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Days Before Midterms, US Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Bar Student IDs for Voting
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Libertarians and the Right both don't want the State mandating car seats for their boyfriends/girlfriends. Birds of a feather.
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Days Before Midterms, US Supreme Court Lets New Hampshire Bar Student IDs for Voting
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Libertarians and the Right both don't want the State mandating car seats for their boyfriends/girlfriends. Birds of a feather.
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Nearly 800 infant remains found in septic tank at nun-run Irish unwed mother and baby home
Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Secours_Mother_and_Baby_Home .
The mothers were required to stay inside the home for one year, doing unpaid work for the nuns, as reimbursement for some of the services rendered. They were separated from their children, who remained separately in the home, raised by nuns, until they could be adopted – often without consent.
Some women who had had two confinements were sent directly to nearby Magdalene laundries after giving birth, as punishment for their perceived "recidivism". According to Professor Maria Luddy, "Such a stance, though not intended to be penal, allowed for the development of an attitude that accepted detention as a means of protecting society from these reoffending women.
Confinements. Punishment. Detention. Reoffending women.
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US House Republicans vote against blocking ICE from deporting US citizens
earmarking $45 billion to detain 100,000 migrants
$450K per migrant. I wonder which MAGA-sponsoring corporations are going to see that payday, and I wonder what % of it they'll be kicking-back to Orange and Elmo? We've got a lot of citizens here. Kidnapping them at government expense will be extremely profitable, even at today's rates.
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Baumgartner calls on Zelenskyy to resign hours after diplomatic meltdown in Oval Office
"Congressman Michael Baumgartner is currently serving his first term in the U.S. House of Representatives where he represents the people of Washington State’s 5th Congressional District." https://baumgartner.house.gov/about
He's a MAGA bootlicker and is unfit for office. What an embarrassment to our nation he is.
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ICE is quietly buying warehouses for detention centers and leaving local officials out of the loop
Concentration camps.
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Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus
The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.
By all means, drink up, morons, get the hell out of our gene pool, we've got enough troubles without your Dimwit DNA.
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I think that's overly optimistic.
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Autumn Hill Incarcerated for Life in Trump's War on the Left
Concentration camps for foreigners and racial undesirables, political prisoners put away forever for thoughtcrimes, mass surveillance by the government, theocracy on the rise ... never thought I'd see it, or any part of it, in my lifetime in the US.
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Wendy's closing hundreds of U.S. restaurants as sales plunge
"you'll continue to see hamburger innovation as we move throughout the year," Cook said.
Everyone eating real food elsewhere due to a lack of "hamburger innovation" at Wendy's, raise your hand. Thought so.
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Team Trump Is Gaming Out How to Ship U.S. Citizens to El Salvador | Trump officials are talking internally about denaturalizing American citizens — and potentially sending some to El Salvador
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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News 9 radar damaged in apparent attack by anti-government militia group
Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, the founder of Veterans On Patrol, told the station he posted a sign warning of other radars being targeted near weather radar. He said he believes the government is modifying the weather, according to the article.
"They can embed their technology and civilian infrastructure in every home and every household utilizing the phones and their network towers to not only control the weather, modify the weather, but they can (target) individuals," Meyer said in the article.
Control the weather. Target individuals. How can anyone get this stupid?
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Court agrees to block collection of Trump's $454 million civil fraud judgment if he puts up $175M
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Don't forget to publicly insult the judges and prosecutors while you're on there. Class act.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink filed as 'disadvantaged business' before being valued at $9 billion
So what's he looking for, some kind of DEI preferences from the SBA?
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Alito: Overturning Roe v. Wade took ‘courage’ from Supreme Court justices
What it took was for 6+ members of the court to be Catholics and to impose their religious creed on the rest of us.
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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
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why does every court have such a hard on for killing the woman
Because every hillbilly chucklehead in the state has a hard on for the death penalty.
JFC.
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Yo are fireworks that fun?
Explosives were fascinating when I was, like, 10 years old. Now, as an adult, they're just stupid, but we have an ever-growing population of people who derive their sense of self-worth from producing maximally loud, obnoxious, pathetic spectacles (think street-racers, coal-rollers, rap-blasters to name a few), so there you have it. When you're a nobody and have no attributes that anyone would look up to, well, at least you can force people to pay attention to you and do it on the cheap (important because you're poor). Boom boom pop pop.
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More than 1,000 ‘Hands Off’ anti-Trump protests hit cities across the US
Medium sized city in a very red part of a blue state: turnout was estimated to be 5000+ and huge amounts of support from honking drivers in the busy, adjacent multilane street, for 2 hours straight. Great energy/vibe, lots of outrage and creativity, and a very multi-generational turnout that shows that not just one age group hates MAGA, they ALL do.
Counter-demonstrators were next to none and getting shouted down. One Christofascist was dressed up like the Christ he's seen in picturebooks and was dragging around a replica of a full-sized cross and getting laughs and sneers for his efforts.
We're driving the Trump citizen-fascists underground, lets keep it up.
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Trucks Entering Alligator Alcatraz Are Hiding Their Logos, DOT Numbers
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Me, no. Corpo Amerika absolutely if it's profitable and low-risk. So which Lemmy "community" is the one where these corps are being ID'd (with all crowdsourced supporting evidence) and named and shamed?
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Anti-vaccine activists want to go nationwide after Idaho law passes
“It’s literally landmark,”
"Literally."
I guess a gravestone is sort of a landmark. Idaho will be needing a lot more of those.
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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says
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It this point, IMO, they've shot their wad and should take her to the hospital and if she eventually survives all this then stop trying to kill her period and either re-incarcerate her for some period (even life) or let her go. Having the state try to kill her, twice, and fuck up the whole thing, twice, seems like ample punishment to me. Yee haw!