Courtney Milan

Oh god.

Again: I'm not saying that it's the same at all.

But I can definitely relate to what I am told by other people. It does not seem abnormal to me, and it pretty much never has.

I don't pretend this is in any way the same, but I do know what it's like to feel a mismatch within a cisgender type.

I just happened to match another known cisgender type.

I definitely feel like I was told what my gender meant to me when I was a kid at church, and I was also not that version of cisgender, either.

We have a number of versions of cisgender, not just one.

I don't pretend to know what it is like for trans people, and I'm not saying this is the same, but here is something I understand.

If I was told by society that I had to perform my gender like Kristi Noem, I feel an instant and immediate deep revulsion to the idea.

Colorado governor signal he'll commute sentence of election denier. Pressured by President Trump, Gov. Jared Polis said he is considering the release of Tina Peters, the last high-profile 2020 election meddler still imprisoned. His fellow Democrats are outraged.

File this under "Why establishment Dems keep losing."

If you won't act like an opposition party, we'll replace you.

It isn’t that.

They are paying interest and have agreed to do so.

Because it’s a pain in the ass to go look it up. If you would like to do it, the public documents are right there.

This is not correct. The word “liquidate” in this context does not refer to purging the entries.

So the “they” you are referring to is the administration and Congress, and the “they” that has to comply with the order is an agency.

So it was a choice made deliberately, but not by the people who have to comply with the order.

I don’t think that’s true. They’re not saying they won’t do it. They’re saying it is going to take time to do it.

I know someone who left a decades long career at the DOJ and whew am I glad for her.

They’re not saying it’s impossible here. They’re saying they need time to do it.

No it’s 100% a technical constraint, if you read what they are saying.

If you want to find bad faith in this, this is where I’m finding it.

Correct. That is my real takeaway.

IDK this isn’t as…obviously as bad faith as some shit this administration has pulled?

I say this as someone with a few hundred bucks in tea tariffs waiting for me.

Yes, it’s software implementation. We are not going to get it in that time frame.

I do actually believe this is complicated.

I don’t generally trust a lot of things from the government, but “doing this manually would require 4 million person hours, we need time to implement a solution” sounds right when you think about how much trade this country does.

It is way more complicated than I am making it sound, based on their explanation.

They did say 45 days, to be fair

They then say that they are working on a system to automate refunds properly but it will take longer to develop than the Court has given them.

My short overview, which should be taken with a grain of salt since this is not my area of law, is that they are saying that their software isn’t programmed to do this and they don’t have the manpower to do the manual portions.

Reading this now.

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"We are now banning ICE agents from our stores and our parking lots" should be on the list, too.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Ditto. I love new tech. I used to love watching product announcements. I hate that they've ruined new things.