How does using this sort of technology not violate the 4th Amendment?

Under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, citizens are protected against unreasonable searches and seizures.

However, if law enforcement demonstrates probable cause that a device contains evidence of a crime, a judge can legally authorize an "unreasonable" intrusion via a warrant.

The question is, of course, does the Bag Man have probable cause and does he even care if he does? And does he even bother with warrants?

Accountability is coming. Preserve all documents for the upcoming investigations.

Slavery doesn't exist, the problem has been resolved

Slavery does exist.

The problem hasn't been resolved.

You're lying.

#150 | POSTED BY CLOWNSHACK

It's what commie spyboy does. Lie.

Reconstruction was a complete failure.

Southern States made sure of it. Northern States gave up.

Reconstruction failed due to violent white supremacist resistance, a lack of northern political will, and the return of white-elite-dominated southern governments.

When Reconstruction collapsed, America was left with a deeply divided nation, a crippled multiracial democracy, and an entrenched system of racial oppression. The end of federal oversight allowed the South to establish Jim Crow laws and severely marginalize Black Americans for a century.

Now we have institutional racism.

If you really want to solve a problem you first have to admit you have one.

And btw. Institutional racism is not our only unsolved problem.

Who will fight to preserve a nation once they've been convinced it's basis morally corrupt?

#132 | POSTED BY VISITOR

We are not perfect. We ARE perfectly imperfect. We have problems that need to be addressed. Not swept under the rug.

Admitting you have a problem is the first step in resolving it.

All of the Americans who still believe in a more perfect Union will continue to strive for a more perfect Union.

While you and Trumpy continue to lie to yourselves about the "communists" hiding under your beds. Apparently.

Re 3

Nice selection!

Re 5

My patience with that lying hateful fool ran out about 10 years ago.

Just running on fumes now. Lots o fuming.

Beverly has a soul?

Nice! I woulda never guessed.

#31 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2026-07-25 12:43 PM | FLAG:

Posting a readable link would prove a bit of intelligence.

#32 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

It's a PDF of a court document.

It does require a reading level above 8th grade.

You come here spouting lies and maga nonsense saying -where's the evidence?- but when facts are provided then you whine oh that's no good it's too hard to read?

GFY magatard.

"What has a Palestinian ever done to you, Marine?"

Nada

Since it's censored I thought he meant they were F-ed.

Because they are obviously F-ed.

Palestinians are ------.

#46 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

Yes they are.

Regardless.. the odds are not in your favor.

The White House now says the deal is contingent on Saudi Arabia signing the Abraham Accords. What are the prospects for the Saudis agreeing to that?

It seems unlikely. The Saudis have been clear since at least mid-2024 that for them to normalize ties with Israel, there would need to be a serious and time-limited diplomatic process that leads to the establishment of a Palestinian state. This is a requirement that under present political circumstances, Israel cannot satisfy. Polls show that about two-thirds of Israelis oppose a two-state solution and all of Israel's opposition political candidates have studiously avoided addressing the issue ahead of the country's late October elections.

Sorry. Too many words.

Bottom line. Many if not most employer based insurance was for the benefit of the employer. Not the employee.

Prior to 1973 health insurance was mostly non-profit. Is that better -------?

#18 | POSTED BY VISITOR_

Well, fart blossom, it really depends on how far back you go but it still doesn't cover it

Most "health insurance" was not very comprehensive and did not even cover medical expenses but was for income protection.

Employer based insurance was mostly for the protection of the company profits.

Employment-related medical programs occasionally covered not only work-related injuries but also general medical care for workers, their families, and even the larger community (Somers and Somers, 1961; Munts, 1967; Brandes, 1976). In the early part of this century, company medical services could be one component of "welfare capitalism," a range of housing, education, social assistance, and other programs intended to socialize workers, bind them to their employer, and discourage unions. Instead of or in addition to providing company hospitals and doctors, some employers assisted employee mutual benefit associations with financial and clerical aid. Most general accounts of these associations do not make clear whether they protected against medical care expenses, and to what extent, or simply against loss of income due to injury or illness. In any case, although a few companies, such as Eastman Kodak, made large contributions to these employee programs, a 1916 Public Health Service survey found only one company of 425 that fully funded such a program, and most assistance was quite limited (Munts, 1967; Brandes, 1976).

For the most part, physician organizations opposed company-provided medical care as a threat to their autonomy and income. During the early part of this century, this opposition discouraged many companies from expanding their involvement in medical care. For example, after the company doctor at Sears, Roebuck resigned because the county medical society refused him membership, his successor persuaded the company to stop providing services to workers' families at reduced prices and to provide only periodic examinations and other limited care to employees (Starr, 1982).

Workers had different concerns (Brandes, 1976). Company doctors were often seen as serving the company before the patient, for example, in reporting illnesses discovered during physical examinations and in making judgments about whether injuries were work-related and thus required some compensation to the employee. Also, many workers preferred to choose their own physician. As a consequence of these and other concerns, unions often pressed for cash benefits instead of company medical services (Starr, 1982).

BTW the article is behind a paywall, can't see what shenanigans NYT is up to.

#18 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTHRDS

So you are talking about something that you have no clue about?

Sounds about right.

Here is the documentary evidence you asked for.

Re 15

Better catch it while you can before Trumpy or his acolytes notice and remove the website.

Re 13

It's a good article but not supportive of your lie.

It's a lie because you tried to indicate all insurance before 1973 was non profit. Not ALL was and not all was based in empathy for others but many times on the profits of the employer.

A better and more comprehensive history of health care in America:

Can anyone name another POTUS who demanded and was grated SCOTUS access so frequently?

They found new (old) tool to bypass normal "hoi polloi" case procedures.

The SHADOW DOCKET

Any time you catch a glance of it, you quickly turn away.

"Turning away" is a sure sign of a Fake Plastic Christian.

On the turning away
From the pale and downtrodden
And the words they say
Which we won't understand

"Don't accept that what's happening
Is just a case of others' suffering
Or you'll find that you're joining in
The turning away"

"Saudi Arabia is on the verge of joining in the Abraham Accords."

How's that two state solution coming along?

It's my understanding that Saudi Arabia is unlikely to sign anything. It depends heavily on U.S. negotiations and Palestinian statehood.

So how are those negotiations coming along?

Saudi Arabia has to balance its regional standing, the political realities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and its domestic priorities.

Bone Saw is unlikely to sign anything until the Palestinian conflict is resolved with a two state solution as its position has always been that it will not join the accords until an independent Palestinian state is recognized.

I loved it. Zeus had his own "golden rule", Xenia.

Every stranger and beggar/ comes from Zeus.

May Zeus avenge your rights!

While many major health insurers (like early Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans) operated as nonprofits, the industry itself was not exclusively nonprofit.

For-profit commercial health insurance companies existed and competed in the market well before 1973.

Nixon definitely did not help the situation or move towards a universal healthcare system. He did the opposite of what was needed for the health of America.

As republicans tend to do.

Re 8

Another day .. another lie.

It's that the GOP doesn't care if you get sick, exhaust your life savings, lose your house and die.

#3 | POSTED BY NIXON

You are being too kind to them. It's worse.

They actually WANT half of America to suffer, get sick, exhaust their life savings, lose everything and hopefully die. So that they cannot resist Trumpy's evil plans any longer. Apparently.

Exhibit A:

"We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want to put them in trauma."

-Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and key architect of Project 2025

And no, this isn't just internet mythology anymore. Analyses using Google Trends and porn search data repeatedly found strong search interest in trans porn concentrated in conservative and MAGA-heavy regions. Texas appears constantly in the conversation. So do parts of the South and Midwest.

According to a 2022 analysis of Google search trends, 15 of the 20 states with the highest search interest in transgender porn voted Republican in the 2020 presidential election.

Meanwhile, MAGA politics has become almost erotically obsessed with trans athletes despite the actual number of trans athletes being statistically microscopic. NCAA president Charlie Baker testified there were fewer than 10 transgender athletes competing among roughly 500,000 NCAA athletes nationwide. Yet entire political campaigns now revolve around them.

And you know this because???

#11 | POSTED BY FISHPAW

It is documented.

I'm not sure if the crab thing is true, though.

It's a metaphor. It's true enough. Have you ever watched crabs in a bucket?

I think it depends on the human "crabs" you are stuck in your human bucket with.

Some crabs will crawl up your back to save themselves.

Some will let you crawl up their backs and so YOU can save yourself ... some will try and help others.

But many times no one will escape the bucket they find themselves in because they are all the same type of crab. Selfish stupid and thoughtless and "climbing" (competing ?) is all they know and all they want to know.

Re 14

Yes. It's a "thing".

I did not make it up.