Boston will fuck you up if you take a parking space that someone has reserved with a lawn chair. I don't think ICE knows what they're getting into.

Sadly, no more words from Mr. Stoppard. Happily, if the conditions are right (e.g., Earth), you get a dissipative system instead of just pink.

I wish Shikha Dalmia could get some kind of prize for being the first person conspicuously cancelled by the loud-anti-cancel-culture crowd. ISMA and The UnPopulist seem to be doing pretty well. Maybe that's enough.

But there is no immunity from criminal prosecution, only civil liability. And there's some precedent for state charges against federal officers when feds won't prosecute.

I think the issue here is asking why a U.S. attorney would intervene to stop the FBI from cooperating with local police.

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i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

I wonder if this course "correction" is part of what led to the mechh!tler post (which, of course, resulted in another course "correction")

Seems to me like a combination of honesty and reality checking might be the best policy (but clearly not what Elon wants, regardless of what he says).

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