The NLRB needs to learn how to take a joke

What’s the worst that could happen when you tweet a joke?

You might get ratioed by the online peanut gallery. You might even find yourself on Siraj Hashmi’s “List.” Those risks come with the territory. But you certainly wouldn’t expect that your tweet could literally turn into a federal case. That’s what happened to Ben Domenech, the publisher of the online politics and culture magazine the Federalist. He tweeted: “FYI @fdrlst first one of you tries to unionize I swear I’ll send you back to the salt mine.” Surprisingly, the Federalist doesn’t have a salt mine, which is one reason its own writers viewed the tweet as a joke.