Age and term limits for congress, please!

How have I never heard of this? In the digital age the 4th amendment really means nothing…

Not that I disbelieve you but, source please?

They’ll still cave. Also, ICE already has $75B in hand to work with. They won’t be impacted by the shutdown at all. Unlike the TSA, ICE will still get paid for working.

Trump has the thinnest skin of anyone alive. The comments that Hess made were extremely tame. Any other politician would just ignore his comments and move on but Trump has to be a baby. Only a loser could possibly dislike some of what Trump does; an Olympic-class loser.

Median and average are not the same. Median is going to be skewed very low compared to average in this case.

The hell? The Texas senate only meets for 140 days in odd years? How do they get anything done?

I think the article is junk but, it’s possible to have something whose existence is not top secret but whose details are.

Maine, notorious hotbed for illegal immigration and violence from undocumented immigrants. Definitely an efficient use of valuable ICE resources.

Wait, you mean it has nothing to do with immigration enforcement?

Can you imagine a world where abducting Trump wasn’t seen as an actor of war by just about everyone in the US? I wouldn’t be upset to see Trump hung as a traitor, but if Canada came in and abducted him, I’m fairly sure I’d see it as a breech of our sovereignty. I’d actually be pretty conflicted at that point…

I agree with you that this should be illegal. I expect this was in the terms of service, though. Since we have no laws restricting this kind of bullshit, the company can argue that they’re within their rights.

We need some real legislation around privacy. It’s never going to happen, but it needs to. We need a right to anonymity but that is too scary for advertisers and our police state.

How the fuck is Kid fucking Rock still relevant in any way? I thought he would have just disappeared into obscurity after the 90s ended. Do some people actually still give this guy their money for some reason?

Edit: How the hell does the “ba with the ba with the bang da bang diggy diggy - diggy said the boogie said up drop the boogie” guy have eleven studio albums? And who the hell are the 5.3M monthly listeners on Spotify? This blows my mind!

I didn’t realize this was happening. Where can I find out more about this?

As I keep telling people, they’re not upset about it because their media aren’t telling them about things like this, at least not in the same terms.

Complaining that something good isn’t good enough is certainly helpful. Maybe go find somewhere more appropriate to complain about all of the shitty stuff. Let people enjoy the small wins. There are few enough of them right now that spoiling them with doomerism just makes things worse for everyone.

So you’re going to complain that the people who are actually doing something useful aren’t doing enough rather than doing something useful yourself. Seems a little hypocritical.

I was sure you were wrong ant that $150 was just an incentive to be in the program. That battery owners would be paid for their power.

You were right, though. It really is a flat $150 per year. The company who manages the energy from the batteries gets paid for the energy, not the battery owner.

Why do we always need to complain that something good isn’t good enough? Yes, they didn’t solve the world’s problems. They did make a nice step in the right direction.

If a opiate addict went clean for 72 hours for a drug test they would be in very bad shape by the time they get tested again. It would be completely obvious that they are in withdrawal. They would be very anxious, shivering, vomiting, and shitting.

Retesting after 72 hours is a pretty good indicator that someone isn’t using so long as you also observe physical symptoms.

The law there allows the redistricting to happen if there is a majority vote for redistricting. The law also requires at least 2/3 of members to be present to actually hold a vote. So, this is a tactic that can be used by the minority party to avoid a vote happening at all.

Its a weird law. The democrats have only taken advantage of it a few times and, so far, only for votes relating to redistricting or vote suppression. They did this twice in 2003, once in 2021, and again now. All to stop redistricting or voter suppression votes.