“Circled the wagons” is a perfect image for this situation.

Now that’s journalism!

How is this helping? Just capitulating and accepting the inevitability of this assault on our laws? I’m glad for all the courts that don’t agree with you. Every inch is worth holding onto, fighting for.

People are upset to learn that, at the same time when the NYT was sabotaging Hilary Clinton with that absurdly overblown and unfair “but her emails” obsession, an NYT reporter was actively protecting Donald Trump from incrimination by Epstein. What’s your problem with this?

I’m following you just for reminding me of Cookie Mueller, thank you so much!

Nope, I did not claim victimhood, I just named a perspective. If you don’t even try to respect the perspectives of people with first-hand experience—all over the spectrum—then I don’t think you’re making a thoughtful contribution, at least not one I need to engage with.

As someone who was disabled for four years with post-Covid POTS, and has seen how much real suffering has been dismissed and minimized out of denial and hostility toward sick people as reminders of unwelcome reality, I look forward to your swapping out your dismissive tone for an actual argument.

Ellis:
Chicagoans have been tear gassed, stared down the barrel of a gun and been "slammed to the ground with their head bashed into the street."

"All of that would cause a reasonable person to think twice about exercising their fundamental constitutional rights."