Yes, and those exploitative labor relationships so popular in the South serve to reproduce an embedded social structure that favors the usual suspects. Pic stolen from an excellent piece in the NYT yesterday from Jamelle Bouie.
Such a great development. We can talk all we want, but votes like this one are where the rubber actually hits the road in terms of shifting power from capital to labor.
In a filing to an appeals court, Trump's attorneys said getting the bond needed to halt proceedings while they appeal is a "practical impossibility."
I’m sure we all hate to see it.
A viable Trump candidacy courts controversy and sells subscriptions. End of democracy? We will worry about that later.
A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...
Alternative title: “A very bad take on The Handmaid’s Tale”.
>To join, the group demands faithfulness, virtue, and “alignment,” which it describes as “deference to and acceptance of the wisdom of our American and European Christian forebears in the political realm, a traditional understanding of patriarchal leadership in the household, and acceptance of traditional Natural Law in ethics more broadly.” More practically, members must be able to contribute either influence, capability, or wealth in helping SACR further its goals. “Most of all, we seek those who understand the nature of authority and its legitimate forceful exercise in the temporal realm,” a mission statement reads.
"My husband, Wesley, and I join hands in prayer around our kitchen table. Then we worry about the Mexicans."
Some Republicans have criticized President Joe Biden for having too much energy at last night's State of the Union address.
I am avoiding linking to the Fox article so as to not send them traffic. Can’t make this stuff up.
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The problem as I see it is not that they have been critical of Biden, but that they are not ringing the alarm bells loudly enough over some of the batshit garbage Trump has been spewing recently. “Dictator on day one”, cutting off funding for schools that require vaccinations, etc.
It is reminiscent of the “both sides” criticism moderates get — in an effort to provide even coverage, they are functionally giving the crazy and the corrupt a free pass.
Have not read the separate opinion, which argues that the per curiam went too far in barring Federal courts from ruling on Section 3. Seems like that could become relevant down the road a bit.
This inevitably happens in states and in industries with low or no union participation. Reason number 1,000 why workers have to stick together. Unionize … and strike.
There is room for a lot of good faith debate here, but FWIW I reckon It is a mistake for the left to prematurely roll over and telegraph an inevitable Biden vote (whether on this or any other issue) just because Trump would be worse. The time for that utilitarian calculus is much closer to November. Right now, if you want policy change — you have to raise hell.
As much as you love to hate ‘em, this is what the Tea Party and their ideological successors got right about wielding power within their own party. When the time comes, by all means circle the wagons and vote pragmatically, but during primary season you have to come across as a credible threat to the party power structure.
I’ll personally be willing to (attempt!) to shame my progressive friends into voting blue, say, around October. In the meantime, I am proud of folks for speaking their mind and standing up for human rights.
They know exactly what they are doing.
Vaccines don't work. Global warming is a lie. The United States is not a democracy. Babies are too small to be seen with the naked eye and can be frozen and thawed out. Biden is corrupt because Vladimir Putin said so. Am I missing anything?
This is wild. Mine would be raising a racket at 3am playing in the tubes. Is it relatively quiet?
Add the Carroll verdict and we are North of $440 million in about 3 weeks.
Edit: Also need to calculate statutory interest on top of this. Appeal bond is going to be brutal.
Yes, judging by the tenor or the questions it probably won’t even be close. They may end up ruling that Section 5 requires enabling legislatIon to be passed before state enforcement of Section 3 can proceed, but who knows. I think the fix is in on this one, regardless of the actual merits of the legal theories.
I’ll also go out on a limb and say that even though I am viscerally with Colorado here, a victory could easily turn into chaos once GOP-controlled courts in battleground states start engaging in a tit-for-tat. I can already hear the MTG-caliber arguments about humane border policy equating to insurrection.
The upcoming immunity case is going to be way more problematic for Trump, I think.
This one was always going to be a long shot. The real story here (or one real story, I guess) is why nobody had the guts to ask Thomas to recuse himself.
Rolling Stone following a rich tradition started by the late, great Hunter Thompson. His obit for Nixon is an absolute classic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1994/07/he-was-a-crook/308699/
This is frightening stuff. I feel like it should be at the top of every newscast, every conversation, but somehow we seem to be sleepwalking into the end of democracy. A “nah, can’t happen here” attitude, coupled with Trump fatigue, social media distractions, struggling to make ends meet, and good old fashioned apathy, are going to get people killed.
Too early to tell for sure, but Georgia is starting to look grim for Trump, Inc. The state RICO statute by its nature lends itself to rolling up these “wink, wink, nudge, nudge” type conspiracies that are hard to prove individually but taken together show a coordinated pattern of conduct. With every co-conspirator who rolls over and takes a plea deal in return for testimony, it gets easier to prove, and more worrisome for those left.
Open question is whether the Fulton County DA can prove the requisite RICO predicate acts. I think they are trying to pin them on false statements and an unlawful attempt to influence an official, as well as the county election office interference, but it would be interesting to see a dispassionate analysis that evaluates the likelihood of success with those allegations.
Also unclear is what impact Meadows’ testimony in the Federal case will have, if any, on the Georgia proceedings.
Ex-Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has spoken with Jack Smith's team several times this year, and Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath, sources say.
Former President Donald Trump's final chief of staff in the White House, Mark Meadows, has spoken with special counsel Jack Smith's team at least three times this year, including once before a federal grand jury, which came only after Smith granted Meadows immunity to testify under oath, according to sources familiar with the matter.
The sources said Meadows informed Smith's team that he repeatedly told Trump in the weeks after the 2020 presidential election that the allegations of significant voting fraud coming to them were baseless, a striking break from Trump's prolific rhetoric regarding the election.
Jenna Ellis reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in the Georgia 2020 election interference case Tuesday, becoming the third former Trump campaign attorney to do so. Ellis, who once described h…
Since the indictment, four of the 19 co-defendants have taken plea deals with prosecutors. Scott Hall, a former bail bondsman, was the first to do so last month.
In recent days, three Trump attorneys have now followed suit and agreed to testify against the former president. Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro took plea deals late last week, and Ellis joined them Tuesday.
Legal experts suggest their agreements to testify could raise the other defendants’ legal jeopardy or also induce them to take a deal.
It is one thing to hop on the internet and complain about the system (like we are doing now), but another to actually do something about it.
Unionizing - and then actually striking for better pay and conditions - are the most immediate ways to move the ball. As he says, workers have not historically improved their conditions by working harder, but by refusing to work en masse.
As pointed out time and time again, the MAGA caucus is interested in maximum chaos for social media clout, not governing. It will be interesting to see how much of the ‘mainstream’ GOP goes along with this idiocy.
I get the sense they are pretty spineless, because after all, who wants to anger the base and have to give up the fancy Washington restaurants to return to the sticks and live among the rubes once the inevitable MAGA primary challenger takes you out?
Let’s hear all about your progress. Don’t disappoint your judgmental internet buddies!
They’re wielding new tactics with low-wage workers after decades of failed organizing efforts.
>Union organizers expressed optimism that bringing in workers from the places least friendly to unions could have impacts on workers nationwide. A Treasury Department report released late last month said boosting union power benefits the middle class and the economy overall.
That report, by the way, can be found here. One of the interesting points made is that the relative diversity of union membership, coupled with the union wage premium, means that unionization can benefit the living standards of a more diverse group of citizens.
So remember kids, it is great to spill pixels about fighting injustice and dismantling capitalism … by all means go for it … but if you really want to change the economic status quo and support economic mobility for everyone, at least in the short term, unionize.
Bipartisan legislation aims to get more Americans into high-deductible insurance, but perils would remain.
>For thrifty consumers, there’s a lot to like in high-deductible health insurance. The plans offer low monthly premiums and those fees fully cover preventive care, including annual physicals, vaccinations, mammograms and colonoscopies, with no co-payments.
>The downside is that plan participants must pay the insurers’ negotiated rate for sick visits, medicines, surgeries and other treatments up to a minimum deductible of $1,500 for individuals and $3,000 for families. Sometimes deductibles are much higher.
Let’s keep it civil.
Abortion wasn't technically on the ballot in Ohio's special election. But the overwhelming defeat of a measure that would have made it tougher to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution this fall was the latest indicator that the issue remains a powerful force at the ballot box.
Great example of an issue where the Dems can unite the base and win back Congressional majorities.
Millions are being pushed off the Medicaid rolls, undoing the biggest health care coverage expansion since Obamacare.
Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the committee that oversees Medicaid, likened some states' attempts to stop people from losing coverage to "waving at somebody as their car goes by, and going, well, we contacted you."
The ‘free speech absolutist’ gleefully promoting anti-vaccine misinformation is now suing a hate speech watchdog for “using flawed methodologies to advance incorrect, misleading narratives."
In a revised indictment, prosecutors accused Trump of seeking to erase security camera footage at Mar-a-Lago.
Growing population in America’s highly educated enclaves has led to huge gains for the Democratic Party. And Republicans are scrambling for answers.
In the aftermath of the Wisconsin election, former Republican Gov. Scott Walker acknowledged the important role students played in determining the outcome but viewed the problem facing the party in a cultural context. “Young voters are the issue,” he wrote on Twitter. “It comes from years of radical indoctrination — on campus, in school, with social media, & throughout culture. We have to counter it or conservatives will never win battleground states again.”
Heh.
Edit: Axios has a related piece out this morning: https://www.axios.com/2023/07/23/trump-desantis-colleges-universities
I know there are a few out there who are interested in subtractive CNC (there are literally dozens of us!) but who may be a little bit intimidated by it. We've all seen our calendar app or Netflix account or some other piece of software go haywire suddenly and without warning -- imagine if it was connected to a razor sharp cutter spinning at 20,000 RPM. Yikes.
I won't lie, building a working CNC machine isn't exactly a cakewalk, either. But reassuringly, neither is it rocket science. 3D printers, which we all know and love, are just dinky little CNC machines with an extruder on the business end instead of a twirly metal thing (the endmill in the case of a CNC mill).
Component-wise, stepper motors, ball screws, and control interfaces have evolved to the point you can get quality parts that fit together in predictable ways for commodity prices online. And once you have your machine up and running, you'll be able to make just about anything - it is the ultimate DIY rush to be able to visualize, design, and create something new, robust, and beautiful out of a solid chunk of metal. Building that project and need a funky bracket that has to stand up to heat and torque? No problem. Decorative hat hook for Aunt Mabel? Get outta here.
"But Circularfish," I hear you say, "that sounds great but I don't even know what a 'stepper motor' is". Never fear, popular machine tuber This Old Tony has created a series of videos demystifying CNC. He is fairly entertaining and, even if you have no intention of building a CNC mill, it will help you understand what is going on with your 3D printer when it decides to crash itself at 4am. Enjoy!
Thought I'd share a recent build for an ongoing CNC milling machine project. The Mill needed a solid base as well as storage for the liquid coolant pump and oiler, and some drawers for tooling.
I've found that you can get nice looking results welding up a frame from 2" square tube and then use bog standard melamine panels for the sides.
3/4" angle can be welded in to hold the panels and hide the melamine edges.
Add some simple box drawers and Ebay slides, and voila...
The drawer pulls are leftover continuous aluminum extrusion. Again, they hide the edges of the melamine.
Anyway, not rocket science, but thought I'd pass the build idea along!
