The states’ rights case for determining abortion access — let the people decide — falters on the fact that in many states, the people cannot shape their legislature to their liking. Packed and split into districts designed to preserve Republican control, voters cannot actually dislodge anti-abortion Republican lawmakers. A...
What in the fuck is even going on? These women are just cosplaying as nuns to push their bullshit Dominist agenda? Can the Catholic Church sue them or something? I just hate how stupid and unbelievable our reality has become.
He’s such a fascist piece of shit and there is no bottom with him, just a complete garbage human being being propped up by other sycophantic garbage humans.
It really feels like the FL GOP just hang out around the legislature thinking about new ways to fuck with people, just a bunch of bullies looking for targets.
I get pretty easy depressed watching TV shows with a depressing tone or a lot of character deaths or that. If its more in the background its generally fine, but things like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and The Boys are a lot for the moment. How does the new Fallout show compare?...
It’s definitely not as comedic as the trailers have shown, it’s a fairly serious series and deals with a lot of depressing stuff, overall I loved the first season, but knowing the fate of one of the major factions that I identified most with kinda bummed me out.
A federal judge in Florida tossed out Miami’s city district maps on Wednesday, ruling that the city racially gerrymandered for decades, throwing the electoral future of the city into question....
Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, helped to form the LA chapter of the group Black Lives Matter, and West praised her as “one of the great freedom fighters of her generation”.
Sick people shouldn’t be at school, at work, and should have to be masked when in tight enclosed spaces. I still can’t believe the childish BS the antimask/vaxxers are still getting away with, this all should be something we should all be able to understand and agree with.
In the lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Monday, Rachlin alleges that in mid-2020 NYPD officials cut off her access to the North Brooklyn precincts her nonprofit serves and told precinct leaders not to work with her....
The NYPD should have been broken up when they tried to kill Frank Serpico, or we could go back about a hundred years and they should have been broken up when the Tamany Hall corruption machine infiltrated the NYPD thoroughly.
I’m from NYC, I’ve got a lot of family in the NYPD and DoC, and the NYPD is more than a hundred years past due to be broken up. They should separate the department into county>borough>city>village>town departments, so they can all watch and investigate each other until acceptable levels of corruption have been achieved. (acceptable levels are usually a very low percentages of corruption, we’ll never completely eliminate it, so the goal is to get it as low as we can.)
Although the White House has insisted that President Biden has the legal authority to take military action against the Houthis, several members of Congress have refuted its claims. At a Senate hearing in February, several senators called attention to the War Powers Resolution, which establishes that the president cannot continue...
That’s cool and all but the defacto Yemini government are acting like pirates and terrorists.
Edit: fuck your downvotes, you people have your head up your ass, these pieces of shit are targeting civilians and their ships, that makes them terrorists, not freedom fighters, and absolutely not heroes.
I loved the first three seasons, the last one was pretty bleak and depressing but I definitely wanted to see where they were going with it, I hope they get to finish it.
I read a lot of news and connections are important, like how Vladimir Putin and Rupert Murdoch are Eskimo brothers over Wendy Deng, it shows the kind of circles people travel in, as the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together.
Japan and South Korea need to get to fucking or they need to become more open and attractive to immigration to stave off population shortfalls. There’s shitloads of south and central Americans looking for stable nations to call home, same with Africans, Middle Easterners, and south Asians, these folks are willing to serve in their militaries, contribute to their economies, and they bring fresh blood and ideas to cultures and industries. There’s also a whole lot of other westerners who are super into Asia in general but especially Japan and would move there in a heartbeat for the right incentives.
It’s not wizardry, it’s that our political/legal system has been avoiding the question of “Can you indict a President (current or former)?” ever since Nixon.
I believe we answered this question back in the 1770’s when we sent our king a letter telling him to fuck off, then beat his army and sent them packing. Then we re-answered this question in 1812 when we fought off the Brits again and Canada, who burnt down our original white house, but ultimately told the king to fuck off again ans sent his army and allies packing again. Then we told Jefferson Davis and his supporters fuck off when he tried to take over as the unelected “President”, aka King/Tyrant/Despot/Dictator, although with all of the Confederate “heritage”, flags, statues, and terrorist groups (KKK) that still exist it doesn’t seem like we told the Confederates to fuck off hard enough, we probably should have let Sherman tell each and every one of them “fuck off” in person.
Anyway, my point is that we’ve already had this discussion three times and the answer to every King and wannabe King has been “fuck off” followed by a lot of killing, I’m not so sure we should be going for a forth time, especially not for an orange diaper wearing nepo baby traitor.
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely
Lord Acton (1887)
The full quote is pretty poignant as well:
“Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”
Lord Acton had some pretty good bangers on this topic:
“Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”
And:
“Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force.”
Also:
“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.”
The US has so much space (lemmy.world)
The Smothering of Abortion Rights Reveals Something Else About Republicans (www.nytimes.com)
The states’ rights case for determining abortion access — let the people decide — falters on the fact that in many states, the people cannot shape their legislature to their liking. Packed and split into districts designed to preserve Republican control, voters cannot actually dislodge anti-abortion Republican lawmakers. A...
When you are part of two cults at once (midwest.social)
DeSantis signs controversial bill banning civilian boards from investigating police misconduct (www.sun-sentinel.com)
Is the new Fallout TV show depressing?
I get pretty easy depressed watching TV shows with a depressing tone or a lot of character deaths or that. If its more in the background its generally fine, but things like Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, and The Boys are a lot for the moment. How does the new Fallout show compare?...
Judge tosses Miami’s voting map over racial gerrymandering (thehill.com)
A federal judge in Florida tossed out Miami’s city district maps on Wednesday, ruling that the city racially gerrymandered for decades, throwing the electoral future of the city into question....
Vanilla Ice - Ninja Rap (youtu.be)
Connection: John Du Prez did the original score for both films. He does not have any track on the UHF soundtrack, but does have a couple the TMNT ones
Gina Carano “Grotesquely Trivialized The Holocaust,” Disney Says; Wants Elon Musk-Backed Suit On ‘Mandalorian’ Firing Tossed (deadline.com)
Cornel West announces running mate for independent US presidential bid (www.theguardian.com)
Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, helped to form the LA chapter of the group Black Lives Matter, and West praised her as “one of the great freedom fighters of her generation”.
Sick children shouldn't be at school (www.rnz.co.nz)
Common sense, really.
NYPD Officials Orchestrated Smear Campaign of Police Critic Using Confidential Details of Her Rape, Lawsuit Alleges (www.thecity.nyc)
In the lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York on Monday, Rachlin alleges that in mid-2020 NYPD officials cut off her access to the North Brooklyn precincts her nonprofit serves and told precinct leaders not to work with her....
Trump’s Pick for Wisconsin Senator Suggests Nursing Home Residents Shouldn’t Vote (www.thedailybeast.com)
An illegal war with Houthis isn't stopping the Red Sea crisis (responsiblestatecraft.org)
Although the White House has insisted that President Biden has the legal authority to take military action against the Houthis, several members of Congress have refuted its claims. At a Senate hearing in February, several senators called attention to the War Powers Resolution, which establishes that the president cannot continue...
Jonathan Nolan Still Intends to Finish Westworld Despite HBO's Cancellation - IGN (www.ign.com)
Westworld co-creator Jonathan Nolan has vowed to "finish the story" they had planned before HBO abruptly cancelled the series.
Documents: Rep. Jon Stone Threatened Mass Shooting and Rape After Investigation (indepthnh.org)
Kinzinger says RFK Jr.’s campaign ‘hijacked by MAGA’ (thehill.com)
Over 150 elementary schools have no 1st graders: Korean ministry (www.koreaherald.com)
Two investors in Trump Media insider trading case plead guilty (www.cnn.com)
Utah Rep. Celeste Maloy endorses Trump’s plan for mass detention and deportation of migrants (www.sltrib.com)