Exactly. This sentiment is precisely the belief / guiding principle of defense attorneys - the notion that even the most repugnant among us have basic rights that should be defended.

I didn’t know about Beijing but as for the other two, I think you could classify those incidents as terrorism directly targeting the Olympics. In Rio it just seems that the Olympics were so poorly prepared that people will die

Interesting. So prosecutors were sure enough to go ahead with some questionable evidence - I wonder if that means they had more that wasn’t admissible. That wouldn’t be public so we’d never know. Or maybe due to all the public pressure to get a conviction on this, they simply rushed it.

Much as I adore my colleagues at Gawker (and my former colleague at Gawker who is now at The Intercept a few floors up in our building) it’s not a love for the DNC that has me writing these articles. I’m more interested in this little look into the strange and expanding world of hacking as a military tactic. The…

Yes, I remember. I had the lasagna.

Attorneys have the right to cross examine any witness testifying. That’s why you can’t just introduce depositions, affidavits, and the like. That does not give them the right to treat her the way they did. There are a multitude of other ways used to ensure she was able to testify, rather than this monstrosity of…

Name one thing he could do right by you.

interested to know better ways of supporting a grass roots movement that doesnt involve fundraising for like-minded candidates

Not just “kind of”. She does.

ok but

Intellectually, I like this response. Emotionally, “ugh the world is so terrible and I need gifs of puppies NOW”

Might be an unpopular opinion, but -

I call bullshit. Understanding bonds and investment principles has zero to do with the every day business of making ends meet for 99% of people. And that business about minorities paying more to borrow money? It’s not because they’re dumb/uneducated about how borrowing works, it’s because our financial system actively…

McCain has done a lot in US politics but him bringing Palin into the political consciousness is very high on the unforgivable list.

Still though, it really hurts my personal faith in her as a candidate. I’ve been trying for the last several months to psych myself into being excited for her as the nominee, but she keeps doing things that bother me, and her doing any thing as Secretary of State that can be described as “enormously stupid” is a big…

I know you’re leftist as all get out (which I respect) so you’ll probably disagree, but honestly what we’re going to get is basically just Obama 2.0, except her pet cause will be women’s issues instead of racial justice.

Pretty much what anyone who actually had any background in this area was saying was going to happen.

They’re not demanding the victim’s families pay the legal cost. They’re demanding the people who initiated an unreasonable lawsuit against them pay the cost of that lawsuit.

So they make money and therefore it’s okay to sue them for something they’re not responsible for, threaten to appeal and keep suing them when your case gets dismissed, and expect them to shoulder all the legal fees?

Except the cars that followed were better.