“No Kings” - Sounds like a clear goal to me. Excuse me now while I get ready 🇺🇸

A hallmark of this era. Why please those you serve when you can instead infuriate them with a fraction of the effort and still turn a profit?

The Arch Linux link mentioned by SomethingBoring in another comment details needed set up for BD+ copy protection and AACS libraries. Once these are set up, Handbrake and VLC will read from disc properly.

QA strikes again

The BBC had a segment on tonight claiming that a stack of $100 bills reaching 1/3 the distance to the moon is worth $1 trillion.

Only the best ones.

Microsoft, a sponsor of the new White House ball room.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c891yxgj44ko

2 lbs of red grapes and a box of brownie mix: $25

Exactly. It doesn’t need to be all, or even most. Just enough to make them unprofitable for long enough to where they panic. That seems a much lower bar and easier to meet.

Where is their moral outrage now?

Exactly. Just wanted to say I found this insightful. A key part of historical American success is that every branch, department, and individual completes their role in the same true reality. They may differ in political opinion, but they all have the same facts.

Trump mucks it up by asserting a different, false reality every day. Nobody can guess for sure what it will be, except MAGA 🙄.

Honest people, regardless of poltics, will eventually find themselves an enemy of the clown.

It’s true that the supreme court often bows to Trump, but the DOJ has lost frequently this year in the lower courts. Even there, traditionally the DOJ wins nearly all their cases. However, Bondi’s DOJ has been so incompetent that they’ve lost a record number. So many, that DOJ attorneys are losing their deferential rapport with judges.

It’s not perfect, and justice remains incomplete and slow, but the courts are jamming up the overreaches.

One great source of information and hope is Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket series which frequently covers these topics.

It reeks of desperation. He knows he’s running out of time. We need to keep the pressure up on every front.

I wonder how long before he fires Bondi. There aren’t enough DOJ resources to chase every case he demands. And with virtually all of them being meritless, she has no hope of winning them. Sadly for Bondi, Trump hates losers. It makes me misty eyed to think of her future career 🎻

Very much so. It’s critical we sustain this pressure until the fascists cave. Don’t give them an inch.

Edit: 25.4 mm for our allies abroad. Thanks friends :-)