Ed Bott

Ed Bott

@edbott.com

1802

Posts

Tech journalist and author. Opinions are all my own but feel free to borrow. If you need to get in touch, there's a contact form on my website.

Posts Replies Media

What could go wrong.

just watched a presser with Milwaukee cops explaining that Wisconsin is an open carry state so they can't do anything about it if somebody's walking around the soft perimeter with an AR

I recommend you read this thread from Ken White, epecially part 4 about fighting back and working to protect and defend people weaker than you.

Institutions work until they don’t. It’s banal but true. Courts as institutions worked when Trump tried to steal the election, but FedSoc has been chipping away at them for decades, and I think it is very rational to doubt they will work any more to restrain an executive.

The timing of this ruling, on day 1 of the RNC, was really exquisite. Easy to imagine Aileen Cannon being appointed Attorney General in a future GOP admin.

Judge Cannon ruled that she was not bound by a Supreme Court case that expressly said the attorney general was authorized to appoint a special prosecutor.

Reposted by

Axios is just Politico with truck nuts

Settle down, boys

Reposted by

Yet again it’s now confirmed American cops cowardly did nothing to stop a mass shooter who has access to an assault rifle it’s almost as if there’s an obvious problem our politicians continually do nothing about www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/p...

Reposted by

Senator who last week promoted a tweet that called his legislative opponents traitors punishable by death now asks “to take the political temperature down.”

How quickly they forget.

Dripping in irony.

Reposted by

Please don’t “both sides” the “violent political rhetoric” conversation when one side regularly glorifies and intimidates with guns and the other side speaks out to end gun violence. These are not the same.

Reposted by

We don't have to treat Trump the way we handle typical Presidential candidates. In fact, we have a moral imperative not to.

Reposted by

In this fraught moment, we all must be as responsible with our words as the guy about to pick a new running mate because he sent a mob to string up his last one.

Reposted by

I agree that Trump will ratchet up the violent rhetoric and that it’s hard to know which way it would swing. There’s real danger of someone acting on it and that’s the key concern. But just politically I don’t see a gain. Doesn’t draw new voters outside cult, might well drive away swing voters.

Trump is going to respond to this by becoming even more unhinged. He will call for violence, openly, gleefully. What we don't know: how the majority of Americans will react to the frontrunner for president demanding the murder of his opponents. I fear it's not going to be how we'd prefer, though.

Reposted by

Just a reminder: it’s good to oppose assassinations. But you are under absolutely no obligation to treat Trumpists and Trump-apologists as people who are honest, or acting in good faith, when they purport to condemn political violence or violent rhetoric. They’re not sincere.

Reposted by

Biden and Trump both ramble but Biden realizes it and winds down with “well, anyway” while Trump just keeps the firehose running

Reposted by

He’s elderly and he doesn’t express himself as well as he used to, but the dementia/cognitive dysfunction allegations are clearly bullshit

Reposted by

This press conference is just going to confirm everyone’s priors. Biden’s made a few bad flubs but he’s showing a good command of the facts. I’d like to see Trump have to field foreign policy questions like this.

Reposted by

remember 'Tim Apple'

Who would have expected this in (checks notes) Death Valley.

DEATH VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — A person has died from the heat and another is hospitalized as temperature reaches 128 in California's Death Valley.

We moved here specifically to vote against this monster.

The gubernatorial candidate who said his opponents should be murdered currently has a slight lead in the polls. At best it’s 50/50. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/govern...

North Carolina : Governor : 2024 Pollsprojects.fivethirtyeight.com The latest political polls and polling averages from FiveThirtyEight.

Can we just throw David Brooks into a fucking volcano and be done with it?

Reposted by

look - I'm receptive to both "no, it's gotta be him" arguments and "he's gotta step aside" arguments. not to be wishy-washy but both arguments have merit. "then we do a tourney" is OTOH flatly hilarious. yeah that'll go great. there will much much unity in the wake of the electoral deathmatch

To save democracy, the Democratic party may resort to deploying the greatest concept of all time: a political version of the NBA In-Season Tournament

Reposted by

They beat the far-right in Europe twice this week. We can do it here again too.

Reposted by

Banner month for the Economist.

It held

Reposted by

There’s nothing better than a sad fascist.

Reposted by

Are you paying attention, American voters?

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

Vive la France!

Oh. "Marine Le Pen’s anti-migrant National Rally is projected to win the most seats in the lower house of parliament, which could make it the first far-right party to serve in government since the Vichy administration collaborated with the Nazis in WWII."

Le Pen Party Seeks Major French Election Win: What to Watchwww.bloomberg.com French voters were heading to the polls on Sunday at the fastest pace in more than 40 years in what will likely be an unprecedented election in the European Union’s second-biggest economy.

Reposted by

I’ve despised the Times since 2016, but I’ve discovered that I’m capable of hating them - and the WaPo, and the Atlantic - SO much more than I ever did before. And we absolutely can collectively punish them.

Reposted by

In case you’re not willing to believe they’re hell-bent on enabling the fascists

The ability to consistently have the worst possible framing is incredible.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.