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It's very alarming to me that so many folks are like "vote" as the clear strategy right now. Like sure, vote. But why is anyone under the impression that voting will stop people hellbent on violence from simply taking power? Please read the room.
If you have recurring monthly donations to, say, Planned Parenthood or the ACLU, please consider shifting that money to abortion funds where it can do the most immediate good
The immunity decision and now obvious negating of the NY convictions makes me even angrier at Fani Willis' unforced error. The Georgia case is strong! It should be a golden ticket! But thanks to her actions it's never going to move forward.
"[Katie Britt] marked the run-up to Mother’s Day on Sunday by introducing a bill to create a federal database to collect data on pregnant people." And the website, "pregnancy.gov", would push Christian crisis pregnancy centers.
idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
People keep referencing guillotines & gallows, but the American response to this situation has tended to range from "mob justice" to "mail bombs"
For these reasons, past generations of US elites have sought to preserve at least the *illusion* of a fair system of laws. But the mask is fully off now.
You would think a decade of Game of Thrones would've beat "Ned Stark was right trying to be honorable even though it got him killed and nearly destroyed his house" out of the American public but alas
When there's a Dem president liberals are like "the president CAN'T [good thing he campaigned on]." Now the SC is like "the president can do whatever lol [rattles tip jar]" and liberals are still on their "if you expect the president to help anything, you're a child who wants a pony" spiel.
A prosecutor reviewed Marcellus Williams's case and found “clear and convincing evidence” of his innocence. The Missouri Supreme Court still set an execution date.
Today, the circuit court will decide if it'll hold a hearing and consider that evidence
sorry but “keep electing democrat presidents and senate majorities indefinitely until enough of scotus dies” never was and certainly is not now good enough. it’s just now. party leadership needs to wake the fuck up
For historians, the retrospective legitimation of essentially every criminal act Nixon committed while in office is quite mind-boggling. Ford’s pardon was utterly unnecessary.
throughout the Trump immunity decision, the Court champions the idea of an unfettered, uninhibited President. the darkest part of the opinion isn’t that it paves the way for an authoritarian leader, it’s that it yearns for one
We were super excited when we got the pictures of this one last night!!! You can see a video of someone admiring this beauty here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG-c...
Three days after the debate every Sunday news shows invited an avowed election-denying fascist on the air in an overt effort to legitimize them as good-faith commentators
The news media is openly pro-fascist
I listened to a great piece on NPR this morning about Dr. Frank Kameny, an American astronomer and gay rights activist who was fired from his federal job for his sexuality in the 1950s during The Lavender Scare.
the truth is a tremendous number of powerful people have been extremely careless with that power for a very long time in regards to the threat posed by donald trump specifically and the revanchist right generally. and they are *just now* realizing the problem several years late and panicking
Gotta hand it to tech, it’s got people looking for ways to make their marriage as joyless and suffocating as their job
(This is also just called “communicating”)
Don’t be surprised When police start rolling busses to encampment sweeps, we are about to see massive operations to imprison and hunt the poor by police nationwide. I would assume we also see the same thing that has happened at the border where police deputize rightwing militias to help.
The correct response to Chevron being overturned is for every single environmental group to start filing millions of lawsuits, right now, today, arguing that various regulatory decisions didn't go far enough.
Absolutely flood the zone.
"Last year the federal government did [large number X] of federal regulations. There are [much larger number Y] of regulations in total. Since these are all up for review, I will help the Court by expanding it so it can cope with this new extremely large case load they will be reviewing"
Okay so to be clear we are destroying power grids, the livelihoods of actual humans beings, and communication/research infrastructure for the sake of an algorithm that converts stolen data into unreliable stolen data and consistently loses millions of dollars. Just to be clear
critics from the left are ratfuckers and Russian agents of ill repute and low motives, but when liberals and centrists want to criticize democrats with the most ridiculous pants-shitting histrionics imaginable that’s just political analysis and pragmatism, baby.
In case no one has told you lately:
1. You are strong
2. You are beautiful
3. Sea cucumbers have fish that live in their buttholes and eat their ever-regenerating gonads like some sort of sick undersea Prometheus
4. You are deserving of love
Since Mark Harris blocked me for pointing out that "American Taliban" is a bullshit phrase I'm gonna go ahead and repost cause you don't get to do racism and white supremacy and then hide the replies:
Soon there won't be journals, just a program you upload your paper to that adds to the knowledge of Gorgtron the Omniscient whom supplicants may offer sacrifices to for shitty summarizations of the literature
It's important to understand that you CANNOT lump all religions together into one big whole, which is where many militant Capital A Atheists get in trouble. They tend to see all religion as Christianity. And it's NOT. So much Atheism is just informed by Christianity and it results in bigotry.