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Mando would’ve been second if I’d made this list before season 3 — the other shows wouldn’t exist without him. Cassian would not have made my top 10 before season 2.

I could’ve been talked into putting Qimir top 10 a year ago. There was a time when I thought he was the best villain since Vader.

My top ten Star Wars characters after Andor:

1. Darth Vader
2. Han Solo
3. Obi-Wan Kenobi
4. Din Djarin
5. Sheev Palpatine
6. Luke Skywalker
7. Leia Organa
8. Yoda
9. Cassian Andor
10. Ahsoka Tano

Next in no particular order: Jyn, Krennic, Dedra, Rey, Kleya, Luthen, Kylo, Grogu, Finn, and Qimir.

Well, at least we don’t have to worry about whether there’ll be something to charge him with when he leaves office that hasn’t expired statute of limitations… 😓

The demand that Picard say there are five lights is pretty directly out of the Orwell playbook where the Party in 1984 insists on making people say 2+2=5. If you look at the scene there the Cardassian makes the demand, there are even two lights to each side of his head in the frame calling it out.

Yeah, bumper stickers like that are not terribly rare in the People’s Republic of the SF Bay Area at all. 😆

Ok, fair enough. I stand corrected.

Well, they cared about not drowning the hostages in the tunnels along with Hamas. If they didn’t, not a lot is really stopping them.

Well, depending on to what degree they care about whether there might still be living hostages in them, there’s always just flooding them from the Mediterranean. 🤷‍♂️

Disclaimer: not a statement of support.

I’d be curious whenever you and Sarah address this to know what kind of legal exposure he’s create for himself. The Treasury breach almost seems like the plot of a wild heist movie that ends with everyone spending about six lifetimes in federal prison.

I’m just going to leave this here…

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

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When a prominent Democrat commits felonies, they get eleven years.

When a prominent Republican gets felonies, they get the keys to the White House.

They’re right, it is a two tiered system of justice…

I don’t know for certain and neither do you. I take Hamas’ numbers as an upperbound and the IDF’s numbers as a lowerbound. An unreviewed Lancet column coming out of nowhere with “LoL wE ThNk iTS RLy 186k PeEPL DeD iF U donT aGrEe UR TroLLng” is not a useful data point. 🤷‍♂️

Regardless, anyone, anywhere, that is making “estimates” of casualties in Gaza that are wildly higher than what’s published by an axe crazy terrorist group with a vested interest in leveraging these figures for antisemitic propaganda is… suspect at best. Your insults are not a relevant rebuttal.

The Lancet as a publication has a track record of controversial criticism of Israel and whitewashing of Hamas’ activities, and has published estimates of Gaza in their correspondence section that are so outlandish that even their own editors push back on citations of it as though it’s real data. 🧵

Sir, we have precisely two on the ground data sources for all casualty figures in Gaza: Hamas-controlled health ministries and the IDF. The former are going to play up civilian casualties as much as they can, the latter are going to play them down. This is a simple function of their motivations. 🧵

If there were some huge number of missing people that weren’t accounted for, people who might be presumed dead, that’d be one thing. But this (along with “famine”) has been getting hand waved at throughout the conflict and somehow never is reflected in even shaky numbers with names attached.

by mixing in deaths of nonviolent causes and lying about ages/genders of deceased.

Ergo, any “estimate” that wildly goes over Hamas’ figures is piling speculative fiction on top of initial data that is already massaged in order to deceive, and of course the “estimators” feel no need to name names.🧵

I consider Hamas’ ministry figures an upper bound because, while they at least have to offer names of who’s supposedly dead to match the numbers, they can be roundly trusted to make things look as horrible as they can to cast Israel in the worst possible light, including inflating the toll 🧵

The other slippery part here is, this DoJ is moving to dismiss with prejudice. Jack Smith got the charges dismissed against Trump without prejudice, so he could’ve been re-prosecuted once he left office if statute of limitations wasn’t up. But now there’s no leverage on two biggest witnesses.

It’s only clinical depression if it was diagnosed in a particular region of France. 😖

I’m gonna admit… I did not actually know that. Never too old to learn, I guess… 😅

“Lancet Study” is code for “bullshirt with dog hair on it.” Hamas’ ministries, although they commonly lie about the age and gender of the deceased, actually put names to everyone who’s dead. Random estimates in the Lancet are not reliable as sources… unless that’s just what you wanna believe.

You are awesome. The other stuff will pass. We are not the crazy ones. 😕

Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I’d tend to think that bashing individual reporters or even publicly caring what they say is way, way below the pay grade of the President of the United States. 😰

I feel pretty comfortable saying someone is going to sue as soon as they can find a good plaintiff. Making noise about it until they do is not a terrible opening though. 🤷‍♂️

Frankly, you should take Hamas’ claims of “the number of dead children” with a grain of salt until other eyes have looked closer. They’re about as reliable a source on this as the Trump administration is on immigrant crime.

Hamas’ sock puppets want to pretend it’s something other than a war to cover for the fact that Hamas started an armed conflict that they cannot win and yet do not wish to surrender.

And “Lancet estimates” plus five bucks get me coffee at Starbucks. Those are someone’s opinions and nothing more.

ICYMI from Trump 1.0, he is totes cool with mass preventable death from communicable diseases. Somehow I feel like if voters didn’t have the memory of goldfish, they might’ve thought a bit harder about whether we really wanted him back.

I can. A lot of early
to mid 90s games were really, really sketchy on compatibility with the sound and video hardware of the time. I returned a few games because they straight up didn’t run on my PC, even though it was a fairly high end machine for its time.