Margaret bucking for that big Christmas bonus from Bari.

I believe this is the sort of thing that would trigger a new general election if it happened in the UK's House of Commons.

This merger deserves to be blocked. And while the Trump admin has signaled their opposition, I'm afraid Netflix or WBD will just bribe him and that'll be that.

Virginia Guiffre? Ghislaine's father Robert Maxwell? Epstein himself? We'll probably never know the truth of it all.

If we cannot abolish the Senate, we should at least diminish it, as the Brits have done to their House of Lords.

"he of" -- yeah, Trump didn't write that. But it's hard to know to what degree Trump is or isn't in control of this shitshow. I'd say Miller and Vought are mainly the ones pulling the strings. But Trump's on board (to extent he knows what's happening). Don't think he's concerned w/ backlash now.

What is it that Trump and his GOP want that can't be done via the budget bill they already passed or by (mostly illegal) executive actions? They've rigged the tax code for the oligarchs who own them and they have a radical 6-3 SC majority. They're all set. They don't need to pass anything else.

Agreed. What I propose arguably complies with the line you quote from the Constitution. And yes, certain justices deserve impeachment and removal, but we both know that won't happen without 67 D Senators, which isn't realistic. We have to pursue solutions that can pass w/ simple D majorities.

I don't know why Congress couldn't pass a law setting a limit on the amount of time that a federal judge could sit on the SC, including those currently there. Set it at 20 years in Jan. 2029 and Roberts, Thomas and Alito are immediately gone, sent back to a lower federal court until they retire.

Ideological sorting of the parties really got going in the 60s: Goldwater, Civil Rights Act, Nixon's Southern strategy. The rise of party primaries and the passage of time carried us to the logical endpoint, where the GOP became the reincarnation of the Confederacy.

But it looks like Carr and Trump did succeed in their censorship bid, at least in part. Carr's direct threat was against local ABC-affiliated stations (who are licensed by FCC) and the two largest station groups in the US, Nexstar and Sinclair, are still not going to carry Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight.

Probably contracts they have in place with their local affiliate stations (owned by the likes of Nexstar, Sinclair, etc.) as well as pay TV operators like Comcast, Charter, etc. Those folks would sue in a second if ABC was suddenly available to stream free online.

I've hit the cancel button on my Hulu account multiple times tonight but it does nothing. I'm hoping their servers are getting overwhelmed with cancellations. I'll keep at it.

I honestly question whether for-profit news media -- either big corporate-owned or independent click-driven -- can fulfill the role that we need in a liberal democracy: to pursue the truth wherever it may lead, actually enlighten the public, and hold the powerful to account. Is that feasible?

You try to make sense of it, to look for motives but, yeah, it may just be sick nihilism, the thrill of violence. There's no making sense of that...