It’s an open and shut case. There is no rational legal argument for ending birthright citizenship.

Unfortunately, this court doesn’t seem to feel bound by little things like laws, precedents, the constitution or reality. If I had to bet on the outcome, I’d assume they will give Trump what he wants yet again. I want to be wrong about that, but at this point I think it’s a safer bet to assume this court will always do the worst thing possible.

Judges should be part of the judicial branch, not the executive.

Of course DS9 had to lose the special effects data, they saw B5 do it first.

Everyday that I look at the feed I am reminded of the old /r/theonion + /r/nottheonion feed I used to love back in the day. The guessing game got less fun when it took over all the news.

The rodents, their size unusual.

These are the same shit stains that refer to legal immigrants and refugees as criminal illegals. The ones that condemn the idea of politicized prosecutions and claim no one is above the law while pursuing politicized prosecutions of people for daring to hold Trump accountable and not treating him as entirely above the law. These are the ones touting transparency while cracking down on whistle-blowers.

I could go on all day with this. Everything they say is in bad faith. They don’t care about being right, they just want to throw out soundbites to be repeated by propaganda outlets. Illegal orders are lawful. Following the constitution is seditious. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. There are five lights. The Star Wars sequels are just as good.

And the fact that they know they must lie is all the more damning.

As long there isn’t one of those fucking wind farms out there wrecking the environment and giving whales autism, right?

Great idea. I hear the epstein files have info on some filthy whore that was sucking Clinton’s dick.

He doesn’t admit defeat, he claims some kind of win or deal and then backs down.

Dems made them promise to put those ACA measures back in next year.

They got Thune to promise a separate vote in the senate on the ACA credits, probably in December. Even if that passed in the senate, Johnson won’t schedule a vote on it in the house. And if by some miracle it passed the house, Trump would just veto it.

It’s nothing. It’s absolutely nothing. At most they got Republicans to vote against ACA credits specifically, which is nothing compared to other shit they’ve already voted on, and will be far less effective than letting them take the heat for the shut down. The fact that they were willing to prolong the shut down just to kill the ACA credits says a lot more than a simple vote would.

Their powers don’t appear to be limited by their physical form, and you do remain conscious while being transported, so it seems unlikely that you could trap one using the transporter. And that’s without getting into the question of how much of the Q is the body vs how much is something else beyond that physical manifestation.

Noticed some anti-voting accounts pop back up this week after being dormant since last November. Must have gotten spooked by the election results on Tuesday and want to get a head start on trying to suppress turnout for next year.

Any deal that doesn’t put everything in one bill is worthless.

Let’s pretend for one moment that Republicans actually joined Democrats in passing the extension of ACA credits and any other concessions they got in the negotiations. Even if they passed the bill, Trump can just veto it. As long as he gets what he needs in a separate bill, he can veto anything else. And if there’s enough support for the compromise to overturn a veto, there’s enough to prevent it by passing it all as one bill.

But I’m sure Schumer will happily explain how Republicans voting against the ACA credits will be on their permanent record and how that will make this all worthwhile.

I’m not saying he actually has the stuff. More that I could see it being something Soong had in storage in his lab and was going to give to Data along with the chip, but never got the chance.

How long before the announcement that they are awarding one of their billionaire buddies with a no bid contract to replace air traffic control with an LLM based system?

Data doesn’t have emotions, but he does form attachments, has preferences and priorities, and can view experiences as positive (preferable) and negative (not preferable). So while he doesn’t experience things the same way that we do, he can still value the experiences.

The mechanics of Little Data (Datum?) are obviously never established, but given that he breathes and grows hair, it wouldn’t surprise me if the thing couldn’t double as squirt gun / turkey baster. I’m sure Soong would have probably wanted Data to be able to father a kid the old fashioned way if he chose to. Hell, now that I think about it, the old man may have kept some samples on ice in case Data ever needed them.

This whole administration: Better that 100 innocents suffer than that 1 innocent not suffer.

Too bad most of us have already been paying taxes and need to file in order to get a refund.

A manufacturer bricking your device remotely should be treated as destruction of property, no different than if they walked in and smashed it with a baseball bat.

In this case, the order for the DoJ was about discovery relating to a motion to dismiss based on vindictive prosecution. If they fail to comply with the discovery process, the judge can simply grant the motion to dismiss.