As expected, the stupid pigs are running around pointing guns at random people just because they can get away with it.

Police in this country are out of control. Those guns shouldn't leave their holsters unless they see a weapon. They shouldn't be pointed at a person unless that person is pointing a weapon at someone else. There's ZERO evidence that the guy they are looking for is even armed.

Put the guns away, pigs.

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There isn't a labor shortage. There's a living wage shortage.

And while more open borders are generally a great idea, we also need a MUCH higher minimum wage. At this point it should be at least $20/hour.

Well, that's stupid. I guess this judge likes being overruled.

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The right to vote should never be taken away in the first place. Set up voting booths in the prisons.

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If she didn't have her grandfather's politics, I might agree with you.

She's a neo-fascist.

Mental health care in this country is an absolute disaster.

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Poland knew or should have known that any such agreement to enable torture on Polish soil was illegal, and the word of any government official guaranteeing its secrecy could not be relied upon.

And Poland is subject to the International Criminal Court. Torture is a crime under international law. Prosecute them.

No real surprise, especially when you consider that AT&T as it exists today isn't really AT&T anyway, it's SBC, the regional Bell which renamed itself AT&T after buying AT&T long distance. You also won't be surprised to know it's based in Texas.

She'll be primaried. Sadly, that's not until 2024.

And she deserved what she got in this video.

Oh good. Wonderful timing.

We keep trying to assure idiots that their vaccines don't have microchips because that's impossible with current technology.

And now these jerks make a chip almost small enough for it to be theoretically possible.

Bonus: The chip is actually intended to be used for nefarious purposes.

Oh good, my state is one of them.

I refreshed web sites, I got on waiting lists, and I got the vaccine about a week after the first day I was eligible.

I've been fully vaccinated since April.

At this point all anyone has to do in this country is walk into a pharmacy and say "Hi! I'd like a COVID vaccine" and they get it then and there.

I'm sick of their excrement.

The debt ceiling is unconstitutional. It's way past time for Democrats to keep playing this idiotic game.

Ignore it. Stop playing the game. Stop pretending that it's real.

"Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4: The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned."

There is no debt ceiling. If a law authorizes spending the money the debt is inherently valid and "shall not be questioned".

What we really need is a color-changing roofing material. Ultra-white in the summer, ultra-black in the winter.

Something like this would be amazing in Arizona and horrific in Minnesota.

I didn't even remember this particular admission of treason.

He shouldn't be walking around. He should be spending the rest of his life in prison.

Ok, so a few things here:

1. I do not care about this idiot rich girl at all.

2. It should be significantly easier to terminate a conservatorship. At this point, it's nearly impossible to end one. What needs to happen is that if a person subject to a conservatorship is capable of coming into court, demonstrating that they understand what a conservatorship is, and articulating their desire to end it, the default should be that the conservatorship is immediately terminated. The entire concept of a conservatorship is that someone who is profoundly disabled and unable to understand how to manage their own affairs is placed under the care and management of someone else. If that is not true or is no longer true, the conservatorship should be ended.

3. Given that this particular idiot rich girl is having so much difficulty getting a demonstrably abusive and unnecessary conservatorship terminated, think about what an average non-rich person who is trapped in a conservatorship that should not exist is facing.

I read so many papers in the last few years. This XKCD covers it pretty well:

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There's nothing in the constitution that limits the number of reconciliation bills per year. They can have as many as they want, reinterpreting the rules on that is a simple majority vote, just like ending the filibuster would be.

But I think it's time to go ahead and end this debt ceiling nonsense anyway. It's unconstitutional. The Biden admin should say so, proceed to ignore it, and let the GQP either live with that or get it shot down once and for all at the SCOTUS.

And if that's too hard for them, a couple trillion dollar coins struck at the mint would solve it too.

A while back there was an article in local media about a restaurant owner who was going to be closing two days a week because she couldn't find employees.

She was whining that people with experience were refusing to work for less than $20/hour, and she 'just couldn't pay that' with her 10% margins.

The article was written as if people should feel sorry for the whiny crybaby who refused to pay a fair wage.

Once it's approved the feds should withhold funds from any school that doesn't make it mandatory for in-person attendance. This has gone on for too long.

AT&T's CEO should get 12 years in prison for locking the phones in the first place.

It's time to ban the despicable practice of carrier locking. Prohibit phone chipsets from even being capable of it.

Hmm. I should try that yeast. I'm not really interested in getting to 28%, I'm just curious to see what it would do with a mead. I usually go for a sweet mead that finishes about 18% with champagne yeast, this might push it a little bit higher.

Break up ALL the big banks. If it's too big to fail, it's too big to be allowed to exist.

The claim that California's population is declining is categorically false.

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And masks. Don't forget masks.

Excellent article. Lee was a garbage general and a worse human.

The Jim Crow statues of him don't belong in a museum, they belong in a smelter. Seeing the Richmond one get the sawzall was beautiful.