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1 week ago | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bruce C. with a reply to a comment that attempted to downplay the recent behavior of federal agents:Even plain clothes officers are required to carry their badge. If they were undercover officers they shouldn’t be presenting themselves as officers to civilians unless they desire to blow their cover. In second place, it’s Strawb with another comment about that same incident in Texas:What is it law enforcement is fond of saying?
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1 month ago | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
It’s been a while but we’ve got a double-winner this week from Thad, with a comment that took both first place for insightful and second place for funny, in response to the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling about Abrego Garcia:Wow, I never realized that Thomas, Alito, and all three of Trump’s appointees were Marxists. In second place on the insightful side, we’ve got Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the ramifications of this case:If only citizens get due process, nobody gets due process.
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1 month ago | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about Trump’s unhinged trade war that includes uninhabited islands:Reminder: This policy was spearheaded and implemented by a man who thinks nobody says the word “groceries” these days because “it’s an old-fashioned word” and he somehow brought it back into the limelight. Donald Trump is a motherfucking moron.
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1 month ago | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Bloof with a response to the latest accusation that Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber:Sorry republicans, you don’t get to use the N-word and still get invited to parties, that’s not how life works.
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2 months ago | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a comment on our post about Techdirt’s focus as of late, in response to another comment asking for recommendations of other good outlets:Wired has been pretty much head of the pack at covering Musk’s government takeover. ProPublica might be the best national news outlet in the country at this point. It’s independent and donation-supported.
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2 months ago | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is MrWilson with a comment about US Attorney Ed Martin’s apparent personal intimidation campaign against Trump/Musk rivals:Note the direct association of “putting America first” with the act of adhering to a presidential executive order that can only apply to government employees. Sycophantry to authoritarianism is both ugly and stupid. In second place, it’s Stephen T.
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Feb 9, 2025 | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a comment about the assault on the idea that laws have any meaning at all:A lot of people—especially in right-wing circles—tend to forget that the process of civilization is the process of everyone forgetting that they can grab a rock and bash someone’s skull in for little to no reason at all. Modern society as a whole rests on that careful, delicate process.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
news.fsu.edu | Josh Duke |Stephen Stone
The Florida State University Schools (FSUS) Board of Directors and FSU Anne Spencer Daves College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences Dean and Superintendent Damon Andrew have chosen Christopher Small as the new director of FSUS. Small has served as interim director of FSUS since June 2024. “The Board of Directors unanimously chose Dr. Small due to his impressive history of school administration and excellent record improving K-12 programs.
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Jan 19, 2025 | 
techdirt.com | Leigh Beadon |Stephen Stone
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side Stephen T. Stone with a comment about platforms systematically removing a user for making a deck of Most Wanted CEO playing cards:The same people who celebrate this will whine their asses off if someone gets banned from Twitter for saying a racial slur. Can’t wait to see the hypocrisy in action.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
news.fsu.edu | Stephen Stone
Dry Santa Ana winds have fueled devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area. The excessive damage began Tuesday and has continued into Thursday, putting at least 130,000 residents under evacuation orders as of Thursday morning. Five major fires have caused over 400,000 power outages, with the Pacific Palisades fire just west of Los Angeles being the most destructive in the city’s history as an estimated 1,000 structures were destroyed.
