Better yet, melt it down and distribute it to the lawful immigrants that were deported.
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Better yet, melt it down and distribute it to the lawful immigrants that were deported.
Especially considering that no justice is there to "respect the voter's will" -- they are there to uphold the law. If the voters don't will it, that has to go through hundreds of legislators.
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Please get out to a protest today. I have a fever, so am stuck at home after a week of planning to be there.
These Regressives are utterly backwards. We aren't coming out to *listen* to our representatives. We're coming out so that *they* can do the listening and take that back to whatever capitol they represent us in... that's their job.
Ohio produces weak and pathetic Regressive politicians. Mind you, our Democrats are not much better; but they *are* better.
Cop Casually Threatens To Shoot A Black Man In The Head
Republicans are all spoiled children. Both "spoiled" and "children" applies only to a subset, but there is no Republican or Libertarian to which one of those words does not apply.
Someday I hope to live in a society where boys are taught to grow out of violent outbursts at least as much as girls are.
The gig economy was developed to annihilate unions and ensure that those who work the most get paid the least, while those who work the least get paid the most. I'll be joining #WorkersOverBillionaires on Labor Day.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
There are a few groups of people who have learned that there are no gods looking out for us precisely because stuff like this keeps happening. No, the kids are not "with Jesus" and no one should be "at peace" with what happened here.
What motivation would there be for cheating in school if the student's entire life didn't depend upon the grade they receive, I wonder.
I accompanied a 13 year old girl to and from a concert in Chicago this summer. We walked and used public transport at night. I went to a sports competition with the same girl in Ashland, OH. The car was always in sight. I never feared for our safety in Chicago. I never felt safe in Ashland.
Is "Mike" your imaginary liberal friend that thinks those networks have journalistic integrity? When you're ready to focus on talking to real people again let me know.
Naw, we just care about journalistic integrity.
Same guy that wrote it? www.thedailybeast.com/daily-caller... He won't retract his opinion.
The idea that Chicago and New York are "killing grounds" where anyone but the most bumpkin of country idiots is scared to go out is ludicrous beyond measure. The fascists have their "other" -- and it's city folk, just like always.
I am an Ohioan and over the summer I walked with my teenage children and designer shoes in both Chicago and New York City; night, day, didn't matter. I felt safer there that I do in Ohio; ESPECIALLY in redneck county. Bunch of Trump-drunken loose cannons out here with serious anger issues.
The people who want to hold onto their guns to protect against tyranny are the ones on the side of the tyrant. Maybe it really is time that we should "come for their guns." It'd be a twofer: Lower gun violence and (in the most regrettable way) fewer trigger-happy savages.
Trumpslation: "Oh well."
There are more lies in that clip than there are sentences.
Being voted out while still on the fascist track is not really the same as a fascist that has amassed power. More is necessary than one fascist gaining power, and the U.S. has that 'more' in the fact that governors are supporting the fascist by sending him military support.
Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files
Max "Youthful Mistake" Miller is an abuser and a coward who will not come out to face his constituents. His lackeys are aware of no scheduled town halls.
The Regressive legislators from and in Ohio do not deserve civility and the City Club of Cleveland gave them too much anyway. Next time they should have either allowed those who paid to have their voices heard, or not agreed to host fascists in the first place. www.cleveland.com/open/2025/08...
This is a stock photo at least 5 years old. www.pexels.com/photo/aerial...
When a man says women need to be protected from [other] men, they are telling on themselves.
conservatives eating each other... yay. Do something useful, Kash: Pressure the DOJ to release the Epstein files.
It seems that the boycotts due to DEI rollbacks have certainly helped send a message. Go woke, or go broke. apnews.com/article/targ...
It also seems to rhyme with the privileged capitalist's condemnation of the unemployed: "get a job!"
I was today years old when I noticed that the words above the entrance to Auswitz was "Arbeit Macht Frei." That could practically be the Republican/capitalist motto.
It was never about "state's rights." Not when the confederacy started it, and not now.
Sexual attractiveness changes with culture. Christian culture has traditionally been abusive to children. Conservatism seeks to maintain tradition. It should be no surprise that child abuse (even CSA) correlates with christian conservatism.
Tone policing people speaking against racist and fascistic protectors of child abusers and human traffickers is not good. The City Club of Cleveland leadership should be ashamed. No one came to hear answers last night; people came to have their voice heard and the City Club tried to silence them.
Oh, and the "did everything in her power to stop it" that you wrote there -- given that you had just been informed she voted FOR the bill as it left the House... Yeah, that's a lie.
Hmm.. I don't see California, New York, or even Illinois on this list... Re Illinois: it's easy to look gerrymandered in favor of a party if you can get that party's candidate off the ballots in some districts. I think it's IL's 15th and 16th district that failed to have a Democratic candidate...
It's a shame that he's always wrong.
I don't think this is MAGA's idea of "run the government more like a business" but I could probably support the government having a stake in businesses it gives money to. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
The House wrote the bill. She voted to pass that version of the bill. Thus she literally did help pass the infrastructure bill. Mace never voted to pass any version of the bill.
I'm also interested, as the other poster, in whether you can back up the 'took full credit for it on the campaign trail' part of your claim.
You haven't shown a lie. You've shown that you don't understand congressional procedure.
Plus, you seem to be tackling the 'took full credit for it' part of the claim whereas I'm letting that part slide and pointing out why she would be justified in taking credit anyway.
It's also worth noting that AOC voted YEA (Jul 1 #208: "On passage") to send the bill to the Senate. On this alone she can claim support for the bill. It was only after it came back from the Senate that she voted NAY (Nov 5 #369: "On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment")
AOC literally helped send it to the Senate. Mace voted against even sending it to the Senate. These two actions are not "exactly the same" no matter how many times you want to point to her rejecting only the Senate's revised version as though it's equivalent to Mace's action.
She did help deliver it. What she voted against was the Senate's revisions to the bill she helped pass along to them. Here's the public record of the vote passing it on to the Senate. clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021208
You'll have to explain that reference. I'm talking about her YEA vote in earlier 2021 to pass it on to the Senate which is on public record for anyone who actually cares to check. You seem entirely focused on her vote after it came back from the Senate with changes.
www.cleveland.com/news/2023/08...
He told on himself about being an abuser. He wasn't named in the accusations. He could have ignored them. Instead he told the world that the accusations were about him. Then he dropped the defamation charges, indicating that he couldn't prove they were wrong.
OH-7's Regressive Rep Max Miller is a domestically violent pissing-himself drunk driver. He is a "youthful error" that should be removed from office.
Oklahoma's state senate president is totally wrong here. This is not a "bizzare" situation. There is almost nothing more predictable than a conservative not being able to keep it in his pants.
Won't work. The existence of the Senate ensures that empty land (typically red) gets more proportional legislative power than cities (typically blue).
So... unrelated... I still had that tab open (but not focused) when I sat down today; and I thought the "Spineless" part that I could see in the tab's name was a leftover political something-or-other.
According to the public record AOC voted YEA for the bill. Maybe you're thinking of the vote where she didn't want to incorporate the Senate's changes when it came back to the House.
No, AOC only voted against the Senate's version of it. She helped send it to the Senate in the first place (Roll #208). Mace never supported it.
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Looks like a Ruscus hypophyllum
I thought my uncle was just an idiot who got conned by the christofascist side of the MAGA movement. But now that I've reflected on his life and words, I realize he is a christofascist to the core. He even glorifies soldier-Christ in his otherwise incredibly boring book.
Local MAGA organization finally begins to wake up. They're also no longer displaying Israeli flags among their American flags. I'd like to think they've learned some lesson from this; but I suspect they are simply waiting for a "believable" excuse to tell them what to think again.
I don't know what to do about that. The people in a position to change that are the ones dismantling any part of the education system that doesn't teach people to idolize dead white men.
I have (one MAGA, one antivaxx) blood relatives who constantly try to rewrite their own timelines, so I am extra hesitant to erase my own errors without some explicit notice that I own the problem.
Would you mind if I delete the root of this discussion, since you so quickly convinced me of its error?
Sometimes it's hard to remember that the Spanish Inquisition lasted longer than the US has.
I would advocate for "identifies as in normal life" being baked into the distinction despite the potential for abuse. My goal is to widen representation by fiat.
I see what you mean, though; perhaps a fifth 'gender at large' member? It would still likely skew the Senate male; but at least it would have to be at least 40% women. We still have distinct gender roles which need to stop being view hierarchically.
It would exclude most specific intersections as well; but I think it would result in a dramatically more representative legislative body; especially given international precedent of more equitable societies as women are given more power.
Someone idealizing motherhood likely wants, or will soon want, to give the use of a woman's body to someone else. In other words "women should be protected" (benevolent sexism) is verifiably just "women should be controlled" in disguise. doi.org/10.1177/0146...
Shroud of Turin believers can continue resting badly knowing that there is even more evidence that it is a medieval creation. Its pattern is (still) inconsistent with a cloth draped on realistic human anatomy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
RNC: Regressive New Confederacy
In more local politics: Jerry C Cirino and Mike DeWine (among many many others) should be in prison. They have disobeyed the Ohio Constitution and ignored our Supreme Court for too long. Lock. Them. Up.
It just occurred to me that every christian missionary is genocidal in that they are trying to destroy the culture they visit.
Hey NE Ohio parents; looking for a welcoming driving school to fulfill your child's driver's education needs? Check out @safepasscle.com we heard about them through friends of our student driver. safepasscle.com
Shower thought: Calling something the "Golden Rule" really does solidify christians as consumer capitalists who are rarely good; even their morality has capital valuation and implied scarcity. (That came from disliking "diamond" and "platinum" to describe the much better rule of thumb.)
I buy Dove. Have for a long time; and that's less likely to stop now.
Shower thought: Capitalism means that people who aren't economically useful to other people don't deserve to live.
A Cuyahoga County deputy took an illegal joy ride in my car yesterday. No probable cause, no arrest, just decided to order me and my child to get out of the car then drove it elsewhere against my protestations. The fucker didn't even put it in park when he left. Wish I'd been recording.
1. The central dogma of christianity is that people want to do bad things. 2. A person can only speak confidently about the state of their own mind. Therefore, a christian is a person announcing that they want to do bad things. (this explains a lot)
I suspect Ben is about to find out what cancel culture looks like on the right.
Indeed; they're even labelled that way in the chart to which I replied.
We have confusingly reversed political color schemes between the two of us; I had a moment of 'huh?!' when I saw "the blue wave was not as big".
My current campaign: Calling my R(egressive) congressional senator and representative with four instructions: 1) Impeach 2) Convict 3) Remove 4) Resign
Religion keeps people savage.
I've encountered creationists who reject mutations; they think that mutations are just recombination. I doubt they have ever considered that they are disproven by the observation that there is more than one human 'Y' chromosome.
A constituent was forcibly removed from Mike Lawler’s town hall. He has inadvertently created an instantly iconic image of the resistance.
In this case, I would disagree; most of the Trump base are evangelical protestants who demonize catholicism only slighly less than they demonize non-protestant minority groups and progressives.
If you think that letting corporations own roads will make the roads better, you need to look into the cost of marketing departments and realize that governments don't need them.
That sounds about right. Also, it seems that anything with 'critical' in it is automatically Marxist. I wouldn't be surprised if that included "critical thinking" now.
Has another paper gone missing? GS shows 88 people have cited it, and science.org links to it... National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Diversity and STEM: Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities (National Science Foundation, 2023); ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23315/.
They are working for the ones that got them elected. (which is distinct from the people who elected them)
Heard a claim today that much of the death caused by Stalin was due to rejecting evolution. I just had to check it because it seemed too conveniently pro-atheist/science to be true. It's true, and I will now think of RFK as "the U.S. version of Lysenko." www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...
I was trying to find a dataset to play with some statistical approaches I've been studying. Decided to compare two numbers: - pre-vaccine COVID case fatality rate - VAERS reports per vaccine administered. The CFR (1.7%) is more than 10x higher than all kinds of reports (even the fake ones) (0.14%)
A christians using a 'no true scotsman' to try to absolve their religion of the bad things christians did while trying to take credit for "good things" those same christians did is a good indicator that the person you are talking to is part of the problem.
"It's okay to be happy."
Hey Eric Ralls, A *Last* Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) is NOT "the first edition;" Neither is it "our earliest common ancestor." Portraying it as such is not just misleading, but feeds into anti-science, anti-evolution narratives. www.earth.com/news/luca-la...
Listening to someone doing christian auto-hieromytherotism (right behind me in a classroom) is probably the most disgusting thing I have had to put up with in a very long time. Like, seriously, it's basically necrophilia lusting after their favorite dead body.
I don't think I've met Ahrehead, though. That's a new name as far as I can tell. Trying to pronounce it honestly sounds like the name a Poe would choose ("air-head").