Mr. Court Administrator Person, tear down this wall. A newly proposed bill in the House would kill the PACER system, which charges lawyers and journalists (and interested parties) for access to court documents. If it happens, it would be a good thing! Are CRS reports next? Probably not.
D.C. is working at banning “ghost guns,” the anti-gun activists’ term for “undetectable” 3-D printed guns. This, despite the fact that it’s already a federal crime to possess undetectable firearms, and that bullets tend to set off metal detectors. The city that can’t keep losing in the courts just can’t stop trying to create costly new legal battles.
Are you a Zillow addict? A few people in my life are constantly looking up homes on Zillow, and it reminds me of an old Washington Post radio ad, where a couple who just bought a house gets into a debate about another perfect house that just came on the market. While newspapers used to rule the world of housing listings, the internet and sites like Zillow have taken over. The New York Times takes a look at what happens when people can’t put the app down.
Is the GOP’s message popular with voters? Not according to an apparent GOP memo that New York Magazine reported on. If true, at least Republicans have the fact that the news of Trumpworld is so hectic they don’t have time to focus on a message going for them.
How conspiracies invade the internet and real life. Writing at the Washington Post, Travis View (whom you should follow on Twitter, if that’s your thing) has a wonderfully written, yet equally horrifying look at how made up bullshit makes its way from the bowels of the internet to people like Charlie Kirk, and into your daily life.
Inside the secret apartments of New York’s public libraries. Atlas Obscura show readers the few remaining in-building apartments the city provided to the caretakers of the Big Apple’s old libraries.
Maduro’s a bad dude! Seems as though Florida’s junior senator didn’t read Ethan Epstein’s excellent critique of his Twitter behavior. Rubio, who tweeted this morning: “Sad you don’t see the big difference between shaming someone because you disagree on a political issue & shaming a celebrity chef,who didn’t just host Maduro,he promoted videos of the lavish feast he provided for a criminal that is systematically starving the people of #Venezuela”
Rubio was rightly critiquing Venezuelan monster Nicolás Maduro but took issue with a Turkish chef who owns a series of (reportedly overrated) steakhouses throughout the world for promoting Maduro’s visit to his restaurant on social media. While Venezuelans are starving.
Since one of those restaurants is in his home state, Rubio tweeted out the address and phone number of said restaurant.
Who does Rubio think answers the phones? Or staffs the front door?
Had Rubio read Ethan’s item, and it’s pretty evident he did not, he would have understood that the problem was not that Rubio was calling out the Turkish chef, but that he directed his 3.6 million followers to harass a restaurant that certainly employs American citizens who live in Florida. Also known in the business as “his constituents.”
I doubt the Americans working in this restaurant appreciate his gesture, even if his heart is in the right place and he’s working to help the people of Venezuela legislatively in the Senate.
It’s a bad look, Senator.
Afternoon Links are part of the Daily Standard newsletter, a free daily newsletter that goes out Monday through Friday. Sign up here!
