I have a pact with the spiders in my house. If I spot them running across the floor or on the ceiling or tucked away in a corner, they’re not bothering me, so I won’t bother them. If I see one in an inconvenient place like the dinner table or hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the room, I gently relocate them outdoors.

But…if I’m lying in bed trying to go to sleep and I feel one crawling up my arm, it’s broken the pact, and it can’t be trusted to leave me alone anymore, so it gets a quick and painless death.

The role of a district court judge is to do two things:

1. Apply existing precedent to individual cases to the greatest extent possible.
2. Set new precedent only when absolutely necessary because the facts of the case don’t align well to existing precedent.

Cannon has basically decided to do the exact opposite of these two rules by pretending that the facts of this case are so incredibly unprecedented that she has to throw out the rulebook and set new precedents on everything.

Literally the only unusual thing about this case is that the defendant, a private citizen who currently gets free government security protection for the rest of his life, used to be a president. That’s it. Everything else about this case is straightforward obstruction of justice and willful retention of national security information.

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/17/americans-are-actually-pretty-happy-with-their-finances

I get a lot of people are struggling, but you can’t claim that the average person isn’t doing well when 63% of Americans rate their financial situation as “good” or “very good.”

Right wing pundits and politicians:

“How can I frame this as a bad thing?”

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It wouldn’t. THC has to be decarboxylated via heating before it has any psychoactive effects.

If you eat an ounce of weed, you’d just get a tummy ache. If you heat up an ounce of weed in the oven just hot enough to decarboxylate the THC before you eat it, you’ll be experiencing your tummy ache on an entirely different plane of existence.

Can he swing from a web?

No he can't, he's a pig.

We're not in a recession. Economic growth last quarter was almost 5% (which is massive) and growth has been positive for the last 4 quarters. The average quarterly growth over the last several decades has been closer to 2%.

The economy is doing just fine. Frankly, most people hear their neighbors complain about the economy, so they think the economy is bad, so they complain about the economy, and the result is everyone thinking the economy is terrible when it objectively isn't.

Inflation is relatively high by recent historical standards, but it's really not that high anymore and hasn't been for most of 2023. People got sticker shock during the height of it last year and haven't forgotten. But the labor market is still tight, people who gave up trying to find work a long time ago are entering the market and getting jobs again, wages continue to rise, business investment is up, and small businesses are being created at a historically rapid pace.

When pollsters ask people, "how is your personal financial situation?", most people are answering "good." When those same people are asked, "how do you think everyone else's financial situation is?", they scream "TERRIBLE!" That doesn't mean there aren't people suffering, but things aren't nearly as gloomy as everyone insists they are.

But that's not what TypeScript does. The joke in the meme doesn't really even make sense.

A better analogy would be you have a basket that's explicitly labeled "Fruit" and TypeScript complains if you try to put laundry detergent in it because you said it's supposed to be a basket of fruit.

This meme was clearly made by someone who doesn't use or understand TypeScript.

I prefer just calling everything I eat the flesh of whatever it came from. Tomato? Flesh. Lettuce? Flesh. People? Flesh.

What if you soak them in high fructose corn syrup first?

That and the fact that there's a not insignificant number of people who are center-right politically and identify as Republican but don't like Trump or the recent direction of the party. It's not a majority or even a plurality of Republicans, but it's enough to have an impact in close races.

Biden attacking "MAGA Republicans" instead of "Republicans" gives the center-right voters a permission structure to support Democrats because the choice gets reframed from "us (Democrats) vs. you (Republicans)" to "us (the sane ones) vs. them (the crazies)".

The President can't just order DEA to unschedule it because it would very likely be a violation of the Administrative Procedures Act (the same thing that the Supreme Court said Trump violated when he tried to end DACA). Just ending the scheduling altogether with no strings attached would really need an act of Congress to be safe from being overturned by the SCOTUS.

A few months ago, Biden's Department of Health and Human Services submitted a formal recommendation to the DEA to reschedule cannabis to Schedule III. It's now in the DEA's hands. Schedule III means if you have a prescription, you can no longer get fired for it if you test positive and it's recognized as having real medical value with moderate to low physical dependence. Not ideal, but complete unscheduling is something the DEA would never go along with. Rescheduling or an act of Congress are the best bets, and Biden has formally requested the DEA to do the former.

The maps are actually reasonably fair. The Senate seats up in 2022 didn't have enough competitive districts for Dems to win the Senate, but the other half in 2024 provides a decent opportunity. The Senate is actually more favorable to Democrats than the House districts.

There are about 27 Senate districts that are blue-leaning or 50/50 under the new maps. The House on the other hand actually tilts red just a bit.

https://davesredistricting.org/maps#state::PA

I assume this is the one? https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F8lJMpZXYAEBjHt?format=jpg&name=900x900

Here's a ProPublica article about that pediatrician's reason for getting involved: https://www.propublica.org/article/doctors-join-political-battle-over-abortion-laws

Her rationale is basically that young children (and teenagers) can get pregnant and want to end the pregnancy or get birth control to prevent it. Part of her job is supporting their choice to do so.

But I see what you mean. It almost seems like it could be the start of a satirical flyer trying to paint the pro-choice position as extreme.

Nancy Mace claimed, with a straight face, in an interview with Jake Tapper that she's spoken to Democrats in Congress that say they trust Jim Jordan.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/10/11/mace-house-speaker-jordan-democrats-scalise-jake-tapper-lead-vpx.cnn

I burst out in laughter. I honestly had not laughed that long in a very long time.

Jake Tapper finally got her to admit that they "trusted Jim Jordan more than Kevin McCarthy." Not exactly a high bar there.

You should look into the Income Driven Repayment plan: https://studentaid.gov/idr/

It's one of the new major programs from the Department of Education and can help a lot with reducing repayments while eventually being eligible for full forgiveness.

I've tried to make this argument on the more extreme political communities and the arguments supporting a strike ranged from "everyone would blame the rail companies" to "the damage to unions is worse" to "all those people without jobs would rise up in protest to support the unions" to "it wouldn't be that bad, it's being exaggerated by the corporate media."

It shows just how privileged those people are to actually think that when people who are already living paycheck to paycheck, rationing insulin to survive, and barely managing to feed their families suddenly lose their income, can't get insulin, see food prices double, and can't even drink the tap water anymore because of a "rail strike", they're going to understand the nuance of the situation and blame rail companies for not giving the workers sick days.

The railway strike would've caused shortages of chlorine for city water supplies, shortages of essential medicines like insulin and antibiotics, severe food insecurity and inflation, and would've led to millions of people losing their jobs. Railway freight accounts for 40% of freight transport in the US. Imagine 40% of everything that's made every day suddenly not getting to where it needs to go. There's a reason Congress has never refused to block a railway strike every time it's been threatened over the last 150 years.

The contract was good for the workers but didn't include paid sick days. Congress imposed the contract on the rail workers when a couple of unions didn't ratify it (although most of the unions did).

Biden kept working behind the scenes after signing the law Congress passed to block the strike and got the rail workers their sick days without the suffering a rail strike would've had on the millions of Americans who were already struggling with high inflation on essentials. The IBEW union explicitly thanked him for it: https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid

Nope, he got them their sick days. He kept the pressure on even after imposing the contract. Directly from the IBEW union:

https://www.ibew.org/media-center/Articles/23Daily/2306/230620_IBEWandPaid