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Yeah man, use your words. (sh.itjust.works)
[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

That's insane, 25 hours is a long time. I agree, make them fight for it.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

What I don’t understand—was this also happening during the Biden administration?

No

How far back does this go?

Since trump's first day in office, it's part of project 2025

Also, if the UN investigated the company for the “wrap” restraint and found it to be inhumane then why wasn’t anything done about it?

Good question. Are you saying the UN should or?

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

The only thing I can think to do is call it out when you see it like I just did. Leave one comment after someone fights with you, they're probably a bot anyway. Did you notice that thread was 10 years old? It's been going on a long time and they're really good at it. I've been getting better at combating it too, but I still am not great. They usually only downvote me now, which I consider a win.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

I had issues with it from the get go. It wouldn't accept my pairing, it was blinking on and off all the time, etc. I threw it out as soon as I didn't need it for a couple of hours. Why do they need so much info to run a bulb?

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 hours ago

Yep, a couple of good news articles this morning has made this day better already.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 hours ago

There already is one that's been going on a couple of years: https://sh.itjust.works/c/canvas@toast.ooo

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 hours ago

I'm glad this troll bait crap is barely working, but it's working a little. Come on guys, don't be a stooge:

“Once we isolate key people, we look for people we know are in their upstream – people that they read posts from, but who themselves are less influential. We then either start flame wars with bots to derail the conversations that are influencing influential people, or else send off specific tasks for sockpuppets (changing this wording of an idea here; cause an ideological split there; etc).”

The goal is to keep opinions we don't want fragmented and from coalescing in to a single voice for long enough that the memes we do want can,...

https://archive.is/PoUMo

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Employees across the massive U.S. Department of Health and Human Services began receiving notices of dismissal on Tuesday in a major overhaul expected to ultimately lay off up to 10,000 people. The notices come just days after President Donald Trump moved to strip workers of their collective bargaining rights at HHS and other agencies throughout the government.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

This is happening all over the country. These are the people we should be angry with and stop.

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But efforts to curb so-called institutional homebuying have gained little traction this legislative session.

A pair of Democratic bills that would cap the number of homes private equity groups can own hasn’t garnered a hearing or any Republican support.

A GOP bill to study the practice, which Abbott vetoed last session during a property tax fight, has similarly gone nowhere.

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“A year from now people will notice things are missing that used to be there and Doge and others promoting this will say: ‘See, told you government can’t do things’, rather than: ‘We broke it and it got worse,’” he said.

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave.

The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to museums and libraries across the United States.

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An effort by the Trump administration to unilaterally strip the temporary protected status (TPS) of approximately 350,000 Venezuelan refugees living in the United States was blocked Monday night by a federal court judge who described the order by Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as being "motivated by unconstitutional animus."

In a 78-page ruling, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco said Noem's rescinding of an order made under the Biden administration "threatens to: inflict irreparable harm on hundreds of thousands of persons whose lives, families, and livelihoods will be severely disrupted, cost the United States billions in economic activity, and injure public health and safety in communities throughout the United States. At the same time, the government has failed to identify any real countervailing harm in continuing TPS for Venezuelan beneficiaries."

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“In just 71 days, the president of the United States has inflicted so much harm on Americans’ safety; financial stability; the core foundations of our democracy,” Booker said on the floor. “These are not normal times in America. And they should not be treated as such in the United States Senate.”

“Generations from now will look back at this moment and have a single question — where were you?”

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 12 hours ago

Global X Airlines doesn't seem to be owned by Musk? I have a hard time believing that's true. And wtf is there a little girl being sent to prison? I guess they're not breaking up families, but dying is cool. JFC, this administration are the baddies.

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A second said his planes’ air conditioning kept breaking — an experience consistent with at least two publicly reported onboard incidents — and their lavatories kept breaking, something another flight attendant reported as well. But the planes kept flying. “They made us flush with water bottles,” he said.

But the flight attendants were most concerned about their inability to treat their passengers humanely — and to keep them safe. (In 2021, an ICE spokesperson told the publication Capital & Main that the agency “follows best practices when it comes to the security, safety and welfare of the individuals returned to their countries of origin.”)

A standard flight had more than a dozen private security guards — contractors working for the firm Akima — along with a single ICE officer, two nurses, and a hundred or more detainees. (Akima did not respond to a request for comment.) The guards were in charge of delivering food and water to the detainees and taking them to the lavatories. This left the flight attendants, whose presence was required by the FAA, with little to do.

Global X Airlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Crossing_Airlines

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Now, in a decision that could have major implications for states’ efforts to regulate abortion help and helpers in the post-Roe era, a federal judge in Montgomery, Alabama, has ruled that Attorney General Steve Marshall’s threats to prosecute abortion advocates violate fundamental protections for free speech and the right to travel.

“Alabama’s criminal jurisdiction does not reach beyond its borders, and it cannot punish what its residents do lawfully in another State,” US District Judge Myron H. Thompson declared in a 131-page ruling issued Monday, adding: “The Attorney General cannot prosecute those who assist people in Alabama to travel out of state to obtain a lawful abortion.”

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But on Saturday, interior department officials reportedly granted at least two Doge employees the access they had requested, the two people told the Times.

With this access, the Doge employees now have visibility into sensitive employee information, like social security numbers, and are able to more easily hire and fire federal workers, according to the Times, citing the two people with knowledge who spoke with the newspaper on condition of anonymity due to fear of retribution.

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“They’re our brothers and sisters. When we stop seeing people that way it’s so easy to start making laws or enacting policies that harm them.”

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In its announcement, issued Tuesday night, the USDA said grant recipients will have 30 days to review and revise their project plans to align with President Trump’s Unleashing American Energy Executive Order, which prioritizes fossil fuel production and cuts federal support for renewable energy projects.

Some of the roughly 6,000 grant applicants have already completed the solar, wind, or other energy projects and are awaiting promised repayment from the government. Others say they can’t afford to take on the projects they’d been planning unless the grant money comes through.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 day ago

If you can't sell them, take this opportunity to get insurance money.

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