The key problem is that whether he is confirmed depends entirely on whether the Republicans all vote to confirm him. The most that the Democrats can actually do is make a bunch of noise.

They should be courting the public by making it really clear how awful Trump’s nominees and policies are.

We actually did it once. People hated it.

Different religious groups are different in meaningful ways and religion is basically a toolkit for organizing.

A lot of the individual Democrats are worth paying attention to, and either have state-level power or maybe the capacity to sow enough discord among Republicans to block some actions in Congress

It matters because it’s a public act of defiance.

You can’t get anywhere meaningful in the US by being anti-religion.

She didn’t have a penis.

Yes, though in practice overall system cost and reliability can be improved by adding wind to the mix.

It’s the only brand of EV with falling sales right now. Still selling a fair number; a lot of people either don’t know just how Nazi Musk is, or how bad they are compared with other EVs, or don’t care.

They linked to a copy of the filing which lists all parties to the lawsuit, including 18 states, DC, and the city and county of San Francisco.

Yeah, and that’s a very effective way to disable most offices that depend on communication with customers. Impact is very much the same.

That depends a fair bit on how corporate networks are set up. It’s very easy to have a central authentication server that the base station can’t reach anymore, so nobody can connect to the corporate wifi.

Shockingly easily. Here’s the New York Times

There is video. He did it more than once. Either it’s so ingrained his muscle memory that he just moves like a Nazi salute, or he did it with intentionality. Both say he’s a Nazi

That headline is why I prefer actual liberal media

It’s going to make it a notch harder to prosecute people for bogus charges. The appearance of legality is still somewhat important if the target is cis and doesn’t have dark skin.

Unfortunately, that doesn’t do it either; you get conspiracy theory type answers instead.

The paper makes a very strong point about how people change minds, and it’s not about some personal impact; it’s about gaining distance from an ideological community that denies reality, and then getting useful information from people they trust.

For the NYT, 30 days. I seem to have missed one character in the gift token when I did a copy-paste though. Fixed now.

A couple things:

• ICE operates under rules that say they’re not supposed to detain people at church. So encourage people to spend raid day at church.
• Don’t help out. Give the absolute minimum, don’t provide information, and refuse to give access on the basis of an administrative warrant (one not signed by a judge)

Edit: since I posted this, the rules ICE operates under have been changed to allow raids at churches.

That’s exactly the problem — in the US there’s an extra tariff on larger vehicles, so the manufacturers face less competition and therefore earn greater profits if they only make big vehicles.