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Not sure why the news media has to keep up with the pretense that these statements are being written by Feinstein herself.

I kinda think Ring doorbells have been a net negative for society too. Republicans in Illinois were running an ad last fall that was just a voiceover put over somebody's Ring doorbell footage of a guy getting beaten up in the street outside. And it's like... yeah, that sucks, but presumably this is a thing that has happened outside of people's houses from time to time throughout human history and it's only now that your doorbell starts automatically filming it.

On 5/2/2023 at 6:02 PM, Ghost_MH said:

Are we now at the point where people are bragging about how they'd love to shoot someone ringing on the wrong doorbell?

 

Texas weatherman going viral over post warning to keep kids from ringing doorbells: 'My 6 was loaded'

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The guy made a follow up post later that was even more fucked up. It turned out to be a little girl looking for her cat, and he wrote two separate times in the same post something like, "I was so mad that I just wanted to yank her by the hair", which adds a whole other dimension of weird to the whole thing.

The fact that he literally wrote down "No mention of Ginny, of course" is wild

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A standoff between House Republicans and President Biden over raising the nation’s borrowing limit has administration officials debating what to do if the government runs out of cash to pay its bills, including one option that previous administrations had deemed unthinkable.

That option is effectively a constitutional challenge to the debt limit. Under the theory, the government would be required by the 14th Amendment to continue issuing new debt to pay bondholders, Social Security recipients, government employees and others, even if Congress fails to lift the limit before the so-called X-date.

That theory rests on the 14th Amendment clause stating that “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.”

 

Some legal scholars contend that language overrides the statutory borrowing limit, which currently caps federal debt at $31.4 trillion and requires congressional approval to raise or lift.

Top economic and legal officials at the White House, the Treasury Department and the Justice Department have made that theory a subject of intense and unresolved debate in recent months, according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Is the Debt Limit Constitutional? Biden Aides Are Debating It. - The New York Times

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As the government heads toward a possible default on its debt as soon as next month, officials are entertaining a legal theory that previous administrations ruled out.

It took them long enough to realize that this was the route they were going to have to go. They're coming a little late to the game with this with a month to go until the limit is breached.

Will be interesting to see what the price point is, but it's way past time for the entire regional cable sports station model to get blown up.

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Residents are being told to "stay inside [and] stay clear" of the crime scene until the investigation has concluded, but do not believe the suspect, a Mexican national, is in the area.

Well the discourse about this one should be particularly deranged.

Don't worry, Dick Durbin is currently drafting a letter asking John Roberts to investigate himself.

Yeah, it's already been announced that he''s gonna veto it.

Just looked up what the "Fischer Trucking Emissions CRA" is and it's exactly what you'd think. Just lets trucks dump out a bunch more smog emissions. Cool.

Been out all day till just now. Great day.

Every so often they would have a good price for something online, but going into the brick and mortar store was always a weird experience. It always felt somehow like the overall footprint of the store was huge but that they didn't actually have a good selection of any one thing that I was looking for.

Prosecutor's memo said Hispanics get tougher plea deals; state attorney calls it a mistake

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State Attorney Jack Campbell said the document misstated his office's policy for plea bargains. "We're not prosecuting people because of race," said Campbell.

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A photograph of the document that was said to be tacked on the wall says to exclude those with “Extensive Criminal History and/or Hispanic” from diversion programs, or to have adjudication withheld. 

Campbell explained a junior prosecutor who was leaving the position in Jefferson County wrote procedural guidelines for their successor and had used the wrong words and misstated the policy. 

"Undocumented immigrant," not "Hispanic," should have been coupled with extensive criminal history, said Campbell, after a photograph of the document was published on the Our Tallahassee website.  

Uhhhh, yeah, we had an explicitly racist policy for plea bargains. On accident though.

Stephen King has a check mark despite not having signed up for Blue and Elon's admitted now that he's paying for it personally out of spite, I guess, because King criticized him. Which is basically an admission that most people see a blue check as a badge of shame. This dude's brain is soup at this point.

Activist at "Cop City" training center site had 57 gunshot wounds, autopsy report says

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The results differ from those of an independent autopsy performed at the request of the activist's family.

Jesus

No right-wing social media alternative is ever going to take off, because people on the right don't actually want to have a discussion amongst themselves, they want to have an audience of punk leftist kids that they can try and trigger by being as obnoxious as possible.

The fact that it's Walgreens is significant because their CFO admitted a few months ago that in the last two years they've basically ginned up a panic about shoplifting serving no real purpose

Walgreens executive says 'maybe we cried too much last year' about theft

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Walgreens acknowledged it may have overblown concerns about thefts in their stores after shrinkage stabilized over the past year. 

Not even just a single ad, but specifically it's a one minute long Instagram video that I never would've seen in my life had there not been a two week long right-wing media blitz about it.

Texas judge Matthew Kacsmaryk did not disclose law review article to Senate - The Washington Post

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The judge who delivered a high-stakes abortion pills ruling last week removed his name from a law review article during his judicial nomination process, emails obtained by The Post show.

Hey look, it's a conservative judge hiding something damaging again. Who could've predicted.

Update: Clarence Thomas's mom has been added to the Garden of Evil

It's moments like this--where you have prominent writers and political figures all the way from the far right to what you could generously call the center-left--all popping at once to say, "I don't understand why people keep ragging on the billionaire nazi garden. I have also taken many trips to the billionaire nazi garden," that really de-mystifies how things have gotten to be as fucked as they are.

Gov. Greg Abbott announces he will push to pardon Daniel Perry who was convicted of murder

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Abbott's pardon tweet published less than 24 hours after Tucker Carlson called out the governor on his broadcast to say that Texas did not recognize the right of self-defense.

Can't really understate how gross the idea of immediately pardoning this guy is when you click through and read the details of the case, including the fact that he was basically fantasizing about shooting protesters days before the shooting happened.

Within minutes of each other this afternoon, separate judges released rulings on mifepristone, the abortion drug. One banning it and one requiring the FDA to continue allowing it. So I guess the abortion pill now exists within some sort of a quantum realm.