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it began a long time ago ((couple months)))

We've been sending people off to legal black holes for torture and execution all over the world and calling it "extraordinary rendition" for a few decades now, actually

Another really sad aspect of this, if that 8 year old has siblings they might not be any better off without their parents because Texas (and most states) systems of foster/group homes is shit.

Children need to vote harder if they want lawmakers to take their special interests like not dying seriously.

The Republican party being willfully indifferent to death and human suffering? Noooo, I mean just because they gave us the Iraq war, Sandy Hook, a supreme court decision on abortion that led to a rising maternal mortality rate, intense and unqualified support for the death penalty when we know we've imprisoned innocent people, endless attacks on workplace safety consumer safety and environmental protection regulations, etc etc etc...

Man who was literally giving people $100 to repeat his political rhetoric earlier this week says people who disagree with him are puppets, very reasonable cool and not projection /s

Let's discuss plans to commit civil disobedience in public forums, that's a great idea! /s

The headline is missing the point and downplaying what's going on here, this lawyer wasn't expressing frustration, he didn't raise his voice or make insulting remarks or anything like that. He was asked by the judge [paraphrased] "Why is your client breaking the law?" and replied [paraphrased] "I asked them that too. I guess they didn't mean to do it?" but the Trump administration wanted him to either straight up lie and say they hadn't broken the law or refuse to answer the judge's questions and pretend the court didn't have authority to ask them.

Not only is our executive branch breaking the law and ignoring court orders to follow the law, they're throwing out any attorneys who won't also break the law and ignore judges too.

Why would this administration need competent lawyers, they're playing the game with cheat codes and can't lose

You could just stop reading the news if it bothers you so much instead of trying to interfere with other people's first amendment right to rot their brains right out of their own skulls with Chinese propaganda or whatever they want

Also, we should be more scared of our domestic oligarchs and the surveillance and propaganda machines they've been running on the American people

Also also, if TikTok disappears tomorrow, China or their intermediaries can buy whatever data they want from third party data brokers that bundle datasets from a whole variety of businesses and organizations, because we basically don't regulate any of this at all, because Congress doesn't give a shit about our privacy, because it would cost their donors money if they did

The fact that Trump managed to get the credit both for passing and stopping a law that Biden signed really shows how godawful at politics the modern Democratic party has gotten

This feels wildly overblown.

Oh, but this story's got it all, no matter who you are there's an archetype in here that will annoy you

It follows a complaint by the Bradgate Park Trust, which runs the park, that Mrs Gather picked mushrooms illegally because it is a designated site of special scientific interest (SSSI).

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Mrs Gather, from Derby, revealed details of the community resolution order on TikTok this week.

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However, police have subsequently admitted that the order was not valid because the officer dealing with the case mistakenly got her husband to sign the agreement, rather than her.

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According to Leicestershire Police, the complainant said it was reported Mrs Gather had a small knife, which meant they did not feel able to approach her.

Yeah, if the situation is as the article implies then there is absolutely no issue, but if I was running a court I would want to put a pause on things and review source code or get sworn testimony from someone who built it first to be on the absolute safe side. Like, if something did go wrong it would be kind of hard to un-hear that and not allow it to influence the ultimate outcome of things.

Trump ignoring the law doesn't surprise me, but the lack of willingness to enforce anything from every other part of government still does blow my mind a little bit

Like, as someone who's got a little bit of a fascination with criminal justice stuff, I can't even remember how many times I've seen prosecutors and judges just hammer people and organizations with pre-trial detentions, freezing accounts and asset seizures, bringing in irrelevant but prejudicial evidence, compelling testimony from people by threatening them with prosecution, and just a million other coercive means of forcing guilty pleas or verdicts when they want to, but none of them are willing to do any of those things to this guy no matter how many times he just shits all over them and it's just wild to me still

Yeah, the DNC is a huge and essential part of why this country has gone to shit because there are a lot of just straight up evil people in the Democratic party, and until that changes nothing in this country is going to meaningfully improve. Anytime there's a news article about a Republican doing something awful there should be a comment pointing out how certain Democratic party members have enabled them to do that thing.

That all being said, there are also a lot of good people trying to do good things in the Democratic party as well (an essential difference between them and the GOP), when the Democratic party in general loses elections to Republicans, the evil people get stronger and the good people in the Democratic party get less influential. So, yeah, voting blue across the board is the right call, frustrating as they may be.

requiring the president to notify Congress

Oh, like he was "required" to do before cutting USAID? Cool.

That sounds like what I've read about this place.

One of these students detained solely for their political opinions is going to die in one of these dungeons and then the people responsible won't be held accountable and we'll all fall a little further down

Yeah, I unfortunately get why the court had to stop it because they were blindsided by it and this guy didn't think through all the potential problems with this (the big one that occurs to me now is what happens if the AI video says something and the client claims it's an inaccurate representation of their wishes, how's a court supposed to figure out if the AI is messing up or if the client is lying, but there's probably a dozen more someone who reads statutes and opinions all day could think of), but this seems like an innocent mistake from a pro se litigant who was trying to come up with a reasonable accomodation for their disability and just didn't do it correctly, so I hope this doesn't prejudice his case at all.

In spite of this fact, the tariffs still probably aren't a good idea, but it is at least a little bit encouraging to see the shitheads that prop up this organization are suffering

"Me and my oligarch friends really want to steal the brainrot app but ByteDance called our bluff and now we're scared to piss off the zoomer praetorian guard that Elon brought in."

screwing the next in line.

Honestly, I feel like this understates it. They're destroying creative communities and obliterating the knowledge of artistic techniques that were passed through those communities because those techniques aren't deemed to have any market value, which leads us all into a world filled with generic and boring songs and stories being built from widely used materials and perspectives and pushed through generic structures. They're effectively setting fire to the library of books that haven't been written yet.

More likely an overworked and sleep deprived human I think, the report beneath the headline is detailed and full of references to independent sources