Oh of course he is. That explains *alot*

imagine sitting on a potential challenger to the current bloc of social media platforms people are on but dislike for various reasons and going "no, no I must burn through my userbase's goodwill as fast as possible because I'm too bitter that funny trans women are more popular than AI dweebs"

hello to everyone else included in the "anti-ai ai haters" blocklist the technical advisor of bluesky just followed 🫡 it's an honor just to be nominated

Video wasn’t working earlier but watch as the Surprise mayor flees like the coward he is.

the sound i just made was not dignified

"Do you know what the trouble is? The trouble is Earth."

KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant leans in confidentially. “You wouldn't be able to hear if he were wearing anal beads,” he whispers.

5th circuit: USA should have less religious freedom than post-Glorious Revolution England

The key phrase—“an establishment of religion”—was readily understandable to founding-era citizens. See District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 576–77 (2008) (relying on a phrase’s “[n]ormal meaning . . . known to ordinary citizens in the founding generation”). The reason is simple. At the time, establishments were “a familiar institution.” McConnell, Establishment, supra note 12, at 2107.13 Someone on the streets of 1789 Boston, reading that phrase, would have instantly thought of the Church of England, the colonial established churches, or the current state establishments—in other words, a polity’s official church or religion. Ibid.

Although the colonial establishments became more tolerant of dissenters as independence approached, their essence remained unchanged. The original state constitutions reflect as much. Far from rejecting establishments, many states preserved the core components of their establishments, such as public financial support for the official church, regulation of religious institutions, and religious qualifications for civic participation.36 Most explicit was South Carolina, whose 1778 Constitution declared that “the Christian Protestant religion” was “the established religion,” requiring religious societies to subscribe to enumerated articles of faith to receive legal recognition. S.C. Const. of 1778, art. XXXVIII, reprinted in Poore, State Constitutions, supra note 36, at 1626.

The Fifth Circuit flatly states that when the First Amendment says Congress may not create an "establishment of religion," it means the Church of England. They then argue the Founders intended states to have their own churches unaffected by the First Amendment (!!!).

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is out with a new (very bad) decision, and it's a doozy.

The Fifth Circuit says that Texas can require the Ten Commandments in classrooms. But somehow it gets worse.

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The Onion wants to make us submissive slaves to the New world order.

Correct.

Im feeling particularly lonely today. Absolutely nobody is home and despite that usually being respite, it doesnt feel like it today.

Doubt ill feel any less lonely when they do get back. Brain is a fuck.

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

"Nearly two dozen were held in custody for more than 20 days...Teens who were detained alone were sent to Christian youth shelters in Michigan, which made it hard for their families to find them. And nearly half of the children detained have since left the country." sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

The US government has never provided evidence that *any* of the ~180 people killed were involved in drug trafficking. And even so, that’s not justification for extrajudicial killings. Yet somehow it just carries on.

These men say not only was their boat destroyed but they were taken aboard, handcuffed, made to wear hoods, their phones were wiped of any photo evidence, and “US personnel boarded the fishing boat and stole the crew’s food and the beer.”

Does old bay flavored vodka count as food?

birds: they will never email you. and that’s a promise.

‘We were terrified they were going to kill us’: fishers who survived US boat strike speak out An Ecuadorian fishing crew describe their ordeal as victims of Trump’s purported war on ‘narcoterrorists’

These fishermen are lucky to be alive. We will probably never know how many of the ~180 people killed in similar US attacks were also just fishermen.

Bayer “Turns Over Every Stone” to Stiff Roundup Cancer Victims - EXPOSEDbyCMD With Trump’s recent executive order declaring the key chemical in Roundup essential to national security, the producer of the most widely used herbicide in the world is now looking to the Supreme Cour...

NEW: Bayer “Turns Over Every Stone” to Stiff Roundup Cancer Victims

Connie Palacioz, Wichita’s own Rosie the Riveter, remembered as ‘a true legend’ In 1943, Connie Palacioz was a teenager working at a Newton laundry when she joined Boeing to help the war effort as a riveter.

rosie the riveter died yesterday at 101. rip connie palacioz

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We fucking warned y’all that this was the goddamned end goal for those smart glasses.

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.

The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."

My story:

“Instead of site visits, Cal/OSHA merely sends a letter to employers so that they can “self-inspect” and report their conclusions back to Cal/OSHA. These “letter investigations” now account for 60% of Cal/OSHA enforcement actions.”

😬😬

Millennials are ruining the cocaine industry

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

Get in kids, we're gonna design our camps in such a way that everyone is getting cholera and typhus. This is good for fighting.

Karen Bass is proposing a $124 million increase to the LAPD's operational budget. This would bring their total budget to north of $3.6 billion

A T shirt model who has no idea he’s been photoshopped into a “mommy’s little Railfan” tee on the official NJ Transit store website

Really need to know how many adult “mommy’s little Railfan” shirts the NJ Transit store has sold

i would be the Tom Bombadil of hacking polyamorous bosses

Tweet from Alex jones that reads “Yeah, stealing peoples identities so you can misrepresent them is criminal. Just keep laughing like the last time you guys tried this.”

Alex Jones is alternating between being Not Mad Online about The Onion thing and accusing someone I’m not even clear is connected to The Onion of fraud for “stealing peoples identities”