I am partial to archive.is for these types of articles: link.

Yeah, that part of the chat while they ate McDonald’s, right after Trump asked him if he’d do anything Trump asked him to do, and right before Trump watched a highlight reel of Fox News clips. You know, the vetting process.

Thanks, that’s not too bad. I am used to spending 5-10 minutes at this point debloating/disabling junk on a new Plex install, I just hope it doesn’t keep getting much worse.

Thank you for installing and reporting back.

Those who use Plex to access personal media will find that their libraries are in a dedicated tab, while the Watchlist will take up prime real estate in the top navigation section. Plex says it also streamlined the user menu for quick access to things like your profile, friends and watch history.

Wait, does this mean that personal media is in a single “tab” that we now have to navigate from the main page, instead of currently where the main page and personal libraries are broken out? That would be a pretty awful change.

Also, who cares about the friends and watch history? Does anyone use that?

The watchlist (assuming this is your “bookmark to watch” section, not the recent content section) is in “prime real estate” now, even though I never use it?

It sounds like - as with the last few major updates - they’re building apps for the users they want, not the users they have.

Thanks, I definitely didn’t remember this, but reviewing it in the era we’re about to enter is pretty depressing:

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S6-C1-3-1/ALDE_00013300/

…They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

As succinctly described by the Court, the Clause’s immunity from liability applies even though their conduct, if performed in other than legislative contexts, would in itself be unconstitutional or otherwise contrary to criminal or civil statutes. This general immunity principle forms the core of the protections afforded by the Clause.

Once it is determined that the Clause applies to a given action, the resulting protections from liability are absolute, and the action may not be made the basis for a civil or criminal judgment against a Member. In such a situation, the Clause acts as a jurisdictional bar to the legal claim

Basically, I assume GOP congressional members are going to be Trump’s attack dogs like we’ve never seen, since they can threaten outright criminal conduct without repercussion.

Something about this man tells me he’s trustworthy. Just look at that face.

It’s also probably illegal blackmail (threatening to release private information that is of a humiliating nature unless someone acts in a certain way seems to fit the bill), assuming she is threatening specific people. But as usual, it’s so shameless and the threat is done in full view of the public, so I guess everyone’s cool with that now.

Edit: Not illegal apparently/sadly, see below.

I loved the feedback and how they felt, but damned if I could ever find a practical use for them. I’m glad they’re still trying.

It’s always a bit strange to see right-wing douchebags try to use subversive techniques like this. This is him trying to Borat the situation. But it just looks entitled and guilty. I guess maybe someone should tell him, people like seeing someone speak truth-to-power, not using power to crush truth? Can he tell the difference?

I guess for the next four years we’ll see all kinds of people feel emboldened to act their most awful like this.

So pathetic and petty. What did this person ever do to them? The mental gymnastics needed to justify using the freaking House of the United States to punish a single person who they likely have never met, for an immutable personal trait? It gives me a headache to even try to understand it.

I’d prefer Pennywise - at least it’d be over more quickly.

Yeah, it’s so weird how short-sighted this is - clearly they aren’t going to be happy getting what they’re asking for.

But it makes more sense when you consider they don’t care about the “principle” such as it were - meaning their stated premise that somehow gender is immutable from the genitals you have at birth. That’s just the silently-agreed-upon pretext for bullying and hate to someone who makes them uncomfortable, which is the point of it all.

The reason I know justice is dead in the world is not just that Trump has evaded his many crimes, it’s that we are living a result beyond Putin’s wildest dreams.

Putin’s election interference in 2016 was meant to unleash a bull in America’s china shop - cause a mess, distract us while we kicked out the bull, and set us back as we repaired the damage. But he couldn’t have predicted that we wouldn’t even kick out the bull, would begin worshipping the bull and, in an effort to make sure the bull knew who was in charge, start smashing everything ourselves.

And Putin is doing this around the world, pumping right-wing autocrats with interference and election bot farms. Can someone think of a single autocratic leader in 2024 that isn’t ascendant, that isn’t increasing power? It’s amazing how effective he’s been at making the entire world miserable.

Hell if someone tried to murder you and you just gave up and went about your way, no one would trust you to do anything of substance. That is the problem with the Democratic party today.

I agree that the democrats needed a big bold message, but this is a strange metaphor. If someone tried to murder you and you just went about your way, people would… Vote for the murderer, I guess?

Don’t you dare speak that into existence.

Seeing as how the President is still a position that nominally serves the people, honestly we should be told as a nation whether he’s a security threat in our agencies’ assessments.

I’m all for not scapegoating any minority, since what’s notable about the Black vote is roughly the same as for Latin American, younger demographics, and so on: it isn’t that they are “to blame,” it’s that the support increased over 2016 or 2020.

So while it’s a good reminder not to scapegoat, we definitely still need to talk and think about how different demographics (who will absolutely lose rights and opportunities under Trump) looked at Trump and decided to say, “more, please,” if we’re ever going to get out of this mess.

Yup, Gaetz and (if the GOP does the minimum of trying to protect this country) Gabbard are the sacrificial lambs to get through Hegseth, RFK and already too many others to count.

Yeah, republicans often find even a microscopic backbone once they no longer are running for reelection. In this case, it probably will be “I said no for a few weeks before I said yes.”