“Members of both parties,” and yet they only quote Democrats, except for one Republican who won his purple district representing Omaha by less than 6,000 votes. That district was the one Nebraska electoral vote that went for Harris.

Mm, but Trump is the cult leader. No one actually likes the rest of them and some would feel more capable about pushing back against Vance. Anyway, Trump, Musk, and Vance are all problems.

Former presidents, vice presidents, secretaries of state, etc. receive briefings because until recently they served as a kind of private advisory board to presidents and their successors. It was also, in a worst-case scenario, about continuity of government: if a nuke drops on DC, Obama could step in temporarily to help lead a transitional government.

Of course, Trump and his cabinet don’t need advisors because they’re all geniuses who know everything.

One of them, Reagan-era Justice Department attorney and Trump’s own former campaign lawyer Joseph diGenova, was furious about the release of his personal data. “I intend to sue the National Archives,” he told USA Today. “They violated the Privacy Act.”

When Hitler was in power and did something stupid, Nazi party members would first seek to blame external groups. When that was implausible, they would instead blame other members and groups within the Nazi party. There was a lot of infighting and finger pointing within the Nazi party because 1) well, first and foremost, it was a kakistocracy, and 2) because Hitler himself could never be blamed. So as a result, Hitler was frequently the victim of “bad counsel,” or his orders weren’t carried out “properly” (even if they were followed precisely).

When she wore a scarlet letter A: “This is my signal to others that I don’t answer to anybody up here,” she said. “I only answer to the people back home.”

When her constituents want to ask questions: “We’re staying away because it’s not safe, and we refuse to be bullied by individuals who are threatening me, my employees, and my family.”

This bill can be stopped. Contact your representatives.

Yeah, I’d expect it on opening night (I go later). But the drop-off for many movies these days is huge.

That’s “look under the couch cushions” money for Apple

Granted, I saw a weekday matinee, but there were only 3 other people in my IMAX theater. This has been the case with every movie I’ve seen in recent memory. I can’t remember the last time I had someone sitting next to me in a full theater. Barbie was half-full. Maybe 2021 when theaters reopened?

It deserves to be seen

I saw a non-horror movie yesterday, and 3 out of the 4 previews were for horror movies, including one entire scene from one.

Studios are creatively bankrupt.

Yeah, I had the same thoughts about where her character was going, and that either her character arc was cut for time or got lost in a rewrite.

But the really weird thing was how Bong portrayed her as a little unhinged when she was shooting the baby bug: no restraint and no expression. They made sure to show her face at the end of that scene after the baby had been turned into hamburger, and it seemed a little intentionally unsettling based on the context.

When they depicted Nasha as a little unhinged as well, I was wondering if they were saying something about future soldiers. No, I guess, based on the ending. Nasha just gets homicidal about Mickey, and who knows what’s up with Kai because her character failed the Bechdel Test and then disappeared.

No. “Objectively bad,” lol. At least make an attempt to distinguish your opinion from objective reality about a subjective medium.

I think it was pretty OK, not bad, a few odd pacing choices. The biggest flaw was how underdeveloped Kai was. She was set up in act 1, had a lot of screen time in act 2, then completely disappeared from existence for the entire last act except for one brief “oh yeah, here’s Kai” shot at the end.

Some of the on-screen violence against the baby bugs was repugnant, but it was supposed to be, so I’ll forgive it.

Otherwise I thought Pattinson did a great job realizing his characters and the overall plot worked pretty well as a movie, without being too simple or too complex.

I remember reading about this guy years ago and at the time the reaction from Netflix seemed to amount to, “You got me! Good one.”

His real problem is that he didn’t steal $11 billion—then you’re apparently untouchable.

Apparently the 43 people who bought Atari’s VCS console that they released and then abandoned are all in that comment section.

Revoking a degree is really underhanded.

The only thing you need to remember is that political parties, by law, cannot restrict candidates from running under that party banner. Superdelegates are how the Democratic Party leadership attempts to skirt this and put its thumb on the scale, but after the Clinton-Sanders debacle, their power was diminished.

An ideological takeover of the party is possible. It just requires progressive candidates to get elected.

Strauss-Howe generational theory

You ain’t gonna get arrested protesting in DC unless you start fighting with police or join a riot or something.

Good job taking action instead of just posting about it. Protests aren’t just about free speech, they’re also about building the muscle to take action, and building your network.

The actual URL is america2.news (whatever that is).

In this case it’s because OP got the link wrong and added a ” (smart quote) to the end, and Lemmy encoded it in the same way that international domain names are encoded (like if it includes Chinese).

Looks like they fixed it