Addendum: www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

There's nothing easy about any of this, but "we've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas" just isn't good enough.

Cool, so...he should do nothing?

How about: "I have ordered director Kelly to cease arresting non-violent protestors at Broadview and take steps to ensure they are able to safely exercise their first amendment rights. As we speak, my office is preparing pardons for those arrested this morning."

I'm not sure I understand that framing. We need the governor to wield the power given to him by the structure of the state government. If he can't do that, we have a bigger problem (and we really might!)--but what's the alternative? Let's rewrite the state constitution real quick while this goes on?

But he appointed--and can remove--the state police director. Not that he should do that, but he has actual power here (along with enormous influence).

I've been very impressed with him so far. But this is a big, scary moment, and I don't think I'm wrong to hope he steps up in a big way to meet it.

All the polling from then COMPLETELY confounds this. It was 2:1 in favor of people being ok or wishing their schools would do more! It’s completely bizarre erasure of where public opinion was actually at.

"Anyway, hi, we're the Mountain Goats..."

How is no one here taking about Sorkin?

His centrism (that resulted in, among other things, his pitching Romney as a substitute for Biden in 2024) infects everything he does, including and especially The West Wing. TWW influenced an entire generation of political operatives, and broke their brains

How about this: IL Congressional District 3. So, to be fair, not Schakowsky's district.

But that district has Rogers Park, Evanston, some wealthy burbs, and a bunch of far-flung townships. No resident of one area "knows" the others like a local. Like many districts, it's not cohesive.

Hahaha let me give you my home address and SSN.

Love to engage in a reasonable and good-faith debate like this. Cool. Cool.

I'm from here. What is your problem?

If she's not eligible to run in the district, fine. But if she's eligible to run, I couldn't care less if she lives in a luxury apartment or isn't "from" here.

Are her politics good? Will she be effective? It's too early to say, but that's all that matters.

Maybe, but I worry that lots of people (apparently) don't think "innocent until proven guilty" is how things should work.

You see this in the opposition to ending cash bail and the tacit acceptance of police violence and a criminal justice system built around plea deals rather than trials.

So basically, like, any regular circus before WWII

I bet they've only heard in the context of games played on a grid, where "orthogonal adjacency" means "the squares above/below/left/right, but not diagonally adjacent."

It's still an obvious misuse of the word. They're conflating the part meaning "at right angles" with the part meaning "next to."