I mean, yeah, anyone following the news can point out how weak and plain weird the prosecution’s case was.

It doesn’t sound like this is even about breach of contract in the first place. If it was that simple, he’d have sued them immediately. It’s not at all clear what crime is actually being alleged here because there’s nothing illegal about privately lobbying corporations to change their ad policies. It would only be…

Yep, stare decisis is dead, the SCOTUS will now just do whatever the hell they want no matter what any other court has decided in the past.

It doesn’t do that for you because you are you and not white rich Elon Musk. You realize that the current SCOTUS is completely hypocritical and they will find any rationale, bad science, incorrect facts, to justify the outcome they want. So it’s fine for Elon, not fine for the commoners. 

Given that the Supreme Court is now basically just “whatever rich right wing assholes want”, I guess anything is possible.

What? This has been stated on every single article about this incident since it occurred. Actors aren’t supposed to check guns. Actors are supposed to hit their mark and remember their lines, and if they do anything else, they’re probably annoying someone else who already has that job.

The guy they should be looking is the assistant director with a history of ignoring safety protocols on sets who got fired from another movie earlier that same year after a prop gun went off and injured a crew member, but he already got off with a guilty plea to a lesser charge and 6 months probation. It doesn’t make…

The first case showed pictures of the ammo provider’s shop, with bags and boxes of live and dummy rounds stacked high on every flat surface, even in the bathroom. Seems like a place where live and dummy rounds might get mixed up.

the prosecution’s major problem is that the original gun used on the Rust set was irreparably damaged by investigators, an issue that seemed to lead to charges against Baldwin being dropped back in April 2023. Now, Johnson said that the gun was only damaged because the FBI approved an accidental discharge test, one…

“As Spiro pointed out, the biggest question in the Rust case remains: how did actual live rounds end up on a movie set?”

The polls have shown a roughly +2% boost for Trump, which is actually lower than average for the winner of a debate. And historically it’s very unlikely that most or even any of that bump will be permanent. Typically debate bumps evaporate after 2-3 weeks.

Unfortunately, the only thing that would do is secure the election for Trump, since his base is far less likely to jump ship no matter what.

“We’re not political analysts here at The A.V. Club”

Donald Trump is a lying sociopath; Biden’s polling isn’t as bad as it looks; the sheer fact of his basically functional daily presidency is all the cognitive testing anyone should need to see.

“Instead, he fell back on familiar lines: Donald Trump is a lying sociopath”

I wish I had your intuition.  I think the only way Biden wins now is if he used the power the Supreme court just accidentally granted him and does some ethically terrible things to win. 

That quote was stupid enough that I almost missed this gem following along in its wake: “Baldwin should have known that armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was “inexperienced and incompetent” and therefore should have double-checked her work.”

“As an actor he is not supposed to be pointing a gun at someone,”

I’ve never seen a photo of Trump that could be even generously described as “flattering.” He’s a gross old pig and always has been.

I feel relatively sympathetic to Baldwin as an actor here; being told that the gun is safely empty, and it isn’t, sounds like a complete nightmare. The gun passed hands through others responsible for ensuring its status by the time it got to him, so he’d have no reason to suspect otherwise...