John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration
It's insane that a guy like this who tried to get government torture legalized in the United States has now had a long, well-paying, distinguished career and is being referred to as "a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official" instead of "torture guy."
I guess having zero morals and ethics really does pay off.
Chutkan has other options besides a gag order with a threat of jail if Trump doesn’t comply. She could summon Trump to court and admonish him directly, subject him to escalating fines with each confirmed violation, or threaten to move up his trial.
Alright, let's see some of those consequences.
It's completely preposterous that Trump can keep breaking rules, laws, regulations and court orders with impunity because the entire nation is too fucking scared about what might possibly happen if we held Trump to the same fucking standard as everybody else.
So Elon is now going for the severed horse head under the bedsheets approach to persuade advertisers?
That's a bold move.
That entire song is just a thinly veiled threat saying "we're going to murder you if you're trying something we disapprove of here in this place, where we have all the power."
There's not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.
The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn't matter whether they're being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.
The likely Republican candidate for president is a convicted fraudster and known rapist who tried to install himself as dictator and is currently facing 91 criminal charges - and the GOP is celebrating him as their savior.
That's the answer.
The entire party is rotten to the core.
How long are we, as a society, going to allow shit like this in the name of free speech?
It feels that those nations that experienced the Nazi terror of the Third Reich have a much better idea of what constitutes dangerous speech.
Allowing this kind of stochastic terrorism out of some misguided notion of "free speech" is just not a good idea.
Well, let's see what Trump has said about that:
"We are going to win four more years. And then after that, we'll go for another four years because they spied on my campaign. We should get a redo of four years."
or how about
“I have to the right to do whatever I want as president.”
or
“A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution.”
or how about when he admired Xi Jinping:
"He's now president for life. President for life. And he's great. I think it's great. Maybe we'll give that a shot someday."
At this point, one of the things keeping Twitter alive is that 99 percent of journalists and media outlets have refused to leave, despite all the evidence that there's nothing to be gained for them on that platform.
It's just their own FOMO that keeps them there.
I'd wish they'd follow the lead of those organizations who simply left, or, better yet, started up their own Mastodon instances.
It's absolute insanity that something like government emergency alerts get broadcast via an unregulated, privately owned, privately run for-profit service that answers to absolutely nobody.
One would hope that this episode would bring about some rethinking, but realistically, the reaction now is probably going to be "whew, crisis averted, let's change nothing and continue exactly as before."
These are basically small concrete boxes sunk into the ground. They're only meant to stick out a bushfire for a few hours.
You could probably just keep a few bottles of oxygen or a carbon dioxide scrubber stashed in there, just in case. If you can spend $10,000 on one of these bunkers, spending a few hundred more isn't going to make a difference.
Anything longer than a few hours would get dicey anyway without room to move around, without room to stash water or food, without a toilet or beds.
Are WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Signal, and such blocked in the US?
Of course they're not blocked.
People just default to the app that comes pre-installed with their phone and sits right there on the first screen, because it's marginally easier than picking a third party app in the App Store, installing it, and creating an account.
It's the exact same argument that Microsoft made when they bundled Internet Explorer with their OS.
I think his base has shifted, though. Used to be people who were interested in technology, in space exploration, in green and sustainable technology, etc.
Now a significant part of his fan base are people that decided he's their hero after he purchased Twitter and then unblocked white supremacists, Nazis, racists, white nationalists, fascists, conspiracy theorists, xenophobes, etc. and decided to harass, block, and mock middle-of-the-road journalists, national public media, and use all the far right dog whistles and megaphones.
So yeah, he still has a lot of support - but it's not the same support he had 10 years ago.
And only 23 percent of Israelis voting in the last elections voted for Netanyahu.
That's only half as much as Trump got in the popular vote in 2016.
If Twitter is doing business and earning money in the European Union, then it has to abide by national law - just like any other business operating in the EU.
In a scenario where Twitter doesn't comply with the law, the European Union can fine Twitter, appropriate earnings from the European market, sue in the United States or invoke bilateral agreements, file for extradition, or shut down Twitter in the EU via IP ban and having the app removed from the various national app stores. Google and Apple will comply for their app stores, and European providers will comply regarding an IP ban. Some people might still be able to figure out how to access Twitter via sideloading and VPN, but it would effectively destroy Twitter's business in the European Union.
So yes, there's a lot the EU can do.
Disagree.
It was Kappa Kappa Gamma that accepted Artemis Langford.
These six girls were suing the sorority because they wanted to prevent Kappa Kappa Gamma from accepting transgender people.
The sorority is the hero here for successfully defending its decision to accept transgender members.
80 percent of the workforce fired -> maintenance issues crowd up
server bills went unpaid -> service became flaky
office bills went unpaid ->Twitter got evicted from many of its offices
Nazis, white supremacists, racists, white nationalists, xenophobes, homophobes and other trash back on service -> many regular users left the platform
journalists and reporters got banned and/or harassed -> many of them left the platform
public news services got harassed and branded as state owned media -> many of them left the platform
blue checkmarks (including many of the unbanned Nazis and racists) were promoted to the top -> many regular users left the platform
The brand name and the logo were literally the only thing Musk had left from his purchase.
Makes sense that he's out to destroy those as well.
Because there are no restrictions for the moneyed class.
You're a multi-millionaire and you want to hold a little $6,600-a-ticket private concert to raise a couple of millions for a fellow multi-millionaire so that he can spread his toxic ideas while running for office? Go right ahead.
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”
If weight isn't an issue, then it makes sense to use a system that only costs a fraction of a hydrogen-powered setup.
Trains don't need to fly. Just pack them full of batteries or - arguably even better - just electrify the line wherever possible.
That's just not an option for planes, so hydrogen remains a potentially viable approach.
Two ways a carrier can restrict this:
The GOP dies with the Boomers
Looking at all the MAGA rallies over the last years, it looked like most attendants were significantly younger than Boomer age. Same with the guys who fly Trump flags on their pickup trucks. Same with the January 6 crowd. Same with the Proud Boys. Same with Bikers for Trump. Same with Moms for Liberty.
I think it's wishful thinking to believe that the GOP will just disappear when the last Boomer dies. The GOP has already transformed into the party of Trump over the last couple of years, and it will keep on transforming.
It would take significantly more than old people dying fit them GOP to vanish.
Yup.
Facebook has been around for almost two decades.
This is not some unknown guy - we know exactly what Facebook's business strategy and ethical and moral conduct looks like.
I know you're citing the United Nations as an authority, and providing a link is definitely welcome, but the site you're linking literally says
The number of people killed in Gaza has reached 5,087 according to latest reports from de facto authorities there
thereby acknowledging that even the UN is merely repeating the numbers that Hamas is giving them.
Could we maybe agree that blindly accepting whatever Hamas is saying as truth is not the best policy?
Apples to oranges.
The reason is that messaging services like WhatsApp became popular in Europe because carriers charged exorbitant fees for SMS messaging at a time when no single phone manufacturer absolutely dominated the market. Apps like WhatsApp made it possible to communicate with people, no matter which specific phone or brand or platform they were using.
If the iPhone (with iMessage pre-installed) had been the dominant smartphone and ecosystem at the time, chances are that what's happening in the US would have happened in Europe in exactly the same way.
It's exactly the same argument as with Windows and Internet Explorer: if Windows had been one podunk operating system out of many, nobody would have cared. The whole issue was that Microsoft used the market dominance of Windows to quasi-lock users into Internet Explorer.
So Trump's reaction to the largest terrorist attacks the world has ever seen outside of 9/11 is to call a terrorist organization "very smart?"
Not surprising, given that he called Putin "very smart" for attacking Ukraine, or that he celebrated on 9/11 that now his buildings were the highest ones in New York.
That second one also happened to be a lie, but it shows were his priorities lie in the light of large scale terrorism and murder of civilians. Certainly not with the victims.
Having ten apartments on one floor requires less toilets and plumbing than having 100 people working on one floor.
Installing a bathroom is easy. Installing ten bathrooms is easy.
These buildings aren't being converted because it's impossible to do or because living conditions would be harsh if they were converted - these buildings aren't being converted because people calling the shots don't want to miss out on those fat profits they're still hoping to make.
That video completely ignores decommissioning costs for nuclear power plants and long-term nuclear waste storage costs in its calculation. Only in the levelized cost of electricity comparison does it show that nuclear is by far the most expensive way of generating electricity, and that it simply can't compete with renewables on cost.
People love to look at nuclear power plants that are up and running and calculate electricity generation costs based just on operating costs - while ignoring construction costs, decommissioning costs, and waste disposal costs.
Is it intentionally hostile on Apple’s part to bar androids from joining? Yes. But the reactions from Apple users aren’t entirely unjustified
The reaction from Apple users is to blame Android users - which is entirely unjustified.
But of course, post purchase rationalization and brand loyalty play a big part in why people want to externalize blame rather than questioning their own decision or blaming their favorite company for providing a shitty cross-platform messaging experience.
These must be those death panels Republicans warned us of when the Affordable Care Act passed.....
Where, in this case, "anger issues" translates to "was scheming to overthrow the government and install Trump as dictator."
The fucking media is really doing whatever it can to whitewash these insurrectionists' reputations.
One book, "The Kraken Lady, 2020 Election Fraud And Me: This Sort of Thing Is My Bag, Baby", written by Donald Trump.
Being a billionaire means having the means to help millions of people, and deciding to instead keep all that money for yourself.
But they aren't willing to support election deniers (like Jordan),
I just want to say that while people who refuse to acknowledge that Biden won the 2020 election should be rightfully called election deniers, Jordan's role is so much more involved: he actively attempted to get the election decertified and throw the vote to Trump.
That makes him at least one of the figureheads of an attempted coup d'etat, someone who tried to end democracy in America in order to install an unelected leader in the White House.
If he had succeeded, America today would no longer be a democracy, a nation where the electorate chooses its representatives.
If it was up to Jim Jordan, we would now live in a dictatorship, with Trump as the unelected ruler who would no longer be beholden to the will of the people or the rule of law.
As the saying goes, "If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis."
I don't care how many Republicans are troubled by Trump's behavior, I don't care how many Republicans think he's a bit too much, I don't care how many Republicans dislike the MAGA movement.
Talk is cheap.
74 million voters decided that they wanted Trump to be president for another term in 2020, decided to give Trump their vote, decided to support Trump.
That makes them Trump supporters.
And it makes the GOP the Party of Trump.
You have to admire Trump's narcissistic skill to make literally anything about himself.
Largest terrorist attack the world has ever seen outside of 9/11, thousands of civilians dead both in Israel and in Gaza?
Why, yes, of course known fraudster and rapist Trump is the true victim here!!
An unknown person breaking the glass and potentially armed could be a threat.
That's a valid statement.
It also demonstrates a wider problem: gun proliferation is so incredibly high that the default assumption is always going to be "that person might have a gun," and this will always prompt a much lowered threshold to use one's own gun in return.
I'd argue that is ProPublica, so generally very far from the kind of media outlet that would publish feel good stories, and that the story itself isn't even a feel good story: even the rich, powerful attorney with the powerful lawyer friend and the powerful doctor friend had to pay for the treatment out of his own pocket, and the story ends with the insurance company, after losing the car, still only paying a fraction of that after having dragged out the entire case for years and years.
Flashback:
Under Navarro's plan, dubbed the "Green Bay Sweep," former Vice President Mike Pence was to send disputed election results back to the states, thereby forcing hours of debate on Capitol Hill.
"It was a perfect plan," Navarro said in an interview late last year with the Daily Beast. "And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn't even need any protesters, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it."
Now that the masterminds behind the plan to end democracy in America in order to install an unelected dictator are seeing some consequences, how about we also go after co-conspirators like those "over 100 congressmen" who were so happy to go along with it?
Republicans: "This would never happen, even if Roe v. Wade got overturned!!!!"
Republicans: overturn Roe v. Wade, pass laws that prohibit abortion in case of rape
Republicans: "Well, nobody wants that, but it's the law of the land, and we just have to abide by it!!!"
Absolutely despicable.
That's a lawyer arguing that a president is free to engage in insurrection because of a semantic difference between the 14th Amendment and the wording of the Oath of Office sworn by the president.
All of these people are fine with America descending into a totalitarian dictatorship, presumably thinking they're the clever ones who would be doing the dictatoring.