Boddhisatva

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[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago

“It should shock all Texans that their chief law enforcement officer, Ken Paxton, admitted to violating the law, but that is exactly what happened in this case,” Tom Nesbitt, an attorney for Blake Brickman, and TJ Turner, an attorney for David Maxwell, said in a joint statement.

"Unless they've actually been paying attention for the last ten years or so, because Paxton has been breaking laws left and right for a long, long time." Nesbitt probably thought to himself.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 57 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

"And what are you gonna fucking do about it?" - Trump probably.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago

Oh look, a war crime. Throw it on the pile.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Parents have to base their decisions on the available information from trusted sources. One assumes they would consider the school district a trusted source. It's very possible that they didn't imagine that the district would actually put their child in danger like this.

While the parents certainly now wish they had ignored the schools decision to hold classes, it's not really their fault at all that they didn't.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Very probably. Getting the standard two-dose MMR vaccine protocol is 97% effective at providing lifelong protection. If you are vaccinated and do catch it anyways, the symptoms will likely be mild.

No vaccine is 100% effective against measles, but two MMR shots are 97% effective. (Two shots are 88% effective against mumps, and a single shot is 97% effective against rubella.) Most people who are vaccinated will never get the measles; although a small percentage have “breakthrough” cases, the symptoms are usually mild.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not all of him. I would personally like to see his head sealed in lucite and mounted on a pike on the west lawn.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I watch a youtuber meteorologist named Ryan Hall (Ryan Hall Y'all). He does national general forecasts with a focus on more severe weather. When there are severe weather outbreaks, he goes live with other meteorologists and storm chasers to track everything going on. Notes where all the severe weather warnings and watches are, puts up traffic cams in effected regions, that kind of stuff. My point is, there have been a number of severe weather outbreaks in the last year, but in the last month or so, I've noticed that they keep saying things like, "I don't know why there isn't a warning for this area. That is a very clear tornado signature." I can't help but think that the cuts to the national weather service is already having an impact on how fast warnings are going out.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

“As immigrants are illegally deported and detained, more and more unions are stepping up to protest these detentions.”

However, leadership of the Fraternal Order of Police which represents ICE officers issued a statement to membership stating, "See? Told you we should have just shot the fucker."

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Exactly. I just posted this in another thread...

  • He is setting tariffs on his own, a power designated solely to Congress by the Constitution.

  • He is having masked police kidnap people off the streets without warrants and shipping them to an overseas gulag without trial or even charges.

  • He is illegally refusing to distribute money allocated by Congress to certain states in order to punish them for not doing his bidding.

  • And when the courts have ordered him to stop doing the above, he has willfully ignored those court orders with no repercussions.

Exactly what more needs to happen for this to be a dictatorship?

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Look at the bright side. It's only 577 days until the midterm elections when we can try and do something to change things in D.C.

...I need a drink but I don't think I can afford one right now.

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Or he’s betting that if people get desperate enough they will allow an absolute dictatorship.

  • He is setting tariffs on his own, a power designated solely to Congress by the Constitution.

  • He is having masked police kidnap people off the streets without warrants and shipping them to an overseas gulag without trial or even charges.

  • He is illegally refusing to distribute money allocated by Congress to certain states in order to punish them for not doing his bidding.

  • And when the courts have ordered him to stop doing the above, he has willfully ignored those court orders with no repercussions.

Exactly what more needs to happen for this to be a dictatorship?

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Isn't that obvious? I was posting about that 2 months ago when he was going back and forth on the tariffs and making the markets dive and rebound.

https://lemmy.world/post/25435310/15021724

 

To absolutely no one's surprise...

Marko Elez, 25, who worked for a number of companies run by Elon Musk and was part of the billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force engaged in dismantling federal offices, resigned Thursday, a White House official told The Hill.

Elez’s racist, now-deleted social media posts were uncovered and first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account associated with Elez posted in September, regarding people of Indian ethnicity who work in the U.S. tech sector, the Journal reported.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on Elon Musk’s social media site X, the Journal reported.

Archive link

 

HHS has sent out letters terminating all DEI employees and programs. The letter included instructions that the email DEIAtruth@opm.gov was available to report people for non-compliance.

Personally, I am very concerned that radical elements might attempt to flood that email address. That would be a real shame if that were to happen.

 

Actual quote (video included in link):

“I dare you to try to continue your lawfare against President Trump in his second term,” he threatened. “Because listen here, sweetheart: We’re not messing around this time, and we will put your fat a-- in prison for conspiracy against rights, and I promise you that.”

Welcome to the new regime.

 

No video released yet but the right wing blog-sphere is already claiming it's AI. Put on your seat-belts and keep your hands inside the car at all times.

 

Forgot to include the [OC] in the title.

 

Alternative headline: Trump finally tells the truth about something.

 

Republicans, in one of the more moronic takes of the election season, say that if Biden is too old to run for office, then he's too old to hold the office and should resign.

 

Fulton County prosecutors filed an emergency request for a protective order in the Georgia election subversion case on Tuesday after recorded statements made by multiple defendants as part of their plea deals were made public.

On Monday, ABC News and The Washington Post published footage of the proffer sessions, which showed the four defendants who pleaded guilty being questioned by prosecutors about their involvement in various efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Prosecutors said the footage was turned over to the remaining defendants as part of discovery, urging the court to impose restrictions on how the defendants can disclose the materials.

“The release of these confidential video recordings is clearly intended to intimidate witnesses in this case, subjecting them to harassment and threats prior to trial, constitutes indirect communication about the facts of this case with codefendants and witnesses, and obstructs the administration of justice, in violation of the conditions of release imposed on each defendant,” prosecutors wrote in their motion.

To prevent further disclosure, prosecutors said they will not provide videos of any proffer sessions to defendants moving forward.

“Instead, defendants must come to the District Attorney’s Office to view confidential video recordings of proffers. They may take notes, but they will be prohibited from creating any recordings or reproductions,” prosecutors wrote in the filing.

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