Just read Weiss’s org-wide email asking for the memos and it is hilariously anodyne, both as an objective matter and especially relative to the negative response it’s receiving from people
All to say, I expect yet another series of "No Kings" protests in about 3-4 months, with yet another round of solemn warnings-that-are-actually-pleas that someone respond negatively to their protest, followed by yet more disappointment from protestors that No One Cares Like We Do (read: About Us)
let alone acknowledged by, the normal people who want to do normal things on their Saturdays--which is the protestor's entire raison d'être. The only thing left for them to do is stage ANOTHER protest with LOUDER/MORE AGGRESSIVE tactics to MAKE THE NORMIES NOTICE US.
the people they're protesting didn't crack down on them. Privately, though, they know that not only did they waste their time yelling and waving signs for several hours and not make any modicum of progress towards changing the issue being protested, they couldn't even get a rise out of,
in the righteousness of their cause, their greater love of country, their unmatched commitment to civic duties.
If they don't, if all they get from a protest is a meal from a food truck and a time-consuming commute, they feel empty. In public, they'll say they just got lucky this time that the
Protest people have a hard time accepting this very basic fact. After all, they don't protest so they can be ignored; they NEED to be noticed! So when they get the sort of negative reaction they're desperately trying to evoke, THAT'S their measure of success for the protest. They become emboldened
No one gives a shit about your protests except to the extent it interferes with their ability to watch college football, playoff baseball, NBA, NHL, or otherwise just enjoy their Saturday in October.
Hegseth sucks. The Qataris suck. But we aren’t giving Qatar an airbase in Idaho. It’s building dorms etc. at an existing base to train them on F-15s we sold them, just like Singapore already has there. Common arrangement we have with lots of countries. This one was already being planned under Biden.
1. His answer was factually correct 2. Substandard care received quickly can often lead to worse outcomes than better quality care received later (even if 1 hr+ away) 3. Rural medicine is an area that if one tries to talk about it w/o knowing the basics, they’re gonna show their ass real quick
SCARBOROUGH: The Nebraska Rural Health Association says at least 6 rural hospitals would have to close bc of the big beautiful bill
FLOOD: Here's the deal: Some hospitals that are rural hospitals are going to eventually have to transition from being acute bed hospitals into being an ER model
Took 15 mins to figure out what the partner took issue with
Was I a good soldier in deleting the comma? Absolutely not. I grabbed my desk copies of Garners MEU & pulled links to the Chicago & AP Manuals of Style, definitively proving I was right
The partner deleted the comma herself before filing
I once had a partner comment on a draft I spent hours preparing and they spent 10 minutes reviewing with--and this is a direct quote, I still have the document saved in my materials--"??? Plz fix"
It was on a governing law clause.
The partner didn't like the second comma in "Austin, Texas,"
If we were living under fascism, none of you would be here daring to post things. You'd be erasing your social media accounts and keeping your head down; you'd know that peacocking your faux-bravery on a network would expose you to being disappeared. You have no idea what "fascism" really means.
Like you’re gonna have a hard time convincing me or anyone else that there’s a dearth of American media outlets willing to say Trump is bad and is doing bad things
