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Tue, 18/06/2024 - 23:00
Courts are on your fall ballot Judge Aileen Cannon of the Southern District of Florida is perhaps the most notorious of Donald Trump’s judicial appointees. Her foot-dragging on the Trump classified documents case has doomed special counsel Jack Smith’s prosecution from occurring before this fall’s election. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas “has become a go-to judge for parties filing lawsuits challenging President Joe Biden’s policies.” The U.S. Supreme Court just settled a case women’s rights opponents brought before Kacsmaryk to suspend the FDA’s approval of medication abortion. “The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees — two more. [Trump has] already appointed two that have been very negative in terms of the rights of individuals,” President Joe Biden told Jimmy Kimmel during a Los Angeles fundraiser over the weekend (CNN): “The idea that if he’s reelected he’s going to appoint two more flying flags upside down,” Biden said in an apparent reference to a flag that once flew outside the home of Justice Samuel Alito.
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Tue, 18/06/2024 - 22:13
I en nyligen publicerad rapport — Goda grannar: en ESO-rapport om grannskapets betydelse för integration — visar författarna att etniskt segregerat boende inte ’per definition’ behöver vara något negativt. Detta konstaterande har fått viss uppmärksamhet i medierna och framställts som något  spännande och nytt … Vid närmare eftertanke är det dock uppenbart att ingen rimligen […]
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Tue, 18/06/2024 - 22:00

0500: Sound the alarm.

0600: Recitation of the day’s mantra in the traditional spirited honking.

0700: Singing of “O Canada” and flyover in standard formation.

0800: Announcement of the flock’s minutes.

0830: Synchronized shitting and breakfast on the east bank of the retention pond.

1000: Gather outside the dog park fence for the “Taunting of the Mutts.”

1200: Preening and beautification.

1300: Loud meandering.

1430: Stop traffic. Honk.

1600: Group aerobics at the retention pond.

1800: Carnal activities.

1802: Bathing.

1807: Carnal activities.

1809: Unwind.

1900: Synchronized shitting and supper on the north bank of the retention pond.

2100: “O Canada” reprise and flyover in standard formation.

2200: Sleep / carnal activities.

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Tue, 18/06/2024 - 19:41

This March, Andrew Marr told New Statesman readers there is a ‘battle for Keir Starmer’s soul’ as ‘two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future’. Marr said these groups fighting to ‘control’ Starmer are the Tony Blair Institute and Labour Together. Labour members certainly weren’t told they were getting a vote-Starmer-get-Blair […]

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Tue, 18/06/2024 - 18:58
As the General Election approaches, political parties in the UK are clashing and competing in the attempt to win voters, leaving no stone unturned—including the use of digital technologies. Why You Should be Worried About Political Profiling Open Rights Group has long been monitoring the use of data analytics, commercial profiling and other digital tools […]
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Tue, 18/06/2024 - 09:30
First of all, what 23 year old buys a house? Maybe he’s got an inheritance? I would guess that very few 23 year olds are in this position. That’s not to say that there aren’t plenty of 33 year olds in that position but I have a sneaking suspicion this post isn’t on the up and up. Be that as it may, Surowecki is correct. Joe Biden doesn’t control interest rates and god knows, neither does Donald Trump. So this is stupid. But then there’s JD Vance’s grotesque answer to the problem. Deporting 20 million people (20 MILLION!!!!) is the most fascistic policy proposal we’ve seen since 1930s Germany. They were “deporting” the alleged cause of all their problems too. The sheer amount of pain, suffering and destruction involved in such a horrific policy is impossible to gauge but it’s going to be a nightmare. And as for the public picking up the tab for undocumented immigrants just wait until they see what inflation looks like without 20 million workers who are keeping this country running. Not to mention the vast cost incurred in rounding up such a vast number of people. It’s absurd. This is Nazi talk, nothing less.