Syn Fawkes

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Tabletop gamer, combat sports enthusiast, lawyer, photographer, and geeky foster parent. Giver of legal advice to Midwest Furry Fandom, Inc.

What's here are my own opinions, not those of anyone else.

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I'm sorry what now? You can't call yourself a Christian if you, you know, reject the teachings attributed to the guy you believe started your whole religion. If you read what Jesus is supposed to have said and think "nah" then you're the problem. newrepublic.com/post/174950/...

Christianity Today Editor: Evangelicals Call Jesus “Liberal” and “Weak”newrepublic.com A former evangelical leader is sounding the alarm about the direction his religion is headed in.

Biden's plan is aimed at preventing large, corporate landlords from raising rents by more than their costs increase. It requires Congressional approval, so it won't happen this year, but it seems like a good way to distinguish between the parties in a lot of races. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Biden announces cap on rent priceswww.bbc.com The plan would cut off tax benefits for landlords if they raise rent by more than 5%.

So this has been bouncing around and I was initially skeptical of it, but apparently there might actually be something to this. I'm not a tax lawyer so I can't really say one way or another, but they did publish Project 2025 and they've also sponsored the Republican National Convention.

Hey here's what you get when you read news instead of op-eds. www.cnn.com/2024/07/12/b...

You might have just missed Earth-shattering economic news | CNN Businesswww.cnn.com We did it, y’all! Get the Champagne on ice and gather the townsfolk because America hath slain the beast known as inflation. (Or, at least, it’s hit a turning point.)

Unsurprisingly, Senator Manchin also wants more dead kids on his hands.

I mean... This reminds me of 2016 and the hatchet job people who should ostensibly be supporting her did on Clinton. Go figure.

Hey if you want to send a message to media outlets about how they're covering this election, stop reading op-eds. That's where this bullshit is coming from. The outlets know every click we make and what we read and don't read. If op-ed traffic drops off a cliff, we'll get less of it.

Well I guess I just can't interact with anyone online if I don't want a firehose of existential dread.

Well I guess it's time for the President to order federal agents to kill Donald Trump as a sponsor of terrorism then since he'd be immune from prosecution for it later. www.politicspa.com/breaking-sup...

BREAKING: Supreme Court Rules Former Presidents Have Some Immunity For Official Actswww.politicspa.com Former presidents also have absolute immunity for core constitutional powers

This is why we have Pride. And we will keep having Pride until everyone gets to feel this way no matter who they love or how they live their authentic life.

Tried to put my feelings into words, so here it is: First time ever I was out acting openly with a boyfriend, in front of my family, and folks close enough to be family. Never a hint of judgment or discrimination, all of them loved Evan. Legitimately a feeling I’ll chase for the rest of my life

Get fucked, cowards.

JUST IN: The former Uvalde school police chief and an officer are indicted in the first criminal charges filed over the failed response to the 2022 mass shooting

Former Uvalde school police chief, officer indicted in 1st-ever criminal charges over failed response to 2022 mass shooting | CNNwww.cnn.com A grand jury has indicted two former Uvalde school police officers in the botched law enforcement response to the 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary school that left 19 children and two teachers de...

See? Even people as stupid as this idiot can use the singular "they."

Thrilled to know we got water in the woke wars.

Marian is done with all of this bullshit.

I mean all you really need to know about it is that people who think January 6th wasn't a series of crimes think it's a good plan. Don't give terrorists what they want.

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administration www.mediamatters.org/heritage-fou...

A guide to Project 2025, the extreme right-wing agenda for the next Republican administrationwww.mediamatters.org Project 2025, a comprehensive transition plan organized by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to guide the next GOP presidential administration, is the conservative movement’s most robust p...

OK... Somebody definitely did their homework.

Ohhhh Null...you are...absolutely fucked. Just ohhhhh boy.

I hope everyone finds a safe way to come out and live their authentic selves but it's not a race. There's no schedule.

Friendly reminder: While everyone's making a big thing about pride, and coming out of the closet, let's remember that not everyone is ready, or able, to come out safely. This is why we must keep fighting.

That. Right there.

If even *one* queer kid in a hostile community feels less alone by seeing a rainbow flag at Target or a cookie-cutter ‘love is love’ sign, that’s more important and consequential than every argument against ‘corporate Pride’ combined.

Understand that if you do switch, there are going to be tradeoffs. Like Chrome gets security updates faster and more frequently. That's more important than robust ad blocking to me but YMMV.

Once again: folks should probably consider switching to Firefox. Especially if you, I don't know, rely on ad-blocking to navigate our glutted-as-shit modern internet, for instance? arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next weekarstechnica.com Chrome's Manifest V3 transition is here. First up are warnings for any V2 extensions.

Fucked around. Found out.

NEW: DC board on professional responsibility recommends that Rudy Giuliani be disbarred: "No prior disciplinary cases involving frivolous litigation are remotely comparable to this case." Case goes next to DC Court of Appeals for final judgment. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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Fucked around. Found out. www.cbsnews.com/news/jenna-e...

Jenna Ellis, ex-Trump campaign legal adviser, has Colorado law license suspended for 3 yearswww.cbsnews.com Jenna Ellis, who served as a legal adviser to former President Trump during the 2020 election, cannot practice law in Colorado for three years.

What bothers me the most about this is that Clinton ran on the most progressive platform any Democratic POTUS candidate had run on in decades but too many people believed decades of GOP smear jobs on her. She would have been a good, solid President and instead we got Trump.

I genuinely don't know why she does this to herself, and think it's kinda sad.

Two minutes. We were tidying up for two minutes...

In Georgia? Damn...

"... the contract will provide all 1,500 covered workers with at least a 12% raise, with some of the lowest-paid workers getting raises of more than 40%. The union says the company will contribute to a retirement plan for workers, share profits, & improve health & safety." apnews.com/article/scho...

Workers at Georgia school bus maker Blue Bird approve their first union contractapnews.com Workers at a Georgia school bus manufacturer have approved their first union contract. The United Steelworkers union won a union vote in May 2023 at Blue Bird Corp.'

Finally a legitimate reason for civilians to own AR-15's...

As an American and as someone who enjoys participating in American past times. I don't agree with punching Nazis, I believe they need to be taken out back with an M1 Garand using .30-06. But we aren't dealing with Grandpa's Nazis. So I will be upgrading to an M1A and using .308 Win instead.

I'd watch that movie.

Mechanical-Armed Grimes Flees Elon Musk Compound With Five Wives In Stolen Cybertruckwww.theonion.com CHIHUAHUAN DESERT, TX—Tearing through the desert wasteland with a fleet of self-driving Tesla Model 3s in pursuit, a mechanical-armed Grimes reportedly fled Elon Musk’s compound Friday with five of th...

Well damn... www.wgem.com/2024/03/27/i...

Sometimes you just need to unwind after a bit of murder. What better way than getting thoroughly spit roasted?

archiveofourown.org/works/545429... Vignette commission for @synicism.bsky.social starring his Khajiit OC Jonas and my Argonian OC Uncle Rashula from The Amorous Argonian Adventurer. :) #furry #furrywriting #nsfw

Vignettes - Chapter 2 - TA_Blackstone - Original Work [Archive of Our Own] archiveofourown.org An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Considering who Trader Joe's customers are, I don't see this as a winning strategy for them. Maybe it's time for @traderjoesunited.bsky.social to make the company's stance more widely known. westsidetoday.com/2024/01/31/t...

Trader Joe’s Challenges Labor Board’s Constitutionality Amidst Union-Busting Accusationswestsidetoday.com Constitutional Clash: Grocery Chain Asserts Unconstitutionality in Defense Against NLRB Charges A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) hearing in Connecticut...