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Four, actually. Kavanaugh sided against the administration but only because there's a random federal law he thinks grants birthright citizenship, not the Constitution (reading between the lines, he wants to get rid of it but he wants Congress to do his dirty work for him).

Of course Biden's DOJ didn't do anything to prevent this when they could have, and instead his administration just publicly blamed inflation on COVID benefits being too generous and cut those when people were struggling to pay these inflated prices, so he didn't make the bad situation but he did make it worse

What articulate and insightful writing, someone should make a book club studying her work, I'm sure the state wouldn't do anything horrible to them /s (arc)

"It doesn't matter whether the ship is sinking or not, the important thing is that we stick together!" he said pleadingly to his fellow rats

It's also got a lot to do with the fact that we're talking about selfish dipshits who are willing to give business to FIFA and American businesses when our country has a fascist administration, of course douchebags like that are going to whine about everything

Tipping culture is obnoxious and needs to be dealt with at some point, but fuck these jerk ass tourist morons. Absolutely no solidarity to em.

They'll try all these things, but who knows if they'll be successful. They're less powerful than they used to be.

Public media

Hard disagree, that hope and inspiration nonsense is totally ahistotical and the exact same thing boomers do with the 1950s and 60s (for them it was the atomic age and sexual revolution and being optimistic that fascism and world wars were behind them)

When the second world fell at the end of the Soviet Union the expectation was that the second world would become part of the first world and the third world would begin it moves towards being a benevolent second world and eventually become part of the first world too.

And a bunch of first world hopes that everyone would just forget all coups and death squads and other terrible stuff we did in the cold war, and hopes that we could all just finally forget about fighting for civil rights and the environment and other tough stuff like that because we'd somehow permanently solved those issues and could just turn everything over to markets.

It was also a time of a second coming of the civil rights movement, the 90s are when it became OK to be gay for the most part

Matthew Shepherd was murdered in 1998, legal rights like health insurance access for partners and hospital visitations wouldn't come til decades later, we were still educating most people on the fact that AIDS wasn't just a gay disease, etc.

1992 was The Year of the Woman, largely in response to and in spite of the Anita Hill debacle

But the Anita Hill debacle did happen, plus Jerry Seinfeld dated a high schooler and nobody thought it was weird, and whether or not sexual harassment was a real thing society needed to care about was still being argued (you can see this in all sorts of pop culture from the time, the whole attack on "political correctness" was all about dudes wanting to be able to say misogynistic shit at the office and not get called out for it)

There was an open-mindedness and a willingness to accept progress

Pundits on TV called black teenagers super predators and said they should be tried as adults and tons of states changed their laws to make it easier to do exactly that

Let's not forget the "How together does my shit really need to be anyway?" phase, that's my favorite

My hypothesis is that the rise in distracted driving was just as bad in European countries but they have safer infrastructure that limits cars' speed and otherwise protects pedestrians, and I think that could be tested by looking at the rates of car crashes overall in Europe (if those went up at the same time as the US without a corresponding rise in dead pedestrians I think that'd suggest their infrastructure is the difference)

This doesn't read like AI to me, it actually does connect its thoughts together and builds an argument narrative

That said, it is really awful human writing that has some cringey phrasing choices and the kind of grammar/sentence structuring I'd expect from a text to speech derived unedited stream of consciousness, I'm just not getting AI vibes off of it

I wish this headline made it clear that these agents have not been able to force her to delete her post, not to minimize how deeply fucked up this is but just to show people that it is possible for regular folks to tell these fascist cunts "no"

It was a state trial

Nope, just quoting from the above article (bolds added),

On Tuesday, Elizabeth was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison ... Their attorneys announced their intention to appeal, but many supporters are doubtful that anything short of a presidential pardon from a future administration would free them.

Related news story from 2024 (arc)

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has issued its latest legal guidance today on the way States should treat asylum-seekers who arrive at their borders in an irregular way.

Under Article 31 of the Refugee Convention, States are prohibited from penalizing asylum-seekers and refugees merely because they have entered a country irregularly, if they meet certain requirements.

This is owing to the fact that many flee life-threatening situations and may have no other available means to seek safety. In addition to a dearth of legal or safer pathways to seek asylum, many may face impediments in accessing or retrieving essential documentation during their flight.

The US isn't a signatory to that treaty because we have a shithole government, but reputable government organizations that aren't run by monstrous assholes have been really clear on what should be patently fucking obvious (if someone is fleeing for their life you get them to safety first and worry about their fucking paperwork later)

It's shit like this one minute and then bawling your eyes out over Sniper Wolf talking growing up as an orphan during the second Iraqi-Kurdish war the next

No, I think their complaining and lobbying is a bullshit pretense to keep everyone talking about this legislation that doesn't solve the problem (and creates a few new ones) instead of talking about policies that would actually do something

They need to be on the lips of anyone who wants the Democratic party's nomination for president, immediately preceded by "I hereby pledge on my first day in office to immediately pardon"

This bill is becoming law whether he supports it or not. It's also quite popular (with everyone who is not in Private Equity).

I don't buy any Private Equity whining about this, all they need to do is spin up a few corporate shells and they'll be able to keep each one of them under the limit on single family home ownership, but they'll still be cashing subsidies for construction and enjoying the gutting of environmental regulations that came with this

The real housing reform we need is more public housing on the market owned and administered by municipal or state governments, anything short of that is just going to be putting money back into the pockets of the land barons

Huh, every single state court system does things differently so maybe there was no limit in your case, but there is definitely a limit in federal trials, see Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 24, part (b) here - https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_24 (arc)

This article is a confusing mess. A few paragraphs in order,

In 2024, Florida passed a law to ban social media for minors under 14, require children 14 and 15 years of age to get parental consent for accounts, and force websites with adult content to require third-party age verification, among other restrictions

Ok, so presumably they're being sued for have under-14s and whatever the Florida AG thinks is "adult content" on their site?

Last year, the state filed lawsuits against sites like Snapchat and Roblox for allegedly allowing children to be endangered by sexual predators. In recent months, Uthmeier's office has also sued OpenAI for alleged violence and harm he says the company's ChatGPT app caused Floridians.

"We've seen so many cases where predators are using these platforms to target kids," Uthmeier said. "It's happening in the privacy, in the dark corner of your child's bedroom."

Wait, so is he accusing TikTok of allowing children to be endangered by sexual predators, or is this just thrown in to the story as background context?

TikTok also violates multiple restrictions in Florida's social media law, Uthmeier said, including restrictions against unlimited scrolling and the use of algorithms.

Oh, so it's the "among other restrictions" from the first paragraph they're being sued for? Or it's all of these things?

In a statement to the USA TODAY Network, the company said, “TikTok is built with safety at its core, with more than 50 preset safety and privacy settings for teens and easy-to-use tools for parents.

“We've been engaging constructively and in good faith with the AG and have notified users under 14 in Florida that their accounts will be suspended. We're continuing to update our platform in Florida in response to state law. We are evaluating the state’s complaint and are prepared to defend our strong record on minor safety.”

OK, so I think they're being sued because they haven't banned users under 14 yet, but fucks sake this article doesn't explain crap, it just copy-pastes a bunch of press releases that are talking past each other