@unicornpizza605 @Costadeanoff Grocery bags have to be manufactured, and they use a lot more material. So each reusable bag equals multiple disposable bags. It's not obvious that the reusable bag has less total impact.

@SoundMoneyG Further comedy value: the "sugary drinks" tax includes diet beverages with zero-calorie sweeteners. But it doesn't include fruit juices, which are often high in sugar.

@fisher4maryland @mddems Maryland's small and weirdly-shaped; pretty much everyone here lives a short drive from another state. And this tax is not trivial: $1.35 for a two-liter bottle, $2.88 for a twelve-pack of cans. Grocery stores just over the state line are gonna love this.

@Geo_S_Patton @fisher4maryland @mddems Yep. Section 11.5–302 says two cents per ounce. Even if you just buy the syrup, it's two cents per ounce of the final product, not per ounce of syrup.

@RKazer @fisher4maryland @mddems The bill's definition of "sugary beverage" excludes alcoholic drinks, as well as medicines and infant formula. However it DOES include diet sodas and other beverages with zero-calorie sweetners.

@SoundMoneyG @TakomaParkMD Promoting pot and promiscuity aren't inconsistent with nanny-state ideology. They keep the population tractable and dependent. Remember Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World": sex and soma.

@cleanslatemoco Montgomery County is about 0.01% of the global population. So our greenhouse gas and climate impact, good or bad, is so minuscule that it's impossible to measure. So there's no way this passes any rational cost/benefit analysis.

@ProfMJCleveland Counterpoint: Admin Leave doesn't mean you're cut off completely. On the contrary, you're required to remain in contact and available. So the government can still communicate with these employees (and vice versa) about threat warnings etc.

@realchrisrufo Not to nitpick, but pretty much all horses are so high you can't touch the ground while mounted on them.

@bethanyshondark @realDonaldTrump @nypost Not to nitpick, but this historical analogy is one of my pet peeves: bombing the rail lines to Auschwitz would've had little or no effect, at great cost. What shut down Auschwitz, and the Holocaust generally, was going in on the ground and physically occupying the land.

@patriottakes These goat sculptures with customized decorations were produced and auctioned in Florida as a fundraiser against human trafficking.

@DefiyantlyFree County Executive in my DC suburb is a DSA left-winger. He was on social media the day before J6 telling residents not to go downtown for counter-protests, because they might get scooped up with the protesters. He'd never said this before. So even he knew something was coming.

@KurtSchlichter Friends of mine who took his law school classes say he's very sharp and can argue both sides of controversial political-legal issues. He's not retarded. He's worse: a dishonest hack with no integrity.

@josephnollasj @MisterFabulist @jbojacket Everything has a "legal status" in the neutral sense that the law allows or prohibits it. But in this context, the phrase implies that they entered/remained legally. They didn't. That's why they had to be paroled in the first place, and why revoking it enables deportation.

@josephnollasj @MisterFabulist @jbojacket From the source you're citing: "An individual who is paroled into the United States has not been formally admitted into the United States for purposes of immigration law." Parole allows their continued presence, but doesn't legalize it.

@josephnollasj By definition, "humanitarian parole" is only available to people who are legally inadmissible. And it doesn't constitute legal admission to the United States for the purpose of immigration law. So no, they did not enter legally and they are already "undocumented".

@RobProvince But a femmy, passive-aggressive threat. They don't have to take any action; something else will do the dirty work for them.

@jrm4783 @KurtSchlichter Courts have had to address this issue before. The test is called Pickering-Connick. Gov't employees can comment on matters of public concern, unless it unacceptably disrupts the workplace.

@DefiyantlyFree @MikeBenzCyber Problem is that "white nationalist" and similar terms are vague enough to be considered opinion rather than fact. OTOH: "Self-proclaimed" makes it a lot more like a factual assertion. At a minimum, a demand letter and an on-air retraction are in order.

@JimHansonDC Fake photo. Don't blame her. Facebook's been spammed with these lately: celebrity holding up a t-shirt with some political message. Often the exact same celebrity photo will appear with different messages, and even opposite ones.