This seems like a clear case for an injunction, even if you think there could be a valid case. The “harm” in the short term is basically non-existent, so return to the status quo and let the government try to explain why targeted banning of news access based on their coverage isn’t a straightforward First Amendment violation.
But this is a Trump judge. One that’s ruled against him before, but a Trump judge nonetheless.
The 9th circuit usually leans liberal, but Trump appointed 11 of the 29 circuit judges and this case drew 3 of them.
As long as one of them is only using lizard vocalizations it’s completely normal.
For a house seat, two years of harm can be better than being stuck with them as the representative of the Democratic Party indefinitely due to the rarity of successful primary challenges to incumbents.
Are two years of harm right now better? I dunno, it’s certainly a fraught time, but it’s also unlikely an individual seat is going to be the tipping point. And these centrists are particularly unreliable defenders of liberal democracy should they end up in that position.
Doesn’t change that Australia made him who he is. He was over 50 and trying to expand his media empire when he changed citizenship. It’s not like America turned a good Aussie bad.
No. Or at least not so much that it determines their vote. But Democratic centrists see a 70% issue as a toss up and fail to understand that the passionately anti-trans voters were never going to vote for them in the first place. The guy who just sort of feels weird about trans women almost certainly has other issues that actually matter to them that they will prioritize above it.
We saw the same thing with gay marriage. Democratic centrists wouldn’t support it until it was basically a forgone conclusion.
Fair point, but also a nontrivial amount of the blame for the rise of US fascism can be placed at the feet of an Australian media mogul.
Google said in a statement that in May its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems during a test by either guessing login information or using login credentials it found in a public repository.
Check out the l33t hacking skills of Gemini!
If that’s all it takes to hack a system, that’s on the outside system/user, not Gemini. And probably wasn’t a particularly valuable system/account.
The only change in Congress after the midterms will be that there will be some lame ducks and some congresspeople that can make unpopular votes because they don’t fear their voters. The new Congress won’t be seated until January.
People really overestimate in how much of the US a person’s vote for president matters. Like 2/3rds of the states aren’t even within reach of a wave election. And the people who could have an impact on the result but stayed home aren’t in a niche politics forum and are really checked out of politics. Like shockingly so. A non-voting acquaintance of mine was going to vote for a conservative nobody because he thought their name sounded cool.
The idea that the 30% non-voters should vote makes sense in a civic ideal sort of way, but they’re not going to show up as secret defenders of liberal democracy. They’re going to be very susceptible to propaganda and those that aren’t are going to vote for Idiocracy-level dumb reasons. Trump’s initial election made big gains from non-voters who are now shocked that he’s doing things he said he’d do.
I dunno, drool onto his bib?
Big C. That’s why it’s got the ++.
In the spirit of Guy Fawkes Day where his failure and death are celebrated?
Literally this entire conversation you haven’t even tried to address the instigating criticism of the article both using the wrong-headed definition of class as education and that their statistics are filtered to create a Republican bias unrelated to class. It talks about class being a fuzzy term and other races existing, but when it tries to demonstrate the problem it’s just white women and the non-college educated “class”. All while relaying absurd quotes about how they like people that talk to them directly and are successful through their own hard work like Trump.
And while people do have kind of a fuzzy definition of working class, that definition isn’t education. Most people identify as “working class” and fewer than 1% of respondents defined it by education. Media and think-tanks that have latched onto “non-college educated = working class” do so intentionally. They want it to represent a dwindling thing from when boomers worked hard and didn’t complain, not anything to do with labor and capital.
I never said it did. I said the article and it’s hard metrics all exclude working class people to paint a picture of a conservative working class. The point is we don’t know, from this article, that Democrats have lost ground with the working class, because whenever numbers are involved they choose measures that don’t actually measure the working class and specifically intertwine them with aspects that are more conservative.
Even your final line implicitly associates education with class, when it couldn’t be further from the truth for a lot of people today. Do you think college educated baristas don’t think they’re working class? And that’s even by the income-based measure intended to put a “middle-class” buffer to protect from any sort of worker vs. capital framing.
In a class sense, those who must work to support their continued safety and health. If you’ll spend most of your life at the whiims of a boss because you have to, you’re working class.
In the perverted income-based American form, it’s usually used as a euphemism for “lower-middle” that at least has some inklings of class involved. Even there it’s very much not “non-college educated”. Jim Bob who owns 4 car dealerships is not college educated.
Working class is not “doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree”. Using that measure with two decades between is biasing it toward older people. Twenty years ago, the number of 30 year olds without a college degree was much higher than it is today. And many of those young college graduates are working paycheck to paycheck at the mercy of their employer.
The conflation of education with class and use of measures that amplify non-class related correlations with conservativism feels kind of sloppy when trying to highlight women being forgotten in the idea space of “working class”. The same thing continues when the measure of choice is later “white working class women”.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t be trying to win those voters, but starting out with “working class” and then relying on statistics that have major non-class correlations seems like it’s playing into the exact same issues as pretending “working class” means men does.
In this case Google said no. Well really they asked how the request was related to customs, but the effect was not giving the info.
I agree that not recording things in the first place is better, but in this case it wasn’t a warrant. They could have just said no.
The CDU saying “what firewall?” not for some generic conservative issue but for straightforward Nazi whitewashing sure is a choice.