did i hear a license to intentionally lock republicans out of power?

Earlier I mentioned that, unless Virginia has some sort of non-viewpoint reason for denying tax exemption to Confederate groups, that law probably violates the 1A. Here, prohibiting students from protesting and walking out DEFINITELY violates the 1A.

Lol

This should be embarrassing for the Very Serious Conservative Catholics who carry water for this administration.

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

The Vatican decided a long time ago that the laity cannot be excommunicated. It’s that simple.

lmaooooo

Their time is almost up

Religious freedom is an accidental byproduct of Protestant-Catholic sectarian tensions.

Chicago this is why we need something on the books yesterday. Make sure your alder knows this is one that needs to pass with a resounding margin

These are adjudged terrorists.

this is the least surprising thing in the world, which does not lessen the importance of investigating it

Love living in a supposedly functioning, law-abiding democracy. It's great!

It's a good recommendation! We're just more sophisticated about it now.

This is an insane story. No one should be arrested cause an AI at Target flagged someone for shoplifting.

Cutting admin bloat and profiteering out of health care is like cutting fraud waste and abuse. 1. You should try 2. You will fail 3. You won't get nearly enough savings

French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to marry 1950s sweetheart | France | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Seriously though why do people get on this discourse

“Get ready to learn Esperanto, buddy” and memes of like nature

It is genuinely remarkable how much the argument is "well we couldn't do it if we had to follow the law" and "therefore we shouldn't have to," and not just about this.

There was something in an essay at the start of the Gaza war that stuck with me: "The laws of war are not agreements between belligerents." Campists and fringe leftists basically think that the LOAC exist as a handicap solely for empires, to give insurgencies a fair shot. They are not.

This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.

You have to be a consciously malicious liar to say this, considering Christian charities were begging them not to defund the agency and they did anyway. And now hundreds of thousands are dying from it. What an absolutely depraved man.

i bet this goes crazy if you’re a dumbass

do you want the LGBTQ+ vote or don't you. Republicans already hate us. do you want to win those votes or not. jesus christ.

Mildly annoyed: mail service was like hey we can't get to the mail boxes, we won't deliver the mail until you fix the door and if you don't do it soon, we will send the mail back. I have some mail I want like yesterday! Probably have it by Thursday....

Big difference from Riot here: Google said "okay well you didn't tell us that this would be this bad, so we can invest in the local water supply situation and improve it, we will also renegotiate our rate contract." So that's not a great outcome but it's been improved dramatically.

The municipality was also to blame here. Riot is notorious for "somehow incentivising" local politicians to greenlight awful data center projects mere hundreds of yards from where people live. The stink of bribes is heavy there.

I can give two examples of bad data center contracts and local governance, and one example of it coupled with a bad actor: The bad-bad is Riot. The fact that it's Bitcoin, a stupid prototype technology that only continues to exist to protect warmongers, sex traffickers and despots makes it esp bad

Still a little congested but I think I can try going for a short run, getting antsy from not exercising in the last week

See, this is what got me today. I mean yes, no man is an island, and no one is free while any are oppressed etc etc; this is basic stuff. It's also total madness to casually suggest that one in five people are "destitute and suffering". I mean, what?

I've written before about how USAID was the first government agency killed by conspiracy theory. This confirms it. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Brief fun survey from Jessica, Andrew & myself: If you are a faculty member, research scientist, postdoc, or senior Ph.D. student in any area of science, please take five minutes and fill it out. We’ll share the results widely along with some reflections. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Breaking: Rao and Walker (Trump appointees) block Boasberg's Alien Enemies Act contempt proceeding with mandamus; Childs (Biden appointee) dissents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm reminded of the early 1930s push by the Third Reich to send women home. Nazi bureaucrats sheepishly realized doing so would crash the German economy, so they wound up with the compromise of women having to sneak to work in the morning so that they didn't upset delicate conservative constitutions

no one wants to hear it but r/nba has some of the greatest minds of our time

THE FEDERAL RESERVE DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY

She made one appearance with liz cheney and its all alot of the dumbest leftists can fuckin talk about

I’ve become negatively polarized into a Harris de-ender because all the commentary about the 2024 campaign is “she would have won if she’d spent more time talking about [thing she said everyday]“ or “she lost because she spent the whole campaign on [thing she said exactly once]”

The New York Times Editorial Board yet again demands that Democrats run exactly the campaign they ran in 2024

JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger last night returned this bill to lawmakers with an amendment request (rather than signing it). Her amendment would clarify that sheriffs/jails are allowed to honor ICE detainers, i.e. warrantless ICE requests to keep someone in jail beyond their release.

random notification that i had a student loan paid off, neat (took a bit because it got deferred a while for grad school).

say it with me children who attend daycare after 12 months of age have better life outcomes than children who don’t

If you *think* that your standard of living is getting worse because you have miscalibrated whatever you're comparing to (standards of living in the past, the "typical" standard of living, etc) then you're going to think your standard of living is going down *regardless* of whether it is or not.

Steamed Hams is old enough that he feels conflicted because everyone younger than he is has no emotional attachment to the simpsons golden age and everyone slightly older than him can talk exclusively in simpsons quotes for hours

My alma mater @yale.edu is so embarrassing. In 2024 it adopted "institutional neutrality" to not comment on political matters; that didn't stop the President from praising a right-wing group for inviting McMahon to campus, but did stop her from saying if Dept of Edu should be illegally destroyed. 🙄

Pictured: Anthropic releasing yet another public statement about the scary and powerful things brewing in their lab that, thankfully, they are too darn upright and ethical to show anyone

the answer to this is obvious. real incomes are up on average, but not among bluesky users, who are statistically anomalous in their lack of business mindset.