The system working as intended. They want to push trans youth to either leave the state or take their own lives. Idaho got both outcomes here and now the lawsuit against them has to be dismissed.

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The only reason Sulzberger has the stones to say this out loud is because no matter how blatantly obvious the NYT is regarding their love of Trump or their constant need to rip off other journalists, there's still a segment of suckers who believe this trash is essential reading.

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://bit.ly/44aNdkq

A Florida wildlife biologist was summarily fired for *reposting* an Instagram joke about Charlie Kirk’s death. LibsofTikTok complained. A state official’s false statements in legal proceedings led to sanctions. And now the state will settle by paying her $485,000. www.aclufl.org/press-releas...

every copywriting job wants you to live in nyc but pays like $50k a year

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This is what the White House looks like today. This destruction and tacky chaos perfectly represents what the MAGA regime has done to the United States. Makes me sick to my stomach.

i have many justifications for hating AI but ultimately don't think i need any besides "they stole the book it was my life's dream to write without compensation, and did not get punished." their hands are literally in my pocket and they can fuck off

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Run by a man who should be put in chains & sent to jail for the rest of his life for the most wildly illegal assault on the federal government in history & ultimate responsibility for the murder of at least hundreds of thousands of people.

What's the most important live album of the 21st century? I can't think of a better one than ALIVE 2007 but surely that can't be it

Fortunately, there are numbers to multiply by that are bigger than two.

BREAKING: Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges, two law enforcement officers who clashed with Jan. 6 insurrectionists, have sued to block the Trump 'slush fund'. They're asking a federal judge to find the creation of the fund illegal and reverse any transfers that Treasury has made to DOJ to implement it.

I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.

Bezos on Hitler: "I think he's a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was during the Beer Hall Putsch. Hitler has lots of good ideas. He's been right about a lot of things. You have to give him credit where credit is due."

Billionaires must be targeted with tax policy and antitrust policy not because it helps everyone else (though it does) but because their political power must be limited so they can't wreck the world the way they're currently doing

American hegemony is being immolated before our eyes and the country is being pilfered by snake handling psychopaths but at least CEOs don’t feel the need to send out company-wide emails on Juneteenth

And this is why liberals always lose to fascists. They're so busy trying to preserve institutions that they never look up to see that the barbarians are at the gate and already set fire to those very institutions. You either fight these bastards or they will never stop.

It gets worse. This breaking news confirms Blanche knew Trump had no case against the IRS when he gave his client $1.8B in taxpayer cash and promised never to prosecute him. Blanche will now become permanent AG. This is a criminal bribe—a TEXTBOOK example.

To put a finer point on this: the Attorney General of the United States is a felon. Not a minor thug, but a felon who committed one of the most serious offenses identified in the text of our Constitution...in broad daylight. This wasn't bad judgment; it's worthy of imprisonment.

Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.

I like how the $8 million in staff cuts could easily be offset by the recent $80 million in donations coming from Steve Ballmer and his wife, but that money won't be used to save human jobs, and is instead earmarked for "technological innovation" (read: given to Microsoft for enterprise services)

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

*I don't think LLMs are per se grift. But the political economy around the massive money sinkhole that's enriching tech venture capitalists? Think of all the economic potential and taxpayer dollars being diverted from more productive uses.

My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.

No I'm not literally cheering on the downfall of America, but ask anyone in recovery and they'll tell you: You can't get clean until you've hit rock bottom and want to get clean for yourself. Payout to J6ers? Hell yes. $8 gas? LFG! SCOTUS bringing back Jim Crow just before the midterms? Yessir!

If we do not clean house on both sides of the aisle, if we don't throw people from both sides of the aisle in prison, this dark ass America we're living in right now is gonna get much worse. And no amount of wishing it were different is gonna change any of that. We can fix it. But we have to fix it.

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Yes, I want to see most or perhaps all of these scumbags in prison. But I gotta be honest: I look at the Democratic Party and I don't see more than a handful of people with the integrity and fortitude to make that happen.

The president is stealing tax dollars from the public treasury to pay off his criminal cronies.

We should have strung them up on the capitol steps. The conversation should at least be a thing Democrats talk about.

Lawmakers have spent too long giving away tax breaks to the wealthy & pouring endless money into violence and war, while schools are left with scraps. See just how much more funding we could give public schools if priorities shifted. Visit the public school funding calculator: bit.ly/booksoverwar

total cost of my family's health insurance (employee and employer share) will be $36,000 next year. we're also paying medicaid and medicare taxes, in addition to out of pocket costs. this also buys absurd prior auth processes and arbitrary denials. apparently this is the best we can do as a country

If half the political system affirms the rule of law and other half doesn't, it can't be sustained. You can't have a professionalized administrative state four years at a time, & a lawless, personalist administrative dictatorship the rest of the time.

Watching a series of former Confederate states rush to eliminate any vestige of black representation in the House pretty much answers the question whether the Voting Rights Act was still necessary.

There are a few images I often think of to remind myself what kind of person we’re up against. This is one of those images.

If Obama or Biden had called the White House a “shithouse,” right-wing media would have screamed about nothing else for months and the GOP would have said they’re traitors.

You read about how complicit the liberal media was with the ascendance of the national socialists in Germany and it's difficult to comprehend. The thing is, I see it now and it is still difficult to comprehend. To be this stupid and gullible. To be this incompetent. To be as complicit as this.

As long as I live in Maryland there will be David Trone campaign ads

Just f-ing play legislative hardball to move forward anyway, like GOP state legislatures have been for years. Use every stupid loophole at their disposal. Why is this so difficult?

Dems need to ignore the ruling on redistricting in Virginia and run with these maps anyways. It's what Republicans have done in other states, including in Ohio, where our districts are still illegal

You didn't "earn" a billions dollars, Jeff Bezos. You *took it* from your poorly paid workers.

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