Then they would cease to be public media and would just be another non-profit news organization/content producer

Also, federal funding is a tiny chunk of NPR and PBS, but the individual member stations that actually broadcast the stuff NPR and PBS produce tend to get a lot bigger chunk of their budgets through the feds (this is what they’re talking about when they say the funding is “crucial to bringing public broadcasting to local communities”)

No, people have been making it for a while because it impacts every new situation we can’t deal with our other problems without dealing with this one. What’s late here is the response to this observation, the observation itself is right on time every time Republicans do something awful and scumbag Dems don’t do anything to stop them.

For what it’s worth, these are just State Secretaries who administer elections, beyond technically being members of the Democratic party and putting that in the name of their organization they don’t really have any connection or influence to what scumbags like Schumer and Slotkin are doing

That all being said, this organization should probably just change their name and drop that association because the time they have to waste explaining that they’re not the bad Democrats and that they’re actually one of our last lines of defense for having halfway democratic elections is just going to be a drag on their campaigns

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People have been making it for a while

I’m not sure there’s anything in Article III that would really stop him. They don’t have the votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster to legislation but it’s not clear the Democratic party is willing to do those, so who knows.

Too bad the Democratic party didn’t look into reforming the courts when they had majorities in Congress.

Removed Jackie Robinson’s page from a Department of Defense website because of their war on DEI, then had to backtrack and restore it because Robinson was famous enough that even a lot of the MAGAts out there felt uncomfortable about it

I think it’s the true goal of these “actually Joe Biden is great and you’re an idiot for thinking otherwise” bastards who exclusively attack leftists. Thinly veiled reverse psychology designed to piss people off into not voting or voting third party.

Maybe the real Modern Warfare was the blackmail material we created on ourselves along the way

I would say the last time they existed was the 1970s when Nixon agreed to create an EPA he really didn’t want to that had fewer powers than its supporters really wanted. The 90s only seemed smooth because scumbag Clinton gave Republicans everything they wanted on welfare reform, criminal justice, telecom deregulation, intellectual property laws, and international trade.

And we still got Gingrich and the contract with America and Ken Starr and Sore Loserman for being so conciliatory

This country’s system of governments is a joke that stopped being funny

But calling her a tourist in the headline is a clear misrepresentation

Sure thing, and if you stay over at a friend’s house and make the bed in the morning it’s their legal obligation to report you for not obtaining a proper license for your housecleaning business first /s

Anyone willing to encourage tourism to America by being such a guide would probably take your money and then find a reason to get you arrested by ICE anyway. Not like you could take it up with a consumer protection agency now.

They are absolutely desperate to fill their quotas, they’re selfish cowards who know how quickly their Dear Leader will throw them under the bus if they don’t

That is important context, thank you. I still kind of think that taking an assertive stand against what the United States is doing to Germany citizens is the kind of clear call this minister probably ought to feel empowered to make, but on the other hand I have a deep appreciation for government workers who feel their obligations to upholding democratic systems, so this is a hard call to make I suppose.

Interestingly, only young Trump supporters in our study became more likely to vote after Trump’s first election.

This is your country on neoliberal Democratic party leadership

e; and unchecked voter suppression laws coming out of Republican state governments (but as to who that check will be, see my original comment)

Not that they owe my country any favors or anything, but given their own history I would have hoped this German government agency could do something a little stronger than “this is not a travel warning, just reminding all you plebs to listen to border guards if you don’t want to be tortured”

Platforms’ content moderation of terrorism-related content currently sits at a troubling equilibrium, at which platforms anticipatorily adopt a very broad reading of the law, thus preventing the government from having to explain the law’s true reach, let alone attempt to enforce it against social media companies. This equilibrium is the product of platforms’ self-interested risk aversion, an erroneous assumption by the Supreme Court about what the effects of allowing the government to restrict even peaceful speech as “material support” would be, and no one having both the incentive and capacity to change the status quo. As a result, a U.S. law, and the Court’s interpretation of it, has encouraged the suppression of core political discourse, not just beyond the borders of the United States but also within them. The Court’s decision in Humanitarian Law Project thus casts a long shadow over us all.

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Man, if that bolded phrase doesn’t just describe everything in 2025

Anyway, related 5-4 podcast (archived)

I don’t see how people are seeing that Roberts statement as a rejection of Trump. He didn’t say Trump’s name or call out anything specific Trump’s done and he’s demonstrated that he’s perfectly capable of doing that

Roberts then issued a rare public rebuke, according to Fox News.

“This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside. Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wanted to tell them that ‘You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,'” the statement said

“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort [blah blah blah]

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I searched for “mike flood town hall” filtering out results after November of 2024 and found a bunch of news stories across 2023 and 2024 talking about him holding townhalls but never found any saying that he’d had a bunch of people show up to yell at him. Seems like whatever this is it’s something different.