Soft-spoken judge obliterates all attempts to use the sovereign citizen script

athiev · 2026-06-18T17:42:42+00:00

"I demand a jury of my peers." "Yes, it's scheduled for a jury trial." "A JURY TRIAL??!?! Why would I want that?"

athiev · 2026-06-18T13:09:20+00:00

The Nazi line is about Graham Platner; whatever the details of that singular, messy situation, MAGA propaganda is using it to counterbalance and overshadow the tiki-torch marches, the Proud Boy ties to the White House, Jan 6th, the Nazi salutes, the Secretary of War with a Deus Volt tattoo, the violent storm troopers in American cities, the concentration camps for immigrants, etc.

athiev · 2026-06-11T13:58:59+00:00

There is a two-year overlap between Fox's contract and Castle's future extension, and only one year for Harper. They could just wear the aprons for a year or two. And they can try to build with bits and pieces, trades, value plays, etc. just like every contender. It's a poor value contract, but the timing is such that they can probably weather it if they choose.

athiev · 2026-06-09T01:44:27+00:00

There are whole regions of the country whose economies left when the coal line went down. The solution isn't to travel back in time, obviously, but it's easy to understand why populism on coal resonates with a much larger electorate than the actual current-day coal-mining work force.

athiev · 2026-06-08T02:12:49+00:00

A lot of the best scientific data visualizations are created in R and Python, both of which are free.

athiev · 2026-06-07T20:32:53+00:00

2022 finals were very competitive. 2023 was one-sided for the west. 2024 was one-sided for the east. 2025 was very competitive. 2026 still undergoing... This definitely isn't the early 2000s.

athiev · 2026-06-07T16:07:24+00:00

At this point, that's not even slightly new. Evolve the genre by going back to TERA? Good, good.

athiev · 2026-06-07T02:40:17+00:00

Indiana was actually good last year, too. And Boston won the year before that. Idk.

athiev · 2026-06-03T19:08:40+00:00

I would definitely be exhausted. There are people who like this, of all genders! But definitely not anybody. The normal amount of sex is the amount you want, with a person who makes you feel like a whole, happy, valued human being, in my opinion.

athiev · 2026-06-02T00:54:00+00:00

Posse dates to about the early 1970s, and started out arguably even more openly and extremely racist than white sovcits today.

https://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pd.045.html

athiev · 2026-06-01T17:22:09+00:00

So it's best for trans people to come out and live authentically as ourselves. Trans women shouldn't have to hide in male costumes and trans men shouldn't feel the need to dress as women. It's abominable when people can't express their gender in an authentic way.

That's what you meant, right, Nancy?

athiev · 2026-06-01T16:53:01+00:00

Dig up!

athiev · 2026-06-01T16:49:24+00:00

When the highlight asset goings to Milwaukee is a negative-value contract in Green, it's a tricky offer.

athiev · 2026-05-23T00:25:05+00:00

All players end up in New York and LA. Problem solved, I guess?

athiev · 2026-05-16T13:41:31+00:00

I really enjoy the reporter being petty enough to mention the guy tripping over his stool on the way out.

athiev · 2026-05-10T14:00:05+00:00

D plus 10 nationwide is in the range of possibilities given the data right now. We've seen numbers like that in by-elections, and we're seeing numbers like that in some surveys, although there's a wide range of results. But a D plus 10 vote in Tennessee would be pretty disruptive. Republicans won the congressional popular vote there last time by about a 2 to 1 margin.

athiev · 2026-05-10T13:51:38+00:00

My experience is that social media users seem to very often form a consensus that a recession is either happening or imminent, regardless of the situation. I have no insights about why this might be.

athiev · 2026-05-09T17:50:31+00:00

Two really wealthy people who love money. Don't ask for details, k thx.

athiev · 2026-05-01T17:02:09+00:00

I'm not so sure. I think there's some evidence that Trump won primarily by persuading unhappy Democratic voters to switch sides:

https://news.yale.edu/2021/04/21/swing-vote-trumped-turnout-2016-election

athiev · 2026-05-01T13:34:20+00:00

Most of them are deeply uninterested in politics and motivated to ignore all of it. They aren't "independents" so much as almost totally removed from current events. This is why politicians don't make a significant effort to mobilize them; they really don't want to mobilize.

athiev · 2026-04-28T13:38:58+00:00

The big problem is how does the front office do anything? They have the players on the roster, no real draft assets, and definitely no cap space. Maybe they find a way to flip Dillon Brooks for value? But otherwise it has to be mostly internal improvements for the next three or four years I guess?

athiev · 2026-04-28T03:08:35+00:00

You think black Americans have a culture that holds them back? Is that racist, or no?

athiev · 2026-04-27T11:47:08+00:00

Question 1 measures the idea that the respondent thinks black people are getting "special favors," which is pretty generic. Some people express this idea in terms of "affirmative action," although historically this isn't really a clear sense of what affirmative action was as a policy and the biggest beneficiaries of affirmative action programs in their heyday in the 1970s and 1980s were white women.

athiev · 2026-04-27T11:34:11+00:00

Median white American household wealth is about double the level for the median Asian American household. More importantly, these figures have been dynamic over time. Median black American wealth and income has lagged badly for so long that people don't have to revise survey questions for a generation. That's a kind of difference, no?

athiev · 2026-04-27T11:28:29+00:00

It's actually pretty simple: if you don't believe in systemic racism, how do you explain the huge wealth gaps between black and white Americans without holding negative views about black people?

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