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If you aren’t averse to Reddit, there’s a subreddit devoted to Project 2025. Lots of info there. www.reddit.com/r/Defeat_Project_2025/

House Republicans impeach Mayorkas by a single vote (www.washingtonpost.com)

House Republicans moved in historic fashion and impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas by a single vote on Tuesday night, succeeding on their second try in punishing the steward of President Biden’s immigration policy....

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" legal observers worry that the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to rein in a public official is being misused as partisan weapon"

Dear legal observers: don’t “worry,” state the bloody obvious clearly. The House GOP has abused the most serious tool the U.S. Constitution provides to carry out a purely partisan attack.

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LOL. There’s a silicon valley bigwig jet tracker that I see pop up on my Reddit account, and I’m not even that interested in it.

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“Lucifer in the flesh”–Ted’s fellow Republican John Boehner. As Cruz’s former college roommate, Craig Mazin, once put it, “One thing Ted Cruz is really good at: uniting people who otherwise disagree about everything else in a total hatred of Ted Cruz.” George W. Bush: “I just don’t like the guy.” Bob Dole: “I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress. Nobody likes him.” John Boehner: “I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.” Lindsey Graham: “If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.”

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As long as Trump can pay his lawyers (or Trump’s friends can pay), expect stuff like this to happen. Those who can afford it get a different level of justice. See, e.g., Paxton in Texas. Compare that with all the poor saps who can’t make bail and get locked up pending trial with only an overworked PD to help them.

Germany mulls reintroduction of compulsory military service (www.dw.com)

At the end of October, the Bundeswehr said it counted 181,383 soldiers in its ranks — that’s still some distance from the target of 203,000 that the German military hopes to reach by 2025. This has given rise to concern in times of Russia’s war against Ukraine, which has once again reminded Germans how quickly conflicts...

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La puta mili, as young men called it in Spain. Lots of hurry up and wait. Very little fun time driving tanks around. My father got drafted. I got lucky and didn’t.

Oregon weekly newspaper lays off entire staff after discovering a former employee had embezzled $90,000 and left bills unpaid (fortune.com)

An Oregon weekly newspaper has had to lay off its entire staff and halt print after 40 years because its funds were embezzled by a former employee, its editor said, in a devastating blow to a publication that serves as an important source of information in a community that, like many others nationwide, is struggling with growing...

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My dad worked for a major bank. Sometimes when an employee stole money from the bank, it made the news. Other times, the bank kept quiet about it. You don’t always hear about this stuff because the business is too embarrassed to make it public.

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Article is short on details. So Belgium doesn’t have birthright citizenship?

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Hate on Biden all you want, but please vote for him. Trump is worse. Trump was behind moving the US embassy to Jerusalem. Trump instituted a ban on travel to the USA from some (note some) Muslim majority countries. If Trump gets elected, expect Project 2025 to come to fruition.

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Philando Castile has entered the chat.

Wall Street bank bosses warn lawmakers of economic toll from tough new rules (www.reuters.com)

The industry has been waging a fierce campaign to kill the “Basel endgame” proposal, which overhauls how banks must calculate their loss-absorbing capital, and as regulators roll out fair lending and fee cap regulations, among other rules....

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Dimon and Republicans are against it? Sounds like it’s something good.

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“Maduro’s increasingly bellicose rhetoric over Essequibo is seen by analysts as an attempt to distract from a series of overlapping crises at home” I guess “blame the gays” didn’t poll as well as “invade a neighbor.”

FBI director warns senators he sees ‘blinking lights everywhere’ on threats against the US (www.cnn.com)

FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday he has never seen a time during his decades-long career when so many threats against the US were all as elevated as they are now, warning senators he sees “blinking lights everywhere.”...

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Typical cop talk. There is crime everywhere, and my department needs more money to stop it.

Texas high school sends Black student back to in-school suspension over his locs hairstyle (apnews.com)

The student, Darryl George, was suspended for 13 days because his hair is out of compliance when let down, according to a disciplinary notice issued by Barbers Hill High School in Mont Belvieu, Texas. It was his first day back at the school after spending a month at an off-site disciplinary program....

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I had some punk students with non-natural hair colors when I was a high school teacher in California, and that was a long time ago. Nobody cared. This story is from Texas, though.

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This kind of thing sure seems to have happened quite a bit at Fox. Maybe there seems to be a whole lot of sociopathic predatory behavior among conservatives.

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I’ll just leave this here: French Revolution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Revolution

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A few years back I remember bad cooking oil in Spain led to some very serious adverse health effects. Good on the police for catching the adulterated oil purveyors.

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“verging on climate denial” Verging? And this guy is the president of Cop28? Holy crap. Stick a fork in humanity, it’s done.

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Yeah, my brother got arrested and tossed in jail for providing a fake name. The cops checked. They do that.

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Right wingers around the world are taking notes…

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Instead of sinking all that money into rockets, Bezos could pay his workers more and not treat them like robots. He could let them unionize if they want. But Bezos is a typical billionaire with a giant yacht.

An Analysis of Amazon Practises on Shop Floor Mainly by Taylorism and Additional Theories

www.clausiuspress.com/…/GEFHR2020037.pdf

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Just don’t work for them. Don’t Uber, don’t deliver packages, don’t nanny their brats, don’t walk their dogs, don’t mow their lawns, just refuse to work for them and let them figure out how that “libertarian paradise” stuff works out.

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The news just gets sadder and sadder by the day. Why do I fixate on reading the news?

Paraguay official resigns after signing agreement with fictional country (www.theguardian.com)

A Paraguayan government official has been replaced after it was revealed that he signed a memorandum of understanding with representatives of a fugitive Indian guru’s fictional country, who also appear to have duped several other officials in the South American country....

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Reminds me of the Dreadnought hoax. As a former prankster, much respect to the people of Kailasa (but not Nithyananda). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought_hoax

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You can always count on Benny to come up with some hot take that’s wrong, stupid, or not even wrong.

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uncomfortable for some people People like me, who got tired of the firehose of ultra-right-wing lies, conspiracy theories, and propaganda. Oh, and nazis.

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So, she was fired from teaching sex ed because she most likely knows more about sex than most people?

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That’s war for ya.

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Notice how nurses, EMTs, and teachers are among the professions that are both vital to society and treated like crap? Oh to be a coddled member of the ownership class!

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“Are the state’s abortion laws harming women when they face pregnancy complications?” Yes. Will the Texas Supreme Court do anything about that? I doubt it.

New research supports potential link between low-level lead exposure and liver injury (www.statnews.com)

Nearly a decade on, the Flint water crisis still looms large in the minds of environmental toxin researchers. It was — and continues to be — evidence that not all communities in the United States are equally affected by environmental pollutants....

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Didn’t we already know that there’s no such thing as a safe level of exposure to lead? I guess this research just confirms it.

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Incoming right wing echo chamber shitfit…

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Yes, the left has been better. The left didn’t practice family separation like Trump did.

Some Republicans Were Willing to Compromise on Abortion Ban Exceptions. Activists Made Sure They Didn’t. (www.propublica.org)

“With the current law in place, I will tell you, I wake up fearful of my pregnancy and what it would mean for my children, my husband and my parents if something happened to me and the doctor cannot perform lifesaving measures,” she told her fellow lawmakers last February, her voice faltering as tears threatened....

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Religious extremism is evil, no matter what the the religion is.

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“citing manipulation, disinformation, antisemitism and attacks on scientists, climatologists, women and liberals.” That was my experience on Twitter before I quit it. "gigantic global sewer”–accurate

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Right wing billionaires: because fuck you, that’s why.

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Cruella seeks revenge. The Telegraph is there to help.

Births have increased in states with abortion bans, research finds (www.cnn.com)

Nearly a quarter of people seeking an abortion in the United States were unable to get one due to bans that took effect after the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision, researchers estimate. In the first half of 2023, states with abortion bans had an average fertility rate that was 2.3% higher than states where abortion was not...

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32,000 more unwanted kids. I’m sure they’ll have great lives. /s

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It’s a convenience fee! Totes legit!

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“kindness, acceptance, and inclusivity”–three things conservatives hate

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Republican retirement plan: work until you drop. Republican healthcare plan: just die already Republican education plan: You’ll be paying off those student loans until you die, and by the way, you’ve been downsized. Try applying at an Amazon warehouse or a WalMart.

At Meta, Millions of Underage Users Were an ‘Open Secret,’ States Say (www.nytimes.com)

Meta has received more than 1.1 million reports of users under the age of 13 on its Instagram platform since early 2019 yet it “disabled only a fraction” of those accounts, according to a newly unsealed legal complaint against the company brought by the attorneys general of 33 states....

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“hundreds of millions of dollars”–sigh, how much? We’ll write you a check.

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And the American right wing loves the turn Hungary has taken.

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I remember flying back from Spain one time and a young woman behind me in line to clear customs had two Spanish sausages, long ones, on top of her luggage. They were a no-no. Clearly, she did not give a fuck. Customs let her through.

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Fingers will be wagged!

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Hey, it’s not like those peon taxpayers have any right to know how their money is being spent. /s

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