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Not as pervasive as all the people and institutions who hold that killing someone by going 40 in a 25 is just an unfortunate accident!

A fifth grader's letter to my dad...

The media often treats Trump like some sort of Zelig-like character, a mere bystander in his own administration w/no agency or ability to shape decisions. It's really infuriating considering Biden and Obama were both expected to own everything going on in the country all the time.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

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The trump administration and their allies are the most powerful threat to Americans' freedom of speech rights in our nation's history. The voices in the media who repeatedly told the public that Trump stands for free speech are their accomplices in tyranny

The Trump administration says American “terrorists” and “rioters” are assaulting immigration agents. A WSJ investigation found none have been convicted at trial. A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters.

A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive federal campaign to detain and demonize dissenters. on.wsj.com/3PoQMj5

V/FOX NEWS FOX & FRIENDS BLOG Obama Uses Coffee Cup To Salute Marines By • Fox News Published September 24, 2014 4:46am EDT Updated March 30, 2018 1:19am EDT

Obama's coffee cup salute draws criticism Ashley Killough and Eric Weisbrod, CNN Updated 11:20 AM PDT, Wed Sep 24, 2014

TIME SUBSCRIBE E POLITICS WHITE HOUSE Obama's Tea Cup Salute Causes a Storm

Never forget.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

A water desalination plant is presumptively a civilian object & it is an object indispensable to survival.

Targeting a civilian object is a war crime.

Targeting an object indispensable to survival can implicate the starvation war crime.

NB: carnegieendowment.org/emissary/202...

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.

“It was devastating to learn, right from the start, that women were open targets for disrespect and harassment –– even at a world-renowned workplace in the most liberal-leaning city in the country. I was likewise told to steer clear of a particularly chauvinistic male lead in my department.”

Pixar’s Pete Docter Says Queer ‘Elio’ Storyline Was Axed Because “We’re Making A Movie, Not Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Of Therapy” Pixar Chief Creative Officer Pete Docter explained the animation company's decision to ax a queer storyline in last year's Elio.

Am I surprised that a man who was able to thrive at a company where women weren't allowed in the same room as the boss, because he'd grope them, appears to have no ethical backbone? Not even a little.

And I swear to you the Venn diagram of people who don't want gay characters in kids' shows and people who demand that antiblack cartoons from the past remain uncensored and free of warning labels is a single circle.

I hate that entire groups are being prevented from existing in mainstream art because of roughly 200 shrill lunatics who can't be normal about anything.

Footage of a big oil fire in Iran caused by U.S./Israeli attack.

Good visual reminder that war not only has large human and economic costs, it can have environmental impacts as well.

Every Dem needs to be asking themselves in the aftermath of the Trump Regime, first and foremost: "What can I do to permanently weaken the power of the populist Right in America, and permanently strengthen the center-left?"

This is about whether we have a goddamn country at all.

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Photo w caption: A person flees after throwing a homemade explosive device during a protest organized by far-right influencer Jake Lang in front of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's official residence on Saturday. Charly Triballeau / AFP - Getty Images

NBC - Two arrested and two IEDs seized as right wingers hold an anti-Islam demo outside Gracie Mansion today during Ramadan. Not immediately known if Mayor Mamdani was home.

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Hours before the filing deadline, West Virginia lawmakers passed SB 1083, making it a criminal offense for transgender people to use locker rooms matching their gender identity, and SB 590, banning public drag performances with fines up to $25,000 and jail time up to five years for repeat violations

I’ve been told that Democrats focus too much on gender issues.

I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

Very often people try to make me sound like unreasonable fossil for refusing to turn on Siri or have a smart device like an echo. Idk what to tell y’all except that the Luddites were right. Smash that shit with hammers

“Withholding medical care is a form of torture,” she said.
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Deaf 6-year-old boy is deported to Colombia without his medical devices, attorney says A Hayward woman and her two young children were detained and deported to Colombia after they showed up earlier this week for an asylum appointment in San Francisco, her attorney said.

ICE deported a 6 year old deaf child with severe disabilities to Columbia.

Before deporting him, they dragged him from camp to camp without providing his assistive hearing devices or a translator.

This innocent child had no way to communicate or understand what was being done to him:

Everything the Iran hawks of “Foundation for Defense of Democracies” said was wrong.

Diplomacy can’t restrict Iran’s nuclear program.
Wrong

“Maximum pressure” would get a “better deal,” with Iran capitulating.
Wrong

The Iranian regime is brittle and will quickly collapse with a push.
Wrong again

Iran regime change advocates got what they spent decades pushing for—the US to launch a big war to collapse Iran’s government—and they’re still not happy.

Because what they pushed for years was a fantasy of a smooth, easy regime change war that gets everyone to tell them they were right all along.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

this is absolutely correct:i think a big challenge is that american unilateralism has been the default setting for the vast majority of conservatives and liberals in Congress and any attempt to dismantle it faces the challenge that a lot of people don't *want* to have multilaterialism