Political ethicist Norman Ornstein surmised on X “Sue the s*** out of them and fire everyone who refused to look at his documents.”

“Political ethicist Norman Ornstein” needs to get his head screwed on straight. The entire agency needs to be abolished and everyone who refused to look at his documents needs to be imprisoned for kidnapping.

Uh oh, I guess I should too, then. I was just going by the headline, but I realize that it’s possible that the court came to the right conclusion for the wrong reasons.

This is the rare occasion where they actually got a ruling right, for once.

Y’all know the risk of home distillers blinding themselves via methanol poisoning is way higher than the risk of them blowing themselves up, right?

I wonder how many more prophesies we’ve checked off since this was last updated?

Headline is propaganda: it tries to imply that the device was used to attack the mayor, but it was actually used to attack the fascists protesting the mayor.

It’s a fascist paramilitary now, not a legitimate government entity.

Even as “draft, deliberative documents” it’s a fucking outrage that even a single person in the department is even considering it. Heads need to roll for this shit.

A win-win proposition! (For everyone but the people whose lives are being ruined…

And people who care about the rule of law, and the American public at large since it’s actually immigrants that made America great, contrary to the dipshits’ delusion.)

4chan has been at the center of this shit all along.

At least one of the co-conspirators is apparently in Colombia, so my guess is they aren’t white.

Who said anything about multicellularity, intelligence, or space travel?

Point is, Obama’s answer was vacuously true, and the only answer a non-idiot could reasonably could have given.

…Okay, I admit he could have quoted Contact for extra style points:

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

But aside from that, the answer he gave was the only one he could reasonably have given.

It is statistically impossible for life to exist on exactly one planet in the universe. Earth just isn’t that fucking special!

Edit:

A statistical impossibility is a probability that is so low as to not be worthy of mentioning. Sometimes it is quoted as 10⁻⁵⁰ although the cutoff is inherently arbitrary. Although not truly impossible the probability is low enough so as to not bear mention in a rational, reasonable argument.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2049714/can-something-be-statistically-impossible#2049722

If I’m wrong about the definition, at least I’m not wrong alone.

If the government won’t enforce the law, vigilantism is the only alternative. If the turbines are destroyed, they can’t emit.

INB4 they seize it and give it to Israel as “reparations” (to be immediately spent on munitions against Palestinians).

First of all, LOL, what a clown move by a clown committee.

Second, I don’t give a shit about the Clintons and neither should anybody else. I would have loved for them to be held accountable for contempt, if it weren’t for the fact that the committee itself lacks credibility and deserves it.

Third, I’m just hoping for the silver lining that liberal Democrats learn the hard way what they should’ve done with that power, back when they had the chance to wield it against MAGA fuckwads legitimately.

Shut it down. Shut it all the fuck down!

I don’t even want the Democrats to condition it on demands anymore. I just want them to obstruct completely as a matter of principle that fascist government is worse than none at all.

“Obstruction investigation” – yes, the investigation is obstruction.

It would require 3D printers sold in New York to include technology that blocks the unlicensed production of firearms and gun parts. It would also make it a crime to possess, sell or distribute digital blueprints for printing illegal guns.

This is an attack on my property rights as a 3D printer owner, never mind the Second Amendment (or First Amendment, for that matter). In practice, this would essentially require all 3D printers to have closed-source, DRM’d firmware and almost certainly spy on you. It is way, way more authoritarian than people only thinking in terms of “gun violence” likely give it credit for.

Also never mind that “is this 3D model a gun?” is an absurd thing to have a computer try to figure out, even with the recent advances in machine learning. That goes double if you care about things like distinguishing a gun that would actually shoot bullets from a water gun, nerf gun, or other vaguely gun-shaped nonfunctional object (which any frothing-at-the-mouth jackbooted thug who would stoop to supporting this clearly wouldn’t). And even then, guns are fundamentally simple devices made from multiple parts – is it going to SWAT you for printing a cylinder because it might be a gun barrel?!

This proposal is dangerously insane in every conceivable way, and probably several other ways I haven’t even thought of yet.

Once they left the facility, they were again hit with chemical agents officers were using on protesters in the area.

“We were not charged with a crime,” said Sigüenza. “We were released and then tear-gassed on our way out.”

Just in case there was any shred of doubt left about how sadistic these complete monsters are.