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.

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.

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.

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.

"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down?

That’s not my department, " says Wernher von Braun.

When appointing people who have absolutely no clue, he’s tended to do better than when appointing those who are actively malicious. Rick Perry famously wanted to abolish the Department of Energy, despite not being able to remember his name, but was probably one of the least-awful Trump appointees, since he seems to have been unaware of its primary mission of nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship until after he was appointed.

Houston has significant hurricane risk, whether or not you’ve actually had a problem.

The problem is that it’s capital-intensive; people need to eat and make rent for quite a while before the subscriber base is large enough to support them

It’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.