Joe Biden’s re-election campaign plans to continue using TikTok for at least the next year, despite the president signing a law on Wednesday that would ban the social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell it in that…
Pro-Palestinian student protests target colleges' financial ties with Israel
Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in pro-Palestinian encampments with a unified demand to end investments supporting Israel’s war in Gaza #press
My high school principal's name was Richard Little. He did, in fact, go by “Dick”. That said, the obvious jokes weren't common as far as I recall either because the slang wasn't in the same place it is today or because they wouldn't have landed well -- he was a big man in every sense of the word (and a really good guy).
@Keith Fieldhouse @Laffy @Wiley Miller "They call me little John. But don't let my name fool you. In real life, I'm very big" "I'll take your word for it."
Look, you can't expect him to pay attention and sit in a chair without jangling keys, or something that requires a little less brain activity, such as fox news, for almost 4 days a week, for like 6 hours each.
#Alt4You Image of an aisle in a hardware store. The aisle signage is blue and says "fasteners" in white letters. The fastener on one end is no longer functional and the sign is hanging by one end.
Alt text: Photo of a hardware or big-box store, with high industrial ceilings. Hanging from a bar is an identifier sign reading "Fasteners" -- it's hanging at 45 degrees because it's become disconnected at one end...
I am so fucking mad at #SCOTUS right now. Had an elderly loved one on my couch in tears today. They had a brain fart and wrote the 22 from today's date in the year box of the signature section of their mail in #ballot envelope. They marked a 4 over it but still worry the ballot will get tossed.
I helped them call the election office but the lady who answered the phone could not provide another envelope. All I could do was fill out the witness part and hope they get a kind person processing it.
@acm_redfox This person is homebound due to multiple disabilities. There is an option for a court order to send a constable with a new ballot but I'm having trouble finding an affordable lawyer who can intercede in time.
@acm_redfox Thanks, me too. My brother and I just got back from shuttling our neighborhood seniors to the ballot drop box. I hope our call to the election office and my witness signature will work in their favor and their ballot counts.
@Jeffrey Vagle Tesla went from one of the safest cars to one of the most dangerous after marketing it as auto-pilot, then for no reason other than to make money, stripping out the lidar and ultrasonic detectors. My Nissan leaf has more advanced safety features than an expensive Tesla.
The rule makes it illegal to include the agreements in employment contracts and requires firms with active noncompete agreements to inform workers they are void.
This is very good, I assume they took care to word the rule so employers can't work around the rule by spuriously classifying employees as "managers" or similar tricks?
washingtonpost(.)com loads the article at the URL that was provided in my own browser on my iPad, but returns 404 to the archive(.)org site. Hopefully FTC sets their sights on fair use countermeasures employed by media companies.
I first foughtt the hasbarites on The American Prospect's discussion forum. They made it so poisonous that TAP shut it down. A bunch of us migrated to a FOSS forum site and established TAP Alternative which ran for a few years.
What doesn't seem to be mentioned there is whether the aid package included offensive weapons or strictly defensive. It's kind of an important distinction.
Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, advocates and policy analysts have warned of a homelessness “tsunami.” It’s the worst-case scenario where the combination of lost income, backlogs of owed rent, and a lack of local government foresight contribute to a surge of people losing housing and ending up on the street. Well, it has arrived—and it’s poised to get much worse as the Supreme Court is set to decide whether to make homelessness a de facto crime.
This past month, many cities and counties conducted their annual point-in-time homelessness counts. The results of January’s counts won’t be known for several more months, but they’re likely to be dire. The end-of-2023 results found that approximately 653,000 people were experiencing homelessness. That’s up more than 70,000 over 2022, or a 12 percent increase. In the 12 months since that data was collected, those numbers have likely gone up.
But the raw numbers are just the tip of the iceberg. As more people end up experiencing homelessness, they’re also facing increasingly punitive and reactionary responses from local governments and their neighbors. Such policies could become legally codified in short order, with the high court having agreed to hear arguments in Grants Pass v. Johnson.
Originally brought in 2018, the case challenged the city of Grants Pass, Oregon, over an ordinance banning camping. Both a federal judge and, later, a panel from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals struck the law down, saying that Grants Pass did not have enough available shelter to offer homeless people. As such, the law was deemed to be a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
The ruling backed up the Ninth Circuit’s earlier ruling on the Martin v. City of Boise case, which said that punishing or arresting people for camping in public when there are no available shelter beds to take them to instead constituted a violation of the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause in the Eighth Amendment. That applied to localities in the Ninth Circuit’s area of concern and has led to greater legal scrutiny even as cities and counties push for more punitive and restrictive anti-camping laws. In fact, Grants Pass pushed to get the Supreme Court to hear the case, and several nominally liberal cities and states on the West Coast are backing its argument. If the Supreme Court overturns the previous Grants Pass and Boise rulings, it would open the door for cities, states, and counties to essentially criminalize being unhoused on a massive scale.
There's no evidence that offshore wind development harms whales, but fossil-fuel-backed groups have latched onto the claim as a way to hamper the industry.
Read an article today about why Americans think alcohol has health benefits and it's apparently another "well the French are healthy and they do X so it's healthy to do X."
So here's your periodic reminder that France (and Italy, and Sweden, and Japan, and basically every country you've seen in a "this country is so healthy, what's their secret?" headline) has universal health care.
The secret is access to health care. It's always access to health care.
@juliadream In case you don't get context this is the right wing argument at its . This is not what I or the writer of the cartoon believe. The point of satire is to shine a light or an argument and take it to its absurd logical conclusion. I might have been instablocked though due to Poe's law.
On jobs, 70% of voters either didn't know Biden's record or got it wrong dailykos.com/story/2022/4/2… The American left is TERRIBLE at telling people what they have done.
Airlines in the US now required “to promptly provide passengers with automatic cash refunds when owed because their flights are cancelled or significantly changed, their checked bags are significantly delayed, or the ancillary services, like Wi-Fi, they purchased are not provided.” - DoT https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/airline-customer-service-dashboard
I don't see the text you quoted? you linked a dashboard that shows airline commitments which DOT will enforce, but different airlines can have different commitments.
Seeing the new Airline Refund rule alongside the new No Non-Compete rules, I can't help but think the Biden administration is trying to show people that they are ready and able to push back against the rapacious form of capitalism that has come to dominate our business culture.
(Have I told you how much I love the phrase "wasteful competition"?
@Ann Lipton The republicans in the state of Indiana did something similar. They would always pay their contractors late at the end of the fiscal year so their budget looked way better based on cash on hand giving a false impression that they were being fiscally conservative.
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in reply to Laffy • • •no joke. My mom was a nurse. She had a patient named Harold Palms and another named Harold Balls.
Why people think that is funny when naming their kid is beyond me.
And then there's the supreme Dick, Tim Allen, whose middle name is Allen and his last name, fittingly is literally Dick.
So, Tim Allen really is a Dick.
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