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Sen. JD Vance on Trump: “No real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming him for Jan. 6…I think the Republican Party is in a good place.”pic.twitter.com/pvrmDtC5Xk
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) June 13, 2024
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers blasted policy ideas floated by Donald Trump as immensely damaging to the economy, Bloomberg reports.
Said Summers: “This is a prescription for the mother of all stagflations.”
He added that Trump’s policies would also create “worldwide economic warfare.”
re: #1 Dangerman
Sen. JD Vance on Trump: “No real Republican with any credibility in the party is still blaming him for Jan. 6…I think the Republican Party is in a good place.”
“Mitch McConnell is a RINO!!!”
The coup is complete: first the GOP, then the nation!
re: #2 Dangerman
Some men just want to watch the world burn…from their private club in Florida.
re: #2 Dangerman
Counterpoint is that Summers is also an idiot with a spotty (that’s being generous) track record.
re: #2 Dangerman
I remember Stagflation under Ford and Carter. Grand times. 16% mortgage interest rates, the steel industry tanking, cheap crap flooding the market along with Quaaludes and angel dust…and it was the Golden Age of DIsco and Glam Rock
please don’t bring that back
re: #7 darthstar
That looks like it was hit by a car and kitty found a nice place to sit.
re: #5 JC1
Counterpoint is that Summers is also an idiot with a spotty (that’s being generous) track record.
True but that doesn’t mean that Summers analysis is faulty — except for his assumption that Trump will follow through on his promises. Have no doubt that the real billionaires will prevent Trump from making the worst of economic errors. After all, talking to one billionaire was enough for him to do a 180 on TikTok. He will just do such irreparable damage through backward-looking policies so that China will become the ruler of the world, while we descend into feudalism.
re: #8 PhillyPretzel ✅
That looks like it was hit by a car and kitty found a nice place to sit.
you underestimate the power of Kitty!!!
re: #2 Dangerman
And that’s why the media keeps flogging that limp dick data about Americans trusting Trump more than Biden on the economy.
Friends, the “People’s CDC” is not a reliable source of information, nor are they a good faith actor.
Neither FDA nor CDC want to restrict access to the fall booster for the 2024-2025 Covid season. Their claim otherwise is fear-mongering bullshit.
— Matthew Cortland (they) (@matthewcort.land) 2024-06-14T17:50:38.923Z
From what I can figure out, the “People’s CDC” sent out something that read “OMFG, the CDC is going to restrict COVID vaccines only to the olds and immuno-compromised!!!!1!1!” Which IS NOT TRUE. People’s CDC are recommending more frequent boosters (i.e., every 6 months) for everyone but, rather than just state that, they decide to go with a very misleading statement. Did I say misleading? I meant intentionally lie.
re: #12 dat_said
And we had a whole big fight over that here.
I think we need a constitutional amendment that no name can be used to mislead people into thinking they are some other group.
re: #11 darthstar
And that’s why the media keeps flogging that limp dick data about Americans trusting Trump more than Biden on the economy.
American billionaires trust Trump more than Biden to deliver them what they want.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember Stagflation under Ford and Carter. Grand times. 16% mortgage interest rates, the steel industry tanking, cheap crap flooding the market along with Quaaludes and angel dust…and it was the Golden Age of DIsco and Glam Rock
please don’t bring that back
Definitely not the shirts
re: #12 dat_said
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From what I can figure out, the “People’s CDC” sent out something that read “OMFG, the CDC is going to restrict COVID vaccines only to the olds and immuno-compromised!!!!1!1!” Which IS NOT TRUE. People’s CDC are recommending more frequent boosters (i.e., every 6 months) for everyone but, rather than just state that, they decide to go with a very misleading statement. Did I say misleading? I meant intentionally lie.
I will freely admit that I never saw the pandemic conspiracy theories coming. You can go back just 10 years and see everyone agree that Ebola was bad. Popular culture churned out stories about outbreaks of new and novel diseases, and the villains were always downplaying the risks while hero scientists raced to find a vaccine. It was just a common value amongst all Americans that “avoiding the plague” is good.
I don’t think we’ll survive anything more serious than Covid. Too many people will mistrust the experts and that’ll be that.
From CBS: The Justice Dept says it will not prosecute Merrick Garland after the House of Reps held him in contempt for not turning over audio recordings of Joe’s interview with R Hur.
re: #9 Hecuba’s daughter
True but that doesn’t mean that Summers analysis is faulty — except for his assumption that Trump will follow through on his promises. Have no doubt that the real billionaires will prevent Trump from making the worst of economic errors. After all, talking to one billionaire was enough for him to do a 180 on TikTok. He will just do such irreparable damage through backward-looking policies so that China will become the ruler of the world, while we descend into feudalism.
One thread back there was a post from Summers claiming that we would need to have 10% unemployment for a year to bring inflation down.
I am in no way trying to defend Trump or his insanity, just pointing out that Summers isn’t credible despite his credentials.
OH HAI
We experienced our first South Florida Flood.
We went to our son’s house on Wednesday morning for the first day of Shavuot (Jewish holiday that celebrates the Giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai.) As soon as we got there, THE DELUGE!! People were trapped in synagogues as the downpour went on and on and on. My son’s house is built on an extra high concrete pad, three steps up. Anyway the water got to the second step.
We were completely dry and we even had power on! But there was like a “moat” around our house protecting it from the rest of the neighborhood with their flooded out houses. But there was no getting in or out of this block until last night when the water receded sufficiently to drive a car down the street without it getting swallowed up.
We could have stayed in our apartment because it was also dry here, but again, no way in or out.
We stayed at our son’s house and just enjoyed the holiday while the neighbors were running around with their hair on fire. My son put his shop vac out on the front of the house so people could use it and then bring it back for others.
Everyone please STOP using the hashtag #RussianBankCollapse as orcs in MOSCOW are freaking out & running to the ATM to get cash before a complete collapse of the #RUBLE, remember using the hashtag #RussianBankCollapse might cause russians to panic and make the situation worse! pic.twitter.com/NlTC01E4ad
— Richard Woodruff 🇺🇦 (@frontlinekit) June 13, 2024
But but I thought BRICS was going to cause the US Dollar to collapse. That’s what QAnon said and they never lie.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember Stagflation under Ford and Carter. Grand times. 16% mortgage interest rates, the steel industry tanking, cheap crap flooding the market along with Quaaludes and angel dust…and it was the Golden Age of DIsco and Glam Rock
please don’t bring that back
Leisure Suits…
re: #17 Unabogie
I will freely admit that I never saw the pandemic conspiracy theories coming. You can go back just 10 years and see everyone agree that Ebola was bad….
Instead of the insane rejection of mainstream medicine, it could just as easily have gone the other way. The fact the Trump panicked at a threat to his response was almost random. He could’a been a hero.
From Larry Summers:
Late last month, Summers got more specific about just how much pain he thought it would take. “We need five years of unemployment above 5 percent to contain inflation—in other words, we need two years of 7.5 percent unemployment or five years of 6 percent unemployment or one year of 10 percent unemployment,” Summers said during a speech at the London School of Economics. He added that the numbers were “remarkably discouraging” compared with the predictions of Federal Reserve leaders, who have suggested they can bring down inflation without pushing unemployment much above 4 percent.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember Stagflation under Ford and Carter. Grand times. 16% mortgage interest rates, the steel industry tanking, cheap crap flooding the market along with Quaaludes and angel dust…and it was the Golden Age of DIsco and Glam Rock
please don’t bring that back
In 1984, when we moved across town in Abilene, the interest rate on the mortgage was 14%.
re: #20 Vicious Babushka
OH HAI
We experienced our first South Florida Flood.
We went to our son’s house on Wednesday morning for the first day of Shavuot (Jewish holiday that celebrates the Giving of the Torah on Mt. Sinai. As soon as we got there, THE DELUGE!! People were trapped in synagogues as the downpour went on and on and on. My son’s house is built on an extra high concrete pad, three steps up. Anyway the water got to the second step.
We were completely dry and we even had power on! But there was like a “moat” around our house protecting it from the rest of the neighborhood with their flooded out houses. But there was no getting in or out of this block until last night when the water receded sufficiently to drive a car down the street without it getting swallowed up.
We could have stayed in our apartment because it was also dry here, but again, no way in or out.
We stayed at our son’s house and just enjoyed the holiday while the neighbors were running around with their hair on fire. My son put his shop vac out on the front of the house so people could use it and then bring it back for others.
The book contains instructions on how to deal with floods. Should be a copy somewhere in the Temple.
re: #21 DodgerFan1988
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But but I thought BRICS was going to cause the US Dollar to collapse. That’s what QAnon said and they never lie.
I want to see the Ruble under a penny. 0.011 is old news.
re: #26 Decatur Deb
The book contains instructions on how to deal with floods. Should be a copy somewhere in the Temple.
Just be better at choosing the lions.
re: #26 Decatur Deb
The book contains instructions on how to deal with floods. Should be a copy somewhere in the Temple.
Two ducks…can’t both be drakes.
re: #7 darthstar
I had to steal this one.
That cat is heavy, man.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-14T19:00:42.000Z
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Standard cat—fell from a great height.
re: #26 Decatur Deb
The book contains instructions on how to deal with floods. Should be a copy somewhere in the Temple.
Our house was like the “ark” for the entire block.
My DIL also was disappointed because she made a ton of food for the holiday and was expecting a bunch of guests on the first day, but no one came because they were dealing with their own flood crisis. But we enjoyed all the food and also the cheesecakes that I made.
Just finished organizing tomorrow’s voter registration gig at the town’s battle of massed bands—this band and one from Georgia. We’re falling in on a college recruiting effort and job fair. This will kick off a week of Juneteenth actions. I was in a (bad) drum and bugle corps as a kid, so I’ll have foam earplugs for the handful of volunteers.
There’s a New Page of Pictures if you are so inclined.
So my son invited me to a Cubs game for father’s day.
Trying to figure out if that means he loves me or hates me. ;-)
re: #17 Unabogie
I will freely admit that I never saw the pandemic conspiracy theories coming. You can go back just 10 years and see everyone agree that Ebola was bad. Popular culture churned out stories about outbreaks of new and novel diseases, and the villains were always downplaying the risks while hero scientists raced to find a vaccine. It was just a common value amongst all Americans that “avoiding the plague” is good.
I don’t think we’ll survive anything more serious than Covid. Too many people will mistrust the experts and that’ll be that.
But the public reaction to Ebola was also a problem — people thought that allowing anyone into the country who was exposed to Ebola was a serious threat, thanks to disinformation spread by people like Trump. That version of the disease is not airborne (unlike the monkey version at Reston, VA) and that seems to be true so far of all variants that harm humans.
If there is a real life version of a disease like in Contagion, we are in deep trouble.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wouldn’t mind disco coming back.
Welp
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down a ban on bump stocks, which enable semiautomatic rifles to fire at speeds rivaling those of machine guns, erasing one of the government’s rare firearm regulations to result from a mass shooting.
The decision, by a vote of 6 to 3, split along ideological lines. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for the majority, said that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had exceeded its power when it prohibited the device by issuing a rule that classified bump stocks as machine guns.
“We hold that a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machine gun’ because it cannot fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger,’” Justice Thomas wrote. His opinion included several diagrams of the firing mechanism, and he described in technical detail the internal workings of a firearm to show how a bump stock works.
re: #44 goddamnedfrank
Technically they aren’t wrong, but bump stocks make semi-autos behave LIKE machine guns in that they increase the fire rate to that of a MG. But we know they’re doing the NRA’s bidding by splitting hairs like this.
Let’s not forget this was Trump’s response after Vegas.
There’s no need to be this frightened of tourists https://t.co/si9R2oEX0a
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) June 14, 2024
CNN: Judge approves liquidation of Alex Jones’ personal assets
A Texas bankruptcy court judge has approved the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ personal assets, setting the stage for repayment to the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims.
Dear Alex…
re: #45 GlutenFreeJesus
Technically they aren’t wrong, but bump stocks make semi-autos behave LIKE machine guns in that they increase the fire rate to that of a MG. But we know they’re doing the NRA’s bidding by splitting hairs like this.
Let’s not forget this was Trump’s response after Vegas.
But would the Republican Congress and Republican Senate have voted for new gun legislation that would have accomplished this goal? I think not. So Trump may have used the only tool available, a regulation based on existing law, and, unfortunately, this SCOTUS decision was probably in accord with the literal reading of the legislation.
Another disgusting Supreme Court ruling that will end with more people slaughtered by gun violence.
Just wait until they hand down a decision that allows Donald Trump to be immune from prosecution.
— Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com) 2024-06-14T14:58:31.824Z
re: #12 dat_said
I have no idea who Matthew Cortland is. He is blocking me there.
Interestingly, we have twenty-six people we mutually-follow.
re: #50 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I have no idea who Matthew Cortland is. He is blocking me there.
Interestingly, we have twenty-six people we mutually-follow.
He’s blocking me too. Weird, I have no idea who he is and I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with him.
Oh well, he gets to miss my stunning insights and trenchant posts.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember Stagflation under Ford and Carter. Grand times. 16% mortgage interest rates, the steel industry tanking, cheap crap flooding the market along with Quaaludes and angel dust…and it was the Golden Age of DIsco and Glam Rock
please don’t bring that back
Disco libelz.
Don’t make me turn this thread around and flood it with everything from Donna Summer to ELO to Mike Oldfield’s pitiful attempt at a disco song. /s
re: #14 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
American billionaires trust Trump more than Biden to deliver them what they want.
Feudalism.
On a whim I decided to check and it appears someone put the Holy Grail of photographic lenses up for sale.
This lens has five internal filters that rotate in and out of the central path for B&W color correction (because the shape prevents external filters.)
It can also see behind itself (220 degree field of view)
The price reflects that this was never a production lens, every single one was made to order and only a handful exist.
re: #55 goddamnedfrank
On a whim I decided to check and it appears someone put the Holy Grail of photographic lenses up for sale.
This lens has five internal filters that rotate in and out of the central path for B&W color correction (because the shape prevents external filters.)
It can also see behind itself (220 degree field of view)
The price reflects that this was never a production lens, every single one was made to order and only a handful exist.
$154000?!? Jeezus H. Tapdancing Christ…
Weather radio: Up goes a thunderstorm watch.
re: #25 Belafon
In 1984, when we moved across town in Abilene, the interest rate on the mortgage was 14%.
That’s when my dad and I closed our jewelry store. An excise tax on jewelry plus the rest of the economy ran us out of money and time.
I can almost kind of see the rationale for not making masks compulsory during a viral outbreak. Almost.
But what the fuck could possibly be a reason to BAN masks? Does Gov. Hochul want people to die? Or is this some misguided reaction to the student protests?
This shit makes my brain itch.
re: #55 goddamnedfrank
On a whim I decided to check and it appears someone put the Holy Grail of photographic lenses up for sale.
This lens has five internal filters that rotate in and out of the central path for B&W color correction (because the shape prevents external filters.)
It can also see behind itself (220 degree field of view)
The price reflects that this was never a production lens, every single one was made to order and only a handful exist.
He’s selling 2, or one under two prices. EBay calculates that it is 100,000 miles from my zipcode.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
There is still a federal law and several state anti-masking laws, directed at the KKK. Guessing she’s out for poorly-conceived consistency, anti-crime value, or she’s lost her mind.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
The Overton Window in overdrive.
Note the heavy use of kaffiyeh masking by anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian protestors.
in any other country the las vegas music festival massacre would be a historical landmark that led to massive social shifts
re: #25 Belafon
In 1984, when we moved across town in Abilene, the interest rate on the mortgage was 14%.
the only good thing is that if you could have lucked into a non-callable 30-year bond, you could have doubled your money every six years or so. And there was a brief window in early 1980 where I think my mother’s silver set was technically worth a million dollars, before the guys who’d cornered the market lost their own shirts.
re: #52 Charles Johnson
He’s blocking me too. Weird, I have no idea who he is and I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with him.
Oh well, he gets to miss my stunning insights and trenchant posts.
Here’s his bio over at BirdChan:
Matthew Cortland, they
@mattbc
Lawyer, immunocompromised, writer, public health nerd | Then: SSI. Be A Hero. Now: data & policy, disability, healthcare. they 🏳️🌈
Washington DC / Boston malinktr.ee April 2011
re: #67 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I guess I’m blocked because IANAL. /s
re: #68 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I’m not blocked. You’re just special.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
I can almost kind of see the rationale for not making masks compulsory during a viral outbreak. Almost.
But what the fuck could possibly be a reason to BAN masks? Does Gov. Hochul want people to die? Or is this some misguided reaction to the student protests?
This shit makes my brain itch.
You may want to get with RFK Jr’s doctor on that.
/
re: #60 Decatur Deb
He’s selling 2, or one under two prices. EBay calculates that it is 100,000 miles from my zipcode.
So four laps around the planet away from you. Price better include shipping.
Law Dork, today
Clarence Thomas just made mass shootings easier. With a gif.
“The Supreme Court’s conservatives made bump stocks legal again on Friday. Sonia Sotomayor read her dissent for the liberal justices from the bench.”
(more)
We’re about to get hit with a thunderstorm train. A severe thunderstorm warning just went up to our south-west.
re: #71 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Hank triggers the beef addicts:
His points about social institutions and our relationship to them is important, IMO.
What is this nonsense that “church is a social technology” that holds society together?
He still ignores the overwhelming majority of greenhouse gas is created by industries outside of eating beef, like strip-mining for coal. (And plays Oppression Olympics about being a vegan. I don’t think anyone has ever called a vegan a “murderer.”)
re: #74 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
We’re about to get hit with a thunderstorm train. A severe thunderstorm warning just went up to our south-west.
We’re getting a “Sol Tren”…
re: #2 Dangerman
no shit. anyone with half a brain and a passing knowledge of world history in the last 50 years could tell you that tariffs are economic killers. as is restricting immigration.
this is one of those things where I am adamantly libertarian - the free flow of persons and goods is good for society, progress, and people.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
I can almost kind of see the rationale for not making masks compulsory during a viral outbreak. Almost.
But what the fuck could possibly be a reason to BAN masks? Does Gov. Hochul want people to die? Or is this some misguided reaction to the student protests?
This shit makes my brain itch.
it’s virtue signaling of the worst sort.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
I can almost kind of see the rationale for not making masks compulsory during a viral outbreak. Almost.
But what the fuck could possibly be a reason to BAN masks? Does Gov. Hochul want people to die? Or is this some misguided reaction to the student protests?
This shit makes my brain itch.
It’s the student protests. (fear)
It brings into focus what happened at the very beginning of the pandemic when the state of Illinois put out an official message telling people they should tip their mask so business owners could see who they are (and bank surveillance video could capture your face), because the money must be protected at all costs.
re: #59 Charles Johnson
I can almost kind of see the rationale for not making masks compulsory during a viral outbreak. Almost.
But what the fuck could possibly be a reason to BAN masks? Does Gov. Hochul want people to die? Or is this some misguided reaction to the student protests?
This shit makes my brain itch.
Can’t be trying to hide your face from surveillance cameras now can you?
Pretty soon they’ll try to make dark sunglasses and baseball caps illegal.
re: #77 KGxvi
no shit. anyone with half a brain and a passing knowledge of world history in the last 50 years could tell you that tariffs are economic killers. as is restricting immigration.
this is one of those things where I am adamantly libertarian - the free flow of persons and goods is good for society, progress, and people.
Yeah, but it’s bad for racists who are scared of change, so obviously it must choked off and (if possible) totally reversed.
re: #82 JC1
I can understand not making masks mandatory, but banning them makes no sense. People with medical issues learned quickly during Covid that wearing a mask greatly reduced their frequency of getting sick with their recurring non-covid ailments.
re: #86 darthstar
It cuts down on my allergy attacks.
re: #86 darthstar
I can understand not making masks mandatory, but banning them makes no sense. People with medical issues learned quickly during Covid that wearing a mask greatly reduced their frequency of getting sick with their recurring non-covid ailments.
Well they’re not banned here (yet). Despite being in Conservatopia, mask-wearing in this area is pretty high. I still maintain it was the lack of Internet service around here which protected us from nonsense.
re: #86 darthstar
I can understand not making masks mandatory, but banning them makes no sense. People with medical issues learned quickly during Covid that wearing a mask greatly reduced their frequency of getting sick with their recurring non-covid ailments.
I was being sarcastic. It’s a stupid law.
re: #7 darthstar
How to tell a shapeshifted dragon.
re: #87 PhillyPretzel ✅
It cuts down on my allergy attacks.
Mine too. Hell, I wear a N95 when I am home alone and have to clean a dusty spot in the house.
re: #93 Charles Johnson
It’s just the best!!!
Especially after it’s been a while.
The first three episodes of season 4 of THE BOYS have dropped. I know what I’ll be doing tonight.
My favorite superhero series, because it’s dark and totally, completely whacked out.
re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Feudalism.
They won’t like it because they won’t even be minor nobility under Trump. It’s going to be covered in shit time for them.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
The first three episodes of season 4 of THE BOYS have dropped. I know what I’ll be doing tonight.
My favorite superhero series, because it’s dark and totally, completely whacked out.
Saving those for home office days.
re: #98 jaunte
I see deluded people.
With some of them you can actually see the brain freeze happen when they get asked a question that makes them have to think.
There it is. Severe thunderstorm warning goes up.
re: #100 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Same here in Philly.
weather.gov
w/r/t masks, I went looking for a recent post i made and then figured out…that i never posted it
this is what we learned about masking in 2024 during our visit to NJH:
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take from it what you will
re: #59 Charles Johnson
I can almost kind of see the rationale for not making masks compulsory during a viral outbreak. Almost.
But what the fuck could possibly be a reason to BAN masks? Does Gov. Hochul want people to die? Or is this some misguided reaction to the student protests?
This shit makes my brain itch.
They’ll hand out some bullshit about how it makes police’s job more difficult to identify potential suspects and the like. The issue of course is that the ban would be totally unenforceable under the ADA for the people that actually need it. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
re: #103 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg
Mine too. Hell, I wear a N95 when I am home alone and have to clean a dusty spot in the house.
re: #102 Dangerman
following what i just posted, we both wear masks when shoveling mulch or digging in the ground / planting. mulch is very dusty and likely full of beasties, and there’s lots of micobacteria in soil.
re: #52 Charles Johnson
He’s blocking me too. Weird, I have no idea who he is and I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with him.
Oh well, he gets to miss my stunning insights and trenchant posts.
Matthew was very prickly towards everyone when he was on Disabled Twitter.
re: #104 Mike Lamb
They’ll hand out some bullshit about how it makes police’s job more difficult to identify potential suspects and the like. The issue of course is that the ban would be totally unenforceable under the ADA for the people that actually need it. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
You don’t have guess the reasoning, this is what Hochul said
“We will not tolerate individuals using masks to evade responsibility for criminal or threatening behavior,” she said. “My team is working on a solution, but on a subway, people should not be able to hide behind a mask to commit crimes.”
And this is what Eric Adams said:
“Dr. King did not hide his face when he marched and for the things he thought were wrong in the country. Those civil rights leaders did not hide their faces. They stood up. In contrast to that, the Klan hid their faces,” Adams said Thursday.
“In our transit system, people have hid under the guise of wearing a mask for COVID to commit criminal acts and vile acts. I think now is the time to go back to the way it was pre-COVID, where you should not be able to wear a mask at protests and our subway systems and other places,” he added.
Banning masks is sociopathy and plain old trolling. It’s pure harassment, nothing else.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
Dirty joke alert:
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Wonder if I’ll be blocked:
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— Freetoken (@freetoken.bsky.social)
Republicans
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Republicans
Elected
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November— Freetoken (@freetoken.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T21:51:07.456Z
re: #110 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The original:
How much Fascism is acceptable?
How much war, genocide, poverty, homelessness, global warming/climate change, injustice, oppression, discrimination, police violence/abuse, corruption will you vote for?— Veronica Green-Party Eco-Socialist (@smartirestgeenyas.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T18:56:16.188Z
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Disco libelz.
Don’t make me turn this thread around and flood it with everything from Donna Summer to ELO to Mike Oldfield’s pitiful attempt at a disco song. /s
Donna died too young.
re: #111 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
I got a little wordier:
So, are you going to vote for the Green party and help Republicans - who want more war, poverty (give all the money to the rich), laws only applying to rich whites, and push LGBTQ+ back in the closet - get elected, or vote for Democrats who are, if somewhat slowly, trying to fix all that?
— Code Junkie (@codejunkie.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T21:55:08.023Z
re: #63 Decatur Deb
Note the heavy use of kaffiyeh masking by anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian protestors.
That’s it. I don’t want to see medical masks banned (I wear them), but I am out-of-my-mind PISSED about keffiyehs worn as masks!
re: #114 Sherlock Hound
That’s it. I don’t want to see medical masks banned (I wear them), but I am out-of-my-mind PISSED about keffiyehs worn as masks!
So you gotta choose one.
scotus has been moving at a sluggish pace in issuing decisions this term, entering the second half of June with more than 20 left to go.
rando says:
To save time, the next few rulings will simply be:
Alito: “The usual, because reasons”
in combination with
Sotomayor: Are you f*cking kidding me?!”
Hello Kitty Guillotine:
— Adam Jay (@bullgooseparty.bsky.social) 2024-06-13T16:43:22.630Z
re: #116 Belafon
So you gotta choose one.
There are other options, first it is pretty easy to distinguish between a surgical/n95 style mask in a law vs say, ski masks, halloween masks, or a scarf. You could also make it a sentencing enhancement to were a mask during commission of a felony and give people extra time in prison or something.
NEWS: The Sixth Circuit, 2-1, upheld an injunction blocking the Biden admin's Title IX guidance documents in 20 states. The case was argued last April. The Final Rule was issued a year after that and is due to go into effect Aug. 1. But, here we are. opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T21:17:27.274Z
Here's a fixed link: www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T21:26:43.760Z
This was the pending guidance documents appeal that Reed O'Connor mentioned in his ruling on the guidance documents earlier this week, covered at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/reed-oconn...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T21:29:56.992Z
This is not to be confused with yesterday's preliminary injunction out of Louisiana. That one *is* on the Title IX Final Rule. bsky.app/profile/chri...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T21:35:40.975Z
re: #119 danarchy
There are other options, first it is pretty easy to distinguish between a surgical/n95 style mask in a law vs say, ski masks, halloween masks, or a scarf. You could also make it a sentencing enhancement to were a mask during commission of a felony and give people extra time in prison or something.
walk into a bank in the frozen north and see everyone standing quietly in line all wearing ski masks… //
re: #119 danarchy
There are other options, first it is pretty easy to distinguish between a surgical/n95 style mask in a law vs say, ski masks, halloween masks, or a scarf. You could also make it a sentencing enhancement to were a mask during commission of a felony and give people extra time in prison or something.
That’s it. I think prosecutors already have this power.
Charles, I’m sure I’m abusing the system in some way, but I have noticed that if I attempt to paste or replace a bsky link in an existing comment, it totally fails. Earlier, when I tried fixing a link, pasting a new one didn’t do whatever cool embed update needed. And up above, when I tried to add a link at the top, it completely screwed up the existing links.
re: #122 Belafon
I’m not a fan of this system whereby one rando judge can screw over millions of people.
re: #107 Sherlock Hound
Matthew was very prickly towards everyone when he was on Disabled Twitter.
I don’t understand why he’d be prickly with me. I was never on BirdChan and I am disabled.
I suspect I got caught up in someone’s block list; I don’t think I ever interacted with him (I had to look up who he is).
It is strange we follow a lot of the same people though.
re: #123 Dangerman
walk into a bank in the frozen north and see everyone standing quietly in line all wearing ski masks… //
Almost all banks in New England have signs saying something like no masks beyond this point somewhere near the door, most convenience stores had them too. I remember seeing one right next to a sign saying masks were required during the pandemic
Voyager 1 is now doing science and talking to Earth again!
www.scientificamerican.com/article/voya...
— Phil Plait (@philplait.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T20:55:08.303Z
re: #127 BeenHereAwhile
I will admit to one wildly inappropriate side benefit to disco, in my fleeting glory days it certainly helped establish a tempo by which you could please your sexual partner.
re: #76 darthstar
We’re getting a “Sol Tren”…
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This is the prediction for NW PA. Gonna warm up.
re: #128 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I don’t understand why he’d be prickly with me. I was never on BirdChan and I am disabled.
I suspect I got caught up in someone’s block list; I don’t think I ever interacted with him (I had to look up who he is).
It is strange we follow a lot of the same people though.
Pepperidge Farm Remembers when the discourse about Twitter on this board was “blocking is totes good!” ///
re: #130 Belafon
It’s a plucky little thing.
The cool and streetwise squid, Black Bancho, is the mascot of Itoigawa City in Niigata.
— Mondo Mascots (@mondomascots.bsky.social) 2024-06-14T15:48:29.055Z
re: #132 Eventual Carrion
Same for the SE corner too.
weather.gov
re: #82 JC1
Can’t be trying to hide your face from surveillance cameras now can you?
Pretty soon they’ll try to make dark sunglasses and baseball caps illegal.
Well they have proven you can get executed for a hoodie
Don’t know how much the UK election will impact US politics, but the good comrades over at The Guardian seem a bit lukewarm on Labor’s announced plans:
Does Labour’s manifesto deliver what the country needs? Our panel’s verdict
If Labour can deliver even half of what it promises then it will be wildly successful compared to most political parties these days.
Still, I think the UK has such fundamental problems that a fresh face as PM isn’t going to go too far.
re: #95 Charles Johnson
The first three episodes of season 4 of THE BOYS have dropped. I know what I’ll be doing tonight.
My favorite superhero series, because it’s dark and totally, completely whacked out.
I see ep3 has dropped for The Acolyte on Disney+. I’ll probably sit back and watch that a little later.
re: #131 piratedan
I will admit to one wildly inappropriate side benefit to disco, in my fleeting glory days it certainly helped establish a tempo by which you could please your sexual partner.
And CPR.
re: #53 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Disco libelz.
Don’t make me turn this thread around and flood it with everything from Donna Summer to ELO to Mike Oldfield’s pitiful attempt at a disco song. /s
Play this and it opens the Roger Stone Portal To Hell…
A song that definitely has not aged well: “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” by Rod Stewart. 100% cringe.
re: #123 Dangerman
walk into a bank in the frozen north and see everyone standing quietly in line all wearing ski masks… //
Hell I have 2 full face ski masks. Walking into town in the middle of winter I have one of them on and my oilskin duster. They couldn’t tell you what I looked like or if I was packing my weapon belt.
re: #144 Charles Johnson
A song that definitely has not aged well: “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” by Rod Stewart. 100% cringe.
I looked at the lyrics and they seem…basically fine? Are you saying the song is meh, or some lines are problematic? Curious what you are seeing there.
By the way, my all-time example of a song that is a classic but actually horrifying is Getting Better by The Beatles.
I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved
Man, I was mean but I’m changing my scene
And I’m doing the best that I can (Fool, you fool)
Like, yeah I used to commit a lot of domestic violence but I know that’s not great and I’m trying to cut way back.
The people who refused the “experimental” COVID vaccine are now over in Karen’s living room sharing Ozempic needles and boxed wine
— Liam Nissan™ (@theliamnissan) June 14, 2024
re: #147 Unabogie
By the way, my all-time example of a song that is a classic but actually horrifying is Getting Better by The Beatles.
Like, yeah I used to commit a lot of domestic violence but I know that’s not great and I’m trying to cut way back.
John Lennon said it was autobiographical. When that song came out it wasn’t even that controversial, either.
Trump ordered the military to run a propaganda campaign against the Covid vaccines in 2020, at the height of the pandemic.
Well, The Weather Channel was accurate, if a few minutes early: they predicted thunderstorms at 7:00, and at a quarter of, the heavens opened up over Gotham….
Fortunately, I did my shopping earlier.
Talia Lavin at The Cut
TL; DR; a sex strike has been organised by ultra-orthodox Jewish women to force ultra-orthodox men to cough up a gett (permission from a husband to divorce).
These documents are often held up to extort a woman into favourable terms of divorce, bribes of money or property, or simply spite.
The sex strike is being held against all orthodox men in the Hassidic town north of New York, to put pressure on men to force recalcitrant members of their sect to cough up the gett in their marriages.
Hell House I. Now THIS is how you do found footage. Some really good set pieces, jump scares. The clown encounter at the top of the stairs will freakin’ ooogy you out.
re: #113 Belafon
I went and looked at the replies, and this Green party person is trying to make BlueMAGA a thing.
re: #154 Belafon
I went and looked at the replies, and this Green party person is trying to make BlueMAGA a thing.
Good luck with that.
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Kyle Clark conducts a master class on interviewing which is why he should be hosting Meet The Press
GOP Lawmaker Grilled On Why Abortion Was ‘Best Choice’ For His Girlfriend, But Not Others
A Colorado Republican had a hard time explaining why he said he “respected” his girlfriend’s right to abortion but voted against abortion rights as a state representative.
Richard Holtorf, who is running against U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert to represent Colorado’s 4th District in Congress, was asked about the seeming hypocrisy during a Wednesday broadcast on Denver station KUSA, and he didn’t really have a good answer.
Earlier this year, Holtorf revealed that he once provided financial support to a girlfriend amid her own abortion so she could “live her best life,” despite also sponsoring a failed 2020 measure that would have banned the procedure in the state after 22 weeks.
“I respected her rights and actually gave her money to help her through her important, critical time,” Holtorf said in January.
During the KUSA interview, reporter Kyle Clark pointed out the apparent inconsistency.
“If abortion was the best choice for your girlfriend, why try to deny that choice to other women?” Clark blunty asked.
Holtorf tried to wiggle out of a straight answer, saying he’s “a pro-life Catholic” who believes that “everyone should choose life.” But he eventually said that, yes, his girlfriend had made the choice to get an abortion.
“Did she have that right? Yes. Was it my choice, Kyle? No,” Holtorf said.
“Why do you seek to deny the choice that you said was best for your girlfriend’s life?” Clark began to ask.
“Let me finish explaining,” Holtorf interrupted, but Clark pressed him, asking, “Why do you seek to deny it to other women?”
Holtorf said that as “a pro-life person,” he thinks “you should try to choose life every time. But there are exceptions. And there are times when you need abortion. Abortion is a medical procedure.”
“Is one of the exceptions when Richard Holtorf’s the father?” Clark asked.
“It’s not about me. Don’t personalize it and make it about me,” Holtorf responded.
When Clark reminded Holtorf that he’d discussed his girlfriend’s abortion on the floor of the Colorado House, the politician claimed that wasn’t an important detail.
“That doesn’t matter,” Holtorf said. “That’s a story. That’s not that important. What’s more important is the policy.”
re: #154 Belafon
I went and looked at the replies, and this Green party person is trying to make BlueMAGA a thing.
The only thing that “blue MAGA” is good for is instantly outing anyone who uses it for real as a blithering idiot.
Los Angeles DSA has passed a resolution calling for endorsing Jill Stein. The resolution denounces Biden for his unequivocal support of Booby Nincompoopo.
DSA has voted to join the protests in Chicago during the Democratic convention.
They’re making the same GD mistake that they made in 2016.
What the fuck do they think Booby will do when Trump gives him carte blanche to wipe out Gaza?
re: #149 Charles Johnson
John Lennon said it was autobiographical. When that song came out it wasn’t even that controversial, either.
the 60’s are kind of a minefield of bad lyrical takes: You’d better run for your life if you can, little girl. Catch you with another man, that’s the end….little girl. down to me, the change has come, she’s under my thumb.
In Stunning Rebuke of State Superintendent Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s GOP Governor and Legislature Take Major Steps to Limit Walters’ Power
Following months of public outcry over his varied abuses of power, provisions in the newly approved state budget and executive order will prevent Ryan Walters from continuing his habit of misusing taxpayer funds in order to raise his own political profile at the expense of Oklahoma’s schools - already 49th in the nation
After death of Nex Benedict, Oklahomans across the state criticized Walters for creating an environment hostile to LGBTQ+ students and prioritizing his political career over what was best for Oklahoma students, parents, and schools
OKLAHOMA CITY, OK - In a stunning rebuke of a statewide public official by senior leaders in his own party, the Oklahoma state budget signed today by Republican Governor Kevin Stitt - after being passed by a supermajority Republican legislature - undercuts State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters’ authority. Alongside the budget, Gov. Stitt issued an executive order that meaningfully curtails the ability of the state superintendent to spend taxpayer funding on his own personal public relations. These significant legislative and executive steps come after months of Oklahomans demanding accountability for Walters’ failed leadership and dangerous rhetoric and policies - including but not limited to matters of LGBTQ+ equality.
SB 1122 includes a budget provision that increases legislative oversight of Walters and responds to the ways that he has abused the power of his office to raise his own political profile at the expense of Oklahoma’s schools. The rider lays out the Attorney General’s obligation to ensure the department is spending its funds appropriately and to intervene if they have reason to believe there may be issues. This could include criminal charges. Walters has faced a subpoena from the legislature requiring he turn over information about a state employee he hired - who had formerly served as his campaign manager - without an application or contract.
In addition, today Gov. Stitt issued an executive order alongside the budget rider. The order prohibits Supt. Walters and other Oklahoma officials from spending taxpayer dollars on personal public relations services. It also prevents them from working with companies who are engaged in running political campaigns or who employ registered lobbyists. This order comes after Walters has been widely criticized for using taxpayer dollars to hire an out-of-state PR firm to book him national media appearances, during which he spewed hateful messages about LGBTQ+ youth. A similar provision in the budget rider passed by the legislature applied only to Walters, which the Governor replaced with this order.
Governor Stitt line-item vetoed a third provision, passed by the Republican legislature, that would have forced Walters to ask for permission from legislature before making decisions that could imperil federal funds for Oklahoma schools. Ryan Walters has been under constant scrutiny over his refusal to apply for federal grants or comply with federal civil rights laws - including Title IX regulations - that could cause Oklahoma to lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding. Under the proposal he would have needed to seek permission from the legislature prior to taking any action that might imperil federal funds.
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
What the fuck do they think Booby will do when Trump gives him carte blanche to wipe out Gaza?
Stamp their feet and cry?
re: #161 Romantic Heretic
Stamp their feet and cry?
No they will do what they did in 2016, “We Told You So!”
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
Los Angeles DSA has passed a resolution calling for endorsing Jill Stein. The resolution denounces Biden for his unequivocal support of Booby Nincompoopo.
DSA has voted to join the protests in Chicago during the Democratic convention.
They’re making the same GD mistake that they made in 2016.
What the fuck do they think Booby will do when Trump gives him carte blanche to wipe out Gaza?
Are these people legit that stupid, or have GOP ratfuckers ended up running the show there?
re: #163 EPR-radar
Are these people legit that stupid, or have GOP ratfuckers ended up running the show there?
Purity Ponies. They are hell bent on defeating Biden.
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
DSA: We can’t remember last week, much less 4 years ago.
Boeing’s first crewed Starliner mission, that ferried astronauts to the International Space Station, will need to wait a little longer before returning its crew to Earth.On June 5, the Crew Flight Test (CFT) for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launched with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board; the spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS) the next day. The mission’s objective was to complete a full on-orbit shakedown of the spacecraft, and it was originally set to last about a week. Now, the pair won’t return home until June 22, at the earliest.
“We are continuing to understand the capabilities of Starliner to prepare for the long-term goal of having it perform a six-month docked mission at the space station,” Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said in a mission blog post. In the interim, CFT crew members Wilmore and Williams will perform additional checks on Starliner, including a “hot-fire” test of seven of the spacecraft’s eight aft thrusters and a review of hatch operations. They will also perform “safe haven” drills that will help them prepare the capsule in case of an emergency.
re: #158 Joe Bacon ✅
Los Angeles DSA has passed a resolution calling for endorsing Jill Stein. The resolution denounces Biden for his unequivocal support of Booby Nincompoopo.
DSA has voted to join the protests in Chicago during the Democratic convention.
They’re making the same GD mistake that they made in 2016.
What the fuck do they think Booby will do when Trump gives him carte blanche to wipe out Gaza?
Man, the difference between the LA DSA and the Nebraska DSA is like the gulf between planets.
There are times the DSA here is not happy with Democratic Party, but the DSA also knows the Democrats can be reasoned with. The GOP cannot.
Pragmatism, who knew that will get you what you want? 50% of what you want is still better than 0%.
re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The DSA out here are like spoiled children. They can get away with their tantrums because there is no current party that can challenge the Dems here, the GOP being most neutered (by their own devices.)
He buried your mother in a sand trap. https://t.co/58bdXi9fGf
— Greta (@GretaGrace20) June 14, 2024
re: #168 Joe Bacon ✅
re: #167 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Man, the difference between the LA DSA and the Nebraska DSA is like the gulf between planets.
There are times the DSA here is not happy with Democratic Party, but the DSA also knows the Democrats can be reasoned with. The GOP cannot.
Pragmatism, who knew that will get you what you want? 50% of what you want is still better than 0%.
The LA DSA appear to have gotten high on their own supply of self-righteous dudgeon and political theory that can’t pass muster in an electoral contest in which the voters are “normal” people.
The Nebraska DSA appears to recognize that you have to work with the voter pool and politicians you have available to you and also recognizes the value of incremental change. LA DSA doesn’t, apparently.
re: #174 Patricia Kayden
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I think about this a lot when people say they don’t like Biden. He’s done tons of things the Left ought to really support but most of them don’t even know about it.
re: #173 A Three Hour Tour
The LA DSA appear to have gotten high on their own supply of self a righteous dudgeon and political theory that can’t pass muster in an electoral contest in which the voters are “normal” people.
The Nebraska DSA appears to recognize that you have to work with the voter pool and politicians you have available to you and also recognizes the value of incremental change. LA DSA doesn’t, apparently.
That sort of purity ponyism doesn’t even work in southern California for non-Presidential elections. And the impact on other state’s Presidential elections is worse.
They just need to drive out to Orange County where seats go back and forth between Democrats and crazy Republicans all the time. Do they want the next Katie Porter in the House, or the next Darrell Issa or Kevin McCarthy.
re: #176 aatharuv
That sort of purity ponyism doesn’t even work in southern California for non-Presidential elections. And the impact on other state’s Presidential elections is worse.
They just need to drive out to Orange County where seats go back and forth between Democrats and crazy Republicans all the time. Do they want the next Katie Porter in the House, or the next Darrell Issa or Kevin McCarthy.
Do we forget Bob Dornan so quickly?
re: #177 Unabogie
Do we forget Bob Dornan so quickly?
Oh I don’t. Never will forget what that motherfather did to a former coworker giving him a congressional reprimand. Worthless piece of crap who was one crash short of being a Black Ace…
re: #177 Unabogie
Do we forget Bob Dornan so quickly?
To quote an old political cartoon, “101 Damnations!”
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re: #144 Charles Johnson
A song that definitely has not aged well: “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” by Rod Stewart. 100% cringe.
Right up there with “I’m Too Sexy For My Shirt” Ugh.
re: #180 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I didn’t know they came in this color, but now that I think of it, it fits.
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They don’t… all Cybertrucks are built in bare stainless, any of them you have seen in any other color/finish has been painted or (most likely) wrapped by the sucker driving it proud owner.
Tomorrow is the last day of Monsoon Awareness Week.
Not sure we’ll have much of a monsoon this year, on this side of the mountains.
The low desert is currently extremely dry, having not had enough rain (even for them) for some time.
Oklahoma Is Opening Its Waterways to a Deluge of Chickensh*t
Governor Kevin Stitt has now signed into law a measure that gives poultry farmers/companies “immunity” for polluting Oklahoma waterways. Senate Bill 1424 says if companies or farmers are following state laws then they can’t be sued, even if their actions caused harm. The proposal states if chicken companies or farmers follow a nutrient management plan, they’ll be protected from any criminal or civil accountability. “You’re immune,” said Gov. Stitt.
re: #177 Unabogie
Do we forget Bob Dornan so quickly?
My first comment was, “who?” I remember that he was a congressman, but I don’t remember why he was particularly horrible by the standards of GOP. (I don’t live in southern California.)
re: #177 Unabogie
Do we forget Bob Dornan so quickly?
An early pioneer of accusing the Democrat opponent of election rigging.
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re: #188 jaunte
An early pioneer of accusing the Democrat opponent of election rigging.
washingtonpost.com
Also a straight up homophobic, racist bigot.
Republicans pushing to put more Christian chaplains in public schools.
Friendly Atheist, today
At event for Christian lawmakers, panelists insist Satanists can’t be school chaplains
«Satanism is “not a religion,” said an ignorant panelist at a conference for the National Association of Christian Lawmakers»
During a meeting geared toward Christian lawmakers earlier this month at Liberty University, panelists promoted the idea of putting chaplains in public schools while rejecting the idea that non-Christians could take advantage of the new laws.
One panelist said Satanism was “not a religion,” therefore administrators wouldn’t have to hire them. Another said Muslims couldn’t be chaplains because there was no way for them to be “certified.” It was all a slap in the face to the idea of religious pluralism. It also confirmed the idea that these people are interested in Christian supremacy, not religious freedom.
If you’re not aware, getting chaplains in schools has been the latest (and arguably most effective) method for Christians to get their religion in front of impressionable children. At least 14 states have proposed or passed legislation to give public schools permission to hire chaplains on their staffs. Supporters say it’s a way to addressing staffing shortages and improve mental health. Opponents argue that students deserve qualified experts, not randos with questionable credentials who clearly want to proselytize.
Some Republicans have openly said this is all about tearing down the wall between church and state, like the Texas senator who said his goal in sponsoring such a bill was “representing God’s presence within our public schools.”
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A federal judge in Texas temporarily blocked a new Biden administration rule that would require gun sellers to conduct background checks on their customers at gun shows and online following a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and other gun rights supporters.
re: #191 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Ah Libertine University where Jerry Farewell Jr. was bounced for those three-way trysts with his wife and the pool boy…
re: #189 Eventual Carrion
This is where I was fishing on my Oculus VR earlier. Gonna grab a snack and sit back to watch The Acolyte next episode in a few.
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in and around the lake…..
re: #193 Joe Bacon ✅
Ah Libertine University where Jerry Farewell Jr. was bounced for those three-way trysts with his wife and the pool boy…
“Libertine” I have no issue with.
“Hypocrite” I do.
re: #180 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I didn’t know they came in this color, but now that I think of it, it fits. (It’s even uglier in real life than it looks in that picture.)
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Hey, I had an old ‘68 Newport that was almost that color (a little more faded).
National Weather service radio just put up a flash flood warning up.
“Mainly rural areas of north-east Cheyenne and south-east Morrill Counties.”
That’s me.
Well, we’ll have to see if the Beerline Canal a block from my house runs over its banks. I’m downhill from it.
Big red ugly blotch on the area map from the Cheyenne weather office is us.
I broke down and watched the first episode of the new season of The Boys as I had an extra hour to kill.
Still a good cast. More secret alliances than a season of Survivor. Should make for good campy fun. Hope they make it 16 episodes instead of eight. There are a lot of supes to kill off.
3.5” inches of rain have fallen. Rain is falling at a rate of 2” an hour according to NWS.
Flash flood warning just went up in the county seat in the next county to my east. The town is rapidly going under water.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I remember Stagflation under Ford and Carter. Grand times. 16% mortgage interest rates, the steel industry tanking, cheap crap flooding the market along with Quaaludes and angel dust…and it was the Golden Age of DIsco and Glam Rock
please don’t bring that back
Reagan wasn’t so great either. I remember my extended family being excited I got law school loans at 10% interest. Which was a lot less than the 18% my parents were paying on a loan for a home in California at that time.
Those times were horrible, and the dual overriding (and sometimes conflicting) economic policies of the United States since that time have been to keep inflation and interest rates low. Sometimes one gets sacrificed to the other (right now interest rates are being kept high to drive down inflation, with not so great results). But the people doing the rate setting now were in their teens and twenties when there was stagflation, and don’t want it coming back.
Electing Trump would probably give us other economic crises, not the ones the Fed fears.
CNN:
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday he will move in federal court to enforce a subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland to obtain audio recordings of President Joe Biden, after the Justice Department declined to act on the House’s contempt referral.
Johnson said in a statement that he disagrees with the DOJ’s decision, calling it “another example of the two-tiered system of justice brought to us by the Biden Administration.”
“I will be certifying the contempt reports to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia,” the Louisiana Republican said. “We will also move to enforce the subpoena of Attorney General Garland in federal court.”
In a letter to Johnson earlier Friday, DOJ pointed to its “longstanding” position of not prosecuting executive branch officials who withhold information subject to executive privilege from Congress.
The announcement was anticipated after the House, in a mostly party-line vote, held Garland in contempt for not turning over audio from Biden’s interview in special counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents investigation.
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re: #207 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Hey Speaker Jesusbot
We dare you to go to court for the recordings.
Maybe Garland should prosecute Gym Shorts for defying a Congressional subpoena.
re: #208 Joe Bacon ✅
Hey Speaker Jesusbot
We dare you to go to court for the recordings.
Maybe Garland should prosecute Gym Shorts for defying a Congressional subpoena.
Conservatism is expensive: Our tax money at work.
National Weather Service radio with a new flash flood warning. Law enforcement has confirmed severe thunderstorms to the east of my town are flooding the Beerline Canal (that flows within a block of my house).
I just looked out the door up the block; nothing yet.
Biden preparing to offer legal status to undocumented immigrants who have lived in U.S. for 10 years
“…A program being developed by White House officials would offer work permits and deportation protections to unauthorized immigrants married to U.S. citizens, as long as they have lived in the U.S. for at least 10 years, the sources said, requesting anonymity to talk about internal government plans.
The proposal, known as “Parole in Place,” would also open up a pathway to permanent legal status and U.S. citizenship for some beneficiaries by removing an obstacle in U.S. law that prevents those who entered the U.S. illegally from obtaining green cards without leaving the country.
Another plan being prepared by the Biden administration would streamline the process for so-called DREAMers and other undocumented immigrants to request waivers that would make it easier for them to obtain temporary visas, such as H-1B visas for high-skilled workers, the sources said.
The measures, the sources added, could be announced as early as Tuesday, but a plan has not been finalized by the administration. White House officials are preparing to host an event Tuesday to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields roughly 530,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children from deportation. “
re: #211 jaunte
A certain north Texas court will shut that down quickly.
re: #7 darthstar
Today’s lesson in correlation vs causation.
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The cat is actually a Neutron Star.
re: #21 DodgerFan1988
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But but I thought BRICS was going to cause the US Dollar to collapse. That’s what QAnon said and they never lie.
Ummm…a 7% decrease is not exactly collapse. Significant, but a defenestration panic?
Nyet.
re: #176 aatharuv
That sort of purity ponyism doesn’t even work in southern California for non-Presidential elections. And the impact on other state’s Presidential elections is worse.
They just need to drive out to Orange County where seats go back and forth between Democrats and crazy Republicans all the time. Do they want the next Katie Porter in the House, or the next Darrell Issa or Kevin McCarthy.
For that brief time we had Harley Rouda replace the repulsive Dana rohrabacker. But then he lost to a repub.
re: #198 Eventual Carrion
Hey, I had an old ‘68 Newport that was almost that color (a little more faded).
As long as you didn’t paint it yourself, I forgive you.
re: #180 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
I didn’t know they came in this color, but now that I think of it, it fits. (It’s even uglier in real life than it looks in that picture.)
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That’s almost, but not quite, the avocado green shade of the refrigerator we had in the 1970s.
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