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lmao two proud boys at jan 6 said under oath they don’t know each other. prosecution has text messages showing they were close friends but the messages are so racist the judge says they’re too prejudicial to show the jury
Judge: I agree with govt that this is relevant in that it shows a closeness. But given the particulars ... [the racism] i'm going to rule this out on [grounds that prejudice outweighs probative value].
AUSA Kenerson wants opportunity to make redactions.
Judge: you can try.
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@benvyle
@MemeVVitch
bosses every flu season: i want to be clear, if you suffer any flu symptoms, stay home
employee: *takes sick day*
bosses: no not like that
one thing i learned while struggling with a disability is that everything you do to meet the company halfway, to avoid special treatment, everything you do to go the extra mile, is seen by the company as proof you don’t need any accommodations and/or you’re faking the disability
@mtracey
this is “not a tank” because it doesn’t resemble a tank, cannot be used for the same purpose as a tank, and is in all aspects almost, but not quite, utterly unlike a tank
mtracey: yadda yadda yadda something something something im a journalist you can’t teach me “information”
@HenryKrinkIe
i’ll fucking say it: conservatives think young leftist activists are paid and heavily coached to be dishonest because that’s what conservatives do with young conservative activists
@redsteeze
“it’s newsworthy that a black man who everyone agrees objectively did not kill anyone was acquitted of murder” perhaps does not make the point you think it does
@GoodPoliticGuy
@wspieler
100% of bosses say blatantly lying to their employees that their current salary is “industry standard” is an ethical practice
@lib_crusher
ninja turtles was from the era when cartoons literally ended with a 5-minute short where characters looked directly into the camera and said “don’t be racist”
@RottenInDenmark
“my kids won’t think it’s wrong to be trans” is exactly what they’re panicking over and they explicitly say this is what they’re worried about
@mtracey
so what? 95 out of 100 laypeople would respond with the word “bee” if you asker them what this is, even though aside from a superficial visual resemblance a drone fly isn’t like a bee at all
@custardloaf
@_FleerUltra
some trainers hold treats in their mouth so the dog focuses on their face instead of looking around, improving the dog’s attentiveness score
imagine thinking “the president must be allowed to rush through a justice for the explicit purpose of the justice confirming his re-election, without recusing” is an “excellent point” and not a “staggering admission of intent of naked corruption”
Ted Cruz with an excellent point. If election is litigated can't risk having just 8 justices and the possibility of a deadlocked court. Could cause a constitutional crisis.
@sullydish
if you think bari suffered from a hostile work environment wait until you hear about every POC who’s had to share a workplace with a jackass who keeps insisting The Bell Curve made some very good points
it’s genuinely amazing how many of these “nefarious” examples are “a conservative broke the rules and after some debate twitter let them get away with it”
@ShellenbergerMD
@bariweiss
@JohnBasham
@TitaniaMcGrath
The group declares Huck’s an “edge case,” and though one notes, “we don’t make exceptions for jokes or satire,” they ultimately decide to leave him be, because “we’ve poked enough bears.”
@forkazoo
this article dismissing the idea that bans on abortion could infringe on religious beliefs was what inspired me to dig up that Scalia exchange. just pooh-poohing the idea that anyone but christians could possibly take religion seriously
@stevanzetti
@edroso
one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen was when Steve Doocy had Victoria Jackson as a guest in an attempt to prove Tea Partiers weren’t crazy or extreme and getting more and more of a “i’ve made a huge mistake” face as the segment went on
@dropkickpikachu
@MKupperman
no no no, the invisible hand of capitalism ensures that if anyone was price gouging, it wouldn’t work because their competitors would undercut their prices
it’s very convenient that the “success path” of capitalism where prices stabilize as competitors reach maximum efficiency looks exactly like the “failure path” where prices stabilize through price fixing
@RottenInDenmark
school districts across the country: students are suffering so much mental health damage from a lack of human interaction it’s worth killing them with covid to provide it
also school districts across the country:
@stavvers
@barnaclesiastes
i’m just floored at how she went from “every vagina is different and every vagina is valid” to “here is a detailed catalog of which vaginas are acceptable” in two posts the instant she learned a transgender was involved
the media’s long and fervent obsession with the idea that the abortion issue is a loser for Democrats is a journalism scandal on par with Iraq War coverage
Don't think its really sunk in yet that a solid chunk of reliable Republican voters are very uneasy, if not outright angry, with their party's abortion stance now.
jesse began with a “scandal” about kids not getting assessed, and then solely to win a twitter argument over whether he was dumb to believe in helicopter kid, he has subsequently libeled medical workers, posted evidence kids are rigorously assessed, and conspired to violate HIPAA
possibly matty’s biggest project of the past four years was convincing democrats that “popularism” indicated that strategically they should spend all their time bashing police reform advocates and they did and it didn’t work at all and you’ll never guess his reaction to that
“but it was a single source story i couldn’t personally confirm” say journalists who dutifully report about fentanyl radiation, havana syndrome, five year olds gender transitioning, hunter biden’s laptop, live aborted babies in dumpsters,
@isaiah_bb
if nothing else, using self driving modes should be made completely illegal in all zones under 25 including parking lots because jesus christ
@Wilson__Valdez
if their plan was to protect abortion by winning the 2016 election they probably shouldn’t have sabotaged the campaign of the candidate in the Dem primary who both had a better chance of beating Trump AND a better pro-choice record
@mtracey
do you think “visual appearance” is the most prominent and important trait for categorizing vehicles
and even then much like the drone fly, if you put that next to pictures of various actual tanks and said “which is not a tank” your 95 percent of people would get it right
reporters 364 days a year: desantis overrules referendum and blocks felons from voting. desantis literally entraps voters attempting to legally vote. new desantis gerrymander.
reporters on election day: republicans do well in florida, floridians must love desantis
@AllezLesBoulez
@lib_crusher
ok granted it’s not good to generalize traits to any group, but is this “an antisemitic trope” or “asking a person about literally any other person”
@zlingray
@wspieler
remember when a certain highly respected cable news host got OUTRAGED that the guy on video planning violent ambushes of leftwing protesters had a milkshake thrown at him
guy with covid and severe covid symptoms dies: he was fat so that’s a death WITH covid, don’t trust the state
guy with a family history of heart disease has a heart attack while playing basketball two years after getting vaccinated: oh you better believe that’s a vaccine death
@AIPAC
“he was a pioneer of the modern christian zionist movement and perfect representative of the members of that movement and its alliance with AIPAC” is certainly an accurate statement
@lib_crusher
remember when NRO (I think it was kevin williamson?) published a piece saying “affirmative consent” cannot be the legal standard for rape because EVERY occurrence of sex is a man who wants sex coercing a woman who doesn’t want sex into having sex
the NYT isn’t selecting among parents of trans kids for these “concerned parents” articles. they aren’t even selecting among transphobic parents. they’re selecting among *parents whose kids - correctly - fear and distrust them so much on gender issues that they’re hiding it*
@steinkobbe
@wspieler
“every anti gay trope” -mocking me for dating an underage guy, mocking me for dating an underage guy, and mocking me for dating an underage guy
@lib_crusher
even after the Iraq war coverage, this was another huge demonstration of how there is absolutely nothing republicans or conservatives can do that the liberal media won’t treat as a legitimate perspective
@siteprotagonist
@barnaclesiastes
“Someone in this room is an… author? An author? Maybe a journalist? A… writer? And the are trying to impress someone, a family member. … A parent? Daddy?”
Brooks Barnes: OMG IT ME
@ZaidJilani
do you think maybe if we DID teach grade school kids CRT they would turn out smart enough to see not a single word of this is praise, a bar you as an adult fail to meet
@thedarksidecat
@MRIchalk
i once listened to NPR interview with a guy who did a biographical Scalia one-man play and boasted that after seeing his show liberals would tell him “i still disagree with scalia but now i admire and respect him” and i said “then you FUCKED UP” out loud in my car
right wingers: DEI training is entirely unnecessary, a waste of time, and uses perverse reasoning
also right wingers: immediately testing blood for traces of minority ancestry to determine who to throw off the lifeboat
@emmadaboutlife
@MemeVVitch
my dad tells me about the VP in the 70s who refused to upgrade the engineers’ computers or buy more because they already had so many computers (the computers were three years old which is of course like a computer being 30 years old today)
@GarbageApe
people think QAnon is a pedophilia conspiracy, but it’s not! it’s an “all our political opponents are going to be executed” conspiracy theory that later, and totally incidentally, incorporated pizzagate as one justification for the executions
@DrWallkick
@kept_simple
the venn diagram between conservatives who complain about moral degeneracy and people who complain that she-ra’s flat chest is an attack on masculinity is a circle