chasfh

The do have good rapport and I was not at all suggesting Hinch doesn't like Benetti—but you can be annoyed with people you like. 😁

Can you imagine a better way to get the youngs flocking to MLB than highlighting players’ charitable endeavors and talking about their parents?

A.J. Hinch is a great interview in the right hands. This was a very relistenable first episode. Dan and Jason are different kinds of cops. Dan is the all-business-all-the-time cop. Jason is the joke-around-and-ask-offbeat-questions cop. It’s a good mix unless Jason goes way off the reservation with something. Here’s a good example of that: I loved the part where Jason asked Hinch what kinds of life situations A.J. would call a personal pinch-hitter in to help him with. Just a really oddball and borderline dumb question, and you can tell A.J. was a bit annoyed by it, and he replies, half-jokingly, “Sometimes I love you, Jason, and then sometimes I love you a little less.”

They are waiting for Trump to become president before they can finally rule 6-3 that presidents have no immunity.

Did people really think Comey was on our side?

I don’t think it would be a bad thing at all for Biden to have an extensive interview with a major legacy media vehicle like the Times, provided he nails it, and I think the administration would like to do so. It’s a risk, though, and it could go upside down in unexpected and uncontrollable ways that wouldn’t apply to prior presidents, which may be why they’re avoiding putting Biden out there in the first place. I wouldn’t be surprised to see them try it, though. Just not now because the topic is too hot.

I find it hard to believe that there are substantial pockets of Michigan that prefer soda over pop. I find it even harder to believe that Chicago is firmly soda country. I can tell you from first-hand experience: it ain’t.

Can you imagine what this court is going to be like when Democrats control the White House and both sides of Congress? It will be practically open war.

Future Hall of Famer alert here at Wrigley Field.

I mean, yeah, we already knew this, but seeing it laid out in print like this really punches us in the gut. https://www.vox.com/scotus/24134882/supreme-court-donald-trump-immunity-calendar-delay How the Court games its calendar to benefit litigants on the right By handling requests from Republican litigants with alacrity, while dragging their feet when a Democrat (or someone prosecuting a Republican) seeks Supreme Court review, the justices can and have handed big victories to right-wing causes while simultaneously sabotaging liberals. Before the Trump case reached the Supreme Court, this penchant for manipulative scheduling was most apparent in immigration cases. During the Trump administration, lower courts often handed down decisions blocking the former president’s immigration policies, and the Court (often over the dissent of several justices appointed by Democrats) moved quite swiftly to put Trump’s policies back in place. In Barr v. East Bay Sanctuary (2019), for example, after a lower court blocked a Trump administration policy locking many migrants out of the asylum process, the Court reinstated this policy about two weeks after the administration asked it to do so. Similarly, in Wolf v. Cook County (2020), the Court reinstated a Trump administration policy targeting low-income immigrants just eight days after Trump’s lawyers sought relief from the justices. Once Biden came into office, however, the Court hit the brakes. In August 2021, for example, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk — a Trump appointee who is known for handing down poorly reasoned decisions implementing right-wing policy preferences — ordered the federal government to reinstate a Trump-era immigration policy known as “Remain in Mexico.” Though the Supreme Court eventually reversed Kacsmaryk’s decision, it sat on the case for more than 10 months, effectively letting Kacsmaryk dictate the nation’s border policy for that whole time. Similarly, after another Trump-appointed judge struck down a Biden administration memo laying out enforcement priorities for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Court waited about 11 months before finally intervening and restoring the administration’s longstanding power to set priorities for law enforcement agencies. The point is that, even in cases where the justices ultimately conclude that a conservative litigant should not prevail, they frequently hand that litigant a significant victory by sitting on the case and allowing a Republican policy to remain in effect for sometimes more than a year. (Given the slow pace of most litigation, this might not be particularly remarkable — except for the stark difference in how the Court has treated suits against Trump and Biden’s policies.) The Court’s ability to set its own calendar allows it to manipulate US policy without actually endorsing lower court decisions that cannot be defended on the merits. The Court’s behavior in the Trump immunity case is a close cousin to this tactic. Again, it is difficult to imagine even this Supreme Court ruling that presidents may commit crimes with impunity. But the Court does not need to explicitly declare that Trump is above the law to place him above the law. All it has to do is string out his immunity claim for as long as possible. —Ian Millhiser, senior correspondent

Let him. He'll get crushed, and we will enjoy watching it.

The Chicago-For-The-People's mayor Brandon Johnson about to whore himself out for the Bears' new stadium. Mayor Brandon Johnson, who took office less than a year ago after vowing to end decades of disinvestment on Chicago’s West and South sides, enthusiastically endorsed the project, calling the renderings of the futuristic oval-shaped stadium with a translucent roof “miraculous.” “Today’s announcement is bigger than football,” said Johnson, touting the team’s investment in the city as a vote of confidence in the city’s future and his leadership. “This is a true public investment.” The cash grab tab is going to come to almost exactly $900 for every man, woman, and child in the city, including those on the disinvested south and west sides.

And not in da butt

but antisemitism

Right , I forgot that. Even worse: he went to arbitration without doing boo for us.

Uppity justices get whacked in Trumpworld.

Yes, but they also know he would never abuse it to jail or murder opponents and such. That's the beauty part for them.

I don't know why you'd want that. That's weird and creepy.

She should have released the hostages and accepted the ceasefire when she had the chance, I guess.

Schreiber is one of those guys who was never going to make it under Avila, and had to go someplace else to have any kind of decent career.

I think there's room in this big, wide world for more than one type of political action, and I also don't believe that a protest is invalid if it doesn't transform an entire system in a utopia. Peaceful protest in support of a people in the process of being bombed and starved out of existence is valid and, in my mind, desirable.

That's fair, but eventually, the realization is going to have to be that the scales can't be balanced by continuing to load everything onto only one side of it, in the service of working practically. That's what makes the Republican position so seductively easy: there is no pretense to wanting to balance any economic scales between the classes, and as with the word 'class" itself, they have basically made "equity" a dirty word.

Your definition of Hamashole appears to be anyone who doesn't agree with your positions of "Israel right or wrong" and "Bomb 'em all and let God sort 'em out". I guess by process of elimination that makes me a Hamashole, too, and to the degree that's true, I guess I'll have no choice but to cop to that. Criticizing people for having the temerity of being concerned about things that exist beyond their fingertips is pretty on brand here.

I’m sure I’ll be dismissed by some here as an antisemite now for posting what I just did and for saying this, but I promise you, just as with the student protests in the 60s and early 70s, there’s going to be a turning point when the majority of white people will turn against the blunt force of police power to suppress dissent, because that’s what it’s going to take to finally rein it in. It won’t happen today and it won’t happen tomorrow, but it will happen at some point, because state power always escalates until it goes too far, and it will go too far, because that’s what it’s practically designed to do, and it will be too much for even the white middle and upper classes the system is designed to protect and serve.

Pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas reported by multiple local media outlets as being peaceful. No reports of any threats to life, limb, or even property. No pictures of protesters being violent. No reports of protesters calling for killing Jews. Just a large group of people standing in a public area of the campus and chanting. Yet, multiple arrests of protesters. Plenty of pictures of police in riot gear and on horseback bullying protesters and dragging them into paddy wagon. All courtesy of our good friend Governor Greg Abbott. So this is always where this was really going: the suppression of inconvenient political dissent. Party like it’s 1968.