1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.
The judge also blocked "any similar policy."
Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.
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These statements don’t always align with an organization’s actual willingness to remove a perpetrator from a position of power.
But after a public debate about whether sexual harassment is “bad enough” for someone to leave Congress, let this be a reminder that the policy is clear: yes, it is.
'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3
the pointless, militarized occupation of Washington DC continues with these armed, camo'd figures constantly patrolling the safest, calmest areas of the city. Glad my corner grocery store and the steps leading in to Kalorama Park are so heavily guarded
I share Steve’s concerns. An observation:
The Court’s immense power, such as it is, is contingent upon its at least plausibly appearing to do law. This may seem like an academic debate, but it’s literally over whether the Court is doing law or something else. That matters.
Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.
You're not actually being blackmailed by leftists, the subsection of non-voters who are still vocal simply happens to be leftist. The party is dealing with an apathy crisis, and if you aren't capable of seeing where that's coming from you need to listen more.
Buddy we offer alternatives all the time.
Also, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but there is no polling data at all to indicate that it was progressives who didn't vote in 2024. People who Biden voted in 2020 but not Harris in 2024 were an even spread across the non-Republican spectrum.
To be blunt? Because he's not a fucking idiot.
You know how much people would trust that Democrat talking about political corruption who pretends it's only been on one side?
N O T A T A L L
We want to win this, we have to acknowledge how we got to this point: endemic corruption induced apathy.
Well one of those decisions involves losing all freedom of movement, moving to a place they don't know the language and have no connections or standing, and being vulnerable for the rest of their life to being handed over to the use as a diplomatic bargaining chip. So...
Now that's just not true in the least. Companies settling lawsuits is largely unrelated to the ego of their business leaders. But executives are often fundamentally incapable of accepting that them having less control can sometimes result in better outcomes.
Just so you're aware, all modern computing electronics are filled with tiny QR codes. Basically every component of every chip has tracking QR codes which are used during the manufacturing process, but which can also be used to track down people who try to mass fence stolen electronics.
Because their assets are not liquid like that and such a move would impact their quality of life and self-perception in a way that none of these billionaires have experienced in many years, if ever. And what you're describing would require them cutting and running early and without a fight.
I think you are really overestimating how easy it would be for them to do that.
But that's not the kind of fleeing which makes it easy to leave without getting financially scraped to the bone on the way out.
Actually I think the most likely reason they would try to flee is because prior to being successfully taxed, they will have committed so many crimes resisting it that they are afraid of spending the rest of their lives in prison.
I think I have said repeatedly that they would hate this and resist it very strongly. Murderously, in fact. But when push comes to shove, after and if they lose, material realities about their quality of life choices will matter.
And fleeing would be far from costless in that regard.
Sometimes the only solution is choosing how gracefully you lose. And I just don't see any reason to believe the United States has a path to maintaining umambiguous naval supremacy. Not even if we solve our corruption and graft problems.
That's the thing. When people in the military sphere - who aren't warhawks and seem to genuinely not want war - lay out cogent arguments for how US Naval power will decline with current or reduced spending, I'm inclined to believe them.
I just don't think the implied alternative would work either.
You mean, "Sexual predators frustrated with women's autonomy abuse immigration laws to lock women into legally coercive abusive relationships as sexual possessions".
Quite a way to frame men importing an abusive power imbalance because current law gives women the choice to not be a sexual possession.
I think billionaires are a group of people who have literally never had to experience hardship in the past few decades of their lives. So no, I don't think they will choose an option which involves genuine personal hardship and effort over not doing that and still being wealthy.
I believe that they would fight being taxed tooth and nail. But if they actually lose, and they are stuck between lighting their wealth on fire in the hopes they can reconstitute the scraps elsewhere or just complaining forever as they are taxed down ... well, I think they're cowards.
The thing to keep in mind is that these people are so far beyond the event horizon of usable wealth that there would be very little material difference in their lives if they were taxed down to 0.1% of their wealth. Social status difference, sure. But that's true if they flee taxation as well.
or merely being fantastically wealthy instead of world alteringly wealthy. And if the friction of transferring their wealth to a new place and losing access to us international banking means they would lose their world altering power anyway ... yeah I think a lot of them will stay.
People moving internationally for economic reasons are typically either have enormous risk in staying where they are, or don't incur much risk in moving.
If a billionaire has to pick between upending their entire life for a place where they will be vulnerable political bargaining chip forever,
So there's a difference between people who are living in desperate poverty, people who want to take advantage of a currency differential to send money home to their family, educated workers following global job markets, and having three mansions instead of three palaces and three yachts.
Yeah you even pointed out earlier that that's not a way to actually preserve billionaire wealth.
Let's just say I'm not super concerned about the several of them who might truly try that and succeed. I'm worried about them preferring fascism over being taxed, I'm less worried about them actually running for it if they are taxed.