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California Lawmakers Pass A Bill That Would Ban Use of Face Masks By Law Enforcement
Itβs probably too much to ask, but I hope California law enforcement agencies will remember who to direct their hate at if this bill becomes law. Itβs not the βliberalsβ runβ¦Techdirt
The Illiberal, Transphobic Pipe Dream Of Banning Porn Reaches Michigan Republicans
It appears that the illiberal, transphobic pipe dream of banning all pornography has reached an enterprising group of far-right Christian nationalist Republicans in Michigan who want to impose the β¦Techdirt
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I have an antifa tattoo. My mother frets. "I wish you didn't have that tattoo," she says. Why? If they get to the point where they're rounding up native-born Veterans for Thought Crime and Saying Bad Things, do you think having or not having a particular tattoo is going to matter to them?
They're FASCISTS. They OPPRESS PEOPLE. It's their whole thing. The only thing you can do to stop them is put a bullet in their necks.
Am I knackered
It's been a week already. Yeah, I know, its only Wednesday, but Monday and Tues were a pain. We had a little fun last week, going after a couple things last week, which didn't work, but we weren't trying hard, those were...
HIs Apple card, dumb luck that I caught a phone call from them and got instructions. First on the phone call, there's kinda a security hole on iPhones I've been exploiting, without his pin, something I haven't been able to come up with, you can't check alerts or anything on the phone, but you can answer phone calls... Well, that's useful for two factor authentication into some of his accounts, and that was how I happened to catch a call from Goldman Sachs. Did you know that even though its the 21st century, then only way to send proof of death to them is to mail a death certificate to their legal department?
Also because I think it a joint account, I've been trying to take care of the Amazon card from Chase. First problem is that I can't add my bank account so that I can pay it off, for some reason the link to add an account doesn't work in either Firefox or Vivaldi. Second, they have branches here, and while they can take payments, they can't do anything else with credit cards, only bank accounts. Uhhh, ok. Finally I haven't found a number to call that doesn't require logging in with the card number. Yeah, you read that right, I'm having trouble giving them money.
This week though, now that we have a basic financial plan in place, we started on the deposit accounts, and talk about headaches. Fidelity was the easiest one with only minor problems on the 401K side, but that's done, by the end of the week we should likely be making decisions on the disposition of the 401K and his stock (vested RSUs). But, ...
Morgan Stanley, organized chaos would be an improvement over there, it seems that they're not really organized or integrated. Stocks of all sorts seem to have migrated to e*Trade, and then each type of thing you might have with them is a different desk. I'm not sure how many people I got bounced between with no real answers, but this one is going to be a headache. The first sign of trouble was that his company gave me two people as points of contact out in California for his RSUs from when they used Morgan Stanley for that. There was no answer when I called, so I got dropped into the main Morgan Stanley phone tree, and things went from there. I'll prolly have to try calling them another time, possibly next week.
Discover, they're just about as bad, and bit of a dick about things. They do have an upload portal for documents, but after doing everything, it says I need to select the document type... but doesn't give me a way to do that. Also I have to submit documents and wait to see if'n I'm a beneficiary, otherwise I'll have to go to probate court because they won't have anything to do with me, married or not. And that's on top of the fact that there's one desk for deposit accounts, another for credit accounts, a separate one for CapitolOne who owns them if'n he has accounts there (he does and they were easy to deal with). Yeah, guess I need a lawyer and court, because the CDs there are worth fighting for.
Yeah, that was my Monday, surely Tuesday was better, right?
Yes and no, I went out to the Lowery family cemetery to get a plot chosen and all that. That went well enough, and in fact I spent an hour and a half or so visiting with some of his family, and the cost isn't bad, the cemetery asks for a $300 donation for a single plot, $400 for a double. I'll prolly give them extra as I was expecting to spend more, have the money, and would like to help the cemetery, and can't be sure if'n I can donate in the future. We will need to work out the monument, but that shouldn't be too much either. Problem was the drive, 158 miles each way. And I'm in an electric car. And they're doing construction on multiple sections of I64. Lets see, left around 0840, returned around 1845. Is it any wonder that I asked work to take it easy on me today?
Yeah, I'm exhausted and the week has only begun, three more days of work, yay.
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The United Nations says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
As does Amnesty International
As does International Court of Justice
As does Israeli human rights org B'TSalem
As do hundreds of global humanitarian organizations
As do virtually every single global scholar on the Holocaust and genocide
If you're still denying the reality of this genocide, there are only two options
1. Either every global org is lying and are secretly Hamas, or
2. You're choosing the wrong side of history
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Finally they came to the same conclusion as the rest of the world a year ago.
But unless Palestine is globally acknowledged as a sovereign state nothing will change and more people will die by the hands of Israel because Israel won't stop.
And it's way too late to withhold weapon shipments now, the damage is done. 80% of the infrastructure is destroyed. So even if the IDF stopped now, there's nothing left for the Palestines to return to. No hospitals, no schools, nothing.
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Yes. Harsh light of day will help. It will also cause chaos.
The pedophiles were not the ones paying. I still believe that #Epstein and #Maxwell could have been generating kompromat for #Russia. My guess is that is where Epsteinβs money came from. They were gathering intelligence and applying leverage if needed. Their βcustomersβ were people with knowledge, influence and prestige. I believe part of the issue of releasing the names is that it could reveal a massive breach of national security and foreign influence.
@meltedcheese I agree. Epstein was likely the source of a lot of kompromat, but it may not have been intentional. They were obviously careless. Sure they could dodge US authorities, but a state actor is a very different game, and none of them were set up for that.
If Russia was doing business with Trump, they knew about Epstein, and thatβs a honey pot big bears canβt ignore.
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Today in Labor History September 16, 1945: 43,000 oil workers went on strike in 20 states. During WWII, most of the major unions collaborated with the U.S. war effort by enforcing labor βdisciplineβ and preventing strikes. In exchange, the U.S. government supported closed shop policies under which employers at unionized companies agreed to hire only union members. While the closed shop gave unions more power within a particular company, the no-strike policy made that power virtually meaningless. When the war ended, inflation soared and veterans flooded the labor market. As a result, frustrated workers began a series of wildcat strikes. Many grew into national, union-supported strikes. In November 1945, 225,000 UAW members went on strike. In January 1946, 174,000 electric workers struck. That same month, 750,000 steel workers joined them. Then, in April, the coal strike began. 250,000 railroad workers struck in May. In total, 4.3 million workers went on strike. It was the closest the U.S. came to a national General Strike in the 20th century. And in December 1946, Oakland, California did have a General Strike, the last in U.S. history. Overall, it was the largest strike wave in U.S. history. In 1947, Congress responded to the strike wave by enacting the Taft-Hartley Act, restricting the powers and activities of labor unions and banning the General Strike. The act is still in force today and one the main reasons there hasnβt been a General Strike in the U.S. since 1945.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #GeneralStrike #oakland #oilworkers #union #strike #strikewave #worldwartwo #tafthartley #uaw #coal #railroads #inflation #steel #wildcat
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Let me repeat that. He was Found Hanging From A Tree.
In Mississippi. In the state that lynched more Black people than ANY OTHER STATE IN THE COUNTRY. And police have the audacity to summarily conclude "no foul play."
It's just as horrific that we don't have a competent DOJ to independently investigate this. My God. Horrific. Just horrific.
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The dragon was curled up on its hoard.
A knight approached, unarmed and unhelmed.
"Greetings! I have a question about your hoard."
"If you try to steal it I will kill you."
"May I move it? With you still on it?"
The tiny dragon firmly gripped the golden tiara it laid on. "Carry it with pride."
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Book bans get headlines, but the bigger threat to books is hiding in plain sight: A handful of companies control how ebooks reach readers, and they can cut off access with a click. cjr.org/analysis/the-bigger-thβ¦
New from @maria in Columbia Journalism Review:
"The Bigger Threat to Books Than Bans" cjr.org/analysis/the-bigger-thβ¦
There's a bigger threat to books than bans.
Access to e-books relies entirely on private distributors that have the power to shut them off at any moment.Columbia Journalism Review
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DC police union head Gregg Pemberton has been cheerleading Trump's deployment of the military there.
He's also at the heart of the scandal behind the only judicial sanction of a DC prosecutor for hiding evidence, but you wouldn't know it from his media appearances:
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Newly Revealed FBI Document Confirms Collaboration Between DC Police and Discredited Far-Right Group Project Veritas - UNICORN RIOT
Federal Prosecutor Jennifer Kerkhoff Muyskens and DC Police Detective Greggory Pemberton Conspired to Alter Key Video Evidence From Project Veritas Used to Prosecute More Than 200 Inauguration Day Protesters, Hid Additional Evidence, and Lied About Hβ¦unicornriotuser (UNICORN RIOT)
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Tim Walz just announced his bid for reelection!βπ½
Walz was among the first to call for a ceasefire, is pro public schools, pro labor, pro climate justice, pro gun safety, pro repro rights, raised corporate taxes, & passed free school lunchβ€οΈ
Join me & support him:
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Barely making the news cycle but the Trump DOJ has deleted a National Institute of Justice study showing that βwhite supremacist and far-right violence in the United States outpaces all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.βπ³ Per the Wayback Machine it was there on 9/12/25.
TAKE NOTE: Fascists erase violent history for one main reasonβto repeat that history.
(Credit to Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, who first noticed the deletion.)
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Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever 'silenced' its campaigning
Honestly, is anyone surprised? Once it was sold to Unilever, that was it, its just another label.
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Ben & Jerry's co-founder Jerry Greenfield resigns, claiming parent company Unilever 'silenced' its campaigning
Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of the Ben & Jerry's ice cream brand, has stepped down from the company he started 47 years ago citing a retreat from its campaigning spirit under parent company UnileverPatrick Smith (NBC News)
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The image is a screenshot of a social media post from a user named "cardassiangoodreads" posted on August 10. The post discusses measures that have been effective in stopping book banning in districts. The user describes a form that would-be book banners must fill out, which requires them to read the book, summarize the plot and characters, and write a mini book report and review. This measure has been successful in stopping book bans in the user's high school, as it prevents individuals from banning books without actually reading them. The user also mentions that requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with the school in some way, such as being a student, faculty/staff, or a parent of a child at the school, has further reduced book bans. The post cites a statistic that only 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans nationally in a given year, highlighting the small number of individuals driving these bans.
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The Washington Post Fires Its Last Black Opinion Columnist For Directly Quoting A Bigot
The Washington Post isnβt what it used to be. While the paper is still peppered with a few decent journalists trying to do good work, the outlet is being slowly strangled to death by billionaβ¦Techdirt
Any how, we'll write more over on the blog about the details.
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