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Same soup, just reheated. I post about law (not a lawyer), science (not a scientist), and assorted history (neither assorted nor a historian)

don't expect consistent moods or themes, this is a dumpzone™️

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Count 1: The perpetrator was in contact with 'a friend in Russia' to get advice. The perpetrator was 18. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/new-j...

New Jersey Man Charged with Soliciting Destruction of Energy Facilitieswww.justice.gov Andrew Takhistov, 18, of East Brunswick, New Jersey, was arrested yesterday and made his initial appearance in court today for allegedly soliciting another individual to destroy energy facilities.

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His full name is Jabroni Dickwad Vance

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Arizona’s school voucher experiment has led to a budget meltdown. The state this year faced a $1.4 billion budget shortfall, much of which was a result of the new voucher spending.

School Vouchers Were Supposed to Save Taxpayer Money. Instead They Blew a Massive Hole in Arizona’s Budget.www.propublica.org Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state program...

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the GOP works in absolute synchronicity with telecom monopolies to ensure that U.S. broadband and wireless consumer protection is as feckless and broken as possible, though oddly that's context news organizations don't think is important for readers to understand

Consumer Broadband Privacy Protections Are Deadwww.techdirt.com Last week, the Senate voted 50-48 along party lines to kill consumer broadband privacy protections. That vote then continued today in the House, where GOP lawmakers finished the job, apparently hap…

I haven't seen a single post about this part of project 2025.

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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/

The Shareholder Supremacywww.wheresyoured.at I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft and Google can proliferate unprofitable, unsustainable

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YES THAT WORKED SO WELL AND DID NOT AT ALL THROW THE PARTY INTO A DIVISIVE NOMINATION CONTEST AND LOST ELECTION THAT WOULD HAUNT IT FOR THE NEXT HALF CENTURY

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the rainforest cafe won’t be authentic enough for me if they don’t bulldoze 40% of the restaurant while i’m there.

not sure which will get people to vote Biden: the carrot of an administration that will likely outlive Biden and (potentially) swing left in 2029 or the stick of an administration and leader that want to (potentially) dismantle every three letter agency in their way

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I hope when Twisters hits theaters they have a Dune-style fuckable popcorn bucket that rotates at 300mph like a real tornado

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"Between 1976 and 1985, states that passed the laws saw their domestic violence rates against men and women fall by about 30%; the number of women murdered by an intimate partner declined by 10%; and female suicide rates declined by 8 to 16%." www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Conservative US lawmakers are pushing for an end to no-fault divorcewww.theguardian.com Republicans in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Texas have discussed eliminating or restricting such cases

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all I wanna do is *gunshots* and a *cash register noise* protect your balls

Oopsie Poopsie, he's not impartial! Judge Blacklock was actually as hand-picked by Abbott as you could possibly be!

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the billionaire brunchlord owners of a highly consolidated media are engaged in an active campaign to shift the editorial overton window ever rightward

The New Washington Post Leadership Is a Disaster for Democracy | Dame Magazinewww.damemagazine.com In the weeks leading up to a presidential election, the quality of a media outlet’s coverage can swing an entire country from calm prosperity to complete chaos. It sounds hyperbolic, but political rac...

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They are genuinely evil

Wisconsin Republicans block PFAS cleanup until polluters are granted immunitywww.theguardian.com GOP-controlled committee thwarting distribution of $125m budgeted by legislature until polluter immunity approved

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"The jury on Monday ordered the multinational banana producer to pay $38.3 million to 16 family members of farmers and other civilians who were killed in separate episodes by the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia — a right-wing paramilitary group that Chiquita bankrolled from 1997 to 2004."

Chiquita Held Liable for Deaths During Colombian Civil Warwww.nytimes.com A South Florida jury found the company liable for killings committed by a paramilitary group that was on the banana producer’s payroll.

you blame Betsy DeVos for gutting public education. i blame Zelman v Simmons-Harris. we are not the same.

Of course it's Texas. And of course it's to dodge as much regulation as possible.

Equities in Dallas www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

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Imagining transcript of two LLM clones getting into a discursive conversation about how many rocks to eat.

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I was not aware of all of these roadblocks to the attempted coup investigation that had to be overcome. It’s worth the read

The Facts About Merrick Garlandmuellershewrote.substack.com Just the facts; free from outrage and unmotivated by profit.

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they were all in love with dying they were doing their own taxes

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Ding ding, that how these laws were written: banning extradition of nonfugitives. But they are still untested as of yet evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

i sometimes wonder how this story ended. but then again, do i really want to know? www.bbc.com/news/world-a...

Why an Indian couple is suing their son over grandchildrenwww.bbc.com A son is duty-bound to look after parents but must he deliver grandchildren too?

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Every low level lanyard job person in DC: please don’t wear a campaign button in my house, someone could see it and I might get in trouble SCOTUS: first you take a loan from someone with business before the court and then you just don’t pay it back. Did you see my insurrection flag.

would you still love me if i was a brain worm

Russia's IRA has now had a few years to use AI to write their noise, and I'm honestly not sure we'll ever be able to quantify the magnitude of disinformation they've pumped into the discourse. one for historians to figure out, I guess.

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Anyways, I'm spending my evening FOIA'ing public universities to see what college presidents are saying to their police departments.

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wireless providers are finally being fined $192 million for location data abuses first revealed six years ago of course the fines are a pittance compared to the money made from decades of data surveillance. And they're planning to appeal and may pay significantly less.

FCC fines AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon for illegally sharing location datawww.theverge.com The carriers, which have been fined nearly $200 million, plan to appeal.