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I think most defamation suits made in good faith are magic thinking, not legal thinking.
You said something that hurt me. I want a court to undo that.
And even when defamation definitely happened, damages are a bitch.
Exceptions of course. Dominion Voting had the best case I can remember.

31.01.2026 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Beauties

31.01.2026 06:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If he had a decent chance of winning. If he didn't, they'd denounce him.

31.01.2026 02:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Will is, among other things, a civil rights lawyer. He knows what he's doing. He doesn't mind pissing people off, particularly this administration.
They arrest him, and they'll demonstrate the limits of their power.

31.01.2026 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ugh, *you [need] them

30.01.2026 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Massively annoying to the people in power slops over into being the same to everyone.
Tom Paine and John Adams, massively annoying.
If you don't have an massively annoying people in your movement, you them.
But don't put them in charge of gate keeping.

30.01.2026 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 29    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Don, enjoy being a hero while you can!

30.01.2026 23:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which of course was the complaint when the government said restaurants cannot refuse serving Black people.
It's a hard line to police, between it meaning everything and not enough.

30.01.2026 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

At first I read it as false greed, but I don't think false greed exists.

30.01.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The whole fucking point is to accept personal risk as yourself and dare the state to do anything about it.

You are there to be seen, known, and heard. Not to cosplay as an antifa super soldier.

30.01.2026 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 1484    πŸ” 226    πŸ’¬ 47    πŸ“Œ 25

This will settle immediately, but a judge still has to accept the settlement, unless I'm missing something, and that's the rub.

30.01.2026 04:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sure they have Delta and AA PR/gov relations on speed dial, and when they have time, they'll commiserate.

30.01.2026 03:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I meant to say that I think regime change is ridiculous. We don't have the will to do it, nobody knows what would come next, etc.
I think Trump thinks it's easy, which is so dangerous.

30.01.2026 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And regime change? Like in Venezuela?
Where you don't change the regime (bc that's hard) but just call them up occasionally to tell them what to do?

30.01.2026 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I doubt it. The Minneapolis teams organizing rapid response grew out of George Floyd protest networks, which were very touchy about cameras and press. Lefty organizing often is. This movement should outgrow lefty organizing so the movement can grow. While lefty organizing is the backbone.

29.01.2026 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Preach, e w

29.01.2026 22:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

We need wider bridges, more lanes, more highways to deal with congestion, how can we afford public transportation?

29.01.2026 22:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And you only help the next victim if a court can't find a fact to distinguish it, which is a special class in law school that everyone gets an A in.

29.01.2026 21:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Basically, She's not a Russian asset, how dare you?, It's just based on all this evidence.

29.01.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
is tulsi gabbard a Russia X

Al Overview

The question of whether Tulsi Gabbard is a "Russian asset" is a highly contentious accusation made by political rivals and media critics, citing her sympathetic stance toward Russia, frequent appearances on Russian state media, and repeating Russian talking points, especially regarding Ukraine.

is tulsi gabbard a Russia X Al Overview The question of whether Tulsi Gabbard is a "Russian asset" is a highly contentious accusation made by political rivals and media critics, citing her sympathetic stance toward Russia, frequent appearances on Russian state media, and repeating Russian talking points, especially regarding Ukraine.

I like the answer it gives me tho:

29.01.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

This year the question is if a groundhog comes out and sees a protest, it'll be a good year.

28.01.2026 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They just learned how to SPELL protest in Huntington Beach.

28.01.2026 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It does get you the attention of powerful people. Not what academics usually get into it for, but certainly some do.

28.01.2026 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I Bragg's is the perfect protest song, easy to sing. Not like Bragg does of course, but it's a gift to the protesters.

28.01.2026 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OpenAI, already way too big to fail, which is perhaps the plan.

28.01.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 92    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

This is going to make Trump furious at Bezos. He can only think it was the fault of the movie makers, who were secretly anti-Melania. He's not capable of any other thought.

28.01.2026 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How do you watch it? Over the air? Paying for each episode?
Or are you talking about memories of the show?

28.01.2026 05:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Can Miller be impeached? Does he have an impeachable position?

28.01.2026 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't think it will work this time. Minneapolis will continue to observe every ICE patrol, and we'll still hear about it. Bovino hasn't been central to that.

27.01.2026 23:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Isn't Palentir the bad guys by definition?

27.01.2026 07:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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