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In Court, Trump Is Losing More Than He’s Winning A Bloomberg analysis of more than 325 court cases involving challenges to President Trump’s executive actions reveals the stress test on the balance of power taking shape.

Weekend read: US courts have ordered a stop to President Trump's policies and actions 200+ times.

We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 328 and counting.

A deep dive into the data (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Lovey's the only one that seems to actually enjoy the snow, and she's been loving this weather the past week or so.

"What is novel in the ideological propaganda of totalitarian movements even before they seize power is the immediate transformation of ideological content into living reality through instruments of totalitarian organization." Arendt wrote in 1954. She continued: "The Nazi movement, far from organizing people who happened to believe in racism, organized them according to objective race criteria, so that race ideology was no longer a matter of mere opinion or argument or even fanaticism, but constituted the actual living reality ... The Nazis, as distinguished from other racists, did not so much believe in the truth of racism as desire to change the world into a race reality." Similarly, rather than studying the world as it is in an empirical sense, identifying problems, and proposing solutions, Trumpism starts with "solutions" consistent with its racist and xenophobic worldview-extrapolated from slogans like "Make America Great Again," "Build the Wall," "Drain the Swamp"-and then goes in search of "real" problems to justify their implementation.

This point is especially important. The EO on "gender identity," for example, is biologically and historically incoherent and inaccurate, but the point is to make those lies true, to make those non-existent "natural" categories "real," via the exertion of state power.

Out of our 3 dogs, Winnie is the only one that sleeps like that regularly.

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

I'd argue we're already there, they've just managed to distract from it somewhat successfully so far. It could be argued that's part of how Donnie managed to get some of his support, people hoping to tip the pot over. But it won't tip the pot over, and the water will probably start boiling soon.

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Pro wrestler Steve Austin cracking open a beer can, while resting on a pile of more beer cans.

Screw the eggs, they're gonna have to lower the price of alcohol the way this is going.

Depends on the platform. The bird app had the 5k constraint, so I did play that game to avoid that. I don't really know why most people would do that here.

I follow who I find interesting, or I engage with a lot.
I think most people who follow me think I'm the Muppet.

As of 2021 over half of K-12 schools do not have counselors on staff, including 17% of high schools (I googled it because I was curious). I'd guess even fewer had them in the 80s.

As for her, though, no clue who she is. I checked her timeline though, and I agree she's a fucking liar.

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I generally dislike podcasts, but I'll make an exception because black holes.

Or you're both wrong. That's what happens with generalizations.

My school didn't have counseling, we had an announcement later that day that one of the priests was available after school if any of us needed to talk.

I'm sure some schools did better, and some did worse.

The youngest GenX were 6. They might not have grasped it completely, but that didn't stop them from being scared and confused by it and the reactions of older people around them.

The oldest GenX would typically have been at work or in college, shuffling off to the next class.

Happy New Year, and we'd best brace ourselves, I suppose.

a man with dreadlocks and a bandana on his head is holding a sword ALT: a man with dreadlocks and a bandana on his head is holding a sword

One more week before people stop showing up randomly at my house. So excited!

For now, anyway.

A number of Oscar-worthy movies were released this year, but only ONE features Amy Adams singing “Dare to Be Stupid”! Nightbitch is now streaming on Hulu.

I'd never considered that, but yes...except those were the days where some cop showing their butt for half a second on NYPD Blue sent society into a tailspin, so "PG-13" might be overselling it.

I completely blame MTV for Jersey Shore - it was the natural evolution of their spring break specials, I think. lol

a man laying down with the year 2009 on the bottom right Alt: A man spinning through space as the year increments, part of the Buck Rogers title sequence.

I'm not sure whether I'd even suggest watching it, but I have a soft spot for it. It's probably of greatest interest as part of a specific era in sci-fi TV series popularization, along with shows like Space: 1999.

But the basic plot would make for a good modern day show.

I never sat through an episode. Reality TV just never maintained my interest, unless it was Gordon making people admit they were idiot sandwiches.

Talking about Big Brother does remind me of Fear Factor tho, and Rogan's transition from News Radio character to nutty podcaster. Dude's had a wild ride

I think in that regards, the Friends reunion special is the most we'll ever see. That window has passed.

I'm shocked that Buck Rogers hasn't gotten a reboot yet, though.

In a lot of ways it was. It also got a lot of criticism for the ways it which it wasn't, too. Which I think is part of what makes it a good milestone for the time.

It'll be the official beginning of the Friends Cinematic Universe, or FC-U for short. Eventually they'll introduce characters from Cheers and Seinfeld during the build up to the "Survivor" plotline. Judge Harry Stone will be in the FC-U too, but Night Court will be ignored like the first Hulk movies

I hate the show less as I get older, maybe because it's become a milestone of the time period (for better or worse).

Also, I'm thinking we have another 3-5 years before they do a gritty reboot.

I'm not sure why you think that, but thanks!

I don't have a meme for that, though. This might be the closest thing I have to one that's appropriate, lol.

Currency exchange rates. That, combined with inflation, would make the amount of wine necessary to pay off the debt prohibitive. Much cheaper to hang some dude on a cross and use the depreciation and write-off to balance the accounting.