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Hackers threaten to release Trump documents from Georgia case if they don't get a ransom by Thursday

Politics @kbin.social

RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel says she'll step down March 8

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What Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin shows, and what it hides

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Trump faces some half a billion dollars in legal penalties. How will he pay them?

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Alabama Supreme Court rules frozen embryos are 'children' under state law

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Supreme Court will hear challenge to EPA's 'good neighbor' rule that limits pollution

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Wisconsin Picks New Legislative Maps That Would End Years of GOP Gerrymandering

  • Fair enough, it was watered down in the name of compromise. The last piece of major legislation that I was enthusiastic about was the ACA, and look what that ended being after negotiation/compromise - better than nothing I guess, but, in my opinion, a lost opportunity due to poor leadership. Biden has been fairly effective in that context.

  • Also worth crediting him on the infrastructure deal. This piece of legislation had a lot of needed stuff in it.
    For instance
    Money to replace lead service pipes
    Money for bridges, etc
    A HUGE sorely needed investment in public transportation including passenger rail
    Various green initiatives (ev charger network, solar and power efficiency incentives)
    Etc.

    It has been a really long time since the federal government has delivered anything (besides tax cuts that lean towards the wealthy) so it's a big deal that this was pushed through.

  • Politics @kbin.social

    In historians' Presidents Day survey, Biden vs. Trump is not a close call

    Politics @kbin.social

    How far can cities go to clear homeless camps? The U.S. Supreme Court will decide

    politics @lemmy.world

    Reduce, reuse, redirect outrage: How plastic makers used recycling as a fig leaf

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    Supreme Court to consider whether Trump can be removed from primary ballot

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    Congress devolves into chaos over border and national security funding

  • I like how you casually drop a ridiculous conspiracy at the top. Just how exactly would the rigging work? Are all the owners in on it? The players too? The refs? Vendors? What about Kapernick? Is he in on it too? Maybe I am in in it too?

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    House GOP releases impeachment articles in bid to oust Homeland Security's Mayorkas

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    They watched 2 election workers face abuse, and it's compelling them to serve in 2024

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    Is Trump Really, Truly Going to Be a Dictator?

    News @kbin.social

    How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet

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    10 questions about the New Hampshire primary, including, 'Can anyone beat Trump?'

    Politics @kbin.social

    The Failed Promise of Independent Election Mapmaking

  • Respectfully, I will disagree. 2009 was a tough year and 2020/21 was pretty apocalyptic but day to day life didn't feel as described in this opinion piece (to me at least). I spent much of that period installing irrigation systems and getting by on temp jobs, it wasn't cake, but it wasn't tumbleweeds adrift in a hellish nightmare-scape either.

    I guess what compels me to bother disagreeing is the author is such a fraud, telling us how the last twenty years he spent at 'think-tanks' with catered lunch, and in academia (which is about as far removed from reality as can be) have been just oh-so-awful.
    The last twenty years in Russia, Venezuela, etc., the argument is compelling, but in the U.S., I just don't agree.

  • This is the kind of article that piques my suspicion. It tends towards sensationalism, e.g.:

    'For over two decades now, Americans have been battered by non-stop crises at home and abroad...'

    Have we been 'battered' ? Have the crisis really been non-stop? Fox news/cable outlets tell us we have, but what's driving their agenda.

    And what is the source of this article? Some partisan conservative think-tank guy who isn't particularly insightful, even as far as this type of writing goes.

    This moment may be fraught, but imagine living through the period from JFK's assassination to Watergate. That period must have felt like it was all crumbling.

  • Politics @kbin.social

    What campaign ads tell us about the state of the 2024 election ahead of New Hampshire

  • Anyone who votes for this asshole is, at the very least, okay with all kinds of shitty behavior. From making fun of people with medical conditions, denigrating all stripes of non-white, non-male folks, all the way to attempting to prevent the transfer of presidential administrations through force; All of it is owned by anyone who votes for Trump.

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    Hunter Biden makes a surprise appearance at his own contempt hearing

  • Two years ago, a "once in a hundred years" wind storm downed trees that had been around for decades. Many of them fell on houses, garages, etc. Last year, the once in a hundred years wind storm took down even more. We haven't had the every hundred year storm this year yet but I am expecting it. The issues are serious.

    On a positive note, more of us are adding our voices and resources to combat the profiteers. Join us if you can.

  • Batman returns is really dumb. The movie craftsmanship (or whatever) is well done but the premise is just so stupid (to me). I feel this way about all super hero films, I just can't get past that the source is comic books for kids. I cannot take them seriously.

  • "It proves that Google’s app store practices are illegal and they abuse their monopoly to extract exorbitant fees, stifle competition and reduce innovation."

    Worked for a small publisher that nixed a couple of mobile app projects (that I thought would be really cool) because of the monopoly position Google has. I really dislike how mobile programming is gated by Google+Apple.