Kind of an empty news story when DOJ is simultaneously fighting over half the states in court to even get this data in the first place and likely to lose that fight, but I’m not surprised CBS is pretending this is a done deal to scare people away from voting

It’s not relevant until it is. Self described democracies that are unable to respond to popular sentiment get unstable.

Exactly. It’s anecdotal but most people I have met in my American life are quietly good people. Their biggest problem is finding the courage to speak up when a loud jerk is doing their thing.

I know there are some members of this community who are at least as surprised that anybody living in Arkansas has a moral compass

Yeah, I’m not totally sure I would go as far as requiring criminal charges to kick things off, but their ought to be some restraints on recalls. Besides stability in government being at least somewhat important, it’s unfair to the past electorate who voted whichever candidate in for a given term to have a different electorate (because new people are always becoming eligible and other people are passing away or otherwise becoming inelligble) come along and mess with that.

Fair point in practice, but in theory that’s a campaign finance regulation problem not a recall election problem

I think it’s less a matter of people clinging to anything than just not knowing what to do because of everything you mention in that final paragraph. I think more people are willing to sacrifice for a greater good than is commonly realized, but nobody wants to sacrifice themselves for nothing, and that’s almost certainly what would come from trying to take forceful action at this point. I sympathize with being deeply frustrated, but honestly I think the best thing a good comrade can do for the revolution right now is to try to survive for long enough for a better opportunity to present itself.

So it costs the Pentagon $435 to purchase a $15 hammer, maybe, but it all depends on which numbers they choose to present because their accounting practices are a total mess. Yay?

I would include these CEOs of private prison companies in the group of grifters who need some sort of criminal punishment, but if they’re willing to give testimony against the government officials they worked with some sort of leniency may be appropriate.

It’s all awful, but in terms of the scale of awfulness the systematic human rights abuses are worse than the graft imo.

Yep, and having seen all the ways for profit market based entities have screwed people over my entire life I think the only real answer to this problem of construction is a massive public works project. Housing healthcare education and public safety are all too important to be left up to markets.

Even if this exact version gets passed into law, courts are going to kill the ban on venture capital buying homes or the rich assholes will just find a loophole, and the slashing of regulations and subsidies just mean for profit developers are going to get paid taxpayer money to build barely affordable shit boxes that will fall apart in a few years

We need actual public housing and to tax the big investors out of existence

“Plan to close doors in front of smouldering crater where barn once stood under consideration”

Furthermore, Miguez’s campaign responded to the Guardian’s list of questions about the police report by providing a 24 February email sent by the accuser’s father to the state senator’s office, which had the sentence: “Everything my daughter has reported about you were lies and she is a liar and has a drug problem.”

The email doesn’t elaborate on precisely how the author knows his daughter told lies, and he didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. But Miguez’s campaign said in a statement: “The woman’s father gave permission to share this email with you.”

This is like the most abuser coded series of actions and statements short of actually assaulting someone I can imagine

I found folding chairs for $30 each just now without even trying, there is absolutely no justifying $1000 on a damn chair

OK, well that ain’t Newsom. He may win the primary if we’re unlucky but there’s no way he’s winning the general without turning out the whole Democratic party, and this transphobic nonsense he chose to engage in has made sure that won’t happen.

Fortunately, there’s still plenty of time to rally around a different nominee

Green and Menefee will go to a runoff in May. Green swatted away questions about the age factor on Wednesday, declaring, “I am generational change.”

Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say when you find yourself paraphrasing mother fucking Emperor Palpatine it’s time to stop being a senator

So, because governments aren’t listening to protesters about an unrelated genocide, this genocide is somehow protesters fault? Feels like you’re just reaching for a way to be racist towards Arabs.

Eh, that’s what they’re trying to do, but that’s always what groups like them have tried to do throughout history and it never really works for very long. We aren’t reaching the end of anything, it’s just the next stage of the game.

I really doubt this person is being genuine, I’m fairly certain I remember them complaining about progressives calling out moderate bullshit not too long ago, so unless a username got hijacked or something I think they’re just stirring up shit