It *is* kidnapping, Nick. Unidentified masked men in unmarked vehicles are, without warrants or probable cause, taking people off the streets and holding them in undisclosed locations. That’s the *textbook definition* of kidnapping. It’s high time you folks in legacy media pointed it out.

@sifill.bsky.social I keep saying this and it feels like nobody else is: If they are masked & refused to ID themselves, *there is no way to know that they are actual law enforcement*. Further, masked anonymous men without warrants or probably cause taking people off the streets *is kidnapping*.

Garland played by the old, genteel, pre-McConnell scorched-earth, power at all costs, party over country rules. It’s was f**king stupid.

Because it’s not happening in the northeast. Anything west of Philly might as well be occurring on the Moon.

Okay. Who overlooked this inherent flaw?

@joshtpm.bsky.social Who do you think committed this sin? The folks starting up new media websites? The venture capitalists funding the sites? The legacy media people trying to start up online versions of their papers / magazines / TV stations?

2 books. One summer when I was 11 we stayed on Cape Cod for a week. Our rental had a few lying around & I picked up and read The Andromeda Strain. Then when I was 12 a copy of 2001 found its way into the middle school lost and found. I stole it, read it, & my mind was blown. I still have that copy.

A single adverb would fix this. “Idiotically”.“Republicans idiotically say…” Or maybe “absurdly”.

Have some cajones.

My ex is ADHD. I’m OCD. The combination was…not optimal. (That’s not why we divorced, tho.)

The percentage of tech jobs currently hiring that are AI related is depressingly high. Which leads to a dilemma: Does one take a job doing something awful because the job market sucks so bad, or keep drawing unemployment and hold out for better?

It sucks.

Good Night and Good Luck?

IMO any Clinton-related consultant or commentator should be put on a rocket with the controls set for the heart of the sun. It’s worse than them passing their expiration date; they are actively poisoning the well.

In the late 1990s NPR sent one of their reporters to Silicon Valley to report on the tech boom. When they greeted him in the studio on his return, it was like Stanley finding Livingston.

Anything west of Philly might as well be Mars to those people.

But again: Hundreds or thousands now while we fight, or tens of thousands (millions?) without health insurance dying over the next several years?

The trolly dilemma sucks, but that’s what this is. And the side effect is that Dems look even more pathetic.

So no: Terrible, terrible decision.

Except now the Republicans are going to kill people by denying them health insurance. And instead of a few more days or weeks of pain, it’ll be years.

Seems like a 💩 trade.

What do you call it when a dozen or so out-of-touch idiots in the Senate go against the clear will of their entire party? I actually don’t have a word for that. Maybe there’s one in Russian.