Elon Musk’s alleged penchant for not paying bills is catching up with him. In the wake of numerous lawsuits claiming the world’s richest man failed to pay severance owed to many of the 6,000 employees he fired after acquiring Twitter. On Monday, CNBC reported that the tech company now known as X is facing some 2,200...
President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come....
It’s a post- graduate legal theory about the intersection of laws and race in America. Exactly what it is isn’t really relevant- even among legal minds in the US, it wasn’t a widely accepted or debated concept.
However, three or four years ago, a racist shit bag named Christopher Rufo started lying about what it was to rile up the racists in the Republican party. He claimed CRT was designed to make white children feel guilty about America’s slave-owning past and that it teaches that Black children are owed status and money at the expense of white children. He also claimed this was being taught to children at all levels of American public education.
Again it must be pointed out that he completely fabricated everything he said about CRT. Unfortunately, Republicans are generally as unintelligent as they are fearful, and a wave of anti “CRT” panic is sweeping through America. The net result is Republican governments are banning nearly any discussion about racial disparity in current or former US events all because they don’t want to admit that 1) YES RACISM IS BAD and 2) freeing a class of people you’ve kept enslaved for hundreds of years doesn’t magically make things okay or make that people equal to you.
To be clear, white Americans shouldn’t feel guilty over America’s slave-owning past. I never owned any slaves, and neither has anyone I know. But we should be recognizing how a system of laws built on the literal backs of Black slaves would generationally prevent Black Americans from reaching parity with white Americans- you just can’t wave you hands and say “Poof! Slavery is gone!” and everything becomes sunshine and rainbows. It’s these kind of discussions that Rufo and the GOP are trying to prevent.
Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay....
Oh, if you want more fun, read them these two verses:
Exodus 21:12:
Anyone who assaults and kills another person must be put to death.
And Exodus 21:22:
When people who are fighting injure a pregnant woman so that she has a miscarriage but no other injury occurs, then the guilty party will be fined what the woman’s husband demands, as negotiated with the judges.
Then ask them why the punishment for killing a person is not the same as the punishment for causing a miscarriage.
After that, ask them why, if the Bible is the “inerrant” word of God, do some translations of that second verse use “miscarriage” while others say something more general like “caused a premature birth” instead? Because the meaning of that verse changes drastically depending on which way it’s translated.
At this point, you’ll probably be called a godless baby killer and uninvited from Thanksgiving dinner.
A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter....
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell moved behind the scenes to reassure his allies and donors he can do his job after he froze for the second time in as many months in public – even as questions persist over how long the 81-year-old Kentuckian will stay as Republican leader....
Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions....
Standard GOP MO. As soon as the Dems accuse (credibly) a Republican of wrongdoing, the GOP floods the airwaves with talking-heads using the same language to dilute the meaning for the intellectually-challenged that make up their viewership. They did it for “coup”, “insurrection”, “quid pro quo”, etc. It’s all part of DARVO.
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune....
No no no, you’re wrong! See, it says “cruel AND unusual” and since death is a common result from overheating, it is not unusual and therefore can’t be “cruel AND unusual” thus doesn’t violate the eighth amendment!
Well, toxic behavior anyway. I don’t think you could ever use any variation of the word “masculine” to describe Ted “What if Wolverine had flaccid penises instead of claws?” Cruz.
“Freedom of Speech, not Freedom of Reach - our enforcement philosophy which means, where appropriate, restricting the reach of Tweets that violate our policies by making the content less discoverable.”...
Mint and PopOS! are the ones I’ve heard thrown about for “Users First Distro” ever since Canonical decided to do… whatever the fuck it is they’re doing to Ubuntu proper.
I’m using Mint now, and have exactly one complaint: I don’t like the default Cinnamon Firefox icon so I changed it, but every time there’s an update to Firefox it changes back. All things considered, that’s nothing to worry about.
In the court filing, Castro argues Trump violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bars anyone who engaged in or provided aid or comfort to an insurrection from holding office.
You know what’s better than donating money to a Republican opposing Trump? Donating to a Democrat, because in addition to opposing Trump they also:
want you to marry who you want
want you to be able to afford going college
want you to be able to afford going to the doctor
reduce income inequality
don’t suck up to Russia
care about climate and our environment
want to strengthen the power of labor against capital
among other things. So why support a Republican who agrees with you on exactly one issue, when you could support a candidate who agrees with you on multiple issues?
And yet, Trump got even more votes the second time around, even after spending a literal year of his presidency golfing and tanking the economy by making COVID a partisan issue.
Trump represents the strong undercurrent of white grievance mixed with class warfare and religious faux-persecution that forms the basis of American fascism, and it’s gaining traction.
Biden is the most progressive we’re ever gonna have until something is done about Congress (specifically the Senate) and House representation re: the Apportionment act and gerrymandering.
As long as it still takes Dems 60%+ of the vote to get a bare majority in Congress, it’s not going to get any better.
On my lemmy.worlds account both the main pictures and the one posted in the body disappear, the link of the photo give an empty page. Did this happen to others? It is a momentary server issue or else?
Democrats recognize there is a middle ground between “the government forcibly takes everyone’s guns” and “I don’t care how many children die from being shot, there ain’t no way I’m giving up my gun!”
That’s a lot of words to just say “Allowing bad actors to lie about elections makes us money, while hiring the staff to combat election lies costs us money, and we’re too sociopathic to spend money for the good of the country.”
Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge (arstechnica.com)
We're really just electric horny meat bags. (lemmy.world)
Buyer Receives Fake Core i9-13900K With i7-13700K Guts From Amazon (www.tomshardware.com)
“X” Didn’t Pay Severance. Now It’s Facing 2,200 Cases—and Big Fees (www.motherjones.com)
Elon Musk’s alleged penchant for not paying bills is catching up with him. In the wake of numerous lawsuits claiming the world’s richest man failed to pay severance owed to many of the 6,000 employees he fired after acquiring Twitter. On Monday, CNBC reported that the tech company now known as X is facing some 2,200...
With DeSantis absent, Biden surveys storm damage in Florida (www.reuters.com)
President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Saturday to survey the destruction from Hurricane Idalia and comfort victims of the storm, but he did not meet Governor Ron DeSantis, a potential presidential rival, who opted not to come....
'Trump isn't funding any of us': Co-defendants in Georgia case are struggling with mounting legal bills (www.cnn.com)
Some of Donald Trump’s co-defendants in the sprawling election subversion case in Georgia are trying all sorts of ways to fund their mounting legal bills – yet the costs of the 2020 election fallout may quickly exceed their abilities to pay....
Credit to George Alexopoulos (GPrime85 on twitter) my absolute favorite right wing cartoonist (sh.itjust.works)
Not joking by the way, this was made by a conservative artist...
Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years in January 6 case (www.cnn.com)
A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter....
McConnell seeks to reassure allies after health scares prompt new questions over his leadership position (www.cnn.com)
Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell moved behind the scenes to reassure his allies and donors he can do his job after he froze for the second time in as many months in public – even as questions persist over how long the 81-year-old Kentuckian will stay as Republican leader....
Hacking skills (startrek.website)
Alabama attorney general says he has right to prosecute people who facilitate travel for out-of-state abortions (www.cnn.com)
Alabama’s Republican attorney general said in a court filing that he has the right to prosecute people who make travel arrangements for pregnant women to have out-of-state abortions....
Texas inmates soaking bedsheets in toilet water to cool off in unairconditioned prisons (www.sacurrent.com)
At least 41 people have died in the Lone Star State’s unairconditioned prisons due to heat-related or unknown conditions this summer, according to the Texas Tribune....
‘Kiss My Ass’: Ted Cruz, a Newsmax Host, and a Group Of Fellas Walk Into a Bar… (www.mediaite.com)
My god are these people stupid....
It's real. Twitter Shadowbanning is back. (blog.twitter.com)
“Freedom of Speech, not Freedom of Reach - our enforcement philosophy which means, where appropriate, restricting the reach of Tweets that violate our policies by making the content less discoverable.”...
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
Republican presidential candidate files lawsuit to keep Trump off New Hampshire ballot (www.wmur.com)
In the court filing, Castro argues Trump violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which bars anyone who engaged in or provided aid or comfort to an insurrection from holding office.
Biden is 'old,' Trump is 'corrupt': AP-NORC poll has ominous signs for both in possible 2024 rematch (apnews.com)
Some of my old post images have disappeared?? Any Info or cause?? Will they fix it? (lemmy.world)
On my lemmy.worlds account both the main pictures and the one posted in the body disappear, the link of the photo give an empty page. Did this happen to others? It is a momentary server issue or else?
Wisconsin Supreme Court flips liberal, creating a ‘seismic shift’ (www.washingtonpost.com)
Why does the anti-gay party ban my gay conservative group from their convention? (lemmy.world)
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation (www.washingtonpost.com)
Social media companies are receding from their role as watchdogs against conspiracy theories ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Trump Georgia election case: More co-defendants surrender, 1 left to be booked by deadline (www.cnbc.com)