What captures the fraud that’s our system than the ubiquitous idea that prosecutors should go on to have the appointments and promotions and positions of power and that being a public defender is in and of itself suspicious?
Or: they want to be able to finish the job of wrecking democracy. Which is why they’ve been denying what happened. Burying violence creates the conditions for more violence and keeps perps free for next round of action.
"Until liberals can squarely face what the Supreme Court really is — a highly political, highly ideological, unelected super-legislature — they will continue to be steamrolled by conservative judicial activism" theweek.com/articles/98326…
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Cryptocurrency has completely stopped being floated as the next generation of the concept of money, and is now just an "investment opportunity" that might randomly make you rich so you better get some
The 2009 bitcoin people at least believed in something: Buying drugs online
Their narrative, that they methodically approached a vehicle and found two people passed out, guns, and then helped all while taking a jab at witnesses.
I don't know how, exactly, but Perpetually Aggrieved Online Leftists have evolved a conversational tone perfectly suited to making me want to tear my hair out.
More and more, I think global-scale social media was a mistake.
This air of perpetual grievance, this epistemic closure and fundamentalist insistence upon binary thought would be moderated by relationships in-person.
the idea that sexuality is a Dangerous and Corrupting and Perverting and Evil force, and that it must be controlled, and expressed only in the most anodyne forms possible, for fear of Tainting the Children… like, you do see how that's not liberatory, right??
I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won’t tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 🥰
This is why I have less and less patience each year for purity-at-pride culture: a woman having a picture of her wife on her desk counts as "sexually explicit" to a culture that sees queer existence as inherently sexual.
One of the many, many reasons behind displaying overt sexuality at Pride is that queer liberation requires things that non-queer people demand to be hidden away---not be hidden away.
y'all understand that after they ban abortion, homosexuals and transgenders are their new unifying cause, their new moral panic, their new casus belli, right?
all of us queers, we get to be the new whip to hold their geriatric religious hate coalition together.
I’ve actually unfollowed longtime mutuals over over this. I’m deeply uncomfortable with people hijacking the language of consent to mean “I shouldn’t have to see anything I don’t want to, ever” when that has been the stated reason for oppressing queer people for decades.
Bill O'Reilly once wrote in an editorial that if two men hold hands in public he will have to explain anal fisting to his daughter, which raises serious questions about how he holds hands.
But that's the exact same energy this "kink ruins pride for families" purity culture has.
This one is pretty easy: Kevin McCarthy is working to block a bipartisan congressional investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection because Kevin McCarthy is deeply implicated in the Jan. 6 insurrection
Even as someone who considers themselves pretty sex-positive, I STILL feel this cultural push. It feels like the entire landscape is slanted, and if you don't actively strive against it, you will roll to the point of least resistance, which is Mega Prudishness.
For everyone asking when will we stop going from crisis to crisis?
We won't, this is what the beginning of climate decline looks like, constant natural disasters, political unrest and pandemics due to crumbling infrastructure.
Quit falling for flamboyant lawyers who know how to put on a show and start looking at who was never arrested at all despite being the ringleaders of the crimes
[share author='Max Kennerly' profile='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly' avatar='https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2272212478/b00wlaliuo2qbd5vyit8.jpeg' link='https://twitter.com/MaxKennerly/status/1394386276875395080' posted='2021-05-17 20:16:09']So while extremist groups were openly talking about their plan to use violence to keep Trump in power, the DOJ—filled with stalwart Republicans who have since been picked up by corporate law firms—was ignoring that and instead going after @NunesAlt with a secret subpoena.
1. HIPAA applies to health-care providers, not ordinary folks talking about someone’s medical stuff.
2. If you’re NOT a health-care provider, you can talk *as much as you want* about other people’s medical stuff. Perfectly legal. Breaks no law. Full stop.
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