Absolutely. Though I think one of the things that helped (organizationally speaking) there is that every city has police murders they can protest against, and police headquarters they can situate those protests at. The current federal shitshow doesn’t have good analogues

Well this sounds effing great

I think this part gets really overlooked! I live 2700 miles from the White House and 3200 from Mar a Lago. I can protest in my hometown (and have) but it always feels somewhat directionless. Paris to Budapest is a third as far.

Filibuster traditionalists

“We can’t do that, it would implicate every living US president!”

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Years ago I had a girlfriend who was deathly afraid of centipedes. The first time she saw one in my presence I genuinely thought her appendix had burst.

🍼💦

The other (admittedly less morally profound) frame challenge I like is “fairness is not and never has been a component of sports, especially elite sports”

If memory serves we also carried umbrellas in case germs should fall from above

Same with my grandfather. We’d have to find a piece of paper to put in front of him for him to sign so he could “close the deal”

And we know that Epstein operated completely in the open, even after his first conviction. Secrecy was not one of the methods he used to protect himself.