Just make it illegal to pee, duh!

When you see a breakdown like this it makes it clear that judges are just a different form of politician and the law is nearly entirely corrupted.

I find all the added Mastodon cruft in Lemmy posts annoying. The added @ tags take up space and turn into pointless links, and hashtags disrupt the flow of reading. Beyond that, they’re different forms of communication with different purposes. Just use both pieces of software for their intended use. I have both Mastodon and Lemmy accounts.

You went through the bullshit to give the federal government a photograph for their facial recognition database associated with high quality identifying information.

Literally every document can be faked. Passport? Fake. Birth certificate? Fake. The supposed point of REAL ID was to be a reliable document. You can fly with one, but if a Temu Nazi making a “targeted” random stop says it’s a worthless piece of plastic you lose an hour of your life. For living your life in your home country after doing everything the government asked. If the organization who certifies the IDs won’t accept them, why did we go through the effort of making a national ID system that verified lawful status?

And if this was a case about California ID, maybe their fuck up would be relevant, but this is a filling for a case where a US citizen with an Alabama ID was detained.

Turns out all you need to do to ignore the Constitution is change your word choice.

Are they planning for a siege?

For someone who talked about the need for speech and courage, Obama sure has spent a lot of time out of the public eye not using his speech and not being courageous.

It does seem kind of early to be boosting Vance for just a regular primary.

Well, if both filming the gestapo and blowing up federal buildings are terrorism…

I don’t think they get what the consequences of trying to make all acts of resistance share the same punishment are.

Not countering your opponent’s gains is also part of running a bad campaign. The same people who ran his campaign were running Harris’s and making all those dumb mistakes you highlight. Only she didn’t have the “change” label and Trump’s failures at the front of people’s minds to edge her over the line. Biden was heading toward a loss in 2024.

Presidential elections keep going down to the wire and it’s not because Donald Trump is just that talented. These things shouldn’t be being won or lost on the margins. All of the last three candidates have been a lot closer to John Kerry than Barrack Obama.

It should have been a cakewalk because Trump was currently the guy screwing everything up and not improving people’s lives. Incumbency isn’t an advantage for President anymore and Trump (with help from COVID) was doing particularly badly. He had sub-40 approval polls and, before the general election campaign, polls were putting most of the main Democratic options up by 6-8. It wasn’t a cakewalk in the actual election because Biden didn’t run a good campaign.

Biden in 2024 was then the guy to blame for everything going wrong (inflation in this case), with sub-40 approval polls, and was on course to lose before being kicked off the ticket. And Harris made the baffling decision to frame herself as just being a younger Biden.

And notice how that was irrelevant to his election and then later opinion polls? Tankies are a tiny sliver of the progressive left. Like my entire real life social circle leans strongly progressive and not a single one even filters through the shadow of a tankie position. People who would literally like Communism to be on the political table still aren’t tankies.

That doesn’t mean progressives are irrelevant, just that ‘tankies’ are used as a Boogeyman by conservative online Democrats to simultaneously explain all their failures while also saying we should keep listening to them when they counsel doing exactly the same thing one more time.

You don’t win elections by appealing to your opponents. Triangulation is a tragic lie.

And Biden did poorly. It should have been a cakewalk and he barely won. “It got us Biden” isn’t an argument to the utility of timidity.

This lady seems too smart to make these “unguarded” statements as an accident. Is this image rehabilitation before jumping ship or trying to enforce the end of the “revenge tour” by sabotaging the cases?

Charges were dropped and then dismissed with prejudice against Brianna Taylor’s boyfriend for firing at police officers who broke down his door. His defense was that he didn’t know they were police though.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/03/08/kenneth-walker-charges-dropped-against-breonna-taylor-boyfriend/4629371001/

Another story said he wiped it “using a code”, so it sounds like that.

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/12/05/samuel-tunick-atlanta-activist-arrest/

They have broad latitude to initiate searches, but if there isn’t a specific crime they’re going after you for, you’re not destroying evidence. If they’re just fishing to see what you have in there, then there isn’t evidence being destroyed because they have no way to know whether you erased stuff because you were doing crimes or just didn’t want them to see your nudes.

God damn that’s blatant. Hey journalist, what about MLK Day is not “America-first”?