I have a different take. While Meta is bad, in the end this wouldn’t be possible without non-KYC crypto (or bearer gift cards). Every non-KYC financial asset should be banned.

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

Without the people to run it, the plan is to impound any money appropriated to this fund. Say appropriations passed in a “clean CR.” There’s no reason ACA subsidies can’t be impounded either under Vought logic. Either make them go nuclear or get them to unimpound and unlayoff everyone.

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The headline appears quite misleading. His exact words were “In commenting on Obergefell, I am not suggesting that the decision in that case should be overruled.” That and the follow-on quote about Dobbs don’t actually deny that Alito wants to overrule Obergefell.

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” - Hannah Arendt

Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

Ramsey and MAHA have immense parallels. They blame all unequal outcomes on controllable moral qualities. They also both have an endgame in absurdity, as evidence and logic shows the effect of luck.

FSU getting banned by Twitter because they done killed DeBoer

There should be a law against assets that are digital bearer token based. The biggest of these is crypto, which has bankrupted banks through scams. But digital gift cards are also cumulatively big. At least they should have low limits per card.

Putting this in terms of “experts said” is simply the 1984 quote: “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” The 14th says what it says. O’Donnell was born on US soil under US jurisdiction. That’s it. End of story.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Kidnapping for ransom has long been a thin, but digital bearer assets really appear to supercharge it. Same with scams. Before crypto only had relatively small amounts transferred without a KYCed chain, through gift cards. Now the amount of electronic transfers outside KYC is essentially unlimited.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

"Did Trump just defy a court order?" YES, motherfuckers. Why in the fuck is that so hard for people to say? The judge told him to stop doing something, he did it anyway, IN DEFIANCE OF THE JUDGES RULINGS! WHY ARE PEOPLE COMMITTED TO ADDRESSING FASCISM IN THE PASSIVE VOICE????

It definitely seems like a law passed by Congress abridging freedom of speech.

“Child support” significantly hides the ball here. National Directory of New Hires has income and tax information on EVERY person, child or without, with a W-2 in any of the 50 states. Elon has in mind that a lot of people earn $200k but collect SNAP or Medicaid.

“In addition, an officer or employee convicted of willfully and knowingly violating the law shall be fined not more than $5,000, imprisoned for not more than 2 years, or both.” 31 USC 1350

I keep saying how a 2nd avenue subway station is as long as the Empire State Building is tall. Or in other words, why is most blue state governance built around “you can’t have nice things.”?

I don’t know if it will matter, but Bondi should be disbarred if USMS are ordered to enforce court orders. If USMS won’t enforce writs of garnishment or attachment for lawlessness today, then same will go for habeas.

This isn’t incorrect, but its logic would preclude courts enforcing orders against *any* executive employee. Bureau of Prisons is also part of the Executive branch. So what are habeas orders going to do? How would money judgment for US gov contract or tort be enforced? @gtconway.bsky.social

Besides lawlessness being bad, an accurate polling should ask whether they support deporting law-abiding immigrants, stripping citizenship and voting rights of native-born Americans, possibly firing a third of FBI, pardoning cop assaulters and defunding research of cancer.

Going to see so much “What have the Romans ever done for us?”

There’s some point here how Musk lacks consideration for others, both legally and as a moral matter.

This is an argument for civil disobedience, not against it.

Don’t do this. The laws passed by Congress are the law. The Constitution is the law. Most of the actions break the law.

Well, it’s not going to be like Trump I. He did impeachable things, but firing Comey and impounding Ukraine aid was kind of esoteric stuff. This time, we’re looking at most people having noticeably worse experiences with government.

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dunno how much has been translated to English, but the Brazilian philosopher Safatle wrote a lot about how Cynicism is one of the major factors in our day and age that cause "speaking truth to power" to not work. our time is one of "atheist priests" who see sincerity as a weakness.

The replies are basically the absolute worst face of liberalism in America, both in terms of bad policy and utter elitism over a state with 42% voting for Harris.

I’m thinking about how PCE weighting by consumption changes real wages vs child-rearing capacity. PCE inflation consistently has housing/health care above average and everything else below. The former increases more with children than the latter.

Lump of Labor or Broken Window Fallacy. Most obviously, immigrants themselves buy stuff with their wages. But even if they kept all their wages in a bank, the effect on demand on American made goods would be offset by the Fed with lower rates. At 0%, we can do fiscal policy until demand recovers.

They look at the second estate’s exemption from taxation with jealousy and no view about what then happened to the second estate.

Replace Bulldozers at his construction sites with spoons.

The article does not say they want to get rid of deposit insurance. Instead, three agencies do duplicative work in regulating banks: OCC, Fed and FDIC. Banks choose their regulator through the corporate form they choose. There’s historic reasons why this is, but it *is* a dumb system.

I shall once again post this quote from Cadillac Desert.

So, I’m, what exactly was the process of using taxpayer dollars for this versus many, many other unsolved, non-Federal-crime murders?

It’d help if solid blue states had more to point to versus, say, environmental impact statements for bike lanes. The fascination of many Democrats with process over results is not something I fully understand.

Whatever your opinion about the Hunter Biden pardon, if it gets more attention than the Kash Patel nomination, it is one more instance of a failure to distinguish between fundamental and trivial threats to the rule of law.

The pardon power should be replaced in the constitution.

STING EM

There’s definitely a world where the administration tries to impound Medicaid and ACA premium subsidies.