Not punishing them hasn’t worked. Two Democratic administrations have decided that the people unjustly wielding government for self-enrichment, bigotry, and war no longer being in power had solved the problem and we shouldn’t get distracted with the past. And now we’re once again in a war in the Middle East for political purposes and seeing corruption and bigotry flourish. With some of the exact same characters and a whole new cast freshly emboldened because they think nothing they do holds any risk. And they’re using the powers built up during those prior sprees that were never dismantled to enact their goals.

That’s worked so well every other time we’ve removed criminals from power and just decided to move on and put the past behind us. When there are no consequences for corrupt use of power, you might as well take your shot and take what you can. The worst it ends is you just going back into private society and living the same life you would be otherwise. And then the next generation of fascists, warmongers, and corrupt officials see it and plan their path.

Yeah. Mackenzie Bezos inherited her fat stacks and she’s been dropping like a stone on the wealth rankings. Inherent in the state of being a billionaire is having more money than you could ever need and not using it to help others.

Press photography does not need to be flattering. It can also be framed to tell a story.

If it “works” it’ll be in being applied selectively. They can not apply it in red zip codes and apply it in blue ones, aided by whatever voter database Republicans build. Say some sort of grandfather clause where certain types of existing voters (like those whose grandfathers were all voters) didn’t need to reapply.

If anything, the more he leans on them the less they do his bidding. They’re all part of the same fascist project, but some of them want to do it the old way where they pretend to be serious people doing a job. Their words often end up as legal nonsense, but they’ve gone through the motions and formatted it as if they were professional. Trump showing up to stare them down is an insult to their pride.

One of the sources, who claims Banks tried to invite him along on one of these trips, told the Examiner, “I don’t know how he became the chief of the Border Patrol with his character. He’s going to third-world countries to take advantage of poor f------ women, which disgusts the hell out of me.”

This guy is so close to getting it.

Yeah, these are my supposedly the most political people around and yet few feel a compilation to join a flagship gathering of people from their party. There were a couple electeds at the last one that I only found out about after the fact. But only a couple in a very blue area.

Large protest gatherings are a demonstration that there are enough people out there who are also pissed off that a general strike could be feasible. They don’t make it happen, there’s still further steps, but you don’t get to the general strike in a country with so few politically inclined unions without the protests paving the way.

There were passengers in the car too! If this wasn’t in a legit paper I’d assume this was either madlibs or really bad AI.

The passengers flagged down a cop, so I assume they felt like they had a pretty solid explanation of how a quadruple amputee shot a guy, because otherwise they’re the number one suspects.

Remember, the mask doesn’t prevent deep and sustained eye contact while they’re grabbing your junk. Make it weird.

He certainly didn’t become a billionaire by charging them reasonable fees for the financial and computational infrastructure his company provided.

Billionaires should die as young as possible, by whatever means karma chooses.

That was James Comey.

It’s not, it’s just not “for protesting”.

ACAB and good for him, but describing killing a cop as “protesting” isn’t really trying to honestly share the news.

The president has consistently denied any wrongdoing and has characterized efforts to release the full files as a “hoax.” He has not been accused of criminal wrongdoing, and an appearance in the Epstein files does not suggest otherwise.

The fuck he hasn’t. He hasn’t been indicted for criminal wrong doing related to the files, but he’s a felon and he most certainly has been accused in the files.

I think it’s supposed to be for like deleting logs or financial records when a search is imminent. But in that case it’s based on the stuff you’re concealing containing evidence of a crime. Some zines aren’t that.

Neither bottles nor cans will actually explode because the difference between the cabin and sea level air pressure isn’t that much and the containers are already able to handle some. When you’d open a plastic bottle you’d get a bit of a pop. And if you drank most of the bottle and resealed it, it’d crumple when you returned to sea level.

The effect only applies to gas since it’s compressible under pressure. Liquid isn’t, so it doesn’t matter what the outside pressure is. So the cans (and full bottles) might have a little pop from the gas at the top and it might be a little fizzier at altitude, but most of the volume is liquid so it’s not that much.

“I understand that the landlord needs to get paid.”

Seems like any time the federal government tells a worker they need to work without pay they should also mandate that all their debts and rent should be paused as well.