[first day as an uber eats driver] CUSTOMER: you were supposed to deliver my sandwich ME: *wiping mouth* it’s called uber eats not uber deliver my sandwich
It sure would be comical if Samuel Alito had recently published an opinion in which he expressed strong feelings about flags and wrote that passersby viewing a flag flying over a building would naturally assume the flag conveys some message on the owner's behalf www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21p...
![Shurtleff v. City of Boston
ALITO, J., concurring in judgment
Cite as: 596 U. S. ____ (2022)
As the Court rightly notes, “[a] passerby on Cambridge Street” confronted with a flag flanked by government flags standing just outside the entrance of Boston’s seat of government would likely conclude that all of those flags “conve[y] some message on the government’s behalf.” Ante, at 9](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreic4emyawt2nzhmtxlsyu2vdz3aye76a4kanzakd3p6zk7t325eiru@jpeg)
![A program with this design cannot possibly constitute government speech. The City did nothing to indicate an intent to communicate a message. Clark, 468 U. S., at 294, 104 S. Ct. 3065, 82 L. Ed. 2d 221. Nor did it deputize private speakers or appropriate private-party expressive content. The flags flown reflected a dizzying and contradictory array of perspectives that cannot be understood to express the message of a single speaker. For example, the City allowed parties to fly the gay pride flag, App. to Pet. for Cert. 142a, but it allowed others to fly the flag of Ethiopia, id., at 174a, a country in which “homosexual act[s]” are punishable by “imprisonment for not less than one year.” The Crim. Code of Fed. Democratic Republic of Eth. 2004, Arts. 629 and 630, Proclamation No. 414/2004. Indeed, the City disclaimed virtually all messages expressed by characterizing the flagpoles as a “public forum” and adopting access criteria consistent with generalized public use. The City’s policy an](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreid5j6ksippnx5g6jlysth5yuycovuunzw2ustulfewcog5bqca7xe@jpeg)
Cynical and opportunistic politicians are using the horrors in Israel and Gaza to lean very hard into vague and unprincipled demands for broad censorship. www.politico.com/news/2023/12...
Nearly half a dozen times, lawmakers deferred the rest of their time to Elise Stefanik, who proved to be the leader of Harvard’s toughest critic on the panel.
Hey, Litigation Disaster Tourists! Musk went and did it. He filed the SLAPP suit against Media Matters. This thing will likely rival the Trump election suits for frivolity so let's read it together, why don't we?
Just threw a few bucks into Media Matters' coffers to support the important work they do, as Musk does his best to sabotage them for calling him out on his bigotry. There's a little red button on the top right corner of their home page if you're inclined to do the same. www.mediamatters.org
ok a state attorney general launching an investigation of an organization for publishing obviously first amendment protected criticism of a billionaire’s business practices at the behest of said billionaire is not like the best place to be in, democracy wise
Using an image show a movie you have watched more than ten times
Me: Alexa, what's the difference between streusel and crumble? Alexa: For the love of all that is holy, stop eating.
“I don’t care for orange sherbert.” OH YEAH MOTHERFUCKER, WELL IM DOXING YOU AND I FUCKED YOUR MOM -the internet in a nutshell - @grimavenue.bsky.social