I doubt Trump will do anything that could be perceived as encouraging more whistleblowers, at least while he’s in office.
Best case—a Democrat wins the next election, Trump gives up on trying to stop it, and pardons Snowden on his way out.
If it’s in a Greek or ancient Latin context I pronounce it with a hard C, but if it’s a general English context I pronounce it with a soft C.
I’m not sure what the third way would be.
Take the sentence “Police accused John Doe of inciting a lynch mob to attack the alleged rapist“. The police aren’t alleging that the victim was a rapist, they’re saying the rape allegation was part of the context of their own accusation against John Doe.
If an act is described as an accusation, it’s already implied that everything within the description is an allegation by the accusers. But if something within the description is itself labeled as “alleged”, that nested allegation becomes part of scenario the accusers are reconstructing.
All of it is being alleged—that’s what an accusation is.
But they’re not accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were allegedly wearing masks, they’re accusing her of arranging sex with boys who were actually wearing them. In the context of the act of which she’s accused, there were no allegations.
“Alleged” isn’t idempotent—every time you add it, it modifies the meaning.
prosecutors accuse her of arranging group sex with middle and high school boys as young as 13 years old while they allegedly wore Scream masks.
Can someone re-train journalists on the use of “allegedly”? The accusation is that she did these things, not that she is alleged to have done them.
Sprinkling the word around with no logical consistency just trains people to ignore it, which defeats the purpose.
As others are pointing out, there are mass protests going on—but I think there’s more to it than that.
The general message of all protests is “listen to us or else”. In the US for the last fifty years, “or else” has been understood to mean “or else you’ll lose the next election”—but it’s becoming clear that this threat has no leverage with Trump, either because he’s confident he can manipulate elections (through whatever means) or because he intends to accomplish his goals in his current term and doesn’t care what happens after that.
So protests need to find some other goal and some other message. Right now they’re looking for other weak points (e.g., Tesla dealerships), but once it’s clear they’ve got a strategy Trump is actually afraid of, the numbers will grow.
The same reason we capitalize peoples’ names like that, since a title is the proper name of a written work.
Now is the second-best time for Schumer to step down.
The 80s smelled like hairspray and styling gel.
“I pick the parties on their rhetoric, not their record.”
They’ll be fine with a crash as long as they’re convinced it’s hurting someone else more.
He’s not just a journalist, he’s the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic. He’d be risking the whole publication, not just himself.
Maybe he was afraid that if he kept lurking they’d eventually charge him with espionage.
Start a website like geoguesser, where you post everything you remember and have people compete to find and save the victim.
Some animals are more equal than others!
The second law of thermodynamics.
The most common theories of reincarnation hold that it is punishment for misdeeds in past lives.
If there are a bunch of posts on a particular topic, shouldn’t it keep at least one of them? Otherwise it would tend to completely filter out the most significant or interesting topics.
At one point Monday, the firm’s prior private security firm — whose contract was ended after it coordinated with DOGE — also appeared at the building, at one point “proceed[ing] to walk toward the Institute’s gun safe,” pushing USIP staff to ignite its lockdown policy.
Are all private security firms that corruptible?
The same journalist wrote a piece last summer titled “The seeds of this political disaster were sown decades ago”. I can’t read it due to the paywall, but judging from the title, they may not have been completely complacent.