It's bad. The Dems handwaving away of Hilary's private server is the only arrow the other side will need in its quiver to brush this one aside. Judging by r/Conservative, that's already the mindset.

My son was a high school bowler who graduated in 2014. Even then automatic scoring had taken its toll on the ability to keep score.

"the latter ones also happen to be ones where you cannot possibly add journalists to it by mistake."

Like the ones the government already has for handling communications like this. People are ultimately lazy, and this little escapade is just one of the more egregious demonstrations of that.

Quelle surprise.

Here it is on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/15hcc4x/curtains_for_zoosha_ksmog_and_batboy_caught/

The account on Twitter has been nuked.

There was a really funny tweet awhile ago about being out of touch with celebrity culture. This is me reading that article.

As someone who'd ban ALL campaign contributions, this is not a disqualifier for me. Plus, I don't live in that district. The voters will decide.

If there's something there, I'm sure Schakowsky's people can dig it up. Right now all we have is a willingness to run and some online statements indicating a less than enthusiastic support of American aid to Israel.

I'd go with #10. We've had 3 DJT election cycles now, and there's not an obvious successor. The guy is such an outlier, it's hard to figure him into regular political science.

I'd probably throw in #8, as well. The 2020s are going to be an odd decade, historically.

Every party has a pooper! ;-)

Fun fact: one of her primary challengers was none other than current IL guv J.B. Pritzker.

Jan Schakowsky is 80 years old and has had very few primary challengers in the last quarter century. Besides, no House district belongs to anyone or any group. Kat probably won't win, but good for her for throwing her hat in the ring.

Luke 20:25 is always sound advice.

Threshold of what?

Hit it, maestro.

I was talking about lèse-majesté. You are free to talk about whatever topic you desire.

That is more a problem with the application of qualified immunity than with anything else.

Reminds me of this famous tweet:

https://x.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1050391663552671744

2 countries separated by a common language. My friend's fear is, I believe, wholly novel for a tourist, and not entirely unjustified.

Not touching that one.

Thanks. Not lèse-majesté, but I will agree with you that it was a violation of his 1st Amendment freedom. Besides, what kind of idiot thinks you can vote by text?

Agreed. As has so often been pointed out on these pages, social media is not the real world.

People should not have to be worried about what legal consequences they might face for expressing criticism of anyone in the government.

Pinkie swear not to do that. It's alarming no matter which side you're on.

If you can suggest a story where the American legal system has come down on critics of whatever administration is currently in power I might give this some credence. Getting ratioed on social media doesn't count.

I'm not sure what that means.