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[-] ploot 64 points 1 month ago

It's funny, the right wing are all so worried about trans people in bathrooms, yet I've only ever heard of transphobes causing trouble in bathrooms, never trans people.

[-] ploot 60 points 1 month ago

Hegseth has white supremacist tattoos. Those are approved of.

[-] ploot 65 points 1 month ago

Good stuff. Small acts of resistance like this add up.

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Summary

Chief Justice John Roberts is facing the consequences of the Supreme Court's broad immunity grant to Trump, as the Trump defies judicial orders and undermines the legal system.

In a controversial move, Trump deported Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison, disregarding a federal judge’s order and claiming immunity under foreign affairs powers.

Roberts issued a rare statement defending judicial independence.

Trump’s efforts to impeach the judge and challenge legal accountability reflect an erosion of democratic norms, prompting urgent concerns over constitutional crises and the rule of law.

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Summary

Chief Justice John Roberts is facing the consequences of the Supreme Court's broad immunity grant to Trump, as the Trump defies judicial orders and undermines the legal system.

In a controversial move, Trump deported Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison, disregarding a federal judge’s order and claiming immunity under foreign affairs powers.

Roberts issued a rare statement defending judicial independence.

Trump’s efforts to impeach the judge and challenge legal accountability reflect an erosion of democratic norms, prompting urgent concerns over constitutional crises and the rule of law.

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These guys are more predictable than a clock.

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Last week’s executive order targeting Perkins Coie represented an unprecedented abuse of executive power to punish lawyers for representing political opponents. The court’s swift rejection made clear just how far beyond constitutional bounds Trump had stepped. But rather than accept those bounds, Trump has decided to test just how many law firms he can threaten before someone stops him.

Good times.

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[-] ploot 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

We’ll have to see if it’s enough to help tip the scales.

If Trump and Musk have their way, November 2024 was the last time they will be using scales.

[-] ploot 56 points 1 month ago
  • Incapacitating NATO.
[-] ploot 58 points 1 month ago

Ah there goes another thing that distinguished the USA from China and Russia.

[-] ploot 60 points 2 months ago

This isn't a story about that. This is a story about someone being attacked because someone misidentified her as a Christian. It doesn't even say whether she was religious at all.

[-] ploot 60 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What a well-chosen photo at the top of this article. Two utterly uninspiring men with no ability or will to relate to ordinary people and their problems.

"We are picking the most important fights and lying down on the train tracks on those fights," Schumer toldThe New York Times earlier this month.

That's a more accurate metaphor than he intended. The fascist train will not even slow down as it runs over him.

Jon Stewart had an hour-long interview with Hakeem Jeffries the other day, and it's just painful to watch. Jeffries resolutely refuses to offer even a single hint of anything the Democrats intend to do beyond expressing vague sympathetic feelings towards unhappy voters. It becomes quite clear the Democratic leadership has no intention of even trying to take part in the resistance the USA needs, and would rather drain the energy of any such movement into their morass of vapid messaging, meandering non-promises and wearying inaction.

The senior Democrats have no intention of fighting for the people. Any effective resistance will have to come from elsewhere.

[-] ploot 58 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What are the chances the hard drive would still be readable, I wonder?

And keep backups, folks.

[-] ploot 61 points 2 months ago

In response to an emailed series of questions, a spokesperson for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the agency still deems the risk to human health for the general public to be low.

For how much longer can we trust their pronouncements? All the US government departments are under the control of compulsively lying anti-science Nazis.

[-] ploot 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Now I'm a peaceful person, but I can't deny there's a slightly disappointing turn a few words into that headline.

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