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  • DNC pushes back on David Hogg’s plans to support primary challenges against Democratic incumbents | CNN Politics

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  • "Neutrality" is just (very thin) cover for supporting the status quo, when what we need is a complete change.

  • 4-year-old migrant girl, other kids go to court in NYC with no lawyer

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  • I'm just going to point out that Trump has declared that the official language of the United States is English, so I'm sure he's going to put in another executive order saying there shouldn't be any translators made available.

  • Advice request: Cat looks bloated since today, what to do?

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  • Vet. It's possible for a cats intestines to get wrapped around themselves, which can kill them.

  • The New York Times didn't libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, jury finds

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  • She testified that death threats against her increased after an editorial with an error said her PAC had contributed to political rhetoric that enabled an atmosphere of violence.The jury deliberated a little over two hours before reaching its verdict. A judge and a different jury had reached the same conclusion about Palin’s defamation claims in 2022

    Sounds like a pretty open-and-shut case, if it only took a couple hours to decide.

    Her lawsuit stemmed from an editorial about gun control published after U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise [...] was wounded in 2017 when a man [...] opened fire on a Congressional baseball team practice. [...] In the editorial, the Times wrote that before the 2011 mass shooting in Arizona [...] Palin’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence by circulating a map of electoral districts that put Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized crosshairs.

    Yeah, I remember those ads. They claimed they weren't rifle sighting cross hairs but some other thing instead. That denial had about as much plausibility as all the other Republican denials.

    The Times corrected the article less than 14 hours after it was published, saying it had “incorrectly stated that a link existed between political rhetoric and the 2011 shooting” and that it had “incorrectly described” the map.

    A) that sounds like a pretty quick retraction, and B) that sounds like they stated there was a proven link when there wasn't. However the Republicans and their enablers have been pumping up stochastic terrorism for decades, so while there may not have been a proven link between their rhetoric and that specific incident, it falls very directly under the definition of stochastic terrorism.

    Palin testified Monday that death threats against her increased and her spirits fell after the editorial was published.

    Good.

  • The New York Times didn't libel former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, jury finds

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  • That's what it looks like when someone with certain types of plastic surgery ages.

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  • More stuff in lower resolution, and focus on less-popular (or less-collectible) material.

    The internet isn't going to go out just for you, it's going to go out for everyone (at least in your region). You're going to be without it for the long-term, so you'll want variety in what you can watch and listen to. But your friends and family will also be looking for entertainment, so you'll be providing for a range of tastes over a long period.

    You want to focus on less-popular / less-collectible material because trading networks will spring up, and the less-popular material will be the stuff that's in demand. There'll be plenty of people with a full collection of Star Trek or all the Best Picture winners, that kind of thing. But there'll also be people who suddenly realize that they want to re-watch all of Law and Order or they've always meant to watch Miami Vice and now is the perfect time.

    I'll also point out that you've hypothesized that it's just the internet that's gone down. There would still be broadcast tv and radio, and I think people would re-adapt to broadcast viewing and listening.

  • It appears Trump’s ban on The Associated Press just got worse - Poynter

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  • The administration was not only keeping the AP out of the press pool — the daily rotating group of reporters who get access to Trump in tight spaces that cannot accommodate the entire press corps — but removing the permanent “wire service” spot as well. That means there will no longer be a spot guaranteed for one of the wire services: the AP, Reuters and Bloomberg.

  • My folks want to give ancestry.com a try what do I need to know?

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  • I have a friend who has to keep going in there to re-correct bad data and bad relationships that people keep re-adding. They think they're helping, but they're not, they're just contaminating the data and the site keeps letting them do so.

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  • Guess that explains the videos of doordash drivers stealing deliveries and stuff ...

  • Elon Musk admits that his efforts have been a dismal failure

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  • The first agencies he targeted were all the ones investigating his companies or limiting his companies: DoD was trying to limit exposure through SpaceX due to Musk's multiple conversations with Putin; the NLRB was investigating both SpaceX and Tesla; the EEOC was suing Tesla; DoT was investigating Tesla over both Smart Summoning and "Full-Self Driving" accidents; the FAA called for both 'radical reform' and Musk's firing at SpaceX after repeated launch violations; the FEC was investigating him for repeated elections violations; DoJ had an open lawsuit over SpaceX hiring practices (now dismissed, and anti-Tesla actions are now "domestic terrorism"); the SEC had an open complaint of his Xitter takeover; the FDA was limiting his ability to pay around with NeuraLink; the EPA has repeatedly fined bitch SpaceX and Tesla; he's been pressuring NASA to retire the ISS and to use SpaceX for Mars exploration instead of their own craft; and the CFPB had limited his plans for a Xitter-based electronic payment system.

    While they haven't always received a lot of press coverage, he's sent his goons after every single one of those agencies.

    I think gutting the government and sowing chaos is part of his goal (he's fully bought into Zuckerberg's "move fast and break things" mindset), but he went after specific agencies pretty quickly.

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  • His situation: He's currently in high school, with the same people he's been with for years, with settled routines and everyday stresses. There's little there that he hasn't faced before: it's safe to leave him there.

    Your situation: once you take time off from school, it takes a lot of effort to go back; even with a full intention to go back, life gets in the way and people will often put it off "for just another year". It's also perfectly valid to not want to go to college, but in that case you should have some other general life plan: "I want to apprentice at this trade" or something.

    Assuming that you want to go to college, you should go directly to college; your boyfriend still be safe where he is, and this will give him time in a known environment to explore himself a bit, while you'll have time to settle into college and figure yourself out a bit. You can meet up over the various holidays, and then settle in together at college next year, assuming that's what you both still want.

  • Trump floats plan for undocumented farm and hotel workers to work legally in the U.S.

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  • Recession is decreasing domestic tourism and fascism is killing international tourism. I doubt we'll need the hotel workers for long.

  • Now that S&P 500 is climbing and a lot are celebrating, does anyone else feel like this is just the tip of the shitberg?

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  • The stock market is a mood ring for rich people.

  • How much is this jar of coins worth?

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  • $242.65

  • Montana farmers see Canadian trade dry up due to tariffs

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  • Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China by declaring illegal migration and fentanyl constituted a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National Emergencies Act. [Under] the NEA, Congress has the authority to move quickly to terminate that emergency declaration. [...] The section reads, "Each day for the remainder of the first session of the 119th Congress shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 202 of the National Emergencies Act with respect to a joint resolution terminating a national emergency declared by the President on February 1, 2025." Source

    Which means that the only people (afaik) who could have ended the 'national emergency' that he's using for a lot of his declarations, signed that power away for this next year. Meaning he's going to spend this next year dismantling the rule of law and ensconce himself as emperor.

  • Montana farmers see Canadian trade dry up due to tariffs

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  • Schweitzer said the Montana Farmers Union supports tariffs that are done strategically and targeted, but he adds that isn't the case with recent implementations.

    Like so many Republicans, be didn't have a problem with what's being done, just with the way it's implemented.

    However, a bipartisan bill could help manage more tariffs from being added. The Trade Review Act of 2025 would require the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of imposing or increasing a duty on imported goods, including an explanation and assessment of its impact on U.S. businesses and consumers.

    A) That's not going to do anything; and B) the Republicans already signed a bill last month, saying that the entire rest of the year is one day long explicitly so they wouldn't have to do anything about the tariffs.

  • Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador | Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador

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  • White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed this week that the president has discussed this idea privately, too, adding he would only do this “if it’s legal.” [...] Stephen Yale-Loehr, a retired immigration law professor at Cornell University, tells Rolling Stone he worries Trump could try to deport citizens anyway, court precedent be damned, given how the administration seems to be “attacking on all fronts and worrying later whether their actions are legal. So unfortunately, it would not surprise me if we saw at least one plane load of incarcerated U.S. citizens being shipped off to El Salvador.”

    Oh, at least one

    “It’s not like we would send everybody there — but depending on the case, it can be an option,” says one of the people familiar with the matter,

    Riiiiight. That's what they said about the deportations, that it would only be the worst, most violent criminals taken into custody and returned home. Instead they're snatching people off the streets and out of their homes, throwing them into vans, moving them around the country so their families, friends and lawyers can't find them, and sending into a death camp that's not under control of US law, without due process and no possibility of return.

  • It's his garden now

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  • Probably shouldn't have put the tie on him then, they usually don't like that kind of thing.

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  • This article has good coverage of some of the impacts of cutting SNAP, several of which aren't immediately obvious. Thank you for sharing it!