What is the exact form of bullying that you think would work on either of them? I see a lot of people babbling on about how Schumer should do something or Biden should do something and I’m not clear what that is.

Sinema should be primaried. Unfortunately, there’s no real option for pressuring Manchin (the only real thing beyond outright bribing him with pork for WV is maybe going after his daughter w/ investigations into her employer and that has a huge downside risk).

I think the second one used to be a lot more common, as young middle-class people who start off wanting to Change the World get a bit older and a bit more invested in the system, until they eventually end up in management with a family and a house that they theoretically own, and find that they are too bought in to…

Ah, good luck with that. I used to be ungrayed on Gizmodo. Then I was only ungrayed on the Earther sub-blog. And now I’m completely grayed.

It was a good ruling. In-kind contributions being ruled by anything like this behavior is too vague to rule any other way.

I believe the cliche is, “A conservative is a liberal who got mugged.”

Tired of the “Trump sucked” genre of books. Begging y’all to stop buying these books and to stop paying attention to these grifter vultures. They are making bank picking over the rotten carcass of Trump’s presidency, whose disastrous term they helped manifest. Why do we keep rewarding the fuckers who enabled Trump…

I’m not a psychologist, and I’ve never met Rose McGowan, so this is a super useful take, but:  I wonder if she learned to process her trauma by attacking Weinstein, and now that he’s in jail and has no career, she doesn’t have any way to process her trauma any more, hence her lashing out at anyone with even the most…

Fuck these “insider accounts.” The dirt was dished in public view for four years. All these assholes were co-conspirators. Unless these accounts are being used as testimony in criminal cases, not interested.

That’s something I’ve seen too - in this case, though, I think there’s also a kind of “ressentiment” at work - Gowan (and others like her) are frustrated they don’t receive the validation and accolades they feel they deserve from the kind of people they want, and so they lash out by loudly embracing values that are a…

I have a family member who went this route but eventually gave it up. Like McGowan, he claimed that he had long felt this way but didn’t feel safe saying so. This was a straight, white, Christian male in northern Florida. 

Tom Waits plays a pacifist inventor who lives in an abandoned amusement park for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

I look forward to Charlie Baker dodging this question for weeks while inexplicably maintaining high polling.

1) This is the right move

I read the complaint. I found it thorough, informative, persuasive, and well-written. DOJ did a nice job. Hopefully that still matters. 

Excellent news! I was thinking we might have to wait for someone or a foundation to privately back a clinic in a lawsuit to establish standing and challenge the law again, but this is even better. 

This will do:

My fear is that these abortion vigilantes will also use Texas’s fancy new “anyone can have guns because we LOVE guns” law into murder territory. Even moreso than they usually do.

Justice Sotomayor is completely wrong on this.

It was a 5-4 vote, not 6-3.