It’s a maze of twisty passages that gets there…

Infocom was bought by Activision, which later got merged into Activision Blizzard, which Microsoft later bought.

I think you missed the silent /s

This is a little different. When it comes to “emergency” things like this, coming up from one of the Federal courts, they first go to a single judge to decide how to proceed. This suit was raised in Texas, which happens to be a judicial district which Alito oversees.

So while he did make an individual ruling reinstating the map, his job is also to help facilitate the emergency hearing with the full court. He asked for briefs by Monday, which is an indication he wants this over with quickly. (But, I think the alacrity is because he knows the fix is already in, and has enough votes among his fellow justices to uphold the new map, and they are just trying to make the justification work after the fact.)

But like other emergency orders coming from the SCOTUS, we will just hear about a decision, and not necessarily the overall vote. But I expect that one of the Liberal judges already has her dissent written, since she knows how it will likely end up.

Tap to send 1 Red MAGA to the discard pile

Everyone in Buffalo is a bit cranky after that game last night, but this guy clearly didn’t take the loss well…

Just because you’re writing in a shiny new language that never misses an opportunity to crow about how memory safe it is, doesn’t mean that you can skip due diligence on input validation, checking every return value and writing exception handlers for even the most unlikely of situations.

Lol

“Morale is completely lost,” they added. “Staff are furious about the way we are being treated.”

A reminder that Trump and his advisors specifically campaigned on a platform of ruining the morale of Federal Workers.

“When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains,” Vought said in a clip obtained by ProPublica and Documented. “We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.”

I think you are confusing what the purpose of media is. You think the media exists to keep the public informed. When, in fact, the corporate media in the US exists to sell ad space. You are not the customer, you are the product. Just like a chicken farm doesn’t exist for the benefit of the chickens.

So, as such, the job of the media (especially TV media) is to grab your attention so thoroughly that you stay for the ads. This creates a fine line between reporting on hyped-up scandals and ignoring larger systemic faults that might make viewers themselves feel targeted. It means that once a particular narrative is seen to grab attention, everyone runs with it. However, that narrative can’t go too far in turning off people on one side of the issue unless the “news” outlet aims to only cater to the other side.

This also, to some extent, explains the sanewashing of the President that is currently going on. This President is a thin-skinned crybaby, and will whine about any little thing. And his supporters follow his every word like a new Messiah. News outlets who want to cultivate a broad viewership base (to sell them ads, of course) can only go so far with certain storylines before his followers change the channel.

Of course, the joke is on these news outlets. No matter how they try to comply in advance, the fascists will come for them eventually…

No, I think his mind is perpetually stuck in the late 70’s and 80’s. Right around the time when the Muppet Show was big. So he’s really saying she is annoying like Miss Piggy.

But wait, I thought it was a hoax all long?

The main difference between Bush/Cheney-era bastards and Trump-era bastards is discretion. They were both making bank on the Federal dime, but politicians used to be discreet about it.

But I guess that Trump’s superpower. He doesnt think corruption is so something to be embarrassed by or kept on the down low. He shouts his corruption out loud and dares everyone to do something about it.

The problem if it gets dismissed this way is that the 40% of the country who are full MAGA can argue “He got off on a technicality”.

I bet one of them will take matters into his own hands, and Trump will pardon him for it.

Thats not what Supply Side Jesus says…

From https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-side-jesus.aspx

The deal with a pocket veto is that the President has ten days to either sign or veto the bill – but a veto is really returning it to Congress, unsigned. Congress can then try to get enough votes to overturn the veto.

If he does nothing with it (sign it or return it to Congress) within 10 days, then that counts as having signed it, and the bill becomes law.

However, that last bit only applies if Congress was able to accept the returned bill that whole time. If the Congress had already adjourned, and could not accept the returned bill, then the bill does not become law.

However, in recent years it has been made clear that Congress never really fully adjourns until early January, but then immediately reestablishes itself, so it is never fully adjourned. Even while the House was not in session during the recent government shutdown, they held short mini-sessions to make sure that the body never actually formally adjourned. Furthermore, Congress has made arrangements to accept returned bills from the President even when they are not in session (but have not formally adjourned for the term). So Congress would have to go of its way to adjourn early for the pocket veto to work.

tldr: a pocket veto won’t work unless Congress shuts itself down.

No, he did not have a single Senator holding it up it passed with unanimous consent.

Yes, I know, she’s a mouthpiece for a horrible administration, and may not deserve any of our empathy (because her political movement devalues it).

But doesn’t anyone see the irony of an article that is written talking about how the job of the press secretary is so difficult, because people dissect every single action you take… In an article which does nothing but dissect her social media posts?

I am imagining that Hitler “Downfall” clip, only in real life

No, I disagree. The reason why ICE can get away with the shit it does is that they go after the powerless, the nobodies. The eyes of the world are on this guy, if he gets illegally diappeared we will all notice.

Besides, if this guy really wants to run NYC, he is going to have to deal with narcissistic, entitled assholes on a daily basis. Why not start with the biggest one?

The sun did not fail to set, it was just hidden by those clouds over there

He fired all the competent legal advisors, though…