "non-essential" terminology. Non-essential workers aren't pointless or worthless, their job just doesn't have an immediate safety implication if they don't show up. When I was a controller I was essential and QA people weren't, but we need QA.

They do have a landing place; they can definitely join us. What they can't so is join us, and expect no one to say anything about what they did previously.

Along the same lines, people simply will not believe you when you tell them that Trump has intentionally CREATED so many "illegals". These people haven't done anything wrong, but Trump decided to criminalize them anyway.

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.

It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

this is how Utah's Congressional map deals with Utah's largest city, cracking it through to the middle into 4 different districts in order to deny it Congressional representation to make sure Dems get 0 seats

Of course.

as it becomes clear that Yes has won in VA and gerrymandering will pass, a message to Republican voters:

you brought this on yourselves

you convinced the most fairness-obsessed, That Wouldn’t Be Fair-minded voters in the country to affirmatively vote to put you in the dumpster

you earned this

What law says that?

talk to me about your fav rp campaign

It was completely insane and, bar none, the most fun I've had in a TTRPG. We played 20 sessions and made it all the way from start to finish, which is wild in itself. And we did this all as actual adults in our 30s with real jobs!

I would kill to recapture that magic somehow.

But that took us from Cuba (including Guantanamo Bay) to Miami to AUTEC and the bottom of a deep ocean trench aboard an SSBN.

We met a WWII pilot who'd traveled through time, a terrifying ex-Haitian intelligence agent turned gangster, the Tonton Macoute, and an elderly SMERSH operative.

I met a guy at a local gaming convention who was a hell of a DM. I wanted to get a game together and record it as a podcast, and he agreed to DM it for us.

We were a team of Office of Naval Intelligence agents in 1980, investigating a resurgent cult of Cthulu.

Yep, and are also a totally normal part of litigation that IS frequently avoided because judges are prickly assholes who will punish litigants for doing it.

A recusal motion and a lawsuit against the Supreme Court to pry their secrets loose...well, those don't seem even close to analogous to me.

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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Judges have, after all, granted themselves absolute immunity from suit. Who's gonna waste time and money to tru and overcome that, when the end arbiters are also the defendants?

Yeah, I can just imagine the lawyers who would be champing at the bit to file a lawsuit against the supreme court, and the district court judges who would be equally eager to allow such a suit to advance.

Are interoffice memos from government employees their personal property? Of course not. May we need legislation to fix their current behavior around that, even though it's ridiculous? Possibly.

Acknowledging how people are behaving now doesn't mean agreeing that they're correct. Is it legal for justices to accept millions of dollars in bribes? No. May we need some particular legislation to solve the problem of them doing that? Possibly.

I hate this man with every fiber of my being.

Finally, the supreme court is a flagrantly corrupt institution. The idea that bar associations should take action against people shedding light on how they operate, rather than the justices themselves, is laughable.

Ok. I think it's absurd to suggest that judges have a property right in the papers they create in the course of their employment. I think it's similarly absurd to suggest that it's a tort, let alone an intentional one, to leak those papers.

So they enjoy a property interest in idle chit chat, but not in drafts if their rulings?

So if the justices had conducted a real investigation into the Dobbs leak, they could've sued the person responsible for money damages?

So they have power over the Supreme Court's papers, but in the absence of a specific exercise of that power, the individual justices enjoy exclusive property rights to those papers, such that they could sue if someone leaks them?

(I'm calling it High Temperature Rivalry, don't steal my idea)