

The problem is that just standing around is going to intimidate a bunch of US citizens who have dark skin


As far as anybody can tell, he made the whole thing up. The sharpies for signing are real, but likely are standard sharpies that somebody silk-screened a logo onto.


They’re quite trained. It’s just that they’re trained to levy war against America


A writer at the NYT tries that about once a year. Here was this year’s
The editors then give the article poor placement so few people see it.


What if the goal isn’t to win the game of rock, paper, scissors, but to give their buddies chances to win bets? The whole US attack on Iran looks more like that than anything else.


It is, but one that a shocking fraction of significant left-of-center writers are still on.
If you want to avoid them, there is some coverage in the Financial Times but this gift link expires after a few hundred clicks.


He’s talking about US conservatism, which has given lip service to classical liberalism, but is anything but


They can say it, but only once in a while, and it doesn’t get prominent placement on the NYT website, so few people hear about it.


Some parts of the DHS are useful things on their own. Having customs agents makes sense. Trying to help people after disasters too large for individual states to respond makes sense too. Those things antedate the Patriot Act, and should to be restructured, rather than eliminated.


The NYT buries articles like this using non-prominent placement. Try finding it on their website without using the search tool


The bigger problem is that they’re using LLMs to rewrite safety regulations and produce safety documentation


The switch won’t be instant though. There will be a lot more suffering from this kind of unplanned shift than there would have been from the kind of planned one environmentalists have been advocating for


Looks like the gift link ran out https://archive.ph/bOGqj


Trump’s Greenland thing is a multi-year obsession, not a one-off
It’s not quite as bad as his obsession with attacking Iran, which goes back into the 1980s, but it’s long-lasting enough that it’s not safe to count on it just going away.


Probably because the Republicans have been trying to use antisemitism as a cudgel to attack the left, so this makes them look bad right now


Never done metal, but it looks like what people like for it is called a “fiber laser”
They seem to go for about $1400 but have not shopped around or tried to pick up a used one
In a close election, tipping a few tens of thousands of votes in the right state could in fact alter the outcome. So they’d target the closest swing state, and pick precincts with large minority populations.