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He was also inciting his followers.

Whether or not it rises to the level of "inciting imminent lawless action" is a different topic, but it's not like he was merely insulting someone to their face - he was pointing tens of millions of his psycho followers at her.

Never mind that the only role he has as Speaker pro tempore is facilitating the election of a new Speaker. He doesn't have the power to rule on any other House business that isn't very narrowly and very specifically tied to that one, single purpose.

But then again, we're talking about a Republican here, so power grabbing moves are par for the course.

Their top candidate, who is a known fraudster and rapist as confirmed by the courts.

That's the Republican party for you...

The House sets its own rules at the beginning of every Congress. There's no reason a speaker has to agree to the demands that they can be removed via motion by one single member of Congress.

It certainly wasn't an option during the last Congress, while Pelosi was Speaker. It also shouldn't be a demand Democrats should ever cave to when nominating their own candidate.

McCarthy did this all to himself.

John Yoo, a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration

It's insane that a guy like this who tried to get government torture legalized in the United States has now had a long, well-paying, distinguished career and is being referred to as "a Berkeley Law professor and former Justice Department official" instead of "torture guy."

I guess having zero morals and ethics really does pay off.

Imagine what Republicans will say if he doesn't get any response at all.

What are Republicans saying about the fact that Trump is a fraudster and a rapist, that MTG spreads the most idiotic anti-semitic conspiracy theories and that Bobert gets tossed out of a theater for smoking, hollering, getting her boobs grabbed and giving a guy a hand job? What are Republicans saying about the fact George Santos is an obvious liar, huckster and fraud who has been charged with fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements?

What response did that get from Republicans - as compared to, say, the response Al Franken got from Democrats?

And where's the benefit for Democrats in acting in good faith when dealing with an opponent that doesn't even know the meaning of the term "good faith?"

Because there are no restrictions for the moneyed class.

You're a multi-millionaire and you want to hold a little $6,600-a-ticket private concert to raise a couple of millions for a fellow multi-millionaire so that he can spread his toxic ideas while running for office? Go right ahead.

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.”

This wasn't a court case.

This was a copyright application.

The Copyright Office asked him to provide them with an unedited version of the image generated by Midjourney in order to determine how much (human) work went into the final version.

Allen refused to provide them with an unedited version, so the Copyright Office had no way to verify how much or how little work was actually done by the artist compared to work that was done by the AI, so they had to assume that the vast majority of the work was done without any human artistic contribution.

They were essentially forced to reject his copyright application because he refused to provide evidence that he actually did any kind of creative artistic work.

Well, that is assuming there's no human editing of the results of the AI tool afterwards. There was heaps of it in the piece referenced in the article

If there was, then the artist should have discussed those heaps of human editing that went into the creation of this piece of art, and he would have been granted a copyright.

The fact that he refused to disclose what - if anything - was done after the AI spit out the result is what resulted in him not being granted copyright.

It's really on American regulators to hold American companies accountable if they abuse their dominant position in the American market to the detriment of American consumers.

Like 99 percent of companies who are suddenly doing something good and acting in the interest of the consumer.

No, I did not know that.

That's amazing.

An unknown person breaking the glass and potentially armed could be a threat.

That's a valid statement.

It also demonstrates a wider problem: gun proliferation is so incredibly high that the default assumption is always going to be "that person might have a gun," and this will always prompt a much lowered threshold to use one's own gun in return.

Fairphone, through a herculean development effort, has been the only Android OEM to keep going even after Qualcomm drops support.

That seems to say that while Qualcomm will drop support, Fairphone will not. Which means that it's very likely that the Fairphone will receive updates - including new Android OS versions - even after EOL by Qualcomm.

And given Fairphone's history, there's every reason to believe in their commitment.

Leadership wants her out, and she finally accepted the option of letting another Democratic senator temporarily fill her position on the Judiciary Committee while she was unable to attend for many, many weeks in the most recent episode - but Republicans refused.

At that point, Democratic leadership can decide that they want her out so badly that they'll simply hand Republicans a win. Or they can try to get her back in her seat with her hand on the button, so that Democrats can get at least a few wins in the Judiciary Committee.

I want Feinstein out, but I still think Democratic leadership made the correct decision.

Flashback:

Under Navarro's plan, dubbed the "Green Bay Sweep," former Vice President Mike Pence was to send disputed election results back to the states, thereby forcing hours of debate on Capitol Hill.

"It was a perfect plan," Navarro said in an interview late last year with the Daily Beast. "And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn't even need any protesters, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it."

Now that the masterminds behind the plan to end democracy in America in order to install an unelected dictator are seeing some consequences, how about we also go after co-conspirators like those "over 100 congressmen" who were so happy to go along with it?

Former NHTSA senior safety adviser Missy Cummings, a professor at George Mason University’s College of Engineering and Computing, said the surge in Tesla crashes is troubling.

“Tesla is having more severe — and fatal — crashes than people in a normal data set,” she said in response to the figures analyzed by The Post.

This would indicate that FSD is more dangerous than a human driver, would it not?

Disagree.

It was Kappa Kappa Gamma that accepted Artemis Langford.

These six girls were suing the sorority because they wanted to prevent Kappa Kappa Gamma from accepting transgender people.

The sorority is the hero here for successfully defending its decision to accept transgender members.

Clearly a lot of people didn't read it that way.

But yeah, I agree with you: Twitter X going offline in the EU would be nice.