vought's view is that the president is an elected dictator and lo and behold he is seizing outright the power of the purse

Dems floated a narrow bill to fund the military, which can’t move because the House isn’t in session. Meanwhile, DoD is now going to spend funds not appropriated by Congress to ensure military paychecks continue.

POTUS now both commands and provisions the military. Unconstitutional and SO dangerous

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...

Read it all. From one small section:

Shortly after a man fired >500 rounds at CDC and killed a cop, the staff that safeguard employee, facility, and data security are gone. And the Office of Strategic Business Initiatives, that trains and supports risk management across the entire agency, is gone.

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Yes, the underlying reason for the need for this is horrifying, stipulated, but watching so many people stand up and defend their neighbors and their community is a heartening reminder that the people who suck are not the majority even if they are the power

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

This administration definitely would jail the people hiding the little girl in the attic

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

What middle and upper class cis het white people need to understand is that they only have as many rights as the most vulnerable do. You have only the rights trans people and immigrants do.

Be distrustful of anyone advocating anything that creates a permission structure to not vote

Doesn't matter if cute, funny, or compelling - if there are irregularities, they'll only be revealed if there's mass turnout and curious results

Most likely, voting is legitimate and everyone should do it

i just got back from Antifa headquarters.

they're making an INSANE new set of demands.

first, the radical left is saying, "no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law."

A billion dollars is the socio-political equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work as ruthlessly and diligently to prevent the acquisition of the former as we do the latter.

If you can show up on October 18, you should. The country is shifting. The battleship is turning. And while, yes, usually mass street protests don't do much, there are exceptions.

And sometimes those exceptions go down in history.

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

The thing about this that's worth recalling is that it *wouldn't* even offend most Americans: just the group of reactionary grifters who make money by being professionally offended online.

Democrats has a trifecta in 2021 and did not do any of these things. Maybe Dems should be taking notes on power politics here.

I was 😂

Even without that—this seems one step removed from “upload all of your lessons to the platform and your avatar can teach the course from here on”.

(You don’t have to tell me why this wouldn’t actually work. I’m a teacher. I know. But I’ve worked for some admins who wouldn’t see an issue.)

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Now let's make our posts about who won, rather than who didn't win.

During one of my really boring day jobs, I used to have regular nightmares that the wedding-planning websites I surfed at work were being broadcast to the entire company via the news screens in the building elevators.

Some will try to soothe the Birthday Boy by telling him it was too late for consideration but Next Time...

Some will try to stoke the tantrum of the Birthday Boy for reasons.

My country has a stupid evil manchild as President.