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Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds
"Democrats are being callous" against federal workers, they say, as their King fires a third of them and asks if he can NOT pay them when the shutdown ends.
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Democrats refuse to fold over shutdown as Republican outrage builds
"Democrats are being callous" against federal workers, they say, as their King fires a third of them and asks if he can NOT pay them when the shutdown ends.
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Biden to announce plans to reform US supreme court – report
InB4 "WhY DiDn't hE Do iT WhEn hE HaD ThE MaJoRiTy?" Because he's calling for constitutional amendments that require a 2/3rds support in Congress and the SCOTUS may finally be disliked enough to get some GOP members to support reform, especially if it comes with limiting Biden's own immunity.
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Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes That Teslas With "Self-Driving" Computers May Never Be Able to Actually Self-Drive
First, let me clarify I bought my Tesla used, before Musk went full fascist, and autopilot came free. The car was updated to the newest hardware for free, since the original FSD equipment couldn't do it either.
That out of the way, FSD sucks, and it's getting worse, not better. When if first come out of beta it was okay. I remember describing it as driving with a teenager, they got the general idea, but would make bad decisions so you had to watch them. Years of updates later and it's practically unusable to me. It tries to go way under or over the speed limit, it hesitates or slams on the brakes for green lights. It slams on the brakes for cars that pull out with plenty of gap but doesn't even notice the risky merges. It can not seem to navigate intersections anymore, damn near stopping in the middle of a turn. It actually just updated yesterday and I tried it again, it took me less than 5 miles to disable it again. It is, in my opinion, a hazard to use. I talked to my partner about it and we both agree it didn't used to be this bad.
Anyway, the stupidest part of all this, is they changed it so it's either full self driving all the time or not. You want cruise while you're in traffic because you know it'll try to cut in front of someone? Silly idiot, no you don't. So you now have to have a second profile* for cruise control and lane keep without FSD. And the odd thing is that lane keep and cruise are fine. They function like FSD used to. They can drive the highway with no problem and trust me, I do not have much faith in the car so I'm watching it close. It can't navigate city streets, but neither can FSD....
TLDR, my car was a better deal for me than Tesla. After years of FSD access, it's bad and getting worse, not better. I can't believe people pay 5 figures for it and maybe that's why they feel the need to clip perfect drives or defend it.
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Country Rule
The country music genre is another casualty of 9/11
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John Oliver offers to pay Clarence Thomas $1m a year if he resigns from supreme court
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We're stuck with him till 2034 at least, he had this to say following his confirmation:
"The liberals made my life miserable for 43 years," a former clerk renmembered Thomas who was 43 years old when confirmed saying, according to The New York Times. "And I'm going to make their lives miserable for 43 years."
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Alabama Republicans, despite Supreme Court ruling, reject call for second majority Black House district
The Supreme Court has no enforcement arm. That's why the court loosing it's credibility is kind of a big deal for Roberts.
As racist as this obviously is, it's good to see a red state be the test case for ignoring the court. It might give blue states more energy to ignore the next 40 years of authoritarian and climate denial rulings.
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Trump Hits Record-Breaking Low in Polls as Aides Leak: He’s “Furious”
A new Emerson College Polling national survey finds President Donald Trump holds a 39% job approval rating
Same 39% "new low" he's been at for the better part of a decade now
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Well, We Have a Speaker. He’s an Election Denier and an Extreme Christian Fundamentalist.
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The 119th Congress will be seated on January 3rd 2025 and the presidential election certification will be January 6th. So if the Dems win the majority in 2024, they won't have the power to deny certificatation outright. Though, I'm sure a minority will still object to every swing state like they did in 2020, just to draw it out.
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AOC and Boebert call for sexual misconduct accountability in Congress.
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Not anymore she divorced him recently. Then got caught and kicked out of a theater for dry humping her date during a live production of Beetlejuice. You know, a shining example of proper sexual conduct.
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No, electric vehicle sales aren’t dropping. Here’s what’s really going on
Dealers are still a big problem for EVs on top of the points mentioned in the article. They complain about it being hard to sell EVs, but also mark up almost every model and push customers toward ICE cars. Dealers are incentivized to sell ICE cars that support them long term with overpriced service intervals and repairs. EVs don't require as much regular maintenance. States with strong dealer laws like Oklahoma have been fighting against EV adoption by banning direct sales, show rooms, and even service centers.
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Oklahoma amends request for Bibles that initially appeared to match only version backed by Trump
Spoiler, Walters is 100% buying the Trump Bibles anyway. All this does is open the bidding a tiny bit more. Sure, someone can do a FOIA request and ask to see the bids, but they'll ignore it. The Oklahoma State AG is currently sueing the Oklahoma State Department of Education for ignoring the AG's own information requests. It's just $5-6 million for Trump out of OK schools. But hey, it's one of the best school systems if you flip the list up side down.
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Don't be a coconut, get registered to vote!
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Ah yes Tulsi Gabbard. An obvious GOP plant in the 2020 primary that...Oh, would you look at that, left the democratic party citing wokeness and now campaigns for the GOP. I guess we have to trust her motives when she 'Rips' a prosecutor for doing prosecutor things.
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Trump says if he takes office, he'll fire special counsel Jack Smith 'within 2 seconds'
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He's been talking about sending the military after Adam Schiff and other "enemies within". He definitely heard the SCOTUS arguments. If he's president and he doesn't get to fire someone, or everyone, I doubt he'll hesitate to send a military unit to threaten or even kill them. Who's going to stop him? Would 15-17 senators vote to impeach him? Would he try to kill them too? Did Tuberville's General Promotion sabotage leave enough slots open for Trump to install his own "Hitler's generals"?
I would say I'm being alarmist, but the man is on TV saying this is what he will do on day 1. If he wins, everyone, left and right, is fucked.
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Trump posts nearly $92 million bond in E. Jean Carroll defamation case | CNN Politics
He's still not actually paying her. He's just securing a bond that lets him avoid paying while he seeks an appeal. Just keep kicking the can down the road.
"Donald J. Trump on Friday posted a $91.6 million bond in a defamation case he recently lost to the writer E. Jean Carroll, staving off a potential legal and financial disaster just days before a deadline to secure the deal. The bond, provided by an outside insurance company, will prevent Ms. Carroll from collecting the judgment while Mr. Trump appeals."
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I wouldn't bet on that gun part*...he wanted to take guns away in his first term through executive action. I doubt two assassination attempts will have mellowed him out in that.
"I like taking guns away early" Trump said. "Take the guns first, go through due process second."
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Trump Launches $399 Gold Sneaker Brand A Day After $355 Million Verdict Against Him
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Like the $99 NFTs that you could only buy 100 of, conveniently falling just short of the IRS reporting threshold?
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Do not support political violence† online!
The site takes donations exclusively in crypto and does not explain anything beyond saying donations will support* the site...no names or founder or non profit. Just "trust me bro" "give me the untaxable currency bro". MAGA never passes on a scam opportunity.
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Donald Trump GoFundMe raises $84K of $355 million target in 24 hours
The GoFundMe is run by a random follower of his. Remember that guy who was raising money to pay for the wall and then just took the money and disappeared?
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Kamala Harris reverses earlier anti-fracking stance and no longer supports a ban
I'm all for banning it. But let's take an honest look at the election predictions and notice PA will almost certainly be the deciding state in November. Eastern PA is solid blue, so the election effectively comes down to Western PA, where fracking is a single issue vote.
Perfection is the enemy of progress. We have a two party system and that's not going away in 2 months. She can say she'll ban it and Trump wins PA, or she can reverse course, opt for greater regulation, and have a chance to be the most climate forward president in US history.
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Image of Donald Trump wading through flood water is AI-generated | Fact check
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He did also claim, on 9/11 mind you, that he now had the tallest building in Manhattan. Which wasn't even true.