You didn’t argue it at all, you just asserted it, and now you’re just asserting the motivation.

This is far more of a story than the fact that they subpoenaed someone.

If you can argue that the action was baseless harassment, then do so. Frivolous lawsuits have their own penalties. But you can’t argue with the subpoena process on its face.

Do you understand what it means to be subpoenaed? Under the authority of a court, you can be ordered to produce documents or appear yourself, and this order must be delivered in person to be considered complete. There are penalties for not complying so they have to make absolutely sure you received the order.

This headline makes it sound like they’re stalking him. You could claim frivolous litigation if you want, but this has absolutely nothing to do with freedom.

he was being subpoenaed.

Oh. Please don’t reward this clickbait with your attention.

Roberts and Gorsuch, at least, seem to know the long game and aren’t interested in playing full-on Calvinball with the tool of court precedent

Gorsuch voted to overturn Roe which was a fairly epic disrespect for court precedent.

In the end I think you’re right that gerrymandering benefits republicans more so they will continue to allow it. But I no longer put anything past this SCOTUS.

As ACB said “we’re not just a bunch of hacks in here.” And if she said it, you know it’s not true.

It must be so sad to belong to the drab old culture MAGA idolizes, and watch the entire world just move the fuck on constantly, not giving a single shit, when you think that football-and-Jesus culture is some kind of temple eternal.

I keep hearing this line about how there might not be an election. Even Russia holds elections. They’re total shams, but it’s easier to cheat on an election than to throw out your entire form of government. People still believe a little bit in the legitimacy of American elections so Trump will definitely try to steal one rather than cancel it. Once no one even gives a shit about them, then they might get canceled. But that brings me back to… places like Russia still hold them, even when everyone knows they are bunk.

But without them, he’s nothing. This is his personal brand now: the anti-Trump. He has to invite these guys onto his show so he can say edgy things to them.

Gotta love that free speech absolutism.

Beware the man with one book.

Yeah exactly. Hank Green hints at this in the video title but skin is the biggest problem that had to be solved to move us onto land. How does one keep from drying out? It’s like we made a spacesuit for ourselves and now live in it.

They went through a very public divestment of the company from all the “family” centric hate groups. The owners still donate to them personally but the company’s charitable giving arm does not.

You could call them woke for “backing up” a gay marriage or you could say they chose not to go to the trouble of breaking heads over some gay marriage. I know the Trump era has emboldened the worst of us, but that doesn’t mean everyone is for sure willing to prove that their PR has been phony all along. They don’t have enough to gain.

I learned about this from an awesome Hank Green video about how life evolved to move out of the ocean onto land. Developing air breathing lungs was one step in that, and it appears that lungs developed from stomachs. Any soft tissue with a lot of blood flowing through it close to the surface can absorb some oxygen. Some fish began to develops such sacs and use them to gulp and capture airborne oxygen. And he notes that there are some surgeries today where they may “aspirate the patient’s colon” with oxygen to keep their blood oxygen up when conventional breathing must be supplemented. Breathing through your ass is in fact a thing.

In theory. Long term vacancy is not in any corporate landlord’s plan, though. They will adjust rather than seek impossible rent forever. And aside from large apartment buildings, most residences (75% of 1-4 unit buildings) are owned by small landlords who don’t give a shit about network effects.

The only way that happens is if the rent is too high.

That’s not the only way. It’s not even very likely. If they are looking for too much rent and can’t get it they will lower their ask rather than sit there month after month getting nothing. Too high rent is the most easily fixable situation conceivable.

Other explanations include things like: it’s owned by someone who is elderly and due to their health or other problem they simply aren’t managing it actively or are even incapacitated and can’t make major decisions. Perhaps the owner died and the property is in the probate courts, which can take years.

Also, the presence of squatters doesn’t necessarily indicate it has been vacant for a long time.

I heard MAGAts are placing miniature replicas of the Charlie Kirk death tent in front of their Christmas trees instead of nativities.

Yes I cannot fathom how they can do this without also assaulting customers. Not that that’s the main thing wrong with it. It’s just a case of people seeing other people and sneering “those fucking people - look, they’re existing again!”

I think Epstein did everything he could to appear with as many notable people as possible. As you say, it doesn’t mean much just to have been in the same place as him. Now, on the other hand, we have people who were seen with him repeatedly, and even said on mic that they knew he was into young girls. Now THATS damning.

Only China’s CCP can protect the sanctity of this process from politically motivated interference by devils in Chinese Taiwan and the United States.

You know, or so they’d have you believe.