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  • While the order was on hold, Trump posted about Greenfield as recently as Wednesday, referring to the judge’s “very disturbed and angry law clerk.”

    Yes, I would imagine she is rather disturbed by the fact that she's getting hundreds of death threats from your cult just for doing her fucking job. I'd also imagine she might be a bit angry about it.

  • The typical American household must spend an additional $11,434 annually just to maintain the same standard of living they enjoyed in January of 2021, right before inflation soared to 40-year highs, according to a recent analysis of government data.

    That seems absurdly high and does not match my personal experience at all.

    The analysis, from Republican members of the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee

    Oh. So people like JD Vance, Tom Cotton and Mike Lee are responsible for this lie, damn lie, and statistical analysis.

    I can only assume they included many people the rest of us would consider rather rich in their "typical American household"; If I'm paying an extra few percent in inflation it's not nearly that much, but for someone making mid-six figures with a lifestyle matching that income a couple of percent can add up to a lot of money.

    Edit: I can't find their methodology on this number specifically but from other methodology they've used it looks like they took spending data provided by businesses, did some "adjustments" of it against another set data from consumers that it doesn't really match up with, made some shit up (favorite line was in the footnote at the bottom: "Our definition of energy is unique"), came up with a number they like for spending per consumer unit (that term was used 39 times in 9 pages), then they adjust that number because consumer units aren't households even though they're "defined as one or more persons living together who make joint spending decisions", and then they adjust that to invent state-level data based on their estimate of consumer units in each state... I think you're getting the idea on how purposely convoluted this is. They're smashing two disparate sets of data together in such a way to come up with the numbers they want. But here's something cool: You could have seen two of the three people behind this speaking at the American Enterprise Institute if you had gotten a fellowship in 2022! Oh well, too late now.

    Diving deeper into this then any rational person should have might have driven me a bit batty but it is comforting to know what the GOP sees when they look at us: consumer units. Who's a good consumer unit? Are you a good consumer unit? Yes you are. You are such a good consumer unit.

  • According to an interview Fisher did with The Epoch Times in October 2023, he was a co-founder of BLM’s Rhode Island chapter but had stepped down from his leadership role to form his own group called Black Lives Matter Incorporated. The timing around when he left BLM’s Rhode Island network to form this new group was unclear. BLM Incorporated, according to The Epoch Times, appears to focus on entrepreneurship education and financial empowerment for Black people, and says it is not affiliated with any political party.

    Grifter.

  • A war with who? The US? Not a chance that happens over something like this. What would the US' achievable war aims even be that could possibly justify the human and economic costs of a war with India? And I mean that both ways; not only how many American military deaths would the US be willing to incur just to make a point about their sovereignty but how many Indian casualties would the US be willing to inflict over the state-sanctioned murder of one non-US citizen on their territory? How many would be appropriate? I would submit that the most rational and likely answer is none.

    Most "acts of war" don't start wars. At worst the US would probably impose sanctions against the Indian government officials they believed were involved. Given how much they want India as a partner to blunt China it would more likely be strongly worded statements of condemnation and back room tut-tutting. The US isn't going to fight a war against one of their top 10 trading partners and disrupt maritime shipping in the Indian Ocean over the murder of a foreign dissident on American soil.

  • How many steps are there between an "ominous warning" and a "final warning"?

  • If Christian mythology were real I'd imagine he would be. Christmas in America isn't a celebration of Christ, it's a celebration of consumerism and the Christian God got awfully angry about people focusing on material things rather than worshiping him in the Christian Bible.

  • Because they're complicated and prone to failure and aerodynamic issues. But they fill a niche of a VTOL C-2, or a Chinook with twice the range and half again as much velocity so they're not going anywhere.

  • The club's website explained: "As the Southern states lost the war, and due to the fact that this part of America supplied us then, as now, with most of the trends that influence our music, dress and dance, it is the Southern flag (often called the Confederate Battle flag) which is folded."

    The ceremony was accompanied by the 1972 Elvis Presley hit, An American Trilogy, a song which combines the southern Confederacy's unofficial anthem, Dixie, with the northern Union's Battle Hymn of the Republic.

    The website added that the occasion "takes the form of a more traditional salute that encompasses both a flag folding ceremony and a number of shots fired in tribute.

    "We dedicate the American Trilogy as a salute in memory of all those men and women lost from both sides," it said.

    Jesus fucking Christ their explanation is so much worse than I imagined. Just say, 'it's just a show and doesn't mean anything'; lying about honoring the battle flag of the confederacy being "a salute in memory of all those men and women" who fought and died to stop those traitors from destroying their country and preserving slavery is fucking disgusting and a slap in the face to every single one of them. Or just say, 'we hate America and think it's funny,' whatever the actual truth is, just leave the loathsome lies out of it.

  • What an absolute garbage headline:

    58 percent of respondents said it is important to attend a law school where their fellow students generally hold the same political/social views as they do — 36 percent said that isn’t important, 6 percent said they aren’t sure.

    They want a student body that "generally hold the same political/social views as they do" but the headline is attributing the politics to the institutions rather than the students.

  • Republicans have always been consistent in their belief that the level of government with absolute supremacy should be whichever level of government is currently most controlled by Republicans.

  • In June, the city council of Murfreesboro enacted an ordinance outlawing “indecent exposure, public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity or sexual conduct”. The rule did not explicitly mention homosexuality, but LGBTQ+ people in the town quickly realized that the ordinance references 21-72 of the city code, which categorizes homosexuality as an act of indecent sexual conduct.
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    Earlier this month, following a legal challenge from the ACLU of Tennessee, the government of Murfreesboro removed “homosexuality” from the list of acts defined as “public indecency” by the city code. The small victory came after officials repeatedly refused to issue permits for the BoroPride Festival, citing the new ordinance.

    So the city was using the ordinance to shut down a pride festival based on the new ordinance's reference to 21-72 of the city code until the ACLU got involved and they backed down rather than pay for lawyers to fight a battle they knew they couldn't win in the courts.

    Murfreesboro made public homosexuality illegal and was enforcing it until the ACLU slapped them around. How is that "debunked"? You don't think it's newsworthy that a city government outlawed public homosexuality just because they rescinded it when challenged?