Np! I think the statutory intricacies get lost in the larger conversation a lot (totally understandable) but I think it’s unfortunate that news outlets don’t do a better job of explaining the differences between different grades of crimes, especially because it can vary A LOT by jurisdiction, so the same exact crime…

It’s just the way VA’s murder statute is written, it’s relatively specific in its definition of first-degree murder, the prosecutor is choosing the charge that will definitely stick to make sure he doesn’t get away with it.

It’s really just to do with the way VA’s murder statute is written, VA law is relatively specific about what’s first degree murder just judging by the statute.

Ayo PA-7! PA-13 looks like a crab.

A friend’s former roommate grew up right around where Taylor Swift did, apparently nobody liked her because she’s nuts (Taylor, not my friend’s former roommate)

If you think laborers are the entirety of the building and construction trades, you know nothing about the trades.

Counter-counterpoint: I had to put down It Can’t Happen Here a few times a when I read it a couple months ago because I was going TOO REAL.

Maybe an “incel”?? I have a weird morbid fascination with them. They’re just so out of touch with reality.

Right? Like Comey is garbage but anyone Trump replaces him with just straight up won’t investigate.

Is there any way you could plant the question in the audience?? I’m really curious about what possible response there is to that.

Has anyone ever pointed out that unions are 501(c)(5) nonprofit organizations when they start talking about union “profits”? I would like to know what the response to that bit of info is.

PA AG’s name is Josh Shapiro, not Ben.

My grandmother once taught me the yiddish word that’s basically the Jewish equivalent of calling someone an Uncle Tom, and I’m so mad I can’t remember it because that is what I want to call Jared Kushner.

I think that if the seat were open in 2018, he’d have had a much better shot at it than he had in 2014. He’s much more suited to the current political mood.

He’s impossible not to love, he’s super nice in person too. He ran for congress but was beaten in the primary and I was so so sad. This was his commercial:

Daylin Leach in particular is incredible. He’s just endlessly hilarious and is truly the gem of our state senate.

I may or may not have found Paul Ryan’s home phone number and been suuuuper tempted to doxx him but then I remembered he has young kids and decided against it. Besides, it’s not like you’d catch him at home more than likely, he’s sure to have a DC apartment.

It kind of depends what the thing is. Like, if he just straight up wasn’t enforcing laws, a person or entity harmed by the nonenforcement could potentially (given the right conditions) pursue a mandamus action. A writ of mandamus is essentially a court order that forces government officials to do their job.

Also, the legal obligation to disclose HIV+ status to partners has its basis in the concept of sexual consent. Like, idk about everyone else, but I’m super not okay with the idea of muddying up consent requirements?

The First Amendment stops government from suppressing political speech. She worked for a private company that had a contract to sell concessions at a stadium, so her termination isn’t a First Amendment violation because it wasn’t governmental action. A private employer is allowed to fire you for any non-illegal…