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Rep. Roger Williams on the SAVE America Act: "We want the right people voting"

Absent Callais, I'd say the ruling today scares some Dems away from trying again; but 2027-2028 will be marked by the Southern states that aren't acting now remapping (plus others like Indiana), so the dynamic on Virginia won't have changed much.

The majority's holding is: "election" doesn't mean what it says in the Virginia Code and how it has always been interpreted, it has a new amorphous meaning we sharked up from every other source we could imagine.

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

If you are yelling "Pluto is a planet!" you are wrong. If you are yelling "Pluto isn't a planet!" you are wrong. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-p... 🔭 🧪

Plagiarism was hard, but now easy. We have a secret group about it. Why give people a choice when you can trick them. Which is now easy. If something is easy it makes it okay. I don't make the rules. Sam Altman does. King of the authors. God of the story tellers. Breaker of creativity chains.

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

Oh come the fuck on man how come every morning it’s more Airbud shit to wake up to, except the dog can only play basketball if it’s racist or whatever

Thing is, this is not an insane ruling as a matter of law. Democrats *absolutely* played fast and loose with the VA constitution's amendment procedure (with good reason; it was designed to require a slow pace for amendments and this is an emergent crisis). The consequences are fucking horrid though.

I keep seeing folks say it's been 12 years, but it hasn't. Gamergate was 12 years ago, but the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian predated Gamergate by over 2 years, the Tropes vs. Women Kickstarter was in March 2012. So it's even more pathetic. IT'S BEEN FOURTEEN YEARS.

the same way Frank Wilhoit did, but with fewer syllables.

you mess with the bull you get the horns. you mess with the goat you get the woodwinds. the horse has the string section and the rabbit is on percussion

The answer is always ska. The question can be anything

No one needs a trillion dollars. That kind of wealth can’t be earned. It’s stolen. Hoarded. Accumulated by keeping others impoverished. It dehumanizes you. Musk could have funded USAID for decades with his pocket change, instead he sentenced poor people to death. Abolish the billionaire class.

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Exciting times for porch pirates.

YES YOU DO, YOU DO ACTUALLY DO THAT, ESPECIALLY ON LONG FLIGHTS. CHANGING PILOTS DURING A FLIGHT IS A THING THAT REGULARLY HAPPENS, DAVID

Two years have passed, and the exact same problem remains: This website's moderation appears to be managed by someone who is openly hostile to "trans, furry, leftist" users, almost as a matter of public record, and is attempting to silence this information in an aggressive, ban-focused manner.(2)

The T&S lead (publicly) liked that post. Then, a day later, started banning any outwardly trans account posting criticism again, notably giving them four strikes at once on a four-strikes-to-a-ban system. Repetitively showing that the written rules only exist to shut up noisy trans people/allies.

Most recently: Katelyn Burns recently covered this history in an article about Isabel Fall, as Will Stancil was saying that these trans users were harassing and defaming him again, and needed to be 'cleaned off the platform'. Stancil's post was sort of the tipping point for the most recent episode.

Trans users demanding any sort of accountability or equal protection under the rules is billed as a 'harassment campaign'. Roughly once a month Journalists claim defamation, or spotlight some tiny trans account, and get them report-nuked from orbit by 100k followers for not being polite enough.

This pattern of behavior has repeated several times. (Predominantly) Trans and trans-inclusive users demand accountability and appropriateness from T&S, get silence. Some ask other official accounts for responses, get ridicule and derision (Bsky-Waffles, etc.)

Result: The userbase complains that T&S is once again changing the rules just to punish trans users. T&S declines to send an e-mail or post a notification as to why the bot was banned. The bot's coder still has not received a response to this day.

Response: Due to official accounts being really quiet on the issue(1), a trans user writes a bot that tracks things that official accounts post and like. This is public information. This tracker-bot reports that an official account liked a spam bot post with a 'barely legal' porn image.

Result: T&S declines to enforce the rules against Singal. Ends up changing the rules to allow his behavior, instead of enforcing them. Trans community upset at T&S for changing the rules to support a bigot in a place they were told was supposed to be safe. Bsky official accounts remain silent.

Origin: Bluesky's taking off with a large leftist, furry, and/or trans community joining up during the beta invite period. Singal joins the site, and starts being harassing and confrontational towards the trans userbase. Userbase asks Trust & Safety (T&S) to enforce the rules about harassment. 1/13

This is a great summary of the situation for trans users on here

Say a few words from an old TV commercial that some of us will remember: I’m Mister Bucket Toss your balls in my top I’m Mister Bucket Out of my mouth they will pop

This is not a new observation, but as someone who works really hard to make sure the metaphors and symbolism in her work aren't over-obvious, I think God should have to fistfight me.

Anything less than full chested support for the Trans Community is folding to fascism.

Use this slightly invase new app feature you don't want and didn't ask for? [ ] Yes [ ] "No" ;)

Time for Timer looking cactus muther...

It's proof dems are phonies. They don't Believe themselves

Screw the rules!

Pour one out, gang. www.comicsbeat.com/the-last-com...

The problem is, people start out using it as a sewing machine and then it eats their brains and then they're using it as a vending machine while still insisting they're fine. I'm seeing this happen in real time to multiple people in my professional communities, & it's depressing and disgusting.

/3 This noisome pretense was pushed by the mouthpieces of the Right like the Federalist Society and eventually enough minions formed a majority on SCOTUS to enact it. So: to avoid the racism of noticing racism, you can now disenfranchise Black Americans.

I’m convinced “centrists” don’t want a normal right, they want a far right that kills the left for them.

There's a lot of promising research in agrivoltaics, using solar panels in conjunction with agriculture instead of as this either/or proposition. Solar panels over grazing land, or built tall enough to drive tractors underneath, can have huge benefits. theconservationfoundation.org/agrivoltaics/

The failure to punish Nixon established a bipartisan culture of impunity for right-wing lawbreakers, and led directly to Iran/Contra, Iraq WMD, and Trump (often with the exact same people). It’s a sickness the country must cure.

The political history of the U.S. since the 1970s is basically that thing where a species' predator disappears and the species overpopulates and destroys the whole habitat. If centrists really wanted a "Normal" right, their top priority would be to bring back the left

Much like how Joe Rogan opposes a vast amount of Republican orthodoxy, a “liberal Joe Rogan” would likewise do the same, which I’m sure will go over just fine with a party that is currently trying to fire one of its own leaders for pointing out how Jim Clyburn is 104 years old

What libs mean, actually mean, by “we need a liberal Joe Rogan” is “how much do we have to spend to make Ezra Klein as influential as Joe Rogan, what’s the number for that,” and there is no number but they’re going to light millions of dollars on fire pretending there is

Broken record here but this is a party that basically forfeited the most important election in a lifetime because they didn’t want to acknowledge critical opinions about Israel. They threw BLM and police reform under a bus and backed up over it. They’re not interested in contrary views!

They're desperately scraping individual House districts together because they know they're headed for a massive loss in November. Nobody acts like this if they're confident they're going to win.

Reposting this one more time. I have until tomorrow morning to raise the remaining $900. I want to thank everyone who has shared or donated thus far. If you have a moment to read and share, it would be tremendously appreciated.

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

they've banned multiple trans women for posts months or over a year old. this is nothing but a pretext to purge the website of trans women, right before Northsky is able to migrate people over. This is completely on the culture of liberals on this website for encouraging and defending this shit.

remembering this