There's a reason the milk man used to deliver every day

(b) individuals and federally licensed firearms importers, manufacturers, dealers or collectors who were members of Firearms Policy Coalition, Inc., Second Amendment Foundation, or Louisiana Shooting Association at the time this action was filed on November 6, 2020

https://saf.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Reese-v.-ATF-judgment-10.7.25.pdf

Minor correction: Trump won with less than half of registered voters, which is only 30% of eligible voters (over 18)

2024 election results as of Jan 15, 2025 (AP News)

77,303,573 votes (49.9%) - Trump : 23% of pop, 30% of eligible (18+), 45% of reg *

75,019,257 votes (48.4%) - Harris : 22% of pop, 29% of eligible (18+), 44% of reg *

337,375,114 - US Population as of Nov 6, 2024 (Census.gov)

*note the number of registered voters is not as easy to determine as the number that voted

The text that actually adorns the building is from Obama's 2015 "You are America" speech at Selma.

"You are America. Unconstrained by habit and convention. Unencumbered by what is, ready to seize what ought to be. For everywhere in this country, there are first steps to be taken, there is new ground to cover, there are more bridges to be crossed. America is not the project of any one person. The single most powerful word in our democracy is the word ‘We.’ ‘We The People.’ ‘We Shall Overcome.’ ‘Yes We Can.’ That word is owned by no one. It belongs to everyone. Oh, what a glorious task we are given to continually try to improve this great nation of ours.”

https://www.obama.org/stories/exterior/

Article didn't link to the website they set up but yup, pretty much checks out https://progress2028.com/ for those that didn't read the article, none of these are actual Harris policies.

In a 2019 hearing scrutinizing the merger, Legere told the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology that after combining with Sprint, T-Mobile would have thousands more employees than the stand-alone firms combined in its first year.

“By 2024 we will have 11,000 more employees,” Legere said, according to a transcript of the hearing.

“Our critics are wrong about the impact on jobs,” Legere added, responding to a skeptical analysis from the Communications Workers of America labor union. “I have looked at their arguments and supposed analyses and they do not make sense. They ignore the facts. They don’t account for any areas where jobs will grow, like network integration or new customer call care centers.”

https://www.marketwatch.com/articles/t-mobile-job-cuts-sprint-merger-dcdcf73d

of course the bigger story here is that there is a LITE version of CNN on which uBlock and Privacy Badger find nothing to block!

It would be worth looking into which states have wording in their Constitutions that include "shall certify" which would make the stalling tactic a crime.

Also, anyone who voted in a state whose electors were not sent on time would have a valid civil rights case against that state's officials and they would all have standing because they were personally harmed. The number of potential lawsuits would be overwhelming and perhaps ruinous to anyone found guilty. Not sure that fear of that would be enough to stop them, but also they have to worry about losing their next election (though if it worked they might hope to be rewarded by the winning administration).

as a parent, I would say what matters is geo-location and text to coordinate pick-up or plans. there is no need for younger kids to have a full fledged phone if one could be developed that serves those functions. I'm thinking 90s flip phones with GPS. It really sounds like a gold mine for some company to supply these limited devices given the market for them.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Veterans on Patrol founder, Michael Meyer is not a veteran. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/veterans-patrol

Here's what I read - I do not have the source but it was on a local Pittsburgh news site IIRC. He wasn't paying rent. House was his deceased brother's house which he bought in 1998 - not sure if shooter had inherited it or not, but there was something in excess of 15K owed for back taxes on it. An LLC paid the taxes on it and BOOM its their house - he filed paperwork with the state that they were scammers and he was contesting what he saw as an someone stealing his house. The LLC filed to have him evicted. Ultimately he made a bad decision to use a weapon and not a lawyer but he was ex-military and may have seen this as the last straw.

Seems like a great time to mention the Firefox Facebook Container add-on!

The company firewall very likely is using a "content filtering" function which for Sonicwall, for example, is a subscription service where the admin can select any number of "categories" of content to block. I found lemmy.world was being blocked because Sonicwall had that domain categorized as "gaming" which was disallowed. I reported the error to Sonicwall that it should be "social media" but haven't heard back (it takes a while) but some companies might block that category also. In short, it might not be blocked because of any positive action by your company but instead by accident because whoever first classified the site didn't understand what it was.

Musk here is using the Tucker Carlson technique of "just asking questions". An answer is easily found. "Robinson" (not his real name) is in jail for 18 months because he committed crimes, admitted to them in court, and was found guilty of them in a court of law. Hardly tyranny. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/oct/28/tommy-robinson-admits-contempt-of-court-over-false-claims-about-refugee

Executive Orders are not Law. The President cannot make Law only the Congress makes Law. The President must "faithfully execute" the Law.

Article I, Section 4, Clause 1:

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.

The fact that nearly every scene in that video is a 2 second edit suggests that if these are really being used in a factory they are doing none of the things shown in the video IRL.

As the saying goes, "no gentleman was dressed without his sword"

I never stopped using RSS but its always been an additional source not the sole source of info for me. A lot of folks I've followed on various social media or who write for online mags have a personal site where they post long-form stuff. RSS is great if you want to just get a list of those authors latest posts and you don't want to sort through thousands of other stories to find them.

Personally I like using the Livemarks add-on in Firefox because I'm already in the browser anyway and I can manage those bookmarks using the standard bookmarks manager to keep them in any organizational structure I find convenient. Here's the github page but you can search for it in Firefox Add-ons as well: https://github.com/nt1m/livemarks/

Most recent election in Suffolk County, NY - 1.1M eligible voters. 277K votes cast. Barely a 25% voter turnout. Source: https://www.elections.ny.gov/EnrollmentCounty.html https://projects.newsday.com/voters-guide/results/long-island-voters-guide-november-7-2023-general-election

Angus McBride's Saruman used in the Middle Earth Roleplaying Game and I'm pretty sure was on a Tolkien Calendar. More Angus McBride art: https://jedigirlblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/19/the-art-of-middle-earth-by-angus-mcbride-article/