They really wanted to block the vote, but the Parliamentarian said they couldn’t. Rules are rules.

Minneapolis police confirmed the person killed was a 37-year-old American citizen who lived in Minneapolis. The shooting occurred near Nicollet Avenue. and 26th Street in south Minneapolis at about 9:15 a.m. Department of Homeland Security officials told CBS News that the man had a firearm and two magazines. Minneapolis police chief Brian O’Hara said police believe he was a lawful gun owner with a permit to carry.

Fucking weasel ass CBS reporting. The man was tackled to the ground by six agents and bludgeoned in the head before any of them realized he was armed.

But the reason why most of that food is thrown away is not lack of refrigeration, cheaper refrigeration will not solve that problem.

I think “cheaper refrigerators” is an oversimplification. People without access to a functional refrigerator often have bigger problems than a mere absence of a single appliance.

But the energy savings is a big deal. We’re not just talking about food refrigeration but AC, which is a much bigger deal especially as we suffer a warning planet

The democrats are also owned by Israel.

Biden was the beating heart of the pro-Israeli Senate caucus. His elevation to President enabled the Holocaust in Gaza.

Liberals don’t want to deal with that, because all they care about is Beating Trump. They’ll tolerate any amount of fascism, just so long as their team is in charge

as soon as the Epstein files drop their leverage is gone

That’s pure cope

Daco

It’s almost like controlled opposition.

That’s Russia talk! I won’t hear another word.

One sec, I’m on hold with Dan Crenshaw’s office

Remember how Democrats responded to Columbia students protesting Palestine injustice?

But I guess this latest killing by ICE requires more introspection and soul searching.

float

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Green Day has been protesting presidents since their band formed

Monopoly on Violence. The state has it, until the people reassert it collectively.

You guys ever notice how it’s always the democrats that break rank but never the republicans?

Massie’s been in full revolt for months now. And we’ve had perennial haters in the GOP going back to John McCain and Ron Paul. And the Tea Party Caucus was a big reason why the GOP couldn’t pick a new House Speaker for nearly a month. These opponents tend to be Libertarian flavored, and tend to undermine Neocon efforts to spend money at the risk of raising taxes

The loathsome Blue Dog Caucus are an organized conservative opposition within the liberal party. It consistently sabotages party priorities while funneling enormous sums of corporate money into leadership races.

Both exist to benefit corporate interests.

Trump straight pardoned Henry Cueller, the ringleader. He was caught dead to rights taking bribes from foreign officials and has functionally flipped teams in exchange for clemency.

Incidentally, Jefferies reinstated Cueller as senior Dem on the Appropriations Committee. He’ll be the chairman if Dems retake the House this year.

Taiwan, lolz

😖 Balls

NYTimes hitting the acid again

I haven’t listened to him lately, but I never got the impression that he was much of a right winger from anything he has ever said on there while I was listening.

You can only invite Elon Musk, Dave Smith, and JBP onto your show so many times before you tip your hand.

Hell, Tulsi Gabbard gets an invite every time she launches a new campaign.

We honestly need to end the myth that Wikipedia is some impenetrable white tower.

It’s a perpetual two-edged conversation. On the one end, you’ve got reactionaries doggedly insisting the existence of Wikipedia is an attack on their personal reputations and a warehouse for far-left ultra-communist radical propaganda. On the other, you’ve got a very naked western bias to articles (thanks to a preponderance of western editors) and this creeping pay-to-play model of participation that enthusiasts and supporters simply refuse to acknowledge.

The utility of the site is such that nobody is really excited about ignoring it and replacing it is a herculean effort even would-be trillionaires haven’t managed. So the fight continues to be over degrees of control in editing existing articles and publishing new ones.

It isn’t a White Tower, but Wikipedia has become - like it or not - a system of record with an implicit amount of reflexive trust that hundreds of millions of people have learned to adopt. You can’t cynically reject its contents any more than you can naively accept them.

You think people break into the Louvre but can’t touch Wikipedia?

I think there are enough copies of the Mona Lisa such that we wouldn’t need to question what it looks like if the original was stolen.

In the same way, there are so many backups and mirrors and third-party logs of Wikipedia that we can very clearly see what is being changed and by whom. It is valuable in large part because it is so easily auditable. That’s not to say its infallible, but you can at least point to what you disagree with and challenge it piecemeal. This isn’t like a Grok AI or Conservapedia, where the preponderance is a black box of bullshit.

That’s what the “Talk” section functionally does. People can (and do) check it when an article has lots of frequent heavy editing. And a lot of these edits do get rolled back as they’re exposed, as Wikipedia admins are reasonably good at keeping the propaganda generically pro-western rather than nakedly for-profit or regionally partisan.

At the same time, Wales is a self-proclaimed libertarian who is constantly putting his hand out to keep the website funded and operational. I have to assume there’s a certain degree of self-dealing happening in the background just to keep the site from getting the kind of abuse suffered by Internet Archive or Anna’s Archive.

Like so many other wars, the assumption was always that the conflict would be over in a few weeks and Germany would come out ahead. Russia didn’t have the horsepower to compete with the highly advanced German war machine, the French were a bunch of goofy, peacenik frog-eaters who would roll over at a light shove, and England barely has a dog in the fight.

Where are any of these countries going to get an advanced industrial economy to fuel a long running European land war? Like, name one nascent industrial society that could possibly generate enormous profits by arming the entire Allied faction of Europe? Go ahead, I’ll wait for you to find it.

It’ll be bing-bang in and out. No muss. No fuss. And if the SDP won’t back this thing then someone else will! Then there goes the socialists’ chance at peacefully taking power in a heavily militarized capitalist oligarchy.