I bet they're looking at all the long-range drone attacks Ukraine is doing and never forgetting 9/11.

It's a poll of voters. Let's say that's 50% of the country, and Republican voters are 50% of that, or 25% of the total population. 70% of 25% is 17.5%, or a little over 1 out of every 6 people. That's a big problem if they're organized (and they are, but only to an extent), but far from insurmountable.

My takeaway from the 93-5 split among Dems is that this is a tailor-made agitation point among them. Virtually any Dem you talk to is opposed to the war, but there's been no serious party effort to stop it. They won't even talk about primarying John Fetterman, who isn't even a Democrat anymore and doesn't even want to be there, over killing the War Powers vote.

How big is that cell?

I listen.

wiping out more than $300 billion in value

If it can be erased with one news story and reappear with another, it's not real value.

The problem (one of them...) is that he loves to make shit up. Hard to parse out when he's spilling the beans vs. bullshitting.

But his defense attorneys now argue that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives 'was unable to identify the bullet recovered at autopsy to the rifle allegedly tied to Mr Robinson.'

"Unable to identify" is quite a bit different from "does not match." Think fingerprints: "we can't make out what was recovered from the scene" is different from "we can make out what was recovered, and it isn't the suspect's fingerprint."

There may also be different levels of certainly in these types of analyses, and this is just arguing that less than 100% certain means "unable to identify."

But Kirk's widow, Erika Kirk, has called for full transparency in coverage of the trial, saying: 'We deserve to have cameras in there'.

Damn, she really does just want to maximize her TV time.

I'm not an expert in missiles, but it seems like a strait that's 24 mi / 39 km at its narrowest makes it easier for a neighboring country to shoot missiles at ships and harder for those ships to defend themselves.

Even more embarrassing: she obviously hasn't seen Avatar 3

It's the country a lot of people in the U.S. have known, too. "They're executing people in the streets" yeah that's what the whole Black Lives Matter movement was about, dating all the way back to Ferguson.

This shit is going to ring more and more hollow as libs get radicalized by ICE violence. You can't get to the point where libs are talking about protesting while armed (or doing it) and simultaneously punch left because they aren't pacifists.

Back in the 00s or earlier, a lot of people said the r-slur basically as a way of saying "dumb" with emphasis. There wasn't always the connotation of an edge to it, or a direct understanding that you were demeaning people with intellectual disabilities. Even when it was directly mocking those people, you hadn't had an extended period of mainstream reflection on punching up/punching down, or on how fucked up mainstream language can be (e.g., the former name of the Washington Commanders).

But all those cats are out of the bag now. People who say that slur today are at best trying to be edgy, and are at worst consciously being mean. The edginess only kind of works -- everyone knows you weren't saying this a few years ago, so how edgy are you, really? I'm not even sure it works well anymore as performative meanness, because the whole idea of "we're bringing this back" so strongly emphasizes how uncreative it is.