Dan Canon

A century of debate over, and development of, international human rights standards. And for what?

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

I think at some point you just have to accept that you lack the judgment skills necessary to hold public office. Ah, but wait! A paradox arises.

All you fascists still bound to lose

Me hearing about how this is terrible and all, but the Iranian people are nonetheless grateful and jubilant

The world is truly in the hands of monsters.

Given the altar of sacrifice that we decided to put our own children on long ago, I have to wonder if we would finally see real mass outrage if the Trump administration bombed a school *in California*

A little beauty to kick off the weekend, from Shalom Auslander

Trans Kansan's being stripped of their licenses due to having previously - legally - changed their gender marker is absolutely shocking.

A person who misses the letter - let's they moved and forgot to have their mail forwarded - could drive to work and be arrested for driving without a license.

perhaps I have made a mistake

GET TO THE UFOS, BITCH!!!

Jeanine Pirro's office shelves pursuit of Democrats over social video, sources say A federal grand jury in D.C. unanimously rejected the attempt to indict six lawmakers who told military and intelligence community members on social media not to obey unlawful orders.

Breaking NBC:

Jeanine Pirro's office has decided to stop pursuing the case against six Democratic lawmakers who urged members of the military and intelligence communities in a social media video not to comply with unlawful orders, three people familiar with the matter told NBC News.

Yeah in the near future it's going to be gangbusters for lawsuits, I don't foresee a repayment program until the next admin. Either way, there's always enough work for the bar!

I foresee another PPP loan situation. False Claims Act lawyers: gird your loins.

"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage." A quote for our times by David Mitchell.

Is there a site or a journalist devoted solely to digging into these utterly bonkers, cracked-out, sundowning TS posts? I would pay for it.

"i can destroy any nation i want to destroy but i can't just shake em down a little" - yes welcome to america donald trunp

Not that we shouldn't be super grateful when the Supreme Court notices that something is obviously illegal, but wake me when anything changes in real life

YouTube video by C-SPAN "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words, okay."

The practice of law in the U.S. is WILD these days y'all

youtu.be/OMOytUHtMbY?...

More of this.

The government cannot stop undisclosed donors from giving an unlimited amount of money to a political candidate, but it can stop a private corporation from airing an interview with a candidate. Free speech!

It blows my mind how frequently military veterans in this country get deported. Absolutely garbage country.

Ah! Nevertheless,

In what way? Are there not enough jobs? Not enough space? Not enough money? I would like to hear one credible report of an American who is suffering because of migration. I have been around for almost 50 years and never heard one. Just uncritical parroting of xenophobic dogshit.

Ditched my account today, just like Spotify and Disney before it. Fascism has enough of my money and enough money in general; I want to reduce the pile as much as possible.

yeah so anyways, i’m never voting for gavin newsom

Unprecedented!

In this unusual case the man himself is doing the rotting while the portrait, though horrible to gaze upon, remains static

It is not too soon to call ICE "detention centers" "concentration camps" nor is it too late to accurately call "juvie and jails and prisons" "concentration camps" too