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    FBI arrests Wisconsin Judge on Charges of Obstructing Immigration Arrest

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  • A tankie is a hardcore authoritarian communist. They're people who support governments and politics like Russia, China, and North Korea. Nearly everyone who learns of them can't stand them, and they don't have any support outside their own echo chambers or as "useful idiots" to authoritarian governments.

    Anyone who says tankies are a bigger threat to the US than the Trump administration is either stupid or using it as a strawman to tactily support Trump.

  • Philosophy moment

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  • If you do, better hope it's not loaded.

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  • In a Musk-approved world:

    • You're hit by a Tesla in FSD mode, the driver gets sued for not driving.
    • You're hit by a fully autonomous Tesla taxi, you get sued for vandalism.
    • You're the driver and FSD hit someone, you get sued.
    • You're the owner and the car hits someone while you're not in it, you get sued for owning it.
    • You're the owner and it catches fire with you inside, you(r estate) gets sued for "not maintaining it".

  • Three men who identified themselves as Homeland Security officers raided a courthouse in downtown Charlottesville Tuesday, detaining two men without explanation

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  • Is there no law enforcements with weapons in your courts?

    American cops don't protect American people. First and foremost, they protect their own. Beyond that, they protect the establishment that gives them their authority.

  • China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’

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  • As much as I despise the Chinese government and its policies, it does have one thing going for it:

    We can do a complete 180 every 4 years, whereas they have a dictator. That stability must be looking pretty appealing these days.

  • Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon

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  • Same. We got not-the-onioned

  • The Right Can't Protest

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  • 3 people showed up, and one of them was the poster... I can already see tomorrow's headline:

    Democrats Falling Apart: 33% of Protesters Against Senator Van Hollen were Democrat Voters

  • Tesla’s remarkably bad quarter is even worse than it looks

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  • Bro, if people hate you and you company enough to employ and pay others to protest, then you and your company must be an all new level of shitty.

    His people—conservatives—don't follow logic. They have a victim complex and see anything that negatively affects them as someone else's fault and not the consequences of their own actions. If there isn't an obvious perpetrator, they scapegoat one into existence.

    I've debated some of these people and it's hopeless trying to get them to connect the dots. You can keep presenting them with logic and evidence, and they keep shifting the goalposts and changing the topic to justify their beliefs. A summary of one of my attempts to convince someone that Trump isn't universally beloved by average Americans went roughly like this:

    • "Trump has improved the average citizen's quality of life"
    • "Then why are there 5 million protesters coming out every month?"
    • "I haven't heard of any large protests"
    • (links to 50501 Wikipedia page)
    • "They're 'protesters' funded by the left"
    • "All 5 million of them? That would be extremely expensive, even if it's just $100 a person. Nobody could afford that."
    • "Remember, all the billionaires are Democrats" (Thiel? Musk?)
    • "That's not even their playbook. It's cheaper and more effective for them to lobby for changes that benefit themselves."
    • "But they can't do that anymore because Trump is in charge, so now paid protesters are their preferred choice"
    • "Suppose they are paid. With 5 million people, there's absolutely no way that they're being paid will remain secret."
    • "OK fine, maybe it's only a couple hundred thousand being paid."

    I don't doubt that some tiny handful of people would be paid to protest for some reason or another, but I highly doubt it's anywhere close to what MAGA conservatives think. IMO, it's more likely that protesters would be paid by the other side to make the protest violent so they could crack down on them.

  • Kennedy to announce plan to remove artificial dyes from the nation’s food supply

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  • If we can't have lead paint, we can always have lead food dye /s

  • Tech Billionaires Want to Build a Network State in Greenland

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  • Greenland? That's so 21st century.

    Make a network state on Mars, guys. Take one of Elon's Starship rockets up there too, while you're at it.

  • China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech

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  • It's pretty disheartening to help someone find old media and they show a giant box of USB sticks and hard drives.

    Equally disheartening is knowing that both of those have a shelf-life. Old USB flash drives are more durable than the TLC/QLC cells we use today, but 15 years sitting unpowered in a box doesn't have very good prospects.

  • Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now

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  • That's kind of the problem I'm getting at.

    If the Supreme Court isn't stepping in and threatening real, immediate consequences laid out by themselves, Trump and friends are pretty much free to ignore it. They don't respect lower courts, and they're insulated from consequences handed out by lower courts anyway.

    If Boasberg wants to hold them in contempt, what can actually be done? Consequences applied to them as a collective mean nothing (they'll just ignore them again), so the only thing that can actually scare them is seeing personal consequences like asset seizure or jail time.

    Suppose they are threatened with jail time, though. They have a complicit SCOTUS protecting them as individuals. The Supreme Court would step in and either take four years to decide whether that specific punishment is warranted/justified/allowed, say the lower court doesn't have the authority to punish an individual member of the administration for the actions of the entire administration, or any other manner of bullshit excuse.

    The punishment has to come from the Supreme Court, and it has to be something that the members of the administration are actually scared of. Anything other than that is all bark and no bite.

    Edit: Bad explanation on my part.

  • Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now

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  • I appreciate the optimism, but I really don't think they're going to listen to this one. SCOTUS rulings without clearly defined and severe consequences for both the administration and members of the administration are effectively toothless. Without those being up-front and the court prepared to act upon immediately, Trump's administration is free to ignore the ruling and carry out their plans while the court spends time fighting amongst itself internally about how to respond. By the time they come up with something and act on it, it's too late and likely too much of a slap on the wrist to be an effective deterrent.

    I italicized the word "might" in my last comment for a reason, unfortunately. The Supreme Court can be a threat to the Trump administration, but they need to be organized, unified, ready to act, and unwilling to pull punches. If they're going to be effective, they have to be prepared and willing to respond to and immediately shut down the "shock and awe" tactic being used. No waiting, no delaying, no debating. That's what the administration is counting on to get away with their bullshit: the courts not being fast enough to stop them while also not being harsh enough to actually punish the individuals in its leadership with personal consequences.

    On a darker note, if the SCOTUS ever does get their shit together and do that, it's probably going to lead to another January 6 the first time it happens. I can't see Trump accept being blocked by the court and punished without crying to his cult about "an attempted coup by the Supreme Court."

  • Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now

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  • Doing what you're doing and protesting, calling Republican representatives, and voicing an opinion is the only civilized path forward if that's still even possible. Republican Party members have to turn on Trump, Vance, and The Heritage Foundation/Project 2025 if there's going to be any chance of a peaceful resolution to their path of destruction. As long as he's protected by the party line and insulated from impeachment, he's going nowhere.

    I don't think asking the courts to do anything is the answer, however. Trump's government has proven that they don't give a single shit about what the judiciary has to say. They're happy to ignore orders and they receive zero consequences for doing so. The only court they might consider listening to, the Supreme Court, is filled with Republican judges and judges Trump personally put there. They're as good as useless, and they helped create the problem with their ruling giving sitting presidents immunity from any consequences of vaguely-defined "official acts".

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  • Active checks and balances are in shambles and the constitution is being used as toilet paper.

    • Judges that try to hold the administration accountable for anything are being ignored and labeled "activist judges"
    • The House let the "No Rogue Rulings" act pass onto the senate. If they pass it, it legitimatizes administration's decision to ignore lower court orders.
    • Republicans are scared of speaking out or acting against Trump.
    • The administration is trying to weaponize the IRS against educational institutions that don't fall into line.
    • The administration is actively weaponizing withholding funding (which is congress' domain) to make organizations fall into line.
    • Musk is dismantling social services while lining his own pockets and feeding government data and PII into his company's LLM.
    • People are being kidnapped out of their cars and homes by ICE and sent to a concentration camp with zero oversight.
    • ICE is going to schools and trying to take people's kids to lure out their parents.
    • Citizens are being "accidentally" kidnapped by ICE.
    • People who refuse to kiss the ring in various leadership positions are being ousted and replaced with loyalists.

    Even if the Supreme Court, House, and Senate all grow spines and try to do something, Trump and co are going to ignore it. That's what happens when a "dictator on day one" is voted into office.

  • Active shooter reported at Florida State University, FSU Alert says

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  • The data can be filtered. I can't figure out how to get a breakdown of it by incident type and year, but filtering to incident types that aren't plausibly unrelated (murder-suicide, escalation of dispute, anger over discipline, and targeted domestic dispute), the data from my source shows 1185 incidents and 1366 casualties recorded since 1966. The total number of incidents of all types is 2981.

    Assuming the ratios for incident types don't fluctuate, only 40% would fall into the categories I filtered for. With the combined total for just 2023/2024 being 679, that's still 269 incidents over two years. I'll correct my previous comment.

    As for the NPR article you linked, the source I'm using is aware of it and mentions it in their methodology page. They try to account for the lack of granularity by using multiple sources and cross-referencing them.

  • Most Canadians feel as safe or safer than 10 years ago, Nanos poll finds. Conservative voters are another story

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  • "Stupid," nah. Bigoted, yeah. Conservatives never feel safe when their homogeneous neighborhoods are invader by others.

  • SHOCK POLL: AOC a Close Second Place Behind Kamala Harris in 2028 Democratic Primary

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  • The DNC. It's a tried and true strategy to screw over the progressives.

  • Active shooter reported at Florida State University, FSU Alert says

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  • I cited where I found those statistics. Their methodology included events such as brandishing firearms, bullets hitting schools, and premeditated school shootings. It's not mass school shootings with fatalities occurring nearly every day of the year, but my point still stands: there have been enough of them in general that the pigeonhole principle applies.