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Wow I hope a bunch of cyberpsychos don't do anything rash when their chatbots suddenly paywll them while the state is filling the streets with federal agents

taking to the streets of DC with a t-shirt cannon and an outstanding warrant

don't let these absurd stories distract you from the one issue that truly matters: trump's ongoing desire to acquire greenland

I’ll say it every time: generational talent

A fascist regime is successful not when the dictator is willing to violate any and all laws, its successful when more people are willing to back him up and enforce his social order than are willing to resist. Why are people still trying to prove this is fascism?! Believe it, and start thinking

trump dropping to 47% support among republicans would leave him with about the worst approval of any president ever and would probably result in his removal from office, fwiw.

I rarely feel sympathy for employers but the USERRA mess this is going to cause will be a disaster and it’s really not going to be employers’ fault

People who have never worked in criminal defense have no idea how fraudulent or weak many cases are. I’ve worked on cases that would give people chills only to find out the DA and cops couldn’t prove jack shit. You have to push back on prosecutors and cops or they’ll lie on every person they can.

Every time he escalates in another city the question is not "is this proof he's a fascist" that ship has fucking sailed the question is "does he have the capacity to make this happen and what opportunities for resistance and refusal are opened up by this provocation?"

we need to teach the 1930s properly so that people know the Reichstag Fire was exactly this stupid

Overturning Obergefell is a sign that the GOP genuinely thinks they'll never face a non-rigged election ever again. They beat a strategic retreat away from the gay marriage issue because the prospect of fighting it out state by state was going to be a decades long electoral disaster for them

How I’m living rn.

i love that these guys went to quantico thinking they'd spend their careers hunting hannibal lecter or worst case scenario entrapping mentally ill muslim teens but instead they have to redact trumps name out of thousands of boxes of sex files and then walk a beat

A three arrows down symbol but I put sandwiches over the arrows

I honestly don’t know where I’d put the odds on this but 6% is free money

me, complaining to myself about the trajectory of American authoritarianism: insane, dooming, counterproductive

people screenshotting me through their own blocks of me: Normal, dispassionate, rational, bespoke theories of antisemitism

If that dude didn’t want to get in trouble for throwing something at that officer maybe he should have thrown a dildo instead

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This the real goat

“A Vote Against Democracy”: Missouri Forces One City to Lock In More Money for Police - Bolts Missouri voters approved a statewide measure requiring Kansas City to spend at least 25 percent of its general revenue on police. It’s the only city in the state with no control over how it’s policed.

By the way, here's what happened to Missouri's other major city, Kansas City, just twelve months ago: boltsmag.org/kansas-city-...

Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms - Bolts The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear gesture of white men wanting to control urban areas."

if you're writing about DC losing control of its police department today, just months ago the same basic thing happened in St. Louis (and more durably): boltsmag.org/missouri-sta...

I will never tire of the "Paul, a Tradie" jokes, yeah nah cunt that's Pozza, he's the Nissan Al'Gaib, give the man 20 minutes at Bunnings and he can fix anything

Right wing ecosystem is a perfect black hole except instead of no light escaping, it’s no money escaping. Only outrage can leave the system and that’s only bc centrists types who run media properties get rock hard at the idea of triggering the libs

If you want to make a company pay a certain amount in wages, we already have a tool for that: minimum wage! You can just write down the number, you don’t have to build a Rube Goldberg machine. And if you feel you’ve maxed out on minimum wage, just boost those benefits. EZ!

First off, if you’re getting means-tested benefits while working a full time job, it’s probably because you have children that raise your eligibility threshold. So this is basically a big “don’t hire parents” incentive for companies.

No actually. People should see these pictures.

No fucking cops or corpos at pride. Ever.

Turns out Bluesky does have an algorithm but it just sends your joke to the person least likely to get it and most likely to get real mad about not getting it

New York, NY – Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, candidate for Mayor of New York City, today announced ‘Zohran’s Law,’ a plan to protect the city’s rent-stabilized apartments from being occupied by high-income individauls, ensuring these limited, affordable units go to New Yorkers who actually need them. Under Cuomo’s proposal, when a rent-stabilized apartment becomes vacant, the incoming individual income would be capped so that the annual rent makes up at least 30 percent of that income. For example, if an apartment rents for $2,500 a month ($30,000 per year), the new tenant’s income could not exceed $100,000. New York City is in the grip of a housing emergency. The city does not have enough units, and the drastically low vacancy rate is driving up prices, squeezing families, and forcing many to leave in record numbers.

In urban policy, it is considered bad for someone to be rent-burdened (spending at least 30% of their income on rent). But Cuomo's newly proposed law would *require* that people be rent-burdened. Absolutely insane.

Colin Spacetwinks @spacetwinks is "give fran drescher the bomb" an electric six song, an AJJ song, a song roast beef would make up in his head in achewood, an inexplicable unpublished billy joel song, or all of the above 1:56 PM · Jul 13, 2023

Electric Six

Three things have changed since your early 20s: you're more worried about nuclear war, you're unlikely to tell jokes where the punchline is "gay bar", & when you wake up on the couch on a Saturday, it's because you slept when the baby slept