I am convinced a candidate of any party running on a platform of actual digital security and data privacy and making it safe to answer your phone again would put up Reagan against Mondale numbers in the electoral college.
The one person I can think of who would go for this is Elon, but only if it helped him look like he was better at the game than he actually was.
This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Honestly think many have bought into the prosperity gospel bullshit and they think hoarding wealth is all they need to show god’s favor. To them, that alone proves they will go to heaven.
Blocks by Sam isn’t quite tetris - you place the pieces into the grid rather than them falling down, but it’s a similar vibe, free and has no ads.
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It is still incredible to me that the club lucked into having Kane come up through the academy and prime Sonny for a decade and instead of using that to build a sports dynasty, this is where we are.
Approximately 70% of the district court judges: the government is lying and disobeying our orders
Sam Altman: I consulted my hallucinating oracle and it said the government is good and also their checks always clear.
Israel has closed all the crossings into Gaza and reimposed total siege.
A tweet from Fetterman’s Senate Twitter account sharing an Axios article about Dems demanding a war powers vote. The text of the tweet reads: Committed Democrat here. I’m a hard no. My vote is Operation Epic Fury. 🇺🇸
His latest is somehow worse? He doesn’t even think the Senate should have a say in whether or not the US wages war?
John McCain even sang a jaunty song about it.
So because two aging despots are desperate to avoid accountability for their lifetimes of corruption and predation (and frankly, just because they like killing), we just started a war for made up reasons and immediately killed a bunch of children.
Everyone involved in this needs to face justice.
"Everyone deserves a nice life" turned out to be a winning message to voters.
And the safety that exists in those cities did not just happen. It was fought for and won after years of struggle, and we should support the people who are fighting that fight in different places now.
It is both true that a letter on an ID document can never define you and that having ID that matches gender presentation is safety and privacy for (some) trans folks.
Kansas cannot invalidate anyone's identity, but they are trying to take away their safety and privacy.
Every trans Kansan's license is being invalidated. Assigned projected this as a consequence of the law as written. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
Also, because the state senate in PA is permafucked, the expectations of him actually working to get meaningful legislation that the left/center-left wants is nonexistent. We absolutely cannot afford a president whose only experience/instinct is to compromise and make deals with republicans.
I remember being in Italy once talking to someone who clearly lived there and spoke fluent Italian and another person came up and interrupted our conversation to warn me and my friends about the person because they were actually Albanian and not really Italian.
This combines the flat bottom for scraping with a scoop, but the angle on the handle isn't quite normal spoon like the original: www.oxo.com/oxo-gg-sheet...
And often in the ruling class bigotry is integral to their origin story/source of wealth and power, so rigid in a different way.
one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files
“Bowman’s extensive criminal history consists of out-of-state incidents, including felony convictions for rape, attempted aggravated robbery and kidnapping, among others.”
So her parent/guardian consented to (or forced) her marriage to a rapist when she was a child?
The last two words take it from "yeah, that sounds about right" to "what in the sweet fried fuck"
How do you make your polenta? I make a veg version of this (use peppers, onion, mushrooms and veg sausage) and finish the polenta with some butter to add richness that balances out the sauce.
Yet another example of the inhumanity of Kavanaugh Stops.
If federal agents refuse to accept the validity of your documentation, you end up in hell.
And where was the water?
Uncanny valley nonsense.
We are doing so much damage to kids right now (on top of the trauma of shootings and everything else) and so few with power seem to care or even notice.
This comes on the heels of the story of how burdened government lawyers are responding to all the lawsuits and habeas petitions. They made sure they had time to work on this because vindictive cruelty aimed at a 5 year old is a priority.
I think they just looked at him being able to groom and manipulate vulnerable teens and young women and think, "Yes! This guy really gets women! I must learn his ways."
It is still incredible to me that this was exactly as bad as critics predicted and yet the political opposition won’t do anything about it because they are not actually a political project interested in using power to make people’s lives better.
