Darthskeptic

Opinion | The sandwich thrower was wrong. But Jeanine Pirro was, too. To establish a forcible assault, jurors were required to find that Dunn caused “reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm.” That allegation was laughable.

Sandwich verdict wasn’t jury nullification. It was failure to prove the required “reasonable fear of physical injury” in a case where the agent was wearing A BULLETPROOF VEST. The only crime was the waste of resources on this case. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Miami, FL based on the 2024 presidential results.

This is actually a pretty standard and unremarkable move, as evidenced by Justice Jackson issuing it.

But most people won't believe that for several good reasons.
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If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

What this order makes clear is that plaintiffs can collect a mountain of animus, the district court can write extensively about the record, and the Supreme Court will just go “nuh uh.”

My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...

You can indict a ham sandwich, sure. But can you convict it?

The jury trial, ladies and gentleman

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When your "I'm not antisemitic, it's just that ..." defense is "if we push back too hard on antisemitism I might have to eat dinner with some Jews and that would contradict my faith" ...

You're not beating the rap guys

If OpenAI can’t exist without our money or our talent then it should die.

A lot of those spikes in normal people are statistical noise due to the margin of error of the tech too.

¿Porque no los dos?

"We're in emergencies everything all the time for half the world" is Peak Kagan and so true about how Administrations use emergency powers.

I'm to listen to the tariff argument eventually. But it's truly a zoom-out case: does it make any sense that the President has the power to institute any kind of tariff based on any kind of insane whim? And the answer to that must be no. Whether that's what SCOTUS will say I don't know.

AOC just saying basically this same thing from Mamdani HQ on MSNBC

Traditional American politics is premised on the notion that sometimes you lose and sometimes you win and you have to deal with that.

But Trumpism is premised on the notion that any result where you don’t win is illegitimate, unlawful, fraud, criminal.

You can’t negotiate with people like that.

Influencers have fractured reality in Portland Right-wing content creators managed to successfully brand the Portland police as ‘antifa.’

I spent some time spelunking in the footnotes of the Oregon National Guard litigation and came to the horrible conclusion that we're watching the record decay in real time under the weight of a right-wing influencer circus www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

X Post by Michael Adams, Kentucky Secretary of State: "We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry."

What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?

This.

This is what you get.

Wherever she points or guides my face to.

It's impossible to overstate how much of what ICE is doing on the ground reflects this completely preposterous conflation of hostile *speech* and hostile *conduct.*

The First Amendment protects—or, at least, is supposed to protect—the former up and until it's a "true threat," which none of this is.

My cats judge me for watching ecchi.

There's a vicious war on the right. Please join me in praying for our ally, sepsis.

IMHO it’s going to take a rule establishing automatic dismissal with prejudice or striking answer and entering a default/equivalent other procedural postures for this to stop because all the lesser sanctions are not working.

Closest thing is

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At some point in Florida this will happen:

“A motion to dismiss is not always confined to the four corners of the complaint.” Bundy v. State; Wurnos v. State.

I Never Thought It Would Happen To Me: Below is the final line of a judge’s tentative ruling denying an opposing party’s motion. We had pointed out that some of their cited cases did not seem to exist. The judge noticed.

I leave it to judicial watchers to evaluate the tone of the comment below.

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Not “on label” for BG testing but certainly “off label” for BDSM

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